He didn’t say that the nerf wasn’t deserved or that he disagrees with them. He said that the situation itself is silly. And that’s absolutely true. That a class has been nerfed in 4 different patches and it’s still at the top (not to mention that the Twin Slice nerf also turned out to be a buff for Odd DH in Wild). That’s ridiculous, it never happened in the history of Hearthstone. One or – in rare cases – two nerf patches were always enough to bring the class back in line.

I usually defend devs, but this time they just didn’t do their job properly – Demon Hunter playtesting went wrong at one point, they should never release a class that overpowered. I’m still happy that we got Demon Hunter and I hope that we’ll see more classes in the future, but it left a bad taste and next time people might not be as hyped, thinking that “the new class is going to break the game again”.

Thanks, fixed 🙂

If anything, Demon Hunter and Warrior are overtuned. Neither Rogue or Priest is particularly powerful now (Galakrond builds for both classes are good, but not TIer 1).

Check out the latest vS Report here: https://www.vicioussyndicate.com/vs-data-reaper-report-166/

But what I meant is that every class is at least playable (well… Shaman is doing very poorly, but you could say that it’s PLAYABLE) and the best decks aren’t uncounterable and don’t have insane win rates (they’re comparable to the usual T1 decks we have every expansion).

New expansion should come out in ~1.5 months, so I can imagine that there will be no more balance updates. It’s honestly not a bad time to take a break and come back when it’s out 🙂 It’s better to take a break than to get burned out of the game!

Yeah, I agree, I wish that they could do it earlier, because i have the same problem. But at least we know that it won’t take another week or something.

It means that your rank doesn’t matter for the matchmaking. You’re matched only based on hidden MMR – your rank is just to illustrate your progress. That’s also why you don’t see your opponent’s rank before you hit Legend – it would be pointless, because you can be in Bronze and get matched against someone in Diamond, because you have similar hidden MMR.

Devs have confirmed the issue with Quest and said that they’re working on a fix.

https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/playing-adventure-before-legendary-quest-bug-fix-is-coming-soon/

When you shut the game and quickly relog, you get reconnected straight back to Bob’s Tavern and not into the combat (which is already determined). And since everyone starts combat at the same time, you have some more time for buying / selling stuff.

We had King Mukla – hopefully he makes a comeback soon 🙂

What do you mean by “little mess”? You’re talking about Hero placement or something else?

We wanted to get out a quick update – we’ll do another one after Aranna Starseeker gets released and the meta has more time to stabilize.

No info yet, but I imagine that they will do it at one point.

Yeah, but we knew that for a long time. Galakrond’s Awakening was a one-time thing that they won’t repeat every expansion.

The outcome is roughly the same. Double gold lasted for two weeks, even if you rolled all 60g quests, it would still be 840 gold in total – ~8.5 packs. And that’s like the best case scenario – if you didn’t min-max you would probably get like 700g. Even less if you were busy and missed some quests.

This time we’re getting 9 packs flat, which is probably better for an average player. But the obvious downside is that the gold is more flexible – you can always use it on something else or keep for the next expansion.

Thank you!

Tharid already talked about Xavius in his Illidan lore article from last week: https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/illidan-in-hearthstone-the-story-so-far-from-lore-perspective/ 🙂

Then what are those?

https://imgur.com/a/gC6E9R8

And update, I’ve also seen a Tempo DH running those on the ladder twice over the last 2-3 days. I think they might be slowly catching on.

I don’t know, I still like it. But there are definitely cutest artworks in the game (1/1 Tabbycat token from Alleycat is my favorite).

Well, they were used together in both Highlander lists posted at the top. I played similar Highlander build a while ago with both of them and they indeed work very well together. I had T2 Bonechewer into T3 Guardian Augmerchant + Zephrys. Picked PW:S for tempo – had 4/4 with Divine Shield and Taunt, 3/2 and 2/1 on Turn 3 – opponent just conceded.

I’m nearly sure that it’s not a fixed number. Number of Legend players varies between seasons, servers and formats, so having a fixed number wouldn’t make any sense. Like, before the ranked changes, we usually didn’t even have 1k Legend players in Wild at the end of season, so just hitting Legend would give you 11 star bonus.

The deck is very good, we’re just sharing the decks that pro players posted in social media, and as it happens we didn’t see any Highlander Hunters.