Hearthstone's new version has been online for almost a week, the ladder environment has gradually begun to stabilize, the previous article in the breeze also looked at the current version of the big data with everyone, in general, the early environment of Otranc and Stormwind City is really much better, to say how to make a balance patch, it is really a problem worth discussing.
Balance patch time
Hearthstone Grand Masters Global Finals will start at the weekend, which is not only the highest level of the 2021 season international event, but also the first competition after the Launch of the Otranc version, everyone will naturally pay more attention to whether the balance patch will affect this game, and designer Celestalon clearly replied on Twitter: There will be no balance patch before the end of the global finals, that is to say, there will be no balance patch news before at least the 21st.
But to be honest, the environment at the beginning of the Otranc version is much better than Stormwind City, fast attack, medium speed, control, OTK in Otranc can actually have to play, and form a circular restraint, this is hearthstone benign environment. And when it comes to the balance patch, everyone is not as much looking forward to it as in the early days of the Stormwind City version. Of course, the designer has more data in his hands, and the Grandmaster Global Finals are coming, and the designers should also adjust the balance patch according to the performance of each card group in the competition, so you can pay more attention to the weekend finals.
However, the designer's idea is how we have no way of knowing, but does not prevent us from speculating about the balance patch, the following is mainly the subjective opinion of the breeze, if there are different opinions, welcome to discuss rationally in the comment area.
Deep iron cave dweller
Deep Iron Caveman is undoubtedly the hottest card in Otranc, which can be seen from the discussion of cavemen in major community forums two days before it was launched. The Deep Iron Caveman amplifies the role of the knight, is a natural enemy of various autistic OTK decks, and has a very deep impact on the environment. However, it is estimated that most people do not want to cut him, because this card is currently more beneficial to the environment than harmful, if you cut him, the ladder may become a Stormwind version of everyone's autism.
In addition, this card is not impossible to target, if the autistic OTK card group is really afraid of cavemen, there is a high-quality silence card in the environment, and it is still tradeable, in addition, Qingfeng has also encountered super blindness with mage hunters, it is really a complete caveman, simply change the name of caveman hunter. So the priority of this card change may not be so high, of course, it is not clear whether the designer will think so.
By the way, Qingfeng personally feels that the knight's buff and the card may be the first to be weakened, the mid-term Vienon blessing plus the golden-winged parrot continuous shooting, the scene pressure is particularly large, if the Vaillant blessing is still attached to the cavemen, then basically only silence can be solved. And even if the parrot does not copy the Vaillant blessing, copying it to Adar's hand is very profitable.
Snowfall Guardian
At first, everyone thought that the core of The Ice Fall was a cheating dog head, and then everyone found out that the Snow Fall Guardian was the father of the Ice Sasa card group, frozen the whole round, and let the body rise to a very large, one is fine, if the Snow Fall Guardian shoots continuously, and even uses the parrot to copy the battle roar, not only is it very disgusting in the arena, many card sets in the ladder are also difficult to deal with, I heard that some card groups in the Wild are ready to bring the Activation Dragon Breath (of course, Ice Sa himself can also bring the freeze of his followers). Maybe the Balance Patch will add a fee to the Snowfall Guardian.
Owl technique
Owl technique should be the most popular deck of the ladder at present, although there is a knife per capita in the ladder, and the deep iron caveman will make the owl technique very uncomfortable, but the heat still seems to be unabated. The ladder high segment owl technique is very rare, and in general, the owl may not be cut, and if it is to be cut, it is likely to cut other warlocks. Speaking of the new version of the environment slowed down, the previous version of the control techniques have returned to the standard battlefield, Qingfeng has encountered several warlocks with Tiktese before, it seems that the Twitter Q&A is going to see Tiktez's discussion again.
Lock throat thief
Although the thief's lock throat has been weakened, it can still successfully draw out the card library to kill opponents, and the hero card also increases the ability to understand the field. Although the current win rate of thieves is very low, partly because the plagiarists have pulled down the winning rate, and partly because this deck has high proficiency requirements, and it is normal to lose a few if you are not skilled. And the balance does not only look at the average win rate, before the blood-sucking blind win rate was only more than 40%, but Iglos was still slashed, and later it turned out that this knife was not unjustly cut. Whether the lock-throat thief will be cut again is likely to depend on his performance in this global finals. If you really want to weaken, cut the octopus, the wilderness contact or the new hero card?
Mage reinforcement?
The most miserable profession in the new version should be the mage, to be honest, as Blizzard's daughter, the mage seems to be the first time to fall to the bottom. After the task method is weakened, the reward is not as good as the phoenix found, the duel method is indeed very strong, sometimes six or seven fees can be killed, but with the increase of the number of cavemen, coupled with the restraint of eating hands, the duel method itself is also a very skilled card set, the winning rate is still very bleak, but the balance patch has always weakened more than reinforcement, perhaps the mage can only expect that the environmental changes after the balance patch can be improved.
Death Mine
For various reasons, the Death Mine Mini Pack was only launched in the last month of the Stormwind City version, and it wasn't long before the preview of Otranc began, and many of the new cards of the Death Mine began to glow in Otrank, such as various parrots. Of course, there is also a card that has been full of controversy since the first appearance, that is, Mr. Heavy Punch, and he is still the most used orange card in the deck, the Death Mine Card Pack has not yet experienced a balance patch, I don't know if Mr. Heavy Punch will be the first to be stabbed?
Faction leader
Finally, mentioning the two faction leader orange cards given by the new version, at the end of the Stormwind Version and now, Vandal Ray Spear and Draketal have led a wave of card deck craze, and the strength of these two orange cards is still quite good. It is worth mentioning that if these two orange cards are opened at the time of opening the package, it has been determined that they can be decomposed in full, and the remaining arcane dust will be returned when the decomposition is carried out in advance.
Of course, the environment is not completely stable now, by the time of the Grandmaster Global Finals, the environment may have already changed, what will the balance patch be like, let's look forward to it.