Personally, I hate Priest, and I always hated the class, since the game launched. The reason is very different from most players. I don't hate them because they are a powerful class right now and people love hating on the top classes. I hate Priest because I hate the Stealing/Copy mechanic in this game. From Mind Vision all the way up to Mind Control, are cards I despise. It is a mechanic that punishes you for playing a deck of good and powerful cards, which considering I'm a Control and Combo player for the most part, is an extremely powerful mechanic against me.
I know that this kind of cards are really weak against Aggro and such, because their card quality on average is really low, so the impact of these stealing/copy cards is also very low. However, when your Priest opponent is Thought Stealing multiple Ragnaros and Sylvanas, and you have to deal with them all, just because you dared to play a deck with good cards, then you are fucked.
Also, something that has made my experience against the class disgusting, is that as a Freeze Mage player as main deck, I don't know it was possible, but Priest always managed to copy Ice Blocks, no matter how low the odds to get them, they would always copy them. That is why at first I started keeping Ice Blocks in the matchup, and finally after a lot of stupid games lost to that kind of RNG, along with many games lost by them stealing or copying my best cards, I just decided to not play against them.
At the moment, I do not play against Priests, I just concede whenever one gets matched with me. I also extremely rarely play Priest. I basically grinded the 500 wins for Golden and now I only ever play when I want to get some fun combo or such.
Hope that helps. I don't really have any issues with Priest being powerful, I actually find it good, since the class has never been the best in the game and now it is it's turn.
I am not a fan of Thief Rogue or Thief Priest either. I personally hate both of them and any other RNG based deck like Evolve Shaman. But like Freeze Mage was way more Cancerous than both so IDK how you hate Preist and play Freeze mage.
I will say that losing to RNG is the dumbest shit ever regardless of what you are playing.
Make Anduin: refresh hero power after an spell, but your hero power now cost 1 extra, so 3 for normal, 1 for raza. EZ
Then it wouldn't be worth it. Having to Sacrifice consistency not having any duplicates, then having to Draw Raza and then Anduin. The pay off has to be worth it. I don't think that would be worth sacrifice.
Also priest would get shat on ever harder against Tempo Rogue and Exodia Mage.
In fact just had one of those 'play the game for 20 mins just to find out you've lost' games against a fucking greedy as hell Reno Quest N'Zoth control priests in wild. Literally nothing worse to play against as a non-aggro deck. As the priest player you literally can't get punished as the priest player when facing a control deck after cramming every greedy thing in your deck. Even as a singleton deck you just stall until you win.
And faced a wild Big Priest RIGHT after this game. This is all in wild casual mind you.
Maybe a nerf to DK Priest would be instead of choosing where you can target your hero power, it should read "Deal 2 Damage to a RANDOM enemy. After you play a card, refresh this." Would it still be considered playable?
Maybe a nerf to DK Priest would be instead of choosing where you can target your hero power, it should read "Deal 2 Damage to a RANDOM enemy. After you play a card, refresh this." Would it still be considered playable?
No. Against control match-ups you wouldn't want random pings.
Why are we even talking about nerfs when we already had nerfs for other decks/cards? HS playerbase get real, there is always going to be a better deck. You can't realistically nerf every single better deck in order for every class to be equally playable. It will NEVER happen.
I don't hate it, I think it's in a strong position right now with a few different arch types. It's where I honestly would like to see most classes, powerful with a couple of different viable decks.
However I understand people's frustration with it because it doesn't have any glaring weaknesses right now and can turn any game into a winnable game with a wide variety of solutions in the deck. It can turn your perfect draw into junk with the right card or two.
Fun pro tip for anyone trying to play a hard counter... mill rogue or mill warlock. They fill up their hand a bit and then you start burning their deck far faster then they can drop it.
shadowreaper should not beable to heal himself. just when you think you might have a chance of actually killing them they play priest of the feast or healing potion.
It just sucks there will be 2 more months of this BS. I hate facing these decks like Exodia mage, druid, or any of the priest decks. It's just not fun to play against. You don't want to concede because you want to play every game, but it comes down to "I can't tech against every deck". Then Shaman with the evolve/bloodlust. There really aren't any decks you can make that will compete with these. Keleseth? I've played a few games with him in my starting hand, even bounce him with shadowstep, still lose. How is it that a Jade Druid, or Priest can last the whole game against any other class that actually has a good draw? It should be that if you have a good draw you at least have a chance, but nope. I die because I didn't play hyper aggro. It's either hyper aggro, or play the tier 1 decks. Your choice. Hyper aggro will get you 50-55% win rate, same with these tier 1 decks.
Warlock is fun, 10 mana hero at least that's balanced compared to the other heroes. Maybe heroes should all be 10 mana.
Hunter is ok, fairly balanced in that you can think about your plays.
Machine gun priest is dumb. Big priest is dumb. Jade Druid has always been dumb. How can you play these decks and think, wow this game is fun and balanced?
shadowreaper should not beable to heal himself. just when you think you might have a chance of actually killing them they play priest of the feast or healing potion.
far too many tools and no weaknesses.
No weakness? Like wtf this isn't Jade Druid last patch Priest has plenty of weaknesses. You just don't know the match up because Priest hasn't been relevant in so long.
I don't hate it, I think it's in a strong position right now with a few different arch types. It's where I honestly would like to see most classes, powerful with a couple of different viable decks.
However I understand people's frustration with it because it doesn't have any glaring weaknesses right now and can turn any game into a winnable game with a wide variety of solutions in the deck. It can turn your perfect draw into junk with the right card or two.
Fun pro tip for anyone trying to play a hard counter... mill rogue or mill warlock. They fill up their hand a bit and then you start burning their deck far faster then they can drop it.
Finally someone that makes some damn sense. I know the deck is powerful and frustrating to lose to. But it is completely counterable.
Because the class and the deck are fucking cancer!!!
Priest is everything that is WRONG with HS right now.
Uh huh... sure.
I'm sure the same argument will be spewed for the next "cancer" deck too right? If you ask the playerbase you'll get complaints about Shamans because of BL, Priests because of Raza & Anduin, druid because of jades, rogues because of mill/keleseth/auctioneer, warrior because of dead man's hand, & mage because of their quest/rng.
Seems to me like players just like to bitch about everything, and that their complaints really aren't always valid like they think they are, otherwise when you look at the list I mentioned above then a good half of the classes are "cancer". Doesn't seem likely when you think about it now right?
I've been playing Priest only(A little bit of Pally) for all my time in Hearthstone, and we've been at the bottom even a meme for years. Hero Power, Emote, Pass, Concede was all the class was really capable of for the longest time, and now we have a couple Viable decks, that aren't even as strong as Previous BS like Jade Druid, Mid-Ranged Shaman, ect and everybody loses their shit as if us Priest players haven't been getting fucked for years.
The current meta game is great in comparison to the Shaman and Druid meta games because we have such a wide variety of decks,
What's funny is that Priest is the class I've seen the least on ladder games according to my deck tracker tied up with Paladin and Shaman, and the classes I've seen the most on ladder are HUNTER, MAGE, DRUID, WARLOCK then ROGUE.
Their is plenty of Variety on ladder, EVERY SINGLE CLASS is viable right now even Warrior is decent right now even though it got SHAT ON.
Chill tf out, if you are for whatever reason struggling against Priest play a counter, and learn the Match-up. Priest has plenty of great counters like ROGUE AND MAGE.
Many people lead a love-hate-relationship with hearthstone due to its random nature. Priest is just a powerful deck they struggle with/against, so they project their hatred on the deck. Happened with jade, midrange shaman, aggro shaman, reno decks, old patron warrior etc. Business as usual.
I've been playing Priest only(A little bit of Pally) for all my time in Hearthstone, and we've been at the bottom even a meme for years. Hero Power, Emote, Pass, Concede was all the class was really capable of for the longest time, and now we have a couple Viable decks, that aren't even as strong as Previous BS like Jade Druid, Mid-Ranged Shaman, ect and everybody loses their shit as if us Priest players haven't been getting fucked for years.
The current meta game is great in comparison to the Shaman and Druid meta games because we have such a wide variety of decks,
What's funny is that Priest is the class I've seen the least on ladder games according to my deck tracker tied up with Paladin and Shaman, and the classes I've seen the most on ladder are HUNTER, MAGE, DRUID, WARLOCK then ROGUE.
Their is plenty of Variety on ladder, EVERY SINGLE CLASS is viable right now even Warrior is decent right now even though it got SHAT ON.
Chill tf out, if you are for whatever reason struggling against Priest play a counter, and learn the Match-up. Priest has plenty of great counters like ROGUE AND MAGE.
Anything that is a bit too good is normally hated and priest was a bit too good pre-nerf .People also hate a deck if they can never win against the deck with their existing deck . Yeah they can play counters but they probably do not have enough dust to make a new deck . Every deck should have atleast 30-40%WR against any other deck so they do not just concede whenever they see a priest which is frustrating .
Becase Hearthsotne is a never ending cycle of Hatred.
In fact just had one of those 'play the game for 20 mins just to find out you've lost' games against a fucking greedy as hell Reno Quest N'Zoth control priests in wild. Literally nothing worse to play against as a non-aggro deck. As the priest player you literally can't get punished as the priest player when facing a control deck after cramming every greedy thing in your deck. Even as a singleton deck you just stall until you win.
And faced a wild Big Priest RIGHT after this game. This is all in wild casual mind you.
Maybe a nerf to DK Priest would be instead of choosing where you can target your hero power, it should read "Deal 2 Damage to a RANDOM enemy. After you play a card, refresh this." Would it still be considered playable?
I don't hate it, I think it's in a strong position right now with a few different arch types. It's where I honestly would like to see most classes, powerful with a couple of different viable decks.
However I understand people's frustration with it because it doesn't have any glaring weaknesses right now and can turn any game into a winnable game with a wide variety of solutions in the deck. It can turn your perfect draw into junk with the right card or two.
Fun pro tip for anyone trying to play a hard counter... mill rogue or mill warlock. They fill up their hand a bit and then you start burning their deck far faster then they can drop it.
I wonder why that clown Frostyfeet isnt locking this thread mine gets locked but this salty shit doesnt really.
I just only hate mages :3
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Hated because it's completely broken.
shadowreaper should not beable to heal himself. just when you think you might have a chance of actually killing them they play priest of the feast or healing potion.
far too many tools and no weaknesses.
It just sucks there will be 2 more months of this BS. I hate facing these decks like Exodia mage, druid, or any of the priest decks. It's just not fun to play against. You don't want to concede because you want to play every game, but it comes down to "I can't tech against every deck". Then Shaman with the evolve/bloodlust. There really aren't any decks you can make that will compete with these. Keleseth? I've played a few games with him in my starting hand, even bounce him with shadowstep, still lose. How is it that a Jade Druid, or Priest can last the whole game against any other class that actually has a good draw? It should be that if you have a good draw you at least have a chance, but nope. I die because I didn't play hyper aggro. It's either hyper aggro, or play the tier 1 decks. Your choice. Hyper aggro will get you 50-55% win rate, same with these tier 1 decks.
Warlock is fun, 10 mana hero at least that's balanced compared to the other heroes. Maybe heroes should all be 10 mana.
Hunter is ok, fairly balanced in that you can think about your plays.
Machine gun priest is dumb. Big priest is dumb. Jade Druid has always been dumb. How can you play these decks and think, wow this game is fun and balanced?
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Obsidian Statue
Mage Quest
Jade Idol
Ultimate Infestation
Evolve
Why does everyone hate Priest?
Because the class and the deck are fucking cancer!!!
Priest is everything that is WRONG with HS right now.
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i hate priest
As pointed out many times before....all of priests gameplan is to mess up the opponents gameplan, which is un-interactive and frustrating.
Besides, they are undoubtly the worst spam-emoters, worse than PW.
"wow" after every played card is almost guaranteed