Another dumb OP card

[Wuhan Virus]

Why'd Mana Chaser costs only 2 mana and having better stats than Vulture Prime? Not to mention 3 chasers only cost 5 mana
It is completely insane that the devs nerfed Vulture Prime just a few days ago and make a new card that's incredibly strong than that
Oh yeah, this is just how this company makes money

[Jackeea]

引用自 Carmarkcaine：

引用自 Jackeea：

Do you expect the balance team to get every single new card perfectly balanced? They try their best, generally erring on the weaker side of things. But occasionally they get it wrong. This is a far cry from "they make every new card OP because this game is pay to win".

No they don't try their best. They know exactly, what they are doing. This is free to play. They need to make money somehow.

As someone who's part of the PTR to balance cards: they 100% do. Why do you think that the upcoming cards (Ghast/Rendrath) are so horrendously weak? They learned their lesson with Mana Chaser being accidentally meta-breaking.

Plus: If they genuinely did want to squeeze money out of us by making the cards so strong... why would they nerf Mana Chaser 5 days after the update dropped, before most players got hold of it? Why would they pre-emptively nerf Spelldancer from the tested version (originally she fired 5 missiles), despite most players saying she was probably okay balance wise? Why would they release cards like Net Blaster or Vuk without making sure they were overtuned?

The answer is simple, cockup over conspiracy. They try to release cards balanced, but due to the sheer amount of balance changes in this update, no-one in the PTR noticed "wait, mana chaser in the mana freeze mode has comparable DPS to razors, and costs 1 less". If people had noticed how overpowered it was and the synergies it enabled, they would have bumped it up to 3 mana as a safeguard.

[Jackeea]

引用自 Carmarkcaine：

引用自 Jackeea：

As someone who's part of the PTR to balance cards: they 100% do. Why do you think that the upcoming cards (Ghast/Rendrath) are so horrendously weak? They learned their lesson with Mana Chaser being accidentally meta-breaking.

Plus: If they genuinely did want to squeeze money out of us by making the cards so strong... why would they nerf Mana Chaser 5 days after the update dropped, before most players got hold of it? Why would they pre-emptively nerf Spelldancer from the tested version (originally she fired 5 missiles), despite most players saying she was probably okay balance wise? Why would they release cards like Net Blaster or Vuk without making sure they were overtuned?

The answer is simple, cockup over conspiracy. They try to release cards balanced, but due to the sheer amount of balance changes in this update, no-one in the PTR noticed "wait, mana chaser in the mana freeze mode has comparable DPS to razors, and costs 1 less". If people had noticed how overpowered it was and the synergies it enabled, they would have bumped it up to 3 mana as a safeguard.

Spare me the long tale.

It has happend WAY to mana times before, to be coincidental.
Mana Chaser, Bearvalanche, Sanctum, City Watch, diplomancer, Feng and Ruby, comes to mind.

Again, those are the only OP cards released from the past 30 cards or so. For every Mana Chaser, there's a Vuk's Clutchcooker or A'Zog or Urclaw or Magnetic Bombs. It's much more likely that a card ends up undertuned than overtuned.

[Jackeea]

引用自 Carmarkcaine：

引用自 Jackeea：

Again, those are the only OP cards released from the past 30 cards or so. For every Mana Chaser, there's a Vuk's Clutchcooker or A'Zog or Urclaw or Magnetic Bombs. It's much more likely that a card ends up undertuned than overtuned.

And it's 7 too many.

So every single new card should be released vastly, incredibly underpowered so there's no probability they're remotely usable?

[Jackeea]

引用自 Carmarkcaine：

引用自 Jackeea：

So every single new card should be released vastly, incredibly underpowered so there's no probability they're remotely usable?

I'd rather have that, than "vastly, incredible" overpowered.

Well, you'll absolutely love next season then

[Sirenus]

They typically seem to release one OP card per new Season Pass. The other cards are typically pretty underwhelming. I think I've only played against a deck with Spelldancer once lol.

And yeah, I'd prefer that they release them underpowered and then gradually ramp them up to be on par with other cards rather than risk shifting the power dynamic each release.

However that would defeat the purpose of them trying to get people to buy passes and put actual $ into the game.