The Northern realm change revealed so far...
So there are two major nerf I noticed for Northern Realm upcoming patch. Though the full detail is not coming out I can already say this patch shows no mercy on Northern Realm.
https://i.redd.it/jy8lyhbb5bhz.jpg
Let's start with Keira Metz. Her ability is changed to aeromancy, epidemic and tb potion. The potion is most used ability I think and it has been nerfed 3 power but given extra armor like current immune boost. If NR is not playing armor archetype I think it's safe to assume it's a 3 power nerf on Keira.
Epidemic now probably can kill gold so she cannot target unit higher than 5 or otherwise it's suicide.
Aeromancy has no synergy in NR archetype except Aretuza adept (which is also arguable since nothing in NR benefit directly from weather effect like axeman or foglet). To achieve a reasonable value it should be coupled with Skellige storm or white frost which is taking up valuable silver slot,
So overall Keira is at least 3 power nerfed and all of her ability is nerfed to a somehow questionable situation. I see no reason she can be used in any archetype but armor.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH2QoOeXkAMsDrg.jpg
Secondly Reinforcement can only target bronze or silver soldier, officer and machine. Which means mages, healer, spy are out of target. This affects key cards that every NR archetype needed including but not limited to, Margarita, Dethmond, Thaler, Operator, Sile, Nenneke, field medic, aretuza adept, witcher combo etc. Basically the majority of useful silver is excluded from the range and only Stennis ,Ves and Odrin are within the range I suppose. I cannot emphasize more on how drastic this change is, all I can say is current NR archetype apart from armor will be seriously affected in terms of power swing and consistency (which is not even top tier in current patch).
With these two vital nerf I do expect Northern Realm been butchered in next patch since it's really some nerf that hit right in the eye.
Upon that we have Pricilla now is completely useless AGAIN, Gold crewman Radovid that can be easily destroyed, I just don't know what else NR have to offer.
The other changes like Stennis rework kinda making me feel CDPR really want to force NR players to use armor archetype though.....
The question is, which faction should I play next?
So there are two major nerf I noticed for Northern Realm upcoming patch. Though the full detail is not coming out I can already say this patch shows no mercy on Northern Realm.
https://i.redd.it/jy8lyhbb5bhz.jpg
Let's start with Keira Metz. Her ability is changed to aeromancy, epidemic and tb potion. The potion is most used ability I think and it has been nerfed 3 power but given extra armor like current immune boost. If NR is not playing armor archetype I think it's safe to assume it's a 3 power nerf on Keira.
Epidemic now probably can kill gold so she cannot target unit higher than 5 or otherwise it's suicide.
Aeromancy has no synergy in NR archetype except Aretuza adept (which is also arguable since nothing in NR benefit directly from weather effect like axeman or foglet). To achieve a reasonable value it should be coupled with Skellige storm or white frost which is taking up valuable silver slot,
So overall Keira is at least 3 power nerfed and all of her ability is nerfed to a somehow questionable situation. I see no reason she can be used in any archetype but armor.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH2QoOeXkAMsDrg.jpg
Secondly Reinforcement can only target bronze or silver soldier, officer and machine. Which means mages, healer, spy are out of target. This affects key cards that every NR archetype needed including but not limited to, Margarita, Dethmond, Thaler, Operator, Sile, Nenneke, field medic, aretuza adept, witcher combo etc. Basically the majority of useful silver is excluded from the range and only Stennis ,Ves and Odrin are within the range I suppose. I cannot emphasize more on how drastic this change is, all I can say is current NR archetype apart from armor will be seriously affected in terms of power swing and consistency (which is not even top tier in current patch).
With these two vital nerf I do expect Northern Realm been butchered in next patch since it's really some nerf that hit right in the eye.
Upon that we have Pricilla now is completely useless AGAIN, Gold crewman Radovid that can be easily destroyed, I just don't know what else NR have to offer.
The other changes like Stennis rework kinda making me feel CDPR really want to force NR players to use armor archetype though.....
The question is, which faction should I play next?
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