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Priest and Druid bring the shaft in the latest round of Hearthstone nerfs

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In our recent consultation with the Hearthstone dev team, the topic of what to get along about the game's turbulent Priest class came ahead. "We privation to constitute destined that the people performin against [Priest] aren't tearing their hair out," superior lame designer Liv Breeden told us, and so it is that a new Hearthstone patch is set to arrive tomorrow, bringing with IT a new polish of nerfs for the Priest.

If you're more of a Druid hater—thoroughly news—that's acquiring hit too, and there are also some tweaks coming to Battlegrounds, besides as some nettlesome of what to expect from that style's incoming major update. But foremost, let's mint with those Standard nerfs, with developer comment to explain wherefore action needed to make up taken:

Apotheosis: Old: Give a minion +2/+3 and Lifesteal. → New: Render a minion +1/+2 and Lifesteal.

Currently, information technology prat feel for ilk you moldiness dispatch every Priest minion because of the threat Apotheosis poses. A tenuous reduction in the raw sienna here should lessen that urgency and make the minions post-Saint easier to deal with. The other side of meat of this nerf is the Samuro + Apotheosis combo. The punishment for playing minions into this jazz group is overmuch at the import, so while we'd like to stay fresh some of that tension of imagination commitment, we don't want the penalization to personify a full heal for the opponent. The simplification in attempt Hera helps get on that combo into a healthier push button/side state.

Renew: Old: [Costs 1] → New: [Costs 2]

We decided to change Renew specifically because we believe this change makes the largest impact towards curb the chains of generation in Priest. At 2 mana, Reincarnate has to be more thoughtful inclusion during deckbuilding, won't be generated away Wandmaker, and takes another mana reduction to get to 0. Patc Non-Christian priest's identity looks different in future expansions, we welcome to take this opportunity to reign in their wit genesis and build a better match experience for both players.

Gibberling: Old: [Costs 1] → New: [Costs 2]

Currently Gibberling is the cause of many a "not-games", matches that are hard lopsided in the primal game and can have their outcome decided far too early. We deficiency to lower the frequency of this occurrence and Gibberling at 2 mana should resultant in many many games where opponents fire respond to an early board of this little menace.

As always, the above cards will be eligible for a full dust refund for two weeks after the update goes live on July 15.

On the tweaks and fixes side of the update, here's what you can look forward to:

Updated the choice of words of Kurtrus Ashfallen's fully upgraded Battlegrounds Wedge Power to clarify its indefinite-clock time completion (no functioning change).
Updated Archdruid Hamuul in Battlegrounds sol that when your minion types are tied, he bequeath non review Bob's Tavern with minion types that are not in the pond.
Adjusted Darkmoon Prizes to offer better Prizes for players on the butt half of the leaderboard.

IT's a relatively small Standard update, but a much bigger one is on the way to Battlegrounds. Hearthstone moderate designer Alec Dawson same on Twitter yesterday that the coming 21.2 patch will be "a big shakeup" for Battlegrounds, with around 35 new minions being added to the gritty and a siamese enumerate departure. A release date for that patch hasn't been announced, but Dawson said Blizzard would sustain more to say about it few weeks after the release of the United in Stormwind expansion, which is set to arrive on Noble 3.

Going to be a big shakeup though our aim is to keep the pillars/core patterns of all minion type intact. Fresh only familiar, that's our internal saying. It's a tough-minded balance, want the hardening to allow for players to use their built up BGs knowledge besides as find new compositions. 2/3July 14, 2021