**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Comments
Stuff happens. Stop asking for handouts. Millennials suck.
Fair point. Just one bleed immune war season though. So far anyway. Look, I’m certainly no millennial and I’m not asking for a handout, but I do agree with the OP that those who maxed out a mystic champ like Juggernaut should be allowed to downrank that champ. Doesn’t affect me either way, but that would be the fair thing to do.
Had the MD change lasted 4 weeks you'd have a point but it didn't and you don't. Had they not come out repeatedly and said the MD/dex interaction was as intended then we wouldn't have a point, but they did and we do.
I'm far from a millennial as well.
That's the point, Blade, and his overwhelming prominence in the game, had already indirectly reduced their effectiveness. That I'm fine with. Defenders having a counter is part of this game.
However, after introducing and flooding the game with that counter, they then piled it on by changing the MD/dex interaction making them pretty much useless in defense. I don't even have a problem with the change but to not even give people who used those resources going off kabam saying it worked as they intended, the chance to change their mind is pretty lame
But they monitored if these champs performed worse after MD change than before. If they were already pretty useless before then the change is obviously not going to affect them enough to warrant RDT
Props for bringing up irrelevant information to fan the flames. The holy trinity comment had me on the floor, they haven't been a top attack team in high tier AW for months. I'd be surprised if data showed they were still a top 5 attack team option in tier 1. Nearly triple digit amounts of players have commented Voodoo and Magik were barely affected by the MD/Dexterity nerf, which may be one reason why Kabam said they would be keeping an eye on Dormammu and Juggernaut.
You kind folks have an update on your Mystic Dispersion impact analysis?
No, you cannot limit it to those who rank 5d a champ and them alone. That would only benefit end game players when the change affects everyone who ranked a mystic champ.
You all know the apologist I am referring to.
Dormammu is pretty much worthless as an AW defender now, I took mine to rank 4 and he was a beast after the changes didn't get 1 kill and took him off defense. I would've never ranked him up if I knew MD was going to be changed.
Whether or not it was overpowered is irrelevant. It was working as intended. It hadn't changed in 2 years so in what way was it "bound to change". No one is asking for handouts. OP is asking for a follow up on something Kabam said they would monitor in order to make a decision about rankdowns. Seems like a reasonable request to me.
Things change in games, sports, life constantly. You don’t see nfl teams asking for refunds or answers about kick returners they signed..... things change. Stop crying. Stop demanding answers when they have clearly stated what’s going on. It’s their time frame.
Aside from that I would hazard to guess that they found mystics are still defensively viable champions just not over powered like they used to be in lower tiers. Higher tiers will just spend the 30 units to take off dex and neuter them regardless of Md changes.
Why didn't you just say "everyone who asks for an item just wants to use it for the specific purpose it's intended for"?
"Working as intended" is a temporal statement. It is only true relative to the current state of the game. That situation can change in the future. Something that is working as intended by explicit developer statement is not free from being changed in the future. Players are expected to adapt to some reasonable degree of game changes over time.
Whenever something offers a significant far above average advantage in a game like this, players should assume that the advantage could paint a target on it for future downstread rebalancing. I would have bet cash that mystic dispersion was going to be changed eventually. I wouldn't know in what year that would happen, but I would have taken that bet with anyone willing to give me at least an eighteen month time horizon.
Changes are fine imo. As long as there's proper compensation.
I don't mind spam and abuse flags because it just means Kabam employees must read my posts. As to the Lol flags I picture someone hitting that button and saying "that'll show him" to themselves over and over again. Sometimes in my mental picture they are drooling just a little.
Abuse of the flagging function can only backfire. Literacy and eloquence are the only effective tools on a public forum. Improper use of the flagging buttons is bringing a nerf pistol to a real gun fight and firing it randomly from behind some bushes. It is somewhat amusing and slightly annoying and completely ineffective at doing anything.
In the vast majority of MMO-like games I've played (in fact, as far as I can recall this is literally all of them), game balance changes rarely come with compensation. It is pretty clear that every player playing those games is supposed to understand that the game will change right under your feet, and that's part of what you sign up for when you play them. Some changes generate compensation when they are seen as divergent enough from the norm, and the ultimate judge of what is normal is always, always the developers.
And as far as "we had been begging for years"...
SOME people had been begging. And that energy would have been better spent learning to play around it. The MD change wasn't even necessary anymore after the intro of newer champs. The "mystic wars" problem was solved long, long ago.
I agree that things change and have no problem with the Mystic D nerf. The fact that it was overpowered is not irrelevant to the reasons for the nerf, however it is irrelevant to your point about people "taking advantage" and it's status as "broken". It was working as intended inasmuch as it was working the way it was advertised. There was no glitch that needed to be fixed. People spend money on the game and ranked some champs based on Mystic D specifically for AW defense. Kabam has every right to change Mystic D, but in a game where real money is in play they have some obligation to the customer when they exorcise this right. We can debate whether the mystic d nerf warrants compensation and rank downs. They said that they hadn't decided and would monitor the results in order to determine this. At the very least they acknowledged that it might require rank downs. OP asked for an update and some people have argued for rank downs on this thread. All reasonable. Maybe we get them and maybe we don't. Personally I don't care either way. But all this talk about "whining" "entitled" and "taking advantage" is stuff and nonsense. Cheers.