I'm not normally a Priest player but I do miss playing the class. I wanted to work on getting up to 500 wins for my golden priest portrait (just got Hunter) but I don't really see any standout priest list that's doing great/is fun to play. HSReplay says Big Priest is the best performer and I kinda like rez priest but feel like it's not very good.
So I guess I'm asking for advice on if there is a best decklist to play if I want to do well as Priest in standard right now. I was thinking about trying to the Control/Rez combo variant but wanted input. Or should I just not play Priest because it's in a bad spot?
If you are looking for cheap quick deck just to get golden hero try wild big priest it cost around 5k dust, and it only have like 4-5 wild cards, if you in principle don’t want to play wild, better wait until the mid set and hope that priest will eventually get a win condition
I have loved playing Priest over the years, I'm on around 1400 wins, but the class the class has been butchered now. Rather than focusing on healing and control, It's more rng card generation and rez mechanics, which personally i think are 2 of the less enjoyable aspects of the class.
If you do really want to play it right now I would recommend this kind of build:
Thanks for your replies! I will try that list out and see how it goes! Maybe with the recent nerfs I will see less DH and Hunter and Priest can do a bit better?
Thanks for your replies! I will try that list out and see how it goes! Maybe with the recent nerfs I will see less DH and Hunter and Priest can do a bit better?
Priest is in between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, the aggro decks which would have been destroyed by priests of old can buff powercreeped cards so quickly that they are hard to remove by the time you can play your lackluster AOE spells. On the other hand, tickatus warlock and ETC OTK warrior are always going to beat you. The biggest problems for priest stem from the pathetic evergreen cards they have, meaning they need expansion support to do well. Priest just hasn’t gotten the cards it needs to win consistently.
On a side note, what is going on with priest identity these past expansions? The soul shard mechanic seems better suited to priest that demon hunter, cascading disaster is a priest card all the way and Ghuun is a warlock card.
On a side note, what is going on with priest identity these past expansions? The soul shard mechanic seems better suited to priest that demon hunter, cascading disaster is a priest card all the way and Ghuun is a warlock card.
Hey thanks for the reply. In playing Priest the last day or so I do feel like they are in need of a new, better clear akin to the old Duskbreaker or the new Shardshatter Mystic. Something for 3 rather than 2 damage AOE at least. I also agree that it seems like DH and Warlock have better healing options than Priest, which is really odd. I found myself starving for Apotheosis and added it into the Control Rez Priest I was playing because Holy Nova and Hero Power and even Khartut wasn't cutting it. Cascading Disaster would have been a good priest card, I agree. I cut G'huun from my Rez list because by the time I could use him it didn't seem worth the health cost.
Duskbreaker/Drakonid Operative, Those are the kind of cards I would love to see priest have access to now. As you said it's really missing good board clears, plague is too expensive and soul mirror is legendary. In all honesty, think it might be the next rotation before priest is likely to be a good option
On a side note, what is going on with priest identity these past expansions? The soul shard mechanic seems better suited to priest that demon hunter, cascading disaster is a priest card all the way and Ghuun is a warlock card.
Hey thanks for the reply. In playing Priest the last day or so I do feel like they are in need of a new, better clear akin to the old Duskbreaker or the new Shardshatter Mystic. Something for 3 rather than 2 damage AOE at least. I also agree that it seems like DH and Warlock have better healing options than Priest, which is really odd. I found myself starving for Apotheosis and added it into the Control Rez Priest I was playing because Holy Nova and Hero Power and even Khartut wasn't cutting it. Cascading Disaster would have been a good priest card, I agree. I cut G'huun from my Rez list because by the time I could use him it didn't seem worth the health cost.
You pinned it down. The biggest problem with priest is that no good board clear or AOE came out this year. They can’t even kill a board with voracious reader with an AOE for less than 9 (or 7 if you two card breath and vargoth). Priest lost the big clears for them in the last cycle too. I think every priest deck I made for a year and a half had mass hysteria in it. Breath of the infinite is a pretty poor replacement.
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Hello Priest subforum,
I'm not normally a Priest player but I do miss playing the class. I wanted to work on getting up to 500 wins for my golden priest portrait (just got Hunter) but I don't really see any standout priest list that's doing great/is fun to play. HSReplay says Big Priest is the best performer and I kinda like rez priest but feel like it's not very good.
So I guess I'm asking for advice on if there is a best decklist to play if I want to do well as Priest in standard right now. I was thinking about trying to the Control/Rez combo variant but wanted input. Or should I just not play Priest because it's in a bad spot?
If you are looking for cheap quick deck just to get golden hero try wild big priest it cost around 5k dust, and it only have like 4-5 wild cards, if you in principle don’t want to play wild, better wait until the mid set and hope that priest will eventually get a win condition
I have loved playing Priest over the years, I'm on around 1400 wins, but the class the class has been butchered now. Rather than focusing on healing and control, It's more rng card generation and rez mechanics, which personally i think are 2 of the less enjoyable aspects of the class.
If you do really want to play it right now I would recommend this kind of build:
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/control-priest-5-legend-ruby-darkmoon-faire/
Anything built around Nazmani Bloodweaver, Palm Reading and Renew should run well.
Thanks for your replies! I will try that list out and see how it goes! Maybe with the recent nerfs I will see less DH and Hunter and Priest can do a bit better?
Priest is in between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, the aggro decks which would have been destroyed by priests of old can buff powercreeped cards so quickly that they are hard to remove by the time you can play your lackluster AOE spells. On the other hand, tickatus warlock and ETC OTK warrior are always going to beat you. The biggest problems for priest stem from the pathetic evergreen cards they have, meaning they need expansion support to do well. Priest just hasn’t gotten the cards it needs to win consistently.
On a side note, what is going on with priest identity these past expansions? The soul shard mechanic seems better suited to priest that demon hunter, cascading disaster is a priest card all the way and Ghuun is a warlock card.
Hey thanks for the reply. In playing Priest the last day or so I do feel like they are in need of a new, better clear akin to the old Duskbreaker or the new Shardshatter Mystic. Something for 3 rather than 2 damage AOE at least. I also agree that it seems like DH and Warlock have better healing options than Priest, which is really odd. I found myself starving for Apotheosis and added it into the Control Rez Priest I was playing because Holy Nova and Hero Power and even Khartut wasn't cutting it. Cascading Disaster would have been a good priest card, I agree. I cut G'huun from my Rez list because by the time I could use him it didn't seem worth the health cost.
Duskbreaker/Drakonid Operative, Those are the kind of cards I would love to see priest have access to now. As you said it's really missing good board clears, plague is too expensive and soul mirror is legendary. In all honesty, think it might be the next rotation before priest is likely to be a good option
You pinned it down. The biggest problem with priest is that no good board clear or AOE came out this year. They can’t even kill a board with voracious reader with an AOE for less than 9 (or 7 if you two card breath and vargoth). Priest lost the big clears for them in the last cycle too. I think every priest deck I made for a year and a half had mass hysteria in it. Breath of the infinite is a pretty poor replacement.