Simple Questions and Answers - Page 159

Our next patch is planned for around the end of this month. You can expect an announcement from us regarding balance changes either way in the week or so leading up to that date.

On February 16 2017 21:12 Hearken wrote:
Don't know whether you guys have seen the recent Brode post, but looks like a balance patch is incoming...

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/hearthstone/topic/20753316155

EDIT: Most notably the final para:

On February 16 2017 21:59 MrMike wrote:


It better fucking STOP the pirate insanity. I want that shit deleted. Good fucking bye.

On February 17 2017 00:18 Hearken wrote:

I expect Small Time Buccaneer to get a nerf, and maybe even Maelstrom Portal.

I'd love to see Spirit Claws nerfed too, but any change to the card makes it stupidly unplayable. Honestly, designing cards for Shaman must be a nightmare with such a random hero power. Spirit Claws and Maelstrom without spell power are just awful cards, but with spell power are some seriously broken shit. Without addressing the fundamentals of the Shaman hero power, I can't see how to make the class balanced.

Can't wait for the next rotation.

On February 17 2017 04:05 MrMike wrote:


Yeah - the heropower needs to be changed completely. They always get a taunt when they need one. They always get that damned spell minion when needed to buff a weapon or make their board clear more effective. Its wrong and horrible. I realize that Shaman was really bad a few seaons back but thats a loooooong time ago now. They've more than made up for that. Tey've gone too far the other way. The class is basically unbeatable unless they draw terrible and you draw perfect. The win rate is SICK. They have early game, mid game, late game, board clears, weapons, great spells,you name it. It never ends.

On February 19 2017 18:31 NKB wrote:
I am playing a game against a paladin in wild, he has a secret which can only be sacred trail after testing. I have one minion one board, i play dr. Boom. Secret goes off and kills my boom. Why would the secret kill the Dr Boom and not a boom bot?

On February 20 2017 17:57 NKB wrote:

Thanks for the answer though you have made me curious now about thay aswell, time to do some testing.

Like the other Secrets that trigger when your opponent plays a minion from their hand (Mirror Entity, Snipe, Repentance), Sacred Trial triggers in the After Play Phase following the Battlecry Phase. This means that all effects and death processing related to the minion's Battlecry resolve before the game queues and resolves Secrets such as Sacred Trial. For example, if you have one minion and play Dr. Boom, an enemy Sacred Trial will trigger.

On February 19 2017 21:13 Madars wrote:

Battlecry before minion, same if you had 3 minions played Fire Elemental, it would do 3 damage and die.
Tho I wonder if I have 3 minions opponent has Sacred Trial, and I kill one of my minions with Fire Elemental battlecry, would Fire Elemental still proc Sacred Trial and die?

On March 13 2017 20:20 Madars wrote:
Did chance to get more rares epic, legendary and golden cards was increased?
I watched twitch streams from last heroic tavern brawl, and many got goldens, legendaries, epics, rarely there was a pack with 1 rare and 4 common (the 40 dust) packs.

On March 14 2017 02:07 Orcasgt24 wrote:

I kinda think heroic brawls give better shit than regular packs as compensation for the 1000g/$10 fee. Its something I have noticed as well and seems like its not just blind dumb luck.

But it could be. Who knows. RNG is weird sometimes

On March 14 2017 22:12 Madars wrote:

I was thinking 1. buy packs, 2. wait for a Heroic Tavern Brawl, 3 . open packs, 4. profit?

On March 15 2017 08:05 Orcasgt24 wrote:

Probably wouldn't work but feel free to try. I was implying that the Heroic Tavern Brawl packs were better because they are coded differently to give better stuff when they are awarded to you

On March 15 2017 17:06 Roblin wrote:

it seems unlikely to me that that would be the case, if they wanted to reward better cards than average then i would expect them to just give you the cards in place of packs. that would be way simpler and way better designed than trying to make a type of packs that look and behave like normal packs except they give better cards.

On March 15 2017 20:04 Hearken wrote:

Having watched three different YT vids of streamers opening their Heroic Brawl reward packs, it seems to me to be entirely usual. I also can't find any other evidence online of other people making the same claims, and there doesn't seem to be much discussion around the topic at all.

If the rewards are better, why wouldn't Blizzard announce that they'd made the change in order to convince more of us to play in that mode? Seems like a lot of work for no direct benefit from their point of view, and I'm sure they have better things to spend their time on with the new expansion imminent.

I'd surmise that what Madars witnessed is most likely just an anomaly.