Does Asajj Ventress Need to be Fixed (Renamed)
This question is regarding the current bad AI for Asajj Ventress.
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The AI is appalling. She's horrible for Arena defense, even though I love her on offense.
Since someone brought up her speed, which is unrelated to the original question of this thread, I'll address that too:
I've said elsewhere that Ventress' speed is not broken, but she needs to get that speed at earlier levels. She currently maxes out at speed 112 around level 70 or so (if she is the leader). That max is fine, but she should reach it around level 40-50.
Her speed at level 70, however, comes entirely from increases in her leadership skill. From level 1/ gear 1 to level 70/gear 8 she adds literally nothing to her base speed.
I've said for other reasons that there is an important distinction between speed 91 and speed 90. If she hit speed 91 on her own, without being the leader, at the very latest by level 60, but really it would be better around 45-50, then she wouldn't need any speed increases at all after that. She'd still be the slowest on most all teams, but those 5 extra points of speed add up to 100 cumulative points of speed over her first 2 actions.
Around there she starts getting chances at turn meter bumps, etc. The base speed increase - by a bit, not too much - is just to make sure she doesn't fall too far behind before she starts getting these.
What really upset me is that they SAID they were giving a damage boost to slower characters, but they gave Ventress, the slowest named hero in the game and the slowest toon of any kind once you're past level 60, a damage nerf on her basic. Don't give her that nerf and then leave her speed alone. Give us the 91 base speed somewhere in the level 45-60 range or give us back the damage you took away from her basic attack.
The AI is appalling. She's horrible for Arena defense, even though I love her on offense.
Since someone brought up her speed, which is unrelated to the original question of this thread, I'll address that too:
I've said elsewhere that Ventress' speed is not broken, but she needs to get that speed at earlier levels. She currently maxes out at speed 112 around level 70 or so (if she is the leader). That max is fine, but she should reach it around level 40-50.
Her speed at level 70, however, comes entirely from increases in her leadership skill. From level 1/ gear 1 to level 70/gear 8 she adds literally nothing to her base speed.
I've said for other reasons that there is an important distinction between speed 91 and speed 90. If she hit speed 91 on her own, without being the leader, at the very latest by level 60, but really it would be better around 45-50, then she wouldn't need any speed increases at all after that. She'd still be the slowest on most all teams, but those 5 extra points of speed add up to 100 cumulative points of speed over her first 2 actions.
Around there she starts getting chances at turn meter bumps, etc. The base speed increase - by a bit, not too much - is just to make sure she doesn't fall too far behind before she starts getting these.
What really upset me is that they SAID they were giving a damage boost to slower characters, but they gave Ventress, the slowest named hero in the game and the slowest toon of any kind once you're past level 60, a damage nerf on her basic. Don't give her that nerf and then leave her speed alone. Give us the 91 base speed somewhere in the level 45-60 range or give us back the damage you took away from her basic attack.
