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Post by Lumbermancer » #304520

If you like card games, what is your excuse for not playing the best CCG on the market right now?

It has fairly fresh gameplay, not just another riff on MTG. It has a pretty fair business and crafting model. It has a great daily system. It has 5 factions each with its own distinct theme and mechanics (+ neutrals). It actually takes skill to play, except for the draw, there's no luck involved.

It also has an amazing fantasy card art, that's not cartoon for children and/or weebs.
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but does it have lizzers
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It's based on a slavic history book, not on your pornographic drawings.
Bring back papercult.

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>lizzers
>pornographic
how dare you
lizzers are pure
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Post by Alex Crimson » #304538

It has dragons. Those are like T H I C C lizards, right?

Its a pretty fun CCG. Open beta is infinitely better than CB. Bunch of great card changes and a very fair F2P system. Id highly recommend it if you like CCG games. It plays completely different compared to Hearthstone, Shadowverse or Magic: TG.

Not sure how long it will last. The Witcher series is pretty popular, but is it enough for multiple expansions to keep people interested?

Also there will be some changes in the next patch. Mill(Gwents term for card disenchanting) card value will increase by 100% next patch, so its best to not mill your common/rares until then.
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Boy do they have all kinds of Lizzers for you.

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Post by cedarbridge » #304927

I've tried to get hype for it but maybe I just missed something that draws people to Gwent. I never really found the card interactions for the game format terribly interesting. Would anyone care about the game if it wasn't related to the Witcher series?
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Post by Antonio94 » #304939

Gwent is quite refreshing entry into this card games market since it has incredibly different mechanics. I've played the beta it was fantastic, it requires players to think hard and plan strategy carefully since one misstep can lose entire game. It has "luck" element but personally I think it's not huge. Generally when we build a Gwent deck it tend to be solid and usually we can get the cards we need. The remaining question is how can we utilize the cards we have on the hand. 5 factions are really interesting and each faction has its own unique styles to play. I tend to play Skellige faction but for now I play Scoia'tael since I have more Gold cards for that faction (Gold cards are like legendary cards in Hearthstone).
On the other hand, Hearthstone is good but it loses it fire recently. Mostly people keep playing meta decks which are extremely easy to play, luck is also quite insane in Hearthstone so it leans towards fun card game rather than competitive card game.
Shadowverse, I've seen it but never actual played it. But for what I've seen so far it's like Hearthstone with cute girls and anime boys XD. It has several different mechanics than Hearthstone but in general it follows the same rule, so I don't really fond of Shadowverse. I don't mean it's bad, it's just not really unique.
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Post by XSI » #304945

Its neat until you level up enough to get matchmaking to place you and your shitty "Just opened 5 packs" deck in the same pool as "hyper optimised meta-compliant" decks.
It's nice but having pretty much 0 chance sucks the fun out of it really quickly
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Post by cedarbridge » #304949

XSI wrote:Its neat until you level up enough to get matchmaking to place you and your shitty "Just opened 5 packs" deck in the same pool as "hyper optimised meta-compliant" decks.
It's nice but having pretty much 0 chance sucks the fun out of it really quickly
That's card games in a nutshell though. If you don't optomize moderately quickly you'll play against people who do.
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Post by XSI » #304960

Not even 'moderately quickly'

I was up against people with big silver borders on their portraits- So high ranking from the closed beta/previous seasons, within two or three days of playing
And of course they brought their decks with all the good stuff in them, including more of the shiny cards than I can even craft at this point.
Sure, I can tough it out and look up a cheap competitive deck to craft in a few weeks when I've got enough wins in to get the cards/crafting material to get something good going. But I don't see why I'd give a shit if I can't have fun during those weeks of getting my deck stomped by the top tier stuff.

Still better than Heartstone. At least Gwent gives you some cards just for playing
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Yeah running into a full competitive netdeck is pretty brutal when you still have the standard golds/silvers. You can still win, but the other player usually has to make a mistake or get back draws. That said, because you only need one copy of each silver/gold card and the limit of each is 6/4 per deck, it isnt that hard to catch up to those people.

The daily rewards are really damn nice. 6 rounds(each game is best of 3 rounds) won will get you enough currency for an entire pack. Then it goes to 12 round won for more currency etc. Every account levelup alternates between a pack or some scrap to craft cards. Ranked rewards, once again, is usually packs for increasing your rank, then the end of season rewards are crazy. For rank 15(you start at 1, 21 is grand master i think), you get something like 13-15 packs and half a legendaries-worth of scrap.
cedarbridge wrote:I've tried to get hype for it but maybe I just missed something that draws people to Gwent. I never really found the card interactions for the game format terribly interesting. Would anyone care about the game if it wasn't related to the Witcher series?
Did you play the open beta? I tried the closed beta and hated it. The game is much better now imo. Starter decks were remade and have silvers/golds, even if they are just standard ones, it helps. You can also unlock all the leaders and get 7 packs from singleplayer challenges.
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I'm rank 6 now and climbing. Don't have any super edgy cards yet. People sometimes bring crazy golds, but I still win. You just have to play right. Also Nilf is op.
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Post by Alex Crimson » #305841

You can win when they misplay, but overall having good golds is best.

Get dem ranks fast. The next patch is nerfing some cards, and nerfed cards will refund their full crafting cost. People have assumed that milling an animated gold will refund 1600 scrap, so if you animated a nerfed gold then mill it, you should be able to pocket 800 scrap at the cost of 400 dust. Getting rank 10 gives you 100 dust, you will also get 100 dust from a bugfix when the patch hits, so if you havent spent any dust so far, you should have enough for at least one premium gold. This is all unconfirmed though. CPR may not allow it.

Managed to get one of the key NG Reveal deck golds in a keg, so ive managed to get rank 8 playing it. Such a fun deck compared to that overpowered John Calveit rubbish. People never expect the Sweers murder.
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I've bough 14 kegs, got probably more than that for free, and I'm yet to get a gold.
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Golds are also incredibly hard to get by crafting stuff. You can craft basic bronze stuff and I managed to make a pretty basic but decent nilfgaard deck, but it still loses really hard to just about anything I encounter
Cant even craft silvers because those are too expensive, I just got a few lucky pack openings for nilfgaard so I was "Welp, I guess now I'm a nilfgaard main"

Not even playing ranked
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You get free kegs simply for pushing the ranked button.
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Post by Alex Crimson » #305871

John Calviet is getting nerfed, so you should be able to animate and mill him for the 1600 scrap exploit, if CPR allow it. I wouldnt animate it until we know for sure whats going to happen, but its up to you.

ive probably opened like 30-35 kegs and so far have two golds out of it. So ive been pretty lucky. Crafting Silvers isnt too bad. Its only 200 scraps. For NG you will want the mage card(Vanhemar), Auckes and probably something like Roach, which is a neutral Silver used in many decks. Peter Saar whatever and Decoy are pretty much staple Silvers for NG. Personally i use Sweers over Roach because killing off a decks entire combo feels amazing. Fuck you Vicavaro Novice/Priestess of Freya.

Just save up your cards for the patch. When the milling value increases, you should have enough to craft a few Silvers or maybe a Gold.

Also, do ranked. Just hitting the ranked match button will automatically play you based on your casual MMR. I got instantly placed in rank 5, which gave me like 4 kegs for doing nothing. Then you get some sweet fucking rewards for ranking up. As long as you have all your core Bronze cards and good Silvers, you should be able to rank up a little.
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Post by leibniz » #305874

Is this p2w?
Or is there any way to have fun without tons of grinding?
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It's less p2w than Heartstone, but that's not saying much

It's fun in the beginning at least, it's not much grinding and more just getting shit just for playing the game. Though you will run into a wall of optimised decks and then you'll need to grind to deal with those
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Yeah, Hearthstone is pretty fucking brutal to new/F2P players. Gwent is very fair. It has some singleplayer challenge missions that give you around 7 kegs worth of currency and unlocks the other gold leaders for you to use, which needed to be crafted in the closed beta. Then it has a daily reward system. It works on rounds won, rather than games won. Each game is a best-of-3 rounds. Winning 6 rounds gets you 100 currency which is an entire keg. Certain milestones(every 2 rounds won i think?) gives you 15 of a random currency(ore, scrap or dust) or rarely a completely random card. At the end of a game you can GG your opponent which gives them 5 of a random currency. GGs are unlimited so everyone does it unless they are salty bitches.

You have an account level which increases with EXP at the end of a round. Each level gives a reward of some kind. Mostly its a keg or some scrap. Every 10 levels you get a card. At level 10 its a Silver, after that, from level 20 its a Gold card. Every 5/15/35 etc level you get dust(the premium currency used to convert a card into its animated version).

Ranked rewards are also the most generous of any card game ive played. Ranking up gives multiple kegs or generous amounts of currency. Along with portraits/boarders for your account avatar and titles. End of Season rewards are insane. Rank 15 for example, being the rough equivalent of Rank 5 in Hearthstone, gives you 14 kegs, 700 scrap, 400 dust and a portrait for your account. Just for clicking the ranked button i got placed in Rank 5, giving me all the previous rewards. I think it was something like 11 kegs, 600 scrap and 300-ish dust total over rank 1-5.

Ive got to rank 8 playing a fairly budget Niffgard Reveal deck, which is considered pretty bad on the tier list.

So yeah, its pretty fucking fair. Especially if you can scrap together a decent deck for ranked play.

Here is the ranked deck tier list: http://gwentlemen.com.s3-website.eu-cen ... /snapshot/

And a good site for finding decks: http://gwentify.com/
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Post by XSI » #306096

I just now clicked ranked and it gave me rank 6
And a whole bunch of free kegs and such. Took a bit to reach that level, but I found that the time when you play definitely matters.

Also what REALLY helps is tech choices. Getting a bunch of anti-weather cards with decent side effects and stats is amazing. Wins the game against the seemingly very common foglet deck and helps a lot against the ice decks. And many decks seem to include some weather effects in them as well so it's worth at least keeping it in your deck so you can always keep options.
According to that site, my variant of tier 3 revealing nilfgaard(Much less trying to combo, much more trying to just put good stuff out) seems to consistently beat the foglets of tier 1. To the point that I thought this foglet deck was a fellow newbie who just put together something because he found the cards for it in kegs.

I guess the meta is still forming

Edit: Yeah. Looking at some of these decks they seem to be really kinda crappy and lacking tech cards to deal with shit others keep pulling off. And then a few of them seem really strong but for some reason appear to be lower tiers? I give up on trying to understand this
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Post by Alex Crimson » #306103

Reveal is just too vulnerable to Scorch to be tier 1. Spotters are amazing but holy shit you can get counted so hard by any kind of scorch/reset effect. The tier 1 decks are there because i guess they are better at higher levels of play. Dagon Weather and Midrange Calveit are regarded as the best decks right now, i believe. Lower levels has more Buff Dorfs, Spell Cancer ST and Queensguard decks.

As far as i know, Foglets are about big swing turns. Winning the first round, building up your Foglet swarm with Nekkar Warrior and setting up the Harpy Eggs + Ciri for the R2 pass, giving you massive card advantage. Then in R3 you drop Crones and your last fogs to swing with 5 Foglets + 20 Str Crones.
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What a shit gold keg, 2/3 are starters!
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But then before I picked Dandelion, I remembered to check if any of them get changed next patch. Lo and behold free gold of my choice with Sassassa.
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Post by Alex Crimson » #306111

Until you realise that Sasa is getting buffed next patch, not nerfed, so no free gold for you. Unless they intend to make buffed golds refund 800/1600 scraps, which would be weird.

Shouldve taken Dandelion. That dude is pretty baller in...

http://gwentify.com/decks/megamogwais-d ... open-beta/

...That deck. They were all pretty shit choices though. Bad luck. Even that NR deck is considered more of a gimmick than a competitive deck.

https://imgur.com/a/QwEui is a rough outline of the buffed/nerfed cards for next patch. If you see any of the nerfed cards in a pack, i would take them in the hopes of getting that 100% refund after the patch. Animated may also be priority picks if you are close to 400/800 etc dust for the possible animated gold exploit, which may or may not happen.
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Post by Lumbermancer » #306112

Wait, wasn't ANY change eligible for full mill? Wasn't it so in HS? What the kek.

Dandelion sucks anyway.
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Post by Alex Crimson » #306113

As far as i know its only nerfed cards. I could be wrong, so i guess its best to wait. Even if its only nerfed cards, you can still craft a silver of your choice after the patch by milling the dumb dragon.

Dandelion does indeed suck.
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I might try it next week. Using machines looks fun.
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Alex Crimson wrote:Reveal is just too vulnerable to Scorch to be tier 1. Spotters are amazing but holy shit you can get counted so hard by any kind of scorch/reset effect. The tier 1 decks are there because i guess they are better at higher levels of play. Dagon Weather and Midrange Calveit are regarded as the best decks right now, i believe. Lower levels has more Buff Dorfs, Spell Cancer ST and Queensguard decks.

As far as i know, Foglets are about big swing turns. Winning the first round, building up your Foglet swarm with Nekkar Warrior and setting up the Harpy Eggs + Ciri for the R2 pass, giving you massive card advantage. Then in R3 you drop Crones and your last fogs to swing with 5 Foglets + 20 Str Crones.
Not entirely true on scorch, any big unit is vulnerable to it, but if you just don't play all of them at the same strength then you'll do well against it. Besides that I havent even seen scorch in many decks. Nauzicaa standard bearer- Buff the revealed spotter in your hand so they don't all get scorched, and it clears weather on the row. Useful in more situations than just the foglets. And if you're revealing stuff but don't have a clue what the other guy has in his hand so you can play around it you're clearly doing it wrong

Maybe that all gets countered too, but I've not had it fail yet against weather decks. Any sort of weather effect gets blown out by a nice "Clear weather, spawn unit and buff something", it's pretty harsh.

And maybe I'm just playing against people who aren't playing it optimally either. I'm sure I'd get blown away by people who are actually really good at this
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Post by Alex Crimson » #306505

I dont think ive ever saved a single reveal for the last round. Not really worth it. All my reveal is usually based around multiple reveals in a single card. Alchemist is pretty terrible. As for buffing a Spotter, in the end you are still sacrificing 16-20 power to Scorch. Its a game-winning Scorch. Once Reveal becomes a more well-known metadeck, people will realise most of your power comes from Spotters, and will hold Scorch/resets to completely counter you in R3.

Im almost tempted to add in a Combat Engineer to try to force out more removal earlier in the round. Mangonels already scare the shit out of people and make them use their locks/5 damage removal.
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Post by XSI » #306508

I'm barely winning in ranked until the very last card, usually

Which tends to be some kind of real bullshit like "10 strength boost self by 15 if the opponent hasn't passed yet"
Damage the top enemies in a row by 3, 2 and 1
3 damage for the highest in all rows
Draw a card and consume it, then boost your gold shit by twice the amount you just consumed
Consume EVERYTHING in your graveyard and boost by that much, free 20 points
Playing ranked showed me all sorts of completely bullshit gold cards. Seriously, what the shit. How am I supposed to compete with that using just Gerald and Triss, both being only roughly 13 points of power in the best case, and often less than that.

Mangonels scare people really badly for good reason too, over time those things can do a lot of damage if you've got your reveal cards

Edit: 15 strength boost self by 10 what the shit?
Damage everything by 1 every turn, seriously? Who the shit balanced this?

Yeah, fuck this shit, no ranked unless you pay them money
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Post by Alex Crimson » #306514

That Tibor. He is pretty much a staple Nilfgaard card. Save him for R3 and just win. It even has a reveal mechanic for your Spotters. SK have a similar one that puts a 5 str monster on your board, then they need to kill it for the 15 point boost to their gold.

Funniest shit ive seen is someone playing Tibor against me, only for it to draw me a Spotter. The regret they must feel. Most NG netdecks do not even run Scorch.

People who say standard golds are good in ranked are crazy. Replace Geralt as soon as you can. Id suggest Vattier De Rideaux if you play a lot of reveal. Amazing card that reveals 4 cards and is 8 str on its own. Tibor is also great, obviously, although he is being nerfed by 2 power next patch. Not really a big nerf imo.

Geralt: Igni and Ciri(not Ciri: Dash) are considered to be the best neutral golds, and arguably the best overall golds in the game. Those should be your first gold crafts, really.
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XSI wrote:I'm barely winning in ranked until the very last card
Do not forget you don't need to win every round. Sometimes it is prudent to skip, if you feel like you will have an advantage next round. And remember the daily system counts rounds, not games. So even if you lose the game, you will still get that +1 on the reward tree, if you won a round.

The leaderboard says I have 22 wins and 15 defeats, and I'm running a subpar deck with no special golds or best silvers.
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Oh no, he had all the cool golds, what am I going to do now!
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Post by Alex Crimson » #306552

Auckes, Leo and Ciri. Dude was decked out. Ive found Reveal NG to be pretty good against Spy NG too.

Nilfgaard is such a damn good faction. So many options when it comes to silvers.
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Post by XSI » #306570

Yeah, I am passing when it is advantageous to not play. Often that means they need to play 2 cards or one of those big golds to catch up

But when they play shit like that the last card in round 3, I can't help but feel I never stood a chance anyway
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Post by Alex Crimson » #306580

https://www.twitch.tv/megam0gwai is a pretty good stream to watch. He plays at a high ranking and shows off some more advanced shit like card advantage and how to bluff the other player into making big plays or wasting their combo cards. Well, at least i find it easier to play a game once i find a high-level player to emulate. Sometimes its better to extend a round you are behind in, just to get the dude to waste a brutal combo that costs you the game later on.
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Post by Alex Crimson » #307157

RIP all my luck. I am gonna get run over by a bus tomorrow. Finally got rank 10 and hit 800 dust ready for the patch scrap exploit, if it works. Then the next keg i opened gave me an animated Kayran. Pretty sure im already dead.
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Post by Alex Crimson » #307808

Patch is out. go get yo scrap if you saved up for the exploit. Cahir is a basic gold card that got nerfed, so you should be able to do the exploit with him if you have no other options.

EDIT: Went from 600 scrap to over 6000. Great patch.
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I don't even know what to do with my newly acquired wealth. Which neutral gold to craft to replace the Commanders Horn?
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Post by Alex Crimson » #308170

In the past most people went with Ciri, but she was nerfed in this patch so it might not be the best choice now. Geralt: Igni is a good choice. Fits in most decks. Best to wait for people to come up with the new meta decks and see what takes your interest.
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Post by leibniz » #308870

Tried the game, it's ok.
It took me a while to understand that passing isnt just for one turn.
But it's still strange that you dont always draw cards.
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Re: Gwent: Because Shadowverse and Hearthstone suck, idiot.

Post by leibniz » #309160

I've done very challange so now I've like 900 scraps.
What's my optimal play here? Just open kegs now?
People say unused cards should be milled right away.
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Re: Gwent: Because Shadowverse and Hearthstone suck, idiot.

Post by Alex Crimson » #309204

Open as many kegs as you can ASAP. There was a patch recently, so nerfed cards currently give 100% scrap when milled. Look around for the patch notes and prioritize picking cards that give you a full scrap refund.
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Re: Gwent: Because Shadowverse and Hearthstone suck, idiot.

Post by Lumbermancer » #309324

Try some ranked, you get few kegs just for rolling in.

Do dailies. Getting 18 wins is not that hard and doesn't take long, and it pretty much guarantees you 2 free kegs per day.

Mill them cards.

If you find a shiny epic in the keg, you can use this tool to help you make a decision http://gwentify.com/card-picker/. You can find decklists there as well.
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Re: Gwent: Because Shadowverse and Hearthstone suck, idiot.

Post by XSI » #309334

Yeah, as soon as you click the button for ranked, it gives you a rank

Which means free stuff now, and free stuff at the end of the season
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Re: Gwent: Because Shadowverse and Hearthstone suck, idiot.

Post by leibniz » #309355

I am only level 4 atm so I cant play ranked.
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Re: Gwent: Because Shadowverse and Hearthstone suck, idiot.

Post by Alex Crimson » #309685

The mill refund thingy will probably end with the next daily reset. If you can get to level 10 before then, you will get a bunch of kegs just for clicking the ranked battle button. Mill those nerfed cards whilst you can. If you do not play Nilfgaard, you should be able to mill Cahir for 800 scrap, enough to craft any other gold card or 3 silvers. Even better, if you can turn it into an animated card, it will mill for 1600 scrap. Although i wouldnt recommend it if you play Nilfgaard, as Cahir is a pretty nice gold.

Finally got to rank 11 after battling through the ocean of bear and Dagon weather spam. Hopefully i can at least reach 13 before the end of the season.
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Re: Gwent: Because Shadowverse and Hearthstone suck, idiot.

Post by leibniz » #309693

Alex Crimson wrote:The mill refund thingy will probably end with the next daily reset. If you can get to level 10 before then, you will get a bunch of kegs just for clicking the ranked battle button. Mill those nerfed cards whilst you can. If you do not play Nilfgaard, you should be able to mill Cahir for 800 scrap, enough to craft any other gold card or 3 silvers. Even better, if you can turn it into an animated card, it will mill for 1600 scrap. Although i wouldnt recommend it if you play Nilfgaard, as Cahir is a pretty nice gold.

Finally got to rank 11 after battling through the ocean of bear and Dagon weather spam. Hopefully i can at least reach 13 before the end of the season.
Eh, I am not fanatic enough, I stopped at rank 7 for today.
So far I like nilfgaard and NR, I will probably collect cards for these two colors.
When does the season end?
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Re: Gwent: Because Shadowverse and Hearthstone suck, idiot.

Post by Alex Crimson » #309893

Nobody is sure. They never gave an official date for the end of the season. Most people are assuming its either 2 months from open beta or that the season will last for the entire duration of the beta.
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