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@GroundedWisdom - We wouldn’t expect the most anti player person in the community to understand…

Telling ya, banquet is around the corner. Probably have to get lucky with banquet crystals or hope to make it to top ranks. She's a trophy champ. All other trophy champs (not counting deathless) are always part of banquet.

Yall act like weve never had op defenders before with little to no counters? Magik was the original. Modok was one. Ice phoenix anyone?

I think there's some slight misunderstanding of what's actually happening here.

We aren't taking a step backwards in Kabam/Player communication.
We're ending a system that, ultimately, has not been working well, and moving back to when we released Champions and didn't potentially change them 6 months after release (recently much longer, due to batches). In fact, this direction was communicated within 16 hours after the decision was finalized.

We're going to be evaluating new systems that work better for the game and the Community to keep the meta in a healthy place, and we're going to be spending time evaluating multiple avenues of this and keep you updated well in advance of anything changing.

OP nailed it — that was ALWAYS the point, or should have been the point.

You can’t have 5/5 defenders running around but then get so weird about game balance that mid kits get released and stay mid.

This game has refused to lean into a true buff program for years — they made Red Magneto and Juggernaut really good (as they should always have been) — so they dropped that because there’s no money in making old kits really good, but IDK, maybe there isn’t that much money in releasing Patriot and Joaquin Torres and making people wait a year for a potential buff, either.

I have said this for years and they just won’t do it:

1. End Synergies and fold the best ones into existing, older kits. Why? Because this isn’t a questing game anymore and hasn’t been since Act 6.
2. Roll out an enhanced Buff program and get those older kits meta relevant so people can be excited about opening crystals and pulls again. Make it fast and do not stop until it’s done.
3. Class crystals for 7-stars — it’s time. This game requires specific kits for specific problems, and needing a Kushala but still getting a Moondragon is ridiculous. This has to stop

This all loops back to not doing what should have been done to Serpent — some of us saw this coming and begged for that kit to be nerfed and for Kalamazoo to abandon the path that saw the creation of kits like that: elite defenders with BS mechanics that are unavoidable and have few — if any — counters upon release.

Once game design leaned into “specific counters for specific kits or you will either lose or time out in BGs,” Rebalance was cooked. Game balance was cooked.

Can I fight Enchantress? Yes, I know how to fight the base kit.

Is it fun to fight the base Enchantress kit, depending on nodes/time limits?

No. No. NO.

So then instead of Falcon (Joaquin Torres) having whatever kit design would best fit his character, you instead have to jam all the mechanics in to make it an Enchantress counter…but that kit was too weak and Enchantress was still too strong.

See what I mean? Problems that were made by one kit design, that hurt another kit design, then you need to rebalance the kit that couldn’t solve the problem that releasing the first kit that was overtuned defensively made.

Not nerfing Serpent and releasing 5/5 defenders has made this game worse to play and far less fun.

Everyone knows it. Everyone.

Dropping the Rebalance Program — which took too long to examine and implement changes anyway — doesn’t solve the core problem that we have now:

Every character that gets released has to deal with the existence of these 5/5 defenders, or they are basically worthless.

It should never have been allowed and some of us begged Kabam not to do it.

Hi @Kabam (Osaurus) Rex ,

Sure you got a lot on, so appreciate you responding and confirming this. 😊

Willing to bet a 7* dark phoenix is the top prize for this year's banquet.