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Quote from uluth >>

Anybody who crafted or opened Climactic Necrotic Explosion can I get an F in the chat 

 When I read the patch notes teaser, I knew this was going to be one of the worst and most idiotic patches they've ever done with the sheer number of buffs and lack of nerfs. I still had a little bit of hope that the big DK change wasnt going to be stupid, but man oh man, they did the worst possible change. They couldve easily fixed this by making it so you couldn't discover cards from runes you dont have at least 1 of. Then, you would actually get an incentive to not just run all 3 of one rune and rainbow DK wouldn't have to suffer. The power level of all the cards in the game is so insane that you have to run triple rune cards in every DK deck, and one of the saving graces of rainbow DK was that you could still get those, albeit with extra steps in a balanced way. Now this change makes the most played DK decks like .5% worse, but completely butchers rainbow DK which of course is the most fun one. Leave it to Blizzard.

Quote from xskarma >>

This is just false information. Druid was not in every line up. Not even in most. Don't make up stuff to argue a point.

 I watched the thing. Fine, not EVERY lineup, but it was in more than half of the matches. Why does that even matter.Anub'Rekhan + Underking +Zok Fogsnout wins the game vs most decks and you can consistently play it turn 8 and its extremely difficult for most decks to kill them before that. It's horrible game design too because Zok's a fun card that was created for the button druid archetype and he works better with the same crappy generic combo/control druid thats been the meta for the past 8 years.

Quote from Coriolisx >>

Blood DK isn't even close to being the best deck right now...

 enlighten me: what beats blood DK? And it was in fact the #1 highest winrate deck at least for the first 2 weeks according to hearth arena

Theres so much insanely broken stuff in this game that I even forgot to mention druid and how they didnt touch the druid deck that was in EVERY lineup at blizzard's tournament and summons 40 mana worth of stuff on turn 8 with anubrakhan and Zog...

I really really hate that they buff cards and even unnerf cards with almost every patch now. The problem with this meta is that the cards are TOO powerful. All around they are. It limits what strategies you can play. Plus, I can only think of like 2 or 3 cards in this expansion that could use a buff. Everything else is fair. It really pisses me off when content creators complain about things being "unplayable because they're 'not unfair'". Enough with the power creep. I'm tired of being punished for not playing a premade deck made by blizzard full of 'must include' cards. I HATE Astalor, but luckily I actually got him from a pack. I would've never crafted that stupid card, but you NEED to put him in every deck you make. There is no counter for that card so if you don't have him in your deck and draw him, but your opponent does, you are automatically at a disadvantage. That Lightray card they just nerfed... that was a buffed card btw... This isnt the first time this year where they had to nerf a card they just buffed. Oh gee I wonder why...

Their card design philosophy sucks really badly right now. It used to be "hey heres an idea for a new card. It's a 4 mana card. Well Chillwind Yeti also costs 4 and is a 4 5, so lets make sure this new 4 mana card is some sort of spin off from yeti. We can make it have slightly more value because it's a class card and not a neutral, but if we give it a battlecry, or deathrattle, we have to reduce its stats from 4 5 somehow to compensate." Now their design process is: "Would it completely break the game if we print a card like Ghostly Strike? It'll be very strong but it wont completely break the game so lets print it. And as a result, yes, the card doesnt break the game, but now until the card rotates, it will be a must include unless theres a card more broken that has better synergy in your deck.

why did i get downvoted for that lol?? Vexallus should be included in this archetype. Its great with the bolts too. It's really not that slow compared to everything else in this deck. Realistically, you're not going to naturally draw/create more than 5 lightshows in a game. And 5 is generous. I want to see it work, but I feel like the slower decks like DK that will actually let you do this are going to have so much HP that they'll laugh at taking 16 damage from a double light show on like turn 12. And that's if they don't have anything on board the turn you play your combo.

 why not run Vexallus? Doesn't it make it so every lightshow casts twice?

This is the most insanely busted card Ive ever seen in 9 years of HS. Don't forget that this thing will summon a 3 3 every time it takes damage too. 

If youre playing a midrange or aggro deck, you will usually have to trade at least 2 minions into this. When you do so, the DK gains 6 hp and summons 6 6 worth of stats on a freaking 5 drop. And this is a must kill threat because it has lifesteal. 5 mana 9/12 when you LOW ROLL with this card. You can also play the 2 mana draw 1 gain 10 hp card with this for 7 mana which summons 10 10 stats for 2 mana. I will be shocked if this card doesn't get nerfed in a hotfix within a week of release. No way blood DK isn't S tier. The deck already is almost impossible to beat currently and is losing 0 cards with rotation. 

I haven't been this excited for a HS expansion in years. The theme and art for this one rules. It's all over the place too. You can find extremely different backgrounds and effects in the same set across the genres of music. Everything's so unique, and I love all the 1970s references. And holy crap, the signature cards actually look good? Last expansion's literally looked worse than the non-golden counterparts lol. So glad they're going back to the 'fun' aesthetic over whatever that edgelord crap march of the lich king was.

I don't know why they keep raising the power ceiling this much. It hurts Arena the most. Skill is just becoming less of a factor with every expansion. I just don't get it. Even this pop-up volcano will be broken in the arena. Don't Stand in the Fire! was already premium. The fact that it's double-sided is almost always completely irrelevant; you either don't have any board or you trade down to get everything in range. But anyway, the 4 mana is just dumb. It could easily be 5 mana as well. That lifesteal will just shit on aggro decks.

Dragon Druid has been out of meta for quite a long time. It's probably a below 50% winrate deck now.

Whatever site has it at 58% is either outdated or just bad.

All my years of playing TCG's and without fail Hearthstone has the worst wording across the board. Including consistency with keywords. Its my biggest gripe with the game over the years cause i play so many TCG's. HS has the most instances of me having to play cards to see what they actually do, and instances of playing a card for the first time thinking one thing and then getting a outcome slightly different then it reads. Which could simply be fixed with better wording or consistency with Keywords. There are even a couple effects in the game that show up multiple times but have no keyword and are worded different each time while working the exact same. Even something as simple as "Draw a card. It cost (x) less." and "Draw a card. Reduce its cost by (x)" is just laziness. If it was only this example i wouldn't care but the classic "You aren't even getting the basics done" covers it. I wish i could just blame my OCD but when i see small indie company's able to do it i expect it of Blizz. I came to make your comment but seeing as you said it first i decide to leave the rant.  

God I'm so glad Thaddius Warlock will be gone in standard soon. I would rather face ANY other deck than this stupid fucking broken ass deck that people seem to think isn't a meta deck but everytime I face against it I lose no matter what kind of deck I play and avoid killing the fucking 5/3 cheat out a thaddius shitstain and every single fucking time I just die to reverb 6/6 deal 6 damage lifesteal after gaining a winning position. Dunno how people think this deck isn't good but I'm super glad the majority doesn't agree because I just don't see how you beat this deck.

Woulda been fun to randomly surprise us with the corrupt keyword coming back on a card out of nowhere. Though, a corrupted 1 mana mini sounds like it'd setup some really silly rogue bounce damage combos.

if you run Reno or Theotar you are an inferior human being

Opened the game after balance patch, queued into 6 warriors in a row, instaconceded because I'm tired of waiting for rat against control warrior, closed the game.

10/10 would recommend.

yeah, when i read that old cards were getting buffed, i was praying that Coral Keeper and Wrathspine Enchanter would get buffed. I'm probably one of the only players that actually plays with those 2 cards ahahah

Can't believe they won't nerf warrior next patch wtfff.

I don't even care to lose from sludge lock or beetle druid atleast there are ways to deal with em but renethal/reno warrior pray for the rat or lose.

Their kit is overloaded as fuck and I can't wait to see the priest 'buffs' that won't change anything I bet.

Overheal is so fucking bad IF Heartbreaker Hedanis was just a 4/4 with no self damage the card would be just fair.