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It's still a shame how Basic and/or Classic cards have to get nerfed or HoF'd because they fail to predict the impact of some of the new cards. Most notably, High Priest Amet.
I would rather have boring cards like DS/IF nerfed or HoFed than interesting ones like High Priest Amet.
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It's still a shame how Basic and/or Classic cards have to get nerfed or HoF'd because they fail to predict the impact of some of the new cards. Most notably, High Priest Amet.
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Looking at the Meta Tier lists, I see CW in Tier 1/2 no matter how I choose the filters.
You have cool pictures, but they have no basis in reality.
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"More data is needed for Barnes".
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Maybe they buff a few cards too. I don't like it when my Pocket Galaxy is not drawn or played by turn 5. So I think it should start in your opening hand.
Yeah, kidding.
Some of the previous buffs were just good enough to see some fringe play. Some were far too buffed. I hope they don't give up on buffing older cards, just don't jump by 2 mana reduction.
If you noticed all the 1 mana reductions were fine and fair, and no one is talking about how broken they are. But they buff Galaxy by 2 mana and it becomes the most OP card in any Mage deck. I am not alone, in my predictions, but here goes...
Predictions on Nerfs, aka Balance changes.
1. Pocket Galaxy increases to 6 mana.
2. Dr Boom Hero loses Discover a Mech, gets a random mech instead. There are some really bad ones too.
3. Prism increases to 5 mana and/or Draw a minion and a Spell. Reduce the spell by half cost and double the minion mana cost. (minimum of 1 and maximum of 10).
4. Calling increases to 4 mana.
5. Inner Fire and combo piece go to HOF.
6. Mountain Giant gets HOF'd.
I am not saying all of these changes take place, but if they do, these are what are the most likely ways they do get nerfed or changed.
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Check the guy's post history. He's a salt mining edgelord. Nothing to see here.
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It actually is great and consistently wins you games when used well.
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Finally the Barnes nerf
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Well, if you get the vicious syndicate meta report, you can see that in the tier 1 you have:
combo priest - aggro deck
murloc paladin - aggro deck
highlander hunter - midrange deck
aggro warrior - aggro deck
mech hunter - midrange/aggro-ish deck
And on the tier 2 you have:
aggro rogue - aggro deck
secret hunter - midrange deck
zoo warlock - aggro deck
The only control deck you have is control warrior and highlander mage - depending on the build, but most highlander mages are midrange decks..
So aggro is not dead, this couldn't be more far from true. What do happen is that all aggro decks really struggle against the only good control deck, control warrior..
So yeah, the tools control warrior have in standard to fight aggro is pretty much on the top of the scale, since they have really power plays from turn 1 against aggro and have great board clears, armor gain, taunt, and rush minions.. but you dont have any other class or deck with powerfull anti-aggro tools..
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It's the greatest example indeed.
Of how you can play into randomness to get the outcomes you want.
- Zekrek timing.
- How many resurrects must you get off the Spellstone to get the outcome you want.
- What minions do you play to improve the resurrect pool.
- What minions do you NOT play to not yet mud the ressurect pool (so play Zilliax this turn or resurrect first).
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No shit.
We're getting.
What the truck are they doing?!
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Oh yeah, and I'm gladly going to poor more money into this so they can pay more ridiculous sign-on bonuses to the handful executive-level employees.
"Activision Blizzard Inc.’s Dennis Durkin will receive awards worth $15 million as part of his appointment to chief financial officer"
This was literally a month ago. I'm sorry for the lay-offs but it's this kind of stupid, stupid behavior that's causing it.
For all I care nobody spends a single dime on this game anymore.
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I'm sorry what the hell? Did I misread you there?
Activision will do whatever the hell they want. They lost the Destiny property. They keep milking CoD endlessly. They absolutely destroyed their other IP's such as Guitar Hero. They're on their way to destroy Diablo, they're shutting down HoTS and internal reports on Blizzard clearly state that it's Activisons clasp on their company that's making it more corporate and less consumer-centric. Expect this to be visible in Hearthstone in the upcoming years too.
People already vote with their wallet in this kind of game and I want to bet a good amount of us has already spent a good amount of money there. I know I have and the game's state doesn't really make it that worthwhile anymore. In fact, I highly doubt I'll be spending money on HS in the future anymore.
They've already raised the prices last year. For what? You think the developers see any of that?
And your request is to give more money to them?! I genuinely wonder how this seemed sensible a thing to post here.
That said: I think a large part of the layoffs were handling the Destiny franchise and/or relations with Bungie. Since that's something they're no longer pursuing.