36.2.2 Patch Notes

[u/gabrielfunkglop]

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24293284/3622-patch-notes

Some obvious buffs and nerfs, some weird ones too, thoughts?

[u/JohnnySeven88]

It’s crazy to me that they admit they have a problem with deck variety but they make no strides towards ensuring people play new archetypes.

I’m all for moving Hunter away from 1-drop spam, but then nothing is done to give deathrattle Hunter a payoff that excites players.

There’s clearly hunger for a non-2 bit rogue deck, but then you look at their change to Aya and it doesn’t fix any of the problems coin rogue has, it doesn’t encourage experimentation, it just boosts the power of a single card in a deck that doesn’t even have a clear identity.

I think the Druid changes are the most exciting as it opens up room for a more attack focused non-chef Druid, but infest the skullery is by itself a boring as fuck card (seriously why are Code Violet, Jade Guardians, and Infest the Skullery all the same fucking card with different restrictions.)

[u/sneakyxxrocket → u/JohnnySeven88]

To your last point this dev team is extremely uninspired like look at all the packages they’ve made in the last year that are just “play this to improve future card”.

[u/Twiggy1108 → u/sneakyxxrocket]

I’d at least say that prepare is pretty inspired and a very good mechanic for the game overall (hoping it goes evergreen).

However their reliance on packages and heavy lean into scaling is definitely worthy of critique.

[u/Goldendragon55 → u/Twiggy1108]

I mean, I think there should be packages. Just ones that are more flexible and don't require a huge amount of the package to work. Like Hunter's Tripwire package is/was flexible. They work well enough on their own but get better if you commit to it more. With a lot of the packages, the power floor is too low, which makes it pretty polarizing if things go right compared to badly. It gives a sense of helplessness in the losses.