Kingsbane Rogue has severely shrunk in its size and is attempting to reinvent itself through more aggressive builds. It also boasts a diverse set of archetypes: Resurrect Priest, Control Priest, APM Priest and the erratic Combo Priest are the most common archetypes for the class, but Mecha’thun and vanilla Quest builds are also around (APM runs the quest but it’s not a “quest” deck, so it’s entirely separated). The class launches itself to the 2 nd spot in popularity from rank 4 onwards. Things have really opened up for Priest after the balance changes. The two main approaches to Midrange Hunter are the classic Houndmaster version, and the Master’s Call version.
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It has a diverse set of builds and is at its early stages of refinement. The wildcard is Midrange Hunter, which is currently growing in popularity and is more common at higher levels of play. All three of these archetypes are very similar, or identical, to their pre-patch versions. Secret Hunter’s prevalence behaves similarly to Spell Hunter, while Cube Hunter maintains more consistent numbers across the board. However, Spell Hunter’s numbers get cut in half at legend compared to the 1-4 bracket. Outside of legend rank, Spell Hunter is the most popular deck in the game by a large margin. Hunter currently displays 4 common archetypes: Spell, Secret, Cube and Midrange. At legend, the numbers drop to around 25%, which might indicate that while Hunter is certainly strong, and there’s probably a good reason why it’s the most popular class at every rank, its power level might not be at unmanageable levels. This is exhibited by its prevalence at the 1-4 bracket where it approaches 35% of the field. As we’ve said in our balance changes breakdown last week, Hunter was likely to be an extremely safe and reliable method to climb ladder in the early days.
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We expected this, since Hunter was a very powerful class before the patch and was completely unaffected by it.
The early days of the post-patch meta are infested with Hunters at a pretty extraordinary level. This is important to consider when assessing archetypes’ performance levels later. New decks are being tested, many cards are being tested in established archetypes, and different archetypes are in very various stages of refinement. The balance changes have completely changed the meta and sent every archetype into a spiral. While this is the second Data Reaper Report published for Rastakhan’s Rumble, we must treat it as if it’s the first report of an expansion.
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