![]() There’s also one thing I need to address. Old Guardian wrote an article with his own buff wishlist/predictions here if you’re interested. In order to have a healthy meta with all of the classes (or at least most of them) being viable, buffs are crucial. Many of them are just too deep in the dumpster, and on top of touching Death Knight, we need to pull those up to the power level of other classes, otherwise we’ll just switch Death Knight for Paladin & Demon Hunter as the uncontested Tier 0 decks. And I think that’s the correct approach – many of the weaker classes like Warrior, Warlock or Mage won’t suddenly become good meta options even if DK is nerfed. ![]() They actually teased the patch on Twitter, suggesting that it would have a lot of buffs. Of course, they had very limited data back then, and I’m still glad that they tried to adjust the meta ever so slightly, but it’s obvious that we need something. We already had a small one a few days after launch, but it didn’t really change that much. But don’t sleep on it, because it’s still a competitive deck and it’s among the best meta options. Unholy DH, on the other hand, is generally just a weaker version of Frost, that’s why it doesn’t see as much play (only a few % play rate, in line with many other less popular archetypes). That’s obviously way too much and it needs to be tuned. Together they make up for close to 30% of the meta, but if we look at certain ranks, such as Diamond (where people try hardest to climb), the class reaches even 40% play rate. Frost DK is now an unquestionable #1 deck in the game, while Blood DK is the most popular one (and still very, very powerful). ![]() A class tuned for the previous, much stronger meta is now dominating the weaker, 4 expansions meta (overall power level is generally at its lowest right after rotation). However, exactly because it’s a new class, it didn’t lose anything in the rotation, so its whole power has stayed in the game AND it also got a few new tools in Festival of Legends. The class has only just launched in March of the Lich King (last expansion) and it was heavily buffed to keep up with other classes in the previous, more demanding 6 expansions meta. There are many new, fun archetypes and the overall experience of the expansion is quite good… except Death Knight. On the one hand, it feels like the expansion (and the whole rotation) has so much potential. ![]() Festival of Legends has been out for nearly two weeks now! And it’s been a bittersweet experience so far. ![]()
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