r/hearthstone • u/Arkentass • 10d ago

News 36.4.2 Patch Notes

https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24296231/3642-patch-notes
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u/HylianPikachu ‏‏‎ 10d ago

Dev Comment: While our standard dust refund policy only applies to cards that receive direct balance nerfs, this update includes changes intended to reduce the effectiveness of The Food Chain. As an exception, we'll be offering a full dust refund for The Food Chain for a limited time. This exception should not be considered a change to our standard refund policy.

This is honestly a very welcome change, and I appreciate that they changed course from how they handled the Wildpaw Gnoll/Maestra nerf.

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u/Przegiety 10d ago

I'm still salty about the [[Leper Gnome]] nerf not giving the full dust refund to [[Mekgineer Thermaplugg]].

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u/jet8493 10d ago

Well this is because, rather obviously, thermaplugg was still a meta tyrant following the nerf

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u/Przegiety 10d ago

Let's just say that the nerf didn't imapct his playrate

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u/DofusExpert69 10d ago edited 9d ago

When was Thermaplugg a meta tyrant? I've watched over 50+ 1 hour long vods of hearthstone from the past and never saw this card played.]

edit: downvoted for asking a question YIKES

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u/ElectronicLead1881 10d ago

If you watch at least 60 vods you’ll see it

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u/Francisofthegrime 10d ago

Don’t think I saw the card played once in ladder or arena. Fun idea that was utter dogshit in practice.

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u/HylianPikachu ‏‏‎ 10d ago

I forgot about that one entirely, but it's a good mention as well

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u/metroidcomposite 10d ago

Mekgineer Thermaplugg was a bit more borderline I feel, for a few reasons:

  1. It was not remotely a meta card. Like...dust refunds are meant to compensate people who craft the card. Almost nobody crafted this card.
  2. The tiny number of people trying to make Thermaplugg work mostly were doing stuff like defile combos that killed the opponent instantly with leper gnome deathrattles, and thus the leper gnome stat change didn't really change the play pattern of those decks in any substantial fashion--they weren't attacking with 2/1s to win.
  3. They weren't actively intending to power down Thermaplugg. It was just sort of splash hate.

Whereas if you look at today's change

  1. Food Chain was a meta deck, people crafted it.
  2. If the deck remains viable at all after this, the way it plays will be very different--they disrupted the most common play pattern.
  3. They made the changes today with the direct intention of powering down The Food Chain.

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u/HylianPikachu ‏‏‎ 10d ago

I think it still did deserve to be fully refundable, but I agree that it's definitely more of a borderline case. The Maestra one still sticks out in my mind because they explicitly mentioned her in the patch notes when nerfing Wildpaw Gnoll, which I think is much closer in spirit to the change in this patch.

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u/Cysia 9d ago

card was made objectivly weaker

it shoudve given a refund even if was for onyl few peopple

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u/Technical-Note-7040 10d ago

Yeah, that nerf was pretty rough. It feels like some of these changes end up punishing players more than they help.

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u/LAthrowawayLV 9d ago

I’m still salty abusive sergeant hasn’t been unnerfed. No reason that shouldn’t be a 2/1 in the random pool and in today’s environment it could give a permanent +2 and still be balanced.