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Also, EVERY multiplier in game has always been additive like that. For instance 100% bleed resistance champions can still take damage from bleeds. The bleed resistance doesn’t apply AFTER the damage increase to the attacker it applies BEFORE. For instance Okoye gets +60% potency to her bleeds when she hits a certain combo meter. So champs like sinister take 60% of her normal bleed damage. She’s at 160% of her base damage and sinister’s 100% reduction doesn’t remove 100% of that. It removes 100% of her base damage and leaves the 60% bonus damage. Also, the power shield node gives 300% attack damage during specials, so DPX can kill sinister with a single sp1 in this meta because he still takes 200% of dpx’s normal bleed damage. This is how ALL forms of damage increases and reductions have worked literally since the beginning of the game, but now we’re supposed to believe that’s not how it’s supposed to work? Utter garbage they’re trying to feed us because they think we’re stupid. I’ve been playing this game for 11 years and this has always been the standard. Except suddenly now protection completely bypasses this system and just straight up ignores all damage modifications, and with not even a hint of warning. They are setting a precedence of Kabam changing key components of the base game in the middle of multiple competitive season events (war, bgs, alliance coliseum) with no warning. Thats lowkey unacceptable. Either kabam’s official position is that the specifically stated way in which the game has functioned literally since its inception has been totally and completely wrong and unintended for over a decade and they haven’t deigned to fix any of it, or they are just changing this because they feel like it and think it’s better so they throw a surprise game altering change with no warning, community testing or consultation and without even going through their own official channels of monthly updates, and then hiding it from the patch notes to hope nobody will notice. One of those options paints a picture of sheer incompetence the likes of which I have rarely seen in a professional setting, and the other demonstrates contempt and dismissal to the fans and players that pay to keep them in business. Not a good look Kabam.

Yeah, no, just…don't. Keep it quiet for once, this time at least.

The real take.

I don’t doubt that this is just a bug fix to them, not a nerf. The way Daunted + Protection used to work was, frankly, unintuitive, and as a result I doubt most people even knew this was a thing. But the end result is still that several champions lost potency in certain valuable matchups, and the fact that a change with implications as large as this has mysteriously missed the patch notes when Kabam puts out far more meaningless bug fixes and tweaks in there? If they weren’t intentionally trying to hide the change, then that sure is one hell of a coincidence that this is the one fix that accidentally fell through the cracks in the communication pipeline.

Well it's kabam, I hope it's a mistake, but I find it hard to believe.. my real belief is that they looking for ways to nerf existing champs to sell newer ones

KT1 said it like it should be said to KABAM.

They are trying it the politican way now as if we are total idiots and will not notice sh*t.

This forum is dead, sure Rex will read some stuff but communication is very one-sided now, as Discord does not "allow" for replies and comments in notifications when they give us their two cents.

What a joke!

My best counter for this feeling of dismay and frustration is not to play this broken game mode.

Anyways this thread has obviously picked up a lot of steam and I’m sure it’s in Kabam’s interest to at least try to put out this fire, so I’m just gonna go ahead and tag @Kabam (Osaurus) Rex for comment in the event that he hasn’t seen this thread yet.