How to reach Legend with priest

[Neto 0]

Hi guys,

 

I'm trying to reach legend with priest but it seems impossible. It seems the better cards i craft the worst my gameplay is.

 

I've only have naxx, no loe or brm.

 

I have Justicar, Ysera, Vol'jin and Sylvanas.

 

Can you help me build a suitable deck for the current meta?

 

Thanks for the help 

[positiv2 950]

What cards are you missing from the deck located on this website?

[Neto 0]

The cards from LOE:

Museum Curator x 2, Entomb x 2 and 1 x Cabal Shadow Priest

[Neto 0]

My current deck is:

Circle of healing x 2

Light of the Naaru x 1

Power Word: Shield x 2

Northshire Cleric x 2

Zombie Chow x 2

Wild pyromancer x 2

Shadow word: Death x 1

Dark cultist x 2

Auchenai Soulpriest x 2

Holy Nova x 2

Sludge Belcher x 2

Vol'jin x 1

Lightbomb x 2

Cabal Shadow priest x 1

Justicar

Sylvanas

Confessor Paletress

Ysera

 

Can't get past rank 15.

 

Sorry for the noob post, first post here

Edited April 11, 2016 by positiv2

[positiv2 950]

I formatted your posts a bit.

The deck looks fine, though I am not sure about Paletress. What kind of decks do you face most often?

[Neto 0]

Agro paladin / Shaman.

 

I try to control the board but most of the times i can't manage.

 

I tought about including Deathlord and inner fire.

 

Bad choise?

[positiv2 950]

Inner Fire is most definitely an unsuitable card. Deathlord sounds okay, so you might include them in place of Ysera and Paletress.

[Mursilis 34]

I have a control Priest Dragon deck as well, and have more trouble climbing the ladder with that than almost any other deck I use for other roles.  Lots of arrgo or secret paladins/hunters and the like just do too much damage before I can get control, so finishing me off is just a few charge minions away.  So don't worry Neto, you're not alone.

[Neto 0]

I have a control Priest Dragon deck as well, and have more trouble climbing the ladder with that than almost any other deck I use for other roles.  Lots of arrgo or secret paladins/hunters and the like just do too much damage before I can get control, so finishing me off is just a few charge minions away.  So don't worry Neto, you're not alone.

 

Have you manage to got up the ladder with any priest deck?

[Allegro 40]

I managed to get a priest deck up to rank 5 last month, so it is possible. I dont have the legendaries you do, just Loatheb. 

The basic strategy when running into lots of aggro decks is 1) AOE - which you have lots of, 2) healing, and 3) steal their minions. I use a cabal shadow priest and mind control tech to do that, you might also want a shadow word pain in there to deal with annoying minions with a low attack value before they get out of control. Stealing a paladin's secret keeper when its first played can put a kink in their plans.

[positiv2 950]

I managed to get a priest deck up to rank 5 last month, so it is possible. I dont have the legendaries you do, just Loatheb. 

The basic strategy when running into lots of aggro decks is 1) AOE - which you have lots of, 2) healing, and 3) steal their minions. I use a cabal shadow priest and mind control tech to do that, you might also want a shadow word pain in there to deal with annoying minions with a low attack value before they get out of control. Stealing a paladin's secret keeper when its first played can put a kink in their plans.

Actually, Pain causes you to lose tempo, especially with those sticky minions such as Creeper. Early game minions are much more valuable. From my experience, i can recommend Chow or Deathlord.

[Neto 0]

Lightwell / inner / velen's  combos with deathlord / tournament medic etc?

 

What do you think?

[Allegro 40]

Lightwell / inner / velen's  combos with deathlord / tournament medic etc?

 

What do you think?

Thats a really hard combo to pull off. I've messed around with it before, but without much success. 

[Neto 0]

If you didn't have loe / brm what would be your choice for a rank up control priest deck?

[Allegro 40]

If you didn't have loe / brm what would be your choice for a rank up control priest deck?

My current deck relies too much on entomb and museum curator from loe; but if I had to go without them I would try something like this: 

https://www.icy-veins.com/hearthstone/grinder-china-priest-tgt-deck

[Mursilis 34]

 

I have a control Priest Dragon deck as well, and have more trouble climbing the ladder with that than almost any other deck I use for other roles.  Lots of arrgo or secret paladins/hunters and the like just do too much damage before I can get control, so finishing me off is just a few charge minions away.  So don't worry Neto, you're not alone.

 

Have you manage to got up the ladder with any priest deck?

 

No, but I only play casually and don't worry about rankings too much.  I bounce around from one class to the next too much just trying to complete the daily quests.  That said I have played a couple different Priest decks, the dragon oriented one seems the most consistent.  I just can't get the right cards in my hand when faced with arrgo decks (ie no AoE when I need it, or all large minions with my small ones stuck at the bottom of my deck).