my 2 favorite buffs and the ones i always go for are fury and regen followed by power gain and then precision. If i don't get any of those i just go for sp3 or fire off a sp2 without banking any buffs.
@Baboss187 this thread details a study a friend and I did re: VtD’s buffs.
Headline was they actually are random and work pretty much as advertised with his synergy partners. It did surprise me some, since it often seems like I’m locked on PB or Armor Up. Link below:
Cheers but I have vtd 6* duped and 5* duped and he's my number one champ so I've had over 1000 fights with him; enough to see what b.s goes on. There's no justifying getting 5 same buffs in a row on loads of different occasions. Like right now it keeps giving me power gain & critical hit but it threw in 1 perfect block then reverted back to power gain and crit. Then it threw in armour and went back to power & crit. That was between 15-20 buffs in one fight.
@Baboss187 this thread details a study a friend and I did re: VtD’s buffs.
Headline was they actually are random and work pretty much as advertised with his synergy partners. It did surprise me some, since it often seems like I’m locked on PB or Armor Up. Link below:
Cheers but I have vtd 6* duped and 5* duped and he's my number one champ so I've had over 1000 fights with him; enough to see what b.s goes on. There's no justifying getting 5 same buffs in a row on loads of different occasions. Like right now it keeps giving me power gain & critical hit but it threw in 1 perfect block then reverted back to power gain and crit. Then it threw in armour and went back to power & crit. That was between 15-20 buffs in one fight.
Bare in mind I only use venom synergy every time in quests but in alliance quest I use no synergy and still get the same sort of mischief.
I stopped using my VTD too much due to this. The times you get the buffs you want, he's a beast, and the times you dont he's just a wasted slot on your team.
If you take a look at the link I provided, I believe we noted that a string of 4-5 of the same buffs consecutively wasn’t unheard of—in fact, 3 in a row happened quite a few times.
That’s where my point about “clumpiness” comes from in the later posts in that thread. People like @DNA3000 will tell you that it’s all naturally part of RNG, but it seems like it happens a lot in game. Again, that’s just anecdote and perception—I don’t have direct evidence other than my own remembrances of RNG outcomes.
Bottom line is that I couldn’t find any statistical evidence of “fowl” play over the hundreds of buff instances I observed. If you have time to keep track of more data, I’m sure it would be a good addition to that thread.
If you use Venom as a synergy partner, you won’t get any preference for one type of buff over the other—those are reserved for AV, BSSM, Carnage and VP.
Finally, re: the question of whether he’s a viable R2 champ, my answer is no. I don’t like champs that are so pRNG dependent. VtD is a pRNG jukebox.
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If you take a look at the link I provided, I believe we noted that a string of 4-5 of the same buffs consecutively wasn’t unheard of—in fact, 3 in a row happened quite a few times.
That’s where my point about “clumpiness” comes from in the later posts in that thread. People like @DNA3000 will tell you that it’s all naturally part of RNG, but it seems like it happens a lot in game. Again, that’s just anecdote and perception—I don’t have direct evidence other than my own remembrances of RNG outcomes.
Bottom line is that I couldn’t find any statistical evidence of “fowl” play over the hundreds of buff instances I observed. If you have time to keep track of more data, I’m sure it would be a good addition to that thread.
If you use Venom as a synergy partner, you won’t get any preference for one type of buff over the other—those are reserved for AV, BSSM, Carnage and VP.
Finally, re: the question of whether he’s a viable R2 champ, my answer is no. I don’t like champs that are so pRNG dependent. VtD is a pRNG jukebox.
Cheers!
Dr. Zola