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Priest is a dead class(except at legend) till Tickatus gets a nerf and there's a good chance it will next week. Just wait for nerfs if you want control to be viable.

They also said there would be nerfs in early May. Still no reason they can't hit Tickatus, full dust refund was promised as usual.

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When people ask for nerfs what they are really asking for is proper balancing. That is not unreasonable. You have 10 classes and each one should have a viable deck in the meta. That is not the case. Some are promoted and others deliberately kept underpowered. For reasons. 

 There is no class that doesn't have a 55% winrate deck except priest. 

 To me, that says that priest needs to be buffed, not other classes nerfed. 

 Winrates fluctuate depending on what people are playing, there's no way to balance it so that a deck's winrate is consistent in all metas. For example, last week after nerfs Hunter had a 58% winrate, now Secret Pally is back up and Hunter is down to 53

 Nerf Tickatus and priest will be very strong. Paladin will probably get a 2nd round of nerfs and hopefully wild mage too.

Mage desperately needs a nerf in wild. My friend just told me now diamond 1-4 is almost 100% otk flamewaker mage and theres no counters. Even aggro loses to otk mage.

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Had to take a two week break from Hearthstone due to job issues which left me exhausted.

When I quit, there was a hugely diverse meta. Aggro decks, midrange and control decks. Now when I come back, everybody's playing face hunter.

It was fun while it lasted, I guess...

 Tickatus forces people to play aggro and it hard counters control decks so control is dead. Hoping for his nerf as well as others such as paladin and wild otk mage.

Tickatus desperately needs a nerf so control can return. Paladin needs at least 3 cards nerfed and wild mage needs flamewaker and sorc nerfed.

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should be 1/3

This. Hope it gets hit in the upcoming balance patch along with Tickatus and wild otk mage.

Mage broke wild and needs a nerf in the next balance patch. I haven't played wild in the last few days and my friends are frustrated too, many switched to standard. Been hearing wild is over 50% mage now. Blizz nerfed tiller otk, they should do the same for otk mage.

Blizz will probably nerf otk flamewaker mage in wild as well as hitting paladin and Tickatus for standard for the same reason they recently nerfed the wretched tiller hysteria combo. That deck broke wild, it's tier 0, everywhere and invalidates most other decks. They are pushing a 2nd balance patch in early May.

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Would love to see a fun control meta with variety. Instead you get a rock-paper-scissors game with Aggro vs. Control Warlock (which is both Control and Combo). It baffles me how people only look at win% or how they do not see this card is single-handedly ruining other control decks from simply existing. 

 So, control decks cannot exits, because they have LITERALLY one bad matchup?

 Yup, one bad matchup means control has a 40% overall winrate. Priest is a dead class because it almost always loses to control warlock. Tickatus is likely to be nerfed in the next two weeks, Blizz put him on their watchlist.

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I am in Eu I saw changes but nerfs didn't change many things you know just ruined a couple of rogue decks. it is still same shit.

 Blizz said they will push a 2nd balance patch in early May if the first round of nerfs aren't enough. Many of us said they weren't and looks like they are right. Tickatus still needs a nerf as well as at least 2 more cards in mage(spring water and incanters) and paladins.

While this balance patch will probably spare Tickatus from a nerf, his time may come in a few weeks. There's so much hate for this card and even I think he should get nerfed and I main warlock! The balance team is currently watching him and are likely to step in if his playrate exceeds 10-15%. People think this will easily be the case after mage and paladin see their power, play and winrate decline. Tickatus is the reason control is dead other than warlock. We believe he will be nerfed so both players discard 5 cards from their deck. Still useful for countering combo, but won't win you fatigue.

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Control warrior loses to Tickatus

 This. Until Tick gets nerfed hard or rotates out, control is dead.

The devs already said they want to make it target minions only. No need to speculate further.

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Currently most people are running him with the 10 cost guy who gives you 0 cost version of anything you corrupted so removing demon tag from him doesn't limit the current meta decks people are running him in. I dare say there could be a couple of people running a felosophy in the meta deck though as a replacement card. 

Anyway I am sure a balance patch will come hopefully they address penflinger and tickatus anything else might be a bonus but there my main concern as a player as its not fun to play against either. 

 https://outof.cards/hearthstone/2954-dean-ayalas-community-qa-12-barrens-balance-meeting-on-monday-ai-ladder-core-set-heroic-battlegrounds-and-more

Good chance those two are among the several nerfed cards next week.