The recent Kingpin changes have been…OK. Increased black cost and existing CD condition in exchange for higher damage? Eh, fine, I can live with that.
The AoE component is what I have an issue with. If you’re down to 1 opponent, you want to be able to sacrifice 1 CD for the higher damage, instead of being forced to get rid of 3 CDs for lower per-opponent damage and a lot of wasted AoE. And if you’re relying on KP’s own yellow to create CDs, you’re probably going to have at least 3 CDs out. We should be able to choose whether to use the single/AoE version of the power, OR if you’re down to 1 opponent, default to the single version. Otherwise it feels like being penalized for having multiple CDs out.