Demiurge_Will wrote: Hi, all, Will here from Demiurge to let you know about an upcoming change to Moonstone’s Control Shift power. To refresh your memory, Control Shift steals an enemy Countdown tile and stuns the enemy if there are none. Upgrades increase the stun and can shorten the Countdown. Control Shift can lead to some great stories (like that time Miles stole a Recovery Countdown from Wolverine (X-Force)), but it has a lot of drawbacks: It’s situational and complicated for a 2-star. It’s expensive to fire at 17 AP. The nature of the power doesn’t lend itself well to a clean, understandable upgrade path. And it adds development and testing effort to every power that uses a Countdown tile in a new way, creating bugs and taking time away from other features we could be developing. We fought to make it work for a long time because it can lead to cool moments, but ultimately a simpler, less expensive ability makes more sense for this character. The cost of Control Shift is decreasing from 17 to 9, and the power now steals enemy special tiles: At level 1, 1 Attack tile. At level 2, 1 Attack or Protect tile. At level 3, 2 Attack or Protect tiles. At level 4, 2 Attack, Protect, or Strike tiles. At level 5, 3 Attack, Protect, or Strike tiles. (As always, these numbers might change between now and when the change goes live as a result of further testing.) Whenever we make significant changes to a character, we increase their sell price. That’ll be true for Moonstone, too: her sell price will increase (to roughly 50% of the Iso-8 that was needed to level her up, or the current sell price when that’s better) for 2-4 weeks when the change happens. We expect this change to happen in a patch the middle of next week.
TLCstormz wrote: (i'll also try to be as pleasant as possible, for Goth) 2. If you all could STOP releasing new characters so often and work on our existing ones that will help us and NOT harm us (Moonstone and Bullseye do not fall into that category, nor does nerfing 1*s or 2*s, buffing Spidey, Mohawk, GSBW, and Punisher does (but more effectively than Ock and Beast, pls)), that would also be greatly appreciated.
TLCstormz wrote: 1. If her buyback INCLUDES some HP, that would be greatly appreciated.
Demiurge_Will wrote: TLCstormz wrote: 1. If her buyback INCLUDES some HP, that would be greatly appreciated. The increased sell price is just Iso-8. The idea behind the increased sell prices is that it's an opportunity to reclaim a portion of the resources you've invested in a character when they change, so that you can invest them elsewhere, but virtually no one has invested Hero Points to upgrade Moonstone's powers.