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It is not a bug, and is an intentional result. They put out a few tweets about it after GvG came out.
Also, if you're curious why you went down to -3 health before you died, it's to check for immunity, secrets, etc before you just outright die. Pretty cool to see when you don't expect it!
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definitely blackwing technician. it won't be great next week, but once the rest of the set is released it will unquestionably be one of the top 10 cards of the set, which I don't think any of the others from next week's release are. the other cards might be more "interesting" but none of them will be as reliable or solid.
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That's a valid point, too.
But also other classes weren't weak at all and got terrific cards: Mage was hardly weak, had a ton of solid decks already, even if some were quite niche or hard to play, and got insane cards lately to the point that mech mages were everywhere most season; hunter and rogues were nerfed in some of their core cards/mechanics a while ago, but now they're still as strong as ever with face and oil variants: on top of this Hunter just got "3 DMG and a card for 2 mana" which will be devastating for the meta imho... Warlock also got insane demon mechanics and it's always been top notch.
I'm no hardcore player as I am rank 9-6 most of the time: there aren't that many at all where I'm hovering at, except from time to time. I like druid but I've seldom seen it as very, very strong class, just reasonably solid. But by checking some threads in this section not so many seem to agree with me. Oh well.
It's true that a lot of other classes got class cards that will probably actually see the light of play and druids didn't. I don't think that'll make druids any less favorable. I do want to say that mage has not always been a solid class. Before GvG, the only real archetype of mage was freeze mage. Sure it was a strong deck but I wouldn't say it's as strong or as versatile as combo druid.
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So usually when I queue up as druid and match into someone, I don't think "Oh shoot, it's a __________, such a poor match up." The reason I never think this is because Druid is just so solid that it has almost no bad match ups. The versatility of being able to switch from offense to defense in the blink of an eye allows you to take advantage of tempo swings. FoN + Savage Roar gives you a strong finisher as well as so much reach with only a couple of minions on board. I definitely agree that druids have not gotten the strongest class cards in any expansion, but they are still making use of several cards from expansions (from GvG most notably piloted shredders replacing yeti) to reinforce their already strong play style. In fact, I'm so excited to try out that new emperor card in druid just because you play it on turn 6 and then turn 7 you can FoN Savage Roar if you had both in your hand. So I think the main problem that you're seeing is that druid is already so good that several of the new cards just aren't good enough to compete with existing ones
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because Druids REALLY don't need any more "love" from Blizzard. Their shit is top tier and has been so since....always lol. I mean they really can't be giving Druid any cards that would make the class stronger than what it currently is. The cards can be to make the class different, but not stronger. IMO Blizzard has done a good job of exactly that. The Druid cards throughout Naxx, GvG and BRM have opened up new gimmicks for Druid without necessarily making it stronger. Because making Druid more powerful would be a mistake.
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I feel sad for lurid too bud... I gotchu... here, come cry on ma shoulda...
:'(
But for real, I did wish Druid would get sum good o' luv, you feel me? But Wlizzard was like NAH, SCREW THEM 1/2 human 1/2 animal!
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They have to be very careful when creating new Druid cards. It's one of the most strong and stable classes due to the 2 card combo and ramp up mechanics. It's very easy to accidentally make druid extremely over powered. Also, a lot of the newer cards try to fill different archetypes like Mill Druid.
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On first tournament after GvG, "Kinguin for charity" every pro player had a paladin deck.
After all cry about bolvar, and that we can delete paladin from game, he is stronger than ever!! In last game today paladin made 3-0.
Also lots of cards considered bad by masses, like shieldmaiden, was standard in decks.
This once again show how guys from Blizzard know what they are doing.
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I think people who spent a bunch of dust and gold on building a really good deck for whatever the meta is at that moment would be furious. I think that it would basically be a rotation of one class being banned by damn near everybody until that deck stopped being popular, whereupon someone would build a new superdeck, and THAT class would get banned en masse, and the complete inability to have any consistent or popular deck for fear of your class being unanimously banned would drive players away in droves.
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Holy crap dude. Some formatting would go a long way. Im sorry but I cant read this.
Undertaker is fine.
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I'm not crafting white eyes for now. I put chillmaw instead: works with nzoth and drakes against aggro.
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same, connection was shitty a few hours ago, lost one rank in two hours due to that (three disconnections...)
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i got golden icehowl, he sucks. Gonna DE as soon as I decide which leg to craft.
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yes still pretty dope imho
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Finally the card pool is expanding. Really hope to see some creativity in the meta!
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nice list.
they're all good, alex and tyrion are also quite insane. it pretty boils down to what you play the most: if no preference, i'd go with neutral first, namely rag in your case imho :-)
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Druid has been graced with *so* many great cards through the expansions with NAXX, GvG and now even BRM.
My deck and almost any deck I see on ladder hardly use anything that came out in expansions, they use neutrals or staple cards that are there since the beginning.
I'm a little bit salty and I made a recap of what druid got since NAXX. I'm convinced that almost everything is garbage.
2M Anodized Robo Cub: Brought by Gvg, this headlights-eyed yet cuddly bear is no joke, as he let's you choose between a whopping +0/+1 and a +1/+0 to add to his already terrific 2/2 stats. As if it mattered if it was either a 2/3 or a 3/2, this design it's the bare minimum anybody could come up for a class card over what a Frostwolf Grunt already delivers. Almost any neutral 2 drop in the game give you the same stats AND an actual effect. Oh and it is a beast.
3M Grove Tender: I swear I tried to give it a chance, but after playing quite a few games with it I became aware it does more harm than good most times.
I lost so many games with it, and even in those in which I had decent hands, playing Grove Tender managed to swing the game in favour of my opponent. I can still almost hear my aggro opponents laugh their asses off when playing Tender on curve! To be fair, this card wasn't that bad when played turn 9 and choosing the free mana.
3M Druid of the Flame: Just when you thought they couldn't give you another "blank" at three mana like Grove Tender, here's Magma Rager's revenge for not including him in your druid deck. Choose one: get an amped up (+0/+1) Keeper of the grove without its cool effects one turn earlier, or a glorified Magma Rager which will still die to pretty much anything on board by turn 3, not to mention to most cheap spell damage.
4M Poison Seeds: hilarious card, and one of the first hints of what druid would receive later on in expansions: the shaft.
I've tried in some of my decks with deathrattles, Starfall and Abomination heading nowhere but straight to defeat. To my knowledge there are no consistent decks with this card as Warlock and shamans are much better with deathrattle mechanics.
5M Druid of the Fang: the one and only, or the card we have to thank for getting all those garbage beasts in a class not ultimately designed to work with them as well as hunter does. Even though I've seen pretty decent druid beast decks on ladder playing this breakfast for BGH, I don't think they're doing terrific and it ends up showing how silly other druid's beasts look.
5M Dark Wispers: probably the most expensive buff for a creature in the game, gives you the alternative of summoning a Wisps' party. Not particularly enticing by itself either way, this card didn't come with a Quartermaster counterpart like in Pally, nor the added benefit of instant damage like Implosion. Oh and it just begs to be played on turn 5, not that you had anything better to do by that turn, at all.
6M Recycle: Finally, a much awaited lending hand for druid's lack of removal. For as low as 6 mana, this card easily gets rid of any big creature your opponent may have (*for a while). So that anything will come back and haunt you if the game is long enough, and on the other hand in short games against aggro the high cost makes it close to garbage.
6M Mech-Bear-Cat: Not so terrible but really far from memorable. How many of these have you seen around, since the Mech archetype fits much better in other classes?
7M Malorne: I really like this card, the art is fine and the effect is cool and all, but it does nothing on the spot, he just comes into play and 99% of the times he's sent back in your deck, and I'm like "I wish I'll be alive next time he pops up".
I don't know about you guys but i couldn't make it work, while at the 7 mana slot you have a lot of cards that are more appealing: not only Dr GG, but also AoL and AoW which are miles ahead in term of value, and are only epics.
9M Tree of Life: probably the best card in the game, who knows, except not in this meta and not in any deck which is currently remotely less than gimmicky. I have any druid card and I didn't even bother crafting one of these yet.
9M Volcanic Lumberer: this can be either very good, or the final nail in the coffin of the load of junk cards we got for druid since Naxx. My money is on the second one.
Druid remains my favourite class. Sorry for trying hard with this even if my english is bad, but I felt like it. Comments are appreciated :)
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I've got the same feeling and I don't have Ysera... I have dust for one legendary, and I'm happy I waited for BRM reveal: new cards and especially dragons seem strong, and Ysera may very well see more play now.
I think I'm keeping the dust until the new meta defining decks will pop up later in april. Now is not the best moment to craft anything imho.
edit: on top of my head, other than Ysera I'd say Malygos and even Deathwing. Now there are cards to have them cost less, and with other cards they synergize well for simply having them in your hand, so even getting stuck with one of these big boys early game just got slightly less worse...
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Very good card, a 5/5 with an embedded innervate which you don't even have to use the same turn... pally exclusive.
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:D
No emails as well... just checked. I only play HS too.
I'm registered with my name/nationality: italian, I play on US servers and I live in China. I must deserve some sort of punishment probably!