Blizzard Releases Massive Competitive Patch Changes Before Hearthstone World Championsip Season
With BlizzCon and the Hearthstone World Championships a little over a month away, Team 5 has announced a massive competitive balance patch that will hopefully shift the metagame and answer some long-standing competitive qualms in the recent months.
In a post made yesterday on the Blizzard forums, Team 5 announced that seven Standard-legal cards will be changed. The balance patch comes just before the Last Call qualifiers for the HCT.
The cards to be changed include: Rockbiter Weapon, Tuskarr Totemic, Call of the Wild, Execute, Charge, Abusive Sergeant, and Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End.
The past few months of competitive events have spurred vigorous debates among the community regarding Hearthstone’s competitive game health. The introduction of Yogg-Saron and it’s russian-roulette style of randomness has been pointed out as one of the most divisive and oppressive cards by the community.
At the America’s Summer Prelimary, Monsanto defeated dude7597 despite trailing the entire game. dude7597’s Zoo Warlock deck seized complete control of the board and the game early on, forcing Monsanto to be on the defensive from Turn 2 onwards.
Yet despite only casting 5 spells, Monsanto’s desperation Yogg-Saron play completely turned the game over it’s head, erasing dude7597’s lead in an instant and stealing the game.
Yogg-Saron, and similarly roulette-style RNG cards like the Shaman’s Tuskarr Totemic have been the subject of much discussion among the game’s professional players and it’s fans. With the recent changes, followers of the game can only hope that the metagame’s health improves as a result.
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