🧪 Early Information on Round 4 of Challenge Festival 2 (Bard) Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v71]

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NOTE: Please do not, under any circumstances, share IMAGES OR VIDEOS from Beta in this or any public Forum thread. Violations can cause players to lose their Beta accounts, or threads to be closed down.

This thread is to provide early insights and discussion on the initial release of Round 4 of Bard heroes for Challenge Festival 2.

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.

:hugs: Family Bonus

Bard Family

Bard Family supports other Families.

All Heroes with no other other Heroes of the same family in the team get +5% mana generation.

5 :star: – Legendary Hero

  • Astrid - Bard of Resurrection
  • Bonzo - Bard of Odd

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

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

Rarity: Legendary/5*
Gender: Female
Power: 1114

Attack: 1071
Defense: 1071
HP: 2251

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

Family: Bard
Mana Speed: Average
Aether Power: Defense Up

Passive: Quick Tempo: Ballad
All dance effects ailments cast by enemies only last for 1 turn.

Passive: Quick Tempo: Dance
All dance buffs cast by enemies only last for 1 turn.

Special Skill: Booming Mend

  • Recovers 50% health for all allies.
  • Each defeated ally has 50% chance to get revived with 25% HP.
  • All allies have a 20% chance to drop any received damage to 1 for 3 turns.

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

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

Rarity: Legendary/5*
Gender: Male
Power: 1114

Attack: 1163
Defense: 1163
HP: 1833

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

Family: Bard
Mana Speed: Fast
Aether Power: Special Boost

Passive: Quick Tempo: Ballad
All dance effects ailments cast by enemies only last for 1 turn.

Passive: Quick Tempo: Dance
All dance buffs cast by enemies only last for 1 turn.

Special Skill: Odd Drum Roll

  • Cleanses status ailment from all allies.
  • Rearranges the enemy positions randomly.
  • Deals 250% damage to all enemies.
  • Damage bypasses target’s Minions.

:mantelpiece_clock: Beta Updates

  • October 04, 2024 – added for first look testing.
  • October 08, 2024 – Passive adjustment for heroes

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Good passive against Sludgus, Von Rot and all other dancers.

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Guess that means Challenge Festival 2 event is coming back

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Sludgus has been released for less than 2 months and is already getting cut off. Why do I even bother anymore? Why arent you clowns touching costume diaochan?? These heroes get released this way im done with the game altogether. Your greed is your demise.

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Bonzo does damage to all ALLIES?

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It is enemies, I have fixed it.

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As always, thank you @PlayForFun! I don’t know how you keep up with everything. It is impressive.

I wanted to offer an assist and fix the post subject to reflect Beta Beat v71, but it seems my ability to do so was revoked.

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What needs fixing there ?

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Title says part of beta v70

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Fixed, so that’s one less thing for @PlayForFun to do :grin:

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Thank you @Oxide . I would have done it myself (for the same reason… to help out PFF), but for some reason I no longer can.

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@Kvothe
You have not read enough posts and not viewed enough topics in the last 100 days, and because of that you were demoted to “member”.
You need to view 50 extra topics and read 1000 posts to regain the regular trust level.

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It’s because you’ve dropped from “regular” to “member”, possibly not posting enough lately. :thinking:

Edit: The ever efficient @PlayForFun beat me to it :rofl:

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Thank you both @Oxide & @PlayForFun . Explanation makes sense, odd in actuality as I’m on here everyday reading dozens of posts. No biggie, though. I’m pretty sure I’ll be ok :joy:

Back to the matter at hand… new Bard heroes! And with that passive :thinking:

Happy gaming! :cupcake:

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Thank you. After Mok-Arrrrgh a 250% to all allies seemed plausible, it would reduce the incentive to actually summon in that portal, never mind feed it.

Appreciate the mind bending amounts of effort you put into this. Cannot fathom how

Are you one person or a full team?

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They must buff old bard heroes first but there is no money on it.

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lol we only just broke 1100 power for non-costumed heroes last week and now its up to 1114 power already

looks like its going to be 1400 power for base heroes by next year, what a joke

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I mean slayers, villains, and circus heroes are almost all going to feel like failed pulls in this portal. The old bards are at least a little better than them

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Stolen from Reddit


Never forget that Michael thought Jans baby’s name was Astird.

Also, Mono and most slow healers look like a chump next to Astird. :grimacing:

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Typical SG move. No surprise here. Whales will pull hard for the new bards.