Dwarves are so boring to play as, no elegance, no pizzaz.
But i guess people will do whatever they can for "wins"
But i guess people will do whatever they can for "wins"
Absolutely!Weevil89;n10269122 said:This always reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh. Anyone who has ever played that game at a high level can tell you that when people start maindecking tech cards to counter the meta which either partially or completely go against their own deck's strategy, or at the very least don't help it much, you know there is something wrong. In Yu-Gi-Oh players have a 15-card side deck they can fill with all kinds of tech cards to swap in between rounds in a best of three. Despite that, some metas are so oppressive (with games being over in one or two turns) that how you open is so important. People panic and start deconstructing their perfectly viable deck in favour of a mish mash of control cards that effectively only work against one deck. Gwent isn't as complex as Yu-Gi-Oh but the symptoms are still there.
SHALLAHJUSTICE;n10270012 said:Dwarves are so boring to play as, no elegance, no pizzaz.
But i guess people will do whatever they can for "wins"
GenLiu;n10271552 said:Absolutely!
Not me though...but you're right.
I always avoid the meta not because I consider myself a badass who can beat whoever I play against with whatever deck I build but simply because for me personally, Gwent is a game and I just play it because I enjoy it.
And if I don't get pro ladder for one season I'm not gonna cry for this, I prefer stay at rk 19/20 and have fun rather than go to higher level of play with the same busted deck and get bored.
It's very sad that, a lot of people are playing for winning by all cost, whatever it takes, cheating, exploiting bugs, playing a completely broken deck...
Imo they forgot the definition of a game which is stupid btw since the vast majority of them will never play at the highest level and never get anything from doing that apart from getting their own self sick of the game.
Weevil89;n10272572 said:It's easy to lose perspective in a game when you are playing at the highest level. To be honest, most players will be sitting around 4kish MMR, and that's where they will stay. The system is designed that way. I will admit right here that I have only gotten to 4250 MMR once and in other seasons I always sit at about 4k. I play off-meta as well, though, because I certainly do get bored and I can't be blamed for that given how new the game is and how limited its card pool is. What we really need is a new game mode for more casual players. Just having casual play and ranked play isn't really enough.
Karfuss;n10273702 said:And I say that as someone who went from Spell to Dwarves and only uses ST exclusively, just to stay competitive.
Not quite true. Mix of dwarves and elves is very viable. Only Francesca as a leader is too low tempo to be good.Zjiin;n10276222 said:Is ST crap outside of Dwarves? Yes.
Maerd;n10276372 said:Not quite true. Mix of dwarves and elves is very viable. Only Francesca as a leader is too low tempo to be good.
Zjiin;n10276222 said:So your 100% bias and in self preservation mode?. Not a good thing to put when argueing not to touch a BLATANTLY broken deck.
Is ST crap outside of Dwarves? Yes. Should dwarves be left as is? Absoloutely not.
Zjiin;n10276222 said:So your 100% bias and in self preservation mode?. Not a good thing to put when argueing not to touch a BLATANTLY broken deck.
Is ST crap outside of Dwarves? Yes.
Should dwarves be left as is? Absoloutely not.
The problem again spins round to the fact CDPR IS STILL awful at balancing and have just pigeon holed ST into playing EXACTLY like SK does.
The awfuly simple truth of the matter is that the current balance and design team are at this point undeniably bad at their jobs and need more help.
iamthedave;n10295172 said:You do know that in every collectible card game in the history of forever, there's only ever been two or three top decks, right? Every magic format ever has at most 4 or 5 competitive decks, and those sets are generally thought of as the best ever.
The whole "OP" of Aglais comes from possibility to steal decoy and use it on Hattori/Barclay/Paulie or commander horn for massive ~30 points swing.xDivinity;n10332462 said:I never thought the day would come,that someone would call Aglais an "OP" card sigh ....