Priest is all about breaking your mind. You watch into the hand and deck of your opponent. Steal their best cards. Psychological warfare. If opponents get annoyed priest is working correctly. The class is living up to his fantasy.
Just imagine if the class had secrets... The stuff of nightmares! :P
Actually I think that's the problem with priest, control priest do nothing but remove your minions, counter your cards(steal, silence, etc.), generate infinite value, heal and maybe throw some minions here and there but it has no big win condition, it just wins by playing a painful game of attrition, there is some cases where the priest clearly already won but is unable to close the game because it has just removal and the match extends for much turns more than it should, dumb analogy but priest is like a warrior but with a bigger shield and a spoon as weapon.
Reminds of this game, both control decks are drawing the nuts but the mage is constantly pushing for the win and the priest is just stalling until it somehow gets the win.
I must say I actually enjoy playing priest here and there but I just wish it had a slightly less passive gameplay and some game ender plays.
Last two weeks I decided to play exclusively with priest because I open the legendary spell and want to try in many decks, Galakrond, Highlander, quest control, etc...
Why people complain so much about the class?
DH rushes you more often than not because he always will draw good (they draw the entire deck before turn 10) you playing priest not always.
Hunter outtempo you so badly from turn 1 to 7 only for a miracle you be alive until there, probably I have 10% or less winrate vs hunters.
Rogues will outvalue you, it is possible to put a good fight here and sometimes turns into your favor but rogue definitivately have the advantage here, random lackeys are better than random minions.
The only class I really feel in unfair advantage was paladin, but that is it.
Priest is not a hopeless class but I was expecting much more for all the complains I read all day here and in other places.
You see many people complaining about priest because the main difference between those who only play aggro and those who love control decks, is that the latter group of people is usually much more honest (like well, almost always :P) about stuff they don't find healthy for the game (priest being super unfun to play against most of the time).
Just imagine if the class had secrets... The stuff of nightmares! :P
Trump evil face is kinda scary! :P
And should this people be ashamed of being "bad rogue players"? What would they achieve in life if they were "good rogue players"?
You see many people complaining about priest because the main difference between those who only play aggro and those who love control decks, is that the latter group of people is usually much more honest (like well, almost always :P) about stuff they don't find healthy for the game (priest being super unfun to play against most of the time).