Warning: This is LONG. There was a LOT. That is all, thank you

Pixie/Madelyne Pryor

Pixie has access to 5 Spells that ramp her over time. They go on cooldown once used, but her Light attacks take extra time off. Her first Spell triggers if she is struck while charging a Heavy, and then she Evades, Counterattacks, and inflicts Sleep. The second triggers off of hitting with a Heavy, and then each Special Attack has an associated Spell. Her Spells build Prowess, and she has access to Power Efficiency. She inflicts lots of Neuroshocks, and when awakened can prevent Evade from Skill Champions.

Madelyne Pryor has access to Prefights that allow for quick Buff Control or Infuriate. She inflicts Buffs on Attack Punishes, and her Special 2 places an AoE Pit in the Arena. She has access to Hinder, Fear, and lots of Degen. She also allows time to slow while the opponent is charging a heavy, making for quick Punishes. Her Special 3 has large amounts of Power Steal.

Magik

Magik inflicts a Limbo Buff that comes with a Neutralize, and Regenerates some of the damage she took when it expires. She can alter the Tick Rate of Buffs, and inflicts lots of Degen. She has a Falter on Heavy charge and Dash.

Obtaining

• 20x Limbo Tokens
• Radiance store has 10/cycle starting March 11
• Starts at 20k Radiance, cost increases
• First Appearance available for 70 Days

Launch Event

• Open Crystals for points
• Empowered Crystals + 6* Magik
• Beat Grandmaster with 6* Magik for 3 Tokens

#Dimensional Beings Bundle 1

• 1x Awakening Gem
• 199x Sig Stones
• Costs 8 Limbo Tokens

#Dimensional Beings Bundle 2

• 1-2, 2-3, 3-4 Rank Up Gems
• Costs 12 Limbo Tokens

Stellar Forged

Star Lord

• Defeat Abyss Quake with Stellar Forged Star Lord
• Receive Dupe
• Receive Ascension

Blade

• Mystic
• Begins March 5
• Access to Atrophy, Degen
• Modified Danger Sense

Saga Content

AW Showcase

• March 5 - April 8
• Founder's War Saga
• +15% T5A
• +Stellar Forged Piece

Saga Showcase

• Science/Mutant Paths
• #Forbearance Attackers
• +20x Empowered Grace Crystals

Saga Incursions

• March 11 - April 7
• Skill/Cosmic Defenders
• Tooth & Claw Attackers
• 15 Zones
• Regular Incursions will NOT return after
• +30x Empowered Crystals
• +Class Ascension Token Crystals

Back Issues

• Removed April 8

Twitch Drops

• April
• Exclusive 7* Thor Ragnarok eventually
• 4 weeks of drops

Gwenpool's Gal-Pal Guidebook

• March 11 - April 8
• International Women's Day Event
• Collaboration with female Community Members
• Free 2* female Champions
• Quest tailored to those Champions

Experimental Battlegrounds Formats

Season 36 (Current)

• 40 Champ Decks
• 5 Bans
• More Rerolls

Season 37 Preseason

• Normal Deck/Ban/Rerolls
• Non-Saga Defenders lose 5% health per second

Season 38

• Saga Defenders returns (if it performs well)
• No points for Attacker HP Remaining

Currencies

Essentia

• March 9
• Combines Glory/Trophy Tokens/Artifacts
• Trade-In Bundles to convert existing Currencies
• Cap of 100k
• Comparable purchasing power to existing Currencies
• No increasing Costs

Mysterium

• Current store rewards added to Side Content
• Store holds lower rarity items
• Sometimes will have limited Saga bundles
• Full swap in April

Radiance

• March 11
• Reduced costs for top items
• +T5a (6300 fragments/cycle)
• +7* Relic Innate Stones (40/cycle)
• +T2 Celestial Alloy (2/cycle)
• +Limbo Tokens

Ascension

Launching March 5

Stats

• +Attack
• +HP
• +Prestige
• +15 Challenge Rating
• +Might
• 2 Ascension Levels now, eventually 11
• A1+A2 are slightly less stats than 1 Rank

Might

• Might meter builds over time (~50 seconds)
• Once full, automatically enter Iso-Burst
• Burst is paused while attacking
• During Burst, get boosted Damage
• Once Burst expires, Might refills faster (~25 seconds)
• Active on defense, but Might doesn't build while being Attacked

7* Dupes

• All 7* Dupes give 250 Super Duper Shards
• Max Sig Titan Dupes give 500
• Use shards for special Ascension Pool
• Super Duper Pool is a Box costing 15k
• Shards will not transfer to any future pool

Super Duper Pool

• Corvus Glaive
• Arcade
• Dani Moonstar
• Hit Monkey
• Immortal Abomination
• Spiral

Cluster Drops

• How crystals award Ascension Materials
• Multiple items awarded at once
• 1 Champion
• 1 Champion-Specific Ascension Token
• 1 Class Ascension Token

Cost

• Each Ascension Level has its own cost (like a rank)
• A1: 1x Champion Token, 1x Class Token
• A2: 2x Champion Token, 10x Class Token, 500x T2 Dust
• Ascension 1 is automatic when pulling from a Cluster Drop

Base Pool

• Base Pool will not grow
• Future pools will remain distinct
• Difficulty of acquisition will not increase

Empowered Crystals

• 0.45% - Base Pool Ascension Cluster Drop
• 9,05% - Non Ascendable 7* Champion
• 36.2% - 1.5k 7* shards
• 54.2% 6* Champion
• Grace is active (120 for guaranteed Ascension)
• Rewarded in Content
• Purchasable for 200 Units

Greater Empowered Crystal

• Only has Ascension Cluster Drops
• Not purchasable
• 1 for Free on release

Featured Valiant Crystals

• Featured Champion is now Cluster Drop
• Normal 7* rate doubled
• 1% chance for Ascended Base Pool 7*
• 5.78% chance for Empowered Crystal
• March 5

Collectives

• Launching in a few months
• Details to come

Carina's Challenges

March 11

• Ordeal - Hero
• Ordeal - Villain
• Abyss - Hero
• Abyss - Villain
• Epoch Gauntlet - Hero
• Epoch Gauntlet - Villain

Rewards

• 4-5 Crystal
• Greater Empowered Crystals
• T5A
• 3-4 Gems
• Champion Selector
• Maestro Ascension 1 and 2
• Complete by May 13 for First Appearance Maestro

New Progression

• Elder
• Complete 9.4
• Have 3 r5s
• Launches with 9.4 in April

I am doubling down on this take, I hope I'm wrong but Kabam's track record isn't very good... The more I hear about Ascension the worse I feel about it. It sounds like a needlessly complicated, highly volatile and incredible fickle way to balance the game. I already made a post some time back about my worries for it, but like I said I am doubling down. The latest post did nothing to make me excited about Ascension, in fact it did the opposite.

At the forefront of my worries is ascension acquirement. Now somebody please correct me if I'm wrong because that post was a confusing mess. From what I understand, there will be different pools of champs and different ways to acquire their ascension. Those methods being as follows:

Ascension Base Pool: They have their own crystal that will give you a "cluster drop" which is basically a champion and their ascension to r1.

Super Duper Ascension: An even more special crystal that gives you one of six special champions (all still incredibly mid) to ascend.

New Champion Ascension: ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH VALIANT CRYSTALS! NO OTHER SOURCES! So basically spend money or get shafted!

So let me paint you a picture. You're an endgame player, you play at the highest level, get the best rewards. You're super competetive. You've just saved hundreds of thousands of titan shard, you open the crystals, get a bunch of max sigs and... YOU CANNOT GET ANY OF THE NEW CHAMPS ASCENDED. I am using all caps for a reason here.

THE ONLY WAY TO ASCEND NEW CHAMPS IS WITH MONEY!!!

That should be reason enough to throw this entire concept into the bin.

Why not just add all of these champs to one pool? Why should I not be able to ascend a new champion who I pull from the titan crystal? You're telling me the next time DLL drops a busted overtuned champ, I'll be at a deficit unless I spend hundreds/thousands of dollars to ascend them?

"Oh but you can ascend the other champs" I hear you say.

Yes, I am sure my ascended Patriot, Corvus and Gorr will be able to hold up so well with the new champs Kabam releases. I know there are die hard Nova fans and Spiral fans. That's fine you can like them, but I promise you they will not be as powerful as the new champs Kabam releases.

Make no mistake, the base pool champs will not compare to new champs. Kabam's entire champion release system relies heavily on power creep! They need to keep making more and more powerful champs for people to be excited about pulling them. I promise you we will be getting more Nico Minorus, more Serpents and Dark Phoenixes. All of these busted champs will be ascendable and the only way to ascend them is WITH MONEY!

I cannot be the only one who is incredibly worried about this. If Ascension goes through as is and without any changes I think it will be impossible for anyone to remain competitive without spending thousands of dollars within the next year.

There is no reason why there needs to be multiple different pools of champs for ascension. Why not give players agency over what champions they can upgrade? Make it one big pool of champions. If I play super competitively, earn titan crystals and pull new champs, I SHOULD BE ABLE TO ASCEND THEM. That should not be a hot take!

There are so many other issues I have with ascension, but I feel like this is the most glaring and obvious one. Please don't kill the game I love. Please don't release ascension or at least don't release it like this...