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I have the time of my life with togwaggle priest :)

Quote from Scarifar >>

Anyone who's played Battlegrounds for a decent amount of time can tell you that Ragnaros has (arguably) the weakest hero power in the game. If you're lucky, one of those two fireballs he shoots out can pop a divine shield or maybe even kill a key minion like Baron Rivendare or Scavenging Hyena, but in the late game where almost everything has 20+ hp, it's usually a waste of two gold.

 There are heroes whose hero powers are pure early game. I would count yogg (ranked 6 here) and sindragosa and maybe curator and patchwerk as those. That doesnt mean they are bad, the early game push can be a massive advantage. just saying "hero is worth nothing late game" is a little easy. Rag has a decent early and midgame power.

Maybe the system of how to rank heroes is tiered should be overhauled. the heroes with the worst average ranks are highest tier, boosted by the high pick rate, which obviously correlates with the win rate. 

It should be win per pick instead, or use average rank instead. seems weird to do it like this.

Looking at the data. Shudderwock seems lowkey OP, which reminds me if standard :)

Balanced card. Let's add it to battlegrounds.

Quote from Danjo >>

There are around 100 million Hearthstone players.

The Hearthpwn community makes up about .00001% of them.

I'm sorry that some of you feel this expansion "sucks", "is too powerful", etc.  My experience is that I am having a hell of a good time trying Dragonbane hunter, Shu'ma quest hunter, Galkrond shaman, Galakrond rogue, pirate warrior, treeant druid, and a few others.  This meta is just a few days old.  This bitching and moaning about things happens after every expansion comes out.  The early powerhouses will subside as decks are refined.  Keep calm, play on, and most importantly have fun.  It's a game.  If you aren't having fun, take a step back from it.

 You are aware of the nerf announcement, are you? Maybe, just maybe, sometimes the bitching is justified. I rarely bitch (last two times were sn1p sn4p and shudder), but to be honest experimentation was NEVER as little fun as in this expansion. 

Amazing Job Blizzard. The Sn1P-Sn4p nerf in specific!

why? draw rng multiplicator with needless power spikes. no one enjoys this. why?

This card is super strong in my opinion. With a low mana curve deck, you will likely already have cards in your hand for the first few turns. If not, you can just hold off. As soon as you reach the tipping point, you embiggen to get crazy value. I mean the squirrel guy will be a 2 mana 4 3, still not to bad.

I would go as far as to call it meta defining. Obvioudly the conparison to surrender to madness is ridicolous.

I mean this has ideal scenarios against some types of decks, but the same is true for cards like hakar.

Honestly it is good that this exists, but it will only have a spot in certain situations and tournaments. 5 mana 5 5 is just to mediocre in constructed...

I think people might be underestimating this. It's a good reload option after the first boardclear. In other more board centric matchups, this is a win more nail in the coffin. Pretty sure this is going to see play.

For the amount of money most people have paid for this expansion it should be a lot better. 

I can’t remember anyone spotting it during reveal period? I mean I said somewhere shaman got both got the best galakrond and best invoke cards so it should be good, but I didn’t think it would be this bad either.

Also “maybe learn how to beat it” sounds ridiculous when devs have already decided it should be nerfed after three days.

I think they might have had an inkling it would be op, by the way. Maybe That’s why shaman was revealed so late.

The issue is, Galakrond is never in a vacuum in a shaman--you are ether facing an aggro overload shaman or quest shaman that is capable to putting down a massive power spike. As both quest shaman and aggro shaman are very good decks, adding Galakrond on top of their existing game is really powerful. Sure, you can save removals for those 8/8s but this disrupts your ability to deal with the rest of the deck.

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Guys just because Shaman is top tier now does not mean it will be in a month. 

Right now the deck is dominating which will lead all other decks to tech against it. 

Wait at least a week before you craft anything. 

 Genuinely curious, how would you tech against Galakrond Shaman?

It has burn, value, resource-generation, not one but two catch up cards (Galakrond and shudderwock), goes both wide and tall, and it cleans up pretty effectively against in the midge against more aggressive deck with wide rush boards and Dragon's Pack for protection.

You're right, it is too early to know 100% for sure, but I'm damn near sure it's overtuned. 

I like playing shaman by the way. But I haven't tried the deck yet and can't bring myself to. Feels a little too dirty. 

I see amalgam as an universal minion to support every startegy. Don't see what is wrong with that. 

This is a hunter weapon for 2 reasons, first, hunters are getting the gryph cards, and grhyp riders use electric hammers to attack this could be one of them, and, is literally a REXXAR basic ability back in warcraft 3 

So yes, its a hunter weapon. Could be a sahman one aswell, yes it could,  but hunter isn't a mis fit, even less when the first real hunter had it.

Step 1: play this

Step 2: Opponent hits your face with all his minions

Step 3: You have a board full of 6/6 Dragons, but you're dead.

Quote from OneTrickPony >>

 You can either allow everyone to speak politics and thus risk that you suddenly are abused as a political plattform and you have to constantly say "Blizzard distances itself from all political statements" or you just ban all political speeches no matter what.

Just because a cause does align with your viewpoint (and in this case, it does for me too), does not mean it belongs to Hearthstone. Blizzards actions does not say "Hail China", it says "we dont want to be involved at all with all this". Both views have the same motivation of keeping your business alive and apolitical. 

 We don't need any of your rational, nuanced thinking here! This is the internet, sir, and it will not be tolerated!