FYI, get ready for a tidal wave of changes in the next few days:
http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=14850
I was reading this last night after the event but I was too tired to talk about it. Also the fact that I stopped reading the forums & I figured most of us already knew about it. So now that its open, naturally the most important things are character changes.
Classic Mags: I'll have to wait. He totally screws up one of my main guys on my attack team. The loss of purple is tragic, not just because of the raw power, but a useable purple skill...a GOOD USEABLE PURPLE SKILL!!!!! So now the purple is blue & did they make it more powerful or Im reading that wrong? His blue now yellow is basically Falcons Purple move and His red is a rip off of storms former red turned yellow move? He basically lost his identity, he's no longer Magneto, but a collection of other characters. Im surprised they just didnt turn him into a Gold 3* version of the 2* with what they did. I think that would be preferable.
Daken: Dont really use him, he was nerfed before, doesnt look like much changed to me. 2* got the 3rd power, still just meh, moving on.
seX-force: The red to black is interesting. I'll have to see how that color mix does. Also his yellow healing has been radically changed. A 3 countdown tile (that 7 was such a bitch!) and if destroyed does damage? Wow! Now thats something I could use! Im glad they took a book from Falcon where if a countdown tile gets destroyed the power activates earlier. Green, thank you for that much needed overhaul. One of the reasons I dont use X-force is his direct damage and healing are just horrible. Green made an X shaped pattern on the board, hurray! Did it do anything else, well it made strike tiles but so what. It was just honestly stupid, compared to what 2* wolvie used to do 4* was a joke. Now direct damage & destoys tiles in an X shape. The ONLY thing I wish they wouldve done to make X force really more of a 4* is that all destroyed blocks generate AP. I know that would change the game & make him overpowered, but it would be nice.
Modern Hawkeye: This guy could get more use. Due to the tile placement now, which honestly makes more sense for Hawkeye. Avoid is gone and good riddance, but Im gonna have to see the new purple to understand. A passive purple that deal delayed damage? The only thing that I think will suck is if the 5 match HAS to be hawkeye icons, like espionage only activates with OBW tiles. If thats the case that skill will be just as pointless as avoid. Blue has changed from doing damage to just stun and AP draining. I may have to change my Modhawk and put more in purple as I enjoyed the stun and amount of damage done with that move. Yes I understand it was a crappy version of storms move with a countdown tile. However when storm wasnt available it was a great backup. Red got a reduced AP & less damage. I guess I'll take that trade for red & blue to be placed anywhere now. Im actually excited about ModHawk. I always like that character, he wa great if you knew how to use him. His avoid skill worked if you knew how to play it & his countdowns, if you protected them would cleanup if for some reason all your other guys got toasted. Although that purple passive, if that was a direct damage skill, I think he'd be a total win.
With gameplay, I totally look forward to team ups totally screwing me over more. I still dont like them, yes some have save my butt, but in general just a bad idea. Maybe if I didnt spend so much time trying to get TU tiles it would be ok, or if I could seel them for even something tiny as 50 iso, Id be ok with them. They just like boosts but in a bad way that are tedious to use or get rid of. Oh and this is just me asking a question but "- Train button in roster management glows when you have enough Iso-8 to level the selected character." Didnt this already work? if you had the iso there was an arrow by the charactes head and when you clicked on them the button was highlighted letting you know you could level up a character? Mine worked that way, I know it did. Guess I mustve got an early patch upgrade cause its been like that.
Oh well fun things coming up, played with beast in the simulator, character animations are once again horrible (still not Captain Marvel horrible!).... Cant they just rip off comic panels, because whoever the artist is, just no..... Maybe I should say new atrist because the original characters look pretty damn good compared to the new ones.
