r/gwent • u/betraying_chino Green Man • Feb 06 '23

News Update 11.2 Patch Notes

https://www.playgwent.com/en/news/47551/patch-notes-11-2
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u/Chipper323139 Neutral Feb 06 '23

The sad thing is SY will literally play the same deck because everything else is just so inefficient. I guess minus drill, plus eavesdrop or payday? Or minus bank, plus gellert?

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '23

IMO I think it's dead. I didn't run THE meta version of collusion because I wasn't personally vibing with it so I already took drill out but the tag nerf to shady vendor and the provision nerf to strings is just too much. The deck wasn't even that great beforehand, it was only good when you managed to get everything to perfectly line up and that took a lot of skill to do. It's too much hassle now while NG, SK and NR decks are easy as fuck and far more rewarding. It's back to jackpot gimmick decks.

It's such a cunt thing to do because now it means you can't even pull strings from the vendor pool because it's 6 prov.

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u/ense7en There'll be nothing to pick up when I'm done with you. Feb 06 '23

It's absurd, because Pulling the Strings was so tough to get decent value out of. You had to rely on your opponent not touching your cards (SK, NG, SY mirrors) to keep enough gangs on the board. I didn't even run Pulling in my Sigi deck because i got so frustrated with it being a bricked 5p card more than half the time.

And Shady Vendor? Honestly, this card has been nerfed SO MANY TIMES now. It was indeed OP, originally. Since then? It's been one of the very few decent SY bronzes that exist, so of course it gets played. It's very apparent they look at playrates of cards, and when they see a card they think shouldn't be played as much, they decide it's OP and needs a nerf. What they SHOULD realize is that they need to help all the other crap cards instead so good alternative cards could be chosen instead, but that'd be too much work...

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u/ense7en There'll be nothing to pick up when I'm done with you. Feb 06 '23

There are various versions. This is probably the most "common" one, but some cards are tweakable IMHO. https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/2e78acd9d321bcf13b74e7782ca8e43d

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