New Emerald FAQ!

[Musketeer]

@Musketeer

All secondary stats given by Emerald should be at the maximum effectiveness, and not as now, useless 15 or 50 evasion, and crits in amounts which never allows to super crit.

Normal And Fantastic Crit: 200
Crit Damage: 100
Evasion and Tenacity: 90
Armor and Reality Negation: 100
The extra values of 800 should remain as now, this is fine, it allows debuffs to not taking full control.

Another thing…

I don’t understand the reason to have 5 tiers when heroes only have tier 1, 3, or 5.
Tiers should change their purpose and instead decide how many new secondary stats can hero gain.
Tiers 2 and 4 should be removed completely, and reduce number of tiers to 3.

Thus…
Tier 1 Heroes can gain 4 Secondary Stats
Tier 2 Heroes can gain 3 Secondary Stats
Tier 3 Heroes can gain 2 Secondary Stats

And finally… Ambition should be completely removed, and previous secondary stats should be unaffected by Emerald. Emerald only should give NEW secondary stats (or improving preexisting ones) not replacing them completely, making heroes which had all secondary stats working like for Hiro or Dash getting nothing and making them completely useless.

@Samm @TheGrillFather @Polaris

I was happy before that Basil will be finally able to get working Negation and Evasion (with previously fully working Normal Crit and Crit Damage). Now he has half working Evasion and Negation which barely does anything, and his crit stats aren’t working at all, congratulations, he is even worse now.

As for now, I will keep heroes at Y30, Emerald is a HUGE downgrade and nerf to all heroes.

Emerald is simply a downgrade. Many heroes become much worse, and it would be nice if you, PB, would listen to players…

You keep trying to explain that heroes gain more secondary against non-Emerald heroes, but you clearly don’t see the heroes are put at a disadvantage against meta and the remainder of the game.
Bless you, PB, I am surely happy that my Emerald heroes have more advantage against Purple heroes…?? This whole Emerald has huge potential, but of course, it ended poorly, which is very sad

Ambition is completely not needed.

[Samm]

Thank you for the feedback, everyone! Constructive criticisms are crucial in helping us identify the areas we need to improve for Emerald to be a valuable part of the game. We have our Dev Q & A on Friday this week where we’ll be able to really dissect the feedback and come up with a game plan for moving forward.

[The_Real_Numi]

@Hypersayia

Now that I’ve said this out loud, the solution seems obvious. Rather than a full blown “back to zero” state, ambition should make the level dependent stats a reasonable amount by default.

Crit rate, for instance, could be 50%. Then, if a Tier 1 subclasses into a crit rate, it becomes 50+90 = 140%.

I see three ways of moving forward:

1. Current way. Which is very bad.

2. Ambition works as is (maybe with boosted tiers or deleted 3-5, or both), but the other stats have half the effectiveness if from Base Stats. (Example, if the Evasion stat is 501 aka 111 above the max, the Evasion % would be 55.5 = 390 + 1/2 x (501-390)

3. Ambition is changed to 390 and heroes only gain subclasses stats via ambition. The rest is unaffected.

[Prince_Phillip_LXV]

Thats great an all that youre finally listening to our feedback and admitting there is something that makes doesn’t Emerald

@Samm

a valuable part of the game

The next question is:

How long before changes are implemented?
Because to be honest, I am not sure how many people are going to stick around using either broken Emerald heroes or outdated Y30 heroes for six months…

[SparkleBunny]

My old Duke Caboom and Bo Peep wondering whay happened.