Thanks to the whole “lmao overpowered Battlecries and Rush minions” theme blizzard decided to run with Shaman, it’s really really not gonna move from that top spot at all. Especially if they still refuse to nerf their quest for some reason.
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Plenty of deck still do great against shaman, and with evolve gone they don’t have the crazy power spikes anymore… so yeah shaman is definitely still viable, but just not to the degree they were before. Not sure why that is a problem?
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I think the OP is referring to the new 7 mana pyroblast summon a 5/5 or the fact that shaman galakrond is the best galakrond. (Or at least miles away better than the warlock one)
But i could be wrong.
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Warrior is best galakgrond
Aggro pirate warrior will make a big splash on day one. And almost all will try warrior galakrond in the deck.
However, interestingly, the pirate aggro warrior may eventually not play the warrior galakrond in order to fit the more consistent cards.
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Personally I think Aggro OL Shaman will overtake Quest Shaman next expansion. Would you rather lead off with a Quest turn 1 or a minion which can snowball early damage into the strong direct damage closer?
Overload, Quest, whatever the result is the same.
Another meta dominated by Blizzard’s pet class of the Year. Pathetic.
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We’ll see on ‘dominated’
Aggro Warrior and Mage of some form I would be willing to bet on as well as becoming the top meta decks personally. Quest Shaman will still have a slow opener issue which is why Aggro Warrior currently is a great deck against it and OL Shman will still have the same issue it traditionally has in card draw mechanics.
Oh aggro! okay good thing they can put in a basic Murloc package thanks to the insanity called Underbelly and their broken as hell lackey generator! Which of course ties in amazingly with their broken as hell Overload package!
Pet. Class.
Make up for Freeze Shaman =p
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I thought their pet class was Mage…
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Aggro OL Shaman has been better all along. People just love their Quest Shaman, I think people are overestimating the obvious anti synergy between Quest and Galakrond (You can’t control SoU Quest completion activation and Quest is the better HP.
VS is rating Shaman #1 for DoD between a potential combination of Aggro OL, Quest, and Galakrond decks.
Balance in hearthstone goes in waves. Shaman might be good for now but eventually it’ll end up in the dumpster. Just look at lock and where it’s been since the Cubelock days.
It was until that one Worlds tournament happened and Blizzard realized they reached a critical mass with them. Although as long as Mage gets a bajillion spell generation cards and also the stupid Puzzle Box they aren’t really going anywhere.
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Lmao Battlecries
do you means Battlecry
I’m waiting on the year Hunter will swap places with Warlock.
I’m still of the opinion that SoU Quest and Galakrond can coexist. The Quest turns Invoke Minions into genuine power swings (7 mana for a 3/3 and four 2/1s with Rush is nothing to sneeze at), and it’s not like you have to play Galakrond as soon as you draw him. My only disappointment is that you can’t ever SoU hero power → Kronx. The deck probably isn’t going to be as powerful as OL/Murloc Shaman but I’ll hold that some form of Galakrond/Quest Shaman could make a decent Midrange/Control deck.
It’ll work, imo, just like Shaman use to run both heroes. You’ll keep Quest power until you need to swap and summon 4 8/8 minions with rush. It’ll be yet another removal tool for Control oriented Shaman and it’ll allow Shaman to run minimal invoke cards in order to complete the summoning.
Seems like a good combination to me personally.
So what are you going to play for Tempo?You are already down a card from the Quest, and if you have Galakrond and Kronx in hand that’s 2 more cards you are saving for later.
For Lykotic,
You need 6 BCs for Quest completion, so you are Mulliganing away all invokes and hopping to pull 6 other BCs so you can double the Invokes. And how how many BCs is that, that it doesn’t crowd board clears away? This is why Reno Shaman is mediocre, it tries to do too many things.
I don’t think that Quest and Galakrond play very well together. Unless you just never want to play Galakrond? Because you’ll end up deleting your Quest hero power unless you Galakrond ASAP.
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