If you’ve been getting tired of facing a lot of Rogue, or having long matches withControl Warriorthen you might be in luck! A nerf patch for Hearthstone’s Rise of Shadows will be added on May 22nd, that will make changes toEVIL Miscreant,Raiding Party,Preparation, andArchivist Elysiana. Preparation is probably the most interesting change, and I will be curious how much the class will be hurt. The class has largely been balanced around the power of Preparation, and with that card nerfed, a lot of cards that are apart of it will become much weaker. We’ll see how the meta gets shaken up with these changes, check out the full information below.
After evaluating game data and working through internal and external feedback on the most popular decks currently in the meta, we’re looking to address the power level and overall pervasiveness of Rogue decks, alongside a specific interaction with Archivist Elysiana. Look for these changes in an update slated for May 22.
We chose to focus primarily on Rogue in this update due to seeing the meta stabilize around the class’s most popular decks. Currently, if you want to build a deck that is strong against Rogue, you have just one reasonable option: Warrior. If you compare Rogue to Warrior, however, you’ll find that the latter class has a wide variety of good and bad matchups, which makes it unlikely that it’ll overtake Rogue in popularity in the current meta.
While we recognize that there are other powerful and popular decks (like Token Druid, Conjurer Mage, and Mech Hunter), we decided to not address them in this update because they all have varied matchups. If any of these decks were to emerge as the new prominent strategy, there are plenty of decks available to combat them, which would allow the meta to continue shifting.
As always, we’ll be evaluating the results of these changes over the coming weeks and look forward to your feedback. Read on for details on these changes, our thought process around them, and our goals for each of the cards we adjusted.
Upcoming Card Changes:
As with previous card changes, once these changes are live, players will be able to disenchant the updated cards for their full Arcane Dust value for two weeks.
