Character Rotations For Season XI

Quebbster

Ben Grimm wrote:

Spider-Man was out for a while

No he wasn't. He was just removed from Lightning rounds, but he has been available in tokens since the beginning of the game. From an age perspective, Spider-Man and Hood should go, followed by Falcon. From a utility perspective, Mohawk and Sentry top the list I think.

Unknown

Quebbster wrote:

Ben Grimm wrote:

Spider-Man was out for a while

No he wasn't. He was just removed from Lightning rounds, but he has been available in tokens since the beginning of the game. From an age perspective, Spider-Man and Hood should go, followed by Falcon. From a utility perspective, Mohawk and Sentry top the list I think.

I guess I was remembering that wrong then; I remembered the pulled from lightning rounds as pulled from packs. He should be next to go then.

Unknown

Phantron wrote:

Captain America is out of rotation now? Seriously? He's arguably the best PvE character in the game and someone starting now cannot possibly get him?

I'm all for roster diversity but unless everyone can no longer use Captain America for PvE this isn't even remotely fair and there would literally be no reason for a new person to even attempt PvE starting with a handicap of unable to ever get Captain America.

I'm lost. Even if he wasn't rotated out, people would not suddenly have him cover maxed. So players will do just as well now, as they did the past several months he was in rotation.

spatenfloot

So do vaulted heroes still appear as rewards in events?

yogi_

spatenfloot wrote:

So do vaulted heroes still appear as rewards in events?

Historically, they never have / are not supposed to.

Apart from Thor very recently.

Unknown

Welcome back C.Mags, I look forward to winning 2 for you and FINALLY having a 166 C.Mags.

spatenfloot

yogi_ wrote:

spatenfloot wrote:

So do vaulted heroes still appear as rewards in events?

Historically, they never have / are not supposed to.

Apart from Thor very recently.

Thor is why I am confused. I thought he was vaulted, yet he has been the reward in many recent events.

lokiagentofhotness

Oh good - I see I have more chances to get another Mohawk Storm that I don't want or need.

Meanwhile, useful characters like Daken and Captain Marvel get/remain vaulted.

Unknown

I meant to make this prediction as soon as they rotated out She-Hulk, but since she still isn't coming back yet I'm going to go ahead and make it now:

She-Hulk will get her powers "fixed" so that her green becomes a build-around and her red becomes her worst ability. I have a similar prediction waiting in the wings for IW, but I don't want to give it away. Spoiler Alert: Yellow will become awesome.

Phaserhawk

A temporary solution would be to feature the characters that rotate out as the featured PvE characters, thus being in PvE packs, it would at least give you shots at characters you need.

In the end they are going to have to segment Packs, I still think breaking them up by character type or color is the way to go. You could have all the colored packs. Red packs only give you red skills, so any character that has a red skill is in that pack. You trade colorless tokens in for a color, or they could just randomly give you a color, idc, but the nice part about this is that if you need say a blue Spidey cover, you could start pullin from the blue token pack that way once you do pull Spidey you know it will be blue.

Unknown

Moon 17 wrote:

I meant to make this prediction as soon as they rotated out She-Hulk, but since she still isn't coming back yet I'm going to go ahead and make it now:

She-Hulk will get her powers "fixed" so that her green becomes a build-around and her red becomes her worst ability. I have a similar prediction waiting in the wings for IW, but I don't want to give it away. Spoiler Alert: Yellow will become awesome.

Eh, I don't feel like she's that hard to fix. For the blue, there's a few things I can think of to improve it.
1. Make it only target enemy tiles.
2. Have it affect 5 tiles instead of 3.
3. Put in logic to have it target special tiles if there are any but, if not, place on random tiles.

For green, increase the healing or reduce the AP cost.
Probably don't need to change the red but increasing the base damage would be nice. Maybe even do a CotS type effect where it does twice as much to the main target.

loroku

smoq84 wrote:

We all here know how bad the character rotation is. But we at least know about it.

In my opinion the most unfair is no in-game information about it (at least I don't remember any).
Most of the players are not even aware of such mechanism, every time pulling a token they pray to have a certain character and they don't know it's vaulted for the next few months.
The rotation is invisible for all the players who don't read this forum. This is really mean!

Absolutely +1.

One of my buddies has played this game much longer than me but doesn't visit the forums. He had no idea what vaulting was or that it happened.

Zero in-game communication.

brysonian

Why not rotate out some of the 2 star heroes and expand the 3 star heroes available. I have a bunch of 3 star heroes that i havent been able to get covers for because they are rotated out and dont know how many gold covers i have had to sell because i keep getting the same heroes that are already maxable.

brysonian

Alexraven wrote:

I still think the best thing they could do is have Standards be for 1* and 2* and have Heroics be for 3* and 4*.

There are enough 3*'s now that the chances of you getting characters in colors you need would be low enough that they would not have to worry as much about people skipping the 1-2* phase.

This sounds like a viable solution. Too often I get heroic tokens that are not useful. They need to increase odds for 4 star covers and quit cycling out people that I need covers for. Sadly I think I have been forced to sell off gold covers as often as the 1 and 2 star covers because the list of available characters is so small and they have been cycling out newer people and keeping in people that have been in game for months.

Unknown

To do that they would have to re-evaluate the drop rate of heroic tokens, not something I think they are keen on doing. Instead they SHOULD make a 3*/4* token and a vehicle for handing them out appropriately. Much easier. Call it a Super Heroic Token or something.

SnowcaTT

Lerysh wrote:

Welcome back C.Mags, I look forward to winning 2 for you and FINALLY having a 166 C.Mags.

Pretty sure that should be next, I think they ran yellow and blue before he rotated out.

Although it wouldn't be the first time they skip the same color over and over....

Unknown

SnowcaTT wrote:

Lerysh wrote:

Welcome back C.Mags, I look forward to winning 2 for you and FINALLY having a 166 C.Mags.

Pretty sure that should be next, I think they ran yellow and blue before he rotated out.

Although it wouldn't be the first time they skip the same color over and over....

Blue was definitely the last run - I finally got Mags from 5/0/0 to 5/0/2.

Unknown

SnowcaTT wrote:

Lerysh wrote:

Welcome back C.Mags, I look forward to winning 2 for you and FINALLY having a 166 C.Mags.

Pretty sure that should be next, I think they ran yellow and blue before he rotated out.

Although it wouldn't be the first time they skip the same color over and over....

Between PvE, PvP, progression rewards, and tokens, I'm sure I'll manage somehow.

Unknown

What time does the rotation take place? So far the old characters are still in the packs.

Unknown

Still completely baffled that LDaken will now have been vaulted for 3 straight seasons PLEASE release this guy back!!!