Costumed Richard (Glass Costume) - 5* Ice / Blue from Season 1

[PlayForFun]

New Glass Costume is released: Richard

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

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Richard

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

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80 +1 Costume +2 Costume +3 Costume +4 Costume	741 837 955 1111 1259	657 742 847 985 1116	1345 1614 1936 2286 2353
4/85 +1 Costume +2 Costume +3 Costume +4 Costume	799 902 1030 1198 1358	708 800 913 1062 1203	1449 1738 2086 2463 2535
4/90 +1 Costume +2 Costume +3 Costume +4 Costume	914 1032 1179 1371 1553	810 915 1044 1215 1377	1658 1989 2387 2818 2901

Origin	Family
Costume Chamber	Classic

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

Ability: Glass 60% extra chance to reflect status ailments back to the attacker.

Special Skill: Glass Hammer
Deals 575% damage to the target and minor damage to nearby enemies. The attack bypasses defensive buffs. (This includes counterattacks.) The target and nearby enemies get -30% attack for 6 turns.

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

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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 Changes

February 2025

@EmpiresPuzzles

Glass Costumes

Costume Bonus increased for Legendary heroes

• OLD: +65% attack/+65% defense/+70% health/+5% mana
• NEW: +70% attack/+70% defense/+75% health/+5% mana

Damage-dealing Special Skills now bypass enemies’ defensive buffs

• Affected Heroes:
  • Legendary
    • Richard

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Changes from Beta

• +1 Costume bonus is increased.
  • Attack is increased from 778 to 837.
  • Defense is increased from 689 to 742.
  • Health is increased from 1479 to 1614.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Round 1 of Glass (Fourth) Season 1 Hero Costumes [Part of The Beta Beat v73]

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What do you think of Richard ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Richard.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Richard worth summoning for?

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

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Richard ?

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

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

• What do you think of special?

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

• If you Summoned Richard and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned 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 Richard when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Richard, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Richard (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Richard), 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 1 of Glass (Fourth) Season 1 Hero Costumes [Part of The Beta Beat v73]
• Richard - 5* Ice / Blue from Season 1
• Costumed Richard - 5* Ice / Blue from Season 1
• Costumed Richard (Secondary Costume) - 5* Ice / Blue from Season 1
• Costumed Richard (Toon Costume) - 5* Ice / Blue from Season 1

[PlayForFun]

Feedback Poll - Richard (post release)

Is 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 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 Richard’s Primary Purpose is?

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Attack Debuffer

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

Note this means 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 (Old Costume)
• Costumed Richard (Secondary Costume)
• Costumed Richard (Toon Costume)
• Costumed Richard (Glass Costume)

Is 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.

Is Richard worth giving Master 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 Richard is best used?

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

How do you think 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 Richard worth Limit Breaking ?

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

If you would emblem Richard 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

[Arca89]

Just at home for Christmas day

[myth007]

Whats the verdict shoeld u run him in glass or toon?

[CaptainFurface]

Against fire enemies toon Richard will do more damage. Against enemies with ailments glass may be the way to go because he can throw the ailments back on the enemies.

[Vandermar1979]

Got him. Wanted Vivica bad, but can’t complain about a good pull after only 12 tries. Unfortunately I never leveled up even his base, so if I decide to level him, it’s going to be a lot of resources and time.

[nodrog]

These stats are dumb beyond belief, why are they making heroes with 1550 power?

[Shenjairo]

Because they want to make it take a whole year before he feels badly outdated and not just 8 months.

[Violent.Wounds]

Landed for Christmas!

I don’t have even the base version leveled for either one…so it’s going to be a busy week (the good kind of busy )

[Pwuriel]

Merry Christmas from Zynga

[PlayForFun]

The polls are now enabled.

[LordVLAD]

Against Bearnadette, Von Rothbart and similar heroes - glass costume is more than great.

[MountainMann]

The glass reflect still feels inferior to the Toon resist of 75% ( particularly against Bearnadette)

Even at 60% reflect it only reflects it back at Bearnadette, and if she has fired the damage has been done to the rest of the team already.

( found out yesterday that Ahmose’s reflect only sends it back to Bearnadette as well)

[LordVLAD]

And what is the advantage of resist over reflect? 15% better chances?

[MountainMann]

Yeah, and thats a pretty big chance, especially how the toon protection seems to go off 100% of the time. Just my experience tho.

But also, if i take Bearnadette against a glass hero, if Bearnadette fires and it reflects, the rest of the opponents heroes are paintings and Bearnadette is now VF, and can be charged and saved until the painting wears off.

[myth007]

Im really debating wether to go for 90 with the Toon or Glass I know I could just do both but would like to save the mats if im mostly using one over the other.

I think the special is pretty much a tie one does abit more dmg but the other does alot more against reds

Ofc reflect is quite alot stronger than resist bit the toons also resist mana reduction and dispell which is a nice bonus… And then there is the 15% difference

[Star150m]

glass seem to be a little bit worse than toons overall…
i expect glass will get buffed (either passives and/or special skills revamp)

[MountainMann]

It would have been cool if when they cast they put a Glass Skin buff on their teammates like softskin that would reflect

[TTT]

More like busy months

[backwardzz]

I am wondering if health was supposed to increase. One pic is toon Richard alone, and 2nd is Glass Richard bonus added.