The Blade Trinity Dilemma
hylozoii
Member Posts: 49
I have to put it out there. I’m not happy that I am going after Blade this week. I feel this is back pre 12.0 where you had the perfect block teams as well as the trinity team back then of SW, Doc, Thor. Instead now it is Sparky, Blade, GR.
I think I know the pattern and where this will eventually go: nerf and realignment of power in a future update. But, for now, my hands are tied because curren state forces me to go for Blade for AW, end content, and alliance reasons.
Good luck to all, and I mean most all, of us going for Blade this week. May all our profiles have Blade in them.
Thanks,
#buffsentry
I think I know the pattern and where this will eventually go: nerf and realignment of power in a future update. But, for now, my hands are tied because curren state forces me to go for Blade for AW, end content, and alliance reasons.
Good luck to all, and I mean most all, of us going for Blade this week. May all our profiles have Blade in them.
Thanks,
#buffsentry
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Comments
Put out god tier champs...
Make people spend to get them...
Eventually nerf them when your revenue starts to drop...
Create new got tier champs to start the money machine...
Lather, rinse, repeat, ad infinitum...
When your business doesn't "make" anything substantial, there are no new products to build that can build your revenue stream. This is the only way they have of generating new revenue. If you follow the life of any F2P game, it is filled with this type of pattern.
This is a business model and it appears to be successful.
Wow Preach It Brotha!
They have acknowledged that he is bloody desired and amazing champ on his own but those synergies beef him up quite nicely, they perfectly now how powerful he is but theyll just end up saying, "we scaled down this synergy cause it was never suppoused to be this powerful". The same words used for PB team, SW:s sig, Thor and so on, they know (one can hope atleast) how powerful characters they design. Its business but still its [removed by moderator].
" This topic has gone of its rail, so ill close this thread now...."
Kabam has a simple way to avoid this cycle instead of nerfing champs make new non villain / non mystic champs that are good defenders. Most strong defenders currently are of the villain variety
The reason you're seeing the Trinity is because people are still doing mystic wars. When that stops, you'll see a decrease.
Pre 12.0 Thor was only great against stunned champs... In stun immune.. he hits like Luke cage....
Previous to Blade and even STILL is Star Lord. I mean EVERYONE, it seems, beats hard content because of him. Someone who doesn't have him and has just as much skill will have to work longer and harder in many cases to take down the same opponent. It is just part of the game. If you got him, use him. Period.
Taking champ abilities and advantages into consideration for current content is absolutely part of the skill of this game. Always has been. That includes synergy teams like power gain, etc. That includes Blades abilities and synergies as well.
It just IS true. That is why "mystic wars" exist. Isn't it? Because of a great advantage that exists with mystic champs and MD mastery. Yet people find ways to beat it still.
I just wish people would stop pretending that for some high moral reason they do not use any and every advantage they can get their hands on to get an advantage in game content. It seems hypocritical in that regard. Star Lord was just a small example. I mean I can sustain a 400+ combo with any other champ I have and they do not even come close to the dmg output of SL by then. I don't have that advantage currently. So what!
In fact the more complex champs coming out are going to reply on abilities and synergies more than ever.
To point that SW 5* may not be that "OP" of an idea after all.
And by himself Blade isn't OP at all. He struggles compared to Starlord, Medusa, and Stark Spidey in LOL against non villains and or bleed immunes. Nerfing his synergies (especially GR) just makes him a lot less effective on what he's supposed to be good at.