Team 5 recently announced a number of nerfs designed to address the prominence of Druid in Hearthstone right now, and in a surprise move also took the opportunity to make a few other changes. To find out a little more about the thinking behind the adjustments, I caught up with senior designer Mike Donais and game designer Dean Ayala for a chat.
IGN: It’s great to see you guys address the Druid concern quite quickly. I think it’s much appreciated by the community. I was looking at the latest Vicious Syndicate report this morning and it was saying that 30% of the overall meta is Druid and that climbs to almost 40% at Legend ranks. Can you give me a look behind the scenes at how the team identifies something has to be done, then gets things in motion? How did you decide which cards to hit and what was the testing process like?
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IGN: It’s great to see you guys address the Druid concern quite quickly. I think it’s much appreciated by the community. I was looking at the latest Vicious Syndicate report this morning and it was saying that 30% of the overall meta is Druid and that climbs to almost 40% at Legend ranks. Can you give me a look behind the scenes at how the team identifies something has to be done, then gets things in motion? How did you decide which cards to hit and what was the testing process like?
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