Marvel Puzzle Quest: Character Rebalances - Batch #2 (Nov 13, 2025)

Naah, screw a reputation...

You are all acting like a bunch of babies, grow up and at least TRY to look at it from a different perspective (a balanced one). They barely even hurt Polaris and MThor, haven't even touched Shang yet, made Hawkeye debatably BETTER than Shang and people can't keep seem to accept it.

Did you all really want to play only Shang-Chi and MThor for another ten years? Did you really think they were never going to adjust more characters? Some minor tweaks to characters who aren't even the top of the meta right now and we are like "yeah, that's it, that's the reason I stop playing after years of investment, but I better blast my tantrum all over the forum first, that'll teach em"?

I can understand the the frustration if those 3 characters are ALL you've invested in for years because they've waited years to fix the problem, but holy hell, see the writing on the wall... or in the forums... ADAPT. Or at least be more adult and strategic with your complaints.

It is impossible to know the full motivations for actions taken by the devs, because it's a business and part of their business is to adjust the game to manipulate us for their benefit while making sure it feels at least somewhat fair, and fun; this requires holding back information much of the time.

But, assume:
1. there is a stable-to-shrinking playerbase (inarguably true)
2. there are certain characters who provide reliable, dependable, completely acceptable levels "will win" performance to a large chunk of players (the 90% who aren't chasing T100 in PVE, and possibly some of the ones in T100 level) - who are completely comfortable doing the same thing and barely or not-at-all spending because Old Reliable Teams provide enough of what they want to make them happy
3. The devs need some increase in current revenue
4. The characters are easier to adjust than before (apparently true since they are making adjustments in fairly large numbers whereas before they were rare and usually it was just one character a season)

All those things together point to making changes to characters now, despite every reason they shouldn't (all the bugs etc) because it's likely the options on the table are increase revenue or close it down, and they want to keep it going if they can.

Even though it seems somewhat nonsensical and even though I personally am annoyed that characters I specifically focused on, and faved to 550 or close to it, are becoming a bit worse, there's a logic to trying to push a player base who is comfortable with their favorite old sweatpants, er, characters to try to get something new (sweatpants? characters?) and build it up, which might mean some more spending. This spending won't go up absent some kind of push.

I can't make anyone like it and I can't argue in good faith that this is good timing or a good idea or that anything is being well managed really, but you can certainly see why they'd do this now.

Maybe there was a different way to try to get spending going, but maybe this is actually the easiest/most possible thing to do given their apparent labor restrictions (based on the past 5 months and persisting issues, it seems clear they are down to a minimal crew) so here we are.

I'm really enjoying all the "enlightened gamers" taking victory laps over how reasonable they're being. Must be nice to commit a decade of your life to something and somehow not care about it or your fellow players. You just sound like a Rocky villain to me. "If it dies, it dies."

I’m surprised nobody has yet mentioned the positive aspect of this MThor nerf (yes, you’re reading that right, do not adjust your TV sets).
With her tile destruction and cascading reduced there’s significantly more play space for characters that put unfortified anything on the board, so like 85% or more of them.
You might bring these against MThor and stand a chance of your tile surviving a few turns, which should greatly open up variety, as the devs intend.

On the flip side I’ve used MThor for my PvE clears in strange sites today and she’s still very usable with the right charge tile partners, she just doesn’t remove all enemy SAP and countdown tiles every single turn with as much reliability. Seems like a well judged nerf to me!

TLDR: MThor is worse as intended, but not useless. Hooray!