**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.
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Personally I say they did a terrible job handling this with their usual sweep under the rug of all people opinions.
Hood MUST retain his core utility.
This toxic new “buffs” design should not be accepted by the community.
This will open the road for Ronan, Magik and eventually whoever champ has a strong utility and dominates at some fights to get a rebalance, covered in a buff disguise.
Rank down tickets shouldn’t be the compensation for Hood rebalance, it needs to not go live at all.
Hood was a niche champ. He was basically there for buff suppression, but he was one of the best in game at that particular purpose. This change basically makes him mediocre at it, brings his damage up to also-mediocre levels, and adds in some unnecessarily complicated mechanics to boot. It makes him OK (not great) at several things, instead of great at one.
But being OK at a handful of things isn't going to make him useful for any of them.
The net result of this update is basically going to be to shove Hood to the bench for most people. The only thing he can do now that other champs can't do better is provide a nice synergy for Ghost.
Are those the answers you were looking for? Despite many real answers in this thread being there.
What buffs were you controlling , the fate seal stemmed better because staggers would sometimes fail, that’s not necessary anymore. Because on a crit they won’t
His Invisibility might be better for evading basic hits, but he’s losing a prime utility for bypassing multi hit projectile specials. I’ve got examples here:
But can he still cheese a resistor path with MD? You throw that sp2, you nullify all those buffs and gain a huge chunk of power.
Even if you gave Hood 100% damage it would make him a below average champ, even with Stryfe and boost he was below average. The reason is he did not have a kit to work with bleed , shock, hex, those really weren’t doing anything for him.
The fate seal seems more important than it is because his staggers would sometimes not apply for an entire combo. He now also has much more use outside of specific matchups , most matches needed staggers not fate sale as opposed to the vision AA match. While I do understand people’s frustration, I think they now on paper get much more out of their champ instead of just one piece of utility.
Torch was a utility beast against mystic but struggled outside of every single match that’s because he was not tuned right , once tuned he shines all over. Hood doesn’t have that privilege , he now has utility that allows him to keep up his damage and bonuses if he nullifies buffs.
I talked to a lot of people and when I ask them what did they use hood for particularly , they can’t really give me a straight answer.
Magneto lost his Ability to rank SP3s, which was valuable to me, he also lost his heal block that came in clutch for me at times.
Old man Logan- Regen Passive became a buff ( R5 before update)
These affected me, but magneto is a much better character then he was so is OML.
Balances are apart of game , and Kabam has always been fair if these balances were unfavorable. We can’t decide that yet until Monday. On paper he looks good , but we won’t know until Monday.
You got a lot of particular answers above. Please, read them
You’re also seemingly ignoring the dangerous precedent this sets with future ‘buffs’
Thank you for sharing that I actually read your entire article and it was well written , again, I’m
Not attacking anyone , just want clarification. If each projectile has a 90% chance to miss , aren’t you netting positive on this? 120-100-90-80
Essentially you are avoiding that 10% chance for 2 guarantee misses? Only on the third will you be back to where you were.
Example : Current hood - Dodging apocalypse SP3 you have a 30% chance to take a hit.
New hood : you have a 10% chance to take a hit.
Your RNG is net positive .
I’m not great with numbers so forgive me if I’m using stats as a flat %
Also, Torch is still awful outside of mystic/energy attack opponents. His balance update did practically nothing. He's excelled in ideal matches and been an absolute chore to use outside of them from day one and still is.
You're free to personally like the changes to Hood (they'll have practically zero effect on me outside of when using a Ghost team which is quite annoying admittedly) but that doesn't change the fact that a core component of his kit is being removed making him worse for lots of other people that either rely on him due to roster limitations or just enjoy using him for his old kit. That's something everyone should have a problem with.
He was my first r2 mystic, I don't have ghost above 4*, and 4* one is r1. Hood did a lot of things. Maybe not the best, but he atm a very reliable. I actually took him to r2 above symb supreme to clear 6.4.6 mystic path on first competition. Long fights, but he was finishing them with full hp, wich is what I need then. His hex thing can remove buffs, wich are not removable with nullifies, and that's huge actually