Do you honestly think this is what balance is
People invested years of their time and money—both real and in-game—into building their team. Then, after several years, the developers suddenly claimed they realized they had created an imbalance. They essentially screwed over everyone who had invested into it, instead of optimizing the updates, the Hydra, and its tournament. Meanwhile, they literally have a test server available at all times to spot their own flaws beforehand.
Do you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about the champion team known as the "Infinity team." They claimed these champions were imbalanced, even though they didn't deal cosmic damage from the very first turn like Trunda or Coldheart do. The champions in this team depended heavily on each other, and they needed time to ramp up. Even after that team composition was killed off (along with the time of the people who built it), players found other ways to deal damage, but after a while, nerfs hit yet another set of champions (and once more, the administration simply spits on the time players have spent).
...instead of optimizing their update—specifically the Hydra tournament—and making sure that a clan's victory doesn't depend on a single player whose damage surpasses all other clans combined. Instead, they should introduce a point system similar to the chest reward limits: 100k = 1 point, 300k = 2 points, 500k = 3 points, 700k = 4 points, 1 million = 5 points. On top of that, add points based on which specific Hydra difficulty the damage was dealt on: Hydra 1 = 1 point, Hydra 2 = 2 points, and so on. Plus, 1 extra point for each clan member if the specific Hydra they attacked was defeated. If they had introduced their update this way, the cosmic damage of certain players wouldn't affect the tournament results so heavily!
Changing the core mechanics of the Frenzy set is also a slap in the face to the players. This set wasn't new, and those who collected it had to spend months or even years of their time, as well as in-game currency, because the gear requires upgrading, when the upgrade rolls went into the wrong stats, the search process had to start all over again. Administration, you could have introduced these changes from the Frenzy set into a completely new set and added it, for example, to the Forge Battle Pass. That way, players could decide for themselves whether they are interested in this set and whether it's worth spending their time on it.
I don't think it's fair to talk about balancing mechanics that are several years old—mechanics into which players put their hearts and souls to make them work—especially when the game revolves around factors like microtransactions and RNG. You have a test server and a team that can balance everything new without touching the old. My in-game nickname is Alfb. I only started over yesterday because my old account, Alfb, where I wanted to realize my ideas (which were destroyed by the updates mentioned above), was deleted by me after playing on it for more than 3 years. I really want the game developers to see this post and return—not my old account—but the Infinity team and the Frenzy set to exactly how they were before the changes, the exact way other players spent so much effort to build them.
