🧪 Early Information on Round 2 Christmas Heroes (Santa's Challenge) [Part of The Beta Beat V62]

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This thread is to provide early insights and discussion on the initial release of the Round 2 of Santa’s Challenge Heroes.

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.

:tophat: Santa’s Challenge Heroes

*There are a total of five (5) new heroes added to Beta for testing; these have been indicated to be for Santa’s Challenge.

*The names of the new heroes are:

  • Legendary: Cookie, Ginger, Zappa
  • Epic: Dizzy
  • Rare: Jolly

:hugs: Family Bonus

Heroes become stronger, when teamed with other unique Heroes of the same family:

Winter Family
Bonus for 2 / 3 heroes:

  • +5% / +10% health for Minions
  • +5% / +10% attack for Minions

5 :star: – Legendary Heroes

  • Cookie - Gnome Scientist
  • Ginger - Gnome Explorer
  • Zappa - Gnome Wizard

Cookie -- Click for Beta Information (Extremely Likely to Change)

Cookie – Beta Info & Stats (extremely likely to change)

Rarity: Legendary/5*
Gender: Male
Power: 949

Attack: 916
Defense: 968
HP: 1666

Class: Rogue
Element: :fire: Fire (Red)

Mana Speed: Average
Family: Winter
Aether power: Ailment Reflect

Special Skill: Mystery Potions

  • Reduces he mana of all enemies by 15%.
  • Summons an Elf Minion for each ally with 7% HP and 10% attack inherited from the caster.
  • All enemies receive a Mystery Potion. After 4 3 turns the Mystery Potion explodes and deals 450 damage to the target. After the explosion the target can’t gain mana for 4 3 turns.

Ginger -- Click for Beta Information (Extremely Likely to Change)

Ginger – Beta Info & Stats (extremely likely to change)

Rarity: Legendary/5*
Gender: Female
Power: 949

Attack: 957
Defense: 935
HP: 1627

Class: Ranger
Element: :leaves: Nature (Green)

Mana Speed: Fast
Family: Winter
Aether Power: Counterattack

Special Skill: Hasty Trigger Finger

  • Summons an Elf Minion for each ally with 7% HP and 10% attack inherited from the caster.
  • For the next 3 turns, this character deals 450% damage to a random enemy each time any other ally casts their Special Skill. [*] (Damage is dealt on the first Special Skill cast of each character per turn.)
  • All allies’ except the caster’s Special Skill deal an additional +20% damage for 3 turns.

Zappa -- Click for Beta Information (Extremely Likely to Change)

Zappa – Beta Info & Stats (extremely likely to change)

Rarity: Legendary/5*
Gender: Male
Power: 949

Attack: 988
Defense: 918
HP: 1586

Class: Wizard
Element: :snowflake: Ice (Blue)

Mana Speed: Very Fast
Family: Winter
Aether Power: Dodge

Special Skill: Blue Shroom Wand

  • Deals 350% damage to the target.
  • Summons an Elf Minion for each ally with 7% HP and 10% attack inherited from the caster.
  • The target receives 474 Frost damage over 3 turns. This effect spreads to nearby enemies.

4 :star: – Epic Heroes

  • Dizzy - Gnome Entertainer

Dizzy -- Click for Beta Information (Extremely Likely to Change)

Dizzy – Beta Info & Stats (extremely likely to change)

Rarity: Epic/4*
Gender: Female
Power: 687

Attack: 675
Defense: 684
HP: 1249

Class: Wizard
Element: :new_moon_with_face: Dark (Purple)

Mana Speed: Average
Family: Winter
Aether power: Attack Up

Special Skill: Gnomy Tune

  • Deals 250% damage to the target and nearby enemies.
  • Summons an Elf Minion for the caster and nearby allies with 7% HP and 10% attack inherited from the caster.
  • The caster and nearby allies reflect all status effects and 100% damage back to the attacker and block all other negative effect from enemies’ Holy Special Skills for 4 turns. [*] (Status effects cast by characters, Minions and Fiends on the same side cannot be reflected.)

3 :star: – Rare Heroes

  • Jolly - Gnome Lumberjack

Jolly -- Click for Beta Information (Extremely Likely to Change)

Jolly – Beta Info & Stats (extremely likely to change)

Rarity: Legendary/5*
Gender: Male
Power: 487

Attack: 451
Defense: 464
HP: 961

Class: Paladin
Element: :sun_with_face: Holy (Yellow)

Mana Speed: Very Slow
Family: Winter
Aether power: Regen

Special Skill: Birch Blessing

  • Boosts health of all allies by 450 475. Boosted health can exceed max HP.
  • Summons an Elf Minion for each ally with 7% HP and 10% attack inherited from the caster.
  • All allies reduce all received damage by -35% -45% for 6 turns.
  • All allies get +35% mana generation for 6 turns.

:mantelpiece_clock: Beta Updates

  • October 25, 2023 – added for first look testing.
  • October 26, 2023 – balance changes for Cookie and Jolly.

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Interesting, not sure what to think of these.

Cookie seems interesting, however, what happens if you cleanse it (can you cleanse it?), I assume nothing, and the ailment is removed?

Ginger also seems interesting.

Zappa seems crappa. Just a pimped-up Uthragen.

Idk, I was hoping for something a bit more exciting tbh, it will probably save me from pulling a bunch on this seasonal at least.

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Wow, soon we’ll have as many seasonal Christmas 5* as vanilla tc20 5* :slight_smile: gotta keep the players pulling in the portals, after all :wink:

At least we have new 3* and 4* too

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There’s a couple of references that need updating from Amber to Jolly.

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A rare hero with very slow speed essentially limits Jolly to being a rush specialist. I see Treevil on defenses sometimes out of rush and they’re occasionally useful (given the special is so good). I don’t think Jolly falls in the same category.

In all element rush, I would still use Treevil over Jolly at tank.
But she’ll be a solid flank.

I may prefer Faiez for ailment blocking though.

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vfast minion summoner :thinking::thinking:

be interesting to see how that plays out and if it starts a trend…

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First impressions:
Cookie - nothing to look at.
Ginger - variation about g.Hippo, may be interesting for def, in attack not too useful, cannot be controlled.
Zappa - v.fast blue sniper. Nice.
Dizzy - 4* holy reflect, interesting.
Amber - whatever he does, very slow on 3* level will be hard to use outside rush. In rush, he will change Treevil into a bigger monster than it is now… This one on tank flanked by 2 Treevils… frightening…

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It is not using one over another, it is using them together.
Imagine Treevil charging up 35% faster. And overhealed by 50%HP in one turn. This one heals more than 4* overhealers! C2Boldtusk overheals by 288, c2Kiril 400, c2Rigard 410, Gulli 400, cGulli 480 but over time, cKashhrek 450, but only 3, cGadeirus 480, but over time, Sanngrior 650, but to 3.

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Thx, I have fixed it.

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The minions are meh… But he can be in the same team with Pingu, with the same color and family bonus, and suddenly these minions can become gamechangers.

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Whoops, I meant to say “at tank”. Edited above.

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About to convert Santa’s Challenge into a Gnomes-only event. Like the Goblin Village, but :sparkles: :snowflake: seasonal :sparkles: :snowflake:!

I hope Carol’s getting a costume in a separate thread at least. We’re still missing costumes for the old Christmas heroes!

ADD: actually read through all the new gnomes’ skills. Most of these give short “hmm” to them. Zappa’s fine. Jolly gets a long “hhhhmmmmmmmmmnn” because outside of being very slow (valid) it’s almost like they forgot Frosty’s there. And ALL he does is heal compare to this one. Is he gonna get a buff? Maybe debuff all enemies with Frost damage for 3 turns?

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Jolly would be a nice pair to Treevil in rush

And a decent tank in rush no purple tournaments

Dizzy can be a decent tank since opposite team couldn’t stack yellow against the tank in tournaments

The 5* are really interesting

Exactly my thoughts on this hero

Zappa is a VF minion summoner. It might be useful

And imagine a team with Hippo, Becky, Lucy, Luna and Ginger. The passive attack force (I just have Lucy)

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These again making Santa the most Under Power hero.
Sad and hope Santa get the buff.

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Cookie is too slow for what he does. Average speed on top of waiting 4 more turns?

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Imagine setting Faiez-Treevil-Jolly-Dawn-Treevil…

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The new Xmas heroes are okish but not impressive… At the same time because of new heroes introduced and they will likely get featured as well, chances for me to get Krampus and MN is becoming even smaller.

I may now spend half of my saved EHTs in the Halloween portal now… Still have no Ana-belle. Both Frank and Alucard would be great.

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Exactly. Is Mystery Potion a status ailment? So it can be cleansed/blocked by an appropriate skill? Or is it a fiend? If so, can it be healed or pushed away by minions?

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Beta Balance Updates

  • Cookie

    • Decreased turns for Mystery potion from 4 turns to 3 turns
    • Decreased turns for Mana block status effect from 4 turns to 3 turns

  • Jolly

    • Increased Boosted healing from 450 to 475
    • Increased damage reduction from -35 to -45%
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It’s not about decreasing the amount of turns, it’s about trying to keep that ailment there, or is there anyway to counter effects like cleanse for him. Because average speed with a wait time of 3 turns is still slow

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