3 could also be Goldwing or Bronze Explorer , but yeah i guess this would be a bit much for Pure Paladin.
My guess is they try to push some kind of "cheat minion earlier out" archetype, with Lead Dancer and Annoy-o-Troupe .

Unfortunately it seems that’s how humans react to change or unknown stuff. 

I also see this in other games and their forums. In World of Tanks for example if you look in the forum before every new patch ( when they announce it) an outsider would think WG is completely incompetent and the game dies in a couple days. ( It’s almost a standard that people threaten to quit or stop spending money). Even if they make a REALLY good patch where my buddies say; NOW literally none can complain.... And they just shake their heads when I read from the forum.

But the mods there know that only a small minority is so invested and easily triggered by any changes, and impossible to satisfy, that they respond to them ( if it’s somewhat respectful and constructive) , but obviously they know it’s not as black  and white how people portray it. 

This is actually also something that triggers me a bit when streamers only pay attention to negative comments. Even if 99% are positive, the human mind is made to learn from bad things that’s why we pay attention to it ( but I do think a good streamer should find a balance to that and ignore sometimes a flat out insulting guy) . 

As if this wasn’t foreseeable...

I wonder if they learned anything from Ultimate Infestation. If they give a class with the ability to ramp up mana fast, also very strong lategame options , it will always create a negative gaming experience. Since unlike with aggro you actually have options to counter that, with the opponent having 10 mana while you’re at 5 it’s virtually impossible to overcome that.

A good counter back in the days were 1 drops that scaled in power, so they could easily race Druids that didn’t do anything in the first turns.... But tbh it was correct to nerf them, but they should also kept an eye on Druids ramping abilities.

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Meanwhile Rogue is most nerfed class ever.

 And is still doing just fine? Thus  these nerfs seemed justifyed?

Thats why i mentioned Control... Priest can afford to play understated cards since the class is flooded with comeback mechanisms (aoe) and healing.

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I think you grotesquely underestimate Star Student Stelina.

 

I would have to agree Star Student Stelina is very far from being a '1'. Gaining information from 3 cards that they're holding is huge, not to mention you get to reduce their hand size. This is what made Madame Lazul so good, it was the huge information gain you got from her ability. For Aggro, Star Student Stelina is even better because you can remove their best counter from hand. She is like a 3 or 4 dude.

 It depends if you see a World where Control DeamonHunter is a viable (at least tier 2 ) deck. 

If not it doesnt matter if the card by itself is better than Madame Lazul. If DH is still a tempo/aggro class you dont play a gameplan interrupting card with questionable effect. You either play lots of stats, carddraw or removal. No way an aggrodeck can spend 4 mana do nothing immediate to  the board/face. 

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Professor Slate 1 star? He isn't limited to only a spell damage hunter. Professor Slate + 1 Rapid Fire is literally a 5 mana 3/4 destroy 2 minions of your choice. Just pop him and 2 rapid fires in any hunter deck...

 

 Thats the mistake most people make when evaluating cards outside of classes with absurd carddraw. Just like Pyro+Libram of Justice isnt op and is actually hard to pull of since you always seem to miss a part of that combo, the same goes for Hunter. Hunter isnt a class that can hold on for combo peaces.(Classes with healing can do that, and even there ...) Every card basically does something broken or proactive.

Generally speaking you never wanna play 2 bad cards to make 1 good combo, unless you have godlike carddraw or its a gamewining one. 

I hope so. I dont wanna get all my minions stolen by Priest.

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Nothing new, i wonder how many threads mods deleted becouse of that topic. Rng is rigged, you will mostly have ur best rng against bots.

This is not a salt thread. Healthy discussion on why priest is unfun to play against.

Priest is not fun to play against. Mindrender illucia is unfair at 2 mana and before you say its not op because you play against (bots in diamond rank alot of pros are calling out this card). 2mana destroy your opponent turn and win fatigue war is broken. Control decks are basically dead because of this card. One card win game is not healthy especially at 2 mana.Next is how priest is. They have an answer to every card you play. Its never ending and very unhealthy to play against. That is why priest is such in a bad state. Worst class ever invented #Deletepriest

Zephrys won’t ever be changed, it’s Team 5’s baby. It’s an insanely powerful card and a really neat design. That said, I won’t be sad when it leaves standard, Highlander decks with their one-card swing turns have worn out their welcome for me. 

I do think Priest is an utter failure of a class as well. Obviously deleting is not an option since many people have no problem with it....but I would bet a good amount of money it holds a strong lead over the next closest for most hated class in hearthstone.

What's funny is that this raw hatred for Priest seems to be completely unrelated to how well they are performing as a class. In a way this makes it even more sad and a catastrophic design failure....the class has historically been no where near OP but still universally the most hated. 

Oh well.

Priest player spotted please tell me how priest is healthy in this game

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Overgrowth: 5 mana

Kaelthas: 3rd spell 1 mana

Hand of A'dal: 3 mana

Agent: 4 mana

Kayn: charge-> rush (2nd nerf, welcome to the club with rogue quest)

I would appreciate mage frostnova up to 4 and wild quest redesign, but i don't think mage get a hit. And it is time: coldlight seer: murlocs +1health

Jesus. You seriously just want to be able to play your own meme decks, right? Argent to 4?! Kayn gets Rush? Hand of Adal?! I don’t even know how to properly respond to these suggestions. I don’t even face Demon Hunters anymore...

 found the Paladin player

 I actually agre with @xClusive, most of those nerf has not sense (if not all), i would understand a nerf to 3 mana for the agent, and hand of adal is nuts yaea, but  a mana increase isnt the rigth nerf, i would reduce to a +2/+1 the buff, to make the minion easier to kill

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OP is very naive, it's ok they're probably young and do not yet understand how these big and ugly corps work yet.

Have no illusions, Activision Blizzard FOR SURE is getting the better end of the deal in the long run or they would not make this radical change in the first place. I bet this kind of business model is the most profitable on the market right now. Do not eat all this mumbo jumbo about you benefiting from a change a heavily profit-oriented company is making. Think for yourselves.

 this, I did not read through the whole thing, but my first thought was 'such naivity..."

@OP: there is a business side to any gaming company and they tend to make these decisions, as opposed to game designers, balance team, etc. These people have to propose the shareholders how they will grow profits this year. This is how they will do it.

They are not spending time and resources to "repackage your rewards", the sole purpose is money. Any system that will be put in place will be designed to extract more cash from players. The reason why there is a survey is to find out how far they can go with it without losing a large amount of players. 

 This is an archaic approach to business, and not at all how it works these days in real life. I’m key account manager for a software company (not games) and part of my job is to upsell to the customer and report strategies for doing so to upper management. If I told them I could reorganize our module packaging towards the customer to increase license cost, management would tell me to fuck right off. It is understood that profitable business relies on repeat customers and good customer relations. So if I want to sell an idea for upselling to upper management that they will back up, the literal first question I need to answer them is: “how does this benefit the customer”. If I can build a business case that benefits the customer and makes us more money, we’re in business.

We are obviously not a charity, so what we aim to do will make us more money in the end, but goal is always to get the customer in a better state than previously. That is how global software corporations are being run. Of course lead by profit margins, but these come off the back of a satisfied customer base.

You may argue wether or not blizzard understands that, but I think it would be naive to assume such an established company wouldn’t.

 But they seem to target the players, who don't actually spend money and make them do so. If what you say was 100% true, no predatory monetization would ever work. But they do. The key is identifying how far you can go draining every dime possible from the customer, while maintaining the relationship.

The number 1 goal of any company is MAXIMIZING the revenue. Maximizing means getting as much as you can WITHOUT actually loosing a customer. 

"the literal first question I need to answer them is: >>how does this benefit the customer<<” - I call bullcrap on this. Of course it's an important factor to keep the client satisfied. But in the end you keep them satisfied just to get their money. So even if this is a part of the policy, the end goal is not to make their life better, but to make the profit.

Just to assure you I have some background - I have PHD in Management and I work as an Account Manager in the international data analysis company employing almost 50k people. I am pretty sure you heard about both my company and the clients I take care of.

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OP is very naive, it's ok they're probably young and do not yet understand how these big and ugly corps work yet.

Have no illusions, Activision Blizzard FOR SURE is getting the better end of the deal in the long run or they would not make this radical change in the first place. I bet this kind of business model is the most profitable on the market right now. Do not eat all this mumbo jumbo about you benefiting from a change a heavily profit-oriented company is making. Think for yourselves.

 This is incredibly simplistic. Just because a company stands to benefit does not mean the customer base stands to lose. If you keep the majority player base happy and engaged, you make more money. You call OP naive, but this black and white approach is what is naive. If they make battle pass that increases player engagement and satisfaction along with some more bucks in their pockets, that’s a perfect scenario. 

Don’t worry broken staff happens every release 

nerfs are coming as always