Bhaltair - 5* Ice / Blue from Challenge Festival 2

[PlayForFun]

New Bard hero is released: Bhaltair

This thread is for discussing strategy related to Bhaltair, as well as your thoughts on Bhaltair.

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Bhaltair

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed
Legendary	Ice/Blue	Fighter	S Slow

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80	1112	1318	1928
4/85	1198	1420	2077
4/90	1371	1625	2377

Origin	Family
Challenge Festival 2	Bard

Image	Aether Power	Description
	Special Armor	At the start of each battle, this Hero gets +40% defense against Special Skills for 6 turns. In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.

Ability: Quick Tempo: Ballad All Ballads cast by enemies only last for 1 turn.

Ability: Quick Tempo: Dance All Dances cast by enemies only last for 1 turn.

Special Skill: Joyful Noise

Deals 350% damage to all enemies. Heals all allies for 30% of the damage dealt. All enemies receive Minion Wound for 5 turns. Minion Wound: Target’s minions health is reduced by 50% and mega minions health is reduced by 25% each turn. (Reduction is applied to owned minions and to any received minions while the effect is active. Reduction only affects minions’ current health.) All allies get +40% mana generation for 5 turns. (Affects only mana generated from matching tiles or mana gained by the defense team at the end of their turn.)

All-in-one still under construction. Card image to be added when available.

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Bard Family Bonus

Bard Family supports other families and realms.

Solo Heroes get +5% mana generation.

• Team members are Solo Heroes if they have no family and realm members in the Team.

Event Hero Bonus:

The members of his family have additional perks in the Challenge Festival events.

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Changes from Beta

• Attack is increased from 1009 to 1112.
• Health is increased from 1911 to 1928.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Round 5 of Challenge Festival 2 (Bard) Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v72]

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What do you think of Bhaltair ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Bhaltair.

Based on preferences Forum members have expressed, please try to stick mainly to Bhaltair and not wander off topic too much to other heroes.

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Bhaltair worth summoning for?

• Would you use Bhaltair on Defense? Offense? War? Quests/Events? Titans?

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Bhaltair ?

• What heroes would you take when facing Bhaltair as an opponent?

• Would you give Bhaltair Fighter Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

• What do you think of Bhaltair’s character design?

• If you Summoned Bhaltair and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Bhaltair, and whether/how you plan to make use of them.*

*NOTE: Summon Results posted without any commentary/feedback at all should be flagged as Off Topic and removed, based on preferences expressed by the Forum community. Please include some comments about what you think of Bhaltair when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Bhaltair, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Bhaltair (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Bhaltair), so other players are presented with realistic experiences of the rarity of Legendary Event Hero.

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Avoiding Overspending & Heartache

More Insights & Reading

I highly recommend reading these three threads for more information and context on summoning odds:

• How much should I spend?- HotM cost, and odds, analysis

• [WARNING] A Summons Experience - Chasing Guardian Panther - A Warning for Chasing Heroes

• https://forum.smallgiantgames.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-gacha-read-before-posting-things-about-unfair-pulls/29490?u=playforfun

If you’ve read them a million times before, you may consider reading them again before deciding on your budget for summoning. A little time spent deciding on how much money you want to risk on summoning goes a long way to avoiding disappointment, frustration, and regret later.

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Wondering About Your Personal Situation?

Feel free to discuss your team and roster here, and ask for advice from other Forum members.

If you’d like more extensive advice on sorting out your particular roster, I recommend creating a new thread in Gameplay Help & Tactics, and posting screenshots of your hero roster, along with your questions.

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Related Threads You May Be Interested In

• 🧪 Early Information on Round 5 of Challenge Festival 2 (Bard) Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v72]

[PlayForFun]

Feedback Poll - Bhaltair (post release)

Is Bhaltair worth Summoning For?

• Yes, absolutely
• Only if you’re P2P
• Yes, but only when featured.
• Not really
• Not at all

How many copies of Bhaltair would be useful to keep & Level?

Note - this is roster space dependent & isn’t the same for everyone!

• Zero
• Just one
• 2
• 3
• All of them

What do you think Bhaltair’s Primary Purpose is?

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Healer (Immediate)
• Minion Health Reducer (Over time)
• Mana Generation Buffer

What do you think of Bhaltair compared to other Heroes?

• Over Powered (OP)
• Little stronger than Most
• On Par with Most
• Little Weaker than Most
• Completely Broken (Under Powered)

How does Bhaltair’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Bhaltair’s Base Stats?

Note this means Bhaltair’s Class, Attack, Defence & HP Stat

• Perfectly
• Better than Most
• On Par with Most
• Worse than Most
• Terribly

Is Bhaltair worth giving Fighter Emblems to?

• Yes absolutely
• Depends on who else you got
• Hmmmm, not sure yet
• No I don’t think so
• No… Not at all.

Is Bhaltair worth giving Master Emblems to?

• Yes absolutely
• Depends on who else you got
• Hmmmm, not sure yet
• No I don’t think so
• No… Not at all.

In Defence, where do you think Bhaltair is best used?

• Left Wing
• Left Flank
• Tank
• Right Flank
• Right Wing
• Not on defence at all.

How do you think Bhaltair is best used?

• PvP Raids/ War attack
• Normal Defence
• War Defence
• Titans
• Farming
• Tournaments
• Event Teams

Choose up to 3 options

What do you think is Bhaltair worth Limit Breaking ?

• Yes, but only once
• Yes, twice
• No

If you would emblem Bhaltair then which Emblem Path would you select ?

• Sword path
  (Selecting Attack talent nodes when possible)
• Shield path
  (Selecting Health and Shield talent nodes when possible)

What do you think about the artwork ?

• Amazing
• Refreshingly new
• It’s ok
• It could be better
• Very bad

[L33tVortex]

Well I tried all that my budget allows…after all who doesn’t like mana buffs … but I failed to get a single 5* in around 100 pulls …so they’ll be no blue projects for me this time…
Good luck everyone!

[Gabby89]

Also, I tried to shoot for either Salimata or Astrid but got 2 x Bhaltair. To be honest I’m not impressed with what they offer, the attack and life statuses are tiny compared to the newly released heroes. Together with Nautica it works well and can be loaded in the same turn.

[PlayForFun]

I have just enabled the polls.

[Skeens]

The polls seem to be a little off. This hero looks great to me. A little weaker than most votes? Seriously this one even though slow is a Beast.

[Brad01010203]

Pulled this guy and celimene on a bonus. Not really impressed with either. Id say bothnof them are grade B heros. Nowhere near the top.

[Yo_ko]

Just pulled him from 10 coins! He seems great. I know people hate slow heroes but I’m ok with them. And that +40% mana generation will definitely make things easier after he fires for the first time.

[hades1812]

Just pulled it for free, got the latest stats, the Minion Wound effect is not very attractive, if minions health is reduced by 75% and mega minions health is reduced by 50%, it would be more reasonable.