u/Vanlorden

Adam is generally seen as an off-healer that exchanges some "healing power" for damage, but constantly I see other supports like Luna and Jubilee outputting the same (if not more) damage than adam with decent acc. In addition, these characters have the ability to heal on hit, CC/self-peel and an ult that makes the whole team invulnerable (while adam has a great but very situational one). So in essence, adam racks up the same amount of damage as these other supports while being outhealed (at least from my experience). Therefore, my question to you adam players, would it be bad for the game if adam also could heal allies with his primary to bring him up to par with the rest of the support roster? I am curious to hear what you guys think.

Shaman is my favorite class, but I cant stand the herald archetype. It's far too far linear and has no "wow" factor to it. I suppose the imbue mechanic is linear too but there is a certain excitement with evolving your minions and having no clue what you'll get. For that reason, no game will ever play out the same as the previous nor the next, which helps the game feel "fresh".

With the herald deck, however, the games always play out exactly the same; play your skyward sentinel, ritual of power, envoy of the end and Ultraxion on turn 2-7, al-akir on turn 8-9 and deathwing on 10 (or earlier if discounted). This is more or less the loop you'll experience with little to no variability. This makes playing the deck extremely stale, and I cant bring myself to play it for more than 1 game.

I can legit sit and play imbue shaman for hours, but it is a shame really that such a fun deck is as terrible as it is. Far too many conditions have to satisfied for the HP to be useable: first you need to imbue several times, then you need to have a minion in play, then you have to use up 2 mana(assuming you even have enough), and then you pray that you get something that has some impact. More often than not, you'll end up with a minion that is understated because said minion has a battlecry effect attached to it. From my experience, however, is that I feel like most of the time I just dont have enough mana left over to use the HP, making the whole archetype fall apart. Hence, a 1 mana HP would surely help you weave in more evolves throughout the game rather than being 1 mana too short. Alternatively, being able to influence the outcome of an evolve, following the investment you have to make, would at least increase the likelihood of getting something with impact when you do get the chance to use your HP. Will this make it very good? Probably not, but it would really help it keep up with meta decks.

Just sucks that the entire Emerald Dream expansion class sets were centered around imbue (for the classes that were chosen to have this mechanic), and when the imbue package turned out to be terrible, none of the cards were really playable. Can't remember the last time I actually saw a shaman enjoyer using a SINGLE class card from that expansion.

On a side note, I think its funny that several archetypes were balanced around shudderblock being in rotation (like imbue and quest). But when he rotated, these decks sadly saw no adjustments to their (low) power levels. Of course, im aware that several other decks have also been left out in the cold, and this makes me sad.

Anyway, enough of the cope and ranting :).

Would adam be broken if his primary healed on hit?

Several years later and it still hurts....