LoreNYC wrote: Why do people keep making comparisons with Blade fighting goons? There are so many better pve characters against goons. Maybe - I wouldn't even touch him against goons unless forced to in a heroic. Blade looks like a fun, fast but lightweight character for early pvp / sim and maybe goofing around in pve - key word being fun.. Because of the rate at which attack and strike tiles multiply AND the fact that you shouldn't ignore matching red just because you have a non-falcon boosted strike tile, I think 3/5/5 looks much better, but in the end, that's not much more than arguing which build is Beast's best? I wouldn't buy blade's covers as a mostly F2P player but I'll definitely enjoy him for short stints
kozmikpr wrote: True, but he is a Vampire. Hello, all of their strengths and NONE of their weaknesses. Even though he has those great passive abilities his health does not match his character. You seriously can't sit there and tell me that he doesn't deserve a boost in health and be on par with the likes of Captain America and Black Panther. If you really look at it closely it just doesn't make sense. He's practically on the same level as 3* Mystique, only a little higher. I honestly feel like they should tweak it and increase his health. My suggestion would be to implement something along the lines of Daken's healing factor. In conjunction to the red tiles on board, if there are fewer red tiles he loses a percentage of his health. I mean, it would make sense. He's not affected by sunlight so you can't really do anything with that. What is it that gets to Blade and makes him weak and prone to damage? His loyalty and code to not feed on humans. So, again I think it would be good to implement that into the red tile ability. He thirsts when there are X tiles. Well, what happens when those tiles aren't there? Obviously, there's nothing for him to feed on sooooooo there's the damage being done to him to factor in a continued balanced and not-so overpowered character.
Ryz-aus wrote: in case anyone has been holding Tokens waiting for blade to be available, he and mystique are both possible pulls for standard and heroic Tokens now - a much shorter wait than we've had recently.
Phantron wrote: Blade turned out to be significantly better than I thought from facing him, but he has a lot of color/function overlap with X Force and The Hood so I don't really see him being used much unless you have neither.
Spoit wrote: Phantron wrote: Blade turned out to be significantly better than I thought from facing him, but he has a lot of color/function overlap with X Force and The Hood so I don't really see him being used much unless you have neither. He does have an active purple, so he can be nice for PvE nodes where you have DAs with their strong tiles on purple. A lot cheaper than Fury or DP
tobi69 wrote: I love his black, but i vote for 3/5/5. Purple deals sick damage, esp buffed with falcon inspiration. Will use him a lot in TaT Image below from TaT Family Reunion IV lvl 156. Pretty easy node thx to blade.