Quote Originally Posted by RobG-9641 View Post
Sparton's original bulletin points state a need for more diversity in the Arena. This tuning update seems very flawed in achieving that goal. Nerfing characters is unnecessary and unfair. The problem with the Arena is the Arena.

The Arena is repetitive due to Defense requires 4 characters. A way to achieve more variety and balance (since AI is equally unreliable for everyone) is to let players choose 2 Eddies and 6 support characters. The AI would randomly pick an Eddie and 3 teammates at the start of the battle. This will at least add variety and give reason to use characters otherwise not being used on defense.

Another option for Offense is to implement the system of only being able to use a character once in the Arena until game does the daily reset. Inventory can hold 100+ characters. Make skill shards easier to get.

More skill shards and limiting repetition of character usage eliminates need to nerf characters and gives incentive to build up more and different characters.
So I like some of these points you make but...

1) they have made skill shards easier to get than they were a month or so ago... PvP (4 skill shards per month) and Sacrifice (two full vortex meters have given me 8 skill shards since release)

2) I think they might just be trying to add a second Eddie to PvP hence the "not supposed to be released" Eddie switching. At least possibly toying with the idea.

3) limiting the characters you can use in PvP would be like NerFing the feature instead of individual chars IMO. Balancing them (or at least attempting to) does seem like a better way to get more chars into PvP to me.

4) it has been said by others that NerFing chars is pretty standard issue stuff in games like this but it's not nearly as bad in LotB. Now even though I dislike all the changes to toons without the ability to remove skill shards, I'm willing to at least wait to see how these changes work out.

5) I personally don't need incentive to max different toons, that's why I play the game..