Blizzard Responds to Community Outrage on Purify
There has been outrage in the community over the weekend after Purify was revealed. It has lead to jokes, memes, countless threads, and a few big-time Hearthstone community members made videos addressing the card.
Iksar stated on reddit that they were already happy with the options Priests were getting from Karazhan through Neutrals and because of that wanted to try something different.
What are your thoughts on the matter?
Quote from /u/IksarHSWe've had similar articles in the past about design stories for particular cards, I think the most recent one I remember discussed all the design iterations that Yogg went through. Card designs have a number of different goals, sometimes those goals are immediate competitive play and sometimes they shoot for something else. Things like flavor, arena viability, or sprinkling in tools for a new or existing archetype. In smaller sets, it can be a little risky to take a gamble on a new toolkit because there are fewer cards to work with. In the case of Priest, we were pretty happy with the amount of options the class was getting from neutral (Barnes, Curator*, Medivh, Dragon Cards) to do some testing with a new archetype that Purify could be a part of. In my mind there is some positive to the outcry over Purify because I think people will definitely try it out and report any successes/failures/stories they had building and playing a 'silence your own stuff' priest. None of this is to say anyone is wrong in their feedback, but just to communicate some of the ideas surrounding a card design. Hearthstone is important to all of us, and we're trying to do better in terms of communication and understanding what different communities (like this one) are most interested in. I've been happy to be here and have a conversation about what you all want from the game, thanks for being so passionate about it. :D
Is no card that sees play in current decks. You can get it from Dark Peddler but it is mostly a bad choice. Besides that priest has no threats you would play corruption on and priest is dead on turn 9.
There are (control) Paladin on ladder? The only paladins I have seen last month were aggro paladin that run equality or Keeper of Uldaman. But if they play that card they will kill the minion immediately.
Even if this were a good card that would see any play in constructed you first have to find another priest on ladder. That will not happen anytime soon. To all of the cards … silencing your minions makes it worse most of the time. I don't care if my sylvana give 4 health to the opponent hero as long as she steals a minion when she dies.
Yeah, Infested Tauren is a great card on rank 17. If you ever play between rank 5 and Legend you will not see that card. Why? Because nobody is playing N'Zoth because that card is too slow. If you rely on your 10 drop as a win condition you're basically dead by turn 8.
Yeah sure, and Magma Rager Rogue will be the tier 1 deck. This card is completely shit and there is no way you can fix it. You can change it to 0 mana and still nobody will play this piece of crap.
How can you underestimate a card like that? For it to work you'd have to use shitty cards like ancient watcher(which by the way, the only play that saw was on handlock when ironbeack owl was 2 mana and some very old druid decks) and Barnes. it's often going to be a dead card and when you will get that 1 in 100 game where you will get the amazing 6 mana play Barnes-Deathwing+Purify it's still going to be a shitty play. For instance you have Herald Volazj+ Silence combo which is.... Wow look at that... 6 mana. And both those cards see no play. You don't have any clue what priest players need so therefore please stop arguing with shitty excuses for the existance of this card.
Mark my words, a month from now everyone will laugh at how dumb you are for not seeing the obvious fact that this cards terrible i am willing to bet a lot of money this card will not be viable in any way ,shape or form. You said above how some debuff cards your opponent casts make this card good and you called us idiots, well either you have never played hs or your the idiot cause 1. the cards above you said ARE NOT PLAYED AT ALL, paladin is sees almost as little play as priest and 2. The cards that are played(equality, aldor, hunters mark) will likely be followed up by another card( consec comes after equality, aldor and they trade, hunters mark into a trade or unleash,etc) yes you can silence Barnes or herald, but Barnes require you get to A. have dwing in you list. B. you have not drawn him C, to be lucky and get him OR not have any other minions, and herald requires to to have a dwing on board and it lives till you next turn which WILL NOT HAPPEN. yes, you dont lose card advantage, but you are losing 2 mana for a BAD EFFECT silencing your own minions, yes, you can silence a ancient watch or eerie statue, but that just means you are putting bad cards in your deck that dont work without purify and even then you are getting a 4 mana 4/5, a yeti and that sees no play, or a 6 mana 7/7, which seems ok until you realize a 4 MANA FUKING 7/7 Exists. Blizzard is stupid, you are stupid, you're probably working for blizzard anyway cause no one in their right minds would say such stupid words.
Yeah but you need at least a minion on your board to pay 2 mana for one card and mostly destroy your own minion. It would be a decent/good card if it would be a warlock card but Priest dont have any minions on the board most of the time... Just look at the priest minions.. they are shit under 4 mana
Wow you are stupid, warlock hero power draws a card and purify draws a card your right BUT YOU ARE PLAYING A CARD FOR PURIFY MEANING THAT YOU HANDSIZE IS THE SAME WHERE AS THE WARLOCK HERO POWER IS A HERO POWER AND DOESNT REQUIRE PLAYING A CARD AND IT INCREASES YOU HANDSIZE BY ONE EFFECTIVELY MAKING IT A DRAW TWO CARDS
spot on!
-I will take an adventure silence please
-You already have one and don't use it.
-You are right. Give me another card I will pay you 2 extra mana to get it.
Then the priest felt the passion for HS
If I wanted to pay 2 mana to draw a card i'd just play a Loot Hoarder not this piece of crap card.
Please Priest we need you to HOPE again.
I fixed the card, don't thank me for it.
The funny thing is, the card did an opposite to the priest community. Made them talk.
the only thing that bothers me with this card is the cost...just making it cost 0 would have actually balance thing IMO. A 0 cost cycle that ''can'' work in your favor with the right type of deck.I'D try that but in this state...no...just no
Priest is to Blizzard as Harry Potter was to the Dursleys. Included in everything, but given the hand-me-down treatment.
The community has no fault about the low standards that the dessigners have for the neutral set that concern priest, not one of these cards will improve priest(barnes neither), because it is not what priest need and is not a real improvement.
Really,curator in priest that is runnig no beast or murloc and have reason to run it (why run kodo over cabal for say something), and also priest surviving until turn 7/8 EleGiggle, they said that they are proud of realese some situatonal,greedy cards to a class that is unplayable unless the meta is super slow and because the class have plenty of greedy card choices, clap clap.
I dislike Purify a lot, but to be honest the outcry is too much in my opinion. People would not make that big of a rant if they made the adventure for real money only. We can still play the game, priest will suck until the upcoming expanion end of the year and thats it.
what people forget is that a meta where priest is dominant is the worst of them all, and it takes little to make priest from the worst to the best class. therefore i can partially understand the dev team. this does not change the fact that Purify is too bad.
Combo decks/OTK decks will always be the counter to priest.
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I played WoW a couple years. There if community complain about something Blizz hears them and soon or later fixes. But in hearthstone none of the complaints get a proper answer, we are getting just meaningless words to justify an obvious mistake.
But everyone has access to neutrals. Priest really needs more options specifically designed for them to stay in competition. Purify is not a good option regardless of what the future holds because it's not worth 2 mana, but they will never admit it.
Long time ago an expert told this to the community,
I'll say it here to you hearthstone community, blizzard refuses to accept now the time to make a choice with our wallets you can boycott this adventure make them know that this isn't right whatever the exuse they come up in the end money is motivation, it's bad to say but blizz might become EA or konami (#KUCK Fonami). In this movement I propose boycott blizz HS till they do something rather then defending themselfs see how they like it then time to purify devs and the lackeys that come with.
I am in. I bought two previous adventures but wont buy this one to reward this ridiculus explain. This respond is like saying "you dont know a thing. Just shut up and eat what we serve to you".