Quote (itsLyle @ Aug 8 2013 06:58pm)
So they are consistently changing the hero damage mechanics at this point? I'm really just getting started with my first character (lvl 15) but I'm trying to plan for end-game content playing.
Basically in limbo any AoE skill wasn't being curbed with how many people were near the enemies, so say Plasma Barrage from Cable would deal damage to everything as if he was the only person on the map instead of all 15 players. This got fixed with 1.11, so Cable players had to go to a different build for Cable that is heavily reliant on Damage penetration and CC. But this 'fix' was announced for a while. Right now I don't know what Gaz is doing, because they say they want to buff everyone, but a lot of the buffs have done nothing for those heroes.
From my experience with the new patches, I think Thing is definitely top tier along with what other people have said, Black Widow and Hulk. My opinion, but I think some of the heroes right under those three are Cable and Spiderman. Spiderman has some nice crowd control and Cable has good auras along with an enemy debuff and a very fast basic attack.