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I hope that these shaman buff are just a preparation for the mini-expansion set that will occur next. Unbound Elemental need another Overlead synergy to be REALLY good and Lilypad Lurker is waiting on more elemental and card draw. Just print a 4 mana 4/5 elemental that draw a card if you played an elemental last turn and you are good.

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I expected these nerfs, kinda surprised about Hysteria but I'm glad they did it, it was so oppressive and impossible to play around when Priest can discover them so many times.

But, no Conviction nerf ? Really ? I was so sure that they were going to nerf it to 2 mana but they just didn't change it, like it doesn't carry Aggro and Secret Paladins on his own. Guess we can still expect a lot of Paladin on ladder.

And the buffs are laughable. Hope that the expansion mini set will be more exciting than this.

Lol? For Priest it makes little to no difference (except Kazakus Priest, which is probably dead at this point, because Hysteria is just too important in such aggresive meta). He still can discover many copies and mana cheat them, so it's not that big of a deal.

For Warlock is a huge hit though. Now he'll be even worse in aggro matchups, needing +1 mana to trigger Oh My Yogg! and to clear the board, which in his case is like life and death... literally.

 I've never said that Priest would give up on Hysteria, but the 1 mana does make a difference on this one.

And Warlock was bad even with 3 mana Hysteria, but I agree, they are going to struggle a lot more now

I expected these nerfs, kinda surprised about Hysteria but I'm glad they did it, it was so oppressive and impossible to play around when Priest can discover them so many times.

But, no Conviction nerf ? Really ? I was so sure that they were going to nerf it to 2 mana but they just didn't change it, like it doesn't carry Aggro and Secret Paladins on his own. Guess we can still expect a lot of Paladin on ladder.

And the buffs are laughable. Hope that the expansion mini set will be more exciting than this.

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I feel like Blizzard intended this to be watchpost meta, and they're missing, so on the whole the meta feels like it is missing something. I don't think it's bad overall but paladin is a bit problematic.

 There was a Watchpost meta in the beginning of the expansion, but it was in every deck, so it was more like "put the watchpost package and 25 other cards and you are fine"

Paladin will be nerfed again, DH / Shaman will get buffed (I hope) so we can have a fresh start until the mini-expansion set

Mankrik even though he is broken. People tend to under evaluate how many game they lost due to him.

Rank 3000 in legend for your first time and this late in the season ? It's rather weird, considering there is a lot of people achieving legend nowadays, but it all depend of your hidden MMR and winrate in your climbing. You will face legend player in D1-D2 if you have a good winrate and winning against them will put you on a higher rank if you achieve legend.

And there is a ton of bad players in legend, even being in top 3000 doesn't really mean anything, it all depend of how much time you can spend at the game and how well you can adapt at the meta you face.

Why everyone is mad about Oh My Yogg ? Everytime I play it it turns out in the favor of my opponent, even if they don't try to play around it.

Really hate Hysteria and Priest as a whole. Play more than 1 minion ? Get punished. Play 3 minions ? The target will attack the weakest first and then suicide into the biggest one. Hysteria while opponent having minions ? Nope they are totally invisible.

"Just play around it lol" Yeah I can play around 2 Hysteria, but not 5 of them when Priest can discover it from everything they play.

Priest is just "punish your opponent for everything they play because you will have the perfect answer in hand"

Everybody complain about Mage but at the end of the day there is 50% of Mage in ladder.

I understand people complaining about facing mage too much, I understand people who play mage because it is just too good, but I don't understand people doing both.

People saying it is random, when it is actually one of the most consistent deck in the meta.

You have Deck of Lunacy turn 2 ? GG you win 75% of the time.

I don't get how it goes through playtesting, like if any of them played this deck or look at the spells available in standard it should have been noticed. It is the meta since day 2 of the expansion, come on.

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Just play Rogue, free win. Mage can do nothing to stop weapon based decks. In reality it's 1/5-1/10 game when mage gets DoL early, and it's easy to defeat the other times with fast decks.

 It's because you are facing bad mage player. Good mage player always have Deck of Lunacy in starting hand.

4 times in a row Mage having Deck of Lunacy turn 2 + Refreshing Spring Water + random AOE spell that deal perfectly with my board.

4 times in a row.

I'm really starting to doubt that there is a secret algorithm that want to push winrate of certain archetype.

Even if Deck of Lunacy give you bad spells, at least they cost THREE mana less, which is insane. They also have 0 mana draw 2, fair card.

However it could be balanced if Deck of Lunacy didn't have an hidden text saying "Start of the game : Start in your hand", is this supposed to be a quest or what ?

Watchpost are everywhere right now, they can be played in almost every archetype with Far Watch Post + Mor'shan Watch Post + Kargal Battlescar package and it is really difficult to get rid of them if they are played on curve.

"Just use spell lol" "Just be ahead lol" are not suitable answers, these are games when you will outright lose to turn 2 + turn 3 watchpost.

If the meta stay that way, we can expect a 1 health nerf to everyone of them, not because these are the most broken card in the expansion but because it is in 50% of decks right now.

People are hating on Evolve Shaman but forget that Aggro Shaman is near behind