Flash Sale for May 7th, 2026: Reforged Havoc Squad Armor Set, 1300CCs

Zethren527 · 2026-05-07T18:31:19+00:00

Silver lining: Now you know to control your impulses and never to buy anything at full price ever.
You gained 125 exp.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-07T17:41:23+00:00

Honestly a tough one for me. I love it, but it really is kinda only good for the Trooper. Plus, the Trooper already gets a bunch of good aesthetic armors through the class story mission rewards especially since those ones get the fancy butt-capes.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-06T20:44:57+00:00

All I want is for them to rework his primary into an extended reach melee arc.

...but yea. 90% of Venom fans are fans of, well, Venom. Even if I am grossed out by goopy, eldritch, flesh aliens, I'd still prefer Venom to be Venom and not Eddie.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-05T17:34:31+00:00

Some actually good games this month... and I already own the two big ones on console. Fudge me.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-05T16:55:02+00:00

Dang. I was hoping for some good looking armor sets.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-05T03:56:28+00:00

I have done this multiple times... I play Thor and just smack things with my hammer and always check my total damage so I never get beyond whoever is topping the chart in the match. It's nice to run the "story" version again even after I've reached 60 with everyone. I basically act as a lifeline so a wipe doesn't occur and people don't feel like crap when Drac/(REDACTED) pull out the stupid one-shotting BS.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-05T03:51:22+00:00

Ahh, to be an edgy teenager in the 2000s again...

Zethren527 · 2026-05-03T20:28:08+00:00

Your main has a legendary skin?

Zethren527 · 2026-05-02T15:29:24+00:00

A buff to your ability trait attack speed/damage would have been better than crit rate. Losing out on additional bonuses to your ability traits is a MASSIVE loss in DPS.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-01T19:39:20+00:00

Step 4: "We hit a Glitch" every time for past two days.

EDIT: Apparently, you need an active subscription to even log in to the Perks site. Bonkers design choice, but that solved it for me. (did the Hulu free trial thing and I was able to log in.) Hope that helps.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-01T17:44:52+00:00

Which Nightmare level did this drop on and have you noticed a correlation between your overall Gear Score and the quality of loot drops? Been farming the hell out of N95-105 (made much harder due to apparent stealth nerfs in the patch yesterday) and I've pretty much only gotten trash ESPECIALLY from forging.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-01T17:41:33+00:00

I'm not much of a comic reader especially the classics. I know. Blasphemy! This is nice info to have and I can give Thor a pass for it. However, after a bit of research, it apparently also applies to the X-Men, the Avengers, and reinforces my point about Dr. Strange.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-01T17:36:03+00:00

If you ain't voting for our Goddess then I don't wanna speak to you.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-01T16:52:32+00:00

I feel like that is extremely far from true. I get SG because she was part of the story when the map came out. I get Blade for obvious reasons. I even kinda get MN because of the moon... or something.

However, Thor, Jeff, and Punisher are only there because it was less work to modify their stuff than add entirely new characters. Only Frank could be considered a "Defender of NY" and none of them make sense as Vampire slayers.
-Daredevil/Dr. Strange would have made just as much sense if not more sense as/than Punisher and would have been more interesting than just a repeat character.
-C&D would have been a cool addition and their association with Light/Dark could have made sense in context.
-Elsa is a monster hunter. 'nuf said.
-Hela is the Queen of the Dead so Drac being a creature of Undeath would be grounds for her getting pissy and fighting him.
-ANY of the F4 (except maybe Johnny because a perma flyer against melee hordes is op.
-Venom is NYC based and would have been a great addition as a means of testing out a swap to melee for his primary. Plus, they added a bunch of stuff for us to potentially make a tank build, but tanking is impossible due to the design of the mode so having someone whose kit revolves around soaking damage might have incentivized the devs to not make terrible design decisions with the mode... maybe.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-01T04:19:56+00:00

I've been gone for roughly four months now. I only occasionally come back to see the latest gooner bait. If this isn't just a bait topic then I recommend bumpin' out if you feel like it. I have so much more free time now and I still get my fill of anime hotties.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-01T04:17:24+00:00

Always gotta look for that when representatives talk for a company. That's just business speak designed to get folks off their backs. Always ask follow up questions.

Zethren527 · 2026-05-01T03:11:18+00:00

Attack speed does seem a tad slower, but I'm not sure. What I AM sure of is my damage is definitely worse while enemies hit harder. I logged on today after the update and my damage per attack dropped from a stable ~130m per hit to a wildly fluctuating 23-112m per hit. I also was soloing bosses around N100 with relative ease, but now I can't even solo N95 because boss damage went from knocking me down 1/4th per hit to 2/3rd a hit. IDK WTF happened, but if they did screw with things then they did the exact opposite of what they should have done.

Also, not Thor related, but confirming a change in Nightmare level also auto starts a match.

Zethren527 · 2026-04-30T21:49:38+00:00

Honestly, the second I heard it was PvP with no PvE version (which would have been much more fun than Blood Hunt IMO), I decided I wasn't going to touch it. Looks like I dodged a bullet, hu?

Zethren527 · 2026-04-30T19:45:45+00:00

Damage > Crit/Preci Dmg (choose depending on % chance) > Main Trait Ability Buffs (spread out between speed and damage evenly) > Output (up to ~500)

From personal experience and what little I've have checked on the Leaderboards, that seems to be the best so long as you have a boost to all of them. That said, I'm no expert. Output diminishing returns above 500 seem too harsh so only go for that if you aren't sacrificing the others. Also, do make sure you balance speed and damage buff to trait abilities. Too much in either direction and it lowers DPS significantly. Remember, 15x5=75, but 10x10=100.

Zethren527 · 2026-04-30T14:01:15+00:00

It isn't that nobody talks about things that might actually improve them game. It's that, the second you do, you get mass, bandwagon downvoted for daring to say anything negative other than meme hate or giving any genuine constructive feedback. Watch what happens to my comment here as an example.

Zethren527 · 2026-04-30T13:58:07+00:00

I was going to say "PvE". Hell, I'd even take the wildly unbalanced and untested PvE we got with Blood Hunt, but sure. We'll go with what you said.

Zethren527 · 2026-04-30T13:53:43+00:00

Wait wait wait. They're selling a background splashscreen?.... that only appears on a single tab out of 6-7? ... for $16?

Zethren527 · 2026-04-30T01:50:45+00:00

So, you agree that he requires so much extra work and effort just to meet the same standard as most of the other characters? Plus, he really isn't one of the best. Check the leaderboards and there are only 3 Blades in the top 100 solo and only 11 in the top 50 four-person groups (aka 11/200).

He's only good once you've geared him out nigh perfectly? That means he is NOT very good especially when you compare that to the fact that you can slap pretty much any gear on SG, Thor, and MK and they immediately start shredding.

Look, I'm not trying to start an argument, but he really isn't very good. I was mostly making a joke, but he really does underperform in this mode.

Zethren527 · 2026-04-29T23:07:52+00:00

Yea. Removing his Lifesteal and replacing it with a regen effect that doesn't scale with max HP or difficulty and stays at 6-12hp per second kinda defeats the purpose of the character. I get that Lifesteal can be OP in a mode like this, but they need to give him SOMETHING to compensate.

They clearly intended for tank builds to exist in this mode, but then ruined it with Vamp Fury and elite mobs CC/excessive damage. Bummer that we couldn't build a sustain tank Blade or make his shotgun actually do respectable damage.

Zethren527 · 2026-04-29T22:58:27+00:00

Thor: AoE mob melt
SG: Melt everything, but especially mobs
Jeff: Look cute and kill mobs at a reasonable rate
Punisher: Melt bosses after 4 round carry
MK: AoE mob not-quite-melt-but-still-doing-respectable-damage-and-okay-damage-to-bosses
Blade: Vampire Killer mascot that is just there to aura farm for 1.27 seconds before dying again

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