**WE ARE NO LONGER Temporarily Reverting Tier 1 War Ban System**
After further discussion, the game team has made the decision not make adjustements to the ban system.
The previously proposed fix would have resolved the issue for Summoners who are on the cusp of T1/T2 play, and negatively impacted Alliances more securely in T1. Instead, we recommend that cusp Alliances switch to Manual Placement to your members to place the allotted 5 Ban Champions limit there.
Apologies for the back and forth, and for any confusion.
After further discussion, the game team has made the decision not make adjustements to the ban system.
The previously proposed fix would have resolved the issue for Summoners who are on the cusp of T1/T2 play, and negatively impacted Alliances more securely in T1. Instead, we recommend that cusp Alliances switch to Manual Placement to your members to place the allotted 5 Ban Champions limit there.
Apologies for the back and forth, and for any confusion.
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it’s vtd imo- absolutely useless and unlike blade you can’t pair him with other champs to make him viable
Maybe someone else can try a r1 or 2 blade to prove your point but I doubt it will.
I don't have anything personal against blade man I love him, he was my first featured used the trinity a lot but.. it's not 2017 anymore. So when people just claim he's a solid pull it's simply not true
This is about blade being the worst 7* and my arguments for it. "Then don't use him" lmao, tell me you didn't read the thread without telling me you didn't read the thread.
I opened 4 current titan crystals so far and got 3 freaking Blade in a row (the first one is Dust)
I did have 7* stark spidey but he is undup and Ghost Rider is useless now. And strangely enough, I don’t even have 6* Ghost Rider even if I have almost all 6* in the game. (Besides the upcoming feature ones like Spiderpunk, only lack Punisher, Psylocke, GhostRider and original Ironfist)
First, totally agree that Blade against a bleed immune non-dimensional champ is going to be a bad time. Just straight miserable.
Second, I saw in a follow up post something about incorporating synergies into his base kit and while I don’t think Kabam would do that, I do think there’s another way to handle it: Relics. Give a relic that can substitute for his synergies to widen his usefulness. Call it Dracula’s Fang or something, make it an alternative relic type to Strikers, and we’re off to the races. And yes, it would add Morbius to his Danger Sense because I agree it’s silly to not have the only vampire in the game not set this off.
I have a question about the conclusions reached on Blade’s damage. How many levels of Deep Wounds, if any, are those complaining about his damage running? He really demands 5/5, but that’s not uncommon for bleed champs. If you’re running less than that, he’s gonna have feather down hands.
When it comes to his usefulness in PvP content, that’s a very difficult question. He’s a champ that really lives and dies by the meta. He was a monster on attack in the Sugar Pill/Decay meta. I was doing T1 AW during that time, and 6* R5 Blades were extremely common, some even ascended. He was extremely meta relevant during that time, and it’s only a matter of time before the meta cycles back to him as an attacker in PvP content.
As for PvE, it depends on what modes we’re talking about. For endurance content, he hasn’t been relevant since we were using the 5* to tackle the Labyrinth. For Story/EQ content, I’d argue that he’s still perfectly useful. Do y’all actually use all five slots on your team for this stuff? I regularly end up bringing synergy champs to boost up a primary lane clearer/boss killer. For things like Winter of Woe where you get only one or three champions, we come back to the limitations on his Danger without synergy, which I agree with OP on.
I was one of the people on the other thread arguing that Blade is “solid.” I stand by that, but I think y’all are putting a lot more weight on that adjective than I am. He’s a serviceable champion. If you want to invest in him, you’ll see some cool stuff, but not enough to make him worth investing in over many other skill champions. He’s somebody I’d be very happy to see from a basic crystal, but very unhappy to see from a Titan.
Also he is a tactic defender in GC, so if you don't get an X-magika attacker, then you're going to have to be blocking his entire specials.
Next, I only run 2/5 deep wounds as I can't really find myself sacrificing my current setup to fuel extra points in there. I'm sure it improves his dmg, but he'll still be underwhelming regardless imo (without danger sense).
I don't do T1 war, but I can see how he'd be more useful there as alliances are way more coordinated and lanes/fights are assigned. That way you can take blade-only fights and can afford to bring support champs for him. Still, having to bring in dead weight support is a bummer.
And yes, I do use all 5 slots on my team lol. It might be an OCD thing but I also like to bring in 5 different classes when possible. Repeating classes feels like a faux pas to me, it's just personal preference tbh. For some quests, you might be able to squeeze in a ghost rider with blade, but again I'd rather take 2 separate champs that can do those fights, so I can keep one as backup.
I guess the term "solid" has a different weight to each player. For me, a solid champ is one I'd find myself using at some point. Either as a main attacker for a quest/ backup for the main attacker. They would find themselves on my team/ they are good enough and enjoyable enough that I'd go out of my way to use them. As it stands, I can't see that for blade. The danger sense range is far too limited and he offers nothing outside it (nothing that other champs cannot offer). A serviceable champ to me would be one that I use when I have no other options (a make-do champ, a stopgap of sorts). Blade would fit into that category, which might align with your definition of solid, I guess. We can agree to have our differences there.
Utilizing the trinity makes him a better 7* than vtd for sure, but without it, I still stand by my take that he's the worst 7* out there.
Can't you just accept that some players consider Blade a trash pull and others consider it a perfectly okay pull?
Fwiw, I consider Hawkeye to be the worst 7-star champion (for me). I had the misfortune of pulling him awhile ago (as well as a Titan Thing, but that doesn't matter). A 6-star Kate Bishop does everything I'd need from an archer, and more. I have no use for him, even in Arenas, as his neither his Prestige nor his playstyle are good enough for mindless grinding. Unlike Blade, who at least has AAR, there are no matchups where I'd want to take in my Hawkeye over any other champion.
I know for a fact that there will be many people who consider Hawkeye a decent champion, to possibly even good. But that doesn't matter to me at all, since it is all subjective, and I know other players consider VtD the worst.
On the other hand, Blade has situations where you can absolutely say he's a top 5 option for a fight, where you cannot say that about VtD in essentially any scenario.
Is blade an absolute end-all win-all champion? No. But he isn't a half bad champion either. I used to need to ban fantman just because of all his garbage (I also don't have hulkling or Valk in my deck), but now I hope they draft fantman so I can use blade against him. He also is way better vs Maestro than most champions that don't counter him due to 5/5 Deep Wounds and sp2 spam. Again, he isn't an amazing champion, but he is far from a bad champion. If the worst 7* in the pool is someone like blade, then that means the 7* pool is in amazing shape compared to 6*s and below.