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Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-naaaaa... Thunder! Here're the upcoming stats changes for this week's 5-Star Storm (Ororo Munroe) rebalance along with a 3-Star Storm (Mohawk) Hellfire Gala costume!
Gathering Clouds - 9 Black AP -> 8 Black AP This ability does what it says on the tin, and the Passive is relatively powerful in aggregate as AP generation and self powering for this ability. On a recheck of balance numbers when based on actual in-field player usage instead of pure sims, there's a bit of extra budget available. With this extra budget, we were able to bring down the AP cost to 8, making it faster overall.
Ice Storm - 10 Green AP -> 9 Green AP As with the rest of her kit, this ability is useful for it’s particular niche. It’s also a relatively decent random AP battery due to it causing a good amount of cascades. But given that it’s random, it doesn’t do much in the way of being a sure thing. So we made a change here to lower the AP cost slightly as well as adding in some targeted AP gain to help her internal AP generation. This is in addition to the random AP gain from the ability itself, making it pretty strong in the realm of an ability that relies on cascades to do the job.
Aurora Totalis - 9 Yellow AP Another one that in sims and by the numbers is pretty balanced, but doesn't actually work out quite so well in the field. The creation of Charged tiles being random (but focused on a color) makes it sometimes super powerful when everything hits correctly or lackluster when the conversion just doesn't work out. To help with this, we added in targeted AP gain, making SURE that Storm acts as a powerful AP battery,
Overall, these changes makes Storm quicker with her ability usage, more consistent in creating AP in the colors she desires, and less vulnerable to the RNG gods deciding that the cascades or conversion just aren't in your favor, wasting AP that could be used elsewhere.