mThor dillemma.

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  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 4,990 Chairperson of the Boards
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    @JoeHandle said:

    @entrailbucket said:

    @JoeHandle said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    @DAZ0273 I really don't want them to cater to me. I'm using me as an example.

    The problem is not that m'Thor beats my teams and I'm mad about it.

    The problem is that m'Thor beats literally any team of any level. I think that's not terribly great for a game that has 300 characters or whatever and keeps releasing new ones. They can't tell us those new guys matter when one character can dominate like she does.

    Deleteing mThor won't improve the dreck they've been releasing. Yes, 90% of everything is ****, and MPQ has been doing its part to demonstrate.

    Continuing to let older releases (that once had utility!) moulder ... characters sliding from "use when boosted" down to "well, at least they have champ rewards ..." ... isn't helping the game's diversity, either.

    I agree with this. But a big part of why these characters LOOK like dreck is that we're comparing them (rightly) to characters that are crazy strong. Is it faster/easier to knock down a few crazy strong guys, or buff 300 mediocre ones?

    Reminds me of ... story time!

    No ... they're dreck because they're dreck :D

    Taking away the smoothest rolling wheel won't make the square wheels roll any smoother.

    Stop cluttering up the game with quadrilateral "wheels" ... and put some air in the oldest, neglected tires.

    Yes, it does. None of these characters exist in a vacuum. You can't evaluate them objectively, you can only judge them against each other.

    When the 5* tier was relatively new, we all used OML/Phoenix for everything, and they were great. Over time, the tier passed them by. Were they objectively "dreck" back then, even though they were the best in the game? No. They only started looking bad when their power level decreased, relative to everybody else.

    If m'Thor didn't exist, or was weaker, everyone else looks better.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 9,693 Chairperson of the Boards
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    What is the "m'Thor" thing about anyway? I guess this is a line nickname thing or something? It is sort of really annoying to me for some reason, lol!

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,308 Chairperson of the Boards
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    @DAZ0273 said:
    What is the "m'Thor" thing about anyway? I guess this is a line nickname thing or something? It is sort of really annoying to me for some reason, lol!

    It's so that people know they are referring to the 5*MightyThor vs other Thors. There too many of them to just say "Thor". It is very helpful to know which specific character is being discussed.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 4,990 Chairperson of the Boards
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    @DAZ0273 said:
    What is the "m'Thor" thing about anyway? I guess this is a line nickname thing or something? It is sort of really annoying to me for some reason, lol!

    Google "m'lady meme."

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  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 9,693 Chairperson of the Boards
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    @LavaManLee said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    What is the "m'Thor" thing about anyway? I guess this is a line nickname thing or something? It is sort of really annoying to me for some reason, lol!

    It's so that people know they are referring to the 5*MightyThor vs other Thors. There too many of them to just say "Thor". It is very helpful to know which specific character is being discussed.

    Oh, I just call her Jane. I know there is a 4 version but nobody uses that one.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 9,693 Chairperson of the Boards
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    All I can say is my baby champed Gambit is absolutely wrecking any mmmbop Thor's I am meeting, it isn't even close, so if you want easy PvP this week getcha self a Gambit!

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,037 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 13 April 2024, 13:17
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    @DAZ0273 said:
    All I can say is my baby champed Gambit is absolutely wrecking any mmmbop Thor's I am meeting, it isn't even close, so if you want easy PvP this week getcha self a Gambit!

    Yeah, I'm seeing very few mthor teams this pvp and the ones I do are gambit fodder. With half thor fueling him red on top of his own passive she doesn't last long.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,037 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 13 April 2024, 13:39
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    Also half thor and a big ascended juggernaut can one shot her and a big dr strange will blast her if she gets enough ap to start firing powers. This boost week is very anti Jane.

    It's like the devs saw all the conversation about being sick of seeing her in pvp, and were like, have a week without her on us.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,361 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 13 April 2024, 14:07
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    The boost list is still largely chronological for 5s (and I think 4s, but I’m not tracking it closely).

    They have mixed it up a little but BP, Strange, Gambit and Thor were all released within a year of each other. It was also when 5s were rarer. Thor immediately followed Gambit. (The Hellfire boost list moved things around a bit.)

    Anyway they aren’t dynamically responding to player concerns imo.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,037 Chairperson of the Boards
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    @bluewolf said:
    The boost list is still largely chronological for 5s (and I think 4s, but I’m not tracking it closely).

    They have mixed it up a little but BP, Strange, Gambit and Thor were all released within a year of each other. It was also when 5s were rarer. Thor immediately followed Gambit. (The Hellfire boost list moved things around a bit.)

    Anyway they aren’t dynamically responding to player concerns imo.

    I was mostly joking on that last comment

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,361 Chairperson of the Boards
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    @BriMan2222 said:

    @bluewolf said:
    The boost list is still largely chronological for 5s (and I think 4s, but I’m not tracking it closely).

    They have mixed it up a little but BP, Strange, Gambit and Thor were all released within a year of each other. It was also when 5s were rarer. Thor immediately followed Gambit. (The Hellfire boost list moved things around a bit.)

    Anyway they aren’t dynamically responding to player concerns imo.

    I was mostly joking on that last comment

    Shoulda caught that! Kinda suspected that….but I couldn’t stop my inner pedant, I guess.

  • ursopro
    ursopro Posts: 334 Mover and Shaker
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    I think is about time, thanks.

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 726 Critical Contributor
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    NO. Enough with this topic.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,037 Chairperson of the Boards
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    This has to be trolling

  • BobDucca
    BobDucca Posts: 8 Just Dropped In
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    This is kinda his thing I think:

    Nerf Kang: https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/88709/nerf-kang/p1
    Nerf Okoye: https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/84073/nerf-okoye/p1

    Same comment both times too.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 4,990 Chairperson of the Boards
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    Wow, if this was all it took, I could've written about 20,000 less words on here...

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,037 Chairperson of the Boards
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    @BobDucca said:
    This is kinda his thing I think:

    Nerf Kang: https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/88709/nerf-kang/p1
    Nerf Okoye: https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/84073/nerf-okoye/p1

    Same comment both times too.

    Yeah, this is why I said this must be trolling. The same guy creates a nerf whoever is popular at the time thread and then disappears into the bushes like Homer Simpson while everyone else argues.

  • GrimSkald
    GrimSkald Posts: 2,512 Chairperson of the Boards
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    How about no?

    I have to say, I like the hashtag "ChasmDidNothingWrong," despite the fact that I thoroughly disagree with it. If Chasm wasn't nerfed I probably wouldn't still be playing, he sucked all the life out of this game and was boring as heck to fight.

    Maybe he's a Chasm fan.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,037 Chairperson of the Boards
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    I think that's just part of the trolling. Saying characters like kang should be Nerfed but chasm was just fine. Next topic will be Nerf wasp.

  • ursopro
    ursopro Posts: 334 Mover and Shaker
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    I'm still here frens, pretty sure trolling is against the site rules so I would never do that.

    Anyway, back on topic, I would gladly hear everyone thoughts on why she shouldn't be nerfed, I can give mine on why she should considering she's the most powerful character in the game and no one else comes even close, the only thing that kept her at bay after release was Chasm and after the nerf he has been found dead in a ditch in 2v2 so she has been free to run rampant since.

    • Passive and on demand board shake thanks to her blue passive.
    • Charged tiles allow her to exponentially accelerate her ap gain.
    • Three cheap powers.
    • Best anti special tiles character, there is no space for characters that depend on keeping special tiles on the board to do damage or increase their utility when she's around, especially when the devs treat the fortified status as a 95 in their power budget scale.
    • Scaling red single target nuke that gets even better the longest the match it goes on.
    • Her yellow is a pseudo aoe that turns into massive damage single target nuke with little to no downsides.
    • Above average match damage and hp for a character that does this much.
    • And this is a personal one but her turn takes longer on average than most other characters.

    With that said, lets keep this thread free of ad hominem attacks and focus on the important things, like nerfing mThor.