So what can they do to make druid NOT suck next expansion? Print cards even more busted than branching paths and ultimate infestation?
Cause right now druid has these incredibly strong cards, and yet the nerfs were so heavy handed that it doesn't even matter.
And I don't believe in the philosophy that blizzard plans these things ahead, and will fix druid next expansion by introducing new cards. Experience had shown that blizzard doesn't plan ahead like that when nerfs are involved.
Most likely druid will be a dumpster class for many expansions going forward
The whole classic set is a tragic tale of Blizzard's broken promises. It was over the moment they realized deteriorating the set would lead to more profits
Not criticizing this deck in particular, but I found this deck doesn't work on a fundamental level.
The biggest issue is mage doesn't have tempo secrets like hunter, yet the stats of kabal lackey and kabal crystal runner all encourage an aggressive playstyle. Secondly, mage secrets are just bad, easy to play around and redundant, like mirror image and potion of polymorph triggering together on a 1 drop. The third problem, medivh's valet and ethereal arcanist, all work against your secrets actually being triggered. In a way, you are punished when your opponent plays into a secret. Ice block is too late game of a secret to work very well. The fourth problem is card draw. The sheer amount of secrets you need play and the cost reduction means after turn 4 you can play your whole hand and there's so little space to actually fit card draw in this deck. This is really bad because all the strategy of which secret to play just goes out the window when you only have 1 secret in your hand and you need to play it to keep up the tempo. This leads to the fifth problem. After turn 5 the cost reduction don't even matter. You just end up playing poor minions for a pay off of a 0 mana 5/5 which is nothing in a meta where players are making 1 mana 7/7s.
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Bleh, they really screwed up when they cancelled tournament mode
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Yeah they definitely needed to HOF another druid card after they just recently butchered the class. Makes total sense.
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*Creates arbitrary rules for casual*
*Tries to convince millions of others to play by arbitrary rules by berating them over chat one person at a time*
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So what can they do to make druid NOT suck next expansion? Print cards even more busted than branching paths and ultimate infestation?
Cause right now druid has these incredibly strong cards, and yet the nerfs were so heavy handed that it doesn't even matter.
And I don't believe in the philosophy that blizzard plans these things ahead, and will fix druid next expansion by introducing new cards. Experience had shown that blizzard doesn't plan ahead like that when nerfs are involved.
Most likely druid will be a dumpster class for many expansions going forward
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The whole classic set is a tragic tale of Blizzard's broken promises. It was over the moment they realized deteriorating the set would lead to more profits
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Not all druids were otk/toggwaggle either. Pretty much nerfed the entire class and multiple archetypes into the ground. So no, they're not fine.
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Just play druid. Particularly taunt druid
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People who want to control everyone else's behavior
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You can cheat deathwing using dragonhatcher. I ran it sometimes in big druid
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It's high roll deck. Keep trying you can often get it in opening hand