**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.
Upcoming Cull Obsidian and Ebony Maw Balance Changes
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Nope, pure scam instead:
1) Get players excited about a character via videos released by Kabam Content Creator Program
2) Players spend tons of money or an insane amount of time grinding for said character
3) Players rank up character and use for 3 months
4) Kabam uses this as essentially a "beta test" where the users had to PAY to be involved in
5) Nerf any character that performs "well" (and by well I mean arbitrarily decide this)
6) Repeat.
Talk about unethical and distasteful.
So now we're going to have to wait 6 months after a champ is released to figure out if we want to rank them up to a high level now? 3 months for you guys to figure out if you're going to nerf them, then another 3 months until we see what that nerf is and how it affects the character. Come on, that's just absurd.
Wanna kabam know that in game are lots of old champs, better say almost all of 2015-2016 and more useles champions that need to be changed insted of cull/ebony,better focus on this champs as i always and most of us drop from cristals(we need to pray to drop something good this days).
As i sayd, kabam please change most of those champions just to give us a fair play with them as well. Even i like iron man let s say he is pretty useles in game.
Adrian.
Sincerely,
Concerned mcoc player
Literally if you a miss a parry in endgame content like variant it’s about 5-15% of your health gone
Few points.
- Kabam, stop watching KT1. Just because he can use Cull in Act 6 doesn't mean it's practical for the rest of us to.
- Cull is already a pretty balanced champ. He's got crazy damage, but you've got to build him up which is painful in difficult content, and he's a glass cannon. Actually keeping him the way he is is good for you, because people will want to use him, but they'll have to buy potions.
- Time to change the way we look at early access/featured crystals/featured arenas. They're no longer a reliable way to get good champions. They should be treated as a novelty for collectors.
- Those looking at a lawsuit; you're not going to get anywhere. Tweaking the numbers isn't going to count as selling a product different than advertised.
- We don't know what this "balance" will be. Remember, they're not changing abilities, just tweaking numbers. So they'll probably reduce the potency of his armor breaks. If they're remotely smart, they should increase block proficiency/health/resistence as well, so then it's actually balanced.
- Everyone's complaining about Cull, but everyone seems to forget that there's an actual significant buff coming to Ebony Maw, who already has way more utility than Cull; if he can deal damage, he'll actually be a really good power control/nullify champ.
- Rank-down tickets aren't coming. New champs are liable to change. We know this. They announced it. Right or wrong, we can stop complaining. We're not getting them. This isn't She-Hulk
- This is a bad business model. TEST YOUR CHAMPS BEFORE RELEASING THEM. Hire someone who actually plays the game. I recommend KT1. Maybe Brian Grant. Lagacy. People like that who actually know what they're talking about. This is a very stupid way to go about it.
I withhold judgement until I actually see what the changes are, but I'm not extremely upset about it; at the same time I can see that it's stupid. This is why the average player needing good champs shouldn't spend money on crystals. EVER. Those should be for Collectors. This will hurt Kabam's bottom line though, so go Kabam! Great work!I think Kabam has reached a point finally where the push to get new champions out every month, exciting champions that will drive demand and dollars, is outweighing their own capabilities to test all of those champions in a 4+ year old game. I mean think about it, all the work that goes into developing 2 champions for release every month has to be crazy. But now we're in a situation where there's a lot of "balancing" and "tuning" and even specific rank down tickets recently given out for changes. So much so, the need was so great to actually test and fix their champs that they announced a 3 month window to try and change newer champs quicker. But it wasn't like those champs weren't up for changes after that window, that's how it's been before this was announced. I won't drag out the long list of champions who have been changed, or bring up 12.0 again because it's been litigated on here and other places many times.
What we have now is a situation where new players have an announcement from Kabam telling them that new featured champs each month are subject to changes and "balancing." Older players remember the dramas over so many characters and previous cycles of this, and now recently had to get outraged to move kabam to give rank down tickets to a champ who ALREADY HAD BEEN REWORKED/BALANCED, only to have them changed months later and remove a key function for hard content. People complained during that debate that they had zero confidence going forward that new or even old champs wouldn't be subject to the change/nerf/balance/tune hammer.
I have been very vocal over the years on the forum about situations and changes like this, others have too and sometimes it was met with the right decisions at Kabam, sometimes not (dormammu and archangel wave hi from the corner). I'm currently sitting on enough resources to take another 5 star to rank 5, or a six star to rank 2. I pulled Domino a short while ago, and immediately she was my choice to rank all the way out as quick as possible. Then all these changes started happening and the She Hulk situation happened. Now Cull is announced. What confidence should I have at this point that she isn't going to be announced on the rebalance list and my rank decision wouldn't be the same as it might have been after? Should I wait? If I don't have confidence in her being kept as is, why should I have it about any other champion I would consider taking to rank 5?
Why should anyone playing have any confidence they will do it correctly, actually balanced, or if they will be feeling benevolent and side with those asking for rank down tickets? At this point it looks like it's going to be a big blow up every time. Meanwhile, people have lost confidence in going for a new shiny awesome champ when they're coming 2 a month, and if that champion is working properly from the start or will get changed a few months later once the dollars and content creator videos reveal something is too good with them. So people stop wanting to get crystals or grind on releases, and they stop ranking champs because they don't know if it's gonna be a waste with no return on investment, and what do you have left? Not much of a working model for a game going into it's 5th year. It's not sustainable. At least it doesn't seem that way to me. Meanwhile, I'm left not ranking anyone because I can't decide, I have ranking PTSD cuz i just had to take down my new rank 4 shehulk last week, and I'm already burnt out from war and quest in perpetuity.
Now, if they came out and immediately said "if we reduce his damage in any way, we will provide rank down materials, no questions" then I think a lot of the outrage you are seeing here would be diminished. But at the moment we have no guarantee on anything to do with these decisions, while it seems to be the community doing the majority of the testing and bug finding to even come to a conclusion on who deserves tuning or not. Someone up the leadership ladder at kabam cannot think this is a good sustainable way to keep loyal players and their money, and I wonder how long this can go on before something just gives.
If you nerf(or balancing like you say) cull, I don’t need rank down tickets or any compensations. Because I just quit this game. I’d like to thank you for giving me the chance to stop spending money.
Also one thing I will say is we don’t see how many health pots were used before that fight to ramp up and again like I said due to the nature of this node ramping up will be easier in 6.2.3 compared to the rest of act 6
You are setting yourselves up for a class action lawsuit.
I'm no lawyer myself, but in our current sue happy civilization, I have no doubt what you are doing violates a number of ethical laws, which someone fresh out of law school could clean you out for.
This goes beyond rank down tickets, as they only refund in game resources. Many of us spend real money to purchase crystals for these new champs though, only for you to later "tweak" them in a fashion detrimental to the player.
Could you imagine buying a new phone advertising lighting fast 5G LTE, only to have the manufacturer tell you six months later "That data rate is too fast.... we're turning off the 5G and putting you back at 4G permanently." You'd be back at the store raising cane in no time.
If I were you, the practice going forward should be two-fold:
1) No champion currently released is tuned "down". Feel free to tune up, that's your choice, and no summoner would complain.
2) If going forward, this is a policy Kabam would like to enforce, then during that 3 month period of data analysis, you should not sell crystals advertising a champion. Simply put, use your content creators as 3-month beta testers of new content, such that you're happy with the character you release, when you release him.
P.S. As others have already stated, Cull isn't over powered. I have him at 5/65 sig 200, and frankly, I barely use him, cause he's nearly dead by the time he's ramped up to do the damage you claim is over powered. Any down tuning you implement will go from "barely used" to "never used".
How and why do you keep doing this? If cull gets nerfed at ALL in ANY way...then give all my units backs for the crystals to get him...and then dupe him...and then my 150 dig stones I pumped into him and all my cats and rank up materials plus my gold....this is beginning to really piss us off to no end as players!! The dude was a health pot pit..and not worth **** until 2-3 fights now...take anything away from him and I don’t want him as a r5 period
Y'all just silly