New Priest Card Revealed: Acolyte of Agony
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An Earthern Ring Farseer that has a fair chance of not healing you at all. You could heal twice (that would be the advantage over Farseer), if you're really lucky, but it could get dealt 3 damage via spells and you don't heal for shit. I guess it could be good if you Power Word: Shield or Talonpriest it.
It's almost like they think Priest needs more healing... two Priest of the Feast is good enough healing for the whole match.
Clearly a pack filler... :(
Seems like it worked pretty well.... at causing agony among us.
ok, left 2 of 10 to get something good,
invite all to pray
You compare it to a battlecry and heal a minion. It doesn't make any sense
This card can heal you for 3 each time it deals dmg. Adding one hp will make it jump from at least 3 hp heal to at least 6 hp heal on early minion combat.
It maybe a boring card that Priest doesn't need right now but it ain't poorly designed.
If the expected value of this card is a 3/3 that heals your face for three, then it is completely outclassed by Earthen Ring Farseer. That would be fine as a neutral minion, but class cards are usually stronger than neutral cards. That said, against aggro decks I think you can think of Acolyte of Agony as an Earthen Ring Farseer with taunt. If your opponent refuses to kill it it can just hit face repeatedly to gain you three life every turn, so they need to kill it, and you're unlikely to have injured minions to heal that early in the game.
You are comparing heal face to heal minion as equal effects. Also you are comparing a battlecry to a repeated effect.
Each has its strength and weakness there is no definitive better here
If you are in a meta that allow you to abuse early life steal minions then this card is better. If you are in a very aggressive meta or a control meta then Earthen is better.
Excited dev shows card to management as a 3/4.
Excited dev: "Here's a new Priest card! I think it's playable, balanced, and good in arena, just what the class needs!"
Team 5: "That's great! But you know this is for Priest right? We can't make Priest cards too powerful because [INSERT STUPID REASON]. Why don't you make it a 3/3? That'll fix it."
Excited dev: Walks slowly back to his desk and cries.
The card isn't bad but I do agree, it is underwhelming for a class card. It'll be pretty damn strong in arena though.
Priest must have been the last class to be worked on before the deadline......
God, some of you people sicken me. This card is decent--as are 50% of the other cards immediately deemed "unplayable" weeks before they're available for use AND BEFORE THE FULL SET HAS EVEN BEEN REVEALED. Geez...
For 8 out of 9 classes I agree with you.
But let's be honest. Control Hunter is like a dead horse being kicked back to life when it was never alive in the first place.
Hunter's going to effing suck like usual. Welp, y'all have fun against Pirate Warriors with your new toys. I'll be playing zombeasts against the inkeeper in the meantime...
Priest got absolutely shafted this expansion
OMG this card is so good - for 5 dust.
Even in arena I'd rather not have to pick this card. Thank god I don't play priest.