Really? Nerfing Heroes?

[Blackbeard]

L20 king now a giant wimp

[Opihi]

new lv 40 queen with health regen. has the same hp as a old lv 28... her cloak also dropped from 6sec to 5... pretty big nerf if you ask me

[Gendel]

I just got the time to scroll through and read the update log and this is ridiculous... many people (including myself) have spent large sums of money and time grinding these things out. Now we find out they are going to have half the strength? I am for one outraged about this, indeed they were a bit OP however this large of a nerf was uncalled for. The "ability buff" was used as a scapegoat to prevent players from realizing the impact of the update. Some people drop a couple grand on heroes alone and expect them to preform as a result. A Level 40 BK will have the strength of one half its level? An "ability" simply doesn't compensate for that. This makes me rethink all my dedication and farming time put into this game, almost feels as if it is just a smack in the face. People drop this kind of money on them because they EXPECT THEM TO BE OP. When you add up all the total effort required to max these things they should be powerful. With regards,
-Nugget
P.S. I hate to add to the flaming inferno that we call a forum but this had to be said.

The game has more balance

I was getting a bit borring watching maxed heroes, often with absolutely no skill, used to destroy my well conceived base design. If you have attacking skill this update need not be a bad one for you. If you gemmed them to max and have little skill then your going to find that the game just got much harder.