Character Rebalance - Polaris (Lorna Dane) 4*

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  • Tpsimoes
    Tpsimoes Posts: 86 Match Maker

    @KGB said:
    TBH, they should have started out this nerf ONLY on the ascended Polaris and left the 4 star version alone. That version is useless in PvP and the 4 star version still would have value for newer rosters and PvE.

    No idea why that wasn't the first cut on her.

    KGB

    1000% Agree on this

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,848 Chairperson of the Boards

    Yeah that would have been a sensible option. Sure those of us who ascended her lose out but I think our rosters can cope truth be told.

  • rg72
    rg72 Posts: 134 Tile Toppler

    Anyone able to fire her purple power since nerf?

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,848 Chairperson of the Boards

    @rg72 said:
    Anyone able to fire her purple power since nerf?

    I have it flashing right now and nothing is happening, lol! Another broken mess. sigh. So until this gets fixed she is just a stun merchant. I haven't checked if blue works though actually...

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,848 Chairperson of the Boards

    Blue still works! Huzzah!

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,848 Chairperson of the Boards

    Obviously she is broken at present so this might change but she plays noticeably worse than before.

  • LHammer
    LHammer Posts: 115 Tile Toppler

    Something that is being overlooked is that Polaris also "broke" about a dozen more characters because they were designed with powers that were supposed to counter her, not just be useful in their own right. We need justice for all the characters burdened with "this will stop Polaris" abilities (which of course didn't).

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,601 Chairperson of the Boards

    That chain of uselessness is funny to consider. Sabretooth I would say remains pretty good because he can create his own enemy strikes. Kraven probably less so, not being able to feed his own passive and it not draining as fast as any of the boosters always had him at a disadvantage. Morbius may be okay, I never really used him due to relative level issues.

  • skittledaddy
    skittledaddy Posts: 1,024 Chairperson of the Boards

    Sabretooth (May 2019) and Kraven (Jan 2018) were not released as Polaris counters. They both were in-game before she was (Aug 2020). If anything, they were Rocket&Groot counters.

  • skittledaddy
    skittledaddy Posts: 1,024 Chairperson of the Boards

    entrailbucket said:

    skittledaddy said:

    allen_koholic said:
    Why now? Why not years ago, before she was in every offer?

    Because then they wouldn't have made as much money off of her.

    No doubt she was on their nerf list already, but once she was overwhelming their precious new 6* in this weekend's Boss Event (and my Polaris isn't even ascended!!), it was clear she had to go NOW/first.

    They've unleashed a host of counters for her, but they can't make people use them enough to taper her use. They couldn't beat her, so they had to cheat her.

    Long live Queen Polaris!!

    The idea of the developers (who control literally everything about the game and can do whatever they want whenever they want) "cheating" is honestly hilarious. Whose rules are they breaking?

    How much money did you spend on your non-ascended Polaris?

    If they don't fix this purple bug (like so many other un-addressed ability bugs), then they are definitely cheating her.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,475 Chairperson of the Boards

    @LHammer said:
    Something that is being overlooked is that Polaris also "broke" about a dozen more characters because they were designed with powers that were supposed to counter her, not just be useful in their own right. We need justice for all the characters burdened with "this will stop Polaris" abilities (which of course didn't).

    Most of these guys stink anyway and never did much to stop her. The useful ones are still useful against Sam, which is still very relevant!

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,858 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 16 October 2025, 17:20

    Okay, so I just ran her with rocket to complete the make special tiles quest and I have to say that it looks like reports of her death have been greatly exaggerated. I used a purple ap support and boosts and fire her purple immediately to get her into special tile mode.

    She's not quite as spammy as before, but she still makes plenty and different types of tiles count individually. So if you match a shield tile and strike tile in one match, she makes 2 more shields and 2 more protects and does the hits of damage.

    Her blue is unchanged and still great. So basically, I lost the additional extra beginning of turn hit and she can't spam to infinity, but she still spams plenty. Overall I think this a good balance.

  • skittledaddy
    skittledaddy Posts: 1,024 Chairperson of the Boards

    @BriMan2222 said:
    Okay, so I just ran her with rocket to complete the make special tiles quest and I have to say that it looks like reports of her death have been greatly exaggerated. I used a purple ap support and boosts and fire her purple immediately to get her into special tile mode.

    She's not quite as spammy as before, but she still makes plenty and different types of tiles count individually. So if you match a shield tile and strike tile in one match, she makes 2 more shields and 2 more protects and does the hits of damage.

    Her blue is unchanged and still great. So basically, I lost the additional extra beginning of turn hit and she can't spam to infinity, but she still spams plenty. Overall I think this a good balance.

    Did it let you fire her purple?
    Everywhere I have read (and my own experience confirmed it) is that her purple is bugged and won't fire.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,858 Chairperson of the Boards

    @skittledaddy said:

    @BriMan2222 said:
    Okay, so I just ran her with rocket to complete the make special tiles quest and I have to say that it looks like reports of her death have been greatly exaggerated. I used a purple ap support and boosts and fire her purple immediately to get her into special tile mode.

    She's not quite as spammy as before, but she still makes plenty and different types of tiles count individually. So if you match a shield tile and strike tile in one match, she makes 2 more shields and 2 more protects and does the hits of damage.

    Her blue is unchanged and still great. So basically, I lost the additional extra beginning of turn hit and she can't spam to infinity, but she still spams plenty. Overall I think this a good balance.

    Did it let you fire her purple?
    Everywhere I have read (and my own experience confirmed it) is that her purple is bugged and won't fire.

    It fired for me.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,848 Chairperson of the Boards

    @BriMan2222 said:

    @skittledaddy said:

    @BriMan2222 said:
    Okay, so I just ran her with rocket to complete the make special tiles quest and I have to say that it looks like reports of her death have been greatly exaggerated. I used a purple ap support and boosts and fire her purple immediately to get her into special tile mode.

    She's not quite as spammy as before, but she still makes plenty and different types of tiles count individually. So if you match a shield tile and strike tile in one match, she makes 2 more shields and 2 more protects and does the hits of damage.

    Her blue is unchanged and still great. So basically, I lost the additional extra beginning of turn hit and she can't spam to infinity, but she still spams plenty. Overall I think this a good balance.

    Did it let you fire her purple?
    Everywhere I have read (and my own experience confirmed it) is that her purple is bugged and won't fire.

    It fired for me.

    Just tried it now and not doing anything? Maybe we are missing something (apart from y'know it working)

  • Jash735
    Jash735 Posts: 157 Tile Toppler

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @BriMan2222 said:

    @skittledaddy said:

    @BriMan2222 said:
    Okay, so I just ran her with rocket to complete the make special tiles quest and I have to say that it looks like reports of her death have been greatly exaggerated. I used a purple ap support and boosts and fire her purple immediately to get her into special tile mode.

    She's not quite as spammy as before, but she still makes plenty and different types of tiles count individually. So if you match a shield tile and strike tile in one match, she makes 2 more shields and 2 more protects and does the hits of damage.

    Her blue is unchanged and still great. So basically, I lost the additional extra beginning of turn hit and she can't spam to infinity, but she still spams plenty. Overall I think this a good balance.

    Did it let you fire her purple?
    Everywhere I have read (and my own experience confirmed it) is that her purple is bugged and won't fire.

    It fired for me.

    Just tried it now and not doing anything? Maybe we are missing something (apart from y'know it working)

    I was using either 2 or 3 star Thor today and had 8 red AP but I couldn’t fire it. I was able to fire other powers on the same turn and fired his red on the next turn.

  • Godzillafan67
    Godzillafan67 Posts: 740 Critical Contributor

    @BriMan2222 said:
    Okay, so I just ran her with rocket to complete the make special tiles quest and I have to say that it looks like reports of her death have been greatly exaggerated. I used a purple ap support and boosts and fire her purple immediately to get her into special tile mode.

    She's not quite as spammy as before, but she still makes plenty and different types of tiles count individually. So if you match a shield tile and strike tile in one match, she makes 2 more shields and 2 more protects and does the hits of damage.

    Her blue is unchanged and still great. So basically, I lost the additional extra beginning of turn hit and she can't spam to infinity, but she still spams plenty. Overall I think this a good balance.

    I played her without any purple supports and no AP boosts. Definitely a clunker since you have to get 5 purple before she can do the usual and important thing. It would be interesting to see her use stats, though I'm sure most that use her will simply work around the imposed limitations.

  • icarusmonkey
    icarusmonkey Posts: 45 Just Dropped In

    I checked on my own account and those of two other alliance members, and purple does nothing for any of us ...

  • Bustapup
    Bustapup Posts: 255 Mover and Shaker
    edited 17 October 2025, 12:21

    This nerf has literally done nothing to reduce her effectiveness because her kit starts with resonance as default, that's what gets the MThor, bill engine going and it still happens on turn one so the "nerf" it's pointless

    If she had to cast her people to enable resonance that would be adequate but the Devs are clearly too scared to upset the Polaris simps

    If this is a sign of things to come with "rebalancing" then I'm not optimistic in the slightest

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,601 Chairperson of the Boards

    Ascended 5* Polaris with a 5* low level ai is noticeably but not unusably slower now, so I guess that is a job well done? Time will tell I imagine.

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