PorkBelly wrote: John1123 wrote: But the Surgical Strike change seems reasonable to me. It does more damage to compensate for the no AP generation. I remember when the Hood got nerfed the same way and everyone was going to stop using him. Well guess what? I still use the Hood a lot and I will probably still use Xforce a lot. First, the increased damage is poor compensation for AP drain. Second, nobody was using Hood primarily for Twin Pistols. The nerf to Twin Pistols did suck but everyone uses Hood for Dormammu's Aid which they didn't touch.
John1123 wrote: But the Surgical Strike change seems reasonable to me. It does more damage to compensate for the no AP generation. I remember when the Hood got nerfed the same way and everyone was going to stop using him. Well guess what? I still use the Hood a lot and I will probably still use Xforce a lot.
raisinbman wrote: We all knew X-Force was gonna get nerfed, tho. You seriously thought he would keep his AP-tricks? Look at how D3 has been cracking down on AP-abusers, even thru boosts. I'd just be glad he wasn't turned into Spider-man or Sentry RIP
Dauthi wrote: That is some great nit-picking, but the truth is it will do 2k less damage. You haven't AP buffed green for X-Force and one shotted Hood second/third turn before? It was a pretty common practice. You are extremely likely to get at least a single match after board shakeup like his. Also, are you sure it only counts his colors (which isn't just green) towards tile destruction? It was my assumption it still calculates other's colors too, it would be a lot of work to code it so that it recalculates all the match damage based on his values only despite the tiles being destroyed having other character's emblems. You may be right, and his average damage was 4.8k damage per X-Force. I apoligize everyone, I may be wrong and he will do 2.8k average damage not 3k
Dauthi wrote: Arondite wrote: Dauthi wrote: Arondite wrote: Everyone griping is still going to end up using him not because they have him, but because he is still a solid character. 1360 + (15 x 42.5) = 3K? Hmmm.. Hmm... Old MAX LV 5: Deals 3441 damage and destroys 15 tiles in 3 3x3 X-Shaped patternsNew MAX LV 5: Deals 1360 damage and destroys 15 tiles in 3 3x3 X-Shaped patterns Now if we use math we can see it is only a 2k decrease in base damage. So if he currently does 5k damage, then we minus 2k.. hmm... Except he usually won't do 5K currently, hmmm. That is, unless you're the lucky sort that's ripping 15 Green Tiles every single time (lol). For instance, in your examples, if every one of the 15 tiles was green somehow, you'd be getting 1,230 Bonus damage from the 15 destroyed tiles. (15 x 82). That's, at absolute most 4,671 damage before cascades (and assuming some godlike board that has 15 green tiles positioned exactly right for you to hit them all). So tell me, when the old damage cap before cascades was 4,671, how were you managing to average 5k+ before cascades? Also it's called "subtracting" 2k, Not "minusing" 2K. Get math'd, kid.
Arondite wrote: Dauthi wrote: Arondite wrote: Everyone griping is still going to end up using him not because they have him, but because he is still a solid character. 1360 + (15 x 42.5) = 3K? Hmmm.. Hmm... Old MAX LV 5: Deals 3441 damage and destroys 15 tiles in 3 3x3 X-Shaped patternsNew MAX LV 5: Deals 1360 damage and destroys 15 tiles in 3 3x3 X-Shaped patterns Now if we use math we can see it is only a 2k decrease in base damage. So if he currently does 5k damage, then we minus 2k.. hmm...
Dauthi wrote: Arondite wrote: Everyone griping is still going to end up using him not because they have him, but because he is still a solid character. 1360 + (15 x 42.5) = 3K? Hmmm.. Hmm...
Arondite wrote: Everyone griping is still going to end up using him not because they have him, but because he is still a solid character.
Lerysh wrote: Dauthi wrote: That is some great nit-picking, but the truth is it will do 2k less damage. You haven't AP buffed green for X-Force and one shotted Hood second/third turn before? It was a pretty common practice. You are extremely likely to get at least a single match after board shakeup like his. Also, are you sure it only counts his colors (which isn't just green) towards tile destruction? It was my assumption it still calculates other's colors too, it would be a lot of work to code it so that it recalculates all the match damage based on his values only despite the tiles being destroyed having other character's emblems. You may be right, and his average damage was 4.8k damage per X-Force. I apoligize everyone, I may be wrong and he will do 2.8k average damage not 3k It 100% only does damage based on XF's color damage. Purple tiles do 11 not whatever you high purple is. I can't speak to your experience obviously, but my experience with XF is that he did ~4500 damage while sometimes doing like 6000 with cascades of doom. Now he will do ~2500 damage with possible 4000 with cascades of doom. That's a grade 3* power (See Hulk, Groot, Storm), not 4*, which makes it terrible on a 4* frame.
raisinbman wrote: PorkBelly wrote: John1123 wrote: But the Surgical Strike change seems reasonable to me. It does more damage to compensate for the no AP generation. I remember when the Hood got nerfed the same way and everyone was going to stop using him. Well guess what? I still use the Hood a lot and I will probably still use Xforce a lot. First, the increased damage is poor compensation for AP drain. Second, nobody was using Hood primarily for Twin Pistols. The nerf to Twin Pistols did suck but everyone uses Hood for Dormammu's Aid which they didn't touch. We all knew X-Force was gonna get nerfed, tho. You seriously thought he would keep his AP-tricks? Look at how D3 has been cracking down on AP-abusers, even thru boosts. I'd just be glad he wasn't turned into Spider-man or Sentry RIP
Dauthi wrote: Lerysh wrote: Dauthi wrote: That is some great nit-picking, but the truth is it will do 2k less damage. You haven't AP buffed green for X-Force and one shotted Hood second/third turn before? It was a pretty common practice. You are extremely likely to get at least a single match after board shakeup like his. Also, are you sure it only counts his colors (which isn't just green) towards tile destruction? It was my assumption it still calculates other's colors too, it would be a lot of work to code it so that it recalculates all the match damage based on his values only despite the tiles being destroyed having other character's emblems. You may be right, and his average damage was 4.8k damage per X-Force. I apoligize everyone, I may be wrong and he will do 2.8k average damage not 3k It 100% only does damage based on XF's color damage. Purple tiles do 11 not whatever you high purple is. I can't speak to your experience obviously, but my experience with XF is that he did ~4500 damage while sometimes doing like 6000 with cascades of doom. Now he will do ~2500 damage with possible 4000 with cascades of doom. That's a grade 3* power (See Hulk, Groot, Storm), not 4*, which makes it terrible on a 4* frame. I use a 250 Xforce, and it typically did 4.6k damage average. I figured if he leveled up more it would be around 4.8. I'll use your numbers, correct me if im wrong. Ill bold all the values that are less than XForce:X-Force 2.5k damage 27 tiles destroyed 8 apRocket&Groot 2.4k damage 13 tiles destroyed 10 apMohawk 0 damage ----14 tile destruction (ap gained) 10 apHulk 1200 damage 13 tiles destroyed 10 apXforce will beat all of these in every category.
Dauthi wrote: X-Force 2.5k damage 27 tiles destroyed 8 ap
grunth13 wrote: They just gave she hulk the ultimate ap abusing trick by letting her drain 2 stacks of your ap to 0 for 6 green. I don't think the devs care about ap abusers
simonsez wrote: Dauthi wrote: X-Force 2.5k damage 27 tiles destroyed 8 ap 27?! How can make subjective arguments when you're this far off on the factual elements of what the skill does?
grunth13 wrote: But it cost you 2 to 3 times the amount to get your XF to 250 them to get the other characters to 166.
Dauthi wrote: Lerysh wrote: Dauthi wrote: That is some great nit-picking, but the truth is it will do 2k less damage. You haven't AP buffed green for X-Force and one shotted Hood second/third turn before? It was a pretty common practice. You are extremely likely to get at least a single match after board shakeup like his. Also, are you sure it only counts his colors (which isn't just green) towards tile destruction? It was my assumption it still calculates other's colors too, it would be a lot of work to code it so that it recalculates all the match damage based on his values only despite the tiles being destroyed having other character's emblems. You may be right, and his average damage was 4.8k damage per X-Force. I apoligize everyone, I may be wrong and he will do 2.8k average damage not 3k It 100% only does damage based on XF's color damage. Purple tiles do 11 not whatever you high purple is. I can't speak to your experience obviously, but my experience with XF is that he did ~4500 damage while sometimes doing like 6000 with cascades of doom. Now he will do ~2500 damage with possible 4000 with cascades of doom. That's a grade 3* power (See Hulk, Groot, Storm), not 4*, which makes it terrible on a 4* frame. I use a 250 Xforce, and it typically did 4.6k damage average. I figured if he leveled up more it would be around 4.8. I'll use your numbers, correct me if im wrong. Ill bold all the values that are less than XForce:X-Force2.0k damage(Average) 15 tiles destroyed 8 apRocket&Groot 2.4k damage 13 tiles destroyed 10 apMohawk 0 damage ----14 tile destruction (ap gained) 10 apHulk 1200 damage 13 tiles destroyed 10 apXforce will beat all of these in every category.
Dauthi wrote: Settle down, I wrote it in haste. You can simply note the correction instead of making personal attacks. If I didn't understand the skill it would be subjective, I think you meant objective.
M C K wrote: I don't really feel like getting involved in all the fighting. Can somebody please tell me the expected date that XF will be buffed again so he's great? And maybe could we spring for one of those cones they put on dogs after surgery?
M C K wrote: Can somebody please tell me the expected date that XF will be buffed again so he's great?
simonsez wrote: grunth13 wrote: They just gave she hulk the ultimate ap abusing trick by letting her drain 2 stacks of your ap to 0 for 6 green. I don't think the devs care about ap abusers The difference is that She Hulk's green doesn't help you win any faster, because you're not getting any AP. The devs want battles to be longer. She Hulk's green fits in with that, Surgical Strike doesn't.
simonsez wrote: Dauthi wrote: Settle down, I wrote it in haste. You can simply note the correction instead of making personal attacks. If I didn't understand the skill it would be subjective, I think you meant objective. No, I meant what i said... it's like saying, subjectively, "I don't like pizza because the raisins get stuck in my teeth". This person shouldn't be offering subjective opinions about pizza, because they don't seem to know what the components of a pizza are. And I think we're setting a pretty low bar on what constitutes a "personal attack", if that sounded like one.
Dauthi wrote: simonsez wrote: Dauthi wrote: X-Force 2.5k damage 27 tiles destroyed 8 ap 27?! How can make subjective arguments when you're this far off on the factual elements of what the skill does? Settle down, I wrote it in haste. You can simply note the correction instead of making personal attacks. If I didn't understand the skill it would be subjective, I think you meant objective. People make mistakes though, right? grunth13 wrote: But it cost you 2 to 3 times the amount to get your XF to 250 them to get the other characters to 166. That doesn't matter if it still gives you an edge.
fmftint wrote: 15 pages and I still haven't read ONE reason why a single character being the best answer for every node is good for the game. What I have seen are emotional reactions and invalid analogies