QUOTE(erald06 @ Apr 14 2014, 10:25 PM)
Cyclops only got his level 6 nerf. He can give his team counter attacks for about 1 round and it was nuts but they changed it to 1 counter attack instead which is still fine, honestly. Ares, they changed his level 1 which supposed to have hemorrhage to his level 2 instead which was bloody stupid. He's not a damage dealer even with 2 stacks of enraged. I barely use his level 2 on PVE which is pointless as most enemies dies straight away and also his level 9 coz alot of enemies are relentless anyways. His only useful attacks is his level 1 and 6. Rescue, no comments there because she was an overpowered tank. The moment you had Rescue with pre-nerf white costume Phoenix or Valkyrie, your team is good as dead, hence her balancing was fine. When Emma first came out, she was nuts. She and WW2 Cap was crazy. Hardest team to take down but of course, she got nerf but now she seems okay. Beast sucked so hard before his Horsemen costume came out and when he's finally useful, they nerf him. Seriously, why the heck they nerf his Faustian Bargain for! Again, the point of PVP is to give the enemy team buttload of debuffs and to win the match! Isn't that the WHOLE point of PVP? *roll eyes* I am so sick of those developers of the game.

Cyclops nerf was fine, but it was still a nerf (and it came at a time when I was relatively new to the game and using Cyclops and Human Torch as my team, so it did hurt)

Yea heard a lot of stories about the brutality of pre-nerf Rescue and Emma (even now after nerfs both are still used, which says a lot).
Ares I can't comment too much since I never got the chance to get him pre-nerfs. All I can say is that as a newbie to the game, facing him in PVP was very intimidating, to the point where I told the friend who intro-d me to the game that I'd happily pay 100G for him on the spot if he was on sale at that time (and I wasn't even a gold buyer then LOLOL).
As for Beast; as I've said as much as the nerf surprised me, I'm still using his Tactician alt (with Famine Generalist and Agent using 3pc horseman set + PO4) on PVP offense and haven't "felt" him being worse off so far.