Quantity(?) over Quality

[saodhar]

Had 3 daily quests accumulated (I still can't see a quest go to waste, so I play Gwent every three days to them out of the way).
Couldn't bring myself to play ranked and meet another “fresh” deck there, so I played 5 games today with my all-neutrals deck in unranked.

4 wins, 1 draw. Seriously? Two players forfeited after 2 turns, when, I presume, the match derailed from their decks' guidelines. The other three were just so bland. The last one tried to overwhelm me with Sove in the last round, but could not kill the summoned beast. And not that this day's opponents were particularly bad compared to the others.

This is all just sad. Is this the result of “bolstering” the player base with easy-to-lure netdeckers? The time I spent searching for an opponent was pretty short, I admit.

 

[BartonFink]

Had 3 daily quests accumulated (I still can't see a quest go to waste, so I play Gwent every three days to them out of the way).
Couldn't bring myself to play ranked and meet another “fresh” deck there

Do you play any daily quest? My routine for ages has been to refresh quests till I get one with a key as a reward, the only reward worth having for me now. Sometimes I won't play until I have 3 quests filled with keys as rewards in them. So, I mainly play when the Journey quests drop and I try to complete many or most of the daily quests in completing the Journey quests. That's about once a week I play then.

What do you mean by "fresh deck"? I haven't played Ranked for many weeks. My old faithful decks seems to come up against those newer, bs op decks even in the middle level rank I'm playing at. With those bs op decks like Nil has (cultist) and Sco etc, you need to learn more complicated mechanics and I really can't be bothered doing that. It's moved a long way since I first started playing, just before COVID hit. Back then, Nor starter decks, I think, had those really 'op' combos involving the drummer, soldier and healer. Man, 'op' ain't what it used to be! And of course, the devs had to nerf cards which countered their new bs op decks, like Yrden. You really need him now...along with some cheap cards which play pretty much the same way.

 

[saodhar]

Do you play any daily quest? My routine for ages has been to refresh quests till I get one with a key as a reward, the only reward worth having for me now. Sometimes I won't play until I have 3 quests filled with keys as rewards in them. So, I mainly play when the Journey quests drop and I try to complete many or most of the daily quests in completing the Journey quests. That's about once a week I play then.

I did the same thing - back when I had any rewards to unlock. Now I have ~4k RPs (and other resources more than I can spend, so I don't even need the recently introduced converter). So I only refresh when I get "WIn X games as faction Y"(unless I'm currently playing this faction - I get 25 ranked matches for one faction, then move to another). And any daily quest also gives me additional 2 RPs.

What do you mean by "fresh deck"? I haven't played Ranked for many weeks. My old faithful decks seems to come up against those newer, bs op decks even in the middle level rank I'm playing at. With those bs op decks like Nil has (cultist) and Sco etc, you need to learn more complicated mechanics and I really can't be bothered doing that. It's moved a long way since I first started playing, just before COVID hit. Back then, Nor starter decks, I think, had those really 'op' combos involving the drummer, soldier and healer. Man, 'op' ain't what it used to be! And of course, the devs had to nerf cards which countered their new bs op decks, like Yrden. You really need him now...along with some cheap cards which play pretty much the same way.

By "fresh" I mean anything not in the current overstale "meta". One day I was happy to see NR "patient mages" and even Patricide SK with Sihil (and just normal use of raids). But 95% matches are against the same 3-4 decks. Maybe if I fall to even lower ranks (I keep hanging around 7-5 every season), the diversity will improve? But my hopes are slim.

 

[BartonFink]

I did the same thing - back when I had any rewards to unlock. Now I have ~4k RPs (and other resources more than I can spend, so I don't even need the recently introduced converter). So I only refresh when I get "WIn X games as faction Y"(unless I'm currently playing this faction - I get 25 ranked matches for one faction, then move to another). And any daily quest also gives me additional 2 RPs

The converter? Do many people find that desirable? Did the Gwent devs introduce that because the community was screaming for it? Maybe the devs got confused because it would only interest me if you could trade resources for keys. They went the other way.

So you have nothing to use your RPs or resources on? You've got the Nekkers and used fragments to unlock premium Journeys? There are still some reward trees which have baubles which interest me like coins or cardbacks. Be good if they had trees for boards too. Even though the game is nearly dead they're still charging money for boards. Actually, maybe I'm secretly hoping the game dies quickly so I can play something else from my GOG library, most of which I've never played.

One day I was happy to see NR "patient mages" and even Patricide SK with Sihil (and just normal use of raids). But 95% matches are against the same 3-4 decks. Maybe if I fall to even lower ranks (I keep hanging around 7-5 every season), the diversity will improve? But my hopes are slim

Until some months ago I tried to keep myself at rank 15 but I'm drifting away from that now, since I'm not even playing that mode. I think I got robbed of Pro Rank by the stupid system Gwent has for being able to reach it. I met all the gameplay requirements for that but missed out because of something I was required to tick the box of when I first got this game without knowing what it meant. Ticking boxes is only something you should be forced to do if you want to move beyond playing the kinds of games you've been playing in order to reach Pro Rank, as in wanting to play tournaments with prize money, which I wasn't thinking of doing.

The devs really turned their back on the game that I started playing just before COVID hit. In the last year or two they've just introduced units which pointslam, pointslam worse in combos or are immune to direct targeting...as well as nerfing all cards which could counter them, like Yrden.

I pretty well only play now to get rewards for quests or challenges. It would suck for a streamer to have to play me (are Gwent streamers a thing anymore?). They'd probably say to their audience "You're 300 points behind in the last (or second round which will be the last in any case) round, what could you possibly play to beat me?". And the point is I wouldn't be trying to win, which I couldn't if I wanted to...I'm just trying to play x units or whatever other challenge in order to get a reward for it.

Maybe I'm near rank 20 now...but I'm getting those crazy pointslam decks from Nil or Sco as opponents. If you can't beat them, join them...and I can't be bothered joining them. A few years ago, I don't think you could get decks which could score over 300 points in a round. At least back then Yrden wasn't nerfed.