rockbiter being 1 mana was balanced because it was conditional... you either needed a minion on board, or you had to take face damage. if you had no minions on the board but had a weapon out, you couldn't hit one thing with your equipped weapon and rockbiter something else.
rockbiter was obviously an efficient card, but it was conditional. now its strictly worse than every other "deal 3 damage" card in the game, like frostbolt, quickshot, darkbomb. you'll never see rockbiter for control/removal purposes again, but it will still be a good burst tool with doomhammer. however, you can no longer double rockbiter your al'akir
not a big fan of this nerf, figured changing doomhammer made more sense. the card will still be used in aggro decks for 6 damage, but is dead for removal purposes
The problem with this card is that in house, Shaman really only has it's Spell Damage Totem to turn it on. Sure, you can add the Blood Mage and some Kobolds, but honestly I don't see why you would want to use the Kobolds and the blood mage is 1 card out of thirty.
It's insane if you can get the totem or Thanos, but just seems too unreliable to me. Could be wildly off base though, too.
Azure Drake sees a lot of play in shaman. thalnos occasionally too if you're running storm
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well deserved nerf. can no longer play this + hero power or quickshot for unneccessarily large burst. it's still a great card
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rockbiter being 1 mana was balanced because it was conditional... you either needed a minion on board, or you had to take face damage. if you had no minions on the board but had a weapon out, you couldn't hit one thing with your equipped weapon and rockbiter something else.
rockbiter was obviously an efficient card, but it was conditional. now its strictly worse than every other "deal 3 damage" card in the game, like frostbolt, quickshot, darkbomb. you'll never see rockbiter for control/removal purposes again, but it will still be a good burst tool with doomhammer. however, you can no longer double rockbiter your al'akir
not a big fan of this nerf, figured changing doomhammer made more sense. the card will still be used in aggro decks for 6 damage, but is dead for removal purposes
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garbage card imo. what card are you cutting from your deck to play this?
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shaman AOE without overload PogChamp
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turn 1 Malchezaar's Imp, turn 2 darkshire librarian seems insane
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i've never seen this played for anything less than a 5/5
great card in current totem shaman
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doomcaller is the most overrated card on this list
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circle of healing is 0 mana, this makes sense at 1
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