KABAM......WILL BLADE BE NERFED?
AZ1
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Hi Kabam
I wanted to ask you guys what your plans are for Blade. There's talk within the community about him being nerfed in the near future.
Now I recently finished act 5, and with my rewards from it, planned on r5ing my Blade.
However, the last thing I want to do is use my hard earned resources (and rare t5b) on a champ who will be nerfed soon.
In my opinion, Blade is a great champ but is not too OP.
Can we please get some clarification on this issue, so that I can either go ahead with my rank up of blade, or keep the resources, if there are any plans of a nerf.
Thanks in advance
A.Z
I wanted to ask you guys what your plans are for Blade. There's talk within the community about him being nerfed in the near future.
Now I recently finished act 5, and with my rewards from it, planned on r5ing my Blade.
However, the last thing I want to do is use my hard earned resources (and rare t5b) on a champ who will be nerfed soon.
In my opinion, Blade is a great champ but is not too OP.
Can we please get some clarification on this issue, so that I can either go ahead with my rank up of blade, or keep the resources, if there are any plans of a nerf.
Thanks in advance
A.Z
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Kabam can't keep mistakes again and again for sake of some butthurt people who can't pulled him
If blade gonna be nerf then also nerf SL,Spark,Magik,Wolverine,GR etc because they all are too powerful
I wouldn't hesitate ranking anyone due to this reason, if they are good now, just rank them.
If they do get nerfed, they could still be good and if not, your free to rank them down.
Too many people worry about nerfs
why do people keep saying this like its a valid point. He only shrugs it off if there is danger sense. Why does stark spiderman still taunt all or nothing nodes? why is archangel able to stun opponents on stun immune nodes?
Because Danger sense is just an ability accuracy reduction. No other champions with ability accuracy reductions do this.
Because that's how taunt works
That's a bug aswell, expect that one fixed in the future too
BW against thorns which Kabam have said shouldnt have worked. However they allowed this soo Blade should be allowed as well
Taunt should not work against all or nothing as the opponent is meant to store power until special 3.
AA has been in the game for about 9 months soooo
Does BW stop Healblock? Bleed? Poison?
Taunt is specifically made to make them more likely to use specials. Nobody else in the game has this mechanic, I'm not sure what you're even trying to discuss. It does exactly what it's meant to do, unlike danger sense
Why do you think arch angel’s ability is a “bug?” It has been this way since AA was introduced. When a neurotoxin expires, the opponent is stunned. What makes you say that spark’s is a “feature?” Kabam never said that, it’s just something that happens. I’m not sure either of those are bugs.
Regarding blade, the only ability reduction champ that starts with ability reduction besides blade is black widow. Have u ever attacked a poison or bleed node with a black widow? I haven’t personally, so I don’t know if she could bypass.
Blade is working as designed. Whether all his abilities are intended or not is a different issue. Blade is the only champ that reduces all ability accuracy right at the beginning of a fight. No other champ does that (BW only reduces defensive abilities, that too only when striking her opponents). Danger sense is most probably applied before node buffs/debuffs and thus he has a chance to disable the nodes completely
And Kabam is still proactively adjusting certain champs so that every appropriate danger sense champ is captured via synergy and people think they’re going to nerf blade. Blade is the nerf.
If Hela isn’t getting nerfed, no one is.
This is correct. The healblock not proc'ing is a feature of Blade, not a bug.
ArchAngel can impact ability accuracy when he stacks neurotoxins. While it doesn't happen at the beginning of a fight, he can actually 100% shut down some nodes. For example, a special 1 lock node, stack some neuros and AA can get more than 1 bar in his special meter.
There are 3 categories of ability accuracy in the game. Defensive, Offensive, and both. Blade and AA impact both, and that can directly alter how nodes behave. Neither Blade nor AA is currently bugged.
Blade doesn't imbalance the contest. He's great, but he's got flaws in his game just like every other champ. He doesn't approach pre 12.0 Scarlet Witch, not even close.
This. Their safeguards against OP champs are built in now (except for Magik, of course). Let’s compare:
- SW was a cheat code against everything.
- Dr. Strange was a cheat code against everything.
- Black Widow was a cheat code against everything except Antman on thorns.
- Thor was a cheat code against everyone except stun immune.
- Block proficiency synergy was a cheat code against everyone.
Compared to:
- AA is a designed cheat code against non-immunes, decently strong against champs that are only poison immune, absolute trash against double immunes.
- Blade is a designed cheat code against danger sense bleeders, still pretty strong against danger sense bleed-immunes, pretty decent against non-danger sense bleeders, absolute trash against non-danger sense bleed immunes.
They were forced to create nodes that they still use today to deal with pre-12.0 god tier champs / synergies. Safeguard, Dulled, limber, block prof reduction, spite, etc. and they still weren’t enough so they had to nerf.
A blade nerf is coming when we see nodes like “villain champs get a change of heart and become heroes” and “mystic champs have a 100% chance to change classes against skill champs.” And then that nerf would still only come if those nodes weren’t enough to slow him down.
Now let’s see what kabam has done to deal with the mystic dispersion wars that these nerf trolls are upset about:
- Allowed Iceman to eat sp3s all day and survive
- Created AA
- Created Blade
- Literally blew up alliance war and turned it into an embarrassing mess
- Created defender diversity while still refusing to the end to give us defender kill points.
Analyze the data. Your poor mystics are never coming back. Non-villain/mystic OP defenders are coming soon.
Rank that blade up if you want. Personally I’d rank Iceman or Magik because they’re 100% better than Blade, unless you need prestige.
Not bugs. All of those things except for Blades have been around for over 6 months now. Blades is not a bug either though, intentional with abilities and meant for those smart enough to figure them out. As well as those people who found a way to pull the certain champs.
AA is definitely a beast. Discovered the other day that AA can even stop the spite node. Only nodes he doesn't seem to stop are power gain and Act 5 nodes (probably because they designed the act 5 nodes specially to be immune to AA modifications and also apply passive debuffs instead of active debuffs—power lock from Tyranny doesn't activate willpower but power lock from special 1/2 lock does)
Blade will never be nerfed. Say it loud and proud and keep the nerf threads coming to let kabam know what a great job they did in burying mystic dispersion wars forever.
Anyone know if it is intended for Blade to turn off nodes like heal block from the main boss in AQ? This is rumored to extend to nodes like degeneration and starburst as well. Like in this Video.
Blade also turns off debuff nodes in AW, can just shut down the a bleed or poison applying to him at the start of the fight. Is that intended?
You should try reading the thread. Answer already given. Working as intended.
Only applies to danger sense 40% of the time (58% of the time with synergy).