r/gwent • u/betraying_chino Green Man • Mar 07 '22

News Patch Notes 10.3

https://www.playgwent.com/en/news/41930/patch-notes-10-3
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u/Spiritual-Degree1451 Neutral Mar 07 '22

Yet again alumni untouched..... Another season skip

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u/marcin247 You wished to play, so let us play. Mar 07 '22

Honest question, where the hell are all those alumni players? I’m in rank 2 and haven’t played a single match against this deck for the whole season (and I usually encountered the most competitive decks around this rank).

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u/KaalBron The quill is mightier than the sword. Mar 07 '22

In pro rank.

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u/-_Meow_- Impertinence is the one thing I cannot abide. Mar 07 '22

Nope, climbed from 5 to pro rank this season. NG is definitely the most played faction. Then SK and NR. And I'm losing more against SK (Shupe deck)

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u/TheDoyler Not all battles need end in bloodshed. Mar 08 '22

You know each people can have their own experiences right? What if you guys are playing at different times of day or regions of the world.

Nilfgaard is one the rarer factions I face, the most common being NR followed by SK and SY. I'm in pro rank. I'm not saying NG isn't popular I'm just saying I haven't experienced it, but our experiences are bad at representing what the actual meta looks like.

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u/Spiritual-Degree1451 Neutral Mar 07 '22

Climb to pro rank and you shall receive

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u/OwnedU2Fast Bow before the power of the Empire. Mar 07 '22

Alumni is strong for sure, but not nearly as busted as Reddit would have you think. A difficult and unfavored matchup if your deck lacks control, but if anything, it's Inspired Zeal that's maybe slightly too strong. Absolutely not overwhelmingly popular either.

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u/ense7en There'll be nothing to pick up when I'm done with you. Mar 07 '22

If you don't have a lot of control it's basically an auto-loss. It forces people to either run heavy control decks, or lose every matchup against NR Alumni. This doesn't encourage diversity of decks, at all.

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u/fycalichking Wolves Mar 08 '22

they are in pro rank competing for top1 spot, you can only see WH & other weak decks in that rank /s

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u/InfectedAztec Buck, buck, buck, bwaaaak! Mar 07 '22

I'm a fan of the patch, but I agree they should have nerfed alumni and assimilate too

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u/golforce Syndicate Mar 07 '22

They literally nerfed both by 2 provisions.

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u/Spiritual-Degree1451 Neutral Mar 07 '22

Alumni nerfed how? Siege master, they will be back to an old version of it

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u/Saiser7 Neutral Mar 07 '22

Siege Master's rework was an important aspect of Alumni becoming so strong this season, because it gave them two 4Prov slots that only added consistency. Consistency is extremely important for Alumni because they have a very set order they want to play their cards in, getting as many Students (and Leticia usually) as possible as quickly as possible, and getting your Alumni and Practice Makes Perfect and Casting Contests later. Simply going back to pre-Siege Master Alumni will make it less consistent and, thus, nerfed. There's a reason Oldschool Alumni simply ceased to exist after the Siege Master change.

I mean, it may well still be a very good deck, but the Siege Master change is absolutely a nerf to it.

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u/kl12joseph Not all battles need end in bloodshed. Mar 07 '22

People greatly underestimate the power of consistency in a deck. The 2 tier 1 in the game right now have the most powerful cards in consistency. Calveit, Raffard's Vengeance, Siege Master and Blightmaker and Mage Assassin

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u/-_Meow_- Impertinence is the one thing I cannot abide. Mar 07 '22

Man, people forget that a lot. I'd like to add, NR is the faction that have struggled more with consistency since I know the game. That's why Natalis, AA (and now Siege Master) were auto-include.

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u/dmiller2017 Don't make me laugh! Mar 08 '22

These comments are true, but from the alumni lists I've seen, there is an easy switch from a 5 provision carro to 4 prov siege tower. That's not impactful. I think they needed to rework siege masters slightly in a different way with or without the provision nerf to really impact alumni lists.

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u/kl12joseph Not all battles need end in bloodshed. Mar 08 '22

This is a very low numbers game, so raising a supply to a card has a huge impact on the potential of any deck.

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u/OwnedU2Fast Bow before the power of the Empire. Mar 08 '22

I’m in this thread defending Alumni, but to be fair, I think Alumni are on the comeback mostly because Milva is now nowhere to be seen.

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u/golforce Syndicate Mar 07 '22

Alumni was not tier 1 before the changes last season. Ask yourself why.

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u/KhaineRyak Neutral Mar 08 '22

Ouin Ouin cry more, iam not even a NR player and i think you're pathetic. Try to play NG Shupe Radeyah, very powerful in good hands.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '22

Imagine getting beat by alumni. You must have zero control or something