Adjustments may soon be made to one major deck in "Hearthstone". That one major Hearthstone deck may get nerfed if they remain highly popular.
According to the newspaper Daily Express, the "Hearthstone" decks being considered for modification are Shaman. It is the Shaman using Hearthstone decks that could face being changed. Currently, they seem very popular as of now.
The game's community is concerned about the elemental spirit guides monopolizing the ranked ladder. Many players have come to terms with the dominance of the Shamans. They choose to stay away until changes in the meta removes Shamans from the top.
Some players have observed that they are appearing frequently. Whether they are aggressive or slow, they are also hard to handle.
Gaming website SegmentNext reported that a player ranted on the official game forums. He demanded an answer from Blizzard when it plans to power down the class. Game director Max McCall says that although the Shaman deck is pretty popular as of now, resulting in playing against one such deck about once every four games, it does not necessarily mean that its win frequency is much higher than other decks.
He mentioned that a Shaman player is vulnerable to a number of different strategies. They are weak against Reno decks and Dragon decks such as Warrior and Priest. Players should use Reno Warlock if they want to win against Shamans.
Blizzard cannot affect what strategy is predominant in the metagame without introducing major changes. They are however monitoring the situation.
McCall says that balanced strategies are desirable because they allow a more frequently varied matchup between different classes and not because they do not have dominant strategies. This means balanced play allows a wider variety in the types of "Hearthstone" games that are played.
Blizzard said that there are no dominant strategies that can win with a much higher percentage over others. There are however popular strategies that are more pervasive than others. McCall said that Shaman loses to many different decks so playing it is not a dominant strategy. It is however still boring to play against the same class over and over again.
Although Blizzard says that Shaman does not win as much as players think, its popularity means that 25 percent of ranked games in "Hearthstone", one out of every four games, is played against a Shaman deck. This frequency and the repetitive and monotonous aspect of it, is what Blizzard is paying attention to.
McCall says that they are hoping to see Shamans being toppled from their top spot in the near future as a natural consequence of their known weaknesses. If that does not happen then they can intervene.
He mentions that classes can be an issue even if they do not win more often than the rest. They become a problem if they stay popular for too long, making the metagame stale, so they will have to step in and correct the situation just like Blizzard did when they nerfed the Shamans previously in "Hearthstone".
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