The Character Age List:

Unknown

The idea is that the characters are listed, with the last update to their abilities and date of update afterwards. If the change was not listed in the patch notes, I don't have it unfortunately. This does not include blanket changes, such as HP adjustments, or cosmetic changes.

Updated. Eventually caved and just used forum post dates for the characters, as there seemed to be no concrete release date on several characters. Feel free to reply or PM with any corrections.

This is currently only for the 3 rarity. I may eventually do the other rarity levels if that seems like something people want.

All Dates done by US practice, MM/DD/YY.

Name/Last Change/Forum Release Date/Days since last update as of 9/5/15

Special 4/17/15 8/28/14 141 days
R61 9/24/14 2/21/14 346 days
R78 6/22/15 11/9/13 75 days
[No changes] 10/23/14 317 days
R77 6/4/15 5/20/15 93 days
R78 6/22/15 7/16/14 75 days
R71 2/19/15 9/7/14 198 days
[No Changes] 2/12/15 205 days
R60 9/9/14 4/4/14 361 days
Special 12/11/14 1/24/14 268 days
R79 7/8/15 7/26/14 59 days
R71 2/19/15 11/18/13 198 days
Special 4/17/15 9/24/14 151 days
[No Changes] 11/18/14 291 days
[No Changes] 4/1/14 522 days
Special 3/23/15 2/23/15 166 days
[No Changes] 10/24/13 681 days
R78 6/22/15 3/23/15 75 days
Special 12/9/14 10/10/13 214 days
[No Changes] 12/23/14 256 days
R60 9/9/14 11/11/13 361 days
R78 6/22/15 11/5/14 75 days
[No Changes] 2/11/14 571 days
[No Changes] 4/7/15 151 days
Special 3/12/15 10/29/13 177 days
[No Changes] 11/18/14 291 days
Special 5/8/14 4/14/14 485 days
Special 7/15/15 4/22/15 52 days
Special 11/14/14 5/19/14 295 days
R78 6/22/15 4/28/14 75 days
Special 5/23/14 10/31/13 470 days
[No Changes] 1/14/15 234 days
[No Changes] 3/20/14 534 days
[No Changes] 4/28/14 495 days
Special 11/14/14 11/5/13 295 days
R67 12/15/14 12/19/13 264 days
Special 7/21/15 12/5/13 46 Days
[No Changes] 3/5/14 549 days
R81 7/31/15 5/6/15 36 days
R46 1/21/14 1/8/14 592 days

This post will be updated later with more info, just wanted to put up what I found while scouring the patch notes.

ZootSax

Just to clarify, by "launch date" are you referring to when they were added to heroic tokens (which is what I assume, given your dates referencing the specific version releases, with several characters having the same day), when their release PVE concluded or when they were first available in event tokens (I forget when characters started being included in their release tokens, but it seemed like that was something that only started in the past ~6 months or so)?

In any case, I like the idea...

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ZootSax wrote:

Just to clarify, by "launch date" are you referring to when they were added to heroic tokens (which is what I assume, given your dates referencing the specific version releases, with several characters having the same day), when their release PVE concluded or when they were first available in event tokens (I forget when characters started being included in their release tokens, but it seemed like that was something that only started in the past ~6 months or so)?

In any case, I like the idea...

None of the above are launch dates, they are the most recent changes to the characters. Launch Date, I mean by when they were first obtainable/added to game. Generally speaking, the idea is to obtain a grasp on who's been present the longest without any visible balance adjustments.

dkffiv

Blade was right around Halloween 2014, IM40 was like the first 3* added (probably Oct or Nov 2013). QS was a week or two before SW, Storm was 2 weeks after She Hulk?

Vhailorx

This is a great idea. But I think that more metadata would be useful. So when listing the last date of a change, it would be helpful to know what that change was. So for punisher, you have him listed as July 21, 2015, which was the last change for him. but it was a very minor change (judgment no longer targets the outer row/column of tiles so it always destroys all 9, an improvement we still need for switch). Other than that small tweak, he has been unchanged forever.

That's different from someone like beast, who was a completely different (and useless) character prior to the last change dated April 14.

Also, to avoid confusion since this forum has plenty of europeans and others who always write the dates backwards, should probably make clear that you are using the (proper and correct, but completely nonsensical) american format of mm/dd/yyyy.

Unknown

Updated. It was hard to track down a "launch" list that wasn't spread over multiple sources, so I went ahead and used the individual character threads start date, barring a few exceptions.

Listing the individual meta data would be a longer term project, as I'll have to go back through the patch notes again and run links, and then that would include several characters seeing multiple hits. Daken would likely be the worst offender of the bunch. I mainly wanted to present a visible "This long since noted adjustment" age, and a majority of these are small tweaks, and in fact, possibly smaller than Punisher's. Deadpool was the one I really questioned adding at all, since it was bundled with Thing and their Leap Forward mechanics, but I stuck with my rule of "If it changed, the developers looked and adjusted, so it gets listed" for the list. There have been very few "complete revamps" , especially after the first year, from what I saw, but I guess revamp is a matter of personal opinion.

This isn't to say that some of the characters were just released into the wild and ignored for eternity, I highly doubt that is the case, personally.

If anyone sees anything I missed and has a source, please feel free to pm me or reply to this thread, so I can update it.

mindsuckr

As someone who has only been playing for a few months, this is really cool to see. I always thought characters like Iron Fist had been around forever, but I come to see they are only 6 months old.

Alx85

A 4star age list would be handy given the new ddq legendary token node. I'd like to know which 4star to pour ISO into for the next few days. We had wolverine then nick fury, not sure if these are chronological or random? Assume thoress or invisible woman is next maybe??

Unknown

That actually may not be helpful for predicting DDQ schedule, as it's been stated the release schedule is -not- the DDQ schedule, it just lined up that way for the first few 4 stars.

Malcrof

LThor and Lcap are 2 of the oldest.. and still 2 of the best. Nice to see that got a couple right, from the start!

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Malcrof wrote:

LThor and Lcap are 2 of the oldest.. and still 2 of the best. Nice to see that got a couple right, from the start!

I think this ties into the 2 star tier just being better balanced across the board over all. There's not really a "bad" character in that bunch, IMO, and I suspect if they were all "Lazied" up to 3 star they'd be pretty good in that tier as well, aside from maybe Bullseye. (And I bet some would argue 2 star Bullseye is better than 3 star, actually.)

Spiritclaw

Iron Man seems to be the oldest of all, and could use a little love. His blue is too pricey for what it does, and his yellow doesn't get better with more covers -- in fact, many people state yellow is actually better with fewer covers.

Malcrof

Haetron wrote:

Malcrof wrote:

(And I bet some would argue 2 star Bullseye is better than 3 star, actually.

3* bullseye has become one of my go-to 3*s, and i plan on getting him to 166 the next time he is boosted.. he is a machine, good damage, great strike tiles, and being able to setup match 5's and other cascades, all for fairly low AP costs.. I will definitely argue this one

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Malcrof wrote:

Haetron wrote:

Malcrof wrote:

(And I bet some would argue 2 star Bullseye is better than 3 star, actually.

3* bullseye has become one of my go-to 3*s, and i plan on getting him to 166 the next time he is boosted.. he is a machine, good damage, great strike tiles, and being able to setup match 5's and other cascades, all for fairly low AP costs.. I will definitely argue this one

I definitely like 3Bull, myself, as well, if for nothing more than his passive animation. He just looks so happy to be taking down people. His purple is solid, and his green is one of the more finesse abilities in the game.