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 Yeah, no card, even if the class can utilize the drawback, should be worth that much. That would be like making Tunnel Trogg a 3 cost because "now you can drawback with a purpose!" That's what really ticked me off. So niche for no reason. Waste of a good card slot in the Adventure

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@Zence; oh, I suppose that's fair... I always forget about Barnes. I just know it didn't take long for Curator to at least be semi-viable. :P

The Purify salt was unreal, but honestly the card is pretty fun. It was a shame people got so butthurt over it, I tinkered with Silence Priest and it was an interesting archetype to build and pilot. Bishop and Priest of the Feast were great cards too so it's not like Priest got shafted with their options (generally one class card is bad in the adventures), and Dragon Priest was actually quite good with Netherspite Historian.

@Dwyed88; I guess the way I see it, every class ends up with a "wasted" slot in an adventure. Regardless of Priest's competitive standings it wasn't particularly abnormal, and people overreacted to Purify immensely. As someone who's played Priest and loved it since release I don't think people who jumped on the hate train were looking at things logically and oddly taking a personal offense to a Johnny card being released for a class that had struggles in the Old Gods meta.

Maybe it's just that I've seen all the metas from the Priest's point of view and have a reasonable idea of how good/bad things have been over the years, but people are still throwing tantrums about it when it didn't fucking matter in the grand scheme of things and it turns out the other two cards were great. Because people saw the other two cards, didn't see Priest getting the Shaman treatment, and flipped out that Purify was non-competitive. Even though Dragon Priest was fine for the play level the people bitching were ever going to achieve.

The Arena issues I'll certainly concede, but I don't think Bishop as a common was the fix. And they removed it from Arena pretty much immediately, so while Priest was still mediocre it didn't really suffer at all. In fact the Kara class cards for it were bonkers in limited play if I recall correctly, and Priest improved significantly with that set. Then the card pruning happened and it brought everyone a lot closer in line, with the long-term solution being to decouple offering rate for some cards from their rarity (which I think is the better design). I don't know, I still think people blew it out of proportion considering Purify was never live in Arena in the first place, and Priest's quality improved because of the cards they introduced.

I mean let's be honest, this could have killed some of the complaints but this community seems to have a never-ending reason to complain. I'm not saying there aren't reasons to complain, just that this is always a losing situation for Blizzard and I'm not worried about the fact Purify let the community down because it seems to always find a way to be let down. Purify was not a major problem, so if people want to fixate on that more power to them but it's not worth the brain power to hold a grudge over.

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@Dwyed88; I guess the way I see it, every class ends up with a "wasted" slot in an adventure. Regardless of Priest's competitive standings it wasn't particularly abnormal, and people overreacted to Purify immensely. As someone who's played Priest and loved it since release I don't think people who jumped on the hate train were looking at things logically and oddly taking a personal offense to a Johnny card being released for a class that had struggles in the Old Gods meta.

Maybe it's just that I've seen all the metas from the Priest's point of view and have a reasonable idea of how good/bad things have been over the years, but people are still throwing tantrums about it when it didn't fucking matter in the grand scheme of things and it turns out the other two cards were great. Because people saw the other two cards, didn't see Priest getting the Shaman treatment, and flipped out that Purify was non-competitive. Even though Dragon Priest was fine for the play level the people bitching were ever going to achieve.

The Arena issues I'll certainly concede, but I don't think Bishop as a common was the fix. And they removed it from Arena pretty much immediately, so while Priest was still mediocre it didn't really suffer at all. In fact the Kara class cards for it were bonkers in limited play if I recall correctly, and Priest improved significantly with that set. Then the card pruning happened and it brought everyone a lot closer in line, with the long-term solution being to decouple offering rate for some cards from their rarity (which I think is the better design). I don't know, I still think people blew it out of proportion considering Purify was never live in Arena in the first place, and Priest's quality improved because of the cards they introduced.

I mean let's be honest, this could have killed some of the complaints but this community seems to have a never-ending reason to complain. I'm not saying there aren't reasons to complain, just that this is always a losing situation for Blizzard and I'm not worried about the fact Purify let the community down because it seems to always find a way to be let down. Purify was not a major problem, so if people want to fixate on that more power to them but it's not worth the brain power to hold a grudge over.

Looks like they're going to reveal him bit by bit with the videos of Prof. Doyle.  According to the latest episode he's a 5/5.

It is looking very likely that Galvadon will have the most game changing effect of the quest rewards. Not only does it appear to be the end game of Malone's quest. It is also a 5 mana 5-5 as opposed to the other revealed minions that are so far 5 mana 8-8s. The difference in 6 stats has to be made up for by the effect. 

Apparently the text is supposed to be adapt 5 times. There's a Reddit thread on this 

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/60orka/the_skill_of_new_paladin_legend_quest_reward

As long as I get to choose the spell Immune and Divine shield. Otherwise it sucks a little. No huge effect like Amara. +3 Health, +3 Attack, Divine Shield, Taunt or Windfury and spell Immune. Niiice. In wild with Bran it's gonna be sick.

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Apparently the text is supposed to be adapt 5 times. There's a Reddit thread on this 

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/60orka/the_skill_of_new_paladin_legend_quest_reward

If this is true and Galvadon has this ridiculous battlecry, I'm glad Brann is rotating out of Standard.  Brann limited the design of powerful Battlecries because certain Battlecries would be completely busted if they triggered more than once.  No Brann means we get fun cards like this, even if they're absolutely bonkers in Wild.

pretty sick combo actually if you can survive until turn 10 or so and then play this with divine shield, windfury, cant be targeted by spells, poison and maybe + stealth or something and then dinosize it next turn

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Would be cool to see something like: Battlecry: Adapt. Give all minions in your deck and hand: " Battlecry: Adapt. "

April 6th, most likely.

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As long as I get to choose the spell Immune and Divine shield. Otherwise it sucks a little. No huge effect like Amara. +3 Health, +3 Attack, Divine Shield, Taunt or Windfury and spell Immune. Niiice.

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Just think a turn 10 Galvadon with Stealth-windfury-+3attack-+3health + Faceless Manipulator otk on next turn.

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he dont need charge if hes played on the same turn... thats why otk next turn

 

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pretty sick combo actually if you can survive until turn 10 or so and then play this with divine shield, windfury, cant be targeted by spells, poison and maybe + stealth or something and then dinosize it next turn

 

 

Getaway Kodo synergy

Just in case it dies...

EDIT: forgot to mention...a dinosaur fleeing above a Kodo? Thats so damn epic...