**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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If I had to guess, I’d say we’re likely to find out about next month’s champs during this week, shortly after the winner of the vote is announced. January is a fairly dry month in the Contest, so they’re probably just trying to string out exciting announcements.
All the champs that need buffs, please buff.
Thanks!
The wait is excrutiating for sure. Buffs (and the potential new solo competitive mode) are the only reason I'm excited for monthly updates given the current state of things but at the end of the day, it doesn't change much if they tell us now or we find out 1 day before the update drops.
There is one perhaps unintentional upswing to a delay on buff news - we don’t waste resources upgrading soon to be buffed champs until we’ve actually got to play with their kits and can determine for ourselves whether it’s a good buff or not. I’m often tempted to rank up champs based on the previews but it’s a habit I’ve managed to stop.
what Can be wrong to tell us in advance the list?
That to me is communication, silence is too but bad communication in cases like these imo.
There has been 0, none, and nada buffs that have only made a champion worse for defence. Some buffs have made them slightly worse to fight, but not significantly worse, and furthermore, the overwhelming majority of buffs have focussed on offence.
Seriously, go through each buff right now and try and tell me which one made them worse on defence by focussing on an ability to specifically make them worse on defence.
P2099 was already a bad defender, his buff was designed for offence. Bishop was only made worse for defence because they removed a silly part of his kit anyway that killed you on offence, terrax already had his rock field, Ebony maw had his degen (an offensive as well as defensive ability) tuned up slightly, Joe Fixit had one small part of his kit added to make him a little more annoying on defence. But all of them had tune ups or abilities added to largely make them better on offence, the massive majority of their abilities from the buffs are offensive.
You can’t argue any of those were designed to make them worse on defence. What you’re seeing is by making champions better on offence, sometimes abilities are tuned or added that then make them better on defence. But for all of them, they are sufficiently better on offence that it really doesn’t matter to even get a little annoyed about champions being harder on defence, let alone think the program should stop because of it. If you could win awards for overreactions, I think your post would win it.
For science, it would be Joe Fix-It, Spider-Gwen and *maybe* Miles. Tougher fight if you are trying to use specials, easier if you’re content with basic attacks. However, all three of them benefited far more offensively.
Bishop and Magneto are genuinely tough defenders now on the right nodes. But again, they’re new offensive capabilities blow that out of the water.
Hulkbuster if you aren’t prepared can cause problems. Punisher 2099 is a pain on kinetic transference or other nodes that punish you for blocking, but he always was. War Machine now gives you a bunch of willpower healing on his sp1.
I can’t think of any Cosmic champs who are harder to deal with now than they were prebuff. Terrax is pretty much the same. Venompool is actually easier because now he can’t randomly go unstoppable or get an electro-like damage reflect.
Maw and Guillotine are trickier defenders now. Maw just hits harder, and Guillotine’s Pain Split can be irritating. That’s really about it.
So I really don’t know where you’re getting the idea that these buffs are defensively based. Of every buff, I think the two trickiest to fight against have been Bishop and Joe Fix-It, but both have fairly readily available counters and means of counter play.
The thing is, it’s inevitable that when you make a champ better, some will get harder to fight on defence. I feel it’s a pretty small price to pay for an incredible buff program that is my main excitement each month
He got a lot more than just that suicide ability being removed.
He already had unblockable specials, so while there's a new interaction with the prowess since they're easier to proc, the unblockable was already there.
The incinerate aura isn't that bad to be honest. The incinerate doesn't do much damage and you can avoid it anyway, and it's better than energy damage through block as you can bring an incinerate champion or ghost. I prefer dealing with this than the energy damage through block.
So really it's just the prowess being on hit now and the power overload doing damage to specific avoidable debuffs.
Kabam playing with my emotions!
I'm hoping they surprise us with 3 buffs this month.
Iceman, Electra, DS, SW, WS, X-23 and GR, they need justice.