Hearthstone nerfing Leeroy Jenkins, Starving Buzzard
At first I saw the overpowered Leeroy Jenkins nerfing and was all: YAAAAAYYYYYY!
Then I saw the tweak to the card-creation bonanza of Starving Buzzard and cried in cataclysmic rage toward the heavens.
An upcoming "balance change" for Blizzard's collectible card game Hearthstone will see two abundant strategies require some tweaking. The card that potentially caused 20+ points of damage as part of a nefarious combination play, Leeroy Jenkins, will now cost one mana more. At least he's got chicken. Not Angry Chicken, mind you.
Starving Buzzard, which was key to several Hunter class strategies, will now cost five mana (up from two) and will become a three attack and two health card, up from two attack and one health. Fine, fine, we hunters will just have to Unleash the Hounds a little later.
If you're still holding out hope for other balance changes, Senior Game Producer Yong Woo told us at Gamescom, "One of the advantages of [Hearthstone] being a digital card game is we get to see everything. How people are playing, how people are winning. What's interesting and fun for us to watch is sometimes the gap between the reality of what's happening and perception."
Remember: Everything is overpowered to someone.
