🧪 Early Information on Round 6 of Season 3 Hero Costumes [Part of The Beta Beat v59]

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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 Round 6 of costumes for Season 3 (Valhalla) 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.

:performing_arts: Costumes!!!

There are a total of 3 new Costumes being tested in v59

5 :star: — Legendary Costumes

  • Norns - Puppeteers of Destiny
  • Salmon Loki - Dapper Fish
  • Ratatoskr - Architect of Yggdrasil

NOTE: All numbers are presented INCLUDING the costume bonus.


Norns — Click for Beta Information (Extremely Likely to Change)

Normal Norns

Costume Norns — Beta Info & Stats (extremely likely to change)

Rarity: Legendary/5*
Power: 838

Attack: 823
Defense: 811
HP: 1419

Class: Wizard
Element: :sun_with_face: Holy (Yellow)
Realm: Vanaheim

Mana Speed: SLOW (Costume will have lower mana speed than the normal version)
Aether Power: Ailment Immunity

Special Skill: Cavalier Hat of Dark Realm

  • Deals 340% damage to the target and nearby enemies.
  • The target and nearby enemies become weak against the element they are strong against for 6 turns. They stay weak against the element they are normally weak against.


Ratatoskr — Click for Beta Information (Extremely Likely to Change)

Normal Ratatoskr

Costume Ratatoskr — Beta Info & Stats (extremely likely to change)

Rarity: Legenary/5*
Power: 841

Attack: 903
Defense: 726
HP: 1410

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

Mana Speed: Average
Aether Power: Bulwark

Special Skill: Roots of Yggdrasil

  • Recovers 50% health for all allies.
  • Alters the power of all Nature shields on the board. When an attacking Hero casts the speical, the shields become enhance with +64% attack. When a defending Hero casts the special, the shields become weakened with -57% attack.


Salmon Loki — Click for Beta Information (Extremely Likely to Change)

Normal Salmon Loki

Costume Salmon Loki — Beta Info & Stats (extremely likely to change)

Rarity: Legenary/5*
Power: 845

Attack: 797
Defense: 846
HP: 1465

Class: Paladin
Element: :new_moon_with_face: Dark (Purple)
Realm: Niflheim

Mana Speed: Average
Aether Power: Ailment Reflect

Special Skill: Gentleman’s Tranformation

  • Deals 300% damage to all holy Enemies
  • For 4 turns, the element of all enemies is changed each turn. On the first 3 turns, the element is random
  • On the last turn, enemies revert to their original element.
  • After each element change, enemies take 679 damage if their element is Holy.

NOTE: All numbers are presented INCLUDING the costume bonus.

:performing_arts: Costume Bonus

Stat Season 1 CB Season 3 Legenday CB Season 3 Epic CB
Season 3 Rare CB
Attack 5% 7% 3%
Defence 5% 7% 3%
HP 10% 13% 6%
Mana 5% 5% 1%

NOTE: All numbers are presented above are INCLUDING the costume bonus and limit breaking.

:hugs: Family Bonus

The costumes have the same family as the original hero.
The normal and the costume version of a hero is counted as two unique heroes.

:arrow_up: Beta Updates

20 June 2023

New costumes arrived to Beta

:calendar: Release Date

Staff does not indicates when these costumes will arrive.

:link: Related Threads

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Man, I love that they’re not even trying to adjust numbers anymore, these costumes are just straight up buffs :joy:

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Costumed Norms mana speed will be SLOW and not Average as the original version.

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OK, this is probably the first time they’re changing a special skill speed on a costume! :astonished:

But, now those numbers make a lot more sense…

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Actually in Beta Hansel costume was different too. That is reported as a bug.
We are waiting for confimation on that was that intended like it is for Norms or not.

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Costumes were designed to have a different class to the base hero - all well and good. :smiley:

Now, possibly, they can have a different mana speed ?? - confusing :confused:

Why not go the full distance and give them a different element from the base hero? That should really confuse everyone ! :confounded:

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Wow, this is the first time a costume got a direct nerf. And it’s norns of all heroes. Why though, it’s just like every single one of these lackluster costumes they’re churning out lately

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I rather go for this, to have a different element makes it a reason to have it be a costume

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To misquote the old saying…
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it’ s a duck

If it doesn’t look like (hero), gain mana like (hero) or have the same element as (hero), then it’s not (hero).

Or like Trigger’s broom (from Only Fools and Horses) it’s had 17 new heads and 14 new handles, but it’s still the same broom :rofl:

( Originally The Ship of Theseus )

Video clip from Only Fools and Horses.

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Just another bunch of uninspired, lazy cashgrabs. Meh

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I hope that Norns costume will not be slow, this will create a thing that we don’t want to happen, once that they will do that to change the speed of the costumes, they will do it every time when they want even in the feature. It will be the last desired to happen like that. Hope is a bug.

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Rendering her back to Average at best with 20% troop mana boost.

Is Zynga worried that a “Fast” Norns will render their latest, bestest, mostest heroes a tad weaker for defence? :joy::rofl:

Surely this is a good move in the right direction. For every action, there must a reaction.

C Norns would be a good counter in offence, with more and more OP heroes dominating defences.

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I would be happier if they just stopped doing costume, actually. Or since they’re gonna be the same thing now, make them available in Costume Chamber too. It’s not like they’re worth 100 unfarmable coins compared to 5 farmable keys.

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Back then when costumes first started, I made a suggestion that maybe costumes have different elements. Because heroes like wukong can have inclusivity for their skills to different elements who have yet to get gambler effects. But it seems that costumes have been down the path of no return now. It has always been boring with no real changes except they’re mirrored effects
Now the new costumes are just buffs behind a paywall, cemented by the fact that c xnolphod has his original’s 20% mana boost
But changing speeds for costumes could be interesting as well. This could mean that c g owl and c boss wolf will get a tweak in their mana speeds, maybe inverted to v fast?

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In another topic @PlayForFun wrote:

So costumes may have a different class, a different Aether Power and now a different mana speed to the base hero.

So what next?

Perhaps give Boldtusk a new clown costume and change his family to Starfall ?

Where does this end?

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Zynga is running out of ideas for hero development. The smell of desperation is stronger now.

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Hasn’t it always been that way since the beginning?

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Nah. In the beginning or at least the early or earlier days, money flowed in with ease. SGG didn’t bother with the recent QOL tweaks cos they didn’t need to expend effort for more revenue.

This game was conceived to be an epic profitable blockbuster, according to the then CEO in an interview made during the earlier days.

Now, with the sale to Zynga and subsequently to TT, focus on revenue has intensified exponentially because acquisition cost should be recovered at the minimum.

Recovery of acquisition cost is from surplus operational cash flow. Therefore, revenue now not only needs to cover operational expenses, it also needs to yield ROI.

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Funny, but true, story.

Some (long) time ago I was in a meeting regarding setting up a new distributor in the far east. (I’m in the UK.)

At one point the finance guy asked about the ROI. Export team looked confused.

I quickly explained that the finance guy was referring to Return On Investment - not the Republic Of Ireland.
:rofl:

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Yeah that’s a standard response from any Finance person.

That ROI diminishes with each resale unless profitability of asset to be acquired keeps increasing with each resale. It’s possible but hard to achieve.

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