ℹ Costumed Perseus – 5* Ice/Blue - Dec 2017 HotM Costume

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New HOTM Costume is Released: Costumed Perseus

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

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Costumed Perseus

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed	Mana CB
Legendary	Ice/Blue	Fighter	F Fast	5%

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80 +1 Costume	725 928	698 879	1367 1982
4/85 +1 Costume	781 999	752 947	1474 2137
4/90 +1 Costume	894 1144	861 1084	1686 2444

Origin	Family
Tavern of Legends	Legends 2017

Image	Aether Power	Description
	Defense Up	At the start of each battle, this Hero gets +20% defense for 6 turns. In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.

Ability: Dispel on Special Skill When this character casts their Special Skill, they dispel the newest status effect buff from all enemies.

Special Skill: Arctic Wound
Deals 355% damage to the target and nearby enemies. The target and nearby enemies get -100% decrease of any healing received for 4 turns. This effect can’t be cleansed. The target and nearby enemies get -68% defense against Ice for 4 turns. Elemental Link gives 10% mana generation for all Ice allies for 4 turns. This effect can’t be displelled.

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

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Legends 2017 Family Bonus

Bonus for 1 / 2 / 3 Heroes:

• +5% / +10% / +15% mana generation.

Bonus for 2+ heroes:

• Elemental Link affects all allies.

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Balance Changes

Jun 2023 (Big Balance Update)

@EmpiresPuzzles

Perseus (Costume)

• Stats increased (due to Costume Bonus increase)
  • Attack: 746 → 761
  • Defense: 718 → 732
  • Health: 1449 → 1503

Sep 2023

@EmpiresPuzzles

Costume Bonus Buffs
Legends 2017, 2018, 2019 Families

• OLD: +5% attack / +5% defense / +10% health / +5% mana generation
• NEW: +21% attack / +21% defense / +38% health / +5% mana generation

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Balance Changes

Dec 2023

@EmpiresPuzzles

Some Costumes now unlock a new Passive Skill for both the original Hero and the Costumed one

Costume Passives added for legendary Heroes of the following families:

• Legends 2017, 2018 and 2019
  • Dispel on Special: On Special Skill cast, dispel the newest buff from all enemies.

Perseus (Costume)

• Direct damage increased: 305% → 355%

Jun 2024

@EmpiresPuzzles

Costume Bonus buffs for Legendary Heroes

• Legends 2017, 2018 and 2019 Families
  • OLD: +21% attack/+21% defense/+38% health/+5% mana generation
  • NEW: +28% attack/+26% defense/+45% health/+5% mana generation

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Changes from Beta

• Costume bonus is reduced to 3%/3%/6%/1% from 5%/5%/10%/5%.
  So stats are reduced:
  • Attack: 761 → 746
  • Defense: 732 → 718
  • HP: 1503 → 1449

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on ROUND 2 of HoTM Costumes [Part of The Beta Beat v53]

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What do you think of Costumed Perseus ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Costumed Perseus.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Costumed Perseus worth summoning for?

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

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Costumed Perseus ?

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

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

• What do you think of special?

• What do you think of Costumed Perseus’s character design?

• If you Summoned Costumed Perseus and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Costumed Perseus, 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 Costumed Perseus when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Costumed Perseus, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Costumed Perseus (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Costumed Perseus), 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

• What exactly is a Gacha? (Read before posting things about "unfair pulls")

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 2 of HoTM Costumes [Part of The Beta Beat v53]
• ℹ Perseus – 5* Ice/Blue - Dec 2017 HotM

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Feedback Poll - Costumed Perseus (post release)

Is Costumed Perseus worth Summoning For?

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

How many copies of Costumed Perseus 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 Costumed Perseus’s Primary Purpose is?

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Healing Debuffer
• Defense Debuffer

What do you think of Costumed Perseus 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 Costumed Perseus’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Costumed Perseus’s Base Stats?

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

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

What do you think which version of Perseus is better ?

• Normal Perseus
• Costumed Perseus

Is Costumed Perseus worth giving Paladin Emblems to the original hero?

• 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 Costumed Perseus is best used?

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

How do you think Costumed Perseus 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 Costumed Perseus worth Limit Breaking ?

• Yes
• No

If you would emblem Costumed Perseus then which Emblem Path would you select ?

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

[TTT]

I would use some pulls on him. He seems decent now. I like the high HP.

[Muchacho]

I have base Perseus at +15 and use him pretty regularly. This new version is essentially identical with now a massive EDD at fast speed. That percentage drop is so big I don’t see how he isn’t chased.

Factor in you can’t just heal unless you cleanse first and he can wreck your day.

Talk about from worst to first.

[NoRecesso]

I’m gonna chase him. I need an blue EDD hero better than Nordri

[ProfessorPenguin]

I would like to have him to pair with Athena for the double hit 3 plus DD and EDD and the family bonus. Have yet to get a 5* from tavern, which is understandable with the abysmal chances. Maybe I’ll luck out with a few pulls here

[Engage]

@Muchacho

Factor in you can’t just heal unless you cleanse first and he can wreck your day.

He’s even better. That heal blocking can’t be cleansed.

[Muchacho]

Ha, duh. In costume he goes from the only blue HotM hates more being Klaern to a prime hero.

[mogulemon]

does 10% mana for 4 turns means each turn gives 10% or each turn gives 2.5% mana?

@PlayForFun

[PlayForFun]

@mogulemon it is +10% mana generation for 4 turns.
So it is not a direct mana gain like Xnolphod.

[mogulemon]

Aah now i understood, i thought it was immediate mana boost like xnol

[Tidyup]

@Muchacho

Ha, duh. In costume he goes from the only blue HotM hates more being Klaern to a prime hero.

If it takes perseus 5 years to be good, klaern would take 10 years?

[Mal4ugana]

Just need the costume

[Mal4ugana]

And he came after 29 pulls got the cyber offer

[Yani]

Perséus, and perséus C Have the same stats?

[VladTepes]

My very first 5* from a time when I didn’t even understand this game ^^ it was worth to keep him

[VladTepes]

It looks strange or like mistake but yes

[Tidyup]

On a side note, did SG made a mistake. That is a very generous offer.

[BeleCZ]

Took me 14 pulls to get him, thnx to great cyber monday offer.
Great titan hero.

[Mal4ugana]

I see it’s still there, I am sure by now it would have been corrected just as it happened during springvale two years ago with the Ham. It is a nice offer, however not off the roof though, the 30 pulls offer on the last day of the event does not differ much in price.