Balance Suggestions: Buffing Onyxia's Soldier tokens and Possessed Technician
Hi everyone! I would like to share two balance suggestions to improve the gameplay feel for Death Knight's Cataclysm mechanics.
- Onyxia's Soldier
Current state: Summons a 1/1, 2/2, or 4/4 Onyxia's Soldier based on your Herald tier.
Proposed change: Add Taunt to the tokens and adjust their stats to 1/2 with Taunt, 2/4 with Taunt, and 4/8 with Taunt respectively.
Why? Since the summoned random minion costs your own Hero's Health on that turn, having a proper defensive line is crucial. Adding Taunt and increasing the Health of Onyxia's Soldiers would give the player a much-needed defensive wall to stabilize the board.
- Possessed Technician
Current state: 4 Mana 3/5.
Proposed change: Change to 3 Mana 2/4.
Why? At 4 mana, this card is far too slow and heavily competes with stronger class options. Death Knight has the slowest Herald progression in the game, making a high-cost enabler very clunky to play. Moving it to the 3-mana slot with solid 2/4 stats would significantly smooth out the early-game curve and help the slowest Herald class keep up with the meta's pace.
DK is my favorite class, and I’m extremely saddened to see the current state of playability for it. Even though a new addition will soon shake things up in the meta.