So for those of you who know more about IMIW than I do, how is the buff?
Oakenshield
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Now that the details have been confirmed and released, how good a buff is it?
So for those of you who know more about IMIW than I do, how is the buff? 61 votes
Top Tier - Kingpin/Ultron level
3%
2 votes
Solid improvement - Rags, Nebula level
9%
6 votes
Minimal difference/improvement - Nova/PsychoMan level (So little we aren’t even sure they changed?)
80%
49 votes
Arguably detrimental (First Hood buff/Guillotine buff)
6%
4 votes
0
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From what I understand, it’s minimal. Value update.
Jinx
The whole buff isn’t determental, all the other changes to his kit are great. But his damage didn’t need to be decreased, he is already outclassed by a majority of the champions in game.
The single biggest issue with him was that the plasma duration was really short. If the opponent was being defensive or had a long special attack you'd probably lose all your plasma. Even more importantly, it was nigh impossible to generate plasmas with a sp2+sp1 cycle, the sp2 was long enough that the only way to refresh preexisting plasmas was to dash in immediately and hope for the intercept. This could all be mitigated with the stealth spidey synergy, but it was an unfortunate downside of an otherwise amazing kit.
The buff makes the plasmas last longer while doing a little less dps. As someone who's almost certainly in the top 5% of offensive IMIW enjoyers, I think this is a solid buff. Although I haven't been able to try the buffed version yet, I anticipate the biggest benefit being the ability to create plasma with sp2+sp1
Jinx
Incinerate lasting 16 seconds seems updated? As well as the plasma changes you all mentioned
I never understood that part of the buff problem, which does detrimental changes to characters, altering practically nothing about their usage. I mean, at the end of the day, the anguish and the disappointment of the community backfires on Kabam. And yet, here we are….
Now more people CAN use him as an attacker but most of us still WON'T use him
Was that really worth the effort of the change, let alone running an entire beta?
Seriously, for those that took part in the beta, what was the feedback given? That this was fine?
My first 6* is Domino (very good) and second is Ironman IW (I was excited until I found out he was more a defender than offense focused).
Most Ironman characters are a let down and are scrub.. Ironman OG (sadness), Inferior Ironman (not superior at all), Iron Patriot (er what for), War Machine (good buff but once armor is nullify or broken, so so), Ironman IW (defender but can be easily dealt with nowadays), and Silver Centurion (from battle realm.. best Ironman damage wise)
So in that case, what was the point of the beta at all? People gave up their own time and effort to try something, and give feedback; only for that feedback to be totally ignored.
Was the Kabam team so focused on making it easier to sustain plasma/Incinerate that no other feedback was considered? Was DPS even reviewed? Or was their metric of success something as simple as 'number of seconds with plasma or Incinerate active'...
This was a champ that was my first (and 2nd) 5* and first 5R4. He definitely carried me to grandmaster. But he’s stayed at 5R4 since then, and the 6* is staying at r1.