Here is the easiest way to decide who to balance and how…
Are they only good when boosted? Yes? Ok then make their boosted damage their standard damage. For example
Thing unboosted
Red 4.5k
Green 6k
Very under powered for a 4* even most good 3* have better damage output.
Boosted he’s
10k red
12k green.
Most people pretty much only use him when boosted. That tells you how useful he is under normal circumstances.
Some guys…like Cho and IW are still awful when boosted so for them they need more extensive work. But for all the others just ask…
Are they only good when boosted? Yes? Make their boosted damage their standard damage, this also tells you WHO needs balancing. Pretty simple structure which can be applied to 4* tier and below pretty easily.
An interesting idea but the issue is you would make broken characters when they are boosted. For thing when boosted he would have 2 powers doing over 20K damage and having huge health.
If you are looking at just damage take the boosted damage and drop it by 30%. If they are being used when boosted that means they are good and need a minor buff. You can’t just put them into god mode when boosted though.
I am not sure what level you are using as the base, but a lot of boosted 4* already put out more damage than 5* when boosted. I don’t think you can make that the standard.
The idea behind it is if a character ONLY gets used when boosted then that means the other 90% of the time they are not very useful.
Don’t change the health pool unless they have drastically lower health (which is pretty much just xfw) but giving those guys a damage boost would make more people use them.
Mentioned above is the fact that (in my example) thing would be doing 20k + when boosted when under my changes…like cyke? Or iceman with a 12k aoe? Or rulk with the same? Or hb doing 1300 per ap. All examples of people who do stupid damage when boosted. Why shouldn’t some of the other damage dealers do the same when boosted?
Once you’ve hit the 5* tier, ALL 4s never get used unless boosted. Damage wise all 4s are not very useful 100% of the time when unboosted. Might as well apply your suggestion to all of them.
Only 4*s used unboosted is when they have good specialized abilities like icemans stun or Peggy’s passive.
The problem with this line of thinking is that support characters that aren’t used that much now will be used less since they don’t deal that much damage (why should they, they support). But why should you roster them if their support becomes negligible? What’s a strike tile that gives 130 more damage when it’s no longer a massive bonus? The only thing you’ll get is inflation of the damage and then things will get even more unbalanced with one hit kills in pvp. That Loki or Hood defense you set up in pvp that works so well? Just got oblitirated.