Birna Bran now draws 3 cards instead of 4.
Ohhh god fucking damn it, stop nerfing Skellige.
Why? The changes all seem good to meLatest patch is another reason why I won't come back to the game.
I'll just wait for the finished product.
Why? The changes all seem good to me
Reducing Birna to drawing 3 cards isn't the worst thing in the world. She could really screw you over sometimes. All it means now is that you won't be able to thin your deck to 0 by the last round. To empty the deck now you'll have to use King Bran *shudder*
As someone that plays exclusively Skellige, I can tell you that the nerf is terrible, mostly because Bran can be useful but you basically have to give out all the card advantage you can build with Skellige in order to gain 1 card and maybe you can't win with that card, meanwhile with 3 cards advantage you are basically unbeatable. And Birna is not only essential to build card advantage but also to stream down the deck, and while she has royally screw me over a couple of times, the amount of times she screw me are rather low compared to the amount of times I actually got the shit I needed either for my hand (Geralt Igni, Restoration, Donar, etc) or graveyard (bears, Skirmishers, Queensguard). The risk reward for Birna was fine as it was.
I can't speak of the buff/nerf for other decks because I haven't played any other deck but Skellige for quite a few days now, personally I think the buff they did to the deck were meaningless compared to how much they screw over the discard deck, since Birna was always the last attempt to getting that card you wanted/needed and now you have even less chances of pulling it out.
I guess is time to build another deck with other factions if they keep messing around with Skellige while basically giving no incentives of playing as them with this patches.
I think going from 4 cards to 3 is pretty significant, but that Birna is probably still worth playing. I would have preferred it if they compensated by lowering Birna's strength a bit, but being able to dig 3 cards deep for the one you need is still pretty good, as well as potentially being able to set up discard combos.
I won't disagree that Skellige got nerfed, but I think the other meta decks all got nerfed too: ST special card spam, Monsters Weather, NR Promote, etc. Also King Bran got buffed, and Harold's tweak is arguably a buff too.
I've been playing Skellige since I first got access to the Beta, and have thought several times "It'd be nice to try another deck" but it always boils down to "Oh I don't have these cards" which are crazy expensive in terms of scrap. I just crafted Geralt:Igni the other day, and I'm still missing quite a few cards that are good in a number of decks (Operator, Borkh), and always missing cards that are good for factions that aren't Skellige :/
They did, the changes to skellige are not significant enough to be whining about imo. The only terrible change skellige ever got were the shield smith nerfing last patch. Stop reading the notes in a bubble, the effective strength of ever faction will be dropping, it's not a nerf if they are all in line.
Edit: Also, thin your deck with first light as intended.
Good times were had
This is the most extreme case, but that's not the first time it happens. I have no idea how to counter this since they always pull this shit after I've passed my turn
Wait, what? You're in the last round and passed with 5 cards left in your hand and you passed? You had a scorch. Use the scorch before they use promote.
Any more thoughts on the patch? Lost the feverish urge to play since I took a break. Will probably wait it out until there's a big influx of cards
Harald the Cripple is pretty damn good now. I could see them taking away the Gold Damage though.
So I guess the new meta is Scoia first light over and over and over.
Starting to get really sick of getting matched with people who spam golds left and right. Besides Geralt I only ever got one gold, Milva, and it was very early in the game.
Either I'm really unlucky with kegs or I'm playing with people who have a much higher level than me (11).
Starting to get really sick of getting matched with people who spam golds left and right. Besides Geralt I only ever got one gold, Milva, and it was very early in the game.
Either I'm really unlucky with kegs or I'm playing with people who have a much higher level than me (11).
i sense nerfs to iorveth and possibly vernon and triss coming
Iorveth is almost better than radovid
Progress for new players (who are more likely to be F2P) is too slow. I barely play anymore at level 4 because I need to win games with my shitty deck(s) and pray I dont get paired with people with actual functional decks.
I know the solution is "buy packs and support the game" but no. I'm not going to invest in a game I'm unsure about and neither will most new players. Real world tcgs and such often have events (like a draft) that mitigate the need for a well developed collection, or they sell starter decks that can actually take you somewhat far if played competently. This game has neither. Hell in real world tcgs without those things I can still buy individual cards (and even sell them later!), but here I need to buy kegs and pray for the cards I need, or pray that I get enough to mill to craft the cards I need. Its more exploitative than a real tcg/ccg,
But radovid isn't a weak cardthe power level of leader cards is a bit all over the place but it's not a given that they're supposed to be better than any gold card. monster leaders are barely above silver tier
But radovid isn't a weak card
But radovid isn't a weak card
Once the game go live, do we still retain the cards we obtained through kegs?
Once the game go live, do we still retain the cards we obtained through kegs?
It's possible, but I doubt they will considering how much time it takes to progress. If matchmaking is done properly there's no reason to reset.
i thought they had said they were not going to reset unless it was absolutely necessary
I have 1900 scraps and don't know what to buy. Might save for the new cards.
What level are you/How many kegs did you buy? I've not spent any money on the store and am level 50+ now, but I've always been hurting for scrap. Every deck I've wanted to play I've always felt like I was missing Legendary cards that were crucial, e.g. Cerys, Isengrim etc.
If they do a reset you'd be refunded the kegs you purchased anyway. No "progress" is lost.
I have 1900 scraps and don't know what to buy. Might save for the new cards.
Oh yeah it will be. People have been playing for several hours now, I haven't bought a single Keg but I almost have all the cards in the game with the exception of 9 legendaries. If they do a reset I doubt I would invest the same amount of time into the game again to build good decks all over again, specially when the tactics I used to for starter decks no longer works thanks to the changes the patches did to the game.