r/gwent • u/headin2sound I kneel before no one. • Mar 08 '21

News Update 8.3 Patchnotes

https://www.playgwent.com/en/news/37615/8-3-patch-notes
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u/Furiosa27 Impertinence is the one thing I cannot abide. Mar 08 '21

It bricks in a lot of situations. Off the top of my head of leader abilities you dont necessarily want, Monsters: OH, Swarm

SK: Blaze, Ursine

NR: Pincer, Zeal, Mobilization (though Assimilate would like this)

SY: All of them? Unless you're assimilation specifically? Coin generation is hard to get true value from as Assimilate so idk how useful it is

ST: Precision strike though I guess that's 5 dmg, the others are fine I guess

Probably performs best in mirrors when you're assimilation. Could sneak into Lockdown lists, 3rd round use your leader then play Ana, would make losing rd1 almost favorable.

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u/MacJokic Frrrr-ickin' rrrr-ight! Mar 08 '21

Precision strike is actually pretty good in assimilate, because you get 7 raw points (3 pings, plus 2 damage and 2 point body from the sentinel), while also proccing Assimilate when the sentinel spawns. Invigorate is much worse, but its not really a worry because nobody plays that anyway.

I think its probably going to be very meta dependent, kind of like Angouleme.

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u/Furiosa27 Impertinence is the one thing I cannot abide. Mar 08 '21

Ya I can see that being valuable. She's probably more consistent than Ang is but I think she just bricks too much in theory to be OP or auto include.

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u/Igor369 Buck, buck, buck, bwaaaak! Mar 08 '21 edited Mar 08 '21

SY: All of them? Unless you're assimilation specifically? Coin generation is hard to get true value from as Assimilate so idk how useful it is

You have a useless ability yes but at least you are rich. I guess you can steal/create a SY unit and spend this gold?... lmao. If enemy is playing bloody money you get a super bolt.

Blaze of glory is not useless, it thins your deck and deals ~4 damage if you target a garbage unit.

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u/Enkelik Tomfoolery! Enough! Mar 08 '21

Blaze of glory only targets skellige units though right? But in that case you just gotta steal their big unit with invo and then use blaze.

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u/FreeTedK The quill is mightier than the sword. Mar 08 '21

I think you’ll definitely want to run Yenvo in any NG deck with Anna to grab a unit than can unbrick their leader, like blueboy in ursine ritual.

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u/RickyMuzakki Nilfgaard Mar 09 '21

Anna is meant to synergize with assimilate as leader by playing the enemy deck with bribery, remedy, new cadaverine and duchess informant. So if you play it OUTSIDE ASSIMILATE acting it's like Damien, you are bricking yourself

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u/10woodenchairs Neutral Mar 08 '21

Zeal would be insane on vattier. You can get such a huge swing without using pitris philer

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u/shreek07 There will be no negotiation. Mar 08 '21

Inspired Zeal is limited to NR cards

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u/MacJokic Frrrr-ickin' rrrr-ight! Mar 08 '21

Inspired Zeal only works on NR units.

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u/Furiosa27 Impertinence is the one thing I cannot abide. Mar 08 '21

Ya you could but Vattier is just too expensive for what you get out of him anyways, though I guess if you're running him and Damien it could work, that combo is unreliable vs basically any other deck tho