**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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These are not the words of a player who ranked up Hood for synergy purposes. And where there is one @Cat_Murdock there is guaranteed to be dozens or hundreds more.
And as is being discussed in the other thread, "better" doesn't matter any more. "Better at what" is what matters now. Hood was pretty good at buff control, and there are not ten mystics objectively better than Hood available as 6* rarity at controlling buff-heavy fights. The vast majority of players might have only one or two of those until their roster gets very wide.
So... They touched. Why? For what reason? To give him increased damage - it is just to change some numbers in code.
Dissapointation beyond frustration
Hood was one of my first 6*s opened from a cav crystal. That I later dupped as one of my first 6*s to have the silver stars. I have used him here and there when ever his utility would apply. I wish I could remember all the specific examples but sadly I can not. I do remember using my 5* hood on the champion boss in act 6.2. It was amazing he took off over 50% health my first attempt with him.
Fast forward to the present. I have mystic t4cc and 1 t5b in the overflow. I need to make a mystic rank up. I have personally decided that I will not rank any more 5* unless they are account changing or I have a gem. My mystic choices are... Loki sig 20, Hood sig 20, manthing, and morning star. Honestly the two I have wrestled with are manthing and hood as he is now. But the one thing holding me back from ranking hood was the damage, and the lack of reliability in his invisibility. I have a r5 doom and Clair. I just didn’t personally see myself bringing hood over those two for any particular fights. Which would really make the rank up useless. (I don’t have ghost so not even for a synergy slot)
Upon hearing that hood was going to be buffed and prior to reading the spotlight or watching yt videos, I was elated. This might just solve my rank up dilemma, I thought. If they make his damage higher and tweak his invisibility to actually be like other invisibility in the game he will be perfect! I would defiantly see him claiming a spot on my questing teams over the afore mentioned champs.
Once I had read the spotlight and watched some videos. I felt pretty 50/50. It all sounded kind of good, but I am worried about 3 things. The removed utility... will he even be worthy to reliably remove buffs. The persistent charges that would make him possibly useless against non buff heavy matches as you could easily run out of bullets.. and lastly the fact that his invisibility will still not be like all the other invisibility champs in the game!
If he isn’t good I won’t rank him, and that would be the end of the discussion for me. However what really bothers me is the precedent it sets for buffs moving forward. We have several older champs that really do some things well and better than others!
For example...
1) Ronan: plenty of ppl have ranked this man up for one purpose, to cheese some of the hardest fights in the contest. I personally used him to beat gwenperion in act 7 as a r4 5* sig 60. I also used him for the cap am fight in act 6(prior to the “nerf” of that content). He has been well worth the rank up resources I put into him. Now imagine a Ronan with a higher base damage but a different sig ability that removes his ability to cheese content. Would you play this champ? I wouldn’t. The reason I ranked him was to take care of very specific situations, and he does that so well even at r4.
2) Magik: who I am still convinced is one of the (if not THE) best power control champs in the game. I ranked her specifically for this and her survivability through limbo. Most ppl have passed Magik up based on damage as I have with hood. But imagine a Magik that can not power control as effectively, or that heals less from limbo, but has more base damage. Would you play this champion anymore? I know I wouldn’t. Unless that damage is stupidly op. It would have to be better than doom and Clair in my case.
A scary precedent indeed...
I don’t want to pass judgement until the buff is actually live... but if he is still not better in some meaningful way. I will probably still not rank him. So my question is what was the actual point in the first place of buffing him; If ppl still don’t rank the champ and he is only good as arena fodder? And if the buff turns out to actually be a nerf. I hope Kabam makes it right, and doesn’t use this as a way to remove utility they no longer want in the game...
If you read all of that... thank you 😅