Once a player hits Rank 15, 10, or 5, they will no longer be able to de-rank past that rank once it is achieved within a season, similar to the existing floors at Rank 20 and Legend.
Update 7.1 Balance Changes With the upcoming update, we will be making balance changes to the following two cards:
Small-Time Buccaneer now has 1 Health (Down from 2) Spirit Claws now costs 2 Mana (Up from 1)
Elijah Rogers
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Logan Anderson
stop I don't want to fap today.... again...
Kevin Gray
two months
to reduce a minions health by one and increase a card's cost by one
and they DIDNT TEST IT
Owen Lopez
Chucklefucks who think that these balance changes aren't enough, what would you change? other than jade
Noah Morris
Reminder that patches can now kill STB.
Jaxson Walker
I want to fuck her smug face so much.
I don't even like the concept of face fucking, but she does trigger that instinct on me.
Andrew White
Draconid Overpowered.
Nolan Wright
HAHAHAHA YOU GOT KEKED AGAIN /HSG/
Leo Hall
Swipe Aoe is also huge
Elijah Gomez
I have not been in these threads for a couple of weeks, what has happened??
Nathan Ross
>crafted patches >team 5 retards are going to nerf only stb >I wont get enough dust even to cover patches fucking sad
Jason Cruz
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Ethan Mitchell
Remove the Jade mechanic from the game Make Dr OP 5/5 Kazakus revive now 0/1/2, health increase now +1/+3/+5
Benjamin Hernandez
Kazakus sheepify is annoys me most and kills N'Zoth decks.
Julian Cruz
drakonid operative either a 3/5, or discover a class card
jade idol removed from the game
shaman removed from the game until the next rotation
Jaxson Ortiz
Did you expect T5 to actually nerf a new legendary? Are you new?
Chase Rivera
and im permanently switching to gwent
Daniel Perry
I feel like the biggest problem with kazakus is that coupling it with brann allows for so much bullshit to be pulled off.
Caleb Robinson
wow
Kayden Ortiz
hahaha so whacky :) this is what makes hearthstone so great!
Lincoln Martinez
>Buy Karazhan wing with Spirit Claws last week >Spirit Claws gets nerfed >Craft Southsea Captain yesterday for Pirate decks >STB gets nerfed
What do you guys want me to buy/craft next? It will get nerfed for sure.
Anthony Green
lol, do this one next
Noah Turner
i just realized they nerfed stb like that because people laughed at the blizz employee that said he teched elven archer to kill pirates
Ayden Ortiz
I crafted Patches and now he's not viable at all
1600 dust gone REEEEEEEEEEEEE
Julian Gray
Fuck. FUCK.
WHAT DO I PLAY NOW
James Jones
Spirit Claws is still amazing
Bentley Thomas
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Jackson Gonzalez
not it fucking sucks and might never see play again
Samuel Miller
>Craft Patches in the first month >Get carried to rank 5 instead of your usual shieldbearer rank by pirate warrior >Get 3 gold epics (1200 dust) Seems like a good deal to me.
Carter Evans
First off, these nerfs were based on PREDICTIONS; not on testing of any kind.
I repeat, Team 5 admited that they "predicted" what results would come from nerfing certain cards INSTEAD of testing the nerfs. Pic related. What the fuck they do all day if they can't even playtest nerfs?
But since we got them anyway, Buccaneer and Patches now get killed by:
>Mage, Druid and Rogue pings >Arcane exploson >Maelstrom portal >Ravaging Ghoul >Cruel Taskmaster >Elven Archer and her Murloc clone >Spirit Claws >Patches
Im probably forgetting some other ping cards. Is that good enough to discorage you from using the pirate engine? Is this good enough to kill pure pirate warrior?
Liam Collins
>1600 dust for 3 months of use pretty good
Liam Perez
>Post yfw you realize /hsg/ will complain about l i t e r a l l y anything and everything
Luke Morgan
Nope, they are shit. Even without the buff, at 1 mana you get the right value. With the buff it's just insane. Now without the buff it's beyond shit, with it it's a Win Axe with 1 more durability as long as you have a spell power minion, which most likely won't happen for 3 turns so it's not good.
Jayden Thompson
STB will never see play again you retard
Ryder Robinson
But how can you test something if you have meetings and coffee breaks all the time?
Carter Ward
it's funny as fuck though >no they wont nerf patches they'll nerf stb to avoid a dust refund >they do LMAO
Parker Gomez
>standardbabs complain for months to get a nerf and then complain when the nerf happens When will they learn
Aaron Butler
Nigga unless they set up a PTR they can't predict how the meta will shift
No amount of playtesting internally (which they did) will tell them that
Oliver Rogers
no spirit claws is unplayable shit now
noone is going to run a 2 mana 1/3 weapon that only activates 25% of the time when spending 2 mana more
Asher Stewart
this
Pirate Warrior might stick around as a bottom tier 2 or top tier 3 deck, but that's about it
Owen Morales
I wouldn't complain if you posted your feminin dick and smooth boipussy. Faggot.
Nathaniel Thomas
>which they did [citation needed]
Nolan Russell
Shit thread
Joshua Myers
So when is this patch coming, I'm sitting at rank 5 0 stars
Gabriel Ortiz
report this
Camden Gutierrez
Real Thread
Ayden Lee
kiked again
Nathaniel Parker
take the wild pill
Kevin Rivera
Patches doesn't have a thing wrong with him though. The problem was STB's oppressive state on the board and spiky statline. At 1HP he can easily get pinged away and makes the matchup between Shaman and Mage all the more lopsided in the Mage's favor.
Zachary Smith
You can't really be this dumb can you?
I wish this Team 5 does nothing meme would finally die.
Fuck I'm probably gonna get memed on with some >shill bullshit. I hate /hsg/.
still better than reddit
Blake Collins
Anyone with a brain could tell that they weren't going to nerf Patches. He's very strong, but he's wasn't op like STB.
Jack Anderson
Atleast the Ranked change is good
Luke Taylor
this
Oliver Gray
>Nigga unless they set up a PTR
>Millonarie company with almost a monopoly over certain types of games can't afford to set up a PTR and make some non-retarded niggas to play all day and eat doritos, then speak about it with the team
Elijah White
>Patches >STB >Spirit Claws
all these cards are absolute shit now and will never, ever see play again
Jace Reyes
>Thinking they don't have a PTR because they are incapable of having one
Liam Rogers
>nerfed the cheap aggro decks that require only one legendary >highlander decks that require a fuckton of legendaries and epics will rule the meta >yet those decks will be completly useless once reno rotates >no legendaries from MSoG will be usefull next rotation
Does blizzard design their sets to be short term investments only? Should i finally go wild?
Samuel Jenkins
>come home from work >STB was nerfed exactly how I predicted >They even got Spirit Claws why they were at it >for some reason you d00ds are freaking out despite shit being cash
I don't understand /hsg/ sometimes. Still love you lots.
Calling again for interest in an EU tourney, otherwise I'll do another NA one. Have a cute girl to get your attention.
Christian Green
Guys I unlocked a secret mode, its called credits and it even gives the name of each individual playtester!
Lucas Allen
Consider the following:
Pirate Warrior is still strong.
Juan Sanders
>all these reddit fags complaining that mid range shaman will still be tier 1 or tier 2
JUST LET ME AND MORGL HAVE THIS YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS
However strong Midrange Shammy is will entirely determine on the presence of Jade Druid, which will be used to counteract the rising Reno Mage population.
Fucking Shieldbearers, WHEN WILL THEY LEARN?
Parker Sanchez
It won't vanish completely from the meta, but it's definitely not a tier 1 deck anymore
Gabriel Howard
Pirate Warrior is shit now
Daniel Lewis
>>for some reason you d00ds are freaking out despite shit being cash It's because we already know the shit meta that's ahead if pirates die out
Connor Cox
zoo might be able to come back since there will be fewer pirate warriors/aggro shaman
Hudson Thomas
>However strong Midrange Shammy is will entirely determine on the presence of Jade Druid, which will be used to counteract the rising Reno Mage population.
It's gonna be so sweet to see Jade Druid rise up and absolutely cuck the everloving shit out of Reno fags who begged and whined for the nerfs that are going to indirectly fuck them right in the ass
Brayden Rogers
Man, aggressive hunter decks will still be able to beat jade. Its just that pirate aggro decks (i.e not hunter) won't be more optimal for doing it anymore
Kayden Reyes
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Zachary Foster
>Control faggots faces when
Lincoln Barnes
The big question, however, is if these nerfs are enough to slow down the Pirates enough that a Face/Hybrid Hunter deck can come into the meta and beat up the Jade Druids?
Lucas Bell
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Xavier Collins
Midrange shaman was the original reason of zoo's decline in the meta and in all likelihood, mid jade shaman is going to be the best deck post-nerfs.
The nerf to spirit claws will hurt its matchup vs. zoo, but I don't think it's enough for zoo to mount a comeback, unless jade druid starts ruling the meta maybe.
Nathan Ward
Do I have to dust Patches and all my pirates now?
Juan Rivera
>nerfs will fuck renotards much harder than aggro AHAHAHAH I am laughing my ass all the way to the bank renocucks, this nerfs basically killed aggro and changed my druid matchup into pure 50-50 while vs renomongoloid match up is still 90-10 in my favour.
AHAHAH renocucks, you think your life will be easier with this nerfs, get fucked renoniggers, jade druid will reign supreme now,
Dylan Long
>Forgetting about midrange jade shaman
Nolan James
kek cuck
Bentley Hall
these changes are like a bandaid onto a festering, necrotized extremity
Jacob Lee
Cunnyverse
Grayson Reed
we just went from pirates vs reno to jade vs midrange shaman
these changes help druid the most by a long ass shot
i guess not having druid have at least 1 T1 deck for more than a month was just too much for t5 to handle
Thomas Powell
Has this game ever been fun? Will it ever be fun again?
Matthew Diaz
play wild
Xavier Perez
I don't have wild cards.
Bentley Wilson
I can't tell if you're being satirical
Oliver Young
that is not funny enough, do it like this
Nicholas Davis
So when's the patch?
Noah Miller
YES AND YES.
Benjamin Peterson
end of february
Asher Wilson
Yeah, thought so. As i'm a "new" player i don't have much GvG cards. What deck should i craft to not want to kill myself?
Jeremiah Edwards
I've been saying Blizzard will fuck everything up with the nerf and I was correct. It was pretty obvious that the only thing that's keeping the retarded power level of Jades in check is the fact that aggro is too fast.
Jade Druids were even fucking their own decks up by trying to tech against aggro. Without the need for that, they can just play a midrange version that's good against other midrange while also auto winning against control.