Rosenskjold
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Lethal on board, mage draws TWO frost novas from one cabalist's tome. Still won the game eventually lol 
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Hearthstone |OT6| C'THUN for President! Why pick the lesser evil?
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Rosenskjold
Member
Yup came to post this basically. Playing against shaman right now is like one long struggle to win the game. It's like every single card beats yours, so you either have to be lucky or hope they misplay :/
Rosenskjold
Member
I'm either too low or too high to see a lot of priests. Every second game is shaman right now though :/
Yeah that's what I said week one of the expansion.
I experimented with Firebats, Huge Toads, Hyenas, Jugglers, King Elekk, Flame Jugglers, Bear Trap. Nothing really had that oomph and it seemed I was playing from behind until turn 3. I guess the rest of the players came to the same conclusion and started using Doomsayer.
Have the most satisfying match against priest tonight.
Now I can sleep
I hate shaman and priest. Sometimes I just want to concede so I won't waste a lot of time
Now I can sleep
I hate shaman and priest. Sometimes I just want to concede so I won't waste a lot of time
Priest are just annoying trolls, shamans are bullshit
veryslowhand
Banned
outside of nzhod ones what slow decks can work in ladder right now?
I don't think the community will survive if Priests are the best in the game.
That's the only class that has never been number #1 in the game, even when MC was 8 mana.
Druid had Combo
Rogue had OG Miracle
Paladin had Secret MC
Mage has OG Freeze Burn where Pyro was less mana as we're the Freeze spells
Warriors had OG Grom Patron
Shaman have the current meta
Warlock had OG Handlock/Zoolock
Hunter had Undertaker and Sunshine
That's the only class that has never been number #1 in the game, even when MC was 8 mana.
Druid had Combo
Rogue had OG Miracle
Paladin had Secret MC
Mage has OG Freeze Burn where Pyro was less mana as we're the Freeze spells
Warriors had OG Grom Patron
Shaman have the current meta
Warlock had OG Handlock/Zoolock
Hunter had Undertaker and Sunshine
I would rather live in a world where priest were the top than any world where shaman are the top.
Shamans at the top are bullshit because it doesn't matter if they are face, evolve, control, it all revolves around stupid bullshit. Oh hey want a full board buff + heal, you got it for 1, you want to evolve just 1 super big minion into another one and have a yeti, go for it, oh and lets not forget the bullshit that is doomhammer + rockbiter. Early game, mid game, late game, it's ridiculous right now and we have to suffer from this for another 2 years, fuck that.
And here I am playing almost nothing but Volazj Priest since OG release.
C'thun Warrior is now putting in work now the deck lists are settling down, control hunter works with and without n'zhod. Freeze Mage.
Not saying Priest is bad/unplayable (I mean I am playing Dragon Nzoth Priest lmao) just saying that in history of HS Priest was never #1.
The last time they did that we got Murloc Shaman. It used to be my favorite class up until that point.
They probably felt they owed it to Shaman players or something.
Rosenskjold
Member
I wish they'd take the game in a direction where RNG was less of a factor.
Getting rid of boom did wonders for this already.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Evolve isn't even a good card and is barely run. Master of Evolution is being cut in a lot of lists because of it's unreliability. Hardly two cards worth complaining about.
I don't get this "Shaman is broken" stuff. Sure, aggro Shaman is overtuned because of how Hearthstone is designed, but that's about it. Midrange is good right now but probably not even a tier 1 deck in my opinion. Control Shaman is as bad as it's ever been against anything not N'Zoth.
Just don't get why people go off the deep end about a class that probably isn't even as strong now as Paladin was 3-4 months ago.
It's pretty low RNG right now compared to before standard.
Even still I find Priest to be a more frustrating matchup than Shaman. Shaman has a number of matchups that aren't that great for it. I would be surprised if it was considered to be the absolute top deck for the entire expansion.
slightconfuse
Banned
Times of Time running a weird shaman deck
And getting farmed.
Rosenskjold
Member
Before standard I only played arena, pretty much : D
Should had played at least the monkey. He knew what cards his opponents had.
slightconfuse
Banned
Here is all the deck used in the tourney
http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/hearthstone-americas-spring-preliminaries-2016-deck-lists/
http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/hearthstone-americas-spring-preliminaries-2016-deck-lists/
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Not correct, way back in beta when MC was 8 mana priest was king. See the first blizzcon tourny, the one where kripp lost in the finals to leper gnome.
Or YOLO'Saron
Nah Priest wasn't even the best back then. That was back when Freeze Mage had 5 mana Blizzards, 3 Mana Cone of Cold, 2 mana Frost Nova and 8 mana Pyroblast.
And yeah I saw that tournament live. Priest was probably still tier 1 but OG Handlock, OG Freeze Mage, OG Miracoli.. all too much for that Priest.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Freeze mage wasn't even a deck yet. Reckful brought the first iteration of that deck that anyone had seen to the tournament and it was less than refined.
And yeah exactly this, cards were good if priest couldn't remove them due to the 4 attack.
veryslowhand
Banned
Yolosharon was the play there
That tells you how powerful Freeze Mage was back then when it finished game by turn 8/9 when it just stalled with cheap freezes and then burned you down with double Fireballs double Pyroblast (cheap).
A lot of stuff that worked in that tournament didn't work right after because game was still new. Once people refined Handlock, Freeze Mage etc. Priest was done for even with 8 mana MC. Of course then they nerfed MC and Priest was done for after that but they nerfed half of that Freeze Mage yet it still carried on with business as usual (same with other classes).
slightconfuse
Banned
Pirate Warror can't wait
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
I guess you weren't playing the game then?
Rosenskjold
Member
Look at this shit. Trying to get past rank 10 and it's just constant shamans with one lame win after another, latest iteration
Lightning bolt in hand? Of course. He was spamming the "that's incredible" emote all game long because I kept winning board control and then this...
Lightning bolt in hand? Of course. He was spamming the "that's incredible" emote all game long because I kept winning board control and then this...
That's around when I started playing, a bit before.
veryslowhand
Banned
I dont like this chakki guy bm after an oponent mistake
Their math was still right, it's still 14 damage over two turns.
Otherwise it would be 18 damage.
LMAO @ Chakki dressing up as a pirate with the rusty hook and BMing like the aggro player he is at heart!.
Complistic
Member
I made a deck that included 30 out of my 31 legendaries w/ warrior just for fun.
I've won 2 out of 3 games lol.
Varian MVP. Nothing beats playing 40 mana in one turn.
I've won 2 out of 3 games lol.
Varian MVP. Nothing beats playing 40 mana in one turn.
Ahahahahahahahahaha Chakki with the turn 3 win with the Violet Teacher Druid dream.
We thought the Rogue would get farmed but it's the Hunter that is getting farmed.
Instead Chakki's Aggro Shaman gets farmed.
Really don't like Nerubian Prophet and Master in that deck, you want faster minions than that in the deck if you are playing Face Shaman.
We thought the Rogue would get farmed but it's the Hunter that is getting farmed.
Instead Chakki's Aggro Shaman gets farmed.
Really don't like Nerubian Prophet and Master in that deck, you want faster minions than that in the deck if you are playing Face Shaman.
10 and lower.