According to the update notes 4* Kurt is getting a rebalance
But Clem, I hear you cry, what is this rebalance? Does it bring him in league with the top 4 stars?, shouldn’t bcs be more on top of their communication?
I have no answers to any of this.
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I hope they don’t get rid of his purple power. Very helpful when we have quests to destroy a gazillion tiles of one color.
Considering the new 2*'s purple, they might add damage to it, but they probably won’t drastically change it.
I’m reminded of when they nerfed C5rol so the one and only thing she did well didn’t work anymore.
In fairness, I think that was the previous dev team.
Hopefully all they really do is make his dmg powers cheaper and maybe tweak the numbers. 9 and 12 ap really doesn’t fit with a nimble acrobatic character.
He’s one of my two current ascended 4s…:would be nice if he got more useful.
I love his purple with ascended 4* professor X, hopefully they just give him a better red, that’s always been his dump stat for me.
They did a great rework on Dark Beast (this is sarcasm)
I don’t think I’d have picked Nightcrawler, but I assume they’re just going by lowest usage. In general these reworks are actual buffs, so I’ll take whatever we can get, especially since everyone is a 5* now and everyone is relevant.
The real question is: does the rebalance affect 4* Nightcrawler, or Ascended Nightcrawler too? They are technically different characters now (a la Coulson’s ascension stats) so maybe they buff one and not the other
This is my question. Which nightcrawler … ? It’s not unusual for a new char to get a quick tuneup after the real test, some time in the wild.
That said, specifically said 4* NC certainly refers to the “old”, native-4* NC.
Should have had that rework coincide with the new release tho, no?
I’ve ascended mine, so this would indeed be the question on my mind as well.
Nightcrawler’s rebalance is targeted at getting the character more in line with better performing 4* characters, yes. As for will the rebalance impact the 5* ascended version, the answer is yes. In general when we rebalance a character, our aim will be to simultaneous review and make edits to their ascended versions. As for more details concerning the rebalance, it lands tomorrow so you won’t have to wait long to check it out!
Please rename the ‘Everywhere at Once’ power to ‘Here, There, Everywhere’ 
KGB
No no no! All powers should be renamed in line with the SBF : Standard Bong Format
Purple: Bamf!
Red: Baaamf!
Blue: Baaaaamf!
The reworked Dark Beast is crazy strong as a 5*. His match damage boost gets insane fast, and his protect tiles will fill up the board.
You think that’s a happy accident or was the rework preparing him to ascend?
I dunno, their blurb about the rework had to do with making him a more usable character for 4*-tier players, so I think it’s an accident, sorta? I don’t think they did it with ascension in mind.
Rebalance is up, I won’t spoil the surprise
Only difference I see is lower AP cost on red and blue. Almost have him ready to ascend. Maybe the ascended version could team with ascended Chavez and Hunter for a match damage team.
@ThisisClemFandango ha, I will spoil the surprise
the 5* ascended version I can’t speak to damage numbers because I don’t remember before but the changes I see are:
Purple: Same cost / same conversion / same passive / new - deals damage (my 451 deals 2691, so not a lot)
Red: Same cost / same AP threshold. Assume a damage bump but no idea - 28K or 43K with 10AP in strogest
Blue: Reduced to 6 / now steals up to 4 AP in the strongest colour. Deals 2300 per AP in strongest colour