Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-174.107.123.96-20130717030410/@comment-9890645-20130717205224

@ Greygoose - Dude, those (B) and (A) cards are killing your damage potential, as their Health and Defense stats are pathetic in comparison to your MTM cards, so their damage multipliers have less of an effect and, thus, you deal less damage overall. Either wait to (hopefully) MTM those suckas or get them out in favor of guys who have enough H&D to stick around.

The Recommend feature maxes your Attack stat with little regard for H&D; this is why the old Cyclonus and Scourge raid cards that had "shields" never get their shields put on by Recommend. They deal more damage with the shields than without because they live longer to hit more. Also of note is that the Predacons' weapons this event are similar in that they are more H&D weapons, which reflects their cards' vulnerabilities.

Your DP may drop (a lot) but your damage will be more consistent with your previous experience as far as corresponding to your DP. I have proven to myself that, sometimes, a higher DP can reduce your damage dealt if the increase resulted in lowered H&D stats that left certain cards more vulnerable to an early exit from combat.