Review of the Changes to Poxnora's Themes Since Ronin

I think you are right about this but I think much more needs to be done to make the theme complete aned competitive. I also don't have much experience or knowledge with this theme. I have played a full ferren bg maybe once, and a little of full nohkando and monks.

 

You might be right about this. At the least it should be in the mixed category. I originally put it in bad because I felt they didn't get enough to make them sufficiently strong and that dreamcrusher was overnerfed.

 

the rune recostings made many low def and low hp units(such as firk) alot more expensive. Before the backlash change you could run soultap and backlash for the soultap backlash damage it was dealing to champs and you could use marsh song as well. It made the theme pretty good. They lost access to that and are now much weaker and no longer competitive.

 

Which buffs? The main issue I have with treefolk is that their ranged units and who would be delivering their damage aren't in a great state. Dryad has a bad range(2-4) and gnarlwood launcher has lumbering. Lumbering on other units also hurts them alot.

 

They have as much synergy now as many other themes do, the problem with them is that their range is very expensive, their regal is on a squishy ranged unit, and that some of their synegy like elemental nexus are weak.
Jakei currently have access to boost from nohkan guides summons, regal presence from frost queen, a racial ability from elemental nexus, menace ability from elemental core, defender from jakei maiden/borderguard elite, borderguard elite/juya synergy, snowcharger cavalry reinforce, jakei snowcharger protective,(even though the unit sucks) elven ancestor guiding spirit, bravery from borderguard elite/frostwing glaive, sacred tundra amulet, jakei globe, and the ailur concord.

 

My point was that we have certain things, which all benefit a single playstyle, and make everything that doesn't fit that playstyle look bad, despite most such not fitting themes are way better balanced and designed. So we shouldn't try to buff and break those, but rather nerf stupid ones.

As for stitched:

post-revamp they have much stronger recons and stitchlings, and lowrisk-lowreward fragile "higher" stitched,
while before those were highrisk-highreward with some survivability.

That makes stupid classic UD/FW attrition "let's just throw stuff at them till they fail to clear enough remains, and then arise" prevalent, while prerevamp all kinds of stitched modules without much attrition and recon focus were great. Currently we have only FS/psychostitched better than before, SL/ and ST/ powerstitched slightly worse yet still playable, couple new decks with absolutely minimal stitched presence, and everything else is gone.

 

draksar psion
firk paraform
firk mindcaller
almsgiver
firk psy sentry
firk sensorate
firk behemoth
firk mastermind
firk savant
firk executor
sixul world ender
firk soulthief
firk mindshredder
firk voidmage
firk botanist

These are pretty much the options for a competitive firk bg maybe excluding a couple runes like sixul, savant, and mastermind. Nearly every rune went up in nora cost and many seem to have went up around 5 nora because of their low hp and 0 def. The only rune that didn't increase out of this list is bememoth. I am not sure if soultap+backlash is still doing damage, if not behemoth is significantly weaker, and physical resistance cost went up as well which didn't help this particular rune.(even though it was a good change overall) firk botanist was changed nicely but I don't get the vulnerable magic and he still suffers from the increased in cost of 0 def low hp units.

 

Many themes just switched to their tankier units on their melees for competitive. Firk don't have that option and weren't that good before they increased in cost unlike some themes that were too strong.

 

I think this theme should be developed. Many of the centaur that do exist are really cool(bliss, sargnhavian centaur, centaur regulator, centaur savage) and I think players would love to see more of them. It would be pretty amazing to watch a game with centaur theme fighting against minotaur. I think a centaur theme could potentially be extremely fun to play as well and very popular.

 

They could gain access to horn of kthir and more heavy charger for power turns with charge and or rally the herd. They could be focused around high speed units, many with charge and high mobility as well as powerful ranged units like centaur archer and centaur savage could become. There is alot of potential with centaur for lore, art, gameplay and this would allow some really cool runes to be designed, not only champion runes but non champion as well. They already have a hero too.