I admit, I've had a love affair with Gwent for the past 4 weeks. I've been off work, and well, it's filled a very big potential boredom problem. I thoroughly enjoyed my early stages rising through the ranks and building a modest collection, though the real standout highlight was an Arena run and in the last game for the all or nothing 9th win, winning the deciding round by a single point! Awesome entertainment! Arena remains a very attactive game mode even now!
However, and this is a big however, now I've reached rank 11, the rest isn't so promising. Let me caveat before I rant, that I understand ranked play and I get why it is the way it is, but for someone who refuses to simply netdeck the best metadeck and join the race to zero, I'm now finding the lack of variety very apparent. I will literally play against the same decks over and over and over and over....
So we have Hidden Cache, clearly the most broken leader ability going, and madam Luiza, Savolla and Saul. How or why is this being allowed to exist for a whole season? Now I simply don't bother to give the opposing player the joy of playing it out and I just quit and move on the next one, GG's not included. Don't get me wrong I have a SY Passiflora deck but I don't have the Redanian ship, Luiza or Savolla and despite it still being very strong, it's not quite the same deal without those cards. But do you know the thing, even though I could just go ahead and craft them, I don't even want to. It's not my deck creation, and I'd feel dirty if I did so.
Then we have poison, and poison is now everywhere. Scoia'tael decks are full of it. NG decks are full of it. Fun? Not really. It's probably the reason tall MO decks are non-existent. Maraal doesn't help here and I'd love to see a tweak to him come the next patch, as well as perhaps a look at how the whole mechanic works.
So, rather naively I thought, 'it's ok I'll simply cut my creative losses in ranked and move into unranked.' Sure, there has definitely been some 'experimental' decks on show and those games have been a blast to play, but over the last week or so, even unranked can't escape the metadecks and I have to ask -- why are people using their metadecks in unranked?
For all the cards that Gwent has, and there are loads, after only 4 weeks of playing it, I am truly amazed at how limited the deck variety is. There are a staggering number of unused cards in Gwent, many of which are epics and legendaries ... it begs the question...
What can be done? Do we think the developers have the (cap)ability to breathe new life into this, or will it simply be a case of after the next patch, Team Leviathan creating a week one tier list and that will be how the next month will play out ad nauseum ...
However, and this is a big however, now I've reached rank 11, the rest isn't so promising. Let me caveat before I rant, that I understand ranked play and I get why it is the way it is, but for someone who refuses to simply netdeck the best metadeck and join the race to zero, I'm now finding the lack of variety very apparent. I will literally play against the same decks over and over and over and over....
So we have Hidden Cache, clearly the most broken leader ability going, and madam Luiza, Savolla and Saul. How or why is this being allowed to exist for a whole season? Now I simply don't bother to give the opposing player the joy of playing it out and I just quit and move on the next one, GG's not included. Don't get me wrong I have a SY Passiflora deck but I don't have the Redanian ship, Luiza or Savolla and despite it still being very strong, it's not quite the same deal without those cards. But do you know the thing, even though I could just go ahead and craft them, I don't even want to. It's not my deck creation, and I'd feel dirty if I did so.
Then we have poison, and poison is now everywhere. Scoia'tael decks are full of it. NG decks are full of it. Fun? Not really. It's probably the reason tall MO decks are non-existent. Maraal doesn't help here and I'd love to see a tweak to him come the next patch, as well as perhaps a look at how the whole mechanic works.
So, rather naively I thought, 'it's ok I'll simply cut my creative losses in ranked and move into unranked.' Sure, there has definitely been some 'experimental' decks on show and those games have been a blast to play, but over the last week or so, even unranked can't escape the metadecks and I have to ask -- why are people using their metadecks in unranked?
For all the cards that Gwent has, and there are loads, after only 4 weeks of playing it, I am truly amazed at how limited the deck variety is. There are a staggering number of unused cards in Gwent, many of which are epics and legendaries ... it begs the question...
What can be done? Do we think the developers have the (cap)ability to breathe new life into this, or will it simply be a case of after the next patch, Team Leviathan creating a week one tier list and that will be how the next month will play out ad nauseum ...