Patch 3.7: Thoughts?
Arachne's remodel looks awesome. This is definitely an upgrade from her older self! Also nice to see she is getting proper mastery skins. Speaking of mastery skins, I am looking forward to Amaterasu's mastery skins. That loading card looks amazing and I'm sure the skins will look amazing in-game too!
I don't like Hou Yi's Underworld skin. I do like Arachne's and Nox' skin though (p.s. that frontal cleavage on Nox is real! :O). Hades' skin from patch 3.6 I like too. Chang'es new skin I am not a fan of, guess I'm sticking with her Diamond skin and Bride skin. Hercules' new skin looks awful imo.
Throwing Dagger is getting nerfed, which makes sense. That item was way too powerful for its cost. It was so strong that it wasn't even worth upgrading Throwing Dagger to Golden Bow.
- Jing Wei is getting buffs on all of her abilities. I am happy about that, as I was thinking about learning her.
- Nox is getting unneeded buffs. That magical power scaling increase is scary on her abilities! She will now be even stronger late game. Prepare to see a lot more offensive Shadow Steps. Popping outside of an ally is now really going to hurt the enemy.
- Puchie is getting some love too this patch, which means he is going to be even more broken in Arena, Joust and Assault. In Conquest he is not that good though, and since the game is balanced around Conquest I can understand why Puchie got buffed.
- He Bo is getting a minor buff on his water carpet. Indifferent about He Bo, couldn't care less about him.
I only have one thing to say about the Arachne remodel: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! .... Sorry.. Anyway, as you can probably tell, I'm SOOO excited for that remodel! She looks so incredibly more gorgeous now, while still managing to be creepy af. Cx
As far as the Underworld skins go, here's my opinions on the three new ones that got revealed:
- Hou Yi: Meh... Honestly, I do not like it. I don't care about him anyway, so it does not matter too much.
- Arachne: I absolutely ADORE it! I think it not only looks good, but it fits her as a character as well.
- Nox: My absolute FAVORITE! As Jaimy pointed out, the cleavage is REAL, but I think it manages to look both sexy and badass all at the same time. This skin is DEFINITELY worth 6 unlocks in the Escape from the Underworld event.
The Throwing Dagger nerf sort of hurts my gameplay with Mercury a lot, as well as my [future] Jing Wei gameplay. I use it as both characters' starter item, but after these nerfs, they might not be as reliable anymore, and I might need to find new starter item(s) for both of them.
Time to bitch about buffs (with a bit of praise as well, actually)!
- The Jing Wei buffs were ABSOLUTELY needed. That girl was underperforming, BADLY, in most game modes on release. She's one of the few release Gods that actually needs tons of buffs, rather than tons nerfs.
- Nox's buffs were absolutely unnecessary. I know she's struggling in Mid (Conquest), but that honestly do not justify her buffs at all, imo. This is coming from someone who uses Nox a LOT, and should be happy for buffs, as well. I just can't be happy about this many buffs for someone already shredding tanks late-game. It makes her very unbalanced in every other mode other than Conquest, and she'll definitely be overused from now on. Also, I just can't believe Shadow Step will be viable in Combat.. I need to seriously change my Nox gameplay to match these buffs, since I've NEVER used that move as an offensive move.
- Puch(ie?)'s buffs will make him even MORE of a fucker to deal with for the Healers. He's already considered OP in most game modes other than Conquest, and this will make him even more OP, even more of a bastard to deal with, and obviously more used, which I'm not necessarily happy about.
- He Bo? Who tf is that? Kappa
Seriously, though: He Bo didn't need buffs either. Thankfully it was only a minor one, and no damage buff. That would've really pissed me off. He's already WAY too powerful..
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Also, here's a sneak peek of the new, Exclusive, Nox skin! I have to say, I'm absolutely in LOVE with this!