Did people forget Wild Hunt Warrior?
Or does he still have Reach 1?
They removed reach from all cards, so no WHW will just be able to hit everything now.
Also based on what they said about further changes over the up coming months, I would bet dollars to donuts that other cards (and even leaders) will be seeing changes going forward, but as usual their trying to pump the brakes to insure they don't brake everything by rushing forward and changing EVERYTHING all at once.
While I can't predict the future, I am guessing this initial wave was to sort out NR and bring everything in line with their new ideal power level for low power cards and going forward we will see NG, ST and MO getting further overhauls in the coming patches. So while I am as disappointed as anyone that Witch Hunter Executioner didn't seem some sort of nerf (even just removing his bounty to make him less absurdly dangerous) or seeing Wildhunt or Spy NG getting some love, I'm not going to freak out about it since I am fairly sure more is coming.
Having said that... Seriously no change to Demavend? You removed basically all the best charge cards, setting the value of charges to 1 more or less... And left the leader who's only ability is to give charges untouched? I mean he was always worse then Meve, but now Meve is even BETTER since she can inspire her troops while Demavend struggles to find targets to get even a single point from! That's just silly and given I assume eventually the core set will be the only cards to not cycle out when set rotation is implemented (which it will eventually since otherwise the game would get silly after a couple of years worth of new expansions) having Meve (a TB set leader) be SO much better and more core to the NR's faction identity then Demavend (a core set leader) is just... Ridicules. Plus Meve is just plan cooler and more likable, but that's sort of subjective.
I am sure some people might argue that charges are still part of NR so Demavend should still be kept the 'charge leader' to keep that aspect around, but I would argue that as a CORE SET leader Meve better represents NRs faction identity and should thus replace Demavend as the 5th core leader. Or they should switch their powers around. Or Demavend should get SOMETHING that better represents what NR's core cards can do like spawning in token soldier who can trigger crew abilities or provide fodder for Draug. Hell, why not?
King Demavend III: Order: Spawn and play a
Aedirnian Soilder*. Charges: 3.
*3 power human soldier
Sorry that got horribly off topic, anyway ya, the patch looks good, I am sure more is coming next month and the month after that as they use the initial data from this massive change to hot fix and plan out further rebalances to the other factions. Eventually SY most absurd abilities will be toned down and hopefully leaders like Morvran, Eldain and Demavend will hopefully get some love and things will be alright.
As the good book says:
DON'T PANIC