...there's a game mode which makes the grinding* not suck so much.
I found the previous Seasonal mode did that. I.e. the one where your Special card got deployed twice.
The new Factional Challenge or whatever you call it has been a tedious grind. The new expansion cards aren't that interesting and my faction, Mon, is just a losing proposition. At least with the previous Seasonal challenge I could get a run or wins or at least some wins.
Since I found out that you can lose Ranking mosaic pieces and progress if you didn't keep grinding, I haven't really played that at all since the Journey mode made me grind in Seasonal mode for ages.
I'd like that previous Seasonal challenge to become permanent! Or is that just me?
* Edit in: By "grinding" I mean playing GWENT for pretty much the only reason that I play it: getting things that I want from the Reward book, like gold, which I use to buy barrels, to craft cards that I don't have yet (since I can rely on having pretty much only copies of cards, which I then mill to get enough shards to craft a card that I don't have yet). I've posted here in the past how the matchmaking system is horrible as more often than not I go up against decks which just hammer me, game after game. The game forces you to grind for this purpose as you have to gamble actual money in order to have a small chance at obtaining cards that you don't have yet. It's a really slow process that way, by design. It's because the process is so slow that I find playing the game a grind. I don't find a great deal of pleasure in playing the game for any other reason.
It would be an improvement in the game if you could use gold to get actual cards that you want. E.g. instead of paying 100 gold for a barrel of some sort, how about 100 gold for a card that you want? Maybe 150 gold might be more 'reasonable' from the point of view of CDR?
I found the previous Seasonal mode did that. I.e. the one where your Special card got deployed twice.
The new Factional Challenge or whatever you call it has been a tedious grind. The new expansion cards aren't that interesting and my faction, Mon, is just a losing proposition. At least with the previous Seasonal challenge I could get a run or wins or at least some wins.
Since I found out that you can lose Ranking mosaic pieces and progress if you didn't keep grinding, I haven't really played that at all since the Journey mode made me grind in Seasonal mode for ages.
I'd like that previous Seasonal challenge to become permanent! Or is that just me?
* Edit in: By "grinding" I mean playing GWENT for pretty much the only reason that I play it: getting things that I want from the Reward book, like gold, which I use to buy barrels, to craft cards that I don't have yet (since I can rely on having pretty much only copies of cards, which I then mill to get enough shards to craft a card that I don't have yet). I've posted here in the past how the matchmaking system is horrible as more often than not I go up against decks which just hammer me, game after game. The game forces you to grind for this purpose as you have to gamble actual money in order to have a small chance at obtaining cards that you don't have yet. It's a really slow process that way, by design. It's because the process is so slow that I find playing the game a grind. I don't find a great deal of pleasure in playing the game for any other reason.
It would be an improvement in the game if you could use gold to get actual cards that you want. E.g. instead of paying 100 gold for a barrel of some sort, how about 100 gold for a card that you want? Maybe 150 gold might be more 'reasonable' from the point of view of CDR?
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