Прочитал интверью Аялы на IGN, вот что он пишет про рогу интересного (я выделил интересные моменты курсивом:
IGN: -EVIL Miscreant has turned out to be super strong.
Dean Ayala: Yeah. We do power ratings just so we see that we’re on the same page, and if there’s a disconnect, we discuss it. It’s the reason why we do power ratings. We do it on a 10 scale. And I think all of us were like, “Okay. This is a nine or a 10.”
It was extremely powerful, but for our reasons, we thought this card is really fun. It resulted in cool gameplay. And specifically for Rogue, it fits perfectly… these one mana creatures that help you with combo, and they fit into the gameplay theme of playing a bunch of different cards in the same turn. It totally fit what Rogue was supposed to do. So we definitely just targeted a bunch of power there. And just having burst. Rogues don’t have access to things like taunt and heal. They’re about crazy combos, burst, tempo. So them being powerful at that is I think just what they should be good at.
То что они считают, что рога - класс, который должен мутить крези комбос, понижает шансы на нерф препы.
IGN: Right. So you’re not too concerned about the Leeroy/Waggle Pick shenanigans? The ability to do big burst damage from hand?
Dean Ayala: A lot of damage from hand is always concerning. I think that when we get the most concerned is when it’s 30, or very close to it. I don’t think we’re going to end up in a space in Hearthstone where at least some class that’s supposed to be good at that kind of thing isn’t going to be able to do 12, 15 damage from hand.
So I think that they do an appropriate amount of damage from hand for now. They probably are the best at it, at least in terms of reasonable damage from hand - there’s all kinds of combos classes can create that deal 30 damage, but aren’t actually decks that people play.
So Rogue is supposed to be good at that. I think it’s pretty reasonable in terms of data, there’s nothing to suggest, there no… it’s not like there’s an overpopulation or their win rate’s too high.
Отсюда видно, что лирою ничего не угрожает, жаль что не затронули аспект бесплатных пиратов, но курсивом выделено, что им даже не кажется что рога оверпопулейтед или имеет бешеный винрейт. Мне кажется, что это не так и рог чересчур много, но прочитав это интервью, я всё более склоняюсь к мысли, что нерфов в этом патче может вообще не быть, выглядит так, что Элизиана самый реальный кандидат и то только из-за киберспорта.