I have a level 300 Silver Surfer and a level 299 Old Man Logan. I realized that the Surfer does 185/164/144 match damage while Logan already does 195/173/152. Shouldn’t characters of the same rarity and the same level do the same match damage? I don’t have a Phoenix, so I can’t see how she compares. Did they up the match damage after Surfer came out and forgot to change him over?
No. At the 5* level there are 3 different sets of match damage. (Tank (OML), Regular (SS), Support (PHX) internally D3 calls them something else but I can’t remember what Ice called them). It’s so the Hood’s of the 5* tier (if they ever exist) won’t be so ridiculously tanky and force people to underlevel them.
I think the general 5* design philosophy is where they want the game to eventually look like. Match damage matters, and is taken in to account for balancing, but not so much that you are playing bejeweled. wouldn’t be surprised if 4* and 3* got a big buff to match damage.
It should be buried somewhere in the massive Line Q&A recap thread from many, many moons ago. Of course I never actually read through the thing since I was on Line so maybe it’s not in there.