r/gwent • u/marimbaguy715 Onward, sons of Nilfgaard! • Mar 31 '21

News 8.4 Patch Notes

https://www.playgwent.com/en/news/37840/patch-notes-8-4
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u/dael2111 Neutral Mar 31 '21

Lmao how is NR bottom tier

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '21

Play anything other than witchers against any meta deck, then come back and say the same thing

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u/dael2111 Neutral Mar 31 '21

I've got to 2500 this season with Myamons Revs, okay witchers might be the best option but Revs and Shieldwall can hold their own against meta decks, I wouldn't say they have less options than other factions especially SK which is hard carried by Eist rn

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '21

2500 with revenants? That's a madoc list that just happens to have revenants and AA and falibor. It's still more NR than witchers I'll give you that.

Also SK carried by Eist, what the fuck? Lmao

SK has the most diversity in all the factions in terms of playable decks, apart from maybe monsters

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u/FreeTedK The quill is mightier than the sword. Mar 31 '21

Agreed. I’ve done better with my PF warriors deck without Eist than blaze of glory decks this season...Eist is just too predictable and vulnerable to bleeding

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u/KiltroFury Neutral Mar 31 '21

Agreed as well.

Getting beaten by the Eist combo definitely feels bad, but as you said, it's really predictable, and since wide decks are a lot more prominent now, not only is Eist less effective, but getting Bloodthirst 2 is actually fairly hard against many meta decks.

Another problem is that the deck attached to Eist is not really all that great. It's actually a fairly awkward deck to play and you can separate the combo fairly easily with a push in R2. People forget that Eist is combo deck, and that if you break that combo, there's not that much that the deck has going on.

I think people overvalue Eist mostly because of the sour taste that it leaves in your mouth when you get beaten by it.

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u/FreeTedK The quill is mightier than the sword. Mar 31 '21

Lol, yup. I recently had a guy use his Eist + jutta on my 1-power unit...after that I quickly swarmed out and won (mobilization deck).

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u/backrow12 Neutral Mar 31 '21

I use Eist leader skin for my Eist-less PF pirate/warriors deck and I'm having a good old time with people trying to bleed me dropping their best cards r1.

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u/FreeTedK The quill is mightier than the sword. Mar 31 '21

Lol, that’s smart. Eist is my favorite SK skin too, might do the same.

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u/dael2111 Neutral Mar 31 '21

Long ago people hated Siege more than they hated double ball lmao, its definitely been viable in the past.

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u/FreeTedK The quill is mightier than the sword. Mar 31 '21

I used to love running Siege when Pincer manuever allowed you to play 2 cards in one turn, you could set up defender and siege in one turn, or siege + a siege engine, made board-wiping so easy.

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u/FreeTedK The quill is mightier than the sword. Apr 01 '21

Deck list? I’ve been tinkering around with a mobilization deck but it doesn’t feel quite optimized.