I was expecting them to go full Hearthstone with the legendaries but then they revealed Rattlegore so...maybe they'll do a bit of both? I'm fine with any dungeon boss becoming a card (preferably the Barovs, Ras Frostwhisper and Gandling). I'm definitely assuming they won't include Doctor Theolen Krastinov as that character is kinda dark for Hearthstone's standards.
I don't think a change to Barnes would really do much to prevent Big Priest from steamrolling a lot of control decks. A big minion would still be coming out on T6 possibly and then you'd still be facing multiple waves of big things in the late game. Vargoth would also essentially become the new full mulligan minion for the priest. A Barnes nerf would be mostly useless at this point.
While I can agree with control matchups not changing too much (and you couldn't lowroll Barnes from Shadow Essence anymore), a change could have a big impact on more aggressive matchups. After all, quite many cards in the deck are meant to resurrect stuff and remain as dead cards until you get something killed. Turn 5 resurrected Ragnaros (or Obsidian Statue in aggro matchups) is lot harder to deal with than turn 7.
Even though I may have personally played some Big Priest lately (don't hate me), I'm still continuing to support the "summon a 1/1 actor with a copied card text" nerf idea.
I was expecting them to go full Hearthstone with the legendaries but then they revealed Rattlegore so...maybe they'll do a bit of both? I'm fine with any dungeon boss becoming a card (preferably the Barovs, Ras Frostwhisper and Gandling). I'm definitely assuming they won't include Doctor Theolen Krastinov as that character is kinda dark for Hearthstone's standards.
While I can agree with control matchups not changing too much (and you couldn't lowroll Barnes from Shadow Essence anymore), a change could have a big impact on more aggressive matchups. After all, quite many cards in the deck are meant to resurrect stuff and remain as dead cards until you get something killed. Turn 5 resurrected Ragnaros (or Obsidian Statue in aggro matchups) is lot harder to deal with than turn 7.
Even though I may have personally played some Big Priest lately (don't hate me), I'm still continuing to support the "summon a 1/1 actor with a copied card text" nerf idea.