you're not looking at unique voters, mate. you're looking at a blanket multiple choice. here, let me clear up the real numbers for you (blue is the first time the names show up. red is the second. green is the third):
that's eight duplicate votes, by 6 different people (JUSTICAR and morbius both voted on ALL yes options to press
just how dissatisfied they were, while the third yes was only voted by two unique voters.): meaning the total tally is actually 26 unique types of "i don't like this". meanwhile, here's the "i like this" tally:
none of these names appear in a prior list. they are all unique - therefor, there were still 45 people who wanted to tell gondorian "no, we are fine with these cards". the real percentage was
64.78% yes, 35.32% no. that's a much larger swing than the 1% that you get when you add padding votes.
clearly the deck archetype is powerful, but they never specified any hero. the discussion merely gravitated towards him because he is the current face of the flavour. why? i see many replies about living armour, and even i can agree that that is the main concern due to its cost efficiency. very few people are really concerned about zaladar as a whole; or rather, the discussion has gone tangential because of a few people.
of course there will always be a meta dominator. that's the nature of the game. you roll with it until the next change. but like you said, we don't know how bad he's dominating. is it 51%? or maybe 55%? i'm inclined to think this is precautionary; simply because of the ghosts of aramia past. depending on how popular and constant he is, it may only be a problem with a specific card; again, look to the whole thread being a rather steady flow of feedback on that card. additionally, look to aramia: people were having THIS EXACT ARGUMENT about her when the set came out, and all that was needed was a small nerf to wisp.
i think it's less than coincidental that zaladar is the face of discarding; he's the strongest elemental hero, and only the mage and elemental classes were given the self-mill archetype to play around with in this set. it comes down to a 50% flip; either the "face" of self-mill was going to be aramia, who can build her mill tech fastest, or zaladar, who is the quintessential elemental with a decent pool to play on and who specializes in Aggressive Self-Mill, while
Praxix
is less versatile and specializes in Defensive Mill/Stall.
and since aramia was the original face of self-mill, and got toned down a bit, now the community shifts gears to the other half of the coin. it's only natural.
Originally Posted by gnodab
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