Can you at least wait until ALL the cards are revealed?
Shaman needed only a few cards to ascend from thash tier to top OP tier, starting with tunnel trogg, the cards for priest reveal so far is this level of card, think about for a moment, a removal is cheap and more efficient than Flamestrike, this is awesome, ok, if only that we can be rushing conclusions, but priest have a broken card for 5 manas for perfect curve with the removal and one 1 mana card to put in check early agression, one weakness of class.
If the other classes receive so good cards too we have the best meta in standard, with all classes playable with a least one deck in tier 1 or a strong tier 2, for now the only thing I see is a priest meta same level of the shaman meta we see today.
Well, I think one of the biggest points that I've seen made that curiously hasn't been addressed here yet is whether or not priest will get a viable 2 drop. That, I think, will be one of the major signs for priest's health in the near future. Zombie chow's success I think was reasonable proof of that, despite only being 1 mana. Priest's early game was always very shaky and their ability to snowball their control game was often based on the early and mid-game board states.
I'm excited to see dragon priest get some love, as I had some serious concerns for it in the next rotation with so many cards being lost to wild in the standard format. I'm particularly excited that these new spells we're getting actually scale with spell power and make it feel like a relevant stat now for priest, which was something I feel was really lacking.
But I feel like priests will have to reserve judgement until we get the full picture. WotG saw a ton of fun, crazy old god decks in the first few months of the rotation and it really felt like anyone's game until people found ways to adapt the older deck shells to the current card pool and found that shaman was absolutely busted. That said, I really hope that priest also gets some creative space to play with for entirely NEW deck archetypes and not just the ones we have now to help define the class, since priests have had an identity crisis pretty much from the word go.
Shamans may be t1 right now but there are many other competitive decks and classes, especially post nerf. We are actually in one of the most balanced meta's to date right now.
Priest needed love as did shaman, whether it's OP or not remains to be seen. I hope it does not become flavour of the month though. It hurt watching shaman get gutted and turned into an almost spam class when it had some of the most interesting decks and play styles in the past. Offering great challenge and reward for players opting to use it. Same with priest now.
I pray that this doesn't become priest now has no weakness and no matter what you play they have a response. Think someone said it earlier only priest will be able to beat priest... Let's hope not. Cause a meta of T1 priest and combo decks sounds way more fun than it'll actually be. Pray to rngesus, yogg, etc. Nty!
Well, we are going to have an insane meta between MSoG and when the new standard rotation hits. Still 100 cards left to be revealed, but as of right now priest looks to be absolutely insane. When the new standard rolls out though, there is no telling.
Priest will not be OP, not even close. But it'll definitely be playable again. Unfortunately, the most playable variation of the deck will be Dragon Priest, essentially curvestone with no space to run more of the "creative" cards. However, the shrinkmeister like effects being incorporated into Standard again allow for Priest favorites such as Cabal Shadow Priest to come back into relevance. But is this new Dragon Priest going to be better than what Midrange Paladin will become, or even the current iteration of Shaman? That remains to be seen. But overall, very excited to play with the new cards in a few weeks.
They're taking control-oriented cards and giving them a ton of curve power in Priest so that Priest has enough curve to deal with Board Control decks. Except there's no real point in doing any of that because Healing-oriented decks like Priest were never supposed to counter Board Control decks. They were supposed to counter Face-rush decks (which Midrange Shaman is not, despite popular belief), but all of those got killed off after the pre-WoG nerfs, completely unbalancing the game and giving the power to Shaman. And now, the Blizzard executives are being tricked into thinking that making Healing decks counter Board Control decks is going to anything to solve the problem as long as Aggro is still next to nonexistent.
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Well, I think one of the biggest points that I've seen made that curiously hasn't been addressed here yet is whether or not priest will get a viable 2 drop. That, I think, will be one of the major signs for priest's health in the near future. Zombie chow's success I think was reasonable proof of that, despite only being 1 mana. Priest's early game was always very shaky and their ability to snowball their control game was often based on the early and mid-game board states.
I'm excited to see dragon priest get some love, as I had some serious concerns for it in the next rotation with so many cards being lost to wild in the standard format. I'm particularly excited that these new spells we're getting actually scale with spell power and make it feel like a relevant stat now for priest, which was something I feel was really lacking.
But I feel like priests will have to reserve judgement until we get the full picture. WotG saw a ton of fun, crazy old god decks in the first few months of the rotation and it really felt like anyone's game until people found ways to adapt the older deck shells to the current card pool and found that shaman was absolutely busted. That said, I really hope that priest also gets some creative space to play with for entirely NEW deck archetypes and not just the ones we have now to help define the class, since priests have had an identity crisis pretty much from the word go.
Sounds good to me! I've played games like that and i find them fun. Also, I doubt astral druid will ever be the deck to beat.
Shamans may be t1 right now but there are many other competitive decks and classes, especially post nerf. We are actually in one of the most balanced meta's to date right now.
Priest needed love as did shaman, whether it's OP or not remains to be seen. I hope it does not become flavour of the month though. It hurt watching shaman get gutted and turned into an almost spam class when it had some of the most interesting decks and play styles in the past. Offering great challenge and reward for players opting to use it. Same with priest now.
I pray that this doesn't become priest now has no weakness and no matter what you play they have a response. Think someone said it earlier only priest will be able to beat priest... Let's hope not. Cause a meta of T1 priest and combo decks sounds way more fun than it'll actually be. Pray to rngesus, yogg, etc. Nty!
Dragon Warrior.
Warrior will go extinct
Well, we are going to have an insane meta between MSoG and when the new standard rotation hits. Still 100 cards left to be revealed, but as of right now priest looks to be absolutely insane. When the new standard rolls out though, there is no telling.
Seems ok.
Dragon Priest 2017:
-No Entomb
-No E.evil (ok...)
-No Twilight Welp
-No Wyrmrest Agent
-No Bann Bronzebard
-No Blackwing Technican
-No Twilight Guardian
-No Blackwing Corrupter
-No Chillmaw
-No Nefarian
Priest will not be OP, not even close. But it'll definitely be playable again. Unfortunately, the most playable variation of the deck will be Dragon Priest, essentially curvestone with no space to run more of the "creative" cards. However, the shrinkmeister like effects being incorporated into Standard again allow for Priest favorites such as Cabal Shadow Priest to come back into relevance. But is this new Dragon Priest going to be better than what Midrange Paladin will become, or even the current iteration of Shaman? That remains to be seen. But overall, very excited to play with the new cards in a few weeks.
Achieved Gold Priest- April 2017
They're taking control-oriented cards and giving them a ton of curve power in Priest so that Priest has enough curve to deal with Board Control decks. Except there's no real point in doing any of that because Healing-oriented decks like Priest were never supposed to counter Board Control decks. They were supposed to counter Face-rush decks (which Midrange Shaman is not, despite popular belief), but all of those got killed off after the pre-WoG nerfs, completely unbalancing the game and giving the power to Shaman. And now, the Blizzard executives are being tricked into thinking that making Healing decks counter Board Control decks is going to anything to solve the problem as long as Aggro is still next to nonexistent.