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"Cahhmakt;c-1569696" wrote:
lol this post is hilarious. Has anyone actually used the Endurance?? Post update, it’s the best capital ship
If you don't look at its speed, Endurance owns bones. But once you start using it you realize that it wasn't meant for 2.0.
They deliberately made it slow in 1.0 so that you had time to get a few target locks up so you could use your AoE to maximum effect or use the taunt on whoever had the most health after the AI's initial burst of special abilities. Endurance then sped up as the battle progressed thanks to Valor making up for its slow speed. But that first turn took F O R E V E R to come up...
In 2.0 you're just as slow as you were before, but now instead of 5 ships with Valor you have 3. Worse yet, because there are just as many dispels as there were before, now instead of the AI dispelling 20% of your Valors with one move, they dispel 33%. To make it EVEN WORSE, if people were smart and using 5s instead of the newly-bad TIE Fighter they would have two easy dispels at hand, dropping you to just one Valor until a reinforcement arrives.
Similarly, Endurance's ultimate was excellent in 1.0 because it had a real long cooldown, but you had Valor dropping it to the point where it was practically a lot closer to the other ships' ults. But now it's still 16 turns, and you've only got one or two Valors to discount the cooldown along with your very, very slow speed.
The actual effect of the ult is arguably better than before (I say arguably because there's always someone who will argue anything, I think if you're being reasonable you'd say it's strictly better in all ways), especially once fully upgraded. Before you would have to time it properly so that your ult went off just before Imperial Assault, but likely one or two ships would take turns before Executrix did, so some of your fleet would still get destroyed. Now you have two turns of functional immunity, but more importantly you can't have that effect dispelled. But all that is a moot point since it takes so long for his ult to come off cooldown because, as I said, he's so slow and Valor isn't doing the work it used to.
Also his AoE is bad now. Its main use is to give you Valor, and if it hits more than one ship you're having a lucky day and should go buy lottery tickets. Worse yet, you rely so heavily on Valor and its cooldown is so wonky that picking which ability to use or whether to not use any ability and bring in a reinforcement instead is a tough decision where the correct answer means you get to keep playing and the wrong answer means you just lose. Compare that to Executrix's clear order of AoE, Reinforce, Offense Up, Reinforce, AoE, Ult, Win or Chimaera's. Home One has more tactical abilities that lead to more decisions, too, but the choice is usually more obvious and, even if not, you've still got that rocking AoE to fall back on.
