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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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Upcoming Cull Obsidian and Ebony Maw Balance Changes
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This does not seem like a good timetable or something that should get people excited when they're pulling these champs as a five and six star champion. As much as these reworks have been a gift to the community, I really REALLY wish they had a way to speed things up. I've suggested going back to small changes instead of top to bottom reworks - at least that would give them some extra juice until they are able to do a beta program finally for them. Gamora was some small changes but made her a lot better just from that. There's quite a few champs that could probably just need some extra attack damage to at least be somewhat viable - karnak as a six star champion with a little better damage wouldn't make me disappointed when I just pulled him from my latest 6 star crystal. Instead, he's not been on either list and I'm guessing it's gonna be YEARS before I would even be able to use him for anything beyond arena.
I don't think this is an unreasonable request or something we shouldn't be able to talk about or get some insight from Kabam about.
While i would love to keep my Cull Obsidian as he is now, i must admit it's damage output is really high !
With 10 charges and its root buff i could destroy any champion en EQ Master in less than 10 hits by placing some nice armor break debuff (i could go up to 9). Even uncollected EQ boss went down quite easily
And my Cull is an undupped 5 star Rank 4... i can only imagine what a full duped 5 stars Rank 5 or 6 stars Rank 2 could do !!!
One way to limit its damage output without utterly destroying him would be to limit the number of armor break debuffs. on the first fight you can hardly get more than 4 or 5 armor break before the first debuff expire, but with 10 charges you can easily go to 9 + armor break reducing the opponent's armor by 12 600 !!!! Maybe limiting the stack of armor break to 3 or 4 would limit the max damage output without destroying the champion as he would still be one of the best damage dealer
He is useless in high tier AQ or AW as he takes extreme chip damage, lacks utility, and ramps up too slowly to be used in anything outside of EQ.
Simple fix would be to buff his BP, give him an immunity, or other utility (heal, power gain/drain, etc) and cap his armor breaks at 5. Prevents the extreme damage Kabam is somehow afraid of... while improving the character. I would not complain regarding this change... hopefully Kabam realizes how important their change announcement is to the future of people spending in this game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bif8plNtjds
They announced Cull was displaying more than any other high-end Champ.
Bug fixes.
Theyve announced a possible tweak to Cull. Doesnt count as it hasn't happened.
To be fair, the community made the 10+ champs get fixed by whining and crying about the she Hulk thing. Plus who actually uses those champs any way, save for Luke Cage and he doesn't need it.
Pretty sure no champ is supposed to be able to chain 10 hits together. Imagine if the A.I could do it often. Pretty sure everyone would be up in arms saying how unfair the A.I. is.
So the only champ in that could be considered a "nerf" is cull. Everything else were fixes whether everyone can accept it or not. We still dont know what they'll do with Cull.
With that being said he wants to work on more transparency on exactly what the changes will be with the champions upfront and he talked about Culls survivability possibly changing. All good news moving foreard.
Cull will still have insane burst damage
Also not what a nerf is.
Does this mean that there isn't someone in charge of it now?
I would love some insight on how things are structured over there. If no one up until now was overseeing any of this, it could explain some of the breakdown in communication we've seen.
It's nice to have it officially acknowledged that they messed up on this announcement. Everything he said was correct though - being clearer in their descriptions, what's going to change, providing evidence of the issue they're wanting to change, explaining why, etc.
I would love for those who are working on this for Cull now to do all of that with this issue. It would go a long way to calming some of the nerves that have been frayed over the initial announcement. Or if it's not ready, at least tell us it's not and give an estimate on when we can expect some more details and reasoning. And hopefully going forward that issue is fixed and prevents this from happening again. Just glad to hear someone high up confirm all of it.
I'm always for being more open, though. More is more when it comes to information.
The idea of greater communication and transparency between Kabam and the player base is fantastic, I would say that much of the ill will that is put forward on these forums is a result of poor communication and the venting of frustration; hopefully this will prevent a lot of that and we can have active, more meaningful interactions with Kabam employees.
Here’s the post relevant to the discussion.
Dr. Zola
In other words, I think the person in charge of making champion X is also in charge of any post launch tuning after the initial review, but that would be different people for different champions.
I still think you are missing the point...
with the risk of you changing a champ without issuing Rank-Down-Ticket or any compensation, why should i rank up the champ i like and trust you that the change is going to be too minor?
Maybe (just maybe) a top tier player that has many rank up material wouldn't change his mind regarding ranking up a champ with small change in his ability, but for others (me included) it's a big deal.
we don't earn these rank up material fast enough and we spend a lot of thought before we rank a champ... sometimes we almost have a "tie" between ranking up two champs and this small change you are doing could've changed our decision.
in my opinion, the decision if to rank down a champ that his ability changed is up to us and only us.
I still can't risk spending my resources for a champ that his ability is going to be change soon.
Personally, I'll choose to wait with rank ups until I hear from you what the final verdict of each champ.
This is the right direction moving forward and obviously best for the game.