TL;DR: Priest decks and certain other decks in this game are way too overpowered and favored, making me and others not even want to play and compete anymore. This game is becoming increasingly imbalanced and is honestly starting to feel like a scam.
To preface, I don't post usually post here but I do lurk and this community is a good one so hopefully, people can see where I am coming from.
I've been playing since the release and only play HS as a casual player, I tend to hit decent ranks (current rank 8) and when I play I usually create my own deck formulas and try to have a fun time with those. Lately, however, I've come to realize how imbalanced this game really is, and how favored certain classes (ex.priests) actually are. Literally just came from playing and losing 6 straight games against clone priest decks all running the same fucking combo/deck. No matter what I tried at turn 5-6 the pace of the game always changes to their favor 90% of the time. The insane amount of healing, board clear, and broken spells really lets you know how favored this class is above others.
That, right off the bat, says broken to me. Sure other decks existence and HS is known for having crazy plays that can change the course of the game, but this is just BS + the introduction of new mechanics that will probably be useless in the future expansions makes half the cards that come out useless as hell. Can we get a nerf on priest cards, please??? The synergy is so broken.
So to all you priest players, I hope you know that you have no real skill and I hope you lose all your games.
Dude I main priest, an facing a warrior or druid with 40 armor, or an aggro mage or hunter, or a swamp paladin, or the fuckdd up hunter decks is always hard to pull. You need to think so much and risking so many moves to win. Enduring until you get enough mana to use your removals and recover your self. Bluffing your powerful Cards to make them doubt about going face and expend their resources early on... Is not that priest is strong, is that a good priest player knows what to do and even then you just can't defeat infinite armor or a turn 3 8atk minion... You on the other side, don't know maybe how to defeat priest. Clone gallery is the hardest deck to use at the moment, and will change after the rotation. Losing Lyra and the stone spell and radiant elemental will be really hard for priest players.im not sure what is going to happened, but the gallery card it self is just an accessory card.
I hammered clone priests this season, gave me a nice positive win rate against priest overall. Control dragon priest was a different story. But yeah given enough time they are going to kill you. Diamond spellstone is rotating, as well as radiant and Lyra, so this version of the deck is dead on arrival of the new expansion.
I'm sorry, but you're just plain wrong and the numbers disagree with you. As stupid as I feel saying this, others are going to flood this thread with "git gud" - and they're not going to be wrong.
By my user name, you can probably guess what I main...
As you’re a casual player I’ll give you benefit of the doubt here, but for the lifetime of Hearthstobe, Priest has rarely had tier 1 decks. It’s often been the underdog class. Also, Priest is widely regarded as being one of the harder classes to pilot.
Telling a large group of the community that they have no skill is probably not the best way to get this discussion moving.
You complain that priest has a lot of board clear and healing, but that’s it’s identity. That’s like complaining that Mage has secrets and spell damage buffs.
Let’s be specific, exactly which Priest cards do you think need to be nerfed, how would it be done, and why?
Dude I main priest, an facing a warrior or druid with 40 armor, or an aggro mage or hunter, or a swamp paladin, or the fuckdd up hunter decks is always hard to pull. You need to think so much and risking so many moves to win. Enduring until you get enough mana to use your removals and recover your self. Bluffing your powerful Cards to make them doubt about going face and expend their resources early on... Is not that priest is strong, is that a good priest player knows what to do and even then you just can't defeat infinite armor or a turn 3 8atk minion... You on the other side, don't know maybe how to defeat priest. Clone gallery is the hardest deck to use at the moment, and will change after the rotation. Losing Lyra and the stone spell and radiant elemental will be really hard for priest players.im not sure what is going to happened, but the gallery card it self is just an accessory card.
I am a main priest player as well. Though I play a Mecha'thun/Quest deck I created around the combo. Armor isnt a problem, but the Aggro Mages are always a toss up.
To theOP. Every deck has its counters. Its up to you to design a deck to play around the weakness of your own deck.
I understand that you are frustrated, but I think you're taking it a bit far. Your deck probably has a bad matchup against clone priest, it happens, generally you want to be playing something that has powerful plays before turns 5-6 if you want to beat clone priest.
Just remember that complain a deck isn't fun and complaining that the game is imbalanced are two very different things. There are plenty of numbers clearly showing that clone priest is a good deck but not the best deck, and throughout most of hearthstone history priest has been the garbage/meme class so I doubt anything about it is fundamentally broken.
So to all you priest players, I hope you know that you have no real skill and I hope you lose all your games.
Wow! Someone is SALTY!!! By the way, I agree that some games can be incredibly frustrating...but...a scam???
You're not being forced to play. Either quit, or maybe you just need a break from the game. Come back after the expansion? Not sure what else to say. Hopefully you find your way or find another game that better suits your "anger issues". Good luck.
Not trying to make light of your complaint, however, since I only have your post to go on I can't tell if the issue is with priest or just the deck you lost 6 stright games against. Any deck you play will have some bad matchups, there is no getting around this. Those bad matchups being very popular can certainly be frustrating, but it doesn't mean that class/deck is unbalanced or OP. Sites like HSReplay can show you that particular decks poor matchups and with this information you can probably build something with similar game plans. I don't know what deck you were using, but trying out different strategies or the inclusion of a couple tech cards could also help.
You also didn't list any specific cards, with the rotation only weeks away I'm not sure which cards you are worried about continuing to have broken synergy.
I play wild exclusively, and priest has been a powerhouse there for several years, and I hate playing against it . It is also one of the only two classes I dont play. It is not overpowered however. The occasional highroll game aside, I believe it is a learn to play issue
The OP seems tilted - apparently, he lost six consecutive games. The best advice he might listen to is this - "Stop playing once you get a losing streak, as you've demonstrated that you get pretty angry." The deck he's complaining about has a 3% play-rate and 50% win-rate, at the bottom of Tier 2 on HSReplays.
It's a card game, and there are currently over two dozen viable decks - everyone is bound to hate playing against a few of them. But that doesn't mean any of the decks you might hate are broken . . .
100% of wild ladder on rank 8\9 is Big Priest and its variations - this is outrageous, considering the fact that even counter decks can't handle it like Millzoth Rogue - this is just a joke. The only reason I don't play big priest is I already got a golden hero.
This is fckng boring, I have no idea why suddenly this became a problem, I could easily climb in the past meeting 15% big priests, but 100% and no deck to counter is just ridiculous!
TL;DR: Priest decks and certain other decks in this game are way too overpowered and favored, making me and others not even want to play and compete anymore. This game is becoming increasingly imbalanced and is honestly starting to feel like a scam.
To preface, I don't post usually post here but I do lurk and this community is a good one so hopefully, people can see where I am coming from.
I've been playing since the release and only play HS as a casual player, I tend to hit decent ranks (current rank 8) and when I play I usually create my own deck formulas and try to have a fun time with those. Lately, however, I've come to realize how imbalanced this game really is, and how favored certain classes (ex.priests) actually are. Literally just came from playing and losing 6 straight games against clone priest decks all running the same fucking combo/deck. No matter what I tried at turn 5-6 the pace of the game always changes to their favor 90% of the time. The insane amount of healing, board clear, and broken spells really lets you know how favored this class is above others.
That, right off the bat, says broken to me. Sure other decks existence and HS is known for having crazy plays that can change the course of the game, but this is just BS + the introduction of new mechanics that will probably be useless in the future expansions makes half the cards that come out useless as hell. Can we get a nerf on priest cards, please??? The synergy is so broken.
So to all you priest players, I hope you know that you have no real skill and I hope you lose all your games.
Dude I main priest, an facing a warrior or druid with 40 armor, or an aggro mage or hunter, or a swamp paladin, or the fuckdd up hunter decks is always hard to pull. You need to think so much and risking so many moves to win. Enduring until you get enough mana to use your removals and recover your self. Bluffing your powerful Cards to make them doubt about going face and expend their resources early on... Is not that priest is strong, is that a good priest player knows what to do and even then you just can't defeat infinite armor or a turn 3 8atk minion... You on the other side, don't know maybe how to defeat priest. Clone gallery is the hardest deck to use at the moment, and will change after the rotation. Losing Lyra and the stone spell and radiant elemental will be really hard for priest players.im not sure what is going to happened, but the gallery card it self is just an accessory card.
I hammered clone priests this season, gave me a nice positive win rate against priest overall. Control dragon priest was a different story. But yeah given enough time they are going to kill you. Diamond spellstone is rotating, as well as radiant and Lyra, so this version of the deck is dead on arrival of the new expansion.
I'm sorry, but you're just plain wrong and the numbers disagree with you. As stupid as I feel saying this, others are going to flood this thread with "git gud" - and they're not going to be wrong.
By my user name, you can probably guess what I main...
As you’re a casual player I’ll give you benefit of the doubt here, but for the lifetime of Hearthstobe, Priest has rarely had tier 1 decks. It’s often been the underdog class. Also, Priest is widely regarded as being one of the harder classes to pilot.
Telling a large group of the community that they have no skill is probably not the best way to get this discussion moving.
You complain that priest has a lot of board clear and healing, but that’s it’s identity. That’s like complaining that Mage has secrets and spell damage buffs.
Let’s be specific, exactly which Priest cards do you think need to be nerfed, how would it be done, and why?
Mmmmmmm.... Shadowy thoughts.
I am a main priest player as well. Though I play a Mecha'thun/Quest deck I created around the combo. Armor isnt a problem, but the Aggro Mages are always a toss up.
To theOP. Every deck has its counters. Its up to you to design a deck to play around the weakness of your own deck.
If you are in your first year of playing please read this post.
Dust does not burn a hole in the jar. Be careful what you craft, especially before and right after a rotation.
I understand that you are frustrated, but I think you're taking it a bit far. Your deck probably has a bad matchup against clone priest, it happens, generally you want to be playing something that has powerful plays before turns 5-6 if you want to beat clone priest.
Just remember that complain a deck isn't fun and complaining that the game is imbalanced are two very different things. There are plenty of numbers clearly showing that clone priest is a good deck but not the best deck, and throughout most of hearthstone history priest has been the garbage/meme class so I doubt anything about it is fundamentally broken.
Wow! Someone is SALTY!!! By the way, I agree that some games can be incredibly frustrating...but...a scam???
You're not being forced to play. Either quit, or maybe you just need a break from the game. Come back after the expansion? Not sure what else to say. Hopefully you find your way or find another game that better suits your "anger issues". Good luck.
"There is no spoon"
Not trying to make light of your complaint, however, since I only have your post to go on I can't tell if the issue is with priest or just the deck you lost 6 stright games against. Any deck you play will have some bad matchups, there is no getting around this. Those bad matchups being very popular can certainly be frustrating, but it doesn't mean that class/deck is unbalanced or OP. Sites like HSReplay can show you that particular decks poor matchups and with this information you can probably build something with similar game plans. I don't know what deck you were using, but trying out different strategies or the inclusion of a couple tech cards could also help.
You also didn't list any specific cards, with the rotation only weeks away I'm not sure which cards you are worried about continuing to have broken synergy.
Stats wise ur wrong mate and numbers don't get things wrong.
Ppl do
I am afraid you are complaining about wrong class, cause according to HSReplay priest is only 6th class by winrate.
This. Additionally, the specific deck you're whining about is low tier 2 at best. So much for it being "broken", huh?
This is the definition of a salt thread. Take your anger there, please.
I play wild exclusively, and priest has been a powerhouse there for several years, and I hate playing against it . It is also one of the only two classes I dont play. It is not overpowered however. The occasional highroll game aside, I believe it is a learn to play issue
The game is designed to frustrate you and make you buy packs, no surprise there.
I think you were looking for a salt thread? Perhaps you misclicked while writing your comment and accidentally created a new thread.
So you have a class you don't like playing against? For me that is hunter. And unlike Priest hunter actually got a good winrate.
The OP seems tilted - apparently, he lost six consecutive games. The best advice he might listen to is this - "Stop playing once you get a losing streak, as you've demonstrated that you get pretty angry." The deck he's complaining about has a 3% play-rate and 50% win-rate, at the bottom of Tier 2 on HSReplays.
It's a card game, and there are currently over two dozen viable decks - everyone is bound to hate playing against a few of them. But that doesn't mean any of the decks you might hate are broken . . .
100% of wild ladder on rank 8\9 is Big Priest and its variations - this is outrageous, considering the fact that even counter decks can't handle it like Millzoth Rogue - this is just a joke. The only reason I don't play big priest is I already got a golden hero.
This is fckng boring, I have no idea why suddenly this became a problem, I could easily climb in the past meeting 15% big priests, but 100% and no deck to counter is just ridiculous!
The goal of all life is death.
Have you thought of changing your strategy op?
Do you use a deck tracker and can your decktracker confirm this?
In this season I have played from rank 8 till 4 and met 5-6 priest, where only two were bigpriests.
The last HS Replay analysis shows that the big priest popularity dropped from 7% in January to 2% in March.
Source: https://hsreplay.net/decks/VEFq4jLsJMnyY3MIQb1y3c/