Balancing Patch - place your bets now
Sooo... We hear more about the next balance patch on Friday. Thought it would be fun to hear everybody's guesses and predictions and then we see who was closest (note: popcap employees not allowed to...
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There are some characters that need way more balancing than some others, but the two big abilities that I suppose should be looked at are:
- The Rocket Ride for 80s Action Hero
- The Arcane Enigma for Rose.
For the Rocket Ride, even the splash damage is extremely high. You can destroy all the small characters and Oak really quickly and its activation time is very low. Think of this ability as Pea Gatling or Husk Hop 2.0. Even if the direct damage stayed the same but the splash got reduced, it should make a large difference.
For the Arcane Enigma, it can be activated extremely quickly with low delay. If enigma lasts longer than it does now, it wouldn't make the ability more broken particularly BUT they should increase the cooldown of it and have a longer delay before the ability resolves.
@TheSprinter85Arcane getting a nerf is a good start for reducing roses presence, however in my opinion that's not enough. Even if you added a windup to it, most would still use it to be very selfish and barely ever used for your team. However you can do a broken strategy with arcane mainly in turf takeover which is
1. Use arcane to boost your teammates.
2. Respawn.
3. Go back to your team and make it so they can constantly play aggressively.
I'd say arcane should be hit with these nerfs.
1. it's cooldown should persist between lives.
2. it now has a windup of 1 second when activating it.
3. you don't get the speed boost unless your near teammates
and 4. (this may be too harsh on it, but honestly I would like to question why this exists in the first place(also this and the windup nerf counts with outta fight). It can no longer contest objectives.
Just toss entire game in the trash can I reckon. I mean aim assist patch did near to nothing, team balance patch did sweet f a, pretty clear EA don't give a * about popcap or this game.
Xmas boosted amount of players in Australia ps4 for awhile but due to lack of fixes and updates those numbers are dwindling fast, never been able to play arena, even weekly event is dead after day or two.
So, yea just nerf the game into the trash can and start again and make GW3, shame a better company didn't buy popcap.
Trello is updated: Tuning character hitboxes is the only thing listed. But detailed informations regarding character balancing were never put on Trello anyway.
@The4DAdvocate I've got to agree with Enigma and what you just said. If they also increased the cooldown to 30 or 35 seconds, similar to GW2, then it would make it even less overpowered, as timing is more crucial for when it should be activated. 👍
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