Don't a good 85% of them have no idea how to actually play priest properly and if you're comfortable with your deck you can crush them before they can do anything

Cephiro

Finland1934 Posts

October 31 2013 00:06 GMT

#262

/ random rant about how priests are annoying to play against

-> Keeps facing more priests.

Sigh. ._.

fdsdfg

United States1251 Posts

October 31 2013 01:10 GMT

#263

On October 31 2013 07:58 Kyhron wrote:

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Don't a good 85% of them have no idea how to actually play priest properly and if you're comfortable with your deck you can crush them before they can do anything

No because I generally play a control deck, which only works against 8 classes

Goibon

New Zealand8185 Posts

October 31 2013 04:24 GMT

#264

Had a major screw up which definitely cost me the game. Went second, turn 2 accidentally hit Call Totem instead of Coin->Feral Spirit.

A Mage facing a Healing Stream Totem on turn 3 isn't quite the same as two 2/3 Taunts staring you down with support to follow. Ugh. Entire game was downhill from there due to the complete loss of any tempo and board presence.

Cut me deep.

Broetchenholer

Germany1840 Posts

October 31 2013 10:27 GMT

#265

Urgh, just wanted a nice Arena-Run to call it a day. Feel evil and pick priest. Get the worst draft ever, no SW: Pain, no holy nova. 3 BAD 2s bunch of good 4s and 5s and that's it. Go 0-3 for the first time in arena. Cry myself to sleep. From now on, no more dark side for me.

iky43210

United States2099 Posts

October 31 2013 12:12 GMT

#266

rng with shaman totem is terrible. Sometimes I draw the wrath purely by luck and win the game, and other times I cannot get it to come out for life of me.

Or worse, getting searing totem against mage over and over.

I don't care how much they nerf the totem or changes the way its summoned, just make it predictable.

fdsdfg

United States1251 Posts

October 31 2013 14:27 GMT

#267

On October 31 2013 21:12 iky43210 wrote:
rng with shaman totem is terrible. Sometimes I draw the wrath purely by luck and win the game, and other times I cannot get it to come out for life of me.

Or worse, getting searing totem against mage over and over.

I don't care how much they nerf the totem or changes the way its summoned, just make it predictable.

I agree. The Shaman class is incredibly gimmicky right now.

That 'dust devil' - the 3/1 windfury for 1 (overload 2) is an extremely powerful turn 1 against hunter, warrior, warlock, or priest IF they don't happen to get a 2-drop. It's bad against paladin, druid, rogue, mage, and sometimes shaman.

Quality of the deck doesn't matter, quality of the play doesn't matter. Cards like that are just a roll of the dice 100% of the time.

EcterA

United States949 Posts

October 31 2013 16:57 GMT

#268

One of my arena games last night, we both play a couple mad bombers. His hit my hero for 3 damage each. Mine hit my minions & my hero...stupid RNG.

Talron

Germany7651 Posts

October 31 2013 22:34 GMT

#269

Playing Shaman has to be the most depressing. At least, that's what it feels like to me.

kongoline

6318 Posts

October 31 2013 23:26 GMT

#270

On November 01 2013 07:34 Talron wrote:
Playing Shaman has to be the most depressing. At least, that's what it feels like to me.

maybe with basic deck which is poor as fuck compared to what for example priest gets for free

Talron

Germany7651 Posts

October 31 2013 23:34 GMT

#271

On November 01 2013 08:26 kongoline wrote:

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maybe with basic deck which is poor as fuck compared to what for example priest gets for free

Well I usually play Mage and am ranked in Diamond1 even (who knows how I did that), but I kinda want to increase my heropool and I like Shaman, so I give it a try from time to time anyway, but it feels close to impossible for me to play Shaman on a reliable and consistent level.

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

October 31 2013 23:34 GMT

#272

Shaman is by far the worst class to play if you only have basic cards. :<

Goibon

New Zealand8185 Posts

November 01 2013 00:22 GMT

#273

The lack of any real spells is pretty poor. I still don't have a single overload spell in my Shaman collection, aside from wolves. Not sure what they were thinking there. Then again i played a Shaman a lot during WoW so maybe i do know what they were thinking. hint: not thinking.

justiceknight

Singapore5741 Posts

November 01 2013 01:49 GMT

#274

wow i suck at arena hard to those stupid big creatures no matter what i do at early game, should i just pick all those 6 drop or above only?? lol

Parametric

Canada1261 Posts

November 01 2013 01:56 GMT

#275

I've had 2 arena runs ended by deathwing when the other player was top decking with nothing on the board and only enough health to last 2-3 turns.

Shit hurtssssssssssssss

Kupo

Sweden151 Posts

November 01 2013 02:10 GMT

#276

Getting tired of facing mages in arena, feels like 2/3s of the games are against mages now.

I like playing against priests though. They do get lucky draws sometimes but usually it feels like one of the easier opponents. Maybe because I never play or get to draft anything worth mind controlling.

kongoline

6318 Posts

November 01 2013 02:23 GMT

#277

the thing with priest is against them you are fucked late game but atleast u can rush them or counter with things like 4attack monsters, aggro decks etc (still kinda annoying cuz they limit options for other classes), while vs mage you are just fucked no matter what you do

Aceace

Turkey1305 Posts

November 01 2013 02:58 GMT

#278

Ragnaros, ysera and Jaraxxus sucks...

Yeah. I have Ysera and Rag but these 3 legendaries are waaayy too stronger then others. Other legendaries can be dealt with someway but these two are really killing the variaty of hearthstone. How? Lets look other legendaries.

Gruul: 8 mana 8/8 minion with growth. You can deal with it removal or direct 8 damage. If you don't use removal you can handle with 2 cards
Alextrasza: 9 mana 8/8 minion with battlecry. Some Mage decks use it. But its battlecry can handle. Not way too strong.
Malygos: 9 mana 4/12 minion +5 spellpower. Spell power decks can use of it. But after silence its just 4/12
Black knight, Slyvanas, Cairne etc. are strong too. Their effects are really fine but not unstopable. You can silence. At least you can trade somewhat closer to 1-1

But these ysera, rag and jaraxxus come with instant big effects. Rag can destroy a minion, (or free 8 damage. A mage spend 8 mana and 1 card to deal 10 damage.) Ysera has dream cards and Jaraxxus has 3/8 weapon and potencial 14 healing. Its getting boring playing against same cards.

Btw.. As you can see people starting to get more useful legendaries. Like Sylvanas, cairne, black knight. I think after sometime we're going to see players with 4-5 legendaries vs rush type decks.

Kisra

United Kingdom466 Posts

November 01 2013 03:23 GMT

#279

On November 01 2013 11:23 kongoline wrote:
the thing with priest is against them you are fucked late game but atleast u can rush them or counter with things like 4attack monsters, aggro decks etc (still kinda annoying cuz they limit options for other classes), while vs mage you are just fucked no matter what you do

Except priest has Northshire Cleric, which makes a huge difference in what you can play turn 1-3. Don't have a 3 attack drop to get out early? Enjoy not being able to do anything. The moment you do, the priest can play their next turn using 2 mana to deal 1 damage and draw a card (attack with the Cleric non-fatally and card draw).

Priest is less consistent than mage, but fuck me if you get behind against a priest there is just no recovery, and they have so many ways to get ahead. Got into a game on my Paladin earlier where the Priest had NSC turn 1, SWP'd my Ooze and PW:S next turn to have a source of card draw I just could not handle with my opening hand.

The problem snowballs from there; you give a priest card draw and they get all their efficient clearance spells and take board control through card advantage, or you give up board control and you get screwed over through powerful creatures. It is the combination of this: card draw, strong creatures, strong removal that makes priest so strong. Aggro mage right now can play more consistently and uniformly, but a priest getting the right cards can just leave you helpless; and that's a really godawful feeling.