Silk (Cindy Moon) 4* - Rebalance & New Costume

S0kun
S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 676 Critical Contributor
edited 23 May 2024, 15:50 in MPQ General Discussion

As announced in our R303 Release Notes, Silk (Cindy Moon) 4* is getting a rebalance on May 23rd along with her new Web Costume featured in the below screenshots.

Rebalance Notes:
Silk's rebalance brought her up to more modern standards of Spider-Family power. Most older Spider-People used Web tiles, but didn't actually get a boost for spending those Web tiles. So while Silk's healing gave her a decent niche, she was pretty much a one hit wonder as her other abilities were much weaker than a character who performed the same abilities without the use of Web tiles.

*The below are screenshots to make formatting easier on the forum, but you can also click below to visit her character page on our website:
https://marvelpuzzlequest.com/characters/silk-cindy-moon-4-rebalance/

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  • obikenobi12
    obikenobi12 Posts: 39 Just Dropped In
    edited 22 May 2024, 21:55

    looks really good! i like the increased damage from the hits on the black power, but a little disappointed in the lower passive damage output when 2 webs are destroyed as that was always her best way to deal damage before, Maybe with the increased strength of strike tiles that she is putting out, it will make up for that somewhat. will be fun to play her now when ascended! the first post is missing how much the new rebalanced yellow power will improve strike, attack and defend tiles at level 5. Can we get that info added?

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 352 Mover and Shaker

    Cool lookin outfit. Maybe someone else who has her ascended and uses her will know better, but... was she just secretly nerfed under the guise of a buff? I get the increase in the other abilities, but in a meta dominated by passives and 7ap is kind of expensive, cutting her passive damage in half kinda feels like a swing in the other direction.

    Hopefully I'm wrong, but on paper, that's how it feels.

  • ThisisClemFandango
    ThisisClemFandango Posts: 836 Critical Contributor

    Someone post the confused john Travolta gif please

    Thanks

  • Tiger_Wong
    Tiger_Wong Posts: 1,057 Chairperson of the Boards

    Maybe the cut in passive damage is because her SAP tiles are stronger when she casts blue?

    Idk man….. I’ve tried to use her on web teams when boosted and honestly, her kit really doesn’t work well with any of them. That’s the REAL problem and that’s why she’s not getting used. All the other web tile characters are trying to match and preserve the web tiles and use them.

    Here Silk is, blowing them up for a little bit of damage and no AP. At least when 1* AsVenom blows up web tiles, he does a truck full of damage. He’s gonna kill a character with his black. Silk?…… idk. I’ll try her out and see if there’s something hidden I’m not seeing on paper.

  • dianetics
    dianetics Posts: 1,641 Chairperson of the Boards

    Does this feel more or less unneeded to anyone else?
    Most of the changes are minor with one big change.
    Honestly, I would rather take her passive damage over a bigger up front hit with black.
    I don't think this makes her any better or worse.

  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 506 Critical Contributor
    edited 23 May 2024, 08:22

    @dianetics said:
    Does this feel more or less unneeded to anyone else?
    Most of the changes are minor with one big change.
    Honestly, I would rather take her passive damage over a bigger up front hit with black.
    I don't think this makes her any better or worse.

    It's just an excuse to sell her costume and create artificial demand when the offer goes out tonight. I'm just relieved that she wasn't nerfed too badly.

    I think the last one that actually felt impactful was Moon Knight. Honourable mention to Mr Sinister as well.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards

    @BriMan2222 said:

    @WhiteBomber said:
    Cool lookin outfit. Maybe someone else who has her ascended and uses her will know better, but... was she just secretly nerfed under the guise of a buff? I get the increase in the other abilities, but in a meta dominated by passives and 7ap is kind of expensive, cutting her passive damage in half kinda feels like a swing in the other direction.

    Hopefully I'm wrong, but on paper, that's how it feels.

    I only ever use her on the puzzle gauntlet, cutting her passive damage means I'll have more time to solve the puzzle before I accidentally kill the other team with her passive

    This happens to me a lot too but even so this just seems like a strange decision to me. If it was done to try and improve usage outside of Puzzle Ops it is probably gonna do the opposite.

    Very cool costume though.

  • kuntilanak
    kuntilanak Posts: 90 Match Maker

    Extremely minor buff in blue and yellow, but black is a downgrade in a way... seriously, lots of other goons need rebalance more than her... sigh...

  • TheVulture
    TheVulture Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker

    I think it would have been simpler just to release the costume. Though, for parity, we now need Spiderman's webbed underwear 'costume'. :p

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 352 Mover and Shaker

    Excellent @S0kun! Now she might be a someone you want to take out ASAP. Does anyone have her 450 (or closer to it numbers)?

  • dianetics
    dianetics Posts: 1,641 Chairperson of the Boards

    @S0kun said:
    Just a heads up that we updated Silk's Black Ability numbers late yesterday so new numbers are posted.
    https://marvelpuzzlequest.com/characters/silk-cindy-moon-4-rebalance/

    No offense, **** Off with this.
    This is sidegrade ****. Nobody will know the difference in 2-3 months.

    Fix the trash tier not the strong toons.

  • Pantera236
    Pantera236 Posts: 521 Critical Contributor


    Before

    After

    She's at 459.

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 352 Mover and Shaker

    Thank you @Pantera236, that looks worth ascending for use to me.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards

    Thanks Devs!

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