With the upcoming cards from Scholomance Acadamy it is now apparent that priest, my main choose of hero, is no longer unique in any way. Other heroes are able to generate value if not more than priest and they are capable of sustain (healing). They are able to draw cards consistently and/or generate more cards.
Priest really only had one identity and one identity only, control priest. Priest was known for it’s card generation and ability to keep the board clear while being able to heal. Zoo Priest, face priest, tempo priest, etc… was never good which leaves us to play control. Yet here we are where every hero is capable of having a control deck and priest has nothing else.
I’m constantly getting out valued by rogue, druid, warlock, and even warrior. Its ridiculous. I wasn’t going to make a post like this, but after seeing the new cards that are about to be released I realized that there is no punishment for being aggressive in the early or mid game for other heroes. While for priest we go 4 turns without having anything good to play. Ultimately leaving us to play catch up and trying to survive until the swing turn. I am currently diamond 10 and I got there with quest hunter. I can no longer play the hero I want because just about every high rank deck stomp any priest deck. I’m disappointed in the card developers at blizzard. Make priest great again.
Rogue is unbeatable as priest. Rogue has infinite value, literally endless. No fatigue and always have a full hand. Its infuriating how good rogue is.
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So OTK priest never existed ?
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Combo Priest with Inner Fire, Rez Priest, Combo Priest with Raza + Anduin, Dragon Priest, and snicker silence Priest.
It’s had more than one.
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those decks last for a minute. Priest is iconic for being controlling.
Raza/OTK are still around in Wild, so… not really?
Otk priest was still a control deck. You had to survive long enough to get it off.
Control Priest is a pretty good deck but its not easy to master , since you are in for the long run you make more plays inviting more mistakes on your part.
We have also yet to see many cards from this expansion for Priest give it 1 more day.
That wall of text was also a realy hard read please try to improve on it ,makes it realy hard to keep up with what you are trying to say.
I dont play wild. Only standard and occasionally arena.
I said it before, and I’ll say it again: maybe hold off on the doom and gloom until we’ve seen the full set. Yes, there’s only a few cards left to be seen with Priest, but it might be those better control tools that have been missing so far.
Combo and control are 2 different archetypes
It does feel like the dual class cards for Priest fit much better in the other class than they do in Priest. Particularly with Warlock getting an extra mechanic for healing, and Priest as-yet doesn’t even have the means to damage itself in order to be able to change it’s health with healing.
The Priest / Paladin cards seem at odds with the Priest / Warlock cards as well, unlike the added Healing in the Warlock / Demon Hunter cards doubling down on the mechanics of the Warlock / Priest cards. Tap away, you’ll be able to heal for nothing if you just draw the right card.
The Priest / Paladin Legendary is intended for a deck with buffs and little to no removal, but that’s not a thing that Priest has ever been particularly good at. And it runs completely contradictory to Res Priest, since Mass Res requires limited minions and must run a lot of spells. Additionally, one of Priest’s Invokes is a removal spell, so it seems unlikely a Gala package is likely to fit into this minion/buff Priest, which will badly need card generation if it can’t run spells.
I suppose the closest recent comparison would be Paladin, with Pure Paladin and Highlander Paladin being pretty contradictory to each other’s identities. Which doesn’t offer a lot of hope for Priest this expansion.
It’s going to take some stupidly good Priest class cards to make Priest powerful this expansion, is what I’m saying. That’s never a situation I want to be in at this point in the reveals.
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2 many bad players crying about priest so priest got some really weird cards this expansion. There’s still 1 more legendary left for priest, maybe it’s a good one.
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