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Anonymous
8 years ago

Why was Boba Fett nerfed? He didn't need a nerf.

Boba fett was great because he was a hero killer. His best ability was the rocket barrage and now it really doesn't do much damage. His blaster is very weak so now it's much harder to get any kills with him. I never saw Fett as being OP everything in this game feels like it's too weak to begin with. Fett's rocket barrage was the only thing that made him great and now it's weaken ridiculously making him pretty useless.

It also really stinks when people invested alot of crafting parts into upgrading Fett and now players can't get the proper reward when using him.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    If you have double purple barrage cards on him it's still enough damage to 100% any hero in the game.

    Prior to this nerf double purple cards meant you could miss half your barrage and still 100% any hero. It was pretty OP.

    I think this is a game design issue, personally. You have a character who is mediocre if not weak unless you have certain cards, and when he does have those cards it enhances him to gratuitous levels of power.

    You don't see other heroes getting cards that effect the damage output of their abilities to such an extent. You might pick up 30 damage or something, but Boba's cards literally add hundreds of damage to each use of an ability.

    If it were me, I'd completely change both barrage cards to alter barrage in some way besides damage, say explosive radius and cool down rate and then increase the base damage of the ability.

    That said, Boba's blaster is far from weak and he still has one of the strongest melees in the game. He still can murder heroes with ease with the right investment into cards.

    This nerf wasn't enough to prevent me from scoring top score every HvsV match that I get Boba... all it did was make me a little more careful about aiming and reduces the chances of me mopping up entire teams of heroes in a single use.

    And the "On the hunt" nerf was honestly needed. Without any fuel related cards a Boba Fett could stay in the air for long enough where potential aggressors would die of old age. And what's worse is that since Boba has jet pack dodge, he doesn't even need it to evade light saber aggressors. 

    I think the amount of airborne time he's allowed even without "on the hunt" is pretty generous. If Boba is perceived as balanced after this last set of nerfs then he'll still be feeding me excessive amounts of credits and battle score  for the months to come.

  • @kwhiskey13 In my opinion Boba Fett's rocket barrage only had to be nerfed in the damage it deals towards heroes, because the rocket barrage was only too overpowered against heroes and not reinforcements or the infantry classes. After the nerf of Boba Fett's rocket barrage it was very hard to get more than two kills in galactic assault with one rocket barrage. The "Triple Rocket Barrage" challenge, where you have to kill three enemies with one rocket barrage, looks almost impossible to complete. I have played long enough to play with Boba Fett's rocket barrage the right way and make some kills with it. However, while this challenge can only be completed in GA or HvV, makes it really hard to kill more than two enemies. In most situations there are not even three players standing next to each other and when they are one of them will most of the time be a reinforcement or a hero. Moreover, the heroes and reinforcements standing next to each other are mostly influenced by battle commands and therefore  have a higher amount of health. With the nerfed rocket barrage it is impossible to kill this group of players within one rocket barrage ability use. My suggestion for the rocket barrage is to buff the overall damage again, but nerf or alter the star card "Anti-hero Rockets" which does increased damage towards heroes. I think the game is more balanced this way and it will be less hard to complete the "Triple Rocket Barrage" challenge. After months I still have not completed this challenge, because I cannot get myself in the right situation when playing Boba Fett to perform this triple kill with the rocket barrage. The possible scenarios in which this triple kill can be performed will increase when the overall damage of the rocket barrage also increases. 

    My second suggestion for this problem is to alter or delete the "Triple Rocket Barrage" challenge and make a new challenge out of it. For the reason that my biggest problem with Boba Fett's nerf is that I can almost not complete the "Triple Rocket Barrage" challenge I think it is the best idea to change the challenge instead of the buff and nerf suggestion that I gave previously.

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