Character Rotations For Season IX (*Updated)

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So that means Punisher is out for the 3rd season in a row? What did he do to deserve that... punishment?

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Why take out BP, PSY and Daken when IW, Beast and She-Hulk are still in? Seems to me that the last 3 I mentioned need a rework more than the first 3. Personally, I'm screwed cause most of the chars I have 5-7 covers on are now out.

Since this rotation thing seems to satisfy you, can we at least hit the breaks on new chars for a month or two? You got plenty material to work and balance in my opinion and we got more than enough to play for. Anyway, thanks for the heads up. Enjoy your Season drops everyone!

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Cryptobrancus wrote:

Realcrap wrote:

NorthernPolarity wrote:

dearbluey wrote:

Maybe he's bulking up (more health?)

I'm pretty sure it's just flavor and nothing else. Don't think we'll be seeing any changes to Patch.

So... no Patch patch?

Patch accidentally tore his patch while frolicking in the berry patch. In the upcoming patch patch will have a patch on his patch and a new found respect for picking berries with impaired depth perception.

smoq84

Buuu... When I at least started to build roster with >100lvls, most of my highest chars are rotating out (hopefully they will return stronger).
And from the chars which are rotating in I have only Patch...

Bad luck for me...


But I have another question... I couldn't find any topic with full list of rotated out characters at the moment (because there are more of them, right?) - is there anything like that?

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Thank god they improved DareDevil, i like a lot this character!!! And a third ability for Loki is awesome he is super-fun to play with his purple!!!Love those changes.

y2fitzy

When they first announced the vaulting of characters, my most covered 3* were Patch and Punisher at six covers each. It was frustrating to have them taken out of the token pool, but hey, the vets had been lobbying for tokens to be updated and it was finally happening so I couldn't be too upset really. Plenty more 3* in the sea and all that.

Couple months on and I've been really lucky, building a few 3* that are now semi-usable. I have 8 covers for Psylocke (including 5 black which makes her fantastic for an early transitioner like me), 7 for GSBW, 8 for Daken (still no pink sadly, so he lives forever but does no damage) and 9 for IM40.

And those are all the guys being taken away from next season. Super.

I understand the need to vault, as a short term option. And having Loki and Daredevil (who is my favourite Marvel character) improved is great. But once again with this vaulting stuff, the overriding feeling is one of utter disappointment and frustration. I don't expect top 10s or to immediately be scoring 3000 in PVP. But having played this game for a good few months, and spent a few quid on it, it's just gutting to have these arbitrary roadblocks to progress put up.

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Just a proposition. Continue vaulting characters but do not rule them out from event rewards. Just give us an option of reaching them somehow. Do not completely remove them from the game.

Sandilord

Character rotation is utter ****. I simply don't understand how they can't find a better solution. And why would characters need to be out of rotation to be worked on in the shadows? This does not. make. sense.
Ldaken en BP....****.

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Okin107 wrote:

Just a proposition. Continue vaulting characters but do not rule them out from event rewards. Just give us an option of reaching them somehow. Do not completely remove them from the game.

This is why I think the rotated out characters should be the only 3*s given out from the Lightning Round tokens. Makes those tokens more interesting, and makes the characters available to people trying to finish them off.

rednailz

MarcusGraves wrote:

ouch BP and classic daken taken out of rotation? please no, how about instead of taking out the good ones take out characters like doc oc, beast, colossus or she-hulk that nobody really likes or cares about.

I wouldn't put colossus in that category. He's fun to use and relevant. He's not a top tier pvp guy, but he's a great tank to work into rotation. He's fun to use to throw patches and storms too.You can enter a battle with colossus and have fun or come out ahead...not so much with doc oc or beast

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I'm never going to get a cover ever again. Sigh.

y2fitzy

RefinedBean wrote:

I'm never going to get a cover ever again. Sigh.

Fixed that for you

David [Hi-Fi] Moore

NorthernPolarity wrote:

Will LadyThor be added to the packs as well?

Sorry for the delay on answering - I was waiting for confirmation.

Yes. Thor (Goddess of Thunder) will be added to packs.

NorthernPolarity

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NorthernPolarity wrote:

Will LadyThor be added to the packs as well?

Sorry for the delay on answering - I was waiting for confirmation.

Yes. Thor (Goddess of Thunder) will be added to packs.

Thanks for the response! I had another question regarding this: I saved up a ton of past event tokens to open once LadyThor was added. If I open a Post-Event token (say, the ones for She-Hulk), will those tokens have a chance to have ladythor as well?

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KevinMark wrote:

Cryptobrancus wrote:

Realcrap wrote:

NorthernPolarity wrote:

I'm pretty sure it's just flavor and nothing else. Don't think we'll be seeing any changes to Patch.

So... no Patch patch?

Patch accidentally tore his patch while frolicking in the berry patch. In the upcoming patch patch will have a patch on his patch and a new found respect for picking berries with impaired depth perception.

Patch is bedazzling his patch. Also getting a golden grill and Mr. T style gold chains.

FierceKiwi

NorthernPolarity wrote:

Thanks for the response! I had another question regarding this: I saved up a ton of past event tokens to open once LadyThor was added. If I open a Post-Event token (say, the ones for She-Hulk), will those tokens have a chance to have ladythor as well?

Based on the info from last time yes.

Demiurge_Will wrote:

GrimSkald wrote:

Demiurge_Will wrote:

Simulator pack odds will change when rotation happens, but Nefarious Foes packs will not, due to the way those packs work differently (Nefarious Foes has a one-off pack structure, while the Simulator inherits the base odds that most packs share; those base odds change when we do character rotation, but there's too much risk involved in changing pack odds that are specific to a single event while it's still running).

Oh, that's interesting! Thanks for filling us in. So you're saying that the PVPs get a on-off pack structure that is generated when the event starts, but the PVEs are the standard Heroic pack with modified percentages?

The inside-the-sausage-factory details: most events, both PvE and PvP, inherit from a set of base odds and then make tweaks to them ("feature this character" or "feature this character and increase the odds of these other characters a smaller amount"). A few, and Nefarious Foes is one of them, have a different pack structure than usual and are custom-built. When it's time for character rotation and we change the base odds, most event packs change, but the custom-built ones won't until we run them again. (It would be technically possible to change those packs too, but we want to focus our testing efforts on making sure everything goes smoothly with the majority of packs - we try to measure our efforts in awesomeness-per-person-day, and changing the characters available in that one pack for 12 hours doesn't score highly.)

brisashi

Please put Victor back into rotation soon.

His family misses him.

brisashi

Also, why would you give bagman back to us?

That is just mean.

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So will Loki's Black and Purple powers change or remain the same?

Will Patch's powers change? I'm mainly worried of his healing factor being nerfed...

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Why would Patch possibly be nerfed? He's neither broken nor overpowered. He's a good solid character - on par with Punisher, LCap, and Torch. However, he's hardly at the same tier as top level of 3* characters like Thor, Panther, or Hood.

Healing is powerful. Patch can mow through minions or low level characters. However, he's giving up a power that will actually help win a fight to avoid use of health packs for the next one. He doesn't have particularly high hit points and his active powers are so/so. His green is a randomizer with a 50/50 chance of killing him, and his red is expensive (and only really powerful when he is the last man standing).