Patch 28.2.3 for Hearthstone is now live and brings with it updates to Standard and Battlegrounds. This being the last patch of the year, players get the chance to make the most fun over the holidays.
In a post by the Dev Team, the goal for this patch was to introduce some buffs especially on underperforming classes, decks, and cards. It's also meant to weaken some of those overperforming ones which have been keeping other decks down. Players are rest assured that the intention isn't to kill the decks they like but to bring them down a peg so as to make more room in the meta. Dragon Druid was another deck that the team believed needed some reduction in the power.
That said, here are the cards that have been adjusted down in power:
- Keeper's Strength
- Old: [4 Mana]
- New: [5 Mana]
- Prismatic Beam
- Old: [7 Mana] Deal 3 damage to all enemies. Costs (1) less for each enemy minion.
- New: [8 Mana] Deal 3 damage to all enemy minions. Costs (1) less for each enemy minion.
- Splish-Splash Whelp
- Old: 2/1
- New: 1/1
- Desert Nestmatron
- Old: 3/5
- New: 3/4
- Staff of the Nine Frogs (generated by Doctor Holli'Dae)
- Old: 2/9
- New: 1/9
- Arcane Wyrm
- Old: 1/2
- New: 1/1
Power Up
Of course, the update wouldn't be fair if it was all nerf. To that end, these cards have been adjusted up in power:
- Elise, Badlands Savior
- Old: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, summon 4/4 copies of 4 random minions in your deck.
- New: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, summon 5/5 copies of 4 random minions in your deck.
- Pip the Potent
- Old: [4 Mana] 3/5
- New: [3 Mana] 3/3
- Invasive Shadeleaf
- Old: Deal 8 damage to an enemy minion. Save any excess in a 1-Cost Bottle.
- New: Deal 10 damage to an enemy minion. Save any excess in a 1-Cost Bottle.
- Ra-den
- Old: Deathrattle: Summon each other minion you've played this game that didn't start in your deck.
- New: Taunt. Deathrattle: Summon each other minion you've played this game that didn't start in your deck.
What are your thoughts on these changes? Are they enough or more are needed? Check out all the changes that arrived with Patch 28.2.3 here. Hearthstone is available to download for the PC.
