Rebalance & New Costume - Psylocke (Classic) 3*

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Abilities

Ability: Psychic Knife

General Notes:

This ability is one of the poster children for the “speeds up on use” type gameplay, and does pretty well when teamed with other Strike generators. However, it’s pretty weak on its own at 8 AP (since it’s balanced around the idea that it’ll often be faster), and even once it’s sped up, it’s still pretty slow with a 5 AP minimum. So lowered this to 4 and changed numbers accordingly.

Color: Red
AP Cost: 8

3 STAR: LEVEL 266

(BEFORE)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deals 856 damage and creates a strength 128 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. Costs 1 less for each Red Strike tile (min cost 5). 

At Level 2: Deals 1678 damage and creates a strength 148 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 3: Creates a strength 205 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 4: Deals 2636 damage.
At Level 5: Deals 3458 damage and creates a strength 333 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. 

(AFTER)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deal 1384 damage. If less than 3 exist, convert a basic red tile into a strength 147 Strike tile. This ability costs 1 less for each friendly Red Strike tile (min: 4).

At Level 2: Deal 1783 damage. Convert to strength 152 tiles.
At Level 3: Convert to strength 242 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 2584 damage.
At Level 5: Deal 3859 damage. Convert to strength 328 tiles.

4 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 370

(BEFORE)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deals 1494 damage and creates a strength 224 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. Costs 1 less for each Red Strike tile (min cost 5). 

At Level 2: Deals 3406 damage and creates a strength 291 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 3: Creates a strength 486 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 4: Deals 4602 damage.
At Level 5: Deals 6125 damage and creates a strength 963 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. 

(AFTER)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deal 2465 damage. If less than 3 exist, convert a basic red tile into a strength 261 Strike tile. This ability costs 1 less for each friendly Red Strike tile (min: 4).

At Level 2: Deal 3808 damage. Convert to strength 298 tiles.
At Level 3: Convert to strength 606 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 6537 damage.
At Level 5: Deal 10272 damage. Convert to strength 1119 tiles.

5 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 550

(BEFORE)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deals 15393 damage and creates a strength 2309 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. Costs 1 less for each Red Strike tile (min cost 5). 

At Level 2: Deals 27707 damage and creates a strength 2702 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 3: Creates a strength 3464 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist.
At Level 4: Deals 36943 damage.
At Level 5: Deals 43100 damage and creates a strength 4225 Red Strike tile whenever fewer than 3 exist. 

(AFTER)
Psylocke gains momentum, fluidly chaining attacks together. Deal 25398 damage. If less than 3 exist, convert a basic red tile into a strength 2694 Strike tile. This ability costs 1 less for each friendly Red Strike tile (min: 5).

At Level 2: Deal 27709 damage. Convert to strength 3079 tiles.
At Level 3: Convert to strength 3850 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 34643 damage.
At Level 5: Deal 49069 damage. Convert to strength 4232 tiles.

Ability: Bewilder

General Notes:

This ability is relatively slow in modern gameplay, and it comes with a Countdown tile in order to actually make its ability functional. This ability, as a result, rarely gets used and even more rarely goes off in a useful way. So we’ve changed it to a Passive which has the same mechanics. Increases strength of SAP tiles, then goes and tries to steal AP. This turns it into a kind of hybrid of Falcon’s Yellow and Hood’s Black Passives, doing both fairly well while using a color that often isn’t otherwise used for these types of abilities.

Color: Blue
AP Cost: 0

3 STAR: LEVEL 266

(BEFORE)
Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt their attack. Creates a 3-turn Blue Countdown tile that steals up to 4 AP from the enemy’s largest color pool and increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 64.

At Level 2: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 96.
At Level 3: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 107.
At Level 4: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 139.
At Level 5: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 203.

(AFTER)
(PASSIVE) Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt the attack. At the start of her turn, increase the strength of up to 2 friendly Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles (in that priority order) by 48. Then, if any enemy AP pool is greater than 8 AP, steal 2 AP from the largest enemy pool. 

At Level 2: Improve tiles by 56.
At Level 3: Improve tiles by 65. 
At Level 4: Improve tiles by 83.
At Level 5: Improve 3 tiles.

4 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 370

(BEFORE)
Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt their attack. Creates a 3-turn Blue Countdown tile that steals up to 4 AP from the enemy’s largest color pool and increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 112.

At Level 2: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 224.
At Level 3: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 258.
At Level 4: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 370.
At Level 5: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 594.

(AFTER)
(PASSIVE) Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt the attack. At the start of her turn, increase the strength of up to 2 friendly Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles (in that priority order) by 86. Then, if any enemy AP pool is greater than 8 AP, steal 2 AP from the largest enemy pool. 

At Level 2: Improve tiles by 116.
At Level 3: Improve tiles by 150. 
At Level 4: Improve tiles by 217.
At Level 5: Improve 3 tiles.

5 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 550

(BEFORE)
Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt their attack. Creates a 3-turn Blue Countdown tile that steals up to 4 AP from the enemy’s largest color pool and increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 1154.

At Level 2: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 1927.
At Level 3: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 1927.
At Level 4: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 2308.
At Level 5: Increases the strength of up to 3 random friendly Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles by 2654.

(AFTER)
(PASSIVE) Psylocke steadies and channels her telepathic power, reaching into the minds of the enemy to disrupt the attack. At the start of her turn, increase the strength of up to 2 friendly Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles (in that priority order) by 885. Then, if any enemy AP pool is greater than 8 AP, steal 2 AP from the largest enemy pool. 

At Level 2: Improve tiles by 962.
At Level 3: Improve tiles by 1039. 
At Level 4: Improve tiles by 1193.
At Level 5: Improve 3 tiles.

Ability: Psi-Katana

General Notes:

The ability does what it says on the tin, and is fairly effective for what it does. But numbers have gone up a bit since the dark ages when she was originally designed, so these new values keep with the times.

Color: Black
AP Cost: 6

3 STAR: LEVEL 266

(BEFORE)
Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deals 535 damage and leaves the enemy bleeding, converting a basic Black tile to an Attack tile that deals 128 damage to the current target each turn.

At Level 2: Deals 856 damage.
At Level 3: Increases Attack tile damage to 205.
At Level 4: Deals 1391 damage.
At Level 5: Increases Attack tile damage to 333.

(AFTER)
Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deal 755 damage. Convert a basic Black tile to a strength 126 Attack tile.

At Level 2: Deal 1006 damage.
At Level 3: Create strength 202 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 1489 damage.
At Level 5: Create strength 420 tiles.

4 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 370

(BEFORE)
Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deals 934 damage and leaves the enemy bleeding, converting a basic Black tile to an Attack tile that deals 224 damage to the current target each turn.

At Level 2: Deals 934 damage.At Level 3: Increases Attack tile damage to 486.
At Level 4: Deals 1868 damage.At Level 5: Increases Attack tile damage to 963.

(AFTER)Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deal 1345 damage. Convert a basic Black tile to a strength 224 Attack tile.

At Level 2: Deal 2335 damage.
At Level 3: Create strength 420 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 4296 damage.
At Level 5: Create strength 1213 tiles.

5 STAR (ASCENDED): LEVEL 550

(BEFORE)
Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deals 9621 damage and leaves the enemy bleeding, converting a basic Black tile to an Attack tile that deals 2309 damage to the current target each turn.

At Level 2: Deals 9621 damage.At Level 3: Increases Attack tile damage to 3464.
At Level 4: Deals 13085 damage.At Level 5: Increases Attack tile damage to 4225.

(AFTER)Psylocke carves the enemy up with her psionic katana. Deal 13854 damage. Convert a basic Black tile to a strength 2309 Attack tile.

At Level 2: Deal 16542 damage.
At Level 3: Create strength 2789 tiles.
At Level 4: Deal 21557 damage.
At Level 5: Create strength 4810 tiles.

Borstock

As usual, the devs really have their finger on the pulse of the people when it comes to delivering on things no one could possibly care about.

entrailbucket

She's really good when ascended now!

WhiteBomber

I personally would entertain the notion of, maybe "ok" when ascended now. She's definitely better, but most of it is in her blue passive, and the red ONLY if you start with strike tiles and a red battery of sorts. At 5 stars she is almost as good as the 4 star British version

This does really highlight the standard power increase gap between 4star and 5star. 3-4 her black goes up by 260% but 4-5 goes up by another 550%. This is why the 4star tier is useless unless they have crazy good abilities (and mostly passives).

All the sassy feedback aside, I definitely appreciate the rework, I like the passive and the damage on the red (kinda silly it nerfs back at 5ap for 5star though, that 1ap reduction was NOT going to make her upper tier).

entrailbucket

Red is a big number for (potentially!) quite cheap. Remember for 672 numbers you're looking at the 550 number x2.5 (or so?). She also gets a useful passive, and her black is, well, better than nothing, I guess.

Borstock

@entrailbucket said:
Red is a big number for (potentially!) quite cheap. Remember for 672 numbers you're looking at the 550 number x2.5 (or so?). She also gets a useful passive, and her black is, well, better than nothing, I guess.

Who on this planet, other than mega whales, is EVER going to get her to 550? Honestly?

entrailbucket

@Borstock said:

@entrailbucket said:
Red is a big number for (potentially!) quite cheap. Remember for 672 numbers you're looking at the 550 number x2.5 (or so?). She also gets a useful passive, and her black is, well, better than nothing, I guess.

Who on this planet, other than mega whales, is EVER going to get her to 550? Honestly?

I am!

Psylocke is still 4*, at lvl350, but my highest 3->5 is Deadpool at lvl539. Magik is lvl522. I don't think I've bonused either of them ever. It's totally doable.

KGB

This is a great rebalance since everything got better.

The Blue power makes her a decent tile buffer. Plus you have a chance to steal AP though that's rarely going to happen.

She will make a very nice partner for players in the 3 star stage or early 4 star stage when paired with anyone who makes SAP tiles (Daken, Cage, Fist, Blade, 4 star Grocket etc).

KGB

Seph1roth5

The new passive is very nice, but attack tiles as a whole are kind of meh. They require WAY more work to get going. Fist support is either throwing out tiny **** ones, or boosting them all. We don't have anyone like rocket or BRB to get the ball rolling, and no support (remember those?!) like low level AI or lucky.

ThaRoadWarrior

Did i miss the costume?

ProfShoehorn

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
Did i miss the costume?

Looks to be a “classic” Elizabeth (see the background of the top pic in the post).

bluewolf

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
Did i miss the costume?

Costumes always release at noon EDT/Slice 2 flip time (PVE) when all the offers are pushed in to the game.

Sometimes you can preview them on the character early, sometimes not.

In this case you can't...not yet, anyway. I think the release of the rebalance and the costume are actually both on Thursday Jan 30. Nothing has changed yet.

Tiger_Wong

I like it.

kuntilanak

Another (re)rebalance that will definitely benefit the PVE enemies rather than player. Bravo... bravo... (sarcastic slow clap)