The buddy-meter takes the tavern tier of the buddy in to account. This means that tavern 4 buddies will progress slower on the meter compared to tavern 3 buddies (of course with tavern 2 buddies being even faster).
So this nerf is basically a delay to the buddy-meter for Millificent.

My turn 1 as Priest was literally coin + hero power my opponent’s face (who already had 30 health). This AI is amazing…

Honestly, I think HoF’ing Mind Blast sucks. I would much rather die to a Mind Blast Priest than a DS+IF Priest. Mind Blast usually takes a lot of time and preparation to do, even with the various resurrect effects we had in previous rotations. While Divine Spirit + Inner Fire can kill you as easy as turn 6-7 with the right draw.

Zetalot is just a God with Priest decks. I just love how surprising this can be when your opponent is just expecting that you are playing standard resurrect Priest.

Sad to see that none of the Shaman decks are including ‘Krag’Wa, the Frog’ or ‘Spirit of the Frog’, but otherwise I think the new inclusion looks great. I’m definitely gonna play a lot of Whizbang the first few days.

Great article Stonekeep!

I got into HS just before LoE went live and the standard rotation hit for the first time and I remember just how insane I thought Midrange Druid was back then, with the FoN + SR combo finisher. I did my best to save dust as a F2P player and just before I had enough to make a viable budget version of the deck, the nerfs hit. Feels bad man…

I LOVE that J4CKIECHAN is trying to make Star Aligner “work”. Definitely gonna try this deck. Was even considering include one copy of Murmuring Elemental, for that off-chance to do 14 damage to all enemies. I just don’t know what to take out, the list seems pretty locked. Any ideas?

Dust Cost: 19.820. Damn son!

2 x Galvanizer and then when your deck is empty Mecha’thun + Bloodbloom + Cataclysm. With Warlocks HP, I think this is the most consistent use of Mecha’thun (given the cards we have seens so far).

I agree! Quest Rogue was nerfed (several times) because it was too oppressive against the control archetype. Imo Shudderwock Shaman is in the exact same spot in the meta right now. True control decks are just being slaughtered, which is also why something like healing Pally probably won’t be competitive.

The Crystal Core reads “For the rest of the game, your minions are 4/4.” so I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t gain extra stats but just always be 4/4.

I don’t think this will be ideal for Quest Rogue. The third Pogo-Hopper will be a 5/5 at which point your quest reward will make minions smaller.