We did it guys. We started our Priest to legend journey in low plat, and decided we would prove its the best class in the game. Mostly playing the Flesh Giant Priest version, where we managed to finish with a 64% win rate, over 64 games played. This class is more then just a power house in high legend. It's great everywhere. You just have to take the time to learn the deck and match ups. The video below is my brief deck breakdown, along with a great game we had vs Dexter's big paladin list and our final boss! If you have any inquiries about the deck hmu, and I'd love to help people out, we needa get these numbers up people!
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My opinion on priest is honest. I truly do belive its the best class, just bad pilotes. It's being brought into a lot of tournaments and performing great in high legend. The reason for that is bc those players know how to play the deck correctly. Everyone always complains that it's only good in those environments, but as you can see I'm trying to point to the fact it's just good everywhere. Sure warlock sucks, but name 1 other unwinable match up? Or hmm what's the best deck rn, paladin? Warrior? Face hunter? I hear free wins
I could be bias bc I love the class. But I think the class gets more hate bc people just see a win rate on hs replay. I know hs replay is a great reference. But there's been many deck in the past like patron warrior, that was kinda meh until it hit the hands of an experienced player. I feel like priest rn is one of those
Warlock is warlock, and it is crazy hard. Luckily you don't see many warlocks once you start climbing through Diamond bc they are still losing every other match up in silver. But if you do run in, I usually just conceded to save time 😅
Priest is definitly in a good spot. It is just damn slow and therefor bad for climbing.
I think you are a bit overhyped, I had no issues facing priest with my rush warrior.
Rng is a huge factor in priest matches, they have no bad spells so discover is wonderful for them. Yet it makes a huge difference if he pulls 3 heals or 3 times soul mirror.
You can predict a lot and play around many things Priest does but you cant prepare for random generated high rolls, multiple times in a row.
I gotta agree it's kinda hard to play, I saw more insane fail plays by priest then from any other class. My favorit, a priest gave me alex with mindreader, for an easy lethal next turn. ^^
I admit I might be overhyped. But how I see it currently the top 3 are paladin, warrior, and priest. But if priest has a good match up vs the other top 2 deck would that put it at the top of those 3?
You having good success with your warrior vs priest is actually suprizing. We had 100% win rate vs warriors and for us we felt like it was the easiest match up. This list on hs replay has a 51% wr and it says you win 61% of games vs warrior but it is a smaller sample size. Are you playing anything different then normal potentially?
Sadly that's the worst and best part about priest is the randomness. Luckily 60% of the random cards you can find are good, and with the small pool of cards you are usually likely to find something to help you in your situation
I could be bias bc I love the class. But I think the class gets more hate bc people just see a win rate on hs replay. I know hs replay is a great reference. But there's been many deck in the past like patron warrior, that was kinda meh until it hit the hands of an experienced player. I feel like priest rn is one of those
Every deck is better in the hand of an experienced player. Why just Priest or Patron Warrior?
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You can check my rush warrior, I just posted it today. It is indeed different. It also plays different to some degree.
I gotta say I havent faced many Priests pre legend. My first loss (so far only) to priest was at legend.
Armorsmiths are turning ppl crazy for some reason. Haha
I gotta Play for max value when facing priest, like going for 2 kargath prime and such. Also you must drop (buffed) samuro before mindreader comes into Play.
Fighting priest is awesome cuz of the decision making involved with rush warrior. Going ham dosnt work
I just gave one example of a previous deck that came to mind. Every deck gets better with experience, but rn I'd say priest has that highest skill gap keeping it from having a good win rate in the hands of some players. I also think mage has a skill gap right now. Obviously there are the brain dead Games where you get the dream incanters flow and win. But sometimes that's not the case and pointing a fire ball face instead of a minion, or vise versa can be game costing. Or just how you use the cards given to you. You can definitely tell the difference between a good mage player and bad one
I'll definitely take a look at it and let you know what I think! I got some games in yesterday on stream with Deathrattle DH and I'm enjoying the deck a lotttt. I wanna play it at the start of today's stream, but probably not for too long. Ill try your deck and be sure to shout you out for it! I love playing peoples home brews 😁
I just gave one example of a previous deck that came to mind. Every deck gets better with experience, but rn I'd say priest has that highest skill gap keeping it from having a good win rate in the hands of some players. I also think mage has a skill gap right now. Obviously there are the brain dead Games where you get the dream incanters flow and win. But sometimes that's not the case and pointing a fire ball face instead of a minion, or vise versa can be game costing. Or just how you use the cards given to you. You can definitely tell the difference between a good mage player and bad one
But, other equally good players playing the best decks are always going to do even better than good players playing worse, below 50%, "high skill cap" decks. Thus, the latter players will always underperform playing "high skill cap" decks against their colleges. At the very best, they can only get even. So, it all comes back to statistical average win-rates. Someone can bring 45% deck to 51%, as well as someone can bring 51% deck to 57%. So, people playing a "high skill cap" 45% deck can have a hard time against a complete noob who's playing a 51% deck (who can't outperform, just possibly underperform). Actually, their best hope is beating noobs. But, on the ladder one plays against similarly skillful players.
Most of the time "high skill cap" are even without potential, they are plain crap. Some excellent pros play 10 games with a crappy deck from rank2 to rank1 legend, and advertise that on twitter (they wouldn't twitt otherwise), but it's just a statistical error, other people will not achieve good results, not even pros. 10 games and spectacular effects in those don't matter a penny.
People are either biased, memers or masochistic and eccentric posers, so they want to see something in nothing; hidden truths and esoteric knowledge. We humans are biased, we go hype after seeing something fancy, but nobody notice all those times when xy card never panned out, sitting useless in your hand, actually losing you most of your games. For example, Ooze. Isn't it great when you ooze someone, but for every oozing you lose 10 other games because of that card in your deck (even against weapon decks). Ooze is good only if most of the meta are weapon decks. People shouldn't judge things after seeing one thing in one game. Very often, ugly decks with nothing fancy have the highest winrate; they beat you purely through synergies of their 30 cards.
We did it guys. We started our Priest to legend journey in low plat, and decided we would prove its the best class in the game. Mostly playing the Flesh Giant Priest version, where we managed to finish with a 64% win rate, over 64 games played. This class is more then just a power house in high legend. It's great everywhere. You just have to take the time to learn the deck and match ups. The video below is my brief deck breakdown, along with a great game we had vs Dexter's big paladin list and our final boss! If you have any inquiries about the deck hmu, and I'd love to help people out, we needa get these numbers up people!
Flesh Griant Priest: https://youtu.be/dtNAttyExEg
Wow, hyperbole much? Congrats on reaching legend, and thanks for sharing the deck, but "best in game"? Please.
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I mean people have higher winrates with other decks in bigger sample sizes. Calling your deck for the best deck i laughable
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Priest? Best? great, so its ticktakus time :)
blad manz got a point. priest is a sik class.
My opinion on priest is honest. I truly do belive its the best class, just bad pilotes. It's being brought into a lot of tournaments and performing great in high legend. The reason for that is bc those players know how to play the deck correctly. Everyone always complains that it's only good in those environments, but as you can see I'm trying to point to the fact it's just good everywhere. Sure warlock sucks, but name 1 other unwinable match up? Or hmm what's the best deck rn, paladin? Warrior? Face hunter? I hear free wins
I could be bias bc I love the class. But I think the class gets more hate bc people just see a win rate on hs replay. I know hs replay is a great reference. But there's been many deck in the past like patron warrior, that was kinda meh until it hit the hands of an experienced player. I feel like priest rn is one of those
Warlock is warlock, and it is crazy hard. Luckily you don't see many warlocks once you start climbing through Diamond bc they are still losing every other match up in silver. But if you do run in, I usually just conceded to save time 😅
Priest is definitly in a good spot. It is just damn slow and therefor bad for climbing.
I think you are a bit overhyped, I had no issues facing priest with my rush warrior.
Rng is a huge factor in priest matches, they have no bad spells so discover is wonderful for them. Yet it makes a huge difference if he pulls 3 heals or 3 times soul mirror.
You can predict a lot and play around many things Priest does but you cant prepare for random generated high rolls, multiple times in a row.
I gotta agree it's kinda hard to play, I saw more insane fail plays by priest then from any other class. My favorit, a priest gave me alex with mindreader, for an easy lethal next turn. ^^
I admit I might be overhyped. But how I see it currently the top 3 are paladin, warrior, and priest. But if priest has a good match up vs the other top 2 deck would that put it at the top of those 3?
You having good success with your warrior vs priest is actually suprizing. We had 100% win rate vs warriors and for us we felt like it was the easiest match up. This list on hs replay has a 51% wr and it says you win 61% of games vs warrior but it is a smaller sample size. Are you playing anything different then normal potentially?
Sadly that's the worst and best part about priest is the randomness. Luckily 60% of the random cards you can find are good, and with the small pool of cards you are usually likely to find something to help you in your situation
Every deck is better in the hand of an experienced player. Why just Priest or Patron Warrior?
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
You can check my rush warrior, I just posted it today. It is indeed different. It also plays different to some degree.
I gotta say I havent faced many Priests pre legend. My first loss (so far only) to priest was at legend.
Armorsmiths are turning ppl crazy for some reason. Haha
I gotta Play for max value when facing priest, like going for 2 kargath prime and such. Also you must drop (buffed) samuro before mindreader comes into Play.
Fighting priest is awesome cuz of the decision making involved with rush warrior. Going ham dosnt work
I just gave one example of a previous deck that came to mind. Every deck gets better with experience, but rn I'd say priest has that highest skill gap keeping it from having a good win rate in the hands of some players. I also think mage has a skill gap right now. Obviously there are the brain dead Games where you get the dream incanters flow and win. But sometimes that's not the case and pointing a fire ball face instead of a minion, or vise versa can be game costing. Or just how you use the cards given to you. You can definitely tell the difference between a good mage player and bad one
I'll definitely take a look at it and let you know what I think! I got some games in yesterday on stream with Deathrattle DH and I'm enjoying the deck a lotttt. I wanna play it at the start of today's stream, but probably not for too long. Ill try your deck and be sure to shout you out for it! I love playing peoples home brews 😁
But, other equally good players playing the best decks are always going to do even better than good players playing worse, below 50%, "high skill cap" decks. Thus, the latter players will always underperform playing "high skill cap" decks against their colleges. At the very best, they can only get even. So, it all comes back to statistical average win-rates. Someone can bring 45% deck to 51%, as well as someone can bring 51% deck to 57%. So, people playing a "high skill cap" 45% deck can have a hard time against a complete noob who's playing a 51% deck (who can't outperform, just possibly underperform). Actually, their best hope is beating noobs. But, on the ladder one plays against similarly skillful players.
Most of the time "high skill cap" are even without potential, they are plain crap. Some excellent pros play 10 games with a crappy deck from rank2 to rank1 legend, and advertise that on twitter (they wouldn't twitt otherwise), but it's just a statistical error, other people will not achieve good results, not even pros. 10 games and spectacular effects in those don't matter a penny.
People are either biased, memers or masochistic and eccentric posers, so they want to see something in nothing; hidden truths and esoteric knowledge. We humans are biased, we go hype after seeing something fancy, but nobody notice all those times when xy card never panned out, sitting useless in your hand, actually losing you most of your games. For example, Ooze. Isn't it great when you ooze someone, but for every oozing you lose 10 other games because of that card in your deck (even against weapon decks). Ooze is good only if most of the meta are weapon decks. People shouldn't judge things after seeing one thing in one game. Very often, ugly decks with nothing fancy have the highest winrate; they beat you purely through synergies of their 30 cards.
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”