A Better Way to Mitigate Willpower in EoP
So while I don't think the Havok EoP fight is particularly difficult, I do think it continues a trend of laziness. When an opponent puts non-damaging debuffs on you as part of their kit (like Havok or Knull or Overseer), or because of added nodes (like Crumbling Armor), then anyone with the Willpower mastery has nearly infinite sustainability. This obviously makes the fights way less than the intended challenge.
But please find a solution other than adding a passive heal block node. It eliminates useful parts of character kits, like Angela's stacking regen, or every Iron Man characters' arc overload regen, or Guilly 2099, etc.
An argument can be made that this is ok because it's about making things challenging. Fine. But in this week's fight I think it detracts from an actually skill-based matchup toward one of higher health pools. This week you need to take damage. The only way to maintain an armor up is to parry (block damage) or block specials instead of evading (damage). Because of Crumbling Armor and a passive AI, you're often parrying multiple times before you can start landing your own hits. No amount of skill avoids this chip damage. If you've got a 6*R4 Hulkbuster, you can outlast the chip damage. If you've got a 5*R5 Hulkbuster, it's nearly impossible to outlast the chip damage.
Why not add a node that just shuts off Willpower instead of shutting down all forms of regen? Name it something corny like "Where's there's a will..." and just address that specific problem without shutting down all forms of regen.
