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Yeah hold on this is real. They totally did change Daunted’s interaction with Protection. Just tested it. Used to be able to plow through DThanos’s Protection using Onslaught’s Daunted, now he’s shut out.

For those uninitiated, Daunted used to stack additively with Protection effects, rather than being a separate multiplier. For example, say an opponent has 90% Protection but 50% total Daunted potency. Instead of 100% (base) - 90% (Protection) = 10% damage taken, and then Daunted multiplies that by 1.5 to 15% during Specials (still bad), it’d be 100% (base) - 90% (Protection) + 50% (Daunted) = 60% damage during Specials (way better).

Why wasn’t this in the patch notes? This is a fairly big change. Onslaught (and other Daunted champs) really benefitted from this mechanic, if this was gonna be changed it should have been communicated. Besides DThanos, I used this mechanic to beat down Destroyers in War on the Protection - Intercept node, since Onslaught largely didn’t care if he couldn’t safely disable the Protection.

1000x better and it still sucks…. Math

A root node on Destroyer when he uses sp1 would actually be helpful to us as it makes it easier to dex each part of the special, thus reducing the charges he gains.

Destroyer will most absolutely be horrible. Root, unstoppable, indestructible, increased power gain

the difference between hard and annoying:

Hard: takes time to learn, skill required, but when you get it, it feels SO rewarding

Annoying: the difference between success and failure lies largely in what the defender decides to do. One run it’s easier, the next, nothing works because the AI won’t play ball. You finish the content but feel like all you accomplished was faceplowing until you get favorable AI.

crossbones and arcade definitely fall in the annoying category.

Didn't see anyone mention the AI. We've normalized it, i guess? Just used to AI doing crazy stuff.

5k titan shards for me

Surely you're joking?

Damn, so he gains 5% AA everytime he gains a bar of power 😭

Well I guess there goes Pav in War against Serpent!!!!