Costumed Richard - 5* Ice / Blue from Season 1

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

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Costumed Richard

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed	Mana CB
Legendary	Ice/Blue	Barbarian	A Average	5%

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80 +1 Costume +2 Costume +3 Costume +4 Costume	650 734 838 975 1105	821 927 1059 1231 1395	1238 1485 1782 2104 2166
4/85 +1 Costume +2 Costume +3 Costume +4 Costume	701 792 904 1051 1191	885 1000 1141 1327 1504	1334 1600 1920 2267 2334
4/90 +1 Costume +2 Costume +3 Costume +4 Costume	802 906 1034 1203 1363	1013 1144 1306 1519 1722	1526 1831 2197 2594 2670

Origin	Family
Costume Chamber	Classic

Image	Aether Power	Description
	Special Boost	At the start of each turn, this Hero’s Special Skill deals an additional +30% damage for 6 turns. In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.

Special Skill: Cloud Axe
Deals 435% damage to the target and minor damage to nearby enemies. The target and nearby enemies get -34% attack for 4 turns.

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Classic Family

Heroes become stronger when teamed up with unique heroes of the same family.

Classic Family Heroes need to be fully ascended to receive the Family Bonus.

Bonus for 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 Heroes:

• +1% / +3% / +5% / +7% attack.
• +1% / +3% / +5% / +7% defense.
• +1% / +3% / +5% / +7% healing.

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Balance Updates

@EmpiresPuzzles

Our much-beloved Classic (Season I) Heroes will finally be forming a Family — and on top of that, they’re getting exclusive access to Superior Talents!

• Classic Family Bonus
  • When 2/3/4/5 fully ascended Classic Heroes are teamed up, they get +1%/+3%/+5%/+7% Attack, Defense, and Healing
• Superior Talents (activated when a Classic Hero’s final Talent Node is taken)

November 2023 (2nd Balance update)

@EmpiresPuzzles

Toon Costume Bonus

• OLD: 30% Attack/30% Defense/55% Health/5% Mana
• NEW: 35% Attack/35% Defense/60% Health/5% Mana

Feb 2024

@EmpiresPuzzles

Legendary Toon Costume Bonus changes

• OLD: 35% Attack / 35% Defense / 60% Health / 5% Mana
• NEW: 40% Attack / 40% Defense / 65% Health / 5% Mana

May 2024 (2nd Balance update)

@EmpiresPuzzles

Legendary Toon Costumes

• OLD: +40% attack/+40% defense/+65% health/+5% mana generation
• NEW: +50% attack/+50% defense/+70% health/+5% mana generation

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What do you think of Costumed Richard ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Costumed Richard.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Costumed Richard worth summoning for?

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

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

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

• Would you give Costumed Richard Barbarian Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

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

• If you Summoned Costumed Richard and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Costumed Richard, 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 Richard when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Costumed Richard, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Costumed Richard (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Costumed Richard), so other players are presented with realistic experiences of the rarity of Legendary Event Hero.

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• Richard - 5* Ice / Blue from Season 1

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Feedback Poll - Costumed Richard (post release)

Is Costumed Richard 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 Richard 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 Richard’s Primary Purpose is?

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Attack Debuffer

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

Note this means Costumed Richard’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 Richard is better ?

• Normal Richard
• Costumed Richard

Is Costumed Richard 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 Richard is best used?

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

How do you think Costumed Richard 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 Richard worth Limit Breaking ?

• Yes
• No

If you would emblem Costumed Richard 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)

[sleepyhead]

he was my tank for a long while, until my alliance shifted to Purple. I often still flanked with him, though.

and in addition to his tanky stats, he hits decently hard - he made a nice combo with my Kiril / C-Magni / Lepus. very few heroes could survive that, and those that did were whammied with reduced attack and defense