***** Havok (Classic) *****

I want to know what the "head-rings" are made of.

They look like about the dumbest headwear I can think of for a serious fight.

The enemy grabs them, pulls hard, and snap your neck, or hit you and that metal is driving into your head and knocking you out, probably.

Weren't the 70s great?

(Havok gets a little pass since he's blasting you, hopefully, before you get close enough to hit him.)

I think Havok seems like a fine character, they really do need to let us know if Bishop is on the nerfing block in case anyone is planning to whale Havok to use with Bishop.

If you want to use his blue as much as possible his build should be 5,3,5. Blue will feed red and red will place blue charge tiles on the board. Also green won’t double dip on the target. The enemy has to have special tiles out and he does AOE for each tile destroyed and then additional AOE. It is good for 12K damage and tile removal but is conditional needing the enemy to have special tiles.

i also think you can bring comparable green powers to the fight like Cable, Thor, BRB while Havok’s red does more damage than Thor’s red by a good amount.

No idea. I always wondered if they were supposed to collect energy for him or something but that doesn't seem to have any actual basis.

Bishop/BRB is apparently unbeatable in PVP. I haven't bothered fighting them but one person stated that they floated at 900 for the last half hour of a PVP with them out

BRB does plenty well generating blue on his own without Bishop.

Supposedly they design characters on their own vs trying to make them fit together.....synergy has never been a focus from what I can tell.

Havok's blue is pretty cheap anyway. Sinister has passive trap making abilities.

Nerfing Bishop hardly ruins any of these guys, it just makes them go from "stupidly annoying to unbeatable" to mere-mortal status, which is where it seems they prefer most of the characters to live.

Jim Lee Headgear/Jacket havok is my favorite look.

I'm going to guess that the headgear served some sort of power-focusing/control function originally in fiction, similar to how Cyclops's goggles allowed him to mechanically control his powers. It could also just have been something in the zeitgeist at the time as a design element, because it's not dissimilar from the Cerebro helmet of old.

I seem to recall the concentric rings on his chest served some sort of amplification function as well. Were his powers sound-based, or am I mis-remembering?

His powers are actually the absorption of cosmic radiation and conversion into blastiness.

I believe the rings on his chest actually monitored his levels of radiation absorbed - from the old handbook Havok needed to discharge radiation absorbed on a regular basis to avoid a massive energy explosion he wouldn't be able to control. However I think as time went by he gained better control of his powers so it was probably more cosmetic.

Edit: Beaten to it! That Bluewolf guy is FAST!

This response is overly harsh fight4. Bluewolf is obviously a net positive contributor to the boards and has a lot of knowledge of the game, even if you dislike this particular post

That said, BRB/bishop is easy fodder for other stunner bro teams (arguably easier than other meta teams because BRB's tiles make it easier to avoid proc'ing bishop). And Demi certainly does care about synergies; they even hype them in those marvel.com "interviews." But they don't always seem understand synergies, in the same way they don't seem to understand many aspects of the elder game very well at all. A quick glance through the suggested team combos from those marvel.com puff pieces shows a less than perfect understanding of what actually plays well together in mpq.

Match-damage BRB down from ~70k to 30K? Is that fundamentally different than suggesting one do the same thing with anybody else that has a big enough nuke?