Are people still playing this? I haven’t touched it since I completed the single player expansion, but I look forward to playing it again once we get a new set of cards.
Blizzard has announced plans to nerf two of Hearthstone’s most popular cards in an upcoming patch.
The neutral legendary card Leeroy Jenkins and the class-specific Hunter card Starving Buzzard will both be adjusted on 22nd September, the company said in a post on the Battle.net forums.
Leeroy Jenkins can charge at opponents as soon as it is played, dealing six damage, and thanks to its relatively low mana cost it has become extremely common as a finishing move, often in combination with cards that increase its attack power considerably, return it to the player’s hand in the same turn or duplicate its presence on the board for a second hit.
In theory its low-cost/high-attack combo is mitigated because it summons a pair of small minions for the opponent when it is played, but in practice this rarely helps the other player, who seldom survives long enough to make any use of them.
Blizzard is changing Leeroy’s cost from four to five mana, which the developer believes will make it harder to deliver upwards of 20 damage in a single turn.
Starving Buzzard is a different kind of card - a low-cost, low-power card that delivers most of its value by allowing the Hunter to draw cards. The revised Starving Buzzard will go up from a two mana cost to five, which sounds like a massive drop in value on the face of it, although it will now have three attack and two health (up one point each).
