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Godzillafan67 said:

DAZ0273 said:

MegaBee said:

Buff underperforming characters. Rebalance 5* Wasp.

Without another character to make her bee tile thingies relevant I fear this would be a waste of time.

I was in an aol chat room yesterday, and tinyfoxxy131003, who is an mpq developer, said that Bishop's rework is to produce lots of bee tile thingies instead of the stunning and high damage.

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I picked 5* Wasp as the character to rebalance. If they accidentally made her worse, it wouldn't be too much of a loss.

liminal_lad said:

I picked Bishop to nerf. I know "buff the weak, not nerf the strong" is a current philosophy but in this case, his jump-in-front, is too hair trigger and too powerful.

Same.

On "where do you get your news?" i chose the forum and wrote in Other -> forum players who get it from discord and then report it back to the forum

interesting that one of the "how do you want rebalances" options was just "adjust all the ap costs, match damage, health, etc" and then the next question specifically asked whose Powers you want to see adjusted. I went with "rebalance underperformers" even though I think a blanket adjustment to health and damage is probably the better overall move.

I chose Kingpin (spider verse) for the single character. There are loads of 4*s that need it, but as soon as you graduate up to even 1 5* the bulk of that tier is not on your radar and I'm on track to finish him soon.

One rebalance I'd like to see is consistency of wording across everyone, and then consistency of behavior for powers that affect other powers - like why Wakanda Forever! has edge cases from a player standpoint is not good. 

I still dont understand the Kitty hate.  Shes worthless without allied AND/OR enemy tiles on the board.  

And shes vulnerable to stun teams.  

Shes only a problem when paired with Grocket.  Even then, if those two are together, Bishop is the higher pain in the neck.  Sure, you target her, but thats because you CAN'T target Bishop without wanting to end your game sooner than it should.

I dunno... I mean, im not gonna change any minds on this, i know.  Its just -- well, its a 5*.  They SHOULD be good.  They should do what they do rather well.  If she didnt boost as much, or her circuit breaker didnt do what it does, then she'd be mediocre at best, and we'd still only use Thorkoye.  

Honestly, i think you want the OTHER 5s to do what they do on the same level as Kitty, Thor, Okoye, BRB etc.  Prof X, Iceman, and a couple others do a good job... But imagine if other 5*s did the same top tier match damage, had abilities up-scaled to match, and actually did their schtick on the same level?

If you bring the top characters down a peg, you're gonna probably lose players.  Players who either earned or invested in fast gameplay.  Also, some that stay may pine for the days when games were faster, Thor was more reliable, Kitty was useful, Okoye boosted better, etc.

NOBODY would complain if a lesser character got an upgrade.  No one.  Theres not a single soul that would be pissed if 5* Wasp got an upgrade.  Now ...there may be some people that would be upset that time and resources were used on a character that no ones using, but thats a different complaint, really.

Sorry - this is the wrong topic, and i got off point.  Just dont understand the kitty-hate.

Daredevil217 said:

Taganov said:

All of these characters with damage received mechanics are really only problems at the 5 star level, which is arguably the smallest fraction of players. And even then problem is in quotes. Strats are simple. I'm sure others have thought up way better already. Mirror is easiest. If you can't, then use some 4 star team with a good stun, since their damage is too low to trigger cap. If you're feeling terribly imaginative, bust out 3 star deadpool, scarlet witch, the appropriate boosts and whom ever.

How deep into 5* land are you?

Mirror works for Cap most of the time (unless you get an “unlucky” cascade). But, I maintain that Cap isn’t actually broken. Even with Hawk, they are a super easy team to take down.  

Mirror doesn’t really work for Bishop though. Even if you avoid high-damage matches, their Bishop will trigger your Bishop resulting in dueling overclocks and your team being stunlocked. I really have not found a way around him.

Busting out 3* teams doesn’t work because match damage alone will kill you.

And I shouldn’t have to bench all my 5* just to deal with one problematic 4*.  Point blank. 

I gave you a like because of the last paragraph. 

I often use bishop and 4* gamora to beat bishop teams. In pick 2 your first match will not trigger their bishop. If the enemy bishop is paired with a 5* they will likely trigger yours which will trigger theirs which triggers yours again. Then you just keep them stun locked with gamora while filling the board with purple specials. In a pick 3 adding kitty to bishop gamora is deadly. Imo much better than gritty bishop.

I picked Bishop to nerf. I know "buff the weak, not nerf the strong" is a current philosophy but in this case, his jump-in-front, is too hair trigger and too powerful.

Plot twist. 

Tons of players ask for buffing weaker characters. Then ask for Bishop to be changed. Devs are left thinking bishop is underpowered.........

Title says all. I was so happy to see that the dev team was specific in turning their attention to some of the low hanging fruit voiced in the forums for a while now; particularly in regards to rebalancing characters and addressing supports.