User blog comment:Perchance/Project 5U-93-R Iteration 2/@comment-28954668-20160615043750/@comment-28140789-20160615112842

The max health augment amount for gold characters is 22,154; basically, all augments increase the base health, damage, crit chance, or crit damage by a certain amount for all characters. There are, however, different formulas for a character's final stats based on their qualities, bronze, silver, or gold.

I had similar questions, back when I was wondering if Darkseid/Prime could make bronze cards gold level. In short, no, although augments do help bronze characters close the gap.

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The problem with the new Superman is that he scales up augments. While older characters may on the whole benefit relative to him, Superman still gets a jump on middle characters.

I mostly like the idea of releasing Batmobile-like gear for every character, except it can be specific to individual characters, or can split between the general character and the particular character, i.e., have one effect for "Bane" and one effect for "Bane/Prime".

They could also make gear for factions, such as one with the effect "Regime: +5000 damage augment".

After that, they could do odd things that don't amount to strict nerfs of Superman, like "red font" his passive or put a "red font penalty" on it--preferably the latter. Basically, multiplayer matches would weigh the second part of Superman's passive and accordingly pit players who used him against higher and higher stat opponents for each promotion. The difference between the first and the second is that the ability if presented in red font would modify base stats in battle (before other effects like Harley Quinn/Animated's passive modifies this number). If the passive is written in normal font but has a number following in red font color in parenthesis, that would suggest a stat penalty. Thus, Superman's passive could read " Bonus 5% Damage and 5% Health per promotion" as it currently does, but, afterwords, also say in red "(+5% per promotion in match)" or something like that.