Yes, I just made a quick calculation of the ressources I spent to build up a working second team. Luckily, I had all of these champs, some resting in the vault, some being dupes.

Shamael -> starting point 1/4*/ 0 ascended -> 60/6*/6 ascended 

Battlesage -> 50/5*/2 asc -> 54/6*/5 asc

Sinesha -> 50/5*/2asc -> 45/6*/5 asc

Cybelle-> 1/5*/0 asc -> 54/6*/5asc

Ma'shallad-> 1/5*/0asc -> 47*/6*/5 asc

Oboro -> 50/5*/2asc -> 58/6*/5 asc

For all of them I leveled up artifacts which cost me about 50 mio silver. For some of the equip I had to strip other champs. All of them started with zero masteries and now have full masteries.

Altogether, the ressources put into this team are

30 5* chicken, 4 4* chicken

2x 800 gems for masteries

8 leggo books for Ma'shallad  (Dupe) to finally hit his A2 (sigh)

10 Epic books for Shamael (Dupe)

The rest either got no books (Cybele) or had been fully booked before.

around 7.000 energy for Minotaur runs for the rest

36 Superior Arcane Potions, 46 greater Arcane Potions, 58 Superior Aff Potions, 47 Greater Aff Potions

and the most important part: about 20 hours of testing, advancing, equipping, ascending and leveling the champions.

Even without the time I spent, if I do a rough calculation from the offer prices, this is about 500$ in ressources spent into this team.

Would I have build the champs otherwise? Ma'shallad dupe eventually, the rest of them...no.

Yes, a free reset of masteries is nice...but compared to the ressources and time I spent...it is neglectable.

I can tell you that I am very demotivated by this quick change in the mechanics. How shall I trust to build up champs for the Hydra next without having these ressources spent in the back of my mind? How shall I not be hesitant as I do not know whether the game will be changed on a whim again? 

@Trips: Grats on being lazy on this. Sometimes it is really beneficial to wait some weeks.

I put a pretty sizeable amount of resources into this as well. Not quite as many than you, but I spent books and food I had leveled, and a great deal of minotaur runs.

I don't disagree with your points at all.

Looks like I will only be able to use this team exactly one time, today.

I understand the OP frustration, and think changes to masteries that affect the rest of the game instead of tweaking the heads (which they should have done) was a mistake. I also wonder what the play test budget is at times since things often seem to be under-tested.

As for hydra, it is pretty obvious they want this to stretch players, and the last thing they want is to have players able to two key the top boss with ease as so many can on clan boss

Personally i am going to avoid investing too many resources until it has all had time to calm down, i got the top normal and second hard chest this week, but we didnt even down hard so it is fine for now...

Quinn was one of those people I alluded to who I know personally went completely all in as soon as they could to get their comp up and running, and like many others absolutely dumped their resources to get their comp going ASAP. She immediately changed her focus in the game, much like I'm sure tons and tons of others did.

Those resources (and more importantly, time) have real world value and the fact that there was zero communication that anything was coming down the pipeline gets more insane, the more I think about it. People in charge had, or need to know that players were going to expend a ton of resources in hopes of getting successful comps up and running so they could help clear the lower level difficulties out for their clan. 

Resources can be recovered, but I'd imagine for a lot of people they're going to have to change their playstyle for a bit, missed out on doing other things that would better further their account, so on and so forth. But there's no getting back the time spent, and no easy fix in assuring players that their time and resources spent later won't be a waste, given the potential interactions of the different heads with existing champions and masteries in the game. 

The more I think about it, the worse this situation is. The mastery reset is a drop in the bucket, to say the least.

I understand the OP frustration, and think changes to masteries that affect the rest of the game instead of tweaking the heads (which they should have done) was a mistake. I also wonder what the play test budget is at times since things often seem to be under-tested.

As for hydra, it is pretty obvious they want this to stretch players, and the last thing they want is to have players able to two key the top boss with ease as so many can on clan boss

Personally i am going to avoid investing too many resources until it has all had time to calm down, i got the top normal and second hard chest this week, but we didnt even down hard so it is fine for now...

Share your teams for hard. I've been saving my 2 keys waiting for Quinn... now I am screwed 😆 🤣 

I agree with you 100%, but also think it was less than smart to go all in building for the first strategy that was clearly gonna be nerfed somehow. 

My increasing lethargy towards the game continues to help me :) though I am still pissed at my ridiculous stupidity at falling for the double lego trap.  I want to return my legos and get my 16 shards back for next week 😆 

Sorry Trips, not gonna even finish the masteries I was running today. I sac'd a lot of Faction Guardians to rank up Shamael, put a lot of energy into these AoE champs.

Yikes, used epic dupes as chickens? You really went all in.  Feel bad for you and matrim , and anyone else that shot their wad.

Basically you mean anyone who tried to play and build for the new content during the first week.

I feel for everyone else for sure. Matrim spent SO MANY RESOURCES. Much more than me. This change was a huge hit to his resources.

(And yes, I did use epic dupes as chickens. Trying hard to remain in that low spend category, and I wanted to save resources for the Xmas fusion. I don't regret saving the resources, I DO regret spending them on champs I didn't need in anything but Hydra)

Share your teams for hard. I've been saving my 2 keys waiting for Quinn... now I am screwed 😆 🤣 

Hmm, the team I build myself as a Charlie-Team for Hard made about 6,6 million damage. 

Venus, Krisk, Sicia, Aniri, Rector and Kimi...

So what was changed ... Lol?

I guess I will see some good clickbait YouTube videos when I get home. I understand something with deteramce mastery has changed to nerf Inquisitor on hydra? What exactly has changed?

I'm in the boat as well as going pretty heavy on resources for week 2 of hydra. I maxed inquisitor, battlesage, and sinesha. I had sinesha already at five stars ascended but other two were naked level 0 4 stars. I spent a lot of silver on initial gearing already and was about to do a more thorough gearing now that i saw some speeds tunes. Was waiting on cvc to go on a booking rampage as none of the three champs I just maxed were booked. I spent 1.6k gems on masteries for 2 of them and farmed the third set of masteries.

I'm not really pissed as at least champ training has been going on, but damn I was looking forward to killing it this week on hydra.

So what was changed ... Lol?

I guess I will see some good clickbait YouTube videos when I get home. I understand something with deteramce mastery has changed to nerf Inquisitor on hydra? What exactly has changed?

I'm in the boat as well as going pretty heavy on resources for week 2 of hydra. I maxed inquisitor, battlesage, and sinesha. I had sinesha already at five stars ascended but other two were naked level 0 4 stars. I spent a lot of silver on initial gearing already and was about to do a more thorough gearing now that i saw some speeds tunes. Was waiting on cvc to go on a booking rampage as none of the three champs I just maxed were booked. I spent 1.6k gems on masteries for 2 of them and farmed the third set of masteries.

I'm not really pissed as at least champ training has been going on, but damn I was looking forward to killing it this week on hydra.

Looks like you and I both dropped some serious resources. Sorry Evilized.