While I agree that changing acard’s core properties should be a last resort, it is possible for a card to be unfixible any other way. For example, a card with a deploy ability: “Win match with x% probability, otherwise lose match.” will be a bad card no matter how you tweak its parameters. It may be arguable that no current cards are bad enough to justify a complete rework (although I would look really hard at Cahir and Viy), but I think it unreasonable to assert that core card abilities should never change.
Viy and Cahir definitively fall under that category. Cahir could be just slightly reworked to make him less binary and extreme but Viy in itself is a dull design, it's just "play and consume this one single card as many times as you can". They could reduce the numbers on Viy and make it not OP, just reduce the starting power by 2 and the growth amount by 1. Then it wouldn't be broken but it would still be an incredibly boring way to play (I think). :]
As for Cahir, here's what I would do:
Instead of row locking him, make him have two different effects for each row:
Ranged: Every time an enemy is boosted, boost self by half that amount (minimum 1 boost to self)
Front: Every time an enemy is boosted, damage a random enemy by half that amount (minimum 1 damage).
(Rounded to a lower number if tis not an even number)
This is wayyyy better then what we have now I think, just give him 1 or 2 more armor to make him less vulnerable to dying and it's set.
Bonus: by choosing the damage row he won't be going tall and thus you can't get robbed of the value via reset or hard removal; Now you get some effect regardless of the row and you can pick which row to go for.
Con: you're not COMPLETELY NEGATING the existence of boosts and if you have an ounce of honor you'll feel better about yourself for not cheesing it completely.
And STILL It would be a pretty damn powerful card! Stuff like Visigotta or any boost that happens 1 by 1 point (like thrive) is STILL completely negated...
Actually... maybe he'd still be too powerful (the damage option is still scary)... not sure.
PS: Increase the power on Yennifer: Conjurer, up to 6 (from 5), I mean for a 10 provision card that sees almost no play - it would be fair, especially since some cards like madlad Iddaran of Ulivo is 6 power AND has an arguably much stronger effect and is 2 prov cheaper.
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Regarding Viy. Actually when I played Viy I was not so successful with her. You can outnumber a Viy deck with Movement or Vyso+Dandelion for instance. And the best counter is stealing Viy with NG (for some reason my Alchemist always pulled Viy) and of course Yrden.
Nevertheless I would also appreciate some changes.
Viy: Power 10, provisions 12
Adrenaline 3: Deathwish Shuffle Viy back to your deck then increase its base power by 3.
-> The initial power is increased by 2, but Viy gets an Adrenaline nerf as all the other new WotW best fraction cards have
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Play a Deathwish unit having a power of 10 or lower from your deck.
-> So you can basically tutor all the Deathwish unit but Viy only if it has not triggered her Deathwish before.
Epidemic ... I miss that card. Would like to see it restored to its former glory, but then you would have to get rid of SK and NR because their swarm BS would be ruined (which I am totally fine with for the record). But maybe tie it with adrenaline somehow. Like destroy units with power equal to the number of cards in your hand. Something like that... Then at least it could be made a bit more useful, but you don't have to worry about it killing a board full of 4 or 5 point units on the last card. You would have to balance when to play it on order to get the most value... Even then it still might brick 90% of the time, But at least it would be interesting to try to work in and play around.
I have also heard it mentioned that maybe it destroys tokens somehow, that would be nice too.
I have also heard it mentioned that maybe it destroys tokens somehow, that would be nice too.
You know that Blizzard (formerly know as White Frost) did get reworked in to the old Epidemic Card, right?
But I agree that the current Epidemic Card is completely useless, they should probably change it to destroy a bronze Card no matter it's provision cost and increase epidemics provision cost instead, wouldn't exactly see much play either but it would at least be somewhat playable.
And ALSO give her some conditioned (or unconditioned) zeal, in any case she's way too powercrept now... not worth the 10 Provs deff.
Ok now my other suggestion:
Add a status called "frost-resistance" (it makes a unit immune to frost damage) and give it to Winter Queen, Wild Hunt Hound and the Ice Giant.
Also for the Ice Giant give the following effect:
If there is Frost on any enemy row add 1 armor to this unit on the end of your turn.
Barricade: Boost this unit by 1.
You could also invent something like Poison-resistance and add it to some Constructs or insectoids.
Or even lock-resistance and add it to some specific rarer units.
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Kelltullis was widely used in recent Gwent Masters. (with Ciri)
Vesemir: Mentor is played in current meta witchers decks.
Bekkers Rockslide is still viable in multi-special cards decks like ST for Harald
There are some other cards that are fine, although crushed by current meta, like Isabel or Xrathisius, that are still viable for hyperthin , however the entire archetype is quite weak compared to SK or MO pointslam right now. Even with addition of Kolgrim.
I mostly agree on other issues, especially artefacts - being useless.
Perhaps thats why devs put that 2 reward points quest for them.
Vesemir: Mentor is played in current meta witchers decks.
Bekkers Rockslide is still viable in multi-special cards decks like ST for Harald
There are some other cards that are fine, although crushed by current meta, like Isabel or Xrathisius, that are still viable for hyperthin , however the entire archetype is quite weak compared to SK or MO pointslam right now. Even with addition of Kolgrim.
I mostly agree on other issues, especially artefacts - being useless.
Perhaps thats why devs put that 2 reward points quest for them.
Crows Eye - with all the locks going around, this card should be buffed to either boost by 4 or to cost 3 provisions. Idk why don't we have 3 provision cards... some would definitively qualify to be worth 3.
Isn't your argument oxymoronic in this case? You say Crow's Eye is useful in this meta (and in any meta in which NG is even remotely viable) and still say it is not worth 4P and want it to be buffed..
Well, back in the day when weather was cool and it affected both sides of the board, there were units with resistance - there were even units that were strengthened by being under the weather - I used to love weather in Gwent, it's really lame now. I think it interfered with those big point slams and swarms that the devs are apparently infatuated with so they nerfed it into oblivionOr give her some conditioned zeal, in any case she's way too powercrept now... not worth the 10 Provs deff.
Ok now my other suggestion:
Add a status called "frost-resistance" (it makes a unit immune to frost damage) and give it to Queen of Frost, Wild Hunt Hound and the Ice Giant.
Also for the Ice Giant give the following effect:
If there is Frost on any enemy row add 1 armor to this unit on the end of your turn.
Barricade: Boost this unit by 1.
You could also invent something like Poison-resistance and add it to some Constructs or insectoids.
Or even lock-resistance and add it to any non NG unit.
As for the rest, you're basically describing "Veil"
It's not like Veil, Veil negates all statuses, including Vitality, Poison, Lock, Shield, Bleeding, Bounty, Rupture, Spying, Doomed and sorry if I missed any (and they may invent some more statuses in the future)... Now I think it's obvious how negating only specific 1 status is fairly different to negating 9 different statuses.Well, back in the day when weather was cool and it affected both sides of the board, there were units with resistance - there were even units that were strengthened by being under the weather - I used to love weather in Gwent, it's really lame now. I think it interfered with those big point slams and swarms that the devs are apparently infatuated with so they nerfed it into oblivion
As for the rest, you're basically describing "Veil"
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Not quite. If they can have amazing locks then we should have decent purifies. They can play 3-5 points + armor in addition to their lock then we should have a purify that can match that. Also a lock is proactive and thus almost always useful vs any faction while a purify is only vs NG and otherwise it's a waste, making it binary but not even good binary where it's amazing or pathetic, this is just half-decent or pathetic.
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I heard a certain fellow gwent-named McBeard, some many moons ago, talk about a neutral Dire Wolf card which could spawn and play a Wolf Pack or something similar.
I would like to meet this Dire Wolf card.
I would like to meet this Dire Wolf card.
Do you think the Devs actually listen and read posts? If they actually gave half a arse you'd not have this problem. For.. ever. They should learn a thing or two from Starcraft 2 balancing. They actually BUFF units that arn't being played. .. something too advanced for them to consider. LOL
That is exactly what they've been doing in the past year. A significant amount of unused card received moderate buffs in the previous patches, with considerable effect. NG being back in the game is a prime example.