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The Voracious Reader nerf is big for various aggro decks, in particular Hunter. Aggro DH can survive this nerf more easily as the deck has a lot of access to premium card draw anyway. Reader now seems too weak-statted for aggro decks to run it. It is also a nerf to Embiggen Druid in wild, which I am totally behind. At the same time it makes the card available to odd decks, but I don't think of any where it could see play.

The nerf on the new weapon missed the mark I think. Stiltstepper is way more OP than Dreadlord's Bite.

Soul DH is nerfed significantly, but they nerf exclusively its removal tools and not any of its damage output, making it still very playable vs slow decks (where the mana bump on removal is less significant), but much weaker to aggro.

The Brann nerf is a bit too much I think, as for Polkelt, even though the card was extremely strong in a large number of decks, it's kind of an irrelevant nerf. I can't think of a deck that plays it at t4 in order to draw a 5-cost card to play next on curve. It still curves perfectly into Skull for DH for example, HL Hunter was playing him to get Brann which now costs too much anyway....maybe it can prevent Raza Priest from coining out a Psychic Scream on t6 sometimes, but that's all

I expect Warrior and Evolve Shaman to shine now, at least until the next patch, but DH will for sure remain relevant

Not enough. I am literally uninstalling the game tommorrow. Maybe I'll be back, when they realease mini-set or new year will begun.

See ya in Runeterra or Gwent.

I love my golden polkelt... BUT! 

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Most of the nerfs fell allright, but Polkelt nerf seems a little forced. Especially for aggro DH, you will now play the card on perfect curve since you want that Skull to come precisely on turn 6 to trigger the outcast effect. 

 some face hunters also played polkelt, one more cost doesn’t matter because they prefer to play turn 6 dragonsbane anyways

I think nerfs to soul DH might help aggro decks to keep board longer, but aggro was nerfed as well lol

Shaman will be a big winner if DH disappear from ranked, but I don’t think that will happen, DH is still strong but with more weaknesses to big boards this time

Personally I thought Voracious Reader should have moved to 2 health and stayed at 2 mana, 

Rest of nerfs I think are about right, interesting to see if evolve shaman becomes the best deck now. If so could be the time for Kobold Stickyfinger to rule! 

DH will still be OP after these nerfs... the problem is not those cards and their cost.. is the entire class 

Those nerfs to dh were horrible. Nerfing the reactive cards instead of those who output way too more damage from hand (which btw, nerfing those cards would also nerf blade dance indirectly), but keep the aggro tools the way they are. Stiltstepper not nerfed, the weapon is not even that much of a difference, voracious reader's nerf is a joke. You want to nerf a card that enables hyper aggro plays and encourages vomiting minions? What about you nerf the card draw instead of the cost because those aggro decks can have an empty hand by turn 3. Watch demon hunter drop the soul package and go back to tempo with Priestess of Fury. I'm calling it. Aggro demon hunter stays the same.

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Those nerfs to dh were horrible. Nerfing the reactive cards instead of those who output way too more damage from hand (which btw, nerfing those cards would also nerf blade dance indirectly), but keep the aggro tools the way they are. Stiltstepper not nerfed, the weapon is not even that much of a difference, voracious reader's nerf is a joke. You want to nerf a card that enables hyper aggro plays and encourages vomiting minions? What about you nerf the card draw instead of the cost because those aggro decks can have an empty hand by turn 3. Watch demon hunter drop the soul package and go back to tempo with Priestess of Fury. I'm calling it. Aggro demon hunter stays the same.

 I guess u r right...they will start running priestess and may be dormant deal 10 damage guy.

cards need to be OP otherwise nobody wants them - would you be happy if they introduce a new class and nobody wants to play it? Or new expansion and all cards are dull ?

I don't quite understand why paladin wasn't nerfed at all. Paladin has such an effective arsenal, I would have thought they would nerf something to keep the class from dominating the new meta.

Nope.  Good DH Agro is still good.  I’m sure the whining people on DH are Lame Cheap cheesy Priest and Druid players.  Oh and don’t forget Rogue.  If ya need to steal our cards to win just play DH.  

Well Priest,  Druid and Rogue are just as bad.  Super cheese and stealing cards cause ya don’t have any of your own give me a break.  

At what time is the patch going up?

Lame nerfs. DH can still kill you out of nowhere with Il'gynoth or Altruism. The only card I care about is skull which enables otks in a deck that can kill you just playing normally with no combo.

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R.I.P. Highlander Hunter

They nerf the more controllish and reactive cards from DH because they want to keep the class identity..

Demon Hunter gotta go fast to face.

Yup, I still have no idea how to delete old comments. 

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Brann nerf at this point of the cycle is just stupid. Brann-Brann combo was one of the very few things which made Hunter viable in wild.