Gwent's Archetype Problem With Faction Specific Cards
This has actually come up a lot before. However, it has never been discussed within its own topic. So, here we go.
Neutral cards with similar effects to faction specific cards are weaker because faction specific cards should take precedence. Most famous example would be Crones vs Witchers, though many more examples exist. This is okay'ish. Though, in an ideal situation, you actually want neutral cards to do their own thing without having similar effects with their faction specific counter parts.
Now let's compare faction specific cards with each other. Suddenly, a forum user -let's call him Bob- Bob starts arguing: "You cannot compare faction cards with other factions because vacuum this and different archetype that". Bob has a point. NR needs to use a gold card to resurrect a unit (and only has one card available), while SK can achieve the same thing with a silver card (and has another 3 ress cards). That would normally be completely unfair.
Onward to my main point. Factions exist to give a feeling of uniqueness as well as pushing the player into archetypes. Well, how would be balance looks like, if every card could be used by every faction. I am not suggesting that every card should be made neutral, but that every card could theoretically be put into another faction without becoming too overpowered. This would create a certain baseline and removes the gap between Shani and Sigrdrifa, for example.
What would that do for the balance?
This could lead to a suggestion (among other things): Neutral Archetype Cards for Leaders
This has actually come up a lot before. However, it has never been discussed within its own topic. So, here we go.
Neutral cards with similar effects to faction specific cards are weaker because faction specific cards should take precedence. Most famous example would be Crones vs Witchers, though many more examples exist. This is okay'ish. Though, in an ideal situation, you actually want neutral cards to do their own thing without having similar effects with their faction specific counter parts.
Now let's compare faction specific cards with each other. Suddenly, a forum user -let's call him Bob- Bob starts arguing: "You cannot compare faction cards with other factions because vacuum this and different archetype that". Bob has a point. NR needs to use a gold card to resurrect a unit (and only has one card available), while SK can achieve the same thing with a silver card (and has another 3 ress cards). That would normally be completely unfair.
Onward to my main point. Factions exist to give a feeling of uniqueness as well as pushing the player into archetypes. Well, how would be balance looks like, if every card could be used by every faction. I am not suggesting that every card should be made neutral, but that every card could theoretically be put into another faction without becoming too overpowered. This would create a certain baseline and removes the gap between Shani and Sigrdrifa, for example.
What would that do for the balance?
This could lead to a suggestion (among other things): Neutral Archetype Cards for Leaders
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