The opponents that were the most frustrating were the ones who used Firestarter and the ID card, as even with a bleed or two plus ravaged, they could use FS up to 15 times without getting any noticeable damage.  I still managed to win most of the battles, but they took up to 15 minutes. More than once I got up to get a coffee, used the restroom, came back and they were still spamming Firestarter.  In that time while waiting for Firestarter to whittle my team down, I defended and lost on average about 2 matches. 

Again, I'm not blaming anyone for using it, but PD didn't think this one through.  This was a broken item.  While anyone could have bought it and used it, it's still broken and it can give a user an unfair advantage. 

There isn't much you can do to defend against getting nailed 10+ times on a single turn.  It was in some cases enough to wipe Phoenix in a round and make her use her Rebirth power, and reduce the remaining team down to one hit.  There are not many moves that can do this in a single round other than those that give a large penalty for getting multiple turns (Po4, Rook, etc.)

I don't know the specifics of the hack, but a google search will turn up a lot of reports on it.

I've seen people post on this Android forum about it as well, and thats why we never got a facebook link as that opened up the door to this since information was now stored client side.

Endo75 said best. Firestarter could drag your match out so long that u could lose 3-4 matches. Which lemartes is a big deal. Even if u finally wait your turn to attack assuming you dont heal them from attacking a chaos sheild. You taken precious time away from trying to go up hill.  For instance I was wasting 10-15 mins dealing with firestarter users who had 1400 points while im sitting at 1700. So I win 7 points only to have lost 34 I was never able to make ground. If I wasnt dealing with that crap I could made up for those losses or made it to a higher point bracket becuz I wouldnt be losing that many points between fights.

So yes firestarter is worse than Phoenix fire

Firestarter, Phoenix Fire? Are we really talking about this? Have u ever met Blue QS, Raft Shank and the stuff that people really have a problem with?!

But remember, your oponents were also stuck dealing with firestarter, so you lost fewer AFk fights than you normally world have.  It should have evened out in the end.

Talk on FB forums about fb problems. We have different problems here and in some ways they are much worse. You have counters for BSQS and Raft Shank on FB.

How would that have evened out? Users end fights much faster than ai becuz user go for there aoe and devastating attacks... so how would that be even? I dont have firestarter. ..

Because if you were stuck on long fights with people in your bracket, so was everyone else in your bracket.  It would have slowed down everyone, not just you.

Yeah I didn't read the title of this thread, just realized it was MAA mobile whatever.

Anyways it seems the ones who have problems with Fire Starter are people running fire user heroes, start running heroes that don't use fire or energy so much, and if Qs is in game ther is whee u can start, I am not sure of the heroes available but from the sounds of it don't use or rely mostly on energy and fire type attacks.