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Apparently medicine woman Sharon was downgraded in the most recent update. This was quite frustrating to me as she was a pretty integral part of my strategy, and I had spent many months building her up. I am wondering where this change comes from. It’s really frustrating to invest so much time into a card that overnight turns into a fraction of what it was. This is a huge disincentive to play the game. I’ve been faithfully playing for over six months, and was finally getting somewhere, but this knocks me back to where I was almost two months ago. Maybe it’s time to stop playing the game if capricious developers are going to undo almost two months of gameplay overnight.
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The change was posted for a few weeks and people knew it was coming.
She can still heal units for high amounts and still pairs well with certain cards, she just doesn't have the ability to heal 1/3 of your NK's health anymore. Now it's more like 3%.
I'm on the "this sucks and was heavy handed" train as I have been requesting MWS for months and am about half way to level 6, but we have to all be aware that this is RedLynx's strategy. They seem to pick cards at random or more likely make changes based on high valued community members and just see what happens. There is virtually no testing done. They make that clear considering they screwed up mind control horribly.
I would be in favor of a small buff, but then we just go right back on the nerf/buff train that they are doing with so many cards. They just can't figure out how to balance their game correctly, even after the hundreds and hundreds of ideas the players share with them. And it definitely appears as though they actually ignore the most controversial cards (like Pope Timmy, DSR, Bradley (who is still a beast btw)) in favor of picking cards that aren't really key issues in the current meta. HK paired with MWS and I am wondering that instead of nerfing HK, they actually just nerfed that combo (a little) because it seems bizarre they would hit her so hard.
Remember purify? If not, I will remind you it first was as 1 cost purify all cards. Then it became a 2 cost with a little itsy bitsy range. People complained so many times about it that I don't know exactly how many changes were made afterwords, but it now seems to be at a reasonable spot because it doesn't come up any more. Is that what we are going to do with all these cards? Just nerf into the ground then buff into the sky? Again and again and again? Doesn't seem that effective.
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That's kind of a terrible approach. Just because there are complaints about cards doesn't mean there are problems with the card, it just means that the complainers haven't developed a strategy to combat them. I used to get really frustrated with dougie and cyborg Kenny, especially a combo of dougie and drow elf Kyle. Did that mean the cards were too strong? Nope, it meant my strategy wasn't strong enough to handle the other players strategy. So I figured out a way to deal with it and now dougie is no big deal. I get MWS and HK are a kick *** combo, especially with Santa, which is why I use them, but there are several really effective ways to combat this combo. Part of the fun of the game is figuring out how to fight off card combo's effectively.
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Agreed completely, hitting a core card ability with a 90% reduction is ridiculous. First they killed Incan rather than try to figure out how to balance him properly, and now they smacked Sharon so hard that her NK heal is basically nonexistent now. Might as well just delete that part of her ability they reduced it so hard.
Meanwhile zen gets a reasonable 10% reduction and WDT gets a very modest 5%. Do they have different teams doing the balancing for each theme? It's nuts.
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You can thank the nerfherders for that. Those are the ones who like to complain in favour of nerfing everything in sight because they don't like that the card interferes with their own strategy, and keep lobbying Redlynx until they cave and nerf the card. They did it to Incan Craig, they did it to Bradley, they did it to BHK, and I'm sure there were others that escape me at the moment.Originally Posted by Benson8683 Go to original post
Good example of that nerf mindset are Zanza's posts here:
https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthrea...ber-2019/page2
You (and those in your situation) are the exact reason why I argued in favour of buffing weak cards over nerfing stronger cards. However, Zanza says that you are less valuable than those who have invested in weaker cards, so you deserve to suffer. Not a stance I will ever support.
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I guess you missed this thread, then:Originally Posted by dannyb1022 Go to original post
https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthrea...-to-long/page3
Despite Purify being a perfectly reasonable card, there are still those who are deluded into thinking it still needs to be nerfed! And logic doesn't sway them in the least. After all, why let logic interfere with your lobbying to nerf a card you don't like because it interferes with your strategy, right?
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Yeah I probably did miss that. My post is more designed to explain how groups of people complaining about a card regardless of it's viability will cause RedLynx to make some heavy handed hits, rather than debate the strength of purify. They nerf it. Then people complain. Then they try to fix it. People still complain. They fix it again. But yet there will still always be people complaining that it's broken and no matter the nerf/buff train RedLynx wants to ride, in reality they need to make mass changes. They need to nerf VERY FEW cards in reasonable ways (not heavy handed) then buff nearly all of the unused cards that just waste away in player's deck builder. I huge change in meta is needed around this time. People are already set in their ways and buffing 2 cards and nerfing 2 cards is not going to fix a damn thing. Everyone will continue to use their already built main decks.
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