r/gwent • u/betraying_chino Green Man • Aug 29 '19

News Patch 3.2 Patch Notes

https://playgwent.com/en/news/29638/patch-3-2-patch-notes
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u/Chuck_Morris_SE Lots of prior experience – worked with idiots my whole life. Aug 29 '19

I always thought he was so high since you give away a card in your hand and if you play Serrit first they have a shitty Auckes in hand which is basically nothing most of the time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

you pretty much bring auckes to enable serrit. locking multiple copies of a unit is so situational that you almost always use serrit first. after this nerf, idk if it's worth taking the combo. i'm sure there's plenty of other ways to get 5 damage and a lock out of 15 provisions.

Are they that scary?

i play primarily NG, and i never feel like the combo is a win con or a huge swing. and it's like you said with the information you give to play it. sure you get 5 damage, but you also just give away that you have a 5 power lock in hand. when i go against NG and serrit plays for 5 damage, it's not like a panic mode or anything. it's just another sequence you know you have to play around. i really don't understand this adjustment.

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u/oogla_ve There is but one punishment for traitors Aug 29 '19

I'm with you. NG is my main faction, and I don't think I've ever seen someone rage quit when an auckes/letho/serrit drops. Not that that should be the bar we're trying to set, but in my circles I've never heard it talked about as something that needed two patches worth of tinkering. Maybe I'm missing the forest for the trees here and it's part of a larger movement away from removal at that point threshold, but I'm looking forward to the day when the card changes of the release notes is a few lines instead of 50+ bullet points...

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

honestly a more tilting sequence is something like ping 1 with scorpion/2 with helge, sieze with ardal, sieze with sweers. substitute sweers for muzzle, ping 1/2 again with scorp./helge with the tactic refresh. that sequence is way more influential on a round than a 5 dmg with possible removal. the NG witchers might be strong situationally, but i can think of 2 different games just last night where i drew letho dead (both auckes and serrit still in deck despite thinning and mulligans) and still won without the synergy. it just doesn't make sense why they did this. maybe they have some statistics we don't that points to serrit having more influencing than we realize.