Tanking your MMR is easy, just play NR and it will JUST NATURALLY HAPPEN
Is anyone having success playing NR realms in ranked play? I had to win 5 ranked matches and win 5 northern realms matches so I tried to kill two birds with one stone and had a 41% winrate, playing 12 games and winning 5. I know all the most popular NR decks and obviously so do others at 4200mmr. Radovid armor only wins 45% of the time and IMO gets worked over since its nerf about two patches ago and with new cards like slave drivers your oppenent can just benefit from the armor on your cards, ruining your biggest win condition and renders vincent almost worthless. Armor also leaves your cards buffed just enough to make scorch and bork sketchy to play. I only won one game with rad armor, mcbeards rad Canadian varient. So I tried Henselt machines and either got out tempoed by DWARVES (with dun banners) or countered. I didn't really play foltest, and curse decks are just weak. I mean who allows cards like HATTORI and PAULIE DAHLBERG to exist then make cards like SABRINAS SPECTER with KAEDWENI REVENANT doomed? I got annoyed and said to myself Im playing until i get 5 ranked wins with NR no matter the cost to my MMR so i made a control Radovid with some meme cards like Sabrina (great against SK beastmaster, and surprisingly dwarves if you surprise your oppenent with it.), pavetta (I used her to throw nekkers back into peoples deck, reuse stennis using reinforcements, kill your oppenents smaller cards then throw one of their buffed cards back into their deck or for real memes use her with botchling/lubberkin) & bloody baron and won my last three ranked matches. NR definitely feels the most broken out of all the factions from my experience playing in 2018. It's only been 8 days but it feels longer, probably because it takes so long to complete quests or gain scraps when you lose. It is EXTREMELY apparent why people are complaining especially if your main NRs. I feel like I wasted A LOT of scraps crafting near worthless NR cards. I've been noticing more and more that CDPR is making cards based on a benchmark number and less on how they interact against each other cards in the game especially older/newer card interaction. One cannot only test the interactions of new content and forget about its foundation so please don't ever forget that because it might have happened with this 100 card release. Most Bronze Cards on average add up to 11 to 15 on paper but how can you not take in consideration they interacts with other bronzes, silvers and golds as well as the value it gives you based on if you win or lose the coinflip with spy/summoning circle etc abuse. If they did take that into consideration they would notice that instead of those cards having a 10-15 bronze value they will see that many bronzes in ST and NG get a ruffly a 25 point value....a whopping 10pts more MINIMUM on 3 to 6 bronze cards per match giving them on average a 50 point advantage possibility at the start of the match (based on the state of how the cards were balanced at released) and if they get the better end of the coin flip then I can't blame anyone who just wants to instantly hit the forfeit button. (And yes I guess ranting about this 24-48hrs before a patch is a waste of time, I think my experience last night made me temporarily insane.)
Is anyone having success playing NR realms in ranked play? I had to win 5 ranked matches and win 5 northern realms matches so I tried to kill two birds with one stone and had a 41% winrate, playing 12 games and winning 5. I know all the most popular NR decks and obviously so do others at 4200mmr. Radovid armor only wins 45% of the time and IMO gets worked over since its nerf about two patches ago and with new cards like slave drivers your oppenent can just benefit from the armor on your cards, ruining your biggest win condition and renders vincent almost worthless. Armor also leaves your cards buffed just enough to make scorch and bork sketchy to play. I only won one game with rad armor, mcbeards rad Canadian varient. So I tried Henselt machines and either got out tempoed by DWARVES (with dun banners) or countered. I didn't really play foltest, and curse decks are just weak. I mean who allows cards like HATTORI and PAULIE DAHLBERG to exist then make cards like SABRINAS SPECTER with KAEDWENI REVENANT doomed? I got annoyed and said to myself Im playing until i get 5 ranked wins with NR no matter the cost to my MMR so i made a control Radovid with some meme cards like Sabrina (great against SK beastmaster, and surprisingly dwarves if you surprise your oppenent with it.), pavetta (I used her to throw nekkers back into peoples deck, reuse stennis using reinforcements, kill your oppenents smaller cards then throw one of their buffed cards back into their deck or for real memes use her with botchling/lubberkin) & bloody baron and won my last three ranked matches. NR definitely feels the most broken out of all the factions from my experience playing in 2018. It's only been 8 days but it feels longer, probably because it takes so long to complete quests or gain scraps when you lose. It is EXTREMELY apparent why people are complaining especially if your main NRs. I feel like I wasted A LOT of scraps crafting near worthless NR cards. I've been noticing more and more that CDPR is making cards based on a benchmark number and less on how they interact against each other cards in the game especially older/newer card interaction. One cannot only test the interactions of new content and forget about its foundation so please don't ever forget that because it might have happened with this 100 card release. Most Bronze Cards on average add up to 11 to 15 on paper but how can you not take in consideration they interacts with other bronzes, silvers and golds as well as the value it gives you based on if you win or lose the coinflip with spy/summoning circle etc abuse. If they did take that into consideration they would notice that instead of those cards having a 10-15 bronze value they will see that many bronzes in ST and NG get a ruffly a 25 point value....a whopping 10pts more MINIMUM on 3 to 6 bronze cards per match giving them on average a 50 point advantage possibility at the start of the match (based on the state of how the cards were balanced at released) and if they get the better end of the coin flip then I can't blame anyone who just wants to instantly hit the forfeit button. (And yes I guess ranting about this 24-48hrs before a patch is a waste of time, I think my experience last night made me temporarily insane.)
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