We all knew Priest was going to get this treatment tho..Just afraid they might have over killed it and it will be just as toxic as current Shaman...But on a huge bright side Priest will make a big comeback in Arena.
I'll agree that they aren't necessarily the most creative, but they aren't automatically better.
Dragonfire Potion has a lot of glaring weaknesses. It's better against early and midrange minions, but much worse against lategame ones (plus like everyone plays Azure Drake these days). Kabal Talonpriest requires a minion on board, which Dark Cultist didn't, and priest has been historically bad at 2-drops. Even if there are good priest 2-drops, the +3 health buff is a lot worse on a 1-2 mana minion. Because Dark Cultist wouldn't always be immediately removed, you'd often be able to get the buff on a larger minion. Coin+Dark Cultist was really strong, because it's hard to remove a 4-hp minion on turn 3, and the deathrattle will likely be relevant. Coining out Kabal Talonpriest will probably be really weak.
We all knew Priest was going to get this treatment tho..Just afraid they might have over killed it and it will be just as toxic as current Shaman...But on a huge bright side Priest will make a big comeback in Arena.
I'll agree that they aren't necessarily the most creative, but they aren't automatically better.
Dragonfire Potion has a lot of glaring weaknesses. It's better against early and midrange minions, but much worse against lategame ones (plus like everyone plays Azure Drake these days). Kabal Talonpriest requires a minion on board, which Dark Cultist didn't, and priest has been historically bad at 2-drops. Even if there are good priest 2-drops, the +3 health buff is a lot worse on a 1-2 mana minion. Because Dark Cultist wouldn't always be immediately removed, you'd often be able to get the buff on a larger minion. Coin+Dark Cultist was really strong, because it's hard to remove a 4-hp minion on turn 3, and the deathrattle will likely be relevant. Coining out Kabal Talonpriest will probably be really weak.
The main weakness of Dark Cultist was the opponent would normally play around the deathrattle so it procs on a empty board. Having now in battlecry form is strictly better and you can target who it hits. In more situations then not it's superior.
Same case for Dragonfire Potion it will be a auto include in all Priest archtypes just like Lightbomb was as a better flamestrike. With Lightbomb you normally couldn't have board presence yourself when cast so it's a non issue with Dragonfire. In more situations then not it's superior or on par with Lightbomb.
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Only problem with dragon priest is there's only about 4 months after the release of this expansion to play the deck. BRM will rotate out in spring . Still a great card, but the archetype won't dominate if they don't keep adding dragons to replace what's lost.
What if you are not playing dragons? This "Okayish card" becomes a nightmare as it murders your board while dragon priest proceeds to destroy you. It can even be used by non dragon priests to destroy your opponents board. This card is insane.
Don't understand why people are getting so tripped up on the fact the card has the word ''Dragon''. You don't need to be playing Dragon Priest to run this...It's insane and will be a auto include in all priest archetypes just as a OP board clear.
Sure its insane on its own .. all depends on the new meta ,problably control priest will be a t1 and dragon priest the best counter hahahaha
The dragon part is just icing on the cake, this would be awesome even if it was just "6 mana - deal 5 damage to all minions". This is exactly what I was hoping Blizzard would do for Priests, don't give them strong early drops like so many other classes, instead empower one of Priest's strengths: AoE
One problem with Priest AoE has been the inability to deal with huge boards such as those created by N'Zoth. You usually needed at least two cards to trigger all of the deathrattles. This can do it in one card, and leave you with spare mana.
I believe this is strong enough to put Priest back in the game, and it doesn't even have to be Dragon Priest. In fact the dragon part is probably there just so that Dragon Priest actually CAN use this card and fight for the board at the same time.
This card is really really good, meta defining for sure. But the more Early/mid dragon they print that can be played in non dragon decks (like Faerie Dragon, Azure Drake, Twilight Drake) the worst this card gets.
Probably going to make Dragon Priest a top tier deck, and I can even see it being used in non-dragon decks.
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I'll just wait for the hearthstone highlights videos on youtube.
This is a great card, but odds are someone is going to forget that it won't clear the opponent's dragon.
Seems very relevant. Definitely an auto-include in dragon priest. Probably want 2.
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Only problem with dragon priest is there's only about 4 months after the release of this expansion to play the deck. BRM will rotate out in spring . Still a great card, but the archetype won't dominate if they don't keep adding dragons to replace what's lost.
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What if you are not playing dragons? This "Okayish card" becomes a nightmare as it murders your board while dragon priest proceeds to destroy you. It can even be used by non dragon priests to destroy your opponents board. This card is insane.
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The dragon part is just icing on the cake, this would be awesome even if it was just "6 mana - deal 5 damage to all minions". This is exactly what I was hoping Blizzard would do for Priests, don't give them strong early drops like so many other classes, instead empower one of Priest's strengths: AoE
One problem with Priest AoE has been the inability to deal with huge boards such as those created by N'Zoth. You usually needed at least two cards to trigger all of the deathrattles. This can do it in one card, and leave you with spare mana.
I believe this is strong enough to put Priest back in the game, and it doesn't even have to be Dragon Priest. In fact the dragon part is probably there just so that Dragon Priest actually CAN use this card and fight for the board at the same time.
This card is really really good, meta defining for sure. But the more Early/mid dragon they print that can be played in non dragon decks (like Faerie Dragon, Azure Drake, Twilight Drake) the worst this card gets.
Probably going to make Dragon Priest a top tier deck, and I can even see it being used in non-dragon decks.
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People think only dragon priest will run this card LUL. This card is pretty insane