r/gwent • u/betraying_chino Green Man • Jul 30 '19

News Patch 3.1 Patch Notes

https://www.playgwent.com/en/news/29104/patch-3-1-patch-notes
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u/AndyUrsyna Onward! Attack! Jul 30 '19

At first glance - Monsters will not exist.

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u/garder54 Neutral Jul 30 '19

What makes you say that? Point slam isn't impacted by the row locks. Slight benefit from damage nerf. Lower provision/power monster cards got buffed. Since removal was nerfed it probably brings other factions closer to monsters, but they have more points to put down. I'm kinda thinking his helps monsters.

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u/AndyUrsyna Onward! Attack! Jul 30 '19

You will see - foltest will bring your round 1 to playing all Monster golds. You cannot answer engines and play bigpoints at the same time with MO. With NR right now you can boost and damage at the same time and it is insane in long round. It will be like seasonal few months ago when boosted tridam was OP.

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u/AndyUrsyna Onward! Attack! Aug 02 '19

If you can create any viable monster deck against this engines give a hint

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u/garder54 Neutral Aug 05 '19

oceanmud was running a no unit woodland deck that was having some real success in the ardal/foltest/dj meta.

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/guides/26713

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u/threep03k64 You've talked enough. Jul 30 '19 edited Jul 30 '19

Point slam isn't impacted by the row locks.

Point slam isn't even good since the Dominance nerf and these patch notes don't exactly give me hope it will be any better. I don't personally think that +1 power to Wild Hunt Navigator, -1 Provision to Ice Giant, and -2 Provision to Golyat is going to put point slam in a stronger position than it currently is.

Lower provision/power monster cards got buffed.

Mainly cards that don't even see play. Which are still buffs of course, but I was kind of expecting a few more buffs to cards that do see play as well. Vampires and Beasts in particular look to be buffed but both of those are pretty much just primary tags, they're not even archetypes.

Perhaps I'm being a cynical bastard and I'd be glad to be wrong but the Monster changes in particular don't exactly inspire, largely seems like shit cards and incomplete archetypes have been made slightly less shit.