The REAL Sentinel-Drone issue
Ok now that I’m past my initial shock I am prepared a little more to proper express the root cause of the issue people seem to have with the Seninel Dones.
RANK UPS!
Now initially Voodoo, X23, Wolverine, and Guillotine are all stars in AQ. Now I see Guilly as keeping her niche as GOBLIN enters Map5 making her L2 so much sweeter!
But Wolvy and X23? I don’t see nearly as much use in AQ especially with Seninel Drones just being a hard wall.
And then if we look at Mourning Star (Kabam missed a real good pun) in Map5 it basically answered the Rulk vs LC discussion. People were burning Science T4C and when LC got a huge buff and Rulk got a Damage and Physical Resist boost that no longer lapsed AND became a Mephisto counter I see why a lot more Rulks got boosted. But LC also a good choice could potentially have gotten more priority IF we knew that a forced bleed mystic champ was gonna be a Map5 Mini.
Now I’m not saying new champs undermine older ones. I don’t think anyone has claimed Sabertooth is a retroactive nerf on Iceman. Sabertooth is simply defensively effective against 1 champion. But what happens when you change a quest’s mini bosses to those that need more specialized counters? Or make bleed immune available to HALF the enemies making champions that used to have respectable (if not incredible) DPS vis DoT and have a popular mastery dedicated to them, and make that quest all difficulties of the most important part of the game needed to upgrade champions? That’s like a wide spread version of taking away Mystic/Villain Synergy during AW.
Between EQ, AQ, and AW are the 3 most important progression areas and them up in a way that largely hinders such a universal ability is going to cause backlash even by the most dedicated fans.
(Micro rant: despite the sentinel drones Voodoo, Guilly and AA are going to very needed by mini boss killers thanks to super regen goblin)
