Have you seen the new resurrect card? It adds so much power to the archetype and make Priest become a tier-1 deck 2 weeks before new expansion. How else others can compete with that?
The archetype is super strong but I don’t want to see it played on stream anymore. Watched Asmodai playing one deck for the last 2 expansions is bad enough.
While I’m not excited at the prospect of Priest getting another Res card either, you have to realize that the archetype is also losing a huge number of cards to rotation. DK, Eternal Servitude, Scream, Gilded Gargoyle, Shadow Visions et al. in addition to Spellstone will absolutely put a dent in the archetype.
If AoE is kept to a minimum then you can’t get the ridiculous value out of it that you do now from Diamond Spellstone.
Unless more AoE is introduced (because Holy Nova isn’t good) I’m not too concerned about the card for now. If you get another good AoE or two modestly good ones then I think the card can be questioned a lot more.
I seriously doubt it.
With Eternal Servitude and Psychic Scream gone, how on earth is Priest supposed to survive until at least turn 9 while having played any of these cards so suboptimally and not rezzing them in between?
What do you even think a Wall Priest would actually look like?
Shadow Visions
Tar Creeper
Eternal Servitude
Psychic Scream
Lesser Diamond Spellstone
The Lich King
Master Oakheart
^^These^^ are all leaving Standard in April. Do you really see acceptable replacements for the roles these cards fill in the deck?
Yes. It’s bad.
I’m willing to bet that if Priest has a Tier 1 deck in the RoS meta (big if, given how much power Priest is losing), it won’t revolve around resurrecting minions. Hell, if Priest decks need to rely on Mass Resurrection, then Priest as a whole is in far more trouble than I thought.
By killing the Priest? How are you going to get value out of Mass Resurrect without playing minions that can pollute the pool AND without all the extra AOE that Priest is losing with the rotation. Also, good luck tutoring your combo pieces without Shadow Visions.
Rez priest is strong now. Come rotation, it’s going to be meme-tier at best.
It depends what other cards they get to support it.
That new card that makes two minions 1 mana… Has Malygos mind blast combo to the face written all over it
Shadow Visions was essentially the reason why priest was a thing for two years. That card is one of the strongest priest cards ever created, sitting right next to lightbomb. Diamond spellstone is better than this, but this allows priest to have more tech pieces for reviving in standard.
im pretty sure tc forgot to check which cards priest are losing after th3 rotation before making this topic
Priest got nothing thus far and they do lose a lot. They will be tier 3 if nothing good comes up.
It’s literally just a worse spellstone.
9 mana? Ok.
Three minions? Ok.
One thing I have learned is pre release predictions and doom calling is usually a 100% wrong. Enjoy.
Remember Cubelock in Witchwood and Druid in Boomsday?
Btw, i don’t agree with op. Wild: maybe, Standard: just no. Not enough supports.
Still plenty to be shown. We might have dragon fire lotion or excavated super evil, completely new mechanics with cute animals, robots or goblins as art.
New keyword: lotion.
Doomsaying on the premise of “but it COULD get support and be broken!” is nothing but needless negativity that only serves to sour your own experience.
![:thinking:](https://dacy5cilkxabf.cloudfront.net/en/hearthstone/images/emoji/twitter/thinking.png?v=6" ":thinking:")
Lotion:
Damage is reduced by half. Additional applications of Lotion to a minion increases their health by 3.
Why must class identity be 1 dimensional? Hearthstone seems to be the only game where the different classes/colors/what have you can only do 1 thing and everything else is nope and with Priest its Resurrect something the player base is not happy to see yet again. We saw it since League of Explorer’s then it got a Huge Boost with KFT and became meta and its back again with RoS. Enough is enough let it die off for year.
Class Identity the term Blizzard like to throw around doesn’t mean that you have to design everything to be 1 dimensional. Like Magic for example has colors do 1 thing main and other things secondary and tertiary with some overlap. While Hearthstone and Priest for Example its all about Resurrect and sometimes you have nuetral themed stuff anyone can do like Dragons. Dragons are not an identity Dragons are a theme that goes with an expansion like Mechs and Murloc. Tribal is not the same as Class Identity notice how Tribes come and go depending on expansion themes. Class Identity is something that has to be concrete through any type of Themed content. There is so much more Blizzard can do with all the classes such as doing Shadow Priest for a rotation and the reason they don’t is probably because of certain Cards in the Forever Sets that hold back that design space because it would be too powerful to exist in Standard.
Priest (at least as far as Year of the Raven decks go) is a bad example of a one-dimensional hero. Resurrect Priest was big during late Boomsday/Rastakhan, sure, but it’s had multiple viable archetypes throughout the year (Control being the bigger non-rez one).
So you speak for the whole of the player base?
Some of us who have the Cloning Gallery would like to continue using it before it rotates.
And we are happy with one dimensional Priest. Because there’s never been another Priest deck ever. There’s never been a Control Priest, Machine Gun Priest, Combo Priest, or Quest Priest. NEVER. Res Priest forever!!! ![:love_you_gesture:t3:](https://dacy5cilkxabf.cloudfront.net/en/hearthstone/images/emoji/twitter/love_you_gesture/3.png?v=6" ":love_you_gesture:t3:")
Cube Warlock is not only an exception to this rule, its dominance was also uniquely obvious because the deck lost almost nothing to rotation and even gained Lord Godfrey at the least; this is in contrast to literally every other meta deck, most of which lost everything that allowed them to exist. It is also worth noting that losing N’Zoth, the Corruptor as well as Mistress of Mixtures was indeed enough to marginalize Control Warlock, relatively speaking, contrary to most people’s predictions.
Yet despite this, while the deck did need a nerf and it was addressed, it was not the true meta tyrant due to the circumstances; Even Paladin was.
For Druid, there was a long-held perception that never matched reality. Before the release of The Boomsday Project, an overwhelming amount of people claimed that Druid was going to end up with multiple Tier 0 or even Tier S decks. What actually happened? It, like virtually every class, had one deck in Tier 1, and was one of multiple classes to have a Tier 1 deck consistently; its other decks hovered around Tier 2 or below. Furthermore, the Giggling Inventor nerf that people once again claimed was going to break Druid actually made the meta more hostile to the class.
Was Druid a good class? Absolutely, arguably even the best. Was Combo Druid annoying to face? Yes, to most people. Was Druid overpowered? No more so than other classes that have performed well; indeed, Warlock had performed better by most every metric before Rastakhan’s Rumble’s first balance patch, and Hunter has performed better by the same measures since that patch.
I do remember Cubelock in TWW and Druid in TBP, and people most certainly did not properly predict the metagame in the manner you are insinuating.
One thing I have learned is pre release predictions and doom calling is usually a 100% wrong. Enjoy
Seem like you misunderstood me. I replied to this post.