@Spherix,
1st congrats on the success, glad that team is rolling for you. I haven’t had the same success.
There are definitely a number of builds on defense which should give that a run for it’s money. Behemoth heavy teams, an all impervious team like gorgotha, behemoth, plague and Carnex seems like you’d have a terrible time with as your mab does nothing to them… Even Sister’s team of gorgotha, YasmineChalice/Archer, Rowanne and Carnex should give you trouble… on paper… but still, if you are clearing these out without fail using this same one trick type team, despite the quick charges and Impervious trait, well - hat’s off. That’s not my experience. I could see evn the simpliest of Maw teams with AI throwing mercy and 1-turning maw with a mab devour ruining your day as well, but I guess you haven’t run into that.
At any rate, congrats on the match-ups and success.
I appreciate the sentiment. However, allow me to clarify perhaps. It’s not a matter of the mab changing and becoming ‘too tough for me.’ It’s a matter of overkill when not needed.
Impervious in itself delivered a 1+2 punch. She can’t freeze, and she cannot do any damage to them - it renders her useless against an Impervious heavy or all Impervious team. She doesn’t even do her base magic damage when she casts against them… she just does nothing with Nevermore now. Eliminating her power and her trait is a pretty drastic change for one opposition trait to accomplish. She doesn’t even do partial damage with her spell… she might as well be permanently silenced or stunned.
From where I sit, defense teams and players seem to have radically swung away from Mab in ranked PVP defense, and even offenses from those I’ve spoken too. In my experience thus far Maw offenses are even more prevalent with Mab being abandoned. There’s a reason why more carnex, behemoth and plague are being played… Couple the effects of Impervious with general increase in extra turn costs - even when facing a non-impervious team, and it’s a net sum loss for Mab’s favor… IMO, that’s unfortunate and unnecessary.
Again IMO, they corrected too far with her. I would have preferred they test Impervious impact alone.
Prior to 2.0.1, even though Maw defenses generated a fair amount of vocal disdain, the 2.0.1 changes seem to have hammered more on Mab than Maw in the end… and to the point that I would say, unnecessarily so.
PS - my present preferred team now is Maw, valk, mab, mercy… I was running sooth, valk, mab, valk in prior 2.0.1… however, Maw is now the focus, not Mab in the current team. Moreover, if I run up against an impervious heavy team - I swap this team out all together now. I’ll still run something like Maw, IK, Sheg and Mercy… but there is no reason to run mab at all against an impervious heavy team. I only pull maw out all together - if there is NOTHING for him to chomp.
That seems like an overkill result in Mab’s adjustment.
I love seeing more variety in the game.
