Vhailorx said: Zodiac: i am assuming that the yellow power creates tiles and the, checks against the toles thresholds, kind of like hobofist blue. If that is the case then 2 casts will proc damage. If not then sandman is even worse.
Rick OShay said: As mentioned he will be played for his purple/green, letting others on your team make better use of yellow.Sandman will play well with C4ge and Mr. Fantastic. Full rainbow actives, purple for yellow AP acceleration (and I have great hopes on how this will work at 5 covers). Have Imaginaut out before Sandman's purple swap for tons of extra damage on automatic yellow matches. Mr F's blue swap helps you target colors you need to build AP on, he stuns the target enemy, and fortifies new protect tiles.Cage should be able to cast yellow often enough, for especially good damage if he has he placed any protect tiles passively to fortify. Save Sandman's green for when the AoE will KO a weakened side enemy while stunning the target. As a side point, the AI would probably play this team well for you on defense since Cage's yellow will often be played before SM's, and if not you'll have tons of annoying protects for Cage to fortify and Mr. F to gain team health from.
himatako said: Seems like the description of Sand Smash has been fixed to make it clearer. The conditional damage part is checked after the protect tiles are created. This mean you only need to fire his yellow twice to deal damage. Or if your bring 3* Cage with you then Sandman's yellow will always deal damage at 5 covers.
Vhailorx said:If possible, could they also fix the problem where his yellow costs 10ap and does less than 6k damage even if you can get the damage to proc with every cast?
zodiac339 said: Hey, how about how Falcon (looking at my level 217) doing 2037 AOE, 6100 total, and leaving 8 protects strength 123, 980 total protect. For 9 AP.Geez, at level 270, Sandman's barely meeting the protect amount of a 3* 60 levels below. For 1 more AP. And no damage.Is it just me, or does even Supernova seem better than this?
Jaedenkaal said: zodiac339 said: Hey, how about how Falcon (looking at my level 217) doing 2037 AOE, 6100 total, and leaving 8 protects strength 123, 980 total protect. For 9 AP.Geez, at level 270, Sandman's barely meeting the protect amount of a 3* 60 levels below. For 1 more AP. And no damage.Is it just me, or does even Supernova seem better than this? Yeah, at 270 Sam's protects are strength 135; 1080 total, and he does 2264 team damage, all for 9 AP. To be fair, the new Bird Strike is a really good power, by 3* standards. It already totally blows Coercive Field, Defense Grid, and The Bigger They Are right out of the water.The 10 AP here for either 6 x 168 Protects or 5542 damage and the removal of all protects does seem pretty lame. I don't know if it's very comparable to Supernova since they don't do any of the same things.Sand Smash would probably be better if it simply destroyed the Protect tiles (dealing damage and generating AP) rather than removing them. I don't think that would be terribly abuse-able since the powers that create the largest number of Protect tiles in a single color cost Yellow AP, but at least you'd get something (on top of the sub-par damage) for the protect tiles you're losing, and there would actually be a benefit to firing the power with more than exactly 1 existing Protect tile out. Currently, if you have 5 protect tiles out already for whatever reason, you lose those 5 in addition to the 6 generated by Sand Smash, even though you gain nothing for this.
JHawkInc said: Sandman's icon is a little weird. The one for his AP, a sandy morningstar over a green striped background, totally feels like Sandman.The same morningstar on tiles looks like a plain sunburst. I'm running him with Blade and Iron Fist right now, and Blade's sunglasses and Iron Fist's dragon tattoo are both way more evocative of the character than Sandman's tile. Something just gets lost in translation going from his AP icon to his tile icon.
Jarvind said: JHawkInc said: Sandman's icon is a little weird. The one for his AP, a sandy morningstar over a green striped background, totally feels like Sandman.The same morningstar on tiles looks like a plain sunburst. I'm running him with Blade and Iron Fist right now, and Blade's sunglasses and Iron Fist's dragon tattoo are both way more evocative of the character than Sandman's tile. Something just gets lost in translation going from his AP icon to his tile icon. I had the same thought, but I also couldn't think of an instantly recognizable representation of "sand" that would fit on the tile. Maybe a tiny version of his stripey shirt? Or an hourglass, as per his release hint?
Sand Smash would probably be better if it simply destroyed the Protect tiles (dealing damage and generating AP) rather than removing them. I don't think that would be terribly abuse-able since the powers that create the largest number of Protect tiles in a single color cost Yellow AP, but at least you'd get something (on top of the sub-par damage) for the protect tiles you're losing, and there would actually be a benefit to firing the power with more than exactly 1 existing Protect tile out. Currently, if you have 5 protect tiles out already for whatever reason, you lose those 5 in addition to the 6 generated by Sand Smash, even though you gain nothing for this.
Vhailorx said: And yellow is both the top 100 pve cover and the 900 pvp prog cover. Thanks demi!