Beta Ray Bill and Enchantress Balance Update Discussion

The_0wenpusThe_0wenpus Member Posts: 274 ★★
edited January 24 in General Discussion
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Personally disappointed that Enchantress hasn't received a slight defense nerf or attack buff. Her damage reflection is a bit too much making for oddly lopsided matchups even when fighting a much lower PI Enchantress than your attacker.
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  • FolkvangrFolkvangr Member Posts: 203 ★★
    altavista said:

    She's fine on defense since she doesn't exactly require a specific counter but rather skill, knowledge, and some RNG luck.

    I was hoping for an Offensive tweak, but oh well.

    My main question is from the balance update post:

    Recent quests and challenges such as our seasonal “Pain” quests, and Necropolis challenges have given summoners plenty of space to capitalize on her flexibility and control when ramped up.


    Who the heck is using her in Necropolis challenges? I haven't heard of anyone promoting using Enchantress for the Cul's objective, so how large is that sample size that this is based on?
    There is a video of her soloing 3 fights of that path at 6* r5a
  • captain_rogerscaptain_rogers Member Posts: 11,009 ★★★★★
    edited January 24
    Fixing enchantress is easy as, her spells on defense is based on predefined 7 sets.




    Changing the combinations to something easy, or even changing it such a way each set triggers only once until all gets triggere once, makes it such a easy fix to enchantress. But kebem never understand us.
  • Phantøm_EchøPhantøm_Echø Member Posts: 118 ★★

    Fixing enchantress is easy as, her spells on defense is based on predefined 7 sets.




    Changing the combinations to something easy, or even changing it such a way each set triggers only once until all gets triggere once, makes it such a easy fix to enchantress. But kebem never understand us.

    Sure but then she isn't a 5/5 on defense which is what was intended
  • AVENGERSXWARSAVENGERSXWARS Member Posts: 11
    i don't like enchantress wasn't nerfed she should have been the fact that she can actively stop you from getting rid of her spells because of miss unstoppable is so dumb and personally her sp2 shouldn't be locked while on defense it just makes her that much harder to deal with this just goes to show that kabam really doesnt want to listen to the players and will nerf anyone they deem too powerful instead of champs who actually are
  • psp742psp742 Member Posts: 2,695 ★★★★
    Sad fact is people tend to have their own vision of each champions perceived ability and power level.. remember this is Marvel Contest of Champions.. not the MCU or actual Marvel Universe.. if kabam made them as OP as their original counterparts.. then this would make some match so lopsided.

    Example: The Inhuman Blackbolt whisper can kill someone easily.. Blackbolt sp3 is him shouting at the opponent.. they aren't affected much by it thou.. maybe he has laryngitis.. lol

    Sentry is improved after his buff.. but he isn't upto Hyperion or Adam Warlock level yet.

    As mentioned above, each character/ champion have their own niche and specialization.. whether we see the utility or not, as long as they hit the design attack/ defense metric as set by kabam designers.. they get adjusted accordingly.. wished some champions get a little semblance to their Marvel persona.

    Can only 🤞 🤞 🤞
  • CapriciousCapricious Member Posts: 249 ★★
    I do not like this decision at all. No change to either champion, and poor transparency about how Enchantress is performing. Her post essentially says “she was designed to be strong when she ramps up and we’re seeing that on defense she’s really strong” the idea that this is “Reflected on offense” is mind boggling.

    I’m going to do my best not to heat up but I would appreciate if we had a detailed explanation about how enchantresses offensive kit is even remotely comparable to her defensive kit. Defensive enchantress starts off invulnerable, at times untouchable, with higher damage and that’s without factoring in quest nodes. We’ve all said this already and pointing out that there are long form quest fights where Enchantress players can sit back and ramp up doesn’t address the time that it takes to ramp up, the damage that she does compared to other mystic options (who have long and short ramp up times), the penalties for losing your ramp progress which in no way is comparable to Defender Enchantress and they’re also choosing not to let us carry over any of her effects. This reads as pure laziness
  • Nemesis_17Nemesis_17 Member Posts: 2,562 ★★★★★

    Pretty much what I expected. Base enchantress isn’t a big deal it’s only really when nodes are added on that she gets rather unbalanced.

    I don’t play aw, but to those who do, is she still broken op on heavy hitter? I remember even 5* were getting kills with that node but idk if that’s more so due to the tactic or the node.

    She is managable with slow champions/unstoppable counters. She is as bad as destroyer in protection indestructible node. Thing is, she gets bad with previous provaceteur defense tactic as she constantly throws specials. Any defensive tactic or node that allows her to throw back to back specials without allowing the attacker to removespells make her extremely unfair. Like the last season Matador meta.
    Ah alright. Yea makes sense. I wish there were some sort of caveats added for situations like that. Kinda like serpent in the extend meta. But they didn’t do it for him so I wasn’t expecting it here either.
  • Average_DesiAverage_Desi Member Posts: 1,097 ★★★★

    So The Leader, Enchantress and Serpent are all perfectly balanced? What an absolute joke.

    The plan is not to make the champs perfect, but match what they were intended to be. If a champ was intended to be broken on defense and mediocre on offense, then they will stay that way if that's how they perform.

    Yes there are discussions around the intend, and how they match the power bar representations, but it's not about "balance" and making every champ the same amount of good
  • CapriciousCapricious Member Posts: 249 ★★
    altavista said:

    She's fine on defense since she doesn't exactly require a specific counter but rather skill, knowledge, and some RNG luck.

    I was hoping for an Offensive tweak, but oh well.

    My main question is from the balance update post:

    Recent quests and challenges such as our seasonal “Pain” quests, and Necropolis challenges have given summoners plenty of space to capitalize on her flexibility and control when ramped up.


    Who the heck is using her in Necropolis challenges? I haven't heard of anyone promoting using Enchantress for the Cul's objective, so how large is that sample size that this is based on?
    My point exactly about the lack of transparency regarding her offensive stats. Truth be told I don’t think Kabam cares beyond asking “How many times can she trigger a buff? Okay she’s good to go” as if we’re supposed to be okay with launching 10+ special attacks every single fight and if we can then her (admittedly) impressive level of versatility should automatically carry us through the rest. Sure she’s got high “Potential” but why would I care if she’s paradoxically a tedious and punishing champion to use. Who in their right mind would choose her in practically any mystic situation? What does she do at a high level that isn’t literally “Holding a thousand buffs so that you can’t hurt her” which is something that offensively we are gatekept from?
  • JESUSCHRISTJESUSCHRIST Member Posts: 426 ★★★
    Don't touch my rank 3 Enchantress
    She gets banned every match anyway
  • Average_DesiAverage_Desi Member Posts: 1,097 ★★★★
    BigBlueOx said:

    The miss mechanic she has is overkill and roles far too often. No surprise here though, that’s the “balance” the team aims for with defenders these days. 🙄

    The miss is so damn annoying. I missed like 4 times in a row . It was worse in power struggle where you would keep getting a bar of power less when you got clipped
  • Sachhyam257Sachhyam257 Member Posts: 1,246 ★★★★
    edited January 25

    i don't like enchantress wasn't nerfed she should have been the fact that she can actively stop you from getting rid of her spells because of miss unstoppable is so dumb and personally her sp2 shouldn't be locked while on defense it just makes her that much harder to deal with this just goes to show that kabam really doesnt want to listen to the players and will nerf anyone they deem too powerful instead of champs who actually are

    She gets nuked by any science/any champ in general, granted you know how to play around her mechanics. That is, knowing and performing the correct and safe order of removal of her spells.

    She's annoying on power gain/ reserve nodes, but even then we've got science champs who can control that power influx.

    Where she's really annoying is on nodes that build on actions you need to perform against her (knock down, intercept, heavy interrupt) or hinder it in some way.

    She's a challenging champ that demands player skill over the usual rpg counter. Overall, I think she's fine defensively.

    Offensively though... I'm disappointed that they're making no changes to her ramp up speed or even tweaking her neutralize potency vs cosmics (at the very least). I've had her fully set up on purple spells and she still lets buffs go through. I guess they don't want her to be a total buff controller on top of everything else, but considering her ramp I'd say it would've been fair.
  • dr2wsdr2ws Member Posts: 821 ★★★
    My go to counter for her is Ham, however I imagine Titania will destroy her as well.
  • UsagicassidyUsagicassidy Member Posts: 1,627 ★★★★★

    Pretty much what I expected. Base enchantress isn’t a big deal it’s only really when nodes are added on that she gets rather unbalanced.

    I don’t play aw, but to those who do, is she still broken op on heavy hitter? I remember even 5* were getting kills with that node but idk if that’s more so due to the tactic or the node.

    I've been trying to read the nodes but can't find it - which one is Heavy Hitter?
  • MagrailothosMagrailothos Member Posts: 6,123 ★★★★★

    So The Leader, Enchantress and Serpent are all perfectly balanced? What an absolute joke.

    So, there's a bit of a mis-interpretation here which has really spiraled and become a thing ever since the rebalancing period was announced. Almost making the term 'rebalancing' itself a misnomer. At least how we, the community, view it vs how it's used and intended by the development and balancing team.

    Rebalancing isn't aimed at making champions perfectly balanced characters. They're not supposed to be. They're not all meant to be both great attackers and defenders. They're not even necessarily meant to be comparable to each other. At least not all of them all of the time...

    Rebalancing, is regarding the champion's specific and uniquely projected goals....
    The process has nothing to do with... balanced overall as a character in the eyes of the community....
    This is absolutely correct.

    TL:DR - Kabam wanted Enchantress to be deeply horrible to fight on defense. She is. Job done...
  • N8buckeye08N8buckeye08 Member Posts: 277 ★★
    The community is going to lose its mind when she’s a WOW/SOS/AOA fight
  • Will3808Will3808 Member Posts: 3,887 ★★★★★
    altavista said:

    She's fine on defense since she doesn't exactly require a specific counter but rather skill, knowledge, and some RNG luck.

    I was hoping for an Offensive tweak, but oh well.

    My main question is from the balance update post:

    Recent quests and challenges such as our seasonal “Pain” quests, and Necropolis challenges have given summoners plenty of space to capitalize on her flexibility and control when ramped up.


    Who the heck is using her in Necropolis challenges? I haven't heard of anyone promoting using Enchantress for the Cul's objective, so how large is that sample size that this is based on?
    @altavista I used her for a couple fights for worthy gods and MSD did too. She’s useful but definitely not the best option.
  • Nemesis_17Nemesis_17 Member Posts: 2,562 ★★★★★

    Pretty much what I expected. Base enchantress isn’t a big deal it’s only really when nodes are added on that she gets rather unbalanced.

    I don’t play aw, but to those who do, is she still broken op on heavy hitter? I remember even 5* were getting kills with that node but idk if that’s more so due to the tactic or the node.

    I've been trying to read the nodes but can't find it - which one is Heavy Hitter?
    No idea. It’s probably exclusive to the toughest map. I just know it exists because she was causing a lot of trouble on it.
  • BigBlueOxBigBlueOx Member Posts: 2,705 ★★★★★

    Pretty much what I expected. Base enchantress isn’t a big deal it’s only really when nodes are added on that she gets rather unbalanced.

    I don’t play aw, but to those who do, is she still broken op on heavy hitter? I remember even 5* were getting kills with that node but idk if that’s more so due to the tactic or the node.

    I've been trying to read the nodes but can't find it - which one is Heavy Hitter?
    No idea. It’s probably exclusive to the toughest map. I just know it exists because she was causing a lot of trouble on it.
    Yeah it’s a heavy hitter type node. She’s unstoppable throughout her heavy. And there’s a 90% chance of her getting the untouchable active at the start of the fight (I’m calling absolute BS on whatever the kit says). It’s not an impossible fight but it can fall apart super easily, and if you can’t hit her to dispel the green after 4 tries and loosing 30% of your health trying to bait heavys that’s the “fun” we are intended to have.
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