🧪 Early Information on Dragonspire Assist Skill Balace update [Part of The Beta Beat v71]

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This thread is to provide early insights and discussion on the initial release of the Dragon Assist Skill Balance update.

Don’t get too attached

Details from Beta, especially brand-new Beta content, don’t tend to be very reliable for actual release.

It’s incredibly common that features are changed during Beta testing, or sometimes even after testing but before release. That is, after all, the purpose of Beta testing.

So I wouldn’t get too attached to any of this — it’s not unheard of for entire portions of features to be removed or reworked, or for radical changes to functionality to be made.

:wrench: Dragon Assist Skill Balance update

  • Assist Skill status effects now stack with other similar status effects
  • Balance for all Assist Skills has been adjusted accordingly
  • Balance changes are as listed below:
Assist Skill name Affected Dragons Assist Skil change
Dampening Blaze Noctur, Venemo
  • Deals 600 → 500 damage to all enemies
  • All enemies get -30% → -10% mana generation for 5 turns
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    Sacred Flame Leafheart
  • Deals 400 → 350 damage to all enemies
  • All allies heal 80% → 40% of dealt normal damage for 5 turns
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    Wounding Blaze Bonefang, Zostrasz
  • Deals 550 → 450 damage to all enemies
  • All enemies get -50% → -30% decrease for any healing received for 5 turns
    		•
    Corrosive Blaze Cindron, Doombringer
  • All enemies get -40% → -20% defense for 5 turns
    		•
    Protective Breath Aranath
  • Recovers 800 → 500 health for all allies
  • All allies get +40% → +20% defense for 5 turns
    		•
    Inspirational Breath Lux
  • Recovers 900 → 750 health for all allies
  • All allies get +60% → +30% critical chance for 5 turns
    		•
    Cleansing Flame Marmora
  • All allies regenerate 1000 → 500 HP over 5 turns
    		•
    Esoteric Flame Stargazer
  • All allies regenerate 500 → 250 health over 5 turns
    		•
    Fortifying Flame Glacio
  • Recovers 600 → 500 health for all allies
  • All allies get +60% → +30% defense against Special Skills for 5 turns
    		•
    Blinding Blaze Ignis
  • Deals 500 → 400 damage to all enemies
  • All enemies get -30% → -20% accuracy for 5 turns
    		•
    Empowering Breath Saestrasz
  • Recovers 700 → 600 health for all allies
  • All allies get +40% → +20% attack for 5 turns.
    		•
    Weakening Blaze Dreamcatcher
  • All enemies get -40% → -20% attack for 5 turns.
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    Charring Blaze Ardere, Flumen, Glimmerwing, Kranio, Krio, Rusty, Snowy, Solis, Sparky, Sting,
  • Deals 300 → 250 damage to all enemies
    		•
    Resuscitating Breath Leafwing
  • Recovers 300 → 250 health for all allies
  • All allies regenerate 150 → 100 HP over 5 turns
    		•
    Fiery Blaze Batosh, Cuddlewing, Deathflayer, Forto, Luminare, Nightwing, Sassy, Skydancer, Xiao Fang, Xondar
  • Deals 400 → 350 damage to all enemies
  • All enemies receive 200 → 150 burn damage over 5 turns
    		•
    Strengthening Flame Nimblewing
  • Recovers 350 → 300 health for all allies
  • All allies get +30% → +10% defense for 5 turns
  • All allies get +30% → +10% attack for 5 turns
    		•
    Revitalizing Breath Eotei, Owlford, Shen Lin, Yvestrasza
  • Recovers 450 → 400 health for all allies
  • All allies regenerate 250 → 150 health over 5 turns
    		•

    :mantelpiece_clock: Beta Updates

    • October 03, 2024 – added for first look testing.

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    I haven’t felt dragon assist needed to be nerfed. But the stacking is more important to me so I consider this a net positive.

    FYI “stacks” means a separate status effect and not added to one effect.

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    Yeah @Ruskin505 , these dragon abilities didn’t really do anything before, not sure what prompted the nerf (sorry…“update”). Unless they will be rolled out to other features soon, then people will really lose their mind if they weren’t changed in advance.

    Also…did Stargazer lose the 20% mana boost @PlayForFun ? Every other ability seemed pretty reasonable/balanced but he got the most broken assist ability BY FAR.

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    This does answer one of the main questions I had which was the stacking.

    They were not good enough when overwriting/being overwritten but now that we know the effects stack, some thought about best synergies with heroes can begin.

    Going to be a while before we all have enough assist skills leveled up to a point where we have options. For now it is working with the one that we have.

    The one I have is Silva, I assume it was also adjusted but just left off of the list (Resuscitating Breath, along with Leafwing).

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    I have just highligted the changes.
    The mana boost is still there.

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    Thank you @PlayForFun for this. I do hope they actually follow through with the stacking assist more than anything. Having a hero burn DoT of 300~ overwritten by a dragon for 30~ is a big difference and why I currently don’t use an assist dragon.

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    Good to see this get updated, while having an additional ability existing outside of the hero battle is great, such a trial where you have no healers and bringing a dragon who heals could mean a lot more than just relying on healing aids. It’s not so good when they overwrite similar abilities with weaker ones.

    What I’d also like to see is something reciprocal on the Dragon side, when equipped with different hero riders. Rather than just having different stats bonuses increased on the Dragon, have different heroes provide different secondary abilities to the Dragon that’s kind of like the calling card of the hero. Because right now the system apparently auto assigns the hero with the highest power level when you add a new dragon to the roster (which probably makes most sense any way).

    For example, assigning Friar Tuck to a Nature 3* Dragon can have Increase in Mana Gain for the first few turns each wave, assigning Brienne could have the Rage ability for the first few turns each wave, etc.

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    I think this is a nerf
    A big one.

    At least for me. It allowed me to bring an effective DD dragon instead of a character. Now its so low it dosent matter. So what if it stacks if its not effective.

    The way it was before was better. Its not like it works in war. So whats the issue?

    The only good one NOW is the mana boost one which of course i dont have. Le sigh. Also the 60–>30 crit really sucks as it would have been nice as is.

    It was easy to work around it NOT stacking, especially when maxed the values of 60%/50%/40% are high enough to not need to worry about stacking.

    But 20% is not enough to care anout especially when its not fully leveled.

    Guess i just wont use which is good. Dont need to worry about parchmemts to get a miniscule buff.