Hearthpwn

We really need a downvote button in this forum.

Ripoff? What are you talking about? You can (and I do) play this mode as f2p just fine. The PVE part is fun imo - I enjoy the simple farming of stuff. 

Crafted Anduin, Illidan (both to not open them in a pack before I get LK and Diablo) and Sylvanas already. It takes time, but thats totally fine.

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My guesses are:

Redesign:
Mindrender Illucia  "New battlecry: Borrow your opponent's hand and deck for a turn" without taking away from them

the main design goal of this card is to give a control class an ability to disrupt OTK combos which is the major weakness of priest, this redesign would make no sense becuase you would remove the key componenent of disruption, why would i want to borrow my opponent's hand? people making suggestions like this have no basic understanding of the game

the problem is, priest can play it early to help his own tempo game and prevent opponent to react, any redesign should aim this part of the card, keep combo disruption late game but prevent priest from playing offensively

What do people say the problem is with Illucia in the first place? What if they just swapped back at the end of the first player's turn? As you say, it would ruin the early game tempo as well as it's potential to close out a game if you have lethal, but it lowers the disruption overall. But tbh, I don't know why this card would need to be nerfed - I'm just guessing that it's due to disruption

 From what Ive seen in Grandmasters, its too good early vs aggro and tempo decks. The version with Tinyfin and the 0 mana demon gives you good damage, together with Voidtouched Attendant and Illuciana absolutely kills Rogue turn 3/4 for example.
I dont think she is a problem for us ladder plebs, but in GM, where you can tech vs certain decks, she is devastating.

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I hate aggro meta

 It just looks like Aggro meta, but its actually combo meta. Aggro is the answer to the current meta

A lot of valid points, but it doest change the fact, that every single game against Priest feels horrible - no matter what class you play against it.

Its basically a single player game. So no matter what Blizz changes, I hope Priest gets nerfed into oblivion.

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Damn, this game is being monetized to bits.

 As someone playing since the beginning of time (closed beta... ok, technically the beginning for us was alpha, but had no key back then. Anyways... sorry for that ) I am glad, that more and more stuff is added, because I got really burned out from standard. With all the new ways to monetize the game, new game modes were introduced, which dont produce enough money to get hs alive like packs or the new tavern pass do.

That being said, I still hate the legendary drop rate in this game and the high dust cost, but the f2p reward track really gives us more gold than before. I barely touch standard these days and still have like 12k gold to spend on the next expansion.

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When I see my opponent is a Priest.

 Same here, always great to meet ppl with the same mindset ;)

I am amazed, that everyone agrees to a rage thread, thats unique on Hearthpwn and that says a lot about this card, I guess.

That being said, almost every meta ends in an aggro meta, with the last one being an exception. However, Tickatus alone could stop a control meta, so I wonder how many Warlocks we will see in tournaments.

Totems are class specific, so I dont think, that they will be added. Blizzard could however add not used tribes like undead for example. In Standard they overlap with too many other tribes here and there, so they didnt use the tribe until now.

It could be an easy include in Battlegrounds though....

If midrange Priest will get more stuff, I would include it in a deck.

Great, another instant kill something card, that develops the board as well. As if ppl dont hate Priest enough already.

Remember Vilespine Slayer ? Yeah, everyone loved that card when the Rogue turned around tempo with a single card.

The obvious answer to your question is that the people playing Hearthstone don't value deckbuilding and experimentation as much as you do.

Belittling people whose tastes differ from your own is rarely productive. There's nothing wrong with enjoying Hearthstone for the gameplay, the memes, the meta analysis, or any other reason.

To be honest, if all you care about is the homebrew scene, you should have quit years ago. That, or make friends with people who have similar tastes and form a homebrew league. I know those people exist because they've been posting the same tired complaints on every forum for the past seven years.

CARD REVEAL WOOP WOOP

Look at the reward under level 4

Venomous Scorpid: neutral 3-mana 1-3 beast. Poisonous. Battlecry: Discover a spell

When I see my opponent is a Priest.

Illidan has always been all offense, no defense.  Even in Heroes of the Storm he has high damage output but will die fast if he sticks around too long.  

The hero power reflects that.  

Because back then it was the first of it's kind, epics are about more unique effects, this isn't that unique anymore

With all this power creep they are going to have to increase the max health of all heroes. People are already dying to quickly.

So their solution to power creep and broken heroes is to power creep more heroes.

Pirates and demons are still hot garbage.  Nothing has changed.

Too bad they won't fix the core mechanics of battlegrounds...

Let me count the ways.

1- Ragnaros is THE most OP hero of all time. It's the first and only hero to ever average a placement of 3rd or better according to hsreplay stats.

2- Games are notoriously short this patch for multiple reasons. There's a problem with the overall game experience if a player is dead or close to dead on 8-9 gold. Add a damage cap, or nerf some of these heroes/cards. Make it so you dont have to be matched up against the top person again who just crushed you 2 turns ago? Meta is SUPER FAST. What's the point of even trying any late game builds this patch?

3- The new ranking system basically encourages people to concede since there's no drawback for losing rank. So, there are usually 1-2 people that quit after the first few turns of the game. So, this has a domino effect. Certain opponents lose no life and can tier up faster than other opponents because there is no drawback because they're against the ghost. Whoever gets to 5 first and finds Lil Rag/Nomi enjoys a top 4. Whoever gets to 5 first and finds an Amalgadon off their triple enjoys a top 4. Zzzzzz loving the new "concede" meta.

4 - Mega Windfury is ruining the game. Waaaay too often is a game decided by a huge divine shield windfury Crackling Cyclone that attacks first and kills 4 of your minions before you even have a chance to do anything. This leads to taking MASSIVE damage in one turn. Not a cool experience, blizzard devs. You should be ashamed of yourselves for allowing this to go through playtesting. You're turning the game into "whoever attacks first wins". Lame.

5 - Elementals are OP in general. The fact that in a lobby you can have 3-4 players ALL going for Elementals and yet still the vast majority of the time all of those players top 4 is a major issue. The tier 5 "elemental" package is insane and so easy to abuse it's ridiculous. Nerfs need to happen. 

6 - I cannot believe that some of these cards and heroes actually made it through testing and were released into the game. Devs either did it intentionally to spike interest in the game. Or they're just braindead window lickers. Either way from a gaming experience standpoint its unacceptable. Are they trying to destroy the game of Hearthstone or are they really this stupid?