It’s hard to judge on paper alone, but the final changes to Tell and Vela seem reasonable to me. I don’t have or use most of the other heroes affected, but the changes there seem mostly positive, though I would’ve liked to see Khagan’s buff survive.
The criticism that SG could’ve made a better decision and/or listen more to beta testers before the initial release is a valid one, I think. But it’s unreasonable to expect things like this will never, ever happen - we are all human and so are the people that make up SG. What matters more, in my opinion, is how things like this are handled, and I think they’ve done a good job on correcting it - the next days will make more clear the real world impact of the final changes. I was a little bit worried about an overreaction which I think wouldn’t have been good either, but that hasn’t happened at all (again, in my opinion). And full disclosure, I have neither Tell nor Vela (but still would love to have both, as they are now).
The gift of 200 emblems is seriously more than I expected, thanks for that SG.
What I am less impressed with to say the least, is the extreme, toxic, and largely unreasoned negativity that is coming from some players on the forum, this seems to be getting worse and worse over time. Or maybe I’ve just been reading the wrong threads lately. To call either of these heroes “garbage”, “useless” etc. etc. after the change is simply absurd. Like I said, I have neither and would still absolutely love to have both of them if I had the chance. Same with calling the emblem gift things like “a joke”, which is equivalent to the amount of emblems you might expect for a top 1% finish in a raid tournament, about TEN times over.
But going so far as to call it “fraud” (the possibility of balance changes is laid out in the terms and conditions, has happened in the past and no doubt will again in the future, it should not be a surprise to anyone that this happens on occasion), and then making casual reference that murder might not be entirely inappropriate in response, is absolutely, utterly, insanely beyond the pale. Over a relatively minor change to a hero, which by any objective observation was warranted. I don’t think we’ll reach a new low from here.
I think and hope that it’s only a small minority that’s stooped to this level of negativity, but unfortunately their voices seem to be disproportionately loud sometimes. I’ve enjoyed this game a for quite a while now, and I plan to enjoy it for a good while longer, but for my own sanity I think I need to step away from the forum some, or at least selectively leave some threads entirely alone.
I think you’ve done enough for the next couple months 
he is definitely way more op than Vela.
IS