span_argoman wrote: Can someone explain to me the furore over planeswalkers which damage themselves / take more damage to win fast? Say in 1.4, the average QB game takes the following time for the following planeswalkers: Ob Nixilis: ~3 minutes per match Chandra: ~4 minutes per match (Nerfed) Nissa: ~5 minutes per match You're still gonna gain more points by playing Ob and Chandra first till they're out of health, then switching to Nissa or whoever your main is. And if you cycle between 3 planeswalkers, chances are they will be mostly healed up by the time you cycle back to them. It's not like we're restricted to one planeswalker per QB. So what's the big issue?
Meto5000 wrote: span_argoman wrote: Can someone explain to me the furore over planeswalkers which damage themselves / take more damage to win fast? Say in 1.4, the average QB game takes the following time for the following planeswalkers: Ob Nixilis: ~3 minutes per match Chandra: ~4 minutes per match (Nerfed) Nissa: ~5 minutes per match You're still gonna gain more points by playing Ob and Chandra first till they're out of health, then switching to Nissa or whoever your main is. And if you cycle between 3 planeswalkers, chances are they will be mostly healed up by the time you cycle back to them. It's not like we're restricted to one planeswalker per QB. So what's the big issue? You're misrepresenting what I said. I stated that if all Planeswalkers have normalized match times, as in they all take the same amount of time to finish a match, why would I use a PW that will require healing much more often than a Nissa or Gideon. If the trade off for self damage was faster matches then I wouldn't have an issue with the mechanic. If however, all PWs are more or less the same for match speed then, again, why bother with the self damagers? Maybe you'd get more people to diversify their PW choice in Quick battle if you could see who you're about to be matched with and change your Planeswalker based on that (like you can do in Storymode) since different planeswalkers have better/worse matchups vs other planeswalkers. The bottom line is I'm going to want to use whatever PW is fastest and if Ob Nix or another non sustainable PW ends up being #1 for speed than Ill use them. If all PW match speeds are the same, I'm going to use the PW I enjoy playing the most and is the most consistent.