Whether or not you need her cover shouldn’t drive what the right thing to do is. That’s the kind of thinking that leads people to so many of the narrow minded complaints in the first place.
I wasn’t planning on champing Kate in the next 2 weeks, but my personal preferences have nothing to do with the unfairness that the staff seems to extend to Kate Bishop. She’s been skipped twice now in the Heroes For Hire rotation because [reasons], and not including her as the essential for this event makes NO sense. Where the heck did Punisher come from, and why? This isn’t a boss event, and Punisher’s connection to the Hearts of Darkness storyline doesn’t mean you just plug him, XFW, or Daredevil into the essential slots as you see fit.
They used to do this to 3-Cyke a lot. No valid reason for giving a character the shaft like this.
Im pretty sure they swapped her out for Big Pun because the Punisher on Netflix airs this Friday
I agree with this. WAY too much of this on the forums. The switch actually benefits me. My Pun is champed and my Kate is not. Which gives me a very big advantage for a new character release next event. I am in a very lucky late bracket and am almost assured a top 2 finish in Unstable ISO 8 (for sure top 5) which would bring my 4/5/2 Kate to max-covered with one on the vine. I have other iso needs so delaying champing her is great for me.
That said, I look ahead and utilize the previews/rotations to manage resources and plan my roster accordingly. Removing her as a prize after people were expecting a Kate Bishop Blue is a REALLY bad look on their part. I think it wouldn’t kill them to say, “we screwed up, here’s a free Kate for everyone”, but I do not expect that level of goodwill because those types of gestures are just not high on their list of priorities.
But when has that ever meant, “let’s make this person the next 4-star essential?” They do special-themed PVE/PVP events, but just straight up swapping them into the current PVE event has never happened in my memory.
Moon knight just doesnt like me. One cover in 14 months lol
Kate should be rewarded in Hearts of Darkness. This is coming from someone with already 5 blue in a level 70 Kate and a recently champed Punisher. It’s just the right thing to do.
^ This! While yes, this change “hurts” me personally, I’ll get over it. The bigger issue is how often the devs change things around like this with little to no heads-up to their user base. Depending on your personal situation, sometimes these changes help and sometimes they hurt, but the rules keep changing and you never know when the rug will get pulled out from under you. This last minute switch to PunMax just happens to be a small example of a much larger, ongoing problem.
How about they stop being so frugal with 4* covers and just award both covers for this particular PvE. Would fix the issue of the order problem and add good will to player base. They still treat 4* covers like they are sacred but there are so many of them now, they are similar to what 3* covers were a couple of years ago.
They should stick to their usual schedule and have had Kate as a progression reward. If they had wanted to use Punisher then he should have been the placement reward for unstable iso8.
Since players are pretty divided over which they would prefer, there are 2 ways I see that they could make it right/better for everyone.
1)award them both at 33500 points or,
2)after the event ends, send out Kates to everyone who earned a punisher. Similiar to what they did for everyone who fought Kaesilies on the borked Strange Sights run.
On the other hand, if they’d kept Kate Bishop as the essential, we would have missed out on the suggestive artwork on the Hearts of Darkness cover store.
Did you not notice the series of PVP events featuring Iron Fist, Daredevil, Luke Cage and Elektra when the Defender released on Netflix? I was surprised they didn’t release Jessica Jones. There’s hoping she will be added when season 2 comes out (or has Disney already canned all the marvel series on Netflix?)
She should be awarded next PvE, I have zero problem with skipping for story considerations as long as it is caught up next event. Its the only right thing to do really. People count on the pattern.
Of course it’s his Black cover, the one I don’t need. I think Punisher has my most unbalanced cover draws of any of my four stars. I’m something like 10/2/2.
And it’s all about me.
My 13/2/1 Kateniss says, “Keep those blue covers away from me.”
Did anyone else notice the unfortunate placement of big pun and iron man in the token screen?
Makes me laugh everytime
Lmfao I just noticed it!