**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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But I am at least disappointed a bit already, cause I've always found The Hood really fun to play. Even until a year ago, when most content had smaller healthpoles, I used him quite frequently. He had the utility and he has a fun playstyle. So all he needed to be relevant again, is just a small increase in his attack.
Now by changing his abilities, I already feel like they are taking away a champion I liked playing. Even if he turns out to still be enjoyable, they still removed something I liked for no good reason.
It's the principal that 'buffs' on champions like the Hood, who has been mentioned plenty in every 'underrated champion' discussion, are gonna change key abilities about them. It's fine for champions that no one likes or uses. But champions that have use and that are 'underrated' should be the kind that just get number changes or small tweeks that make them more relevant.
The point is that there was no need for changing his abilities. Everyone would have been happy if you left The Hood as is, but with a little more attack.
If kabam left hood how he is, just tweaked his damage, there’s two outcomes, either they gave him enough damage in which case people are happy, or they didn’t give him enough damage, in which case life goes on and hood players are still happy. Maybe a little disappointed. But still happy with the champion they have.
But now they’ve put themselves in a lose lose situation, either the damage is ok and hood players are still annoyed. Or the damage isn’t ok and hood players are still annoyed but also angry that their champion was changed for nothing- just a poor damage output champion with as much buff control as juggernaut.
1) The precedent it sets for other champion reworks.
2) Kabam took a perfectly good champ, reworked him, decided that he was too OP and instead of tuning the rework part, they decided to change the original kit which was his bread and butter. Very easy example is Super skrull released last month. He gets a buff every second he gets a buff and the new hood will not have any way to remove them. The old hood could fire an sp2 and render him almost useless.
It was the same with YJ and it was the same with Kingpin. Only for YJ and Kingpin, most people did not react enough because they were not used much. That is not the case for Hood, because plenty of people have been using him.
I think Kabam actually wants the time and money they invest into rebalancing these older champions to be spend as efficiently as possible. They do these buffs to make the community happy. So in this case, maybe they should have just done a numbers tweek. It would have made all Hood-users happy, and convince people who didn't play to actually get to know him.
I have other older champions of whom I really like the abilities (Rogue, Dormammu,..). I would be disappointed if they would change these Champs in future buffs. Even if what I get instead is more usable overall. I think it's a good thing that we voice this opinion to the developer (in a respectable way).
We can roll over and wait for the change to see how different they are, or we can make our voices heard right now and say “when buffing our champions, do not remove their core utility.
Nobody wants a good damage gladiator hulk with no face me mechanic.
Nobody wants a good damage Ronan with no stun lock.
Those 2 examples and many others have niche uses but are very much in line for a buff.
Kabam need to understand that when the choice is “take away core utility for a new good damage mechanic” or “keep core utility but reduce the potency of new damage mechanics”, the vast majority would prefer the latter option.
The earlier we make this clear the better as they probably have many champions in various stages of the buff process, from planning/ideas to basically done and tested.
Staggers “activate” when a buff activates. In order for the rod to activate, it has to be removed first so it goes on cooldown. The only way for Hood to remove it is the sp2 nullify...
I’m one of those “few” that actually use Hood regularly. I have the whole Ghost trio R3. The decision was made primarily because he had everything you needed in a mystic other than dmg. The R3 helped fill that gap.
Just tested and duelled a hood with anihulus. Let him get a stagger on me then Dexed and the cosmic rod went on cool down. Unfortunately this means unless annihulus triggers a buff outside of cosmic rod, hood won’t be usable against him.
However, you can still use hood against annihulus if there’s a secondary buff node. May be niche, but how many feats of power, armour, fury on hit or any other buff nodes are there.
I still agree Hood will be way worse, just trying to make the best of a bad situation.
For me, all I wanted for him is 100% projectile miss, and one of thebig dmg modifiers. Maybe instead of his sp3 dmg increasing in relation to their power, they could have given him a big fury like Doom’s, etc...
Everything else coulda been left as is.
What kinda freak out would happen if Sym’s cunning trigger no longer nullified buffs, but exploded his staggers or something instead, lol?
But I digress, we won’t know the full extent til we can play it. But the fact is, left as is, a majority of the fights I used him for will no longer be favorable...
I prefer not to be touched, lol... 😘
Get to sp2, fire, then you can do as you will
It’s one reason I absolutely hated Stubborn in AW. How you gonna punish peeps skill to avoid attacks by say “screw that... you can’t dmg me til I hit you...”, lol