Marvel’s Avengers War Table Weekly Blog Week #80
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Our Designer Alex Kende (also known as W Alex to our loyal stream goers) is here to give some more details on the upcoming changes, goals, and vision for Hero Gear!
Melee and certain Heroics are in a state where they are not enticing enough to engage most players in many combat systems. This is a combination of the threat of heavy damage from enemies in melee range, lack of Perks that increase heavy damage, the lack of easy status effect application for melee, and the ease of ranged combat to do all those things.
The first steps to making this a more engaging area of combat will be to do a blanket update to many perks related to melee combat. These updates include general percentage increase from Perks, buff duration increases, and adding status attack types to signature attacks for Kate Bishop and Ms. Marvel. This is by no means the full extent of the changes; we are already taking steps to add in other melee-focused Perks and features. This is coupled with a huge influx of Hero-specific Perks tied to Hero Gear, adding many offensive and defensive options.
While these three examples may sound like a drop in the bucket compared to the scale of gameplay, the range of adjustments is indeed vast—and small changes everywhere add up to large gains overall. Note also that this is only on the player side of Hero mechanics. There are also factors
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