Learn to use Firestone; it has robust statistics on thousands of games; you can set it up to show you the last 7 days (or 3 days) on high legend (the top 2000 ranks) and even use a conserative-winrate toggle to make the statistics even more robust.
Your “overpowered” pala is currently at an obysmal ~35% win rate; your whiner-classes like rogue or druid or mage are easily above 50%; it’s pretty obvious what is nerfed: what is played the least and has the least whiners.
I have no friends at either establishment, however.
Simply noting that the data you have cited as evidence is insufficient.
Vicious Syndicate’s data disagrees with your conclusions and I have greater faith in their methodology and reputation than in your toggles on Firestone.
OK you want us to pay that other third site then. You are still a waste of time. All 3 sites show the same data if you know how to use their right sections.
Also do you even read the site you advertise? Their latest " vS Data Reaper Report #281" clearly shows Rogue dominating everything lol…
I mean Paladin was pretty broken before the nerfs, and I kinda suspected buffing the excavate cards and rogue the way they did was a mistake. But I think Rogue is one of the most popular classes, so they wanna make sure it’s relevant. Which… fair enough I guess. Same with Druid.
I don’t… really know why they’ve just left Drum Circle and Dragon Golem alone. Nerfing Embrace of Nature instead of just hitting Drum Circle was weird. Like Drum Circle just gives way more health than it should.
Rogue has a very high rate of play at top legend, but it is not the best deck in the format.
At upper diamond ranks , which is among the most competitive parts of the meta, rogue is middle of the second tier and paladin has two different deck types ranked in the top tier.
Your arguments are invalid and your information is poor.
If you don’t want to help the developers out of principle, then the ONLY principled thing to do is quit the game completely. If you play, you are helping the developers. They only get paid when whales are entertained. Who entertains them? Well, let’s just say that if you’re not paying for the product that means you are the product.
Remaining a free to play player is NOT a principled position. It is cope. Either act like you hate the game or act like you like it, and stop pretending that you’re not sitting on the fence when you are.
Current Viscious Syndicate shows pure paladin as a Tier 2 and winning deck in legend ranks.
The most effective deck in standard costs less than 1700 dust and includes zero epic or legendary cards, but you want me to believe the game is pay to win?
You seem like you need to take a break, drink more fluids to dilute the salt build up, and let the tilt subside before you attempt to play any more games.
Nice strawman. I wasn’t talking about 1 deck. I can make 1 deck being meta; the context was that you said “you can play other classes”; no you can’t: I made a couple of meta decks for paladin: there is no dust to do other classes if the account is new (very obviously why).