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Warrior has Cornered Sentry and Armorsmith, both are acceptable 2 drops.

As Reynad noted in his set review of Knights of the Frozen Throne, there has never been a better time in the game to play a 2 mana 2/3. 2 mana 2/3s are good enough because A) Zoo has been terrible for ages, so no one is running Flame Imp and B) between Leper Gnome, Abusive Sergeant, Possessed Villager, Alleycat and Jeweled Macaw, almost every 1 drop you face isn't going to hurt your 2/3 while being easily killed by it.

With that in mind, Warrior can easily play cards like Friendly Bartender or Sunfury Protector as a 2 drop, with Sunfury Protector getting no value off the Battlecry and only having the Battlecry in case you draw it in the late game.

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good nerf, bow is played too 

A nerf to FWA is good, but if they are going to make it three mana they should at least give it some kind of marginal effect.

Long time coming imo.

No more turn 1 to 2 fwa to go face or kill early minions? Ok then...

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I feel like they had Wild in mind with this nerf. Basically, Pirate will be T1 in wild for forever. This helps.

I don't mind having basic cards that are outclassed bye expac cards. That's the way it should be, honestly. Also, now there's room for different low mana warrior weapons.

 I was extremely happy to see winaxe nerfed. Pirate warrior is a big problem, especially in wild and this tones down pirates considerably. You are more likely to survive to turn 6 for reno as well.

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Just crafted golden Nzoth control in Wild, but without axe CW is not playable, you can't stand against aggro without this, Mana wyrm, tunnel trogg, priests cleric turn 1 is uncounterable now

 You don't have to counter them till turn 3. Cleric does nothing if your side of the board is empty. Trogg isn't run much. Wyrm is strong, but you can trade into it with a 2 or 3 drop.

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This nerf will kill pirate warrior single handedly

 Of course not, just reduce their power to high tier 2. They have been tier 0 for way too long.

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Fiery war axe needed a nerf.  But I fear this means warrior will be sitting out for the next 3 months. 

So maybe good long term,  but stupid for the current state of the game. 

 You can still run it for 3 mana. Hunter is happy to pay 3 for eaglehorn.

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its now a worse eaglehorn bow and rallying blade and really weakens control warrior. 

 Some hunters run eagle without secrets. You can still buff waraxe with pirates and upgrade.

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What do I do to survive against aggressive decks as a control warrior now? The only way I could live through pirates or Hunter or token decks was to get war axe in my opening hand. I don't see how the deck can survive this change, there is nothing to keep me alive in the early turns now.

 Run other early game tech cards, like ooze, crab, mixtures, armorsmith, etc.

Control Warrior is officially dead with this nerf.... not that it had easy life in the last two expansions.  

I mean I complained about it like a year or 2 ago, but now there are so many cards that are MUCH worse than this! Why on earth is this being nerfed now?

Just a hunch but I'm guessing they wanted basic weapons with no text and that they'll print another 2 mana 3-2 weapon but which can't attack heroes. Would be a decent solution.

this card saw enough play tho Pirate warrior was pain in the ass just because of they were able to buff fiery war axe this nerf will solve the problem and delay pirate warrior but they would also prevent it by nerfing some of the weapon buff cards.

The card is unplayable obviously

CW can try and use Doomsayer instead of Axe.

Worst of the changes by far. They nerfed Excecute to stop midrange warrior (which ended up just nerfing CW because midrange rotated out anyway) and now they nerfed Win Axe to stop pirate warrior (which will just end up killing CW)..

Everyone who thinks that this was a good nerf just thinks about pirate warrior or have no idea about CW. As a CW you usually lost about 75% of the games against aggro in which you didn't draw Win Axe in time.. Now you will never draw Win Axe in time -> If they would have given warrior an replacement tool it would be fine but since they didn't they just killed of CW without any real reason. (it's not like CW was even nearly a top deck in this meta)

Yeah, small nerf to pirate warrior too, whatever.. There would have been so many ways to do this without killing a great archetype.

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This is the only nerf that is unnecessary and unjustified. The other 4 changes are understandable, but this one just comes out of nowhere, serving no purpose whatsoever. Warrior is supposed to be the weapon class, but now Fiery War Axe becomes the weakest of all 3/2 weapons.

 Why does Fiery War Axe deserve to be overpowered?

Why does Fiery War Axe deserve to be shit?

pirate warrior is the issue, how about nerfing pirates

 Great job blizzard, warrior really need more 3-drop cards. FailFish

If they wanted to weaken PW, why not nerf some cards used only in that deck?

This pretty much means that Warrior is dead, Rexxar is not at the rock bottom anymore.

RIP Garrosh Hellscream 2014-2017

Unplayable - Just like any card that Blizzard nerfs. 

I mean, at least give it some effect so that it's still useable, like ''battlecry gain 4 armor'', ''Enrage +1 Attack'' or even ''your charge minions have +1 attack''  :P 

 
How can anyone look at this as a good change? Like I mean yea, Fiery War Axe had to be changed, but this is like making frostbolt 3 mana....

The card was only a real problem in pirate warrior - the nerf should have been that it can't target face, but still costs 2

Are you fucking kidding me? Since launch i was never as mad at blizzard as i am right now.

We all know they are SHIT at nerfing cards, but this takes the cake.

Atleast add a effect u idiots, you could have given it a defensive effect that wont help pirate warrior but still would be good in control warrior... btw warrior does not have a single good weapon now beside Gorehowl which is unplayable.