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Why is he allowed?
>>318076814
somebody at blizzard has a goblin fetish.
only reason I can imagine why they still haven´t nerved him
>>318076814
Because he is worth about 20 US dollars worth of packs.
>>318076902
Why would you want to nerf him?
So every class can have access to a strong finisher. If you can't craft him yet just play face hunter.
>>318077135
He's bullshit
>>318077135
>goblin card
>explosives
>0% chance to backfire
>power way above the curve
>impossible to trade 1 for 1 with it
How can anyone claim that Hearthstone is not pay2win if blatant staples like that are sneaked in with every expansion?
>>318077635
>>318077805
Lots of cards are bullshit. Yes, Dr Boom is way above the curve, but why is that a problem? If there were no Dr Boom, then everyone would just complain about the next most powerful card. Take that card away and people will complain about the third most powerful card. If "being more powerful than every other card" is your justification for nerfing something, then eventually you'll be left with a card game where every single card is exactly on the power curve.
In a card game, "fairness" is a foreign concept. A competitive deck is an unfair deck, and a competitive card is an unfair card. There are so many factors of randomness and unpredictability that go into every game, that in order to succeed your deck needs to cheat at every possible opportunity. Some decks do that by setting up huge combos, some decks do that by dragging out the game until the opponent runs out of responses, some decks just rush as much damage as fast as possible, and some decks just play the strongest possible minion they can on any given turn. Dr Boom is just the strongest possible minion for 7 mana.
>>318078715
>HURRR BEN BRODE'S THERE MUST ALWAYS BE A LICH KING ARGUMENT IM SO GOOOOOD
No, dumb nigger, the problem would be that there would be NOTHING to run in the 7 mana spot. Not that people would move on to bitch about War Golem, cunt.
I play Dr. Boom in pretty much all my decks but he's rarely responsible for a win.
>Also not carrying pic related in your decks
>>318078715
No card should be uniformly the best card of this cost in any situation. There are few other cards that are in such a situation, Piloted Shredder might be the only one.
>>318076814
I just realized he looks like dr doom. I'm retarted
>Oh there's a new adventure out, i wonder if blizzard introduced any new interesting mechanics
>Discover, AKA more random shit
What the FUCK is blizzard doing?
http://www.hearthhead.com/cards=?filter=stat-cost-min=7;stat-cost-max=7
look at all these non playable 7 mana cards
just because your current standard for 7 mana is ridiculous doesn't mean it was suppose to be that way
>>318079463
Lowering the curve for the unwashed high spending mobile masses to continue enjoying their f2p card game.
>>318076814
boom is strong for sure but I don't think he's unfair given he's a neutral
Mysterious Challenger on the other hand is pure bullshit
>>318079149
so you kill dr7, he rams one of his bots into your hunter and kills it, then uses another bot to kill another minion
still 2 for 1, heck could even got 3 for 1 against BGH if he can ram both boombots into it and kill 2 other minions with their explosions
fantastic trade right there
>>318079463
>>318079964
Discover still a gimmick.
The meta is really shifting to control (mostly warrior), with some tempo there.
>>318080220
Mysterious Challenger only works in one kind of deck built around it. Boom can work in anything.
>>318080428
And it's still the best option to deal with it.
>want to make a competitive rogue deck
>need to buy 2 wings from the new expansion
f2p indeed
>>318079185
Piloted Shredder aint best in all situations for turn 4 by a longshot
>>318080428
>>318080220
Doc is pretty strong, but yeah, MC is complete bullshit
>>318080494
Patron also worked on a deck build around it, and it didnt stop it from being the single strongest deck till the nerf.
>>318080560
best option would be to get lucky by having both boombots detonate into your sylvanas which then steals dr 7
>>318079463
Discover is surprisingly broken. Any one of the three discover cards have a 400% chance to be a class card.
That alone makes Dark Peddler insanely OP since Warlock pretty much has only useful 1-drops.
>>318080428
This is why you struggle, you kill the boom bots FIRST then you play BGH on boom when it's safe.
Yes it's a 2 for 1, but so is sylvannas if you don't run silence / poly / hex.
>>318080494
>Mysterious Challenger only works in one kind of deck built around it
...which makes it the deck that everyone plays. If anything that's worse than boom being in every deck because it's so boring to face the same paladin secret deck on ladder
>>318080220
MC is a 6 mana 6/6 that also functions as 5 separate Mad ScientistsLOOOOOOXLXOOOOOO(38213L
>>318081261
you can only reliably do that if he'd played dr boom onto a clean board which won't necessarily be true
and at least with sylvanas there are a dozen counters, dr boom has 1 that doesn't even always work
>>318080428
It's a massive tempo advantage since you spend 3 mana to deal with their 7 mana card. If you already have a board and their turn 7 is just Dr boom and you bgh it and go face, you may have just won the game with that single play
BGH is way worse for the meta than Dr boom since it makes such a MASS I'VE and arbitrary divide between 6 attack minions and 7+ ones. This one epic single handedly has defined the entire meta of control and lategame decks from day 1
>>318081262
No because the deck has weaknesses outside of mysterious challenger. Reno Jackson for example.
>>318081802
given its a 2 for 1 or worse situation you're more than likely to spend 7 mana getting rid of everything
if they have one minion on the board when they summon dr.boom this will kill him. Then it's easy clean up for the boom bots while you get to reinforce your own board and they now have to play from behind.
>tfw Ragrnaros used to be the OP card everyone bitched about
>>318082384
and if you have flare MC suddenly packs a whole lot less punch but that don't make him balanced either
all they need to do is make the boom bots have a chance to hit yourself and your own minions, fits with goblin theme anyway
>>318082454
True but tbf the dr boom bitching has gone on for 4 expansions now.
please, this is the real cancer
>>318083083
t. Cenarius
>mfw playing Dragon Priest
Such a cool deck.
hey guys hows it going kripparin here
Remove Dr Boom and Piloted Shredder and the game becomes balanced
>>318077805
Add to this the newest P2W card allows him to have 4 bombs
>>318083951
turns out Dr Boom is prreeeeeeettty good
>>318083083
no
>>318078715
Dr. Boom is so good that if one person plays it turn 7 and the other doesn't then the one who played it nearly always wins. Imagine a 1 cost card that reads "Battlecry: You win the game", now apply your argument to that card and see how stupid you sound.
>>318084036
You forgot about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE6J9_Bx6QU
>>318083083
>one of the benchmarks for a card being shit or good is whether it dies to shredder
>It's still not nerfed
>For 2 you have a 2/2 who can put a random secret for free if not silenced
Balanced they said.
>>318085371
>only 3 classes get a mechanic that makes the game much more interesting
>>318084613
not even close to true
![5d334647381d4d072a82a09150229c83[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/ZMHJWMh.png "5d334647381d4d072a82a09150229c83[1].png")
>>318085371
>>318086854
>play it against a mage
>YOU REQUIRE MY ASSISTANCE?
>play it against a paladin
>PUT YOUR FAITH IN THE LIGHT
>play it against a hunter
>[Savannah Higmane noises]
>>318086854
>silencing a mad scientist is the only way out
totally balanced
>>318087050
also, on this topic, how the fuck is Savannah Highmane balanced? I mean, Shredder can always massively fuck you over and drop Doomsayer or Captain's Parrot or some bullshit, but Highmane is always 10/9 for 6 mana unless it's silenced
>>318087632
class cards are easily balanced around
>>318087632
Class Cards are balanced on a different level than neutrals
>>318087632
It's like MC
He's a 10/9 but in addition you get a 3/2 and all other crap that you have on board get +1/+1
Dr Boom isnt OP. Its just the other 7 drops are so below the power curve its sad. Solution is not to nerf boom, but to buff other 7 drops.
If you want an example of an OP card the piloted shredder is well ahead of the power curve for 4 drops.
>>318088132
THE BOOM BOTS DEAL 5 DAMAGE EACH
HOW IS THAT BALANCED?
>>318088132
this. 7 mana is where the x/x+1 card stats stopped being a thing (after spider tank and pit fighter added the 3 and 5 versions) so war golem is just a boulderfist ogre that costs 1 mana more for the privilege of dying to BGH
>>318088132
nigger boom is op no matter how you cut it. Its body alone is above the standard scale
>>318080575
Just play oil rogue. You only need 2 epics.
>>318088132
>a 9/9 that has deathrattle: deal 2-8 damage to two random minions is what all 7 drops should be balanced to
>>318088867
>2-8 damage to two random minions
rather, two random enemies
>>318088612
Love this guy
>>318088867
make the boom bots 0/1
there fixed your shit blizzard
>>318080560
>And it's still the best option to deal with it.
Best option would be to play a non-shit game.
>>318089113
all games are shit anon
>>318088045
>8
Beta was fucking awful.
>>318080560
Wild Pyromancer + Shadow Word Death kills Boom and his bots for 5 mana as well as possibly stops the bombs from hitting face
>>318089651
>two cards for one
>>318089651
That's still 2 for 1.
>>318089705
>>318089874
it's still better than BGHing Boom and then standing there with your limp dick in your hand while the bots fuck you over
>>318089651
>>318089705
>>318089874
>>318089974
Only real 1 for 1 is Lightbomb assuming you have no minions on the board but will still get hit in the face for like 2-8 damage.
>>318076814
He'd still be the best 7 mana drop even if the bots had 20% chance each to explode on your side when spawning.
>mfw Blizzard is holding back with the nerfs until enough people spend real money on G&G packs
anyone else giving up on the game? It's the same old shit day in day out. There is no reason to play it anymore.
>>318091039
(you)
>>318091039
Ill take your account bro, 12k gold, sure.
>>318076814
Because he's Dr. Doom.
>>318076814
FOLLOW DE RULEZ
>>318091039
I did give up after a year and a half. It's shit.
>>318091039
I play a game where i can go infinite and get real money out of my account now
>>318077024
You can just craft him
I paid 0 cent, and I have it on my deck.
Dr.Boom is great for people who don't have many cards cause once you craft him you can use him everywhere.
>>318076814
because not every deck runs him
I'm sure blizzard will add different good 7 drops in the future anyway
>>318092964
>only having 1
Also why is Kripparrian not in charge of game balance?
He'd do a much better job than Ben fucking Brode
>>318093221
Every deck that isn't aggro has no reason to not run him
>>318085371
Secrets are inherently balanced because you have control over how they pop.
The reason why secret paladin isn't as good anymore is because people learned to disarm the secrets properly.
>>318093342
freeze mage, dragon priest, oil rogue to name a few
>>318082612
people still play midrange hunter?
>>318093324
bad cards have to exist anon
>>318093324
>kripp
>doing anything but being a fucking memer
nice try BMfag
