Netdecking is kind of necessary if you want to climb, yeah. Makes more sense to just use the hundreds of thousands of games worth of data determining what cards are most optimal than to try and guess what's right on your own. It might be more fun building the deck yourself, but it's never going to be the most optimal build unless you get lucky.
And yeah priest is hard. I've found silence priest and resurrect priest to be fairly competitive up to around rank 3, but needed to switch over to mech paladin to climb the rest of the way up to legend.
I'm done... i just cant win more than rank 4 with Priest anymore. If i dont netdeck is just impossible. Since boomsday i've been getting to rank 1 every season. And since more than 2 years ago, i've been only playing Priest as my favorite class, and gave to me the aim to get leyend with priest and with priest only. Since i dont play too much, the higher rank i've get is RANK 1...But now is imposibe i just CANT !!
Is like priest is death and it makes me so sad. I always craft legendary priest card every expansion but this time is useless. Having so much funny cards this exp (catrina and Madam), i just cant beat the meta; and everyone is using the same deck. I havent seen NOT A SINGLE original cool idea. Everyone netdecking and its getting my nervs.
Priest has no chance against druids with their constante swamping; no chance against warrior with that almost infinitee value, removal and mech tools (goddd always getting the omega and the bomber mechs). No chance almost, against turn six kadhgar + the twinspell removal with a giant (4 giants turn 4-5-6? really?). No chance against bomb hunter because not enough healing cards. Shaman is beatable, yes; paladin is also beatable; but the rest? ROGUE? Tempo rogue, a class that i face one and again and again one after the other (even 6 in a row) priest just CANT defeat the ammount of tempo, even if you are controlling the board as much as possible, they just draw entire deck and ALWAYS get the cards they need to do 20+ damage in one turn.
Is priest really doomed???? I've been testing this deck (some sort of clone priest), that got me to rank 3 one time this season but now i just cant win. Since then, i've been testing a lot of different decks, even Dragons with Elysiana, Deathrattles, buffs, walls, taunts, aggro priest, and even shadowform and the list goes on.
The fuunny thing is, EVERY SINGLE expansion i get both ROGUE'S legendaries.. and i have enough dust to craft whatever I want even being a F2P player. The only card missing is leeroy and edwin; but is like i have this internal spirit that i cant be so dumb to play the class and deck that EVERYONE is using... Rogue is out of control.
### Clone priest # Class: Priest # Format: Standard # Year of the Dragon # # 2x (0) Forbidden Words # 1x (1) Holy Smite # 2x (2) Divine Hymn # 2x (2) Mind Blast # 2x (2) Shadow Word: Pain # 2x (3) Shadow Word: Death # 1x (3) Vivid Nightmare # 1x (4) Archmage Vargoth # 2x (4) Hecklebot # 1x (4) Mass Dispel # 2x (5) Convincing Infiltrator # 2x (5) Holy Nova # 2x (5) Mass Hysteria # 1x (5) Power Word: Replicate # 1x (5) Zilliax # 1x (7) Prophet Velen # 1x (8) Catrina Muerte # 1x (9) Malygos # 2x (9) Mass Resurrection # 1x (9) Zerek's Cloning Gallery # AAECAa0GCgmXArQD1gqC9wL1/gKggAONggPWmQOTmwMKoQTJBtMK1wq98wKXhwOClAOVlAOYmwOZmwMA # # To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
Its not smart to put all your economy into 1 class, all classes will at some point be bad, Priest is hard atm, but there are some lists that can performe above 50% in legendary rank. This list u posted is way to greedy and no survival tools, try my lists out:
Well the main reason of this post is to not give up on priest.. as I know is the favorite class of a lot of skilled people. Cmon guyz, there has to be a way to put priest on a top tier deck somehow!!
Yes, a lot of skilled Wild players really love to play Priest as well.
Hahaha I was thinking it while reading allong glad someone mentioned it
If you want some ideas, you can watch zetalot's vods on twitch, he always tries to make priest work, no matter how bad or how good priest is in the current meta. Without trying to influence you or anything, the last deck i've seen him using was really intresting.
He was playing a recurring vilain / undertakah priest deck, and he was actualy climbing the legend ranks with it.
That being said, don't expect to find a "miracle list that nobody though of before that somehow beats the entire meta". if such a list existed, it would have already been discovered for sure. But there's stil space to refine some decks up to tier 2 imo, and maybe even discover some tier 3 decks that weren't made popular yet.
If you want some ideas, you can watch zetalot's vods on twitch, he always tries to make priest work, no matter how bad or how good priest is in the current meta. Without trying to influence you or anything, the last deck i've seen him using was really intresting.
He was playing a recurring vilain / undertakah priest deck, and he was actualy climbing the legend ranks with it.
That being said, don't expect to find a "miracle list that nobody though of before that somehow beats the entire meta". if such a list existed, it would have already been discovered for sure. But there's stil space to refine some decks up to tier 2 imo, and maybe even discover some tier 3 decks that weren't made popular yet.
Thanks a lot, I will check out his videos for sure.
And yeah, I'm just going to wait and hope Priest makes a come back for the next expansion.
Jokes aside, it's a challenge to make Priest work in this meta, but I don't think there has been enough time since last expansion to test ALL possible priest decks, so please keep experimenting and share your successful tests. I'm still trying to make Dragon Paladin and Pogo Rogue work, so I have no time for Priest right now... Maybe in June?
Sure it is not as strong as it used to be but still pretty decent.
Silence Priest, Rezz Priest, Miracle-Nomi Priest, Wall Priest, hell even saw a Shadow Priest - sure no T1 decks but some of them are good enough to ladder.
Just keep on trying ;) - but Priest is defenitely not dead !
Yeah. I've been playing Shadow Priest a little bit at Rank 17. It catches people off guard. Especially Archmage Vargoth into Shadowform.
Ideally you want to get your opponent as low as possible then Alexstrasza thier face, double Mind Blast next turn and Ping then finish them the turn after.
Priest historically has the works base set so the rotations always bomb them the worst. Next expansion they'll probably get some OP board clear and everyone will be complaining about the class again
I made a warlock deck that works sort of like "token" I guess. It's a bit weird and you probably won't see it a lot, but on days like today (the start of a new season) you can usually trample your way to rank 5 on a winstreak with something like this.
You can heal if you draw your broodmothers and shuffle them back in with plot twist. also if you have coin and keep it and also play soularium that means you get 4 extra cards in your hand when you shuffle.
It's incredibly aggressive, but not just a face deck. Has a little going on so you don't get bored.
Anyway if you have the cards, might wanna give it try as something different to priest for right now. after all Warlocks are kind of like Evil Priests. ha ha.
If you want something with more sustain and can hang in the late game as well as win in the early game. I have just the hunter deck. but then hunter is pretty far removed from priest.
it's a good deck though. I will send you anything else via message.
PS: hellfire is to help reset before dropping rafaam. sometimes you need to. Rafaam isn't really needed though, and just there because I like it.
Priest was God tier throughout Year of the Mammoth, from Dragon Priest to Big Priest to Razakus. All classes have their time to shine and their time in the gutter. Warrior saw 0 play in Year of the Mammoth and a little bit of play in Year of the Raven through Odd Warrior, and now it's finally Warrior's time to shine in Year of the Dragon. Likewise, Priest got shafted in Year of the Raven with very few competitively viable decks in Year of the Raven, and again in Year of the Dragon. Everything doesn't have to be tier 1 all the time.
You refusing to play what's good and sticking to your fringe decks out of principle is plain stupid. I guarantee you there is no card game where you don't have to netdeck. The whole point of a META (Most Effective Tactics Available) is that the strongest decks will be played by the most people. Think logically: if there's a good deck, are people more likely to play it? Yes. It's common sense.
"But there must be some way to get my favourite deck to top tier because I like it and Team 5 is a stupid development team because they don't adhere to my opinions which clearly matter more than anyone else's!"
This is just stupid. Want to win? Don't play Priest. Want to play Priest? Don't expect to win. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Try this OP
### Shadow Form? Really?
# Class: Priest
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Dragon
#
# 2x (0) Forbidden Words
# 2x (1) Northshire Cleric
# 2x (1) Power Word: Shield
# 2x (2) Divine Hymn
# 2x (2) Firetree Witchdoctor
# 2x (2) Mind Blast
# 1x (2) Squashling
# 2x (2) Wild Pyromancer
# 2x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (3) Shadowform
# 1x (4) Archmage Vargoth
# 2x (4) Scaleworm
# 2x (4) Twilight Drake
# 2x (5) Dragonmaw Scorcher
# 1x (5) Holy Nova
# 2x (5) Mass Hysteria
# 1x (9) Alexstrasza
#
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#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
Although I have to say that asking for deck advice and ideas on an online forum is kinda Netdecking.. 😉
4/3/19 RIP Keith Flint. 😔
Netdecking is kind of necessary if you want to climb, yeah. Makes more sense to just use the hundreds of thousands of games worth of data determining what cards are most optimal than to try and guess what's right on your own. It might be more fun building the deck yourself, but it's never going to be the most optimal build unless you get lucky.
And yeah priest is hard. I've found silence priest and resurrect priest to be fairly competitive up to around rank 3, but needed to switch over to mech paladin to climb the rest of the way up to legend.
Anyone in Rank 10 or above here using Priest in Standard?
I want to try a Priest list this expansion. Please feel free to share your decks.
Its not smart to put all your economy into 1 class, all classes will at some point be bad, Priest is hard atm, but there are some lists that can performe above 50% in legendary rank. This list u posted is way to greedy and no survival tools, try my lists out:
https://i.imgur.com/TvMHcon.png
https://i.imgur.com/Oat4IbS.png
https://i.imgur.com/VfC20I9.png
Hahaha I was thinking it while reading allong glad someone mentioned it
I haven't encountered any Priest on Ranked ranks 10+. Whatt I saw was:
No paladin or priest.
--Alfi--
Maybe just give up on ranked and maintain a 50% wr.
Ah ok damn. No Priest action for me this expac, I guess.
Thanks for letting me know
If you want some ideas, you can watch zetalot's vods on twitch, he always tries to make priest work, no matter how bad or how good priest is in the current meta. Without trying to influence you or anything, the last deck i've seen him using was really intresting.
He was playing a recurring vilain / undertakah priest deck, and he was actualy climbing the legend ranks with it.
That being said, don't expect to find a "miracle list that nobody though of before that somehow beats the entire meta". if such a list existed, it would have already been discovered for sure. But there's stil space to refine some decks up to tier 2 imo, and maybe even discover some tier 3 decks that weren't made popular yet.
Thanks a lot, I will check out his videos for sure.
And yeah, I'm just going to wait and hope Priest makes a come back for the next expansion.
No problem if Priest is dead, it got Mass Resurrection xD
Jokes aside, it's a challenge to make Priest work in this meta, but I don't think there has been enough time since last expansion to test ALL possible priest decks, so please keep experimenting and share your successful tests. I'm still trying to make Dragon Paladin and Pogo Rogue work, so I have no time for Priest right now... Maybe in June?
The pleasure is mine.
Yeah. I've been playing Shadow Priest a little bit at Rank 17. It catches people off guard. Especially Archmage Vargoth into Shadowform.
Ideally you want to get your opponent as low as possible then Alexstrasza thier face, double Mind Blast next turn and Ping then finish them the turn after.
I play double Divine Hymn and a single Squashling as my heal post Shadowform as well as the obligatory Zilliax.
It's a fun deck to be sure.
Edit: The deck I posted earlier has been modified, dropping a Wild Pyromancer for Zilliax
4/3/19 RIP Keith Flint. 😔
Priest historically has the works base set so the rotations always bomb them the worst. Next expansion they'll probably get some OP board clear and everyone will be complaining about the class again
Just make your own decks lol? You don't have to netdeck to create good decks.
I've been using this custom Shadowform list if you want to try:
### Shadowform
# Class: Priest
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Dragon
#
# 2x (0) Forbidden Words
# 2x (1) Northshire Cleric
# 2x (1) Power Word: Shield
# 2x (2) Divine Hymn
# 2x (2) Firetree Witchdoctor
# 2x (2) Mind Blast
# 2x (2) Wild Pyromancer
# 2x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (3) Shadowform
# 1x (4) Archmage Vargoth
# 1x (4) Mass Dispel
# 2x (4) Scaleworm
# 2x (4) Twilight Drake
# 2x (5) Dragonmaw Scorcher
# 2x (5) Mass Hysteria
# 1x (7) Prophet Velen
# 1x (9) Alexstrasza
#
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#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
I was trying to get a dragon Priest going, but outside of casual, it's a slow go.
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I made a warlock deck that works sort of like "token" I guess. It's a bit weird and you probably won't see it a lot, but on days like today (the start of a new season) you can usually trample your way to rank 5 on a winstreak with something like this.
You can heal if you draw your broodmothers and shuffle them back in with plot twist. also if you have coin and keep it and also play soularium that means you get 4 extra cards in your hand when you shuffle.
It's incredibly aggressive, but not just a face deck. Has a little going on so you don't get bored.
Anyway if you have the cards, might wanna give it try as something different to priest for right now. after all Warlocks are kind of like Evil Priests. ha ha.
If you want something with more sustain and can hang in the late game as well as win in the early game. I have just the hunter deck. but then hunter is pretty far removed from priest.
it's a good deck though. I will send you anything else via message.
PS: hellfire is to help reset before dropping rafaam. sometimes you need to. Rafaam isn't really needed though, and just there because I like it.
Priest was God tier throughout Year of the Mammoth, from Dragon Priest to Big Priest to Razakus. All classes have their time to shine and their time in the gutter. Warrior saw 0 play in Year of the Mammoth and a little bit of play in Year of the Raven through Odd Warrior, and now it's finally Warrior's time to shine in Year of the Dragon. Likewise, Priest got shafted in Year of the Raven with very few competitively viable decks in Year of the Raven, and again in Year of the Dragon. Everything doesn't have to be tier 1 all the time.
You refusing to play what's good and sticking to your fringe decks out of principle is plain stupid. I guarantee you there is no card game where you don't have to netdeck. The whole point of a META (Most Effective Tactics Available) is that the strongest decks will be played by the most people. Think logically: if there's a good deck, are people more likely to play it? Yes. It's common sense.
"But there must be some way to get my favourite deck to top tier because I like it and Team 5 is a stupid development team because they don't adhere to my opinions which clearly matter more than anyone else's!"
This is just stupid. Want to win? Don't play Priest. Want to play Priest? Don't expect to win. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Thats almost identical to mine. Huh. Just goes to prove my theory that there's no such thing a Unique Homebrew.
4/3/19 RIP Keith Flint. 😔