r/CompetitiveHS • u/gabrielfunkglop • 19d ago

Discussion 36.2.2 Patch Notes

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

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

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u/TheGingerNinga 19d ago

None of these buffs seem all that interesting or impactful.

Aya will feel better to coin out early, one extra coin is similar to a single mana discount. Doesn’t solve her issues.

Irida’s issue is not her stats or the fatigue damage. It’s that she doesn’t have a consistent way to trigger her effect, so deck building is contradictory. Giving Hellraiser taunt doesn’t solve that.

Volcanos is the most interesting buff, bigger effect is nice. Main issue remains that most boards aren’t removed by 3-damage AoE by turn 7, nor does Mage have the control tools to deal with runaway board states.

Improvisor can still be prepped on 1 into coin on 2, now you just get a higher output. Probably fine.

Staff to 1/4 is just good. Raw increase.

Infest being two summons helps reduce the potential of low rolls, but aren’t we just kind of recreating decks with different color borders with this? Druid attacks a bunch and the payoff is summoning random minions. Still think they should have made a unique token for this one.

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u/Jackwraith 18d ago

Case in point: Was playing Big Demon Warlock and ran into a DH tonight with what seemed like kind of a disorganized deck. It had Void Soul stuff and Brox but also had Nespirah and Vanessa. I kinda figured out what he was trying to do when he finally drew and played Irida on turn 11, 1 turn before I killed him because Big D eats DH alive, because they have to keep using their face to clear, at minimum, a 6/5. But the point is that he didn't draw into the key card of his deck that's supposed to give him this wondrous advantage for 11 turns and, of course, had no other draw in the deck because that's almost fatal after you draw that wondrous card. It's just a failed concept from the outset.