Haven't been playing long but so far they seem to make hasty decisions with balancing. Like last patch they say something is weak and needs a buff, but then this patch they say its way too strong and then nerf it to be even worse than before (like ciri going from 6- >7 but then smacking it down to 5 this patch cause its too strong). Needs to be slower and more incremental changes imo, not huge mechanic changes and 2+ point swings in the same go. Hopefully they figure it out as they go along.

Solmyr

Poland261 Posts

June 26 2017 18:44 GMT

#244

I don't know if I wanna play this or any other game. Since I've started to play multi player games it is all the same.
If balance is impossible why than we play? To get cheap wins from playing OP?
People are always serious when it comes to PVP and since Gwent is only that we end in the situation known from other pvp games. Meta or bust... .
Congratz you know what OP deck is. Do you even win by yourself or is OP giving you wins. And if complex system with a lot of cards turns into one deck to rule them all ? Maybe it is better to play chess.
I should be collecting kegs with improved ST deck but why I need cards anyway. Maybe just craft few OP and be good?
Like how many legendaries in GVG era in HS we need ? Dr. Boom and ?

Laurens

Belgium4557 Posts

June 27 2017 12:24 GMT

#245

I've been playing some Reveal Nilfgaard after I got bored of my Dwarf deck and it's a nice change. At first I dropped ~200 MMR while getting better with the deck but now I've passed my original rating. The deck does really well vs King Bran axemen/frost, 50/50 vs Crach Mork decks.

And NG will probably/hopefully get buffed next patch so that's something to look forward to.

Solmyr

Poland261 Posts

June 27 2017 19:29 GMT

#246

The good part of this game is that after like 15h played I already got dust to assemble deck I wanted. In HS it took me few months of dailies and good number of arenas. You really get lots of golden cards you can DE if you wish to do it which is nice compared to Bli$$ard generosity.

habermas

United Kingdom304 Posts

June 28 2017 10:04 GMT

#247

I think the meta is shifting. I've been seeing much less Skellige recently and more other factions, especially NR. So it may be not so bad after all for CDPR to wait with the patch for the meta to settle.

Laurens

Belgium4557 Posts

June 28 2017 10:56 GMT

#248

Yeah SK could still use a small nerf, but other factions shouldn't be buffed TOO hard. Reveal NG is already good. There have been various NR decks that are good too. Maybe a slight nerf to SK/Monsters whilst reworking/slightly buffing ST could do the trick.

I think the problem is that a lot of players invested the 1000s of scraps they got from last patch into SK decks, so even if they take a nerf there will still be a lot of SK on the ladder.

This full refund business is honestly bad for the game.

KillerSOS

United States4207 Posts

June 29 2017 18:33 GMT

#249

ST def needs some love. The identity of the faction doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and the synergies are so much weaker than NR/SK

Solmyr

Poland261 Posts

June 29 2017 19:22 GMT

#250

Elves seem to be all over the place, with ambush, mulligan and other abilities that need more cards to be playable.
On the other hand i tear apart my opposition at lvl 8 with dwarf deck

Nice thing about pvp games, when you win it feels good man.

Dandel Ion

Austria17960 Posts

June 29 2017 20:20 GMT

#251

st is kind of a one card wonder, its mostly about ilthinne either winning you the game or not

the funny thing is, i started out with a mull theme and the deck slowly turned into mostly dwarves anyway, just with wardancers and vanguards, because the cards that support any non-dorf theme are so far below par i'd be embarrased playing them

Solmyr

Poland261 Posts

June 30 2017 19:28 GMT

#252

I feel kinda strange. I was part of HS beta but very late almost at the very end of it. Right now on lower levels where I play with Tier2?? deck versus players that try everything,playing with what they got, learning the game and its basics. It's like you put together a basic common deck in 2014 and hit ranked going to rank 14 and oppose first guys with Ragnaros and felt hopeless. But now I am the one with Ragnaros

I almost feel i can win most of the games only with Geralt:Igni, just watching how they buff all those rows just to be punished.

blunderfulguy

United States1415 Posts

July 01 2017 01:01 GMT

#253

I was part of HS beta since around the same phase as I was with Gwent, right in the first non-family wave. With HS I got pretty far without buying more than three packs, but there was a hard wall made of Epic and Legendary cards I (and many others) hit all the time. With Gwent that wall feels a lot blurrier and arrives much sooner too, which I think is sort of a good thing? Or, at least, it makes sense to me with how the game is designed.

I need to set aside some Gwent time one of these evenings, barely been playing games in general the last couple months. Dx

hunts

United States2113 Posts

July 03 2017 21:00 GMT

#254

So dev stream about balance changes later today from what I recall, and then actual balance changes sometime in thr near future? Hopefully they make it interesting.

Laurens

Belgium4557 Posts

July 04 2017 06:13 GMT

#255

Dev stream had already happened when you typed that

Good changes for me personally, the only thing I don't understand is a Shani buff, she was already used in most NR decks with decent success.

Full changes here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gwent/comments/6l20tt/dev_stream_summary_all_changes/

Solmyr

Poland261 Posts

July 04 2017 07:45 GMT

#256

So many changes, buff to Olgierd round one, buff to dwarf merceneries, Ithlinne nerfed again but I will still like her( even made her premium for my only 400 powder),weather seems nerfed but Nithral to 3? This will hurt sometimes.
My aproach to this game is:do a keg quest a day and wait till game leave Beta. That way i secure some cards and avoid playing OP. On the other hand my ST dwarf deck loses only if i rope for a turn becouse i think this is not my turn :D

Numy

South Africa35471 Posts

July 04 2017 10:32 GMT

#257

On July 04 2017 15:13 Laurens wrote:
Dev stream had already happened when you typed that

She's mainly just used to combo with witchers to try win round 3 again. Maybe with rest of NR being buffed the witchers weren't as needed so Shani is inadvertently worse thus buffing her? It's a small change so we'll see.

Glad Kambi/Bork got nerfed. They cards that people like to think of as "skill intensive" but generally are just a wall of "did you tech right" instead of actually any player skill being involved. Would love a complete rework of Bork into something involving RNR though. Maybe single line RNR?

Solmyr

Poland261 Posts

July 04 2017 10:55 GMT

#258

On lvl 10 casual I meet mostly consume decks or strange things especially ST elf dekcs. TBH I hardly see any weather. Maybe it is time to change 3 anti weather tech cards. But I like Ida. She is lovly and have fantastic flavor text. But with incoming Fog nerf... So sad.

habermas

United Kingdom304 Posts

July 04 2017 11:56 GMT

#259

So it looks like after the patch ladder is going to be full of NR.

Laurens

Belgium4557 Posts

July 04 2017 13:12 GMT

#260

Yeah I'm almost certainly going to tech Geralt Igni if that's the case, I think it's the best counter to their Kaedweni Sgt crap.