Supercell is hard at work getting all the balancing of Clash Royale in order. In our previous report, quite a few things are getting tweaked, including more than a few cards that players complaining about. Supercell mentions that of the people who have unlocked the card, half are using it, which seems like a good indication of a balance problem.
Here's a brief list of the changes:
- Arrows: Damage decreased by 4%
- Freeze: Radius decreased to 3 (from 4), duration increases by 0.3 seconds per level (from 0.4 seconds)
- Wizard: Damage decreased by 7%
- Barbarians: Hitpoints decreased by 4%
- Bomber: Attack speed increased to 1.9 seconds (from 2 seconds)
- Golem: Hitpoints, damage and death damage increased by 43%
- Golemite: Hitpoints, damage and death damage decreased by 43%
- P.E.K.K.A: Hitpoints decreased by 13%, cost decreased to 7 (from 8)
- X-Bow: Hitpoints decreased by 15%
- Inferno Tower: Lifetime decreased to 45 seconds (from 60 seconds)
- Cannon: Cost decreased to 3 (from 6), range to 6 (from 7), lifetime to 40 seconds (from 60 seconds) and hitpoints by 55%
- Mortar: Cost decreased to 4 (from 6), damage by 40% and lifetime to 20 seconds (from 40 seconds)
- Mirror: Level of mirrored Common Cards increased by 4 and mirrored Rare Cards by 2
- Bomb Tower: Attack speed increased to 1.7 seconds (from 1.8 seconds)
- Barbarian Hut: Hitpoints increased by 10%
This update mainly aimed at high-end players and has merely nothing to do with players in Arena 4 (1100).
Here's a brief list of the changes:
- Arrows: Damage decreased by 4%
- Freeze: Radius decreased to 3 (from 4), duration increases by 0.3 seconds per level (from 0.4 seconds)
- Wizard: Damage decreased by 7%
- Barbarians: Hitpoints decreased by 4%
- Bomber: Attack speed increased to 1.9 seconds (from 2 seconds)
- Golem: Hitpoints, damage and death damage increased by 43%
- Golemite: Hitpoints, damage and death damage decreased by 43%
- P.E.K.K.A: Hitpoints decreased by 13%, cost decreased to 7 (from 8)
- X-Bow: Hitpoints decreased by 15%
- Inferno Tower: Lifetime decreased to 45 seconds (from 60 seconds)
- Cannon: Cost decreased to 3 (from 6), range to 6 (from 7), lifetime to 40 seconds (from 60 seconds) and hitpoints by 55%
- Mortar: Cost decreased to 4 (from 6), damage by 40% and lifetime to 20 seconds (from 40 seconds)
- Mirror: Level of mirrored Common Cards increased by 4 and mirrored Rare Cards by 2
- Bomb Tower: Attack speed increased to 1.7 seconds (from 1.8 seconds)
- Barbarian Hut: Hitpoints increased by 10%
This update mainly aimed at high-end players and has merely nothing to do with players in Arena 4 (1100).
In arena joust cards are even more rng based and worse than in constructed. This is because in arena you can’t draft many late game cards because you won’t have the spells and weapons (if you play a class with weapons) to survive the early game and not lose the board completely. Since decks in arena tend to have a quite similar midrange curve most of the time your chances of winning a joust will be around 40% because draws mean you lose. That percentage is below 50% which means in the long run joust cards will be just overstated vanilla counterparts. If that is not the case with some cards like King’s Elekk, Tuskarr Jouster then you should consider a lot before ignoring them. A Master Jouster more times will be a Pit Fighter for one more mana than a Sunwalker with +1/1. This means you’d rather have a Pit Fighter than a Master Jouster in your deck.
Of course not all cards with joust are bad however there are only few truly good joust cards and these are mostly class cards. Good cards with joust are the ones which you could play for their stats if they were vanilla cards without any text. Then the joust is a nice upgrade to the card. Let’s take a look at King’s Elekk for example. The card is basically a Bloodfen Raptor with a direct upside of sometimes drawing a card when he wins the joust. So here is the list of good jousting cards released with The Grand Tournament: King’s Elekk, Argent Lance, Tuskarr Jouster.
