I don't have a problem with this deck, it is way less opressive than midrange shaman or prenerf Galakrond era but something bugs me with this class, never in HS history shaman have a normal presence in the ladder, or is completely gone at a point you start to forgot the class even exist or infested at the point of vomit inducing.
Why shaman never hit the mid ground?
That’s easy to explain, shaman is with priest and mage in the bad classic set club. Hunter and rogue has always been meta relevant because they have great classic sets. Shaman needs strong cards printed at each set release because they have overload cards that are just horrible. Look at lightning storm, it gets used quite often despite being powercreeped by cards without an overload mechanic. To truly fix shaman, they need a classic set overhaul that includes a new mechanic.
The problem isn’t the complaining, it’s the numbers. Look at the last VS numbers before the nerf. Shaman was still strong, it was just poorly matched against aggro DH and face hunter. After the nerf to voracious reader, the bad matchups for evolve shaman went away and now it is uncontested. The problems with all of this is the meta has really relied on two cards. Voracious reader and boggspine knuckles (or cagematch custodian). Control decks lack what they need to deal with either of these aggro strategies of board flood and see what sticks. I don’t think The voracious reader nerf was the best course of action, the remedy would have been better board resets. Priest lost mass hysteria and now has two shitty aoe spells under 7 mana. Warrior lost warpath and now has to rely heavily on brawl (which may be the best evergreen card in the game). Poor warlock went from having defile and lord Godfrey to crazed netherwing, which is conditional, not a guaranteed clear and damages the hero.
It’s really about balance and hearthstone has some busted cards that they give counters to. This whole year has been demon hunter centric and to let their new class shine, they deprived control classes of the counters they needed for it. Now that demon hunter has gotten nerfed, it’s shaman’s turn to go as wide as possible with little risk.
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That’s easy to explain, shaman is with priest and mage in the bad classic set club. Hunter and rogue has always been meta relevant because they have great classic sets. Shaman needs strong cards printed at each set release because they have overload cards that are just horrible. Look at lightning storm, it gets used quite often despite being powercreeped by cards without an overload mechanic. To truly fix shaman, they need a classic set overhaul that includes a new mechanic.
The problem isn’t the complaining, it’s the numbers. Look at the last VS numbers before the nerf. Shaman was still strong, it was just poorly matched against aggro DH and face hunter. After the nerf to voracious reader, the bad matchups for evolve shaman went away and now it is uncontested. The problems with all of this is the meta has really relied on two cards. Voracious reader and boggspine knuckles (or cagematch custodian). Control decks lack what they need to deal with either of these aggro strategies of board flood and see what sticks. I don’t think The voracious reader nerf was the best course of action, the remedy would have been better board resets. Priest lost mass hysteria and now has two shitty aoe spells under 7 mana. Warrior lost warpath and now has to rely heavily on brawl (which may be the best evergreen card in the game). Poor warlock went from having defile and lord Godfrey to crazed netherwing, which is conditional, not a guaranteed clear and damages the hero.
It’s really about balance and hearthstone has some busted cards that they give counters to. This whole year has been demon hunter centric and to let their new class shine, they deprived control classes of the counters they needed for it. Now that demon hunter has gotten nerfed, it’s shaman’s turn to go as wide as possible with little risk.