Thanks to Jane Foster’s the Mighty Thor, players of Marvel’s Avengers have a faster-paced alternative to the rather heavy-hitting Thor of the original lineup. While also serving as Mjolnir’s possessor, Jane Foster makes a difference not just in being a female version of Thor but in being an Asgardian protector who understands modern human sentiments. This is reflected not just in her aesthetic and style but even in combat as well, with her Marvel’s Avengers counterpart carrying a certain level of sass and straightforwardness that carries over to her lightning-quick attacks.
Fans who want to capitalize on Jane Foster’s moveset to make a quicker Thor DPS might want to tweak her toolkit to accommodate inevitable changes. Meanwhile, those who want to pair her with the original Thor could also emphasize on certain gameplay elements to mesh their skillsets. However, what’s the best approach to a Jane Foster build?
Building The Mighty Thor: A True Hybrid
When building the Mighty Thor, it’s important to remember that her Marvel’s Avengers gameplay emphasizes her role as one of the first “true” hybrid roles that naturally appears in the playstyle without having to rely on an extremely catered build. Her abilities naturally allow her to pushback at opponents who try to get too close, and is capable of catering to almost any range type with her skills similar to long-ranged Iron Man. In that case, building the Mighty Thor in terms of hard numbers has to do with what players want to prioritize in terms of their combos as well as comfort in the many abilities she possesses.
Attributes: In Order Of Priority
- Valor (Heroic Effectiveness, Critical Damage)
- Might (Melee Damage)
- Precision (Ranged Damage)
- Resolve (Health, Willpower Recovery Effectiveness)
- Resilience (Armor)
- Proficiency (Critical Chance, Perk Chance)
- Intensity (Stun/Status Meter Damage/Status Resistance/Status Charge Rate)
In terms of Attributes, it’s recommended for Jane Foster to focus on Valor. The Valor Attribute is something to take note here, as its control over the efficiency of Crits and Heroics can spell pure DPS for players who want to take advantage of Heroic Attacks. There’s not much need for Might and Precision to go higher than the other, as both of them are essential depending majorly on the player’s preference, similar to how Might might be the preference for melee-ranged Captain America. Meanwhile, Resilience and Resolve work well for ensuring Jane has enough defenses going for her, while Proficiency and Intensity aren’t as needed since the Mighty Thor functions better when in a purely attacking state.
Mastery: Boost Long-Term Impact
Outside Skills in the Mighty Thor’s arsenal, building Jane Foster for players who want to dominate Marvel’s Avengers may want to consider ensuring her Masteries can accommodate long-term impact in extended battles. This is especially the case for characters like Jane, who usually excels in long-range situations but may be forced to intervene in melee, requiring her abilities to accommodate almost any combat situation.
General Combat
- (Combat) Increased Impact: Signature Attacks have more impact, making them likely to interrupt targets
- (Combat) Unarmed Damage: Unarmed Attacks deal more damage
- (Combat) Heroic Takedown Mastery: Performing a Takedown forces an enemy to drop a Heroic Orb
- (Ranged) High Velocity: Hammer throws and recall speed are given a boost
- (Ranged) Ranged Damage: Beam of Starfire gets more damage
When building her general combat Masteries, it’s natural to boost the overall damage of her melee and ranged attacks. However, when taking Masteries from the Combat and Ranged tree, it always helps to boost the damage of commonly-used attack strategies (Signature Attacks) that can accommodate extra combat effects such as interruptions and Heroic Orb drops. That way, Jane has more incentive to stay in the fight and spam her combos.
Intrinsic Ability, Overcharge
- (Intrinsic Ability) Ionic Bolts: All-Mother’s Blessing will strike more nearby targets with lightning
- (Intrinsic Ability) Surging Force: All-Mother’s Blessing gets an automatic regeneration speed boost
- (Intrinsic Overcharge) Charged Duration: Increases the duration of God Tempest
- (Intrinsic Overcharge) Tempest Recharge: When using God Tempest, Jane boosts her Instrinsic Regeneration and instantly refills her Intrinsic Meter
- (Intrinsic Overcharge) Goddess Fist: When God Tempest is active, Jane gets a boost in melee attacks
Given how Intrinsic Abilities and Intrinsic Overcharges enable characters of Marvel’s Avengers to truly showcase their skillset, it makes sense for Jane Foster to need a bit of Masteries from these trees as well. Key focuses here would be extending the effects of All-Mother’s Blessing in terms of both duration and number of targets in order to improve Jane’s efficiency in the battlefield. Likewise, improving the effects of God Tempest can make it a more devastating move that fits Jane’s attack-heavy arsenal.
Champion Point Ability Focus
- Tactical Boosts: Critical Damage, Critical Chance, Stuns and Status Damage
- Utility Boosts: Heroic Recharge, and Perk Chance
- Defensive Boosts: Rely on Resilience and Fortification
Since Champion Points offer more straightforward buffs instead of minute effects, players can usually go free-for-all in their point allocation. However, if possible, fans should prioritize securing their Criticals, Status Damage, and Stuns in Tactical Boosts to accommodate the myriad of afflictions Jane can deal with her attacks. Meanwhile, improving Heroic Recharge and Perk Chance can significantly make the Mighty Thor’s special attacks more useful, whereas Defensive Boosts towards Resilience and Fortification can be useful for survival.
Skill Focus: It’s All About The Throw
When it comes to improving Jane Foster’s arsenal of Skills as a character in Marvel’s Avengers, players can further enhance her gameplay by emphasizing on how she uses Mjolnir. Key to Jane’s kit here are ensuring she’s able to combo her way at any range, but most especially in long distances as her Hammer Skills can serve as an efficient way of taking care of enemies at a distance. Modifications to Marvel’s Avengers skill upgrades can be done here based on the player’s preferences, but the Skill Focuses below should cover a majority of Jane’s more stringable and combo-able attacks.
Hammer Skill
- Seeking Mjolnir: Enemies can be marked, which Mjolnir then seeks to attack before returning to Jane or stunning them
- Immovable Intent (Ranged Attack Upgrade): Will now let players trap two (2) enemies beneath Mjolnir’s immovable might
- Quick Fire (Ranged Attack Upgrade): When players use this after Mjolnir’s Flight, they’re now able to release a powerful combo and a Ranged Combo Finisher
- Seek and Pin (Ranged Power Attack Upgrade): When players use Seeking Mjolnir without marking a target, the weapon will instead seek out an enemy within line of sight
- Enough For All (Ranged Power Attack Upgrade): Seeking Mjolnir is now able to tag five (5) targets
Light Attack
- Hammer Spin (Signature Attack): Builds up stun as well as grants Odin Force for the Overcharge
Heavy Attack
- Falling Star (Aerial Power Attack): This activates a diving hammer attack that damages enemies on contact.
- Crack the Sky (Aerial Power Attack): This is a Falling Star dive, where Jane uses All-Mother’s Blessing to channel a powerful lightning blast on impact
Intrinsic Ability
- All-Mother’s Blessing: This is a divine power that lets Jane harness lightning to counter incoming attacks. This drains All-Mother’s Blessing Energy but allows Jane to parry attacks.
- God Tempest (Intrinsic Ability Upgrade): Dealing melee damage builds up the Overcharge meter, and filling it up will unleash a Shockwave that staggers enemies. The attack will release more Shockwaves whenever Jane uses Thrown Weapon Attacks.
Specialty: Become An Offensive Support
It’s when Jane Foster finally taps into her power as the Mighty Thor of another timeline that she unlocks her true potential, and this is something players of Marvel’s Avengers need to do for their gameplay as well. When it comes to Heroic Ability Specialties, they need to ensure Jane is able to capitalize on her potential as a support unit, considering how All-Mother’s Blessing is an extremely potent life-saving tool that can outclass even Kamala Khan’s innate support kit.
Support Heroic Ability
- Warrior’s Fury: Jane can supercharge All-Mother’s Blessing beyond its usual limits. Nearby team members get short invulnerability and attacks are fused with lightning
- Hel’s Discretion: Nearby downed teammates will be revived if Warrior’s Fury is activated
- Asgard’s Fortune: Enemies defeated while Warrior’s Fury is active has a 50-percent chance to drop a Heroic Orb
Assault Heroic Ability
- God Blast: Summons a howling whirlwind that lifts enemies into the air and then blasts them with a powerful Shock damage lightning bolt
- Daughter of Midgard: God Blast’s whirlwind inflicts 20-percent more damage and applies Cryo to enemies affected
- Rolling Thunder: Defeating enemies with God Blast refunds Assault Heroic energy
Ultimate Heroic Ability
- Raw Uru: Whenever Mjolnir hits a target, a bolt of lightning strikes the hammer that then shocks the target and nearby foes
- Undrjarn’s Bite: Enemies defeated by Undrjarn have a 30-percent chance to drop a Heroic Orb
Equipment Choices
Players who decide to use Jane Foster’s the Mighty Thor will quickly realize that their Marvel’s Avengers gameplay would be extremely similar to that of Thor Odinson. However, compared to the more close-quarters aggressive Thor, the more multifaceted Jane needs to accommodate various combat situations in order to excel. While the best equipment for Jane would almost always have to be those that boost her main Skills, it wouldn’t hurt to secure Sonic and Vibranium-inducing buffs to deal more damage to foes up close. Since the Mighty Thor prefers the more direct approach and rely less on defense, the added advantages upon aggression can incentivize a more proactive gameplay strategy.
Gear: Take Advantage Of Vibranium
- Faultless Vibranium Payload Vambraces: Has chance that a Melee Critical can activate a Vibranium Payload; Signature Attacks inflict Vibranium damage and build up Vibranium status meter, has increased Signature Critical Attack chance
- Discordant Binding: Attacking an enemy affected by Vibranium Damage that has a Sonic effect will spread the Vibranium status to other enemies; Ranged Power Attacks deal Vibranium damage to pinned enemies; chance that a Melee Critical Attack can give Damage Buffs
- Discordant Battle Plate: Reviving a Hero will give Sonic Conduit buff to all heroes; gives an incoming damage decrease for every active status effect on the enemy attacking; when a Hero gives Sonic Conduit to another ally the sender’s Sonic Resistance and Vibranium Resistance is increased
- Wreath of Yggdrasil: Increased Heroic Charge Rate when Odinforce is active; increased stun damage from Hammer attacks; Warrior’s Fury has an increased buff duration
Artifacts: Restorations Galore
- Norn Stone of the Fearless: Increase Gear Perk damage, Melee Critical Attacks can activate a Vibranium Payload on the enemy target
- ISO-8 of Cosmic Afinity: Boosts Heroic energy regeneration for the Support Heroic Ability; chances that the Cosmic Surge buff activates while taking damage, which then restores small amounts of Wilpower and Heroic energy
- Ring of the Nibelung: Increase Orb restoration amount; chances that defeating enemies may produce a random orb; can actively generate a random boundy of Orbs and Regen Packs
Marvel’s Avengers was released in 2020 for the PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox X/S, and Google Stadia.