So, answer me. Why those jerks have no sense of fair-play? And what kind of satisfaction could you get from playing a single card that will do all the job instead of your brain? As simple as that.
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Anyone else suffering from seeing Anduin complaining about this deck, or is it just me?
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You automaticaly assume I play that sort of idiocracy? On what basis?
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Lol I’m just yanking your chain. Everyone on these boards is well aware of how unfun/unfair Big Priest is. Nothing but support from me.
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big priest is stupid and all we all know it, but is no need to insult people for playing a certain deck.
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Anduin has kind of become the representative of unfun decks. Big Priest being one that relies on a mechanic that has not been thought through at all.
Time has passed, and quite a few people, me included, associate Anduin with bland and unfun experiences. Usually with lots of bm included from the priest’s side.
It would be hard to find people that support that deck’s existence, on this site.
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Deck is annoying for certain. At this point in time all we can do is nod and agree about the annoyance of the deck.
Is it OP? Debatable but it is annoying to face.
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Love facing some big priest, they always just conceed after the first poly res
I despise Priest currently. Have done so for a very long time now and haven’t played the class at all other than to do Priest quests very rarely because I avoid them like a plague. And the reason is because right now Priest doesn’t have any fun or interesting deck archetypes. Priest is entirely relying on gimmicks, like Nomi Priest and OTK Topsy Turvy Priest before the rotation. Or some BS like Resurrect Priest no one likes. Blizzard should’ve been well aware that people don’t like Resurrect Priest. And yet Priest got more cards for it in Rise of Shadows…
I’m annoyed that Priest has to rely on decks like that to stay somewhat relevant.
Now that all being said, I got a question for you OP; are you incapable of posting anything remotely constructive or intelligent? Because so far every single post of yours that I’ve seen are about you being salty, acting like a brat and insulting others, be it players playing certain decks or devs. As a fellow priest hater I can sympathize with you. But if you got nothing constructive or smart to say then just shut up.
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they probably have more than the children who come to the forums to throw around insults based on the decks people run
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The deck is not OP. It just has a surprisingly low skill cap, meaning that more can play it than most to a degree of success because of its simple 1 dimensional nature that doesn’t require much thought process for every turn. BP players will argue and tell you otherwise but they’re either delusional or lacking in game sense.
The deck is one reason why the meta has had to evolve however. Slow natured control decks are no longer viable in serious play and that includes BP. That’s because when every control player analyses their deck they should be asking themselves the question “how does my deck stack up vs BP?” And to do so many will realise they should be incorporating an OTK element or some other contingency plan into their deck or else lose to the eventual pressure of a priests resurrects. Hence BP has become the benchmark for measuring how you can compete vs the archetype of control.
Example, I run a control warlock with mechathun. Vs BP the plan is to stall for time by ideally ramping out voidlords vi skull+voidcallers, then strengthening board defence by using cubes etc. All the while tapping for card draw as often as possible, and then nzoth/doomreaver in lategame for walls of taunts that will give me the time for a mechathun finish once I burn through my deck. Most of the time it works. Meanwhile this strategy defends well vs aggro at the same time. An easy route to rank 5 is the result which will include stomping on most priests along the way.
Similar can be said for an exodia mage that uses old school freeze mechanics to stall for time, but
The point being, BP maybe annoying but we should take comfort in the knowledge that no one who runs it has a chance of going beyond a certain point. This is reflected in its lacklustre win rate at the top level. Aggro can beat it. Sophisticated control will beat it. It just forces us to be a bit more innovative to compete. It doesn’t need a nerf. The more who play it, the better for the rest of us who can take advantage.
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Yep. Not much different than Priest decks gone by. Pass Pass Pass Pass initial turns. Play my taunts. My guaranteed Convincing Infiltrator on 5. Now play Prince Vargoth between on 7 or 8. Now drop my Mass Resurrection on 9 because no thought required my cards will be there just a matter if my Rock deck is playing against scissors or another rock or paper deck.
Now I won with dbl Vargoth, dbl Grizzly, dbl Infiltrators on the board. The new Wall Priest. Play my dbl health inner fires on 10 and…
GG
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It’s not that res priests have no brains, it’s that Blizzard doesn’t want priests to do anything but res.
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“Unfun” is a relative term. I associate Druids with token-spam and sudden death if you don’t clear their board every single turn.
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Big Priest has history. And is widely regarded that way.
Tokens are all Druids have at their disposal.
And Murlocs are far more powerful than those tokens.
I disagree that Priest players are neither jerks nor skill-less. A players deck preference doesn’t have any bearing on their IQ or their moral compass. Those associations need to stop.
As for Big Priest, I can agree that it is annoying. I think that Priest needs an overhaul. I would like to see a shadowform card that works like Genn/Baku. It turns all healing effects into damage for the entire match.
I’d like to see Priest go back to it’s healing/cleansing roots. I’d like to see Priest with actual stand-alone minions besides Cleric in its classic set. I’d like to see a few shadowform support cards.
These are just a couple ideas that can turn priest around to a midrange style of play. When I look at Priest minions it’s like…
“I have X amount of Deathrattles so might as well go with Quest Priest.”
“I might as well run Lyra since I have Radiant Elemental.”
I think Priest is too pigeon holed. It’s a healing/shadow class. I’d like to see them expand on the Shadowform aspect of Priest.
These are just random ideas that I had - I’d like to see some constructive input.
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Thats going to largely depend on whether or not they can ever put up that first healthy board. And if they get reload.
Strictly speaking, the druid given any amount of time can easily develop a much stronger play. But the .murloc is going to do so quickly, so long as it cant be challenged early.
Given that druid has a class specific weakness to that very thing, i can see why youd believe murlocs are better. To a deck that can trash early boards all day…the druid pressure on removal is actually a lot worse to deal with overall (similar to mech hunter, actually)
Murlocs don’t have the same staying power as the Tokens, thanks to the Twinspell. And dying suddenly if you ever fail to clear a Druid’s board completely goes way back to Beta.
Big Priest is Wild and Wild has it’s own insanity. When everyone is OP, no one is. I certainly understand the annoyance of any popular deck, and any deck that keeps refilling regardless of what you do gets frustrating. I’m glad they shut down Kingsbane because it was literally infinite. Big Priest is just stacked to the point where it seems infinite.
I exclusively play Wild.
And Murloc Shaman is faaar beyond Token Druid’s powerlevel.
Looking at winrates and matchups confirm that.
Old Murkeye, Finja and Rockpool have ridiculous synergy, and tempo out other decks very quickly on their own.
And it can reload very well, if you understand your matchups.
Yeah, i was speaking on standard.
Murloc shot crazy up in wild.
Apologies.