Why was Tala's ability cost reduced?

[Ness]

It's on the same level as Lance's and Ythan's abilities but yet it costs 1 SE less. It should be changed back to 4 Se.

[Veles]

Because she was borderline unpleyable. I don't see how it is on same level with Lance or Ythans considering her ability can't affect board immediately. If anything it is more like Elementalis, which is 3se.

[Daemon Rayge]

Every Tala, barring this one guy who made an obnoxious combo with Elenor, I handled with ease when it was 4. It was too slow at 4.

[Pandevmonium]

Because she sucked at 4SE

[Ness]

I think she has the same issue as Logan. At 3 SE it's too spammable but at 4 SE it's barely playable. And we all know what happened to Logan...

[Demnchi]

I think she has the same issue as Logan. At 3 SE it's too spammable but at 4 SE it's barely playable. And we all know what happened to Logan...

I think that's kind of the point. The problem with her ability is its too counterable to be anything but spammable, basically it was just too slow. Just like Elementalis' ability, it can be easily shut down and its quite easy not to get much from the ability in the first place.

[Ness]

The thing with her ability is that people use it wrong. They wanna buff strong allies when they should be protecting them with weaker allies. For instance buffing crippled allies keeps your foe from crippling additional allies unless they kill the crippled protector, buying you some time to strike back.
This is the reason why i think it's better than Elementalis' ability. But I agree that at 4 SE she would be weak. I still think it needs some revision. Obviously, having her ability cost 3 SE wasn't the developers' first choice so it's reasonable to say that they don't consider it optimal.

[Vince19992]

The thing with her ability is that people use it wrong. They wanna buff strong allies when they should be protecting them with weaker allies. For instance buffing crippled allies keeps your foe from crippling additional allies unless they kill the crippled protector, buying you some time to strike back.
This is the reason why i think it's better than Elementalis' ability. But I agree that at 4 SE she would be weak. I still think it needs some revision. Obviously, having her ability cost 3 SE wasn't the developers' first choice so it's reasonable to say that they don't consider it optimal.

I don't want to expose any classier secret here, but 3 SE is designers' first opinion.

[Ness]

I don't want to expose any classier secret here, but 3 SE is designers' first opinion.

I'm confused. Didn't she debut with a 4 SE cost ability?

[Vince19992]

I'm confused. Didn't she debut with a 4 SE cost ability?

No, originally she was 3 SE