Puritas wrote: actually it's "insightful" unless you're trying to incite civil unrest in which case keep right on
mischiefmaker wrote: I run mine 3/5/5 and in my roster she tanks both blue and purple all the time. I don't have a problem with exposing her to damage; I'm careful to only have her take match-3 damage, and her teammates are strong enough that usually one (or sometimes no) AR is all it takes before the opposing OBW is dead. After that, you don't care if you're stealing purple or not, because there isn't anyone else with a purple worth using -- CMags, sure, but nobody runs OBW and CMags together, and BWGS, but the AI is terrible at using her purple and of course you can't run OBW and BWGS on the same team. I also strongly prefer facing 5-purple OBW as I find her much easier to kill than 3-purple OBW. I think that if you're losing to 5/x/x OBW, the problem isn't your OBW build -- the problem is that you need stronger/faster (harder/better) teammates. All that being said, if you're set on switching to 5-purple, I think 5/3/5 and 5/4/4 are basically the same, and both are superior to 5/5/3.
dlaw008 wrote: I'm a 5/4/4 guy but my OBW only gets used in very specific situations. Basically, in hero only tournaments or when she's buffed for PvE. The rest of my team will almost always tank everything but purple for her, and I try to heal in PvE as rarely as possible due to scaling. I prefer the big steal, and as long as she gets double strike tile damage on purple, I'm not really worried about the extra 60 or so damage. 60 damage is not much when you're already adding on Patch or Punisher strike tiles. I do not factor defense into my OBW at all. It really is a non factor.
Phaserhawk wrote: dlaw008 wrote: I'm a 5/4/4 guy but my OBW only gets used in very specific situations. Basically, in hero only tournaments or when she's buffed for PvE. The rest of my team will almost always tank everything but purple for her, and I try to heal in PvE as rarely as possible due to scaling. I prefer the big steal, and as long as she gets double strike tile damage on purple, I'm not really worried about the extra 60 or so damage. 60 damage is not much when you're already adding on Patch or Punisher strike tiles. I do not factor defense into my OBW at all. It really is a non factor. I'm curious if you choose to run her in PvP what would you use or would you keep the 5/4/4?
Bugbear81 wrote: At what level does OBW become viable? i.e. when is she approximately equal in value to, say, a level 50 IM35 or MStorm? I've got got enough covers for a level 48 (? I think. Somewhere around there) cap and trying to decide whether to level her up or not. (As a side note, missed one of the damn black covers in the lazyCap PVE event by like 30 seconds. Thought the event ended at 1pm EST rather than noon, and I just missed finishing my last match in time to put me top 100. Grrrrr.)
Phaserhawk wrote: I am also hoping to see what the majority of the community supports. So far the 3/5/5's are winning, which I can see why, she's very quick with stealing and can shut teams down early.
Doragon wrote: It takes a 3* team before 5/4/4 starts to become better than 3/5/5...
Jathro wrote: Doragon wrote: It takes a 3* team before 5/4/4 starts to become better than 3/5/5... Curious, what's your reasoning behind this statement? Is it because she tanks less colors for Espionage to kick in?