why nerf vlad, are people really having that hard a time against a melee lord that mostly just can be ignored while you kill the rest of his army?

[Aranea]

straight up going from ward save to physical res is MASSIVE nerf for vlad on his ring and just punishes vampire count players. which is a race that hasn't seen a dlc since wh1, that is also showing its age and having most of their buildings being pointless right now, as either too expensive or unecessary due to recruitment in cities almost never happening thanks to raise dead.

i imagine this is down to empire players complaining about him but jesus he is so easy to kill with the empire, the empire has been powercrept so insanely much that i don't think could fit in all the fingers in my hands how many different ways i've humiliated vlad von carstein while playing a empire campaign.

This feels unecessary and should be reverted.

[Mollerz]

Poor Malus as well.

[KeiranG19]

About once a month there is a thread of someone complaining that they can't kill him.

[Aranea]

Originally posted by KeiranG19:

About once a month there is a thread of someone complaining that they can't kill him.

Those must be some real bad players i don't know what else to think

[Mollerz]

Originally posted by KeiranG19:

About once a month there is a thread of someone complaining that they can't kill him.

Spoiler alert-

The same people still won't be able to kill him lmao

[AkumulatoR]

Disappointing. I enjoyed watching people get VLADDED and then crying on the forums. Never gets old.

[Lokvi]

Welp The Empire is most played race and also I would guess its the most played race by newbies. Coming into this game from other games, people expect humans to be the default easy option to learn the game. But when this walking noob menace shows up to end few playthroughs, I can see why people are not fond of this dude.
Obviously an experienced played can end him and his mistress before they even hit the frontline, but player learning the game just gets stomped and thats no fun for them.

[identity]

Yeah this has been going on for years; people complain, VC gets nerfed, those players still suck because they don't understand the mechanics of the game.

[Reaver79]

Seems to be a change made more than a few places, might be for the good of the game.. Hard to tell yet..

[dulany67]

Originally posted by AkumulatoR:

Disappointing. I enjoyed watching people get VLADDED and then crying on the forums. Never gets old.

I enjoyed that also.

However, I think this nerf needed to happen. It too often led to silly tactics like having to kite Vlad while shooting him after his army was dead.

[Darklordnj]

Tragic, the Empire malders won, despite their massive buff in ranged options.....

[SBA77]

Originally posted by Aranea:

why nerf vlad, are people really having that hard a time against a melee lord that mostly just can be ignored while you kill the rest of his army?

You want to know why? It's because of all the "VLAD IS UNKILLABLE!" threads.
And people claim that CA doesn't listen to the community and honor their wishes lol.

[identity]

Originally posted by dulany67:

Originally posted by AkumulatoR:

Disappointing. I enjoyed watching people get VLADDED and then crying on the forums. Never gets old.

I enjoyed that also.

However, I think this nerf needed to happen. It too often led to silly tactics like having to kite Vlad while shooting him after his army was dead.

Vlad being nigh unstoppable is practically the identity of VC. Ghorst does the same thing with zombies. All VC have annoying longevity with rising dead. Sylvania's only real gimmick is how hard Vlad is to kill, which is lore accurate considering he looks like a friggin' zombie because he has been chopped up that many times. Vlad is a lore accurate one man army that loses much of his strength the longer the game goes on, because VC is a rush faction and all the casuals that complain never make it to end game to see what a joke he is overall.

[Darklordnj]

Honestly, next update, CA should add a secret cheat code where if you start as the Empire, if you roll your face across the keyboard, you can get a T1 domination campaign victory.

[Mou bu]

poor Vald

[MoOnKat]

Vlad getting another nerf despite being part of 7 year un-updated Vampire Counts because Empire players aren't aware they have a unit called Handgunners.