**Mastery Loadouts**
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.
Comments
One of the best things about him was the simplicity of his utility. Now with the addition of Hex Bullets, it's introduced an unnecessary complication. It's nice playing a champ where we don't have to keep an eye on an ability timer or count. I've always been an advocate of Hood and use him for everything, just like Crossbones is more useful than people often give him credit for.
Despite all this, I can't honestly make an unbiased opinion until I actually play the nerfed version. Here's hoping I'm not completely screwed because he's my alt's best & strongest Mystic champ.
I use Ghost on my AQ team so Hood is on my questing team without her most of the time.
It's Hood who benefits from Ghost for me. Starting off fight invisible I could get into a ratation of l2's with high sig. power steal.
Destroys all the cosmics and heavy buff champs.
He is (was) unique and the perfect key to a complete questing roster for me. Really bummed out about it.
I'd take just leaving him alone over a rdt all day every day.
You’re 100% correct, removed my math since you could actually stack up to the amount of bullets plus missed hits and buffs staggered on the first fight. My apologies 😅
Doesn't.
Matter.
There are hundreds of comments in this thread and many other going into great detail about the problems with this buff. His fateseal is gone. That's a fact, there's nothing to wait and see about it. Maybe he'll overall be better than he used to be, but that isn't the problem. The problem is invalidating the players' rank-up decisions. As I already said in another comment, it sets a bad precedent for future buff decisions:
Also, if you want to see how hood would perform in buff control fights, it’s pretty easy to do. I used hood all the time in act 6 before I got the best mystics in the game. Occasionally nodes or situations came along where you couldn’t use your sp2. I know how hard it is to get rid of buffs using only stagger.
If you don’t believe me, go and fight a vision arkus with a hood, and don’t use your sp2. Let me know how it goes. It’s like ghosts phasing being removed and people saying you need to wait and see if she’s good, like, no... we’ve all played ghost when we are unable to phase. It sucks. We’ve played without hoods fate seal, and we know it’ll be bad.
I’m not hugely bothered how much damage hood gets given, his utility has been stripped. And that is a fact. I don’t want kabam to “get away with it”, just because they stripped his utility for good damage, because I don’t want them to do it again, and mess up the damage for the next champion they butcher with an update.
How good the Hood update ends up being does not affect this fact.
Usually with buffs I do wait and see, but this ones different because it’s not about waiting to see how his damage is. It’s about how noticeably different a hood fight is when you use your sp2 and when you don’t. That’s how people know it’s bad.
It's not always about whether someone is a primary option for something but whether they're a legitimate option at all. Hood always has been a perfectly usable option in these situations even if not someone's main choice. He no longer will be and that's a problem as far as I'm concerned
Not to mention his power control isn’t going to as effective. I remember idelest taking Hyperion with his Hood back in the day, and he’s now going to be worse for that as well
I think the main issue is that Hood is losing his identity. What that was to certain players will differ. He was a synergy piece for some players, buff control for others. Maybe he even fulfilled some sort of power control in some rosters
Not to mention people used him for the Thunderstruck lane in act 6, which he’ll be worse for since the refresh no longer exists
Hood has become just another good damage dealer with some ok utility. Let’s be honest, way less people need another ‘good’ damage dealer in their roster, and everything else he did has gotten worse.
That is the biggest problem to me
But it really is players who actually did rely on Hood generally for buff control etc that I feel for. Us players with massive rosters will survive. It’s not great, but we can get past it
This update just guts a mid-tier, upper-mid tier players roster who utilised Hood. And we’ve seen them come out in force. Even ‘endgame players’ like Cat who used hood
It just highlights how unanimously detrimental this update is if it’s affecting the top end and the middle of the game alike. In fact it makes me question what they were possibly thinking when designing this? What was this supposed to add to players rosters?
The entire situation is dangerous and baffling frankly.
If there is no comment before it goes live, then I’m not going to be happy. But I would very much like to hear the design intention behind these decisions