daibar wrote: 5 purple tiles in 8 - there are 56 possible combinations (8C3) = 8*7*6/(3*2*1) Of these, only 4 of them will give you a crit outright: However, this doesn't count external tiles or having purple already around the countdown tile, if you look at the game play, the Arcane Incantation was surrounded by 2 purple already. The odds of making a crit are then 100%! With 1 surrounding tile, you're getting 6 purple tiles in 8, 28 combinations. You only don't get a crit on these combinations: X4 X2 Crit chances: With 2 or more purple: 100% With 1 purple: > 22/28 ~= 78.5% With 0 purple: > 4/56 ~= 7.14% While I do think this is mildly overpowered for a passive, I think the video really highlights Xavier's blue power.
Phaserhawk wrote: So when did Beast's old blue ability become overpowered.
daibar wrote: I saw the mistake, corrected and shortened it. We definitely need a simulator that is able to detect when you have a crit possibility with Prof X gaining notoriety and more characters getting transformative skills. Scarlet Witch as is goes well with Mystique/ProfX, even with no yellow active and nothing on red.
Phaserhawk wrote: You can check out my post on PXviewtopic.php?f=7&t=28289 But seriously any team that can create match 5's becomes broke with Xavier. Instead of Match 5 of purple, on a 14AP skill, it's match 9 and 4K dmg. Honestly I think having pX create CD tiles that generate AP in the strongest color is a much better route. Anytime a Passive is uncounterable you have a problem. Good Passive's Blade Captain Marvel Deadpool etc.--these are passive's where you can just play around Bad Passive's ================ Prof X--blue Iron Fist Luke Cage Hood etc. these are passives that cannot be played around or to do so requires so much time and effort it warps the game. The solution to these are to either have low hit points for the character or very expensive skills. Prof X is running into Hood territory with his blue passive in that it is unstoppable and game warping, add to the fact he has 9K hit points and he is a problem. Scarlet Witch, a passive on a 3CD tile that gets her some purple I'm kinda okay with, but yeah Prof X needs to have the AP boost on his blue tweaked, the dmg is okay IMO the AP insanity not so much.
Lerysh wrote: Phaserhawk wrote: So when did Beast's old blue ability become overpowered. When it doesn't cost 9 in the same color it produces. Anything that produces something for nothing is set up to be OP.
Phantron wrote: Lerysh wrote: Phaserhawk wrote: So when did Beast's old blue ability become overpowered. When it doesn't cost 9 in the same color it produces. Anything that produces something for nothing is set up to be OP. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if this is why we have such massively overpowered passives. It really does look like they look at Beast's old blue and say 'well everyone said that sucked, so surely if it cost nothing to use it'd still suck'. In their budget for abilities, it looks like having to spend AP to do stuff doesn't actually get you very much additional power.
daibar wrote: Rework idea: Change the active area to 12 surrounding tiles. You could even increase the skill at max level to 6 purple tiles. Still powerful, still a good chance of being a crit maker. Not guaranteed unless you have more than 4 purple already within the 12. Even in a bottom corner, you'd have a 100% chance of getting a crit if 3 tiles above was a purple, a more reasonable limitation.
notamutant wrote: daibar wrote: Scarlet Witch as is goes well with Mystique/ProfX, even with no yellow active and nothing on red. Prof X has an active yellow.
daibar wrote: Scarlet Witch as is goes well with Mystique/ProfX, even with no yellow active and nothing on red.
notamutant wrote: This just in from your friendly neighborhood youtuber. My newest videos are out for Scarlet Witch. The first video I discuss her skills and provide some basic analysis. My second video shows her in action. After playing three matches with her, I unfortunately have to say that I am almost certain she will be nerfed. I think D3 needs to remove Prof X from the game because he is destroying every other character team up. Compare her to my original Iron Fist, Prox X, and Mystique video I also released to show how overpowered that team was before the nerf, and she makes that team look like pudding. I got 14 purple AP by round 5, and I would've had more if my Prof X wasn't max level.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO47DvUW7QY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m14VbxOFQCA
Mawtful wrote: I was just running my 1/1/1 SW through some prologue goon nodes to check out animations, etc. I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but her blue countdown can target adjacent purple tiles - resulting in no change. I suppose that only re-inforces the need to go to rank 5, but even then it is actually possible for 0 ap to be generated by this ability.
Mawtful wrote: I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but her blue countdown can target adjacent purple tiles - resulting in no change.