Hearthstone nerfs for April: Hearthstone patch differs from Jandice and Battlegrounds

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New Hearthstone nerfs are coming (Image: BLIZZARD)

This week, Blizzard will release a new patch that will nerf some well-known Hearthstone cards.

The development team has confirmed through their patch notes that this update will be released on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.

The latest balance patch features a number of Hearthstone cards to restore more variety to the decks on the ladder.

This includes Deck of Lunacy, which continues to dominate but is likely to fall out of favor this week. Jandice is another, this time he received a relatively straightforward cost increase from 5 to 6.

Meanwhile, Blizzard has confirmed that this week’s Hearthstone grain will increase Lunacy’s cost to 4 mana, telling fans:

“Deck of Lunacy moves to 4 mana, making it unable to give a game-warping effect on turn 1 or 2.

“When we make cards like Deck of Lunacy, we strive for an experience that allows you to do crazy, over-the-top things at the expense of strength.

“There’s a big crowd for that (Spell Mage’s game speed shows!), But Deck of Lunacy is clearly exceeding the power threshold we’ve set for these types of cards.”

Paladins might be a bit more concerned about some of the other changes, with Sword of the Fallen getting the nerfing treatment too.

Durability diminishes, and Blizzard explains, “Sword of the Fallen is not only powerful, but also creates early game situations with too many Secrets involved.

“We are moving Sword of the Fallen to 2 durability to reduce the overall value of the card and make those turns less frequent against 3-4 Secrets.”

Pen Flinger is another victim, but there will be plenty of gamers who will be happy to see the oversized chip damage removed from the card.

Pen Flinger equips some classes with large amounts of chip damage, be it minions or the opponent’s hero.

“This flexibility makes Pen Flinger an attractive option for many decks, but when that utility is combined with repetition, it takes over the story of a match. Pen Flinger takes out your followers, can deal 10 damage to your face over multiple turns, and even had the guts to call you out everywhere.

“We are now trying to target Pen Flinger only at minions, positioning it as a removal option rather than a double threat card.”

And while many changes are made to the base deck of the game, Hearthstone Battlegrounds is also getting some balance changes.

These include the following:

Queen Wagtoggle

  • Wax Warband = Old: Give a friendly minion of any minion type + 2 / + 1 → New: Give a friendly minion of any minion type + 1 / + 1.

Captain Hijntusk

  • Trash for Treasure = Old: [Costs 1] Remove a friendly minion. Discover any one from a lower tavern. → New: [Costs 0] Remove a friendly minion. Choose one of the two from a lower Tavern tier to keep.

MINION UPDATES

Steward of Time

  • Old: 3 attack, 4 health. If you sell this minion, give all minions in Bob’s Tavern + 1 / + 1. → New: 3 attack, 3 health. If you sell this minion, give all minions in Bob’s Tavern + 2 / + 1.

Group leader

  • Old: 2 attack, 3 health → New: 3 attack, 3 health

Monstrous macaw

  • Old: 4 attack, 3 health → New: 5 attack, 3 health

Herald of Flame

  • Old: 5 attack, 6 health → New: 6 attack, 6 health

Wildfire Elemental

  • Old: 7 attack, 3 health → New: 7 attack, 4 health

Lieutenant Garr

  • Old: 5 attack, 1 health → New: 8 attack, 1 health

Lil ‘Rag

  • Old: 4 attack, 4 health → New: 6 attack, 6 health

Bug fixes and game improvements

  • Fixed a bug where Sunwell Initiate’s Divine Should could not be silenced.

  • Fixed a bug where Shadowjeweler Hanar could discover secrets outside of Standard in Ranked Standard.

  • Fixed a bug where the Battlecry for Reckless Apprentice did not apply Ice Walker’s Freeze effect.

  • Fixed a bug where the Battlecry for Reckless Apprentice would still activate when the Hero Power was disabled.

  • Fixed a bug where playing Wildfire before Metamorphosis could cause your original Hero Power to take additional damage.

  • Fixed a bug where Lakkari Felhound could discard newly drawn cards, such as when they were played in sequence using Hand or Gul’dan.

  • Fixed a bug where Celestial Alignment did not work consistently with cards that reduced mana costs, such as Librams or Cutting Class.

  • Fixed a bug with Kazakus, Golem Shaper where the ability could target Firebloom twice on the same minion.

  • Fixed a visual bug where G’huun the Blood God would leave the blood drop mana cost icon during gameplay.

  • Fixed a bug where Twisting Nether in Oh My Yogg! wouldn’t allow more cards to be played.

  • Fixed a bug where the VFX for certain spells would play continuously after being transformed by Oh My Yogg!

  • Fixed a bug where Pit Master would appear in Collection Results when filtering on Nature Maps.

  • Fixed a bug where Holy Wrath was not tagged as a Holy spell.

  • Fixed a bug where Dragon’s Pack had the Nature spell school tag. It is no longer part of a spell school.

  • Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Minions could show an outline of their Tavern Tier icon while playing.

  • Updated the display speed of cards in Arena to make sure the class balance stays close to the ideal 50% win rate. Specifically, Demon Hunter and Priest’s win rate should now be lowered. Druid, Hunter, Rogue, and Shaman win rate should now be increased.

  • Far Watch Post, Mor’Shan Watch Post, Crossroads Watch Post and Kargal Battlescar removed from Arena.

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Arena from loading properly for new players.

  • Fixed a bug where some Boomsday puzzles were causing desync issues.

  • Fixed a bug with the Achievement It’ll Take More Than That where credit could be awarded without playing the Warrior class.

  • Fixed a bug with the Achievement Barrens Neutral Collector stating incorrect collection quotas.

  • Fixed a bug with the Achievement Final Frontier where progress was not credited by discounted minions.

  • Fixed a bug with the Achievement Do it for the Vines where Dual-Class cards were not counting as progress.

  • Fixed a visual bug where Achievement XP and XP wins at the end of the match could show incorrect numbers but reward the correct amount of XP.

  • Fixed a visual bug where XP wins taking advantage of XP bonuses were not marked with a green font color in some cases.

  • Fixed a visual bug where the Tavern Pass bonus XP displayed in the performance detail view would be incorrect.

  • Fixed a bug where the Mass Disenchantment example would count some cards twice but give the correct amount of dust when used.

  • Fixed a bug where the disenchant button would glow regardless of whether there were additional cards to desenchant.

  • Fixed a bug where some players’ ranks and rewards were not filled from the correct ladder on the friends list and elsewhere.

  • Fixed a visual bug where names on the Friends list could overlap with their rank, and where a friend’s rank would be displayed even when offline.

  • Fixed a bug where a star bonus appeared on the Legend ranks card selection page.

  • Fixed a bug that caused an erroneous popup saying that a Demon Hunter class pack was awarded for completing the Ashes of Outland Prologue.

  • Fixed a bug where the Hamuul Card Back was not displayed correctly when opening the package.

  • Fixed a bug where the Play button was always highlighted in the main menu.

  • Fixed a bug where players could be banned from creating or deleting decks when they weren’t previously.

  • Fixed a bug where “Click to Convert” would persist on decks regardless of which mode you were switched to.

  • Fixed a bug where mouse movements over decks behind the “You have no Classic Decks”. Go make one! panel would show popup info.

  • Fixed a bug where mouse movements over a classic deck with the mode set to Casual display a tooltip that says “Not usable in Wild format”.

  • Fixed a bug where players could re-roll to the weekly quest Win 5 Games or Ranked Play Mode after completing it that week.

  • Fixed a bug where the Sir Annoy-o Hero skin, the Crossroads bundle, and the Barrens Tavern Pass were showing incorrect images in the purchase window.

  • Fixed a grammatical error in the map text for Warsong Wrangler.

  • Solved several translation problems in different languages.

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