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- Base Stats
- Ascended 450-550
- Double-double Cross
- Shadow Step
- Ballet of Death
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Why do I still get excited for these, like there was hope?
They forgot to update the name too:
Elektra (Unlivingable)
These used to be like Christmas for me. Now it’s like Christmas, but someone opened all my presents before i got there and effed them up… and then 
in my eggnog.
Thanks for trying though, maybe next time (not sarcasm). Who likes Christmas anyway.
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On mobile, this is completely unreadable.
What did they change? Is it just a numbers increase?
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FWIW, It’s not much more readable on a computer. But to answer your question, yes.
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I don’t have access to edit anything on the help centre, but I’ll edit in some images above instead
You must know by now these rebalances are only to make PVE nodes more annoying.
She’s another character who appears in more than a few such nodes. Deadpool vs MPQ, the wolverine 7 day pve and so on.
They never seem to do it to characters not in PVE.
KGB
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I was about to post this. Clearly that’s where the rebalance priority lies… 
I’m not used to seeing such anger from White Bomber!
That said, Elektra is one of the worst characters and this numbers bump will not save her. A full rework is probably necessary.
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Her purple power has always been weird and the only thing I ever used it for was Kacelious (or however you spell that) but her black is a generally annoying power to fight against and she always seems able to fire it. Red isn’t even worth mentioning. None of that has changed with this and her usage will not go up.
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Whenever I fight her, she almost always get enough Black to annoy me to no end…
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Don’t know, but I’ll give her a shot when she’s boosted next time. Mine is over lvl500 now, I think.
I will take every one of these that I can get, even if they’re just number changes to characters with bad mechanics. What I’ll say is this: number changes to characters with bad mechanics should get done at a much higher rate.
Lots of these bad characters probably need full redos to become useful, and those take time. We get that. But a number change like this should not take that much time, and they should be able to do them in a batch. If you don’t have time for a full rework, take, say, the 5 least-used characters, multiply every number by 2.5 or 3 or whatever, then see what happens.
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Another change that still won’t matter unless she is required. I have no idea how these decisions are made but whatever meeting occurred to decide and approve this could have been used on WAY better things to help the game.
Besides making her stronger as a pve opponent when scaled up, on defense in a wave node in AvA she could be more annoying as a later toon who is behind toons who don’t use her colors etc and she throws down black as she starts in.
But that assumes the attacker isn’t just winfiniting their way through it.
As an offensive toon she’s remaining useless.
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Those traps will hit hard at 672, and if you can put her in front she could work pretty well. She’s just Man-Thing with extra steps, and that’s pretty good.
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I’ve often thought they should just monthly take the bottom 10 characters and add 10% to all their numbers and the top 10 characters and take 1.5% off their numbers.
That said, if they’re going to tweak everyone’s match damage, it’d be nice if they just did all the match damage changes at once and then started working through powers afterwards. I regularly want to know what the highest colour is and who is tanking so having a minefield of who has had their match damage updated is a pain.
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It’s such an easy win and it’s BEEN such an easy win, for years. I don’t know why they can’t do it.
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I’m too lazy, maybe I’ll get around to it eventually… But we should have a thread on what character will be rebalanced based on how often they appear in the hard nodes in pve 
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Why oh why does this power continue to exist like this? It was bad when she released and it’s way worse now so why continue with it?
It’s dead weight. So when they don’t have a strike tile, she just helps them out providing them and then you need to spend another 7 purple just to steal 1 and improve it!?
This power exists to meet a quota nothing more. It’s unfortunate that instead of fixing an obviously awful power you just continue the trend of quota meeting.
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Again, this is a symptom of all the worst characters appearing in PvE, and not some kind of plot. We haven’t had new PvEs in forever, so when these were created, most of these guys were novel and somewhat difficult to fight (at least more so than the endless 2
Dark Avengers).
They really need to update PvE with some newer, better characters, and then this wouldn’t be an issue. Put Chasm or Man-Thing all over the place!
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