Welcome to the internet these days... I know it's sad but it's true!

Dont get me wrong, I love crazy stuff happening in hearthstone, but this card is soo broken, I'm just curious how does blizzard passes the testing phase and leaves this: Illidari Inquisitor in the game like this. Like, don't they care about some balance at all??

Even if it's frozen it still triggers and goes face!
Seems weird to have absolutely no valid counterplay against this thing other than removal/silence.
And if it's not even broken enough it also has Rush on top of everything else!
It is also better than the legendary card King Krush, cause you can trade first and then go face, its 16 Damage,
and you have two of them in your deck because it's a rare!  

Last but not least, it gets pulled by Skull of Gul'dan, and they use this broken card by only spending 5 mana...
Where it gets synergy with its hero power that can go face for 1 mana!
Blizzard, you can do better than this, where is your quality standard???
This is broken beyond words and I've never seen hearthstone in the state it currently is, and it's just sad to see the meta like this...
 

Reading all your comments with an overly posh English accent has been very amusing to me, I'm finally getting my money's worth! Grabbing some popcorn, do continue jolly old chaps!

He is just saying you can say what ever you want but there is need to bring in religion, that's just a shortage of words!
But we wandering offtopic! back to the OP original comment:  

Happy to say that people seem to be standing firm against this corporate greed this time. 

I'm surprised it took this long for people to realize how greedy blizzard has been!

Well that said, there is still a lot of useful idiots around sticking up for this corporate greed, thinking they are getting achievement points when they defend the behavior shown by Activision-blizzard! I've seen too many moral knights in shining armor, saying stupid stuff like,
" think its too expensive, stop complaining, or keep your mouth shut, this subject has already been posted many times" dumb shit like that... 

But people fail to understand many of us love this game, we want it to be better and we like playing it and we would like to do so for a long time. Also a shout out to J Alexander, he made an awesome constructive post, changes Blizzard could do right now to make this game better for everyone. This would make more people come back and play this game, a shame Activision cant see it through their greedy lenses. 
We should demand these changes before coming back!!

• Give players 10g per win and 5g per loss: 

• Cut non-golden crafting costs by half

• Add equal amounts of dusts to daily quests

• Give the Classic set in its entirety to all players:

• Make the mid-season expansion free or a small cost, like $5: 

Blizzard finally does an interview on their controversial rework of the rewards system

Quote from OldenGolden >>

Boy, I really wish everyone who comes on here to announce they're uninstalling really DOES it, and subsequently stops posting, It really gets tedious.

"I hate the designers, I hate RNG, I hate Aggro, I hate Control Priest, I hate Battlegrounds, I hate Duels, I hate the rewards system. Evil greedy Blizz making, no FORCING me to pay money to play this game i despise, RAAAAAGGGGEEEE!"

Seriously, please, uninstall it, get a grip, don't pay money for things you don't want, let those of us who enjoy the game do our thing.

 Dude, you dont get achievement points for sucking blizzards ****

They agree that the pack rewards at the end of the track doesn’t feel appropriate!

 So how in touch is blizzard with its community???

Blizzard making money is not a problem! And I don't mind paying for a good game and for a decent value. But this is greed to the next level!
Just have a good look at the progress bar and see what they put on there, at the end a dragon pack, like really???
They have the arrogance to just place any shit on there and think it is ok! making you pay for it and let you grind for 12 hours a day... So you not even allowed to reach the rewards... WTF.

It's the same arrogance of Activision making young kids play for stupid stickers and ugly banners in COD MW, that look like it got 1min design time on them, and they rip kids off because kids pay them, thinking this is all fine and normal!  

Corporate Greed Is The Root Of All Evil!!

Yes this is very true! 

Just think about it, after level 50, you need 4500xp per day to get 150 gold. you think ooh that's 50gold more than I could earn. 
But noo, because there is no way you can earn 4500xp in one day unless you spend a crazy amount of time.

Basically 12hours!!  
Remember when you could get 30 wins with an agro deck in a matter of hours??
Not possible anymore!
Time is money, and they are making us work twice as hard now (12/4500XP= 12,5gold per hour!)
This is a lot less than before guys!

And this is based on the 400XP per hour they said we are getting, which is also not true. You deliberately don't see your XP gain! They don't want you to see this bar except when it feels good and moves to a reward! Because noticing how little progress you make filling it after your games would make you feel bad. So, rather than fix the system to help make the game feel better, they try to hide the bad parts.

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At least on my rank more than 80 % of the ladder is Lunacy Mage. Even in the rare occasion you face something else it's either Aggro, Tickatus or something relying on random cards like Yogg Saron to decide the game.

How can it be possible that Wild, despite having more cards, significantly more powerful decks and crazy combos feels like it's a way more sane meta than standard?

Say what you want about decks like Secret Mage, Reno Priest or Kingsbane Rogue in Wild. They are really powerful and not that fun to play against. But they are somewhat predicatble. You at least tend to lose to cards/win conditions that actually have been put into the deck. You can play around cards and tech against it. The average Standard game at the moment feels like a trolden episode.

I was mostly playing wild for the past 1-2 years and Classic since it came out. I was really exited to try out the new Standard Meta after all the new Cards + Core Set + Balance Changes. After playing it for the past 2-3 days i am actually shocked how bad it is. This has probably been the most frustrating and unfun experience i ever had playing a game. 

Rather than repeating the cycle of expansions I'd like to see developers focus on balancing the existing cards (just few changes at a time to slowly shift the balance). Otherwise we'd end up getting a second wild mode with extra steps. Transferring some of the current legacy card changes would be a solid first step (e.g. 2/3 Raid Leader). Adding expansions is fine in a long run, but the process should be really slow and approached carefully

I could see it beeing like fightinggame Metas. Long time no change and suddenly, someone found a way to beat the best deck after 2years :D

Not the only thing in my opinion.

Only allow the classic hero skins and cardback.

Quote from shey >>

Somehow I can't reach Legend, even though I consider myself 'good enough'. Between (current system) Dia 3 and Dia 1, I will simply run into stuff that counters me hard, all the time, or I will have the worst draw possible. With every deck. Usually I'd tell people "you'd likely get nervous and make stupid mistakes/tilt", but I stopped to even feel "hope" long ago. It feels like a foregone conclusion that I will run into hardcounters and/or will simply have only dead cards.

Tilt is literally exactly what you are describing. If you feel like you’ve lost before you start, you will think your plays through with emotion and not with logic. You will miss simple combos because the cards don’t look impactful by themselves at first glance, and you’ll just pass you turn out of frustration when you actually had a clever play available. You’ll play minions out onto the board in matchups where you should hold them, or waste removal on minor threats only to lose to major ones because you feel like just once, things should line up for you like they always line up for your opponents. Now apply logic to these scenarios; Sometimes your opponent will nut hand you, sometimes your opening hand will cost upwards of 30 mana. Sometimes both. This happens. There will also be equally frequent games where your opponent doesn’t stand a chance, but in the vast majority of games, both players will have marginal hands, and over a large sample size the player who utilises their marginal/poor hands better will win more games.

Don’t look at every single game as a must win, because that’s not how CCGs work. Instead aim to play each game optimally, that’s the only thing you can control once the decks are shuffled. Look at it in terms of whats actually required to reach your goal. Let’s say you are Diamond 1 with 0 stars 2 weeks into the season. You literally have the rest of the month to go +4 Wins vs Losses. Ignore the games you get sacked and die on turn 5. Ignore the games you draw the god hand yourself and your opponent concedes before they even play a card. Just focus on playing the best you can in the average games.

Definitely seek to learn from streamers who use whatever deck you choose to climb with, because a horrible, horrible misconception is that hearthstone is a super simple game and the optimal plays are extremely obvious. A lot of the time they can be, but oftentimes they are not, and the obvious play would get 99% of the player base killed, while spotting the hidden play leads to a win several turns later for the more skilful player. This is the difference between hitting legend and dropping back to Diamond 1, 2 stars. The rope is there for a reason - use it - when you see the play that looks correct but there’s still 50 seconds on the clock, sit and think about the situation, And about your opponent’s deck. What are their standard plays over the next few turns? Is it worth deviating from your game plan to throw a wrench in theirs? Very often, messing with your opponents key turns is more important than hitting your own, and sometimes you may spot an opportunity to disrupt their strategy while developing your own.

You know what? F it im joining you guys too. If the reward system was like this since the start, I would propably have like 1/6 of my entire collection.  I played a lot during the first week release and oh my god. I knew it was gonna be bad but I never thought THIS bad. It is legitemately near impossible to get gold. Since I played Duels mostly, even harder.

Playing this game for years. I had times where I didnt prepare much gold for expansions but this? Its a WHOLE new thing.  I had 65 gold for a WEEK. 

I was worried about Warlock...No. Warlock isnt the issue lads. Its the core. Its Hearthstone.

Gentleman, we need to 

      MAKE HEARTHSTONE GREAT AGAIN

Quote from soc4real >>

My drunken mother never teached me how to have an argument without insulting the whole family including the goldfish. 

 ikr, one can't just have an argument these days without the other part insult you and your whole family, your whole city top kek

Quote from P4dge >>

I'm really enjoying the expansion, personally. If others aren't, sorry. Maybe of enough people leave, they will make the changes you ask for. If not, I hope those people find other games they enjoy and the people who continue to enjoy Hearthstone can do so. 

 you're in all posts about the subject defending their criminal scam. I bet they are not paying you enough for it.
Find a doctor, don't come here with your shit, it's not helping anyone. And why are you here in a topic asking for changes if u're not asking anything?

Quote from Krewger >>

standing firm against this corporate greed

 oh my god lol, you folks think you are some kind of activists for not playing a free game

grow up