Just like with the last balance update, instead of posting full patch notes right away, Blizzard has published a teaser on social media. Patch 25.4.2 is releasing on Thursday and it will contain a total of 5 nerfs in Constructed (3 Standard & 2 Wild). It will also contain a total of 9 Battlegrounds changes (3 buffs, 5 nerfs and 1 “sidegrade”). For now, we only know which cards will get changed, not how! I expect full patch notes to be posted on Thursday, shortly before the patch itself.
The current Standard meta is dominated by Frost Death Knight (Construct Quarter) and – to a lesser extent – Evolve Shaman (Goldshire Gnoll), so those are the two most obvious targets. It looks like we’re also getting a preemptive nerf to Big Spell Mage (Grey Sage Parrot), maybe they suspect that it would be too strong after DK and Shaman nerfs? Or maybe it’s also a Wild nerf – after all, Quest Mage plays the card in that format and many players would describe the deck as “toxic”. We’ll have to wait until full patch notes to know for sure. And finally – we got two more Wild nerfs – Spectral Pillager and Cataclysm. Assuming the nerf targets Wild Quest Mage, it looks like they’re nerfing some of the more oppressive Combo decks in that format.
Here’s a full list of nerfed cards:
And here are the Battlegrounds balance changes:
a 6mana pyroblast on a 5/5 is okayage? or even better with brann 9mana deal 20?! …cant wait for brann to get out of standard but this needs a nerv too
nerf^^xd
Ugh I really hope frost dk is good still, I was gonna grind to legend with it ????
Seems to happen to every deck I play lmao it’s pretty aggrivating at this point
If I had to guess, Construct Quarter durability down to 2, or cost up to 4.
Can’t see the token is changed.
Gnoll to 11 or 12 mana, or stats down to 4/3
Parrot to only recast 6 and above, so wild quest mage can’t recast the quest reward.
Other two wild cards no clue :kekw:
Maybe make 3/4s?
Durability to 2 barely affects it, because if you play it on 3, the game is likely over before turn 7 anyway and you don’t get to do it 3 times. Either the cost goes up to 4, or it transforms instead of killing along with a change in cost or durability.
Gnoll to 11 completely kills evolve shaman as a deck, so I don’t think they’ll do that. Still, it’s egregious enough that they might, since it’s hard to find a good way to nerf the card.
I think parrot will reply only 6 cost spell and don’t change nothing from big mage (unless discounted spell from balinda count as 5).
Parrot will still work with Balinda discounts. Its the original cost of the spell, that works with Parrots battlecry.
True but recently they change skulking geist to kill current discounted 1 cost spell (against celestial aligment druid, basically you delete the druid deck).
I don’t know if they want to keep the same philosophy