How much would you pay for a respec?

purplemur

So, I gambled and lost: kept my BH as The Thing even though he had 5 in green, got my first bonus in about 6 weeks and of course it was the "special". Instead of expecting colorless covers to ever happen I was thinking about alternatives, and I can't get around wondering why, WHY!?! isn't there a respec mech? I would pay IGC, cash money, perform side quests, trade-in whatever it takes for about 6-10 characters. It would make sense for the devs to offer a store and fleece some more money out of us.

What would you pay to redistribute your covers?

purplemur

I apologize: its my first poll. Is there a way to vote for more than one?

I think its worth a Bugle Pittance(2$) to change your 0/1/5 into a usable 2/2/2.
I would like to see it as a winnable token type, or achievment that you can redeem, but that seems entirely too fair

broll

5$-20$ is whaling?  Ha!  

Dragon_Nexus

I don't know if I'd consider respeccing before championing a solution when they could simply impliment colourless covers or a way to re-roll a cover's colour as a more promising solution.

I am with you in terms of the system needing a change of some kind since I've just pulled my 5th Sandman yellow today, so naturally I'm not going to be lucky enough that his 1/1/5 isn't going to screw me over repeatedly over the coming weeks, but paying money in ISO, HP or actual cash to respec before champing doesn't sit well with me.

Starfury

Great idea.

And as soon as a player has paid for a respec, his account is flagged so that on future pulls for 5/x/x characters he's 50% more likely to receive a 6th cover. I think that's called targetted marketing.

firethorne

I wouldn't pay for anything that should be in the game if the devs respected the players. Hearthstone has recently implemented enhancements where any Legendary draws will be one you don't yet have. While some cards are clearly better than others, you'll never have to sell a Legendary for dust.  It will be guaranteed usable.

Yet another reason I've recently bought Frozen Throne packs, and haven't put a dime into MPQ in months.

Crowl

The price should be a nominal one at most on 4* and lower stars, free on 5* characters.

Spidurman27

I'd pay to respec my 5-2-5 black bolt and start saving iso immediately.   Do me more good than any other purchase.  

Milk Jugz

Spidurman27 said:

I'd pay to respec my 5-2-5 black bolt and start saving iso immediately.   Do me more good than any other purchase.  

If any 5* is worth 720 CP to be able to champ, it's him. I think he's the consensus best as of now in 5* land.

Chrono_Tata

I've always thought these kinds of polls are a bit meaningless because most people are just going to vote much lower than they are actually willing to spend because everybody likes cheap stuff.

ammenell

not a dime.
the time when I supported mpq is long gone, last time I spent real world money was the vision bug

SpringSoldier

I might pay a small amount of ISO or HP, but honestly at least your BH should be a colorless cover or a cover you can use, you should be able to swap 2-4 4* per month and all 5* if they come in duplicates (only if you're at 5/x/x, so we don't have everyone trading Cap and Hulk for Panther or Thanos).

GrumpySmurf1002

I wouldn't pay anything for a 3/4 respec.

For a 5 I'd pay most costs within in reason.  1k HP, 25CP, whatever to avoid selling a 5.

MissChinch

Assuming that the use case for a re-spec would be to avoid selling a 6th cover in a color your hero already has 5 of...  

I consider that cover on the vine a lost cause if the associated character is at 11 or less total covers. 

If its a 4* and at 12 covers, then the current cost to fix that is 120 ISO, which also nets you a specific cover, so the price for a 4* re-spec would have to be under 120 ISO for me to consider using it.  Not only would it have to be under 120CP, but since I value a 4* cover at 20 CP the re-spec would be a wash at 100CP, because the difference would be a specific cover for 20CP.  D3/Demi could incentivize the re-spec by pricing it under 100CP for 4*s.

I think a fair price would be the cost of purchasing a specific cover for that character minus the cost of pulling a cover of that tier:

4*s = (120-20) = 100CP

5*s = (720 - 100) = 620CP  (its just over 50% likely that you will see a 5* cover before you go 5 in a row without)

3*s = ? less than 20 CP for sure, beyond that I don't know.

Xenoberyll

MissChinch said:

I think a fair price would be the cost of purchasing a specific cover for that character minus the cost of pulling a cover of that tier:

4*s = (120-20) = 100CP

5*s = (720 - 100) = 620CP  (its just over 50% likely that you will see a 5* cover before you go 5 in a row without)

3*s = ? less than 20 CP for sure, beyond that I don't know.

I wonder how many people are dumb enough to pay those ridiculous numbers. To me 120cp for a 4 is way too high and 720 for a 5 is insane. 

I'd pay 20-25 cp max.

Pongie

It should really be the champion fee. Make it so any character can be championed (before they are maxed) and then allow respect when championed. No need to implement colourless covers if you can respec at will

Crowl

Pongie said:

It should really be the champion fee. Make it so any character can be championed (before they are maxed) and then allow respect when championed. No need to implement colourless covers if you can respec at will

That seems like a reasonable compromise and assuming they still like rng being involved, they could even gate it behind reaching 5 covers in a single cover so they can still do their messing around with what is given out for new character launches.

Dogface

Why not make it similar to what you can do if a card is championed? Go down one level in one color and up in another color, but with the difference you don't gain any levels. Otherwise it would be too easy. So for example, your Medusa is 5-4-2 (yellow-red-purple), you pull another yellow. You could now use your new yellow to drop one level in yellow and go up one level in purple, resulting in a 4-4-3.
This way any next card would be useable (or at least 2 if you had a 5-5-2 to start with)

I understand this isnt nearly as good as a colorless cover, but i don't see that happen any time soon

My last 3 cp pulls resulted in 6th covers, so i can share the pain when pulling that 6th cover (and probably ending up having to sell it at a measly 1000 iso)

killerkoala

just make colorless cover should be an option