MPQ 12th Anniversary Celebrations

@DAZ0273 said:
I found it interesting how they are just throwing 5* Ghost Rider at us in the season pass. I guess it could just be that GR is a bit average but even so don't remember them chucking this level of 5* covers at us for what amounts to 1500 HP. I like it and hope it continues of course but it does beg the question is this a one off or are we suddenly going to see a flood of ways to get 5* covers moving forward.

In a game where 5s are now the second most powerful tier then giving some away in the pass makes sense. Especially since you need premium to really get all of the covers. Based on our sneak peek 6s will be extremely powerful and 5s are 4s in comparative power level.

There are 112 5s now. If they did this every season that’s just 13 a year. Leaving 99, currently, you’d still need to acquire elsewhere.

It certainly makes a stronger argument for spending the 1500 hp for premium.

I’d celebrate knowing potentially something really important…like who is getting nerfed and who is getting buffed, otherwise these vaults feel like traps in my opinion.

@MANIMAL72 said:
Where are the fan favorites stores!? I was really looking forward to tho se, that is how I really build my roster! WORST anniversary ever if they don’t show up!!!

S0kun said that the nerf/rebalance info is coming this week. Well, here we are on Friday, so probably today.

In any case it’s basically been promised that some of the Fan Favorites will be “carefully rebalanced” and I assume the devs decided to hold off putting up stores focused on several characters who are about to be diminished. A whole lot of people would get mighty POd if they hoarded for a year and their shiny new Shang Chi was made mid-tier and basically useless. For example (I do not know who’s being nerfed.)

I don’t understand why any characters need to be nerfed if they are introducing 6* into the game. Not everyone is in a position to chase 6’s plus 5* and ascended 4* are who you’re bringing into fight against 6* when there are enough in the game.iWe spend all our time getting rewards to level up the metas only to be cut down. Don’t nerf, just come up with better characters to counter. That’s what will make the game fun and challenging

Three key reasons to nerf meta characters:

1. They are boring to see over and over in so many queues and we don’t know how the PvP meta game will evolve and whether they’ll successfully have bands of tiers. But in any case it’s probably overdue to have a space where there aren’t like 5 utterly dominant toons when there are 380+.
2. If the existing metas can just slowly cruise through new SCL 10 then it makes chasing 6s seem sorta beside the point for many players. So that would be a reason to make them less able to do that.
3. In general you want players to feel like they need to chase new people and the game has set up a situation where super old toons can carry you through most of the game’s content.

That said lots of people will be mad and I think this move, while overdue, will knock a decent chunk of the playerbase off.

Losing players should never be a goal

@DAZ0273 said:
All that said, we do have a 1000CP store with a Rank 4 Thanos Copter in it, a Support that is supposedly getting nerfed. Mixed signals.

I wish they would just get the nerf news over and done with. I guess a Friday is as good as time so they can duck out the office when the abuse comes flying in!

I bought this in a nanosecond.

The 2 Ascended 3-4s were ones I needed (I missed pulling Torch during the FF monthly quests). Plus 75 Galactus shards, 10 Classic/Latest tokens, 2 Roster slots (for those 2 ascended characters), some 4 star Doom covers and the Copter. The Copter is the only thing I didn't need so it just became 80 favorite shards.

KGB

Until we see the nerfs we can't tell how big a deal they are.

For one thing, they could nerf characters only in PvP and leave them alone in PvE. How you ask? Well they could put limits on how often powers (active and passive) trigger in a turn. In PvE they could leave it set as unlimited and in PvP they could say limit MThors powers to 2x a turn so you could at most fire each power 2x in a turn. Same with Polaris, they could limit her passive to say 3x in a turn, her active Blue to 2x a turn and so on. Setting limits would end all the winfinites in PvP (something the original PQ did on the XBox so PvP wasn't whomever went first wins).

KGB

@BriMan2222 said:

@KGB said:
Until we see the nerfs we can't tell how big a deal they are.

For one thing, they could nerf characters only in PvP and leave them alone in PvE. How you ask? Well they could put limits on how often powers (active and passive) trigger in a turn. In PvE they could leave it set as unlimited and in PvP they could say limit MThors powers to 2x a turn so you could at most fire each power 2x in a turn. Same with Polaris, they could limit her passive to say 3x in a turn, her active Blue to 2x a turn and so on. Setting limits would end all the winfinites in PvP (something the original PQ did on the XBox so PvP wasn't whomever went first wins).

KGB

They can't even get daily quests to work properly and you think they're capable of having each character run as essentially 2 characters with different abilities based on whether you're playing pvp or pve????? If they even attempted to do this they would probably break the game entirely.

It's not that at all. It's still 1 character with 1 ability. Just limits on each ability (passive/active). You can set the limit to 1,000,000 (essentially infinite) or as low as 1 (once per turn). Other than adding code to track how often a power triggers per turn there is nothing else required other than check vs the allowed limit.

KGB