Hearthpwn

So, I just recently, finally, got into the beta and have been having fun with the game. Once I unlocked all of the basic cards (in unranked), for all of the classes, I decided to play Priest in ranked. Up until about 2-Star Platinum I hadn't really been having any trouble, but now I'm having a massive amount of trouble against hyper-aggressive, early-game rush decks.

It's honestly becoming very frustrating, these types of decks ramp up so freakishly fast that I, most of the time, can't keep up with them and crumple like a tin can. I know that such cards as Holy Nova, Holy Smite, and other such cards, are very useful against these types of decks, along with healing minions such as the Earthen Ring Farseer, but it isn't enough (it seems).

How do y'all deal with these kinds of decks?

I've been playing with the deck artosis used on blizzcon recently, and I can't even begin to count how much the Circle of Healing Auchenai Soulpriest combo has saved me against murloc decks and the likes. Abomination helps to some degree as well, but most players manage to play through it effectively.

a combo i played agaisnt this rush decks until master 2 was wild pyromancer ,mind vision and power word shield ,which can be played relatively early and can do 3-4 damage aoes with coin

@RichardVeldren

I wish I could use the AS + CoH combo, but I don't have either of those cards nor enough dust to craft them yet. :( One thing I'm thinking of putting into the deck is 1 Mass Dispel. While, no, it won't 100% shut down such decks as Murlocs, it will hinder them quite significantly. And I currently am using 1 Abomination (as I only have 1 :P), but you're right, more often then not players seem to be able to deal with it realitvely easily.

@simjus

I can see how Wild Pyromancer would be good in a Priest deck and, if I had any, I might give them a try, thanks! :D

This has been doing fairly well for me

Artosis' deck is still too lategame to be viable IMHO