Control Warrior is nerfed, finally. Surprising to see them hit Tidal Revenant, that card was probably too big of an effect in Arena. And hey, what did I say? Cost nerfs, unhealthy nerfs!
School Teacher is no longer really auto-include. That card was insanely strong.
And Demon Hunter & Paladin is also getting hit. Face Hunter comeback time?
Disappointingly, most of the nerfs are just team 5 is being lazy again by nerfing the costs instead of making the effect itself less severe and game swinging.
The only card that was changed in the most healthy way was Lightning Bloom, IMO.
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I thought the nerfs were fine. Nellie might have been overkill. From the Depths cant get generated from School Teacher. Giving an extra turn for decks to deal damage to Paladins before Cariel is played.
Giving decks an extra turn can be all they need to win a game.
Oh… Wow, they hit naga mage. I wasn’t expecting that.
Was it over performing? Would the nerfs make it surge to tier 0?
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Just the usual mage above tier 2 alarm.
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Control warrior got hit kinda hard and killed having Nellie in all warrior decks.
I can see it now Pirate Warrior making it’s return, Nellie will rise up on the tears of those crying about the control version warriors. Mage got hit too along side bloom but idk anything about wild the other nerfs are kinda meh
I don’t it was even that. Unless I’m remembering it wrongly, Naga Mage was tier 3 everywhere but top 1k.
I’m baffled. Putting Spitelash to 5 makes the best turn it can happen go to turn 6. Most of the time, turn seven, specially now that school teacher for shot in a dark alley.
Unless they think the meta will slowdown, hard, they broke the deck’s legs
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Nellie is dead. (Twenty Character)
We really bringing up that Mage was hit by a nerf when Druid was also hit by one? They hit everything in this patch, no reason to assume its something against Mage.
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What the hell is that Spitelash nerf?
Nellie nerf is overkill
Otherwise solid
Dead yea but I can still see it played and ok (not the best but ok) in pirate warrior
No other reason the deck was border line tier 2 on top Legend in the hands of the best pilot possible and tier 3 everywhere else…
We cant have that it needs to drop 1 or 2 tiers.
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After control warrior nerf it was natural that mage also needed to go down because it builds full boards on turn 5 or 6 way too quickly.
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Yes. I agree the nerf to Earthen Scales is surprising, but the main nerf, lighting bloom, comes in consequence of Big Shaman’s shenanigans in wild. At least, druid countered control warriors in standard.
Naga Mage, however has been an absolute non-issue, metawise. The nerf comes outta nowhere and hit maybe the two most important cards in the deck to…?
Idk. Secure the field?
Naga mage would fill the power vacuum of?
I don’t think anybody knows.
This is seemingly a non issue. From VS matchup winrates, Naga Mage had positive winrwtes against only 2 decks in the meta, at all ranks: Quest Priest and Thief Rogue.
Everybody else was dealing with those boards easily.
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Naga mage will rise with the decline of warrior
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Wow 4 nerfs to warrior, 5 if you count School Teacher… and only one to paladin. In what world Spitelash Siren is more problematic than the endless waves of buffed divine shield mechs?
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Why are you bringing up logic and stats ?We dont do that here , Mage escaped nerfs on 2 patchs in a row it was a mistake that Blizzard had to fix and they did back to the dumpster you go.
I love the patch notes, even if will weaken my Paladin and DH decks. Mass nerfs is the way to go to curb power creep, and the nerfing of several legendaries gives us back a good amount of Dust to craft other things. I will probably disenchant all of the legendaries.
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I think I agree with, or at least don’t have a problem with almost all of these. I think Gnoll is still a good card and rogue can still be competitive. I’ll still use it.
Only thing that boggles my mind is the Nellie Nerf. That’s a huge change. Maybe one of the biggest nerfs I’ve ever seen. They’ve really hit warrior very hard and rightfully so I suppose.
I really dont like to speculate with comments like “this will never see play” or any other doomsday type stuff, but man I think they’ve really killed the card.
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Warrior was able to put too many tools into the same deck. Fend off aggro with control tools, have the ability to challenge greed decks with dragons, have tempo plays with nellie, and have combo charge finisher with galv.
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Rogue I think was the least nerfed of the Classes. Gnoll nerf much softer than Battleworn Vanguard or Cariel nerf (+1 mana cost is much harsher than -1 attack). I agree nerf to Nellie was huge, Warrior surely the hardest hit with these nerfs.
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Anyway I am regretting disenchanting a third copy of School Teacher, 300 dust I lost being that dumb. At least I will get 6,400 dust from all the other cards.