The previous pattern was that they gave additional Heroes to those classes whose Death Knights weren't successful enough. They also went with a different approach each time.
Since when was Rexxar underpowered?
Until Witchwood he was one of the weakest since they never added new beasts uptill that point.
True but... rexxar was strong from witchwood to now and they still gave him zuljin.
The previous pattern was that they gave additional Heroes to those classes whose Death Knights weren't successful enough. They also went with a different approach each time.
Since when was Rexxar underpowered?
Rexxar was actually pretty underwhelming before Witchwood, mainly because he rarely helped you with a comeback, since healing was limited to Bloodworm, and Rush wasn't a thing yet so Exploding Bloatbat only worked with Stonetusk Boar.
Only the fact that there were two more Lifesteal options as well as a couple Rush Beasts were added to the pool made him as strong as he is now.
Many people even argued that he didn't help the class at all since without card draw you wouldn't reliably get him in time against decks where you needed him to succeed. In KnC Hunter got a bunch of new archetypes, meaning decks didn't have to soley rely on Rexxar to carry them, which as a result made the unreliable Zombeast options much less punishing, but those decks barely saw play before the Patches/Raza nerf, because they just weren't all that strong in comparison. Hell, even in WW he wasn't that great until Even Pally and Cubelock got nerfed. The card got consistently better as more and more of bad matchups got eliminated
Tl;DR Rexxar was pretty underwhelming when he first came out because Midrange Hunter was the only available deck and that has always sucked. Zul'jin was probably conceived around KnC as future support for Spellhunter and got greenlit after it appeared that the deck wasn't all that strong to begin with....and then the nerfs happened.
True but... rexxar was strong from witchwood to now and they still gave him zuljin.
Rexxar was actually pretty underwhelming before Witchwood, mainly because he rarely helped you with a comeback, since healing was limited to Bloodworm, and Rush wasn't a thing yet so Exploding Bloatbat only worked with Stonetusk Boar.
Only the fact that there were two more Lifesteal options as well as a couple Rush Beasts were added to the pool made him as strong as he is now.
Many people even argued that he didn't help the class at all since without card draw you wouldn't reliably get him in time against decks where you needed him to succeed. In KnC Hunter got a bunch of new archetypes, meaning decks didn't have to soley rely on Rexxar to carry them, which as a result made the unreliable Zombeast options much less punishing, but those decks barely saw play before the Patches/Raza nerf, because they just weren't all that strong in comparison. Hell, even in WW he wasn't that great until Even Pally and Cubelock got nerfed. The card got consistently better as more and more of bad matchups got eliminated
Tl;DR Rexxar was pretty underwhelming when he first came out because Midrange Hunter was the only available deck and that has always sucked. Zul'jin was probably conceived around KnC as future support for Spellhunter and got greenlit after it appeared that the deck wasn't all that strong to begin with....and then the nerfs happened.
I tried having fun once. It was awful.
Kael'thas for mage,
Illidan for warlock,
Mathias Shaw or Jorach Ravenholdt for rogue
it must be Druid, Druid needs some serious help.
Dead but dreaming
Hunter is due for one since its losing Rexxar.
I will not complain if no one gets a hero card.
If they rotated out more quickly, I wouldn't mind so much. But two years of DKs, now two years of Zul'jin. Bleh.
The bait has been set out.
I'll get my popcorn :D
What do you propose? Hero power that discovers 1 Mana 1/1 beast? Because nothing beats 1 Mana 1/1 rhino...
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