Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
To be clear, Smoulder was never nerfed. Not every hero uses the same damage coefficient when calculating their skill strength. Smoulder is on the low end of this coefficient, because his base damage is high. In other words, he does a lot of damage early on, but doesn't scale as well with gear. This is intentional.
I don't understand why you would willingly make a gold hero more and more useless as the game progresses. In my opinion, all heroes should be useful at all points in the game. It would be interesting to see formations that do not rely on Adam to be effective.