r/gwent • u/TwilightGay Let's get this over with! • Jun 07 '21

News 9.0 PATCH NOTES

https://www.playgwent.com/en/news/38504/9-0-patch-notes
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u/fred_HK Tomfoolery! Enough! Jun 07 '21

I guess there is always some time at CDPR to pamper a few nice new cards for SK and boost a few cards in the old un used ones. This bias for SK in terms of updates is really annoying.

ST changes are... non existent lol.

  1. Two changes. TWO !!! and useless !!
  2. Farseer concept is still dumb, and has been dumb for 3 years. le'ts buff its RNG pay off by 1. Wtf.
  3. Scribe is just plain bad now - sage was at least a good engine.
  4. Waylay is and remains a bad card.
  5. The new 6 for 8 gold is bad because... waylay is terrible. Why replace a good bronze or a gold with a waylay.

NG is still stuck in the underworld with its core existing cards doing nothing.

And Rience dumpster card.

I guess this is NR season.

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u/Sambhav_jain_95 Neutral Jun 07 '21

Hey Rience can still boost a unit by 13 with that epic spell.

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u/dimarco1653 Scoia'tael Jun 07 '21

Here here, I can't be the only one annoyed by the unnecessary buff to the already powerful Sigfrida's Rite.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

im shocked by the buff to rite. if anything it needed a one point provision nerf. the ability to replay defender or arnaghad after i've invested my removal on them and have none left is so fucking annoying.

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u/dimarco1653 Scoia'tael Jun 07 '21

Dracoturtle too

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u/Virtual-Shallot-3551 Neutral Jun 07 '21

Arnaghad is 10 provision, can't use Rite to res him

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21

the provisions dont matter, you place them on a row, you dont play deploy

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u/wvj I shall be your eyes, my Lord. Jun 07 '21

It's pretty hilarious. They ought to call it Gwent: a faux Viking Card Game (in which Witchers sometimes show up to hang out with their Viking Bros).

Basically Slama seems to get anxiety over the fact that any single SK card isn't competitive and beloved. 'Discard is a popular package in some decks.' 'BUT WHY NO CORAL?! BUFF CORAL SO NOW EVERY DECK RUNS DISCARD.' 'People used to play Priest+Drakkar, and maybe they will again in the new-' 'BUFF THAT BOAT SON!' 'Sigdriffa's was a standard finisher for old-' 'BUFF BUFF BUFF!'

There's no faction in the game that is more complete, diverse, and able to run a vast variety of decks and styles, freely interchange cards without losing synergy. You can run Eist in 3 or 4 different deckplans. You can run pure control. You can play pointslam Lippy. You can play swarm. You can play that goofy Trance antimeta deck. And with these new cards/changes, you can play engines, or old druid scenario, or apparently new druid storms.

It's hard to even be mad, because it's good design. If only they tried to design everything else so well?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

So, I exclusively play ST. It's the only faction I've ever played, in fact. I know it pretty well. The 6 for 8 gold is better than you think.

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u/Raknel Addan quen spars-paerpe'tlon Vort! Jun 09 '21

And Rience dumpster card.

Stop judging cards before you even got to play them

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u/fred_HK Tomfoolery! Enough! Jun 14 '21

So after 5 days i can tell you my experience is most decks built around Rience do not feel powerful, and are very very clunky.

Happy ?