4,99 USD/4,29 EUR
No, Fast Travel Bundle is a one-time offer, mutually exclusive with the standard Premium Pass purchase. However, once you're on the premium path, you will be able to purchase any number of 6 Lvl jumps to advance forward on the track.
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How active were players in our old crown system?
In order to properly answer this question, we have to look at how our players actually behave. On an average day, where we haven’t just launched a new platform, the number of returning players eclipses statistically the existing player base. These values are taken as averages over several months and are thus representative of our actual active player base with an arguably negligible margin or error.How active were players in our old crown system?
It is important to note that this DOES factor in getting an RP as a small reward directly but does NOT factor in the value of the other small rewards relative to RP. therefore the average value players are getting might be slightly higher than this table shows, but again, the value is rather low.
This table shows that the average player really only gets about 2 RP a day which is really really far from the max 9 that is often discussed. This tells us that our old system failed (even taking small rewards into consideration) to provide meaningful progress to a significant % of our player base. We believe this is tied to the fact that progress is reset every day which results in players who only play a handful of games a day were not able to reach impactful milestones. This is the main motivator for why we changed from a daily system to a weekly system.
How much RP can a player get in 3 months?
In order to properly answer this question, we must discuss what happens when users reach level 100 on their Journey. The old crown system kicks in minus the small rewards previously available (they are gone). Considering all auxiliary systems that give rewards added to the game since the crown system was released, we decided to remove small rewards from the crown system that is available upon completing Journey. This means that the max RP obtainable once a Journey has ended is 6 RP a day. If we factor in small rewards with RP equivalent values, small rewards could be worth roughly 4 RP a day resulting in a max RP per day in the old system of 10 RP!
Let’s look at our old system in pure ways
Now let's look at the max a F2P player can achieve in the new system
Both Free 2 play players and extended players are actually gaining less RP per day when a Journey is active than when it's not. This actually reveals itself to be rather troubling. One of the reasons for this was the swapping of RP rewards in Journey for cosmetics at the last second without verifying their economic impact.
What about increasing the weekly cap?
Considering what we just discovered above, we played with increasing the RP gained in Journey but ultimately weren’t very satisfied with the results. It required a significant increase in RP given in Journey and we would rather tackle it from a progression speed angle since that is causing greater concern for players.
Let’s say we doubled the weekly limit to 200, what would that look like?
That certainly made the extended journey players experience seem more impactful, however free 2 play players are still not quite hitting a nice ratio. Playing with it more, we decided we liked a much higher limit of 350 CP a week.
What does this look like?
At this threshold, players will get more RP per day on average than those who have completed the Journey regardless of whether they purchased the extended journey and this feels much better. Looking at all the other data it has some nice knock-on effects as well.
Factoring other sources of RP, F2P players will be able to grind over 200 RP a month, making things like seasonal trees more accessible if that’s what drives you.
Closing Statements
Yup, this system is indeed less generous for those that play an average of 11 hours or more a day. By a rather large margin actually. However, for roughly 88% of players, it will now feel more generous (provided everything is working as intended). This is related to the way quests work which reduces the CP grind required by 30% for free players and 60% for those that purchased extended Journey. They do this despite only requiring an average of 7,5 hours a week (or a bit over an hour a day) AND being completable at any time before the journey ends. Considering that you will progress with the rested bonus and regular CP progression while completing them, if you play semi actively over the duration of a Journey, reaching level 100 is much less daunting and averages roughly the same CP as someone who completed 2 CP milestone every month (more if you purchased extended).
That being said, this analysis doesn’t factor in our other sources of RP generation available to players such as rank season transitions or daily login or daily quests or contracts or prestige level bonuses. Despite the loss of small rewards in the old crown reward system (which kicks in once a journey is completed), we feel that players have ample tools to progress at their rhythm. This comes with a side note. We need to do a few things and ask your patience:
- The weekly cap should be increased to 350.
- Several bugs need to be ironed out including how the daily bonuses work.
However, I have one ask here. You have demanded from us that we communicate more, and as some of you have rightly pointed out, what is best is a discourse, not us just telling you how it is. This entire thread is part of our commitment to transparency and to show we are listening. By showing you how we think, we are opening the lines of discussion. However, I would ask some of you to be more open-minded and to show some restraint regarding the use of pointy pitchforks so soon after a change is enacted. I believe we have shown that while we are capable of mistakes, we are vigilant in regards to listening, reacting and adapting our solutions to try and make Gwent the best game possible.
Lastly, since I’m posting this Friday before going to sleep, please be patient with replies.
Introduction
There’s a lot of misunderstanding or misconceptions about what replacing crown rewards with the Journey system means for players that I wanted to take some time to clarify. It’s a long post, but hopefully, by the end of this we can have meaningful discussions on how to tweak and evolve this system in the future, so bear (roar…) with me. If nothing else, I hope this level of thought is at least interesting for some of you out there and reveals that we do spend time thinking about such things before releasing them.
Let’s start with some details we will base our math on. Some of this is probably not even realized or properly revealed yet. Now since you guys aren’t used to seeing how I prepare my data. Blue cells are static data. It’s values that I plugged in either from design or from a separate data analysis value. Green cells represent data that is calculated (often based on blue data).
TL;DR - Use sections to help you find the sections that interest you, and you can focus on conclusions if you don’t want the nitty-gritty.
Basic Stats regarding Journey’s leveling system
The table below represents base values for how progression in journey works. Note that since you technically start at level 1, your need to only level up 99 times to get all the rewards (not 100).
2376 crown points is a lot, even over a period of 3 months. This also implies a heft CP per day requirement of over 28 which is also quite daunting. That is why further below we will discuss some of the systems that offset these requirements.
How many crown points do we get from a match on average?
In order to do calculations, we need this figure as statistically over time this will be the best estimation we can do as winning and losing streaks will still eventually resemble this calculation. It makes for a good basis for knowing how it works out on average and this is what it looks like:
Again, if you are good and win more than average, progress will be faster (and vice versa for losing streaks), but for the sake of this discussion let’s ignore how that feels in terms of progression for the player.
Conclusion:
On average you gain 1.18 CP per match naturally. This has not changed from the previous system.
How much CP from matches per hour can we get on average?
This calculation will give a rough indication of time commitment moving forward. Ignoring all bonuses, this can be calculated as follows and again this is an average. Matches can be faster or longer.
Also, this is likely not discussed yet, but there is a weekly limit to the # of CP a player can gain on a weekly basis of 100. It’s meant to prevent completing a journey too fast. Note that progression caps existed in the old system, however, we went away from daily caps, instead preferring to cap on a weekly basis to punish fewer players that can’t grind every day while still having a system that prevents infinite farming.
Conclusions:
Ignoring all other systems to supplement progression, this implies that it takes on average 403 hours spread over 12 weeks to reach max level, with a weekly average of almost 17 hours to reach max potential.
Also note, that with this alone, you can at max gain 50 of the 99 levels required to reach max, meaning that short of supplemental ways to get CP, you would fall short 49 levels from reaching max (eek).
How the well-rested bonus works
Every day, every player gets a well-rested bonus that gives players and additional CP for each round won regardless of whether they reached a cap (currently bugged, fix should come early next week at the latest). However, there is a daily limit of 14 that resets at the start of each day.
Ok, so this is a trickier one as mileage will vary depending on whether you are a casual player or a more aggressive player. It’s also subjective to your win rate, but we will go off Average per match for now.
Conclusions:
So if you are on a hot streak, you can consume the rested bonus in a little under an hour and a half which isn’t too bad. However, on average, it will take well over 2 hours to fully use up this system on a daily basis.
One cool aspect is it takes 2.4 hours daily on average to complete so this 14 bonus matches our previous section regarding CP gain 1:1
Another is at this point, though it requires daily dedication, it's already possible to reach level 100 without paying a cent (yay! Much better already!)
Diving into Journey Quests
But wait! There are more ways to progress. In order to help people joining later into a journey a chance to catch up, and to make it a bit less hardcore (2,4 hours, every day for 12 weeks sounds exhausting no?), we added in journey quests.
How do quests work exactly?
Players will have access to 2 quest chains, where quests will need to be completed in sequence relative to their chain. One chain of quests will be free, the other is tied to the purchase of an extended journey. Here are a few helpful facts to help understand how they behave.
- Regardless of any purchase, both quest chains are active to ALL players. This means the quests actually progress and complete. (bugs to be fixed)
- All players get rewards for the free quest chain as the quests are completed
- Quest rewards for extended quests are only granted to those that purchased extended journey
- Purchasing an extended journey after having completed extended quests will give rewards retroactively.
- Each quest chain will receive 3 new quests per week.
- Quests are not lost or removed until the end of the journey. This means if you join in the last week, you will have access free quest chain of 36 quests and an extended quest chain of 36 quests to progress but you will begin with the first quest. (total of 72 quests).
All quests give 20 CP upon completion and generally we aim to:
- Keep them easily completable (avoiding grindy quests). Our general aim is for them to be completable with 2-3 matches.
- If a quest requires you to play a specific mechanic like vitality, or assimilate, the goalpost of the quest should be relatively easy to reach.
If you have maxed out your journey, you can still complete the quests, but their rewards will have no effect moving forward.
Alright with that clarified, let's crunch some numbers!
Conclusions:
The average time to complete a week's chain is rather low at 1.5 hours a week. This means that relative to other ways to get CP, this is the least grindy way to gain CP by a rather large margin. Thus moving forward, especially considering the rather small requirement of 18 hours over 3 the course of 3 months, any calculations will assume you always get all the weekly quests CP as they become available.
For free players, completing quests can lower the amount of CP required to grind in other ways by up to 30%. This, however, assumes you don’t otherwise reach level 100 before the last week in a Journey in which case the quests will speed it up less. We are ok with this as this is meant as a catchup mechanic that also provides a burst every week for more casual players.
For players, this reduces the amount of CP required to get from a non-quest source by more than 60%!
How late can I join Journey without missing out?
Since quests grow the amount of RP you can reasonably get quickly, it's rather easy to find out how late you can join a journey and still be possible to grind for level 100. From earlier sections, we calculated that those with extended journey would only need to grind 936 CP from outside quests and that those without the extended journey would need to grind 1656 CP.
It is impossible to reach level 100 when playing F2P after one month has elapsed in a journey
It is impossible to reach level 100 by only purchasing the extended journey after 2 months have passed.
The range at which players joining into an ongoing journey can still complete it is rather large, especially for F2P players.
How much RP is available in Journey?
There are some assumptions here on how RP is valued. Let’s take a look at what we currently have so there is no confusion:
Conclusions:
Both the total RP and Avg RP per level values will be useful in future calculations. We will also play with the idea of what increasing small RP to 3 would mean for the system.
END of Part 1 of hopefully 2 due to character and image restrictions
After winning a round you get a Crown Fragment. The Well Rested bonus doubles this, so that you can get 2 Crown Fragments after each round you won.
It means that each day you can get up to 14 additional Crown Fragments.
Hi everyone! Apologies for not jumping in this thread earlier, I see that there is a lot of questions, I'll do my best to address the main topics below:
1. Prestige levels bonuses change
With Journey progression replacing Daily Crowns system, some Prestige bonuses became obsolete. Therefore, we've updated bonuses for levels 6-8, but, due to a mistake level 4 wasn't updated - the fix for this is coming. Unfortunately, due to the localization error, there was a big mix up with descriptions, so the correct configuration looks like this currently:
Prestige 1-5: No changes
6 - +1RP to Daily quests
7 - +1RP to Daily quests
8 - Chance for RP in GG rewards
9 - NO CHANGES (localization error, fix is coming)
10 - NO CHANGES (localization error, fix is coming)
2. Journey quests aren't progressing and/or CP rewards for completing quests are not being delivered
This is a known bug, which team is actively fixing since yesterday - once it will be resolved, all delayed progress and rewards will be granted and players will be unblocked from taking next quests.
3. "Well Rested" bonus - how it works?
Every day you can receive up 14 extra Crown Pieces by winning rounds. Every 1 win that grants you 1 Crown piece normally will also grant you an extra Crown Piece (up to 14 extra pieces daily). You can track how many extra Crown Pieces left to be claimed today in the top right corner of Journey panel (above quests).
4. What will happen if I’ll purchase a premium pass after progressing on the free tier?
You will immediately get all rewards from previous levels of Extended Journey and will continue from your current level.
In case of purchasing Fast Travel bundle, you will receive access to Extended Journey AND + 25 levels to teleport you on the track. You will also automatically receive all rewards for your new level and all levels behind it.
5. Will playing games in any mode count towards Journey progression?
Currently, only matches played in Seasonal and Classic modes will count towards Journey progression. We’re working on adding Arena to the list of game modes contributing to Journey progression soon.
1. Prestige levels bonuses change
With Journey progression replacing Daily Crowns system, some Prestige bonuses became obsolete. Therefore, we've updated bonuses for levels 6-8, but, due to a mistake level 4 wasn't updated - the fix for this is coming. Unfortunately, due to the localization error, there was a big mix up with descriptions, so the correct configuration looks like this currently:
Prestige 1-5: No changes
6 - +1RP to Daily quests
7 - +1RP to Daily quests
8 - Chance for RP in GG rewards
9 - NO CHANGES (localization error, fix is coming)
10 - NO CHANGES (localization error, fix is coming)
2. Journey quests aren't progressing and/or CP rewards for completing quests are not being delivered
This is a known bug, which team is actively fixing since yesterday - once it will be resolved, all delayed progress and rewards will be granted and players will be unblocked from taking next quests.
3. "Well Rested" bonus - how it works?
Every day you can receive up 14 extra Crown Pieces by winning rounds. Every 1 win that grants you 1 Crown piece normally will also grant you an extra Crown Piece (up to 14 extra pieces daily). You can track how many extra Crown Pieces left to be claimed today in the top right corner of Journey panel (above quests).
4. What will happen if I’ll purchase a premium pass after progressing on the free tier?
You will immediately get all rewards from previous levels of Extended Journey and will continue from your current level.
In case of purchasing Fast Travel bundle, you will receive access to Extended Journey AND + 25 levels to teleport you on the track. You will also automatically receive all rewards for your new level and all levels behind it.
5. Will playing games in any mode count towards Journey progression?
Currently, only matches played in Seasonal and Classic modes will count towards Journey progression. We’re working on adding Arena to the list of game modes contributing to Journey progression soon.
@InkognitoXI was right:
1. Correct. Premium row can only be unlocked via purchase.
2. Yes, when you purchase the premium you automatically receive rewards for the stages that you've already unlocked
Crowns reset daily, at 1AM CEST.
If your crowns didn't reset, please contact our Tech Support Team through https://support.cdprojektred.com/en
If your crowns didn't reset, please contact our Tech Support Team through https://support.cdprojektred.com/en
Yes, it would need a change, fix is comingThat's better than the old perks for me!
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Prestige 4 was a minor daily reward boost, wouldn't that need change too?
Hello! I'm very sorry for the confusion caused by this. Allow me to clarify what changed and what not - due to the localization error, the descriptions mixed up:
Prestige 1-5: No changes
6 - +1RP to Daily quests
7 - +1RP to Daily quests
8 - Chance for RP in GG rewards
9 - NO CHANGES (localization error, fix is coming)
10 - NO CHANGES (localization error, fix is coming)
Dear GWENT players,
For a long time, we were not quite happy with how meteorite powder was set up in GWENT. While we tried to fix it by introducing tweaks to its acquisition rate, this solution wasn't good and we rolled it back. We asked ourselves what exactly are the issues we're trying to solve and narrowed them down to these 2:
1) Transmutation costs were oddly scaled in regards to rarity in a way that applied different disparities than normally acquiring cards. This made understanding costs and how progress through kegs behave more difficult.
2) It was too easy of a decision to ignore lower rarity premium cards and focus on saving up for legendary cards due to the relatively small gap between common and legendary cards transmutation costs. We are looking forward to seeing a dynamic where common premiums are much easier to get, with the compromise that legendary premiums are much harder to get.
We're rebalancing the transmutation cost of premium cards to follow the existing rarity-based crafting costs. With this change premium Commons and Rares will be easier to get, while Epic and Legendary premiums will be more exclusive.
There are some changes coming to meteorite powder offers in the shop. With new meteorite powder amounts and prices, we're aiming to make meteorite powder more accessible by offering over 45% more MP in the cheapest offer and over 80% more MP in the high-end offer. On top of that, we are staying true to our commitment to release ornaments available for meteorite powder from time to time.
Both changes will be implemented on April 15th at 12:00 CEST, until that time you can make informed decisions about what you want to do with your meteorite powder reserves/card collections.
Season of the Bear is over, which means we can now present you the list of players eligible to take part in the next Qualifiers – counting towards GWENT Open #2!
First Qualifier will take place on April 18th, and the Second Qualifier on April 25-26th. Updated rulesets for the tournaments will be shared in the following days.
Players eligible to participate in the First Qualifier (TOP 16) of the Season of the Bear:
- TailBot
- Demarcation
- Pajabol
- kams134
- 五花膘
- Saber97
- 苏墨
- Redrame
- Ern16
- Gwent2town
- lNeverHooD
- wangid1
- kolemoen
- magpie131
- theshaggynuts
- garigari
Players eligible to participate in the Second Qualifier (TOP 64) of the Season of the Bear – with the exception of two winners of the First Qualifier:
- TailBot
- Demarcation
- Pajabol
- kams134
- 五花膘
- Saber97
- 苏墨
- Redrame
- Ern16
- Gwent2town
- lNeverHooD
- wangid1
- kolemoen
- magpie131
- theshaggynuts
- garigari
- Green-Knight
- feiliop96
- KingChezz93
- GraveshGravesh
- MyaMon369EX
- KT莽夫北
- Chinayzq
- Ghostfacekillah_21
- InfernZ
- Koumakis
- ReWka
- JUDESS
- Bart933
- Acalajucha
- Nik_r
- GervantOfRiblia
- 夜幕、影袭
- eiSloth
- IgniFriend
- Clauz86
- Ivan2610
- 내과
- Kar5555
- CintrianLion
- radu.andrada
- iluxa228
- LpHanachan
- Ethree
- enerGiiX
- SynergyGod3773
- Frailcoast1
- Danirai
- UNFORGIVEN-IV
- TA_JMJWilson
- VilleKS
- HannuQ
- BaCR7
- SpyroZA
- IDisbalancePC
- 한쿡은조흔나라
- Ceely
- Freddybabes
- TheMoses.
- JaimeOneHand
- zeGoblin
- Adzikov
- blackwakeup
- IIDox
Seeing "Corpo" background being the most popular, warms my heart <3
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New season is here with a brand new seasonal mode! This month all cards in your deck will be duplicated when you enter the game. Whenever you play a unit from your hand, you will also play a unit with the same Provision Cost from your deck!
This season will last till May 5th 10am CEST!
100 levels to unlock, granting new vanities and special rewards! Discover a world of rewards with Journey!
PROGRESS
Over the next three months, every round you play and win across GWENT’s competitive game modes will earn you progress in Journey. There's a total of 100 levels to unlock, granting new vanities and other special rewards.
UNLOCK
Everyone has access to the free tier of Journey and can immediately start working toward leveling up and earning its rewards: player avatars, reward points, and a variety of card kegs. A premium tier of Journey is also available for purchase, granting you instant access to Geralt’s legendary neutral leader skin, with over 50 unique ornaments for you to earn as you play the game!
UPGRADE
Level up in Journey to unlock more customization options for Geralt’s character: weapons, armor, trophies, and accessories. With Journey, we’re also introducing brand new types of ornaments to GWENT: coins, as well as animated avatars and borders!
FOLLOW AN UNFOLDING STORY
At the start of each week, a new chapter of Journey’s story will be unveiled. Not just any story, mind you, but one of witcher Geralt and master bard Dandelion, both off on a riveting adventure! There’s more, still, as their story comes with its own set of quests which, upon completion, will boost your Journey progression.
Ready to begin your Journey?
Join us LIVE Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 at 7PM CEST at https://www.twitch.tv/burza46 for the #StayAtHome Developer stream, where Pawel Burza and Jason Slama will go over the changes coming with update 6.1!
See you there!
Update 6.1 is coming and packs a lot of awesome stuff, including 6 new leader abilities, a new keyword: Initiative, and multiple balance changes! Full list can be found below!
Changes
- From now on the most progressed daily quest will be expanded by default on mobile Welcome Screen.
- Numerous bug fixes for Ornament Selection
- Spare cards will now be milled after entering Deck Builder. Cards that can be transmuted won't be milled.
- Coinflip: inviting player will always go first in friend matches.
- Leader ability can now be activated by drag and drop or double tap
- Your deck and the graveyard can now be opened by tap and hold or double tap
- Android: vibration is toned-down and set to off by default.
- Android: the game will now allow downloading missing files over cellular connection.
New Features
- Six new leader abilities added to the game - one per faction (details below).
- New audio-visuals when shield and poison status is applied.
- Card Tooltip have been improved - dynamic values for Hoard/Tribute.
- Social media channels are now available in the Main Menu.
Neutral
- New Keyword: initiative - trigger ability if using this card is the first action during your turn.
- Geralt: Igni ability changed to:
- Deploy, Initiative: destroy the highest power unit(s) on an enemy row with a total of 20 or more power. Geralt: Igni provision changed from 11 to 10.
- Scorch ability changed to: destroy the highest power unit. Initiative: destroy all highest power units instead. Scorch provision changed from 13 to 12.
Following a community's suggestion, we have decided to limit those powerful effects to the first action you take in any given turn. If your opponent plays recklessly, there is no change. If you have means to align their units to be more vulnerable to those cards, the opponent will have at least one turn to respond before being pushed out of the round with fire. This should promote an interaction between the players, bluffing and exciting back and forth, instead of total blowouts that were hard or impossible to play around due to the reach.
- Hanmarvyn's Blue Dream ability changed to: play a unit from your opponent's graveyard with provision cost 9 or less and give it Doomed. Hanmarvyn's Blue Dream provision changed from 13 to 12.
- Renew ability changed to: play a unit from your graveyard with provision cost 9 or less and give it Doomed. Renew provision changed from 14 to 12.
Developer comment: Renew and Hanmarvyn's Blue Dream are very difficult cards to balance as the only way to do so was not making powerful gold units. We have introduced a provision cap for their effects so the cards themselves can become more predictable, which lets us interact more with their provision cost. The numbers might have to be tweaked again in the near future, but we believe this is a much healthier direction for those cards.
- Chironex provision changed from 9 to 8.
- Garrison provision changed from 11 to 10.
- Germain Piquant power changed from 4 to 5.
- Golden Froth provision changed from 5 to 4.
- Unicorn provision changed from 9 to 8.
Developer comment: Some Neutral cards require a small point adjustment to keep up with all the changes that keep happening all around them.
Monsters
- New leader ability: Overwhelming Hunger: Order: Destroy an allied unit, then Spawn an Ekimmara in its row and boost it by destroyed unit's power. Charge: 3. This ability adds 13 provisions to your deck's provision limit.
- Alpha Werewolf power changed from 4 to 5.
- Old Speartip provision changed from 14 to 13.
Developer comment: Old Speartip has followed his New Year's resolution and lost some weight, so he should be easier to fit in your deck now.
Skellige
- New leader ability: Blaze of Glory: Order: move a Skellige unit from your deck to your graveyard, then damage an enemy unit by its power. This ability adds 15 provisions to your deck's provision limit.
- Cerys an Craite ability changed to: Deploy (Melee): spawn a Drummond Shieldmaiden in this row. Deploy (Ranged): spawn a Drummond Queensguard in this row.
- Crow Clan Preacher ability changed to: whenever you play an Alchemy card, boost self by 1. Bonded: boost self by 2 instead.
Developer comment: Previous Bonded ability did not make much of a difference in how you played with Crow Clan Preacher, or against it. With this change playing with the Bonded part of the ability should be much more rewarding and denying it, much more important.
- Dracoturtle ability changed to: whenever Dracoturtle loses Armor, boost it by the amount of Armor lost. Barricade: at the end of your turn, gain 1 Armor. Dracoturtle power changed from 6 to 5. Dracoturtle armor changed from 6 to 5. Dracoturtle provision changed from 11 to 10.
Developer comment: Now Dracoturtle will continuously regenerate it's shell unless it's stripped off completely. Change to power matches the lowered provision cost and it's initial Armor value will be the same at the end of the turn. This extra ability should make it easier to use the turtle in longer rounds when it can either supply Armor indefinitely or set up huge swings when left undisturbed.
- Drummond Shieldmaiden ability changed to: whenever this unit takes damage, Summon all copies of it from your deck to this row.
Developer comment: Shieldmaiden's effect was changed to be consistent with other similar effects.
- An Craite Warcrier power changed from 3 to 4.
- Bear Abomination power changed from 5 to 6.
Developer comment: Change to Bear Abomination token makes a couple of less used Skellige cards and Leader Ability more powerful. It should help the Svalblod cult catch up to the rest of Skellige faction.
- Heymaey Skald provision changed from 5 to 4.
- Vabjorn power changed from 5 to 6.
Developer comment: Those tiny tweaks should bring the cards closer to their more competitive counterparts.
Northern Realms
- New leader ability: Uprising - Order: boost an allied unit by 1. Charge: 4. Once all Charges are used up, Spawn and play Lyrian Scytheman. This ability adds 14 provisions to your deck's provision limit.
- Reynard Odo ability changed to: Deploy: Boost adjacent units by 1. Whenever you play a unit, boost it by 1.
- Cintrian Envoy power changed from 3 to 4.
- Cintrian Royal Guard power changed from 4 to 5.
Developer comment: With this tiny bump, the Guards should be closer to the value you'd expect for 5 Provisions even if you did not draw well enough for them to take over the round.
- Donimir of Troy power changed from 6 to 7.
Developer comment: Purifying Donimir's Defender status also gets rid of his Shield. We have adjusted his base power so he can at least trade even on points if he gets answered with new Caretaker.
Scoia'tael
- New leader ability: Mahakam Forge - Order: spawn and play Tempering. All Dwarfs in your starting deck get 1 Armor. This ability adds 15 provisions to your deck's provision limit.
- Miner ability changed to: Order: boost an allied unit by 2. If it's a Dwarf, also give it 2 Armor. Miner power changed from 3 to 5. Miner provision changed from 5 to 4.
- Paulie Dahlberg ability changed to: Deploy (Melee): move an allied unit to other row. Deploy (Ranged): give an allied unit 2 Armor. Paulie Dahlberg provision changed from 8 to 6.
- Pyrotechnician ability changed to: Order: damage a random enemy unit and self by 4. Pyrotechnician power changed from 3 to 4.
- Sheldon Skaggs ability changed to: Deploy (Melee): damage an enemy unit by the amount Sheldon is boosted. Sheldon Skaggs power changed from 3 to 6. Sheldon Skaggs provision changed from 9 to 8.
- Xavier Moran ability changed to: Melee: whenever you play a Dwarf, gain 1 Armor. Barricade: at the end of your turn, boost self by 1. Xavier Moran power changed from 4 to 5. Xavier Moran provision changed from 9 to 7.
- Yarpen Zigrin ability changed to: Deploy: damage an enemy unit by 3. Barricade: at the end of your turn, lose Armor and boost self by that much. Yarpen Zigrin power changed from 3 to 5. Yarpen Zigrin provision changed from 8 to 9.
- Zoltan ability changed to: Resilience. Deploy: boost adjacent Dwarfs by 2. Zoltan provision changed from 9 to 10. Zoltan armor changed from 0 to 4.
- Dwarven Mercenary ability changed to: Deploy: damage self by 1 for each non Dwarf unit in your hand. Dwarven Mercenary power changed from 3 to 7.
- Dwarf Berserker power changed from 2 to 3. Dwarf Berserker provision changed from 4 to 5.
- Munro Bruys power changed from 7 to 6. Munro Bruys provisions changed from 11 to 12.
Developer comment: Dwarves started in Homecoming as one of the Scoia'tel tribes, sporting a lot of utility for the faction and spread out over multiple archetypes. Over time they have became more and more of their own camp, playing more defensively than offensively. This bunch of changes is meant to re-introduce couple of Dwarves back to their own archetype, with emphasis on Armor, boosting and sticking to the board.
- Isengrim power changed from 6 to 4.
Developer comment: Isengrim is both a finisher and an engine in one. Lack of apparent weaknesses combined with how much easier we have made to get Elves on the board fast has made it necessary to lower his base power, both to make it harder for him to completely overpower opponents with points and make him more vulnerable when played earlier to become an engine.
- Ele'yas ability changed to: Deploy: destroy an allied unit, then Spawn 2 Elven Deadeyes in this row. Ele'yas power changed from 5 to 6.
Developer comment: Ele'yas has fallen quite a bit behind due to his nature as a finisher you want to play after your finisher, that is additionally quite disruptable. We have changed him to match more with current identity of Elves and left buffing his kin to Isengrim.
Nilfgaard
- New leader ability: Imposter - Order: lock an enemy unit, then spawn its base copy in the opposite row and boost it by 2. This ability adds 13 provisions to your deck's provision limit.
- Damien de la Tour ability changed to: Order (Melee): re-enable your Leader's ability.
- Stefan Skellen ability changed to: Order (Ranged): spawn and play a copy of the last Tactic card you played this round.
Syndicate
- New leader ability: Hidden Cache - Order: Gain 3 Coins. On round start, refresh this ability. Your Hoards require 3 less Coins to trigger. This ability adds 15 provisions to your deck's provision limit.
- Salamandra Assassin ability changed to: Intimidate. Order (Ranged): damage an enemy unit with a Bounty by 2.
- Payroll Specialist ability changed to: Intimidate. Tribute 2: move a unit to the other row. Payroll Specialist power changed from 3 to 5.
- Keeper of the Flame power changed from 3 to 4.
Developer comment: We are rising the value floor for Keeper so it's easier for him to keep up with the other 5 provision options even if you could not create the best case scenario for him.
- Sir Skewertooth provision changed from 8 to 7. Sir Skewertooth armor changed from 0 to 1. Sir Skewertooth Tribute changed from 4 to 3.
Developer comment: Sir Skewertooth had a hard time keeping up with similar engines because it's condition is a little trickier to play with. It should feel a lot more competitive with it's Armor and lower provisions. We have also adjusted the tribute cost so situations in which you have to play your crimes before Sir Skewertooth happen less often.
- Tatterwing provision changed from 8 to 7.
Developer comment: Tatterwing's unique ability is hard to utilize for big values so its cost is going down.
Game Fixes
- Fixed broken currency symbols in the shop
- Fix an issue with assimilate not triggering properly for cards on Playstack after cancelling and playing them again
- Fixed an issue whereby Yghern did not destroy itself upon having its armor removed by cards such as Iris: Shade or Sappers
The Seasonal Arena mode has started today and will last till April 2nd, noon CEST! The rules are the same as in the seasonal mode meaning: after the mulligan phase Banish both players decks. Whenever a card appears in any deck, Banish it.
Enjoy!