I hate the feeling that my favorite class doesn’t have any way to play right now with a decent winrate in higher ranks. I Love Priest but the Tempo Experiment was a fiasco. Tempo Priest literally loses to the opponent having any answer because while you were trying to buff a Freshamn, they went 4+ to 1 against you and Priest has 0 ways to draw while maintaining Tempo or any way to close the game because the class as a whole lacks any burn damage, any charge and it doesn’t even get rush. Priest can only deal with the opponent using minions but it doesn’t have enough minions to do so. I Feel Galakrond Hero Power and Battlecry are not worth the mana they cost, but since the class lacks any form of Card draw we have to do with that Trash Tier card generation.
All Priest Spells of Priest feel like incredibly narrow but discounted 1 mana over any non-narrow version of the same Spell.
Like, I would put Coerce instead of ANY of my single removal to be able to play it, and yeah, I know SW:Death and SW:Pain cost 1 less mana but… they are so muuuuch worse because they are so narrow. Let’s not talk about Forbidden Words because that is incredibly powercrept with any other removal.
I feel most of Priest Spells stopped being powerful a long time ago. I mean, people are literally running Assassinate for the full 5 mana in Priest because it’s one of the best removals it has and Rogue has had it since beta and he doesn’t play it (also since beta).
I see all Priest Spells and Legendaries and they are bad or Powercrept in another classes. Probably the only 2 useful ones are Muerte and Mindflayer. Even Illucia brings the deck winrate a lot down since it was nerfed and that makes 100% of unuseful legendaries for Priest this expansion.
I think Blizzard wants so much to take out Priest and Shaman out of the game that it should. Making them the “no class identity” bad classes feels like just a joke for us players.
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It’s kind of crazy that Priest has no spells that heal for more than 5, Mind Control costs 10 mana, and and Coerce exists in a class that will discover it several times a game. Not that I’d want RNG to be a priest thing.
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Priest is one of the strongest if not the strongest class in the game… There’s no point in comparing that card to assassinate because they’re different classes and there are many other factors to consider. Priest received a lot of love with this expansion so I don’t really understand why you’re complaining
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Idk maybe it’s just me or it’s because I play wild but I love priest right now.
I played priest since forever and my dream deck was always a very controlish one that is based on clearing the board alot and wins by resisting to opponent’s whole value. In this expansion I really feel like I managed to do such a deck.
Decklist plz. Any priestdeck that doesnt use Spawn of Shadows is worth trying.
I don’t play alot of ranked(more of a casual player) but I had 80% winrate before people taking counters(now with counters I’m at constant 70% after 200 games).
Your future is clear
Class: Priest
Format: Wild
1x (0) Forbidden Words
1x (0) Raise Dead
1x (1) Chameleos
1x (1) Renew
1x (1) Sphere of Sapience
1x (2) Dirty Rat
1x (2) Doomsayer
1x (2) Penance
1x (2) Shadow Visions
1x (2) Shadow Word: Death
1x (2) Zephrys the Great
1x (3) Breath of the Infinite
1x (3) Deathlord
1x (3) Madame Lazul
1x (3) Mindrender Illucia
1x (4) Brittlebone Destroyer
1x (4) Greater Healing Potion
1x (4) Holy Nova
1x (4) Kazakus
1x (4) Shadow Word: Ruin
1x (5) Convincing Infiltrator
1x (5) Excavated Evil
1x (5) Mass Hysteria
1x (5) Raza the Chained
1x (6) Entomb
1x (6) Lightbomb
1x (6) Reno Jackson
1x (7) Soul Mirror
1x (8) Shadowreaper Anduin
1x (9) Plague of Death
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I HATE priests, they are the worst thing to play against with the nonstop Rez and healing and card generation. Its why I hate playing normal mode.
For every 5 games of normal mode I play 3 of them are against priests.
The meta is horrible right now.
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I’ve played 130 games in legend the last couple of days. 62% of my games consist of Rogue (17%), Paladin (17%), Druid (14%), and Warrior (14%). In my last 8 games, 6 of my opponents were Rogue. Priest makes up 10% of the decks I’ve faced, and while the class did get some love this expansion, could we stop pretending it’s the most powerful class?
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130 mathes in 2 days wow .
Play Aggro decks, they blow up Priest before they can play and Rez anything.
News for you: that’s just you.
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