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Yeah I really don’t get all the hate and controversy, Magik was never that crazy in terms of damage but what she did have was that God tier utility with the power lock and power steal, and the defensive threat which back then was easily a 5/5 and if it had been released exactly the same as a 7* would have still been a 5/5 and possibly worse than Serpent. If they give her more damage then of course that God tier utility is the first thing getting axed and to some extent the 5/5 defensive threat. People forget that this whole thing, from the moment it got announced, was going to be a nerf however that doesn’t mean she’s trash now they gave her just enough damage and kept just enough defensive threat potential that the power lock and steal being gone doesn’t really matter. She is going to land in the top 5 in the mystic class easily and I’m 100% sure once people get their hands on her their opinions will change massively.

I addressed the three bullet points in the post I replied to: complexity, agency, and the fact that spenders would get the opportunity to ascend champions earlier than non-spenders in many cases. All three are issues a new rarity would introduce to a similar degree, intentionally.

Whether Kabam "gaslighted" the community is something I'm deliberately not addressing, because historically that's generally an unproductive line of discussion. I do not recall expressing an opinion - one way or the other - on that sort of thing where I either found myself hammered in ways I found trivially worthless to reflect upon or being supported in ways I found even more disturbing.

As I said, I would have been fine with 8* rarity. It is the players that consistently demanded Kabam "be more creative." Well here we are. All I'm addressing is why all the problems with ascension were basically unavoidable, and there was zero chance we would get anything substantively different in that regard. Players can ask the devs to stop doing something. They can't demand the devs do what they believe to be untenable. So instead of getting 8* rarity, which Kabam believes is unpalatable to the players, we have 7* Ascension which is only viable as an alternative because it contains many of the same issues as a new rarity. It is in some ways better, and in other ways worse. Before you complain about Ascension, consider Ascension is the result of complaining about 8* rarity. And if anyone is imagining there's some better alternative out there that eliminates the complexity, the reduction in agency, in the monetization gateways, well good luck with that. This is mostly aimed at the 1% of people who might care why this happened. I'm not really interested in advocating either way, because a) I'd be fine either way and b) nothing I say would change the course of Ascension and c) nothing I say would change the tenor of the complaints surrounding Ascension. I'm fine taking a few random nothing shots and then letting everyone go back to aiming at the sky instead.

April is usually a spiderverse update, plus for brand new day we could get characters like tombstone, boomerang or tarantula

Noir would be skill or mystic

I'm really interested in the "powerful heroes and villains" selector, as I have everyone from the 7*crystal. Will there be spending-event exclusive champs like RedG, Torch or Dark Phoenix?

Probably not

Honestly Ordeal is gonna be the most fun since Grandmaster Gauntlet has been one of the most fun end game content agreed by majority of the player base plus its gonna be the easiest. Hardest is gonna be Abyss purely because of the Collector. Reaching him is easy.

I’m excited. I get the concerns but this is an 8* replacement at the end of the day. Thinking of ascension that way has helped the transition for me. It’s just a slower gap between unascended and ascended, than 7* to 8* would have been. It lets your roster stay relevant throughout the ascension rollout. I think it will be good, but it will be a process for everyone to adjust. I think it will be fun though

1 whale quits you will see a bigger impact than 1000 F2P players quitting...

I am wrong but nowadays even SQ had a monetized aspect? You sre delusional if you think F2P has any impact in the game .