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Blizzard had to make the Demon Hunter cards extremely powerful since they have far fewer options to choose from. They obviously went too far with these.
Unfortunately, the lack of cards also means that DH decklists are going to be optimized very quickly.
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Prologues are meant to be that way.
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Wow. What exactly do all of you entitled players expect for a PROLOGUE?
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Duplicate protection for all cards!
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I kinda liked the nerfs. They do not put any of the cards as useless crap and put shammy in a more fair ground, but still very strong. Since this was such a fast response, if they keep balance changes like that, I think its ok to keep gradually balancing cards, instead of 2 months of ShammanStone and then nerf everything to the ground like they usually do. I'm pretty sure that rogue is next in line if it gets too crazy at ladder.
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Here we go again, not even 24 hours after the expansion dropped...
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Every wild game in a nutshell: Win or lose on turn 5 because of some crazy OTK combo that barely requires any setup.
In other words, please don't spend 35,- on these cards of which 99/100 are not and will not be playable untill wild gets some big changes.
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Aggro is very easy to play. Of course, you need to know when to trade and when not to trade, but compared to other decks Zoo Lock, Tempo Rogue, Old Kingsbane, Old Pirate Warrior, etc... don't take have a lot of decisions making. It's either go face or trade, play a minion or dont. Whereas control and combo have to focus on drawing out cards, keeping card advantage and managing resources. Also as an aggro player you almost never look at your hp, only your opponents.
I think you're underestimating the skill level required to "know when to trade" at a high level. Playing aggro well requires a player to identify their opponents removal options and as much as possible play around them. Knowing when to trade and what to trade with requires moderate skill to do well as does knowing when to go "all in" face. Playing against aggro with a control deck is often merely a function of drawing AOE removal like Warpath or Brawl. Sometimes control is as simple as draw removal, play removal. Other times control decks take a lot of skill to pilot, especially in mirror matchups. It doesn't take much skill to pilot any deck in a mediocre manner; it takes skill to pilot most every deck in an optimal manner.
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Playing aggro is harder than control unless it's a control vs. control mirror match (or similar control matchup).
As aggro, much of the time there is only one path to lethal before your opponent can stabilize. It's not simply playing minion a/b/c; it's more about creating awkward board states vs. the particular class/deck you're facing. It's about knowing when to start pushing damage to face, which targets to trade with and finding which path maximizes your face damage. It's not that easy (unless of course you use odd paladin).
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The buffs Blizzard are providing have nothing to do with this subject. The buffs aren't aimed at fixing problematic cards, they're aimed at pushing underused cards to the front so they'll see more play.
When a specific card is problematic, it is FAR easier and less dangerous to nerf that one card. If you start buffing other cards instead trying to fix the problem, you get the following issues:
First off, which cards do you buff? Let's say Omega Devastator is problematic (ok it is :P) but Blizzard doesn't want to nerf it but buff something else instead. What the hell do you buff instead? E.M.P. Operative? That's still an extremely specific tech card and affects ALL mechs, not just Omega Devastator. What else do you buff? A lot of cards don't have specific counters.
Secondly, buffing a card has far wider reaching effects than just nerfing the problematic card itself. The card that gets buffed could very well become problematic itself. Or push a deck/meta out of existence that didn't have any issues. Say that you wanted to buff against Skull of the Man'ari so you buff all the weapon removal cards. Suddenly everyone and their Mr. Bigglesworth are playing weapon removal. Warrior, Paladin and Rogue are all heavily impacted by such a change. And why? To balance against a Warlock weapon. Isn't it far better to just nerf Skull of the Man'ari?
Nerfs are the way to go when a specific card gets too powerful. The nerf can target that card and that card only. Now I'll grant you that Blizzard has a tendency to use a sledge hammer rather than a scalpel to nerf some of their cards but nerfing is still the way to go.
Buffing cards should be reserved for improving cards that no-one is playing for the simple reason that they either outright suck, are rarely seeing play due to being mostly a niche card or because they have no place/viability in any deck. And so far the buffs Blizzard has provided seem to follow that quite well. I doubt a 5 mana Luna's Pocket Galaxy is suddenly going to destroy the meta, but players will be motivated to try and put it in a deck.
Hopefully Blizzard will recieve a lot of positive feedback from the buffs and will consider doing more buffing of weak/underused cards in the future.
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Murlock pala is mot even a deck
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Murloc pala? Its unplayable mow and cant be good
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Plague should be nered too
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Skipper need nerf
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introducing chat when emotes are used mostly for bm, good idea indeed.
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Try to play against priest
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Same hsreplay says that Murlock Pala is a deck so...
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Well... looks you are wrong then...
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So what would be the point of adventure mate....
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Not in meta