There were only a handful of characters with enhancement, why did they feel it nessasary to make the power worthless compared to perplex? In very rare instances (Using Energy explosion) Enhancment is "better" than perplex, But most of the time, perplex is always the better choice.

Was Annihilus+Psylocke that abused?

What do you mean "depowered?"

What was the change? I haven't used a lot of characters w/ Enhancement, but it still seems pretty viable. Perplex has always been the better power, anyhow.

Instead of adding +1 to Damage "Dealt" it adds +1 to damage "at any time".

And you can only use one Enhancer per attack.

So Annihilus (and any figure with multiple arrows) used to add +1 damage to each target per Enhancer, now it just adds +1 before the damage i s split (or to one target only after)

Hope that makes sense.

Is that still only for ranged attacks?

You can have more than one enhancer. A figure with the Enhance power can not Enhance a friendly figure more than once in turn. I believe this only affects Sentinels.

For example

Magneto can have his ranged attack Enhanced by both Psylockes but if, for whatever reason, Magneto was able to make a second attack this turn, neither of the Psylockes could Enhance him.

(edit) and the FAQ says:

So you can still multiple enhance Energy Explosion? Any other applications for this power?

To clear up a little confusion:

Enhancement can be used any number of times per turn, but can only pump any one attack only once.

More than one Enhancement can be used on the same figure if there is more than one figure with Enhancement is adjacent to the attacker. However, the Rule of 3 limits this.

I hope this helps...

can you use perplex with EE like you would with Enhancement? and do you really add it to total damage instead of +1 to each target hit?

No. Perplex cannot be used in the middle of an action. Therefore you would have to declare Perplex before declaring Energy Explosion. Once you declared Energy Explosion, the damage would be reduced to 1 - so you'd waste your Perplex.

Enhancement and SHIELD allow you to declare their use in the middle of an action - and thus they affect Energy Explosion.

Per WK's example from the FAQ:

A character with Energy Explosion targets characters A and C with a multiple-target Energy Explosion attack.
After the attack is declared, an adjacent friendly figure uses the Enhancement power on the attacker. The attack
roll hits characters A and C, and is higher than character B’s defense value as well. Characters A and C are
dealt 2 damage, as Energy Explosion reduced the attacker’s Damage Value to 1, and Enhancement increased
the Damage Value to 2. Character B is dealt 4 damage, 2 for each successful indirect hit, for a total of 4.

So Enhancement effects both Energy Explosion attacks - boosting each one by 1.

Hope that makes sense...

Unless I'm mistaken, they un-nerfed enhancement n the most recent faq. If you fire a non-exploding shot at two targets, each target hit gets the damage increased by one.

So enhance away!

You are mistaken, Desmoney. Enhancement modifies the Damage Value. Think of it as a special purpose Perplex.

Here is the most recent FAQ text:

As long as we're talking about splitting attacks....


If Blue Beetle, with a 1 damage, splits his attack and hits both of his targets, does he still do 1 damage to each target, or can he now only do 1 damage to 1 target, since the total damage value tends to be split between targets now?

Thanks!

Blue Beetle will do 0 damage to one target and 1 damage to the other target.

And for clarity, multi-target attacks have been this way since the Indy rules came out.

Thanks!

And while we're clarifying rules...

If you successfully roll to break away from somebody, can you then charge/RS somebody else?

Thanks!