New Player

[TheHobbitses]

Hi there, as the title says im a new player(played the game years ago on release date for like 2 matches) and im a bit overwehlmed by all the stuff available and the amount of stuff i can unlock/buy in the shop, does anyone have some advice for me as where i should start or what type of packs i should buy ? Also i dont mind spending a bit of money since i absolutely love gwent and the witcher universe. Just Hit lvl 10 by playing pre build decks, but i dont really know where to go from here. Anyhows, thanks for the advice in advance !

[hengtgutt]

Hello. New player too. Start playing the standard mode and have fun. Little by little, you will earn barrels. Break the barrels. There are cards in them, and that way you increase your collection. Over time, you decide what kind of deck you like to play. Northern Kingdoms is a very cool to start!!

[hengtgutt]

Personally, I recommend trying to put together a deck full of vampires. It's exciting and a lot of fun. I did it and I only play with it now.

[hengtgutt]

Try to use the keys you win in matches to unlock the tree. There you can unlock materials, skins and new cards

[hengtgutt]

The gold you earn can be spent in the store, buying faction barrels. Of course, if you want to spend real money, that's even better. You could try buying a battle pass, something like that :)

[hengtgutt]

I don't know if it's possible to create a personalized room, but I'd like to duel with you, haha.

[TheHobbitses]

Originally posted by hengtgutt:

Hello. New player too. Start playing the standard mode and have fun. Little by little, you will earn barrels. Break the barrels. There are cards in them, and that way you increase your collection. Over time, you decide what kind of deck you like to play. Northern Kingdoms is a very cool to start!!

thanks, funnily enough i bought northern kingdoms packs as well, i would like to go some kind of witcher deck and i heard NK witcher decks are decent, so im going to try and do that, altho i am a bit confused with the card selection, like sometimes it glows weird(not reffering to the rarity), like how do i know if i received a duplicate. Anyhows, im certain ill figure this kind of stuff out, was just wondering if there were any tips from other players, but thanks for you hlep !

[TheHobbitses]

Originally posted by hengtgutt:

I don't know if it's possible to create a personalized room, but I'd like to duel with you, haha.

i think it is, when you go to training you can duel a friend, but i think you need to be lvl 20 if i remember right

[hengtgutt]

When you want to duel, call me. I'm already at level 35, I think. I've seen some decks made up of witchers. They're pretty cool.

[Alun1]

Originally posted by TheHobbitses:

Originally posted by hengtgutt:

Hello. New player too. Start playing the standard mode and have fun. Little by little, you will earn barrels. Break the barrels. There are cards in them, and that way you increase your collection. Over time, you decide what kind of deck you like to play. Northern Kingdoms is a very cool to start!!

thanks, funnily enough i bought northern kingdoms packs as well, i would like to go some kind of witcher deck and i heard NK witcher decks are decent, so im going to try and do that, altho i am a bit confused with the card selection, like sometimes it glows weird(not reffering to the rarity), like how do i know if i received a duplicate. Anyhows, im certain ill figure this kind of stuff out, was just wondering if there were any tips from other players, but thanks for you hlep !

when you open a keg, you see the cards, after choosing which middle card you want you will see an icon underneath the cards. depending on the card you can own different amounts of them, i.e gold cards you can only own 1 of each variant.

brown icon = standard variant
green icon = premium variant (animated)

anymore than 2 of each icon is safe to be milled, then it's just a matter of if they are gold cards (gold border cards) or not. those you can only have 1 of each variant.

[Banana Tiger]

1. Buy and complete Thronebreaker - it's currently on the Spring Sale.
2. By completing Thronebreaker, you get a ton of reward points from completing contracts
3. In Thronebreaker you can find premium version of some expensive cards - now you can scrap their non-premium duplicates
4. Start with faction trees, first basic (bottom tab - they include good cards), then advanced (at the top).
5. Some trees have cards as rewards. Way of the Witcher has a nice tree and unlocking each character (no skins unfortunately, just a title) gets you access to a tree with a 800-scrap card (location). Year of the Wild Boar has Vesemir+Lambert+Eskel, they might be useful in some decks (for example the one that uses Mutagenerator to boost 7-provision cards in your deck) + you can find a board in one of chests (unusual for reward trees).
6. You don't have to complete the entire tree, but once you unlock a story node (for 5 points), go for all story nodes in that tree (there are either 4 or 2). Stalwart Leadership is good for beginners, as it includes mostly kegs and the less card you have, the less likely is finding duplicates in kegs. Advanced Tactics includes kegs and story nodes.
7. You usually get 50 ore/40 scraps/30 powder for 1 reward point, 1 keg for 2 reward points. But 3-point nodes give you 200 ore or 2 kegs, so go for 3-point nodes. As for chests - some are cheap, just 5 reward points and they include assets worth more than 10 points. If a chest costs 10 points - just do the maths.
8. For premium journey, pick the one that includes some stuff (cards, sountracks, coins, skins etc.) that you may actually need. For standard journey I would recommend Triss and Alzur - there are contracts for playing 20 games with their avatars, just a few reward points, but still something.
9. Use some popular decks from playgwent.com, they include instructions how to play them, sometimes even videos.
10. Getting to rank 25 gives you access to Training Mode. Half of users of this mode are bots with a certain Force of Nature deck - the deck produces a lot of points, but doesn't attack you, so you can use it to your advantage (like use Northern Realm wizards that require Patience). The other half are people testing some trending decks - by playing against them you could learn some tactics and synergies.

[Cargerlee]

I'm not a new player, I'm a returning player but I didnt play Gwent for long time after it was released officially. Now my gwent love rise again and I will play gwent + thronebreaker + rogue mage although it will no longer support officially :)

Jusy want to share it :)

[90s Hacker man]

I am a mostly new player who played for a short time a couple years back and haven't touched it since. Also I am NOT willing to spend money on this game, with that in mind, how much of the cards do I have access to?

[TheHobbitses]

Originally posted by 90s Hacker man:

I am a mostly new player who played for a short time a couple years back and haven't touched it since. Also I am NOT willing to spend money on this game, with that in mind, how much of the cards do I have access to?

quite a few, as you play consistently the amouyn of keys you get to unlock new kegs and cards come in abundance, altho it will take a while before you will be able to craft custom decks you really like

[90s Hacker man]

Originally posted by TheHobbitses:

Originally posted by 90s Hacker man:

I am a mostly new player who played for a short time a couple years back and haven't touched it since. Also I am NOT willing to spend money on this game, with that in mind, how much of the cards do I have access to?

quite a few, as you play consistently the amouyn of keys you get to unlock new kegs and cards come in abundance, altho it will take a while before you will be able to craft custom decks you really like

So I've been playing a bit and what the f*** is the point of devotion? Running Icey boys with the lady who procs off of devotion. Checked everywhere and in fact my deck has NO neutral cards, yet it never procs the devotion affect. Is it just broken? Or is "neutral" not actually "neutral"?

[Alun1]

Originally posted by 90s Hacker man:

Originally posted by TheHobbitses:

quite a few, as you play consistently the amouyn of keys you get to unlock new kegs and cards come in abundance, altho it will take a while before you will be able to craft custom decks you really like

So I've been playing a bit and what the f*** is the point of devotion? Running Icey boys with the lady who procs off of devotion. Checked everywhere and in fact my deck has NO neutral cards, yet it never procs the devotion affect. Is it just broken? Or is "neutral" not actually "neutral"?

if your reffering to the winter queen, she procs at the end of the round and there needs to be frost on the enemy board.