🧪 Early Information on Season 3 Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat V26 & V27]

[FroggyRay]

I also have a question about all of these season 3 heroes who decrease max hp. Is this temporary or permanent for the match? Will a cleanse bring your max hp back to normal? If you get hit multiple times and your 5* hero now has a max hp of say 600, is the only way to bring it back to normal is have a hero who boosts your max hp? If so, do y’all think that heroes who boost max hp will become the new prized commodity?

[DaveCozy]

@FroggyRay

Is this temporary or permanent for the match? Will a cleanse bring your max hp back to normal? If you get hit multiple times and your 5* hero now has a max hp of say 600, is the only way to bring it back to normal is have a hero who boosts your max hp?

Permanent for the duration of the match. Reduced HP is not a status ailment, thus it can’t be cleansed. Boosted HP from Heimdall is not a buff either, so that can’t be dispelled similarly.

Boosted HP is the only way to counter the negative effect of reduced HP right now.

[FroggyRay]

Damn, since it seems like Heimdall is the only one who can boost hp at the moment (plus his amazing revive ability and attack boost) it seems like Heimdall is going to be the most coveted hero for S3

Who knows but I am v excited to see how all these new abilities will shift the meta game!

[yelnats_24]

Isn’t Mist’s (4*) skill, Valkyrie Charge better and faster than Neith’s (5*) skill?

[DaveCozy]

@FroggyRay

his amazing revive ability

Heimdall’s revive is subpar honestly, 20% chance to revive is pretty low. I see it more as a cherry on top more than anything – nice if it activates, but players who rely on him reviving fallen allies are going to be dissapointed.

Heimdall’s real advantage is the boosted HP – excellent to take DoT or to push your teams survivability further.

[Astarothea]

I am wondering if Fenrir’s %600 damage is going to work on titan because with wukong’s buff that is a LOT of damage

[Mr_Style_Points]

@zephyr1 @DaveCozy @Guvnor

When max hp is increased by 500, presumably an additional 500hp is added with it, not just the potential. Since REDUCING max HP seems to occur after damage is dealt, is an equivalent amount of hp also removed even if not at max hp? For instance, if an opponent is at 300/1200 HP after receiving damage from an Alf cube, does the max hp reduction leave them at 300/865 HP or does it act like flat damage along with the reduction and kill them?

Also, if fired defensively, does Norn affect tile damage of attackers or only specials?

[FroggyRay]

True, the revive percentage is not super high but from someone who doesn’t have Mother North or Alby, I am happy with anyone who has any chance to revive. It definitely is a cherry on top ability, but it’s also definitely one of the best cherry on top abilities a hero can have. The increased health and attack boost is already fantastic on its own.

[ThePirateKing]

The 600% only applies to his attack stat. So say if his special did 1000 damage to the titan before it reached 50% HP, then below that his special will be doing around 2400 damage. So it’s not a huge amount, when compared to tile damage.

[Astarothea]

Thank you for clarification, it is some kind of cherry on top for me so i would take that increase anytime if i have chance

[Natural-Lite]

WOW!!!
Early thoughts below and a few questions for beta testers in there somewhere…(its a bit long and the thoughts were not formatted the best so i apologize in advance.)

@zephyr1

Mana Speed: Fast

Special Skill: Gargantuan Bite

• Deals 300% damage to the target.
• Deals 600% damage if the target has less than 50% health remaining.

No way he stays Fast this attack is insane (also is this influenced by what the heroes original max health was?) I only ask cause I can see serious shenanigans with him and Fura… Also does the 300-600 difference work like jabber where its just 300 twice or is it actually 600%?

@Natural-Lite

Is the health reduction boosted by troops or emblems or is it a flat 200 no matter what? @DaveCozy @zephyr1 @littleKAF

Never saw an answer for this (please see below sorry)

@zephyr1

• Casts 5 Dark Cubes to random enemies.
• Dark Cube deals 285% damage to the target.
• Dark Cube reduces max health from the target by 335. Max health can’t get lower than 30% of the original max health.

Even at VSlow…this is a lot of damage…and the more enemies already dead the more devastating it gets…Also my question for Fura above can be tested with this hero if she is not back in beta…

@zephyr1

Mana Speed: Average

Special Skill: Gold Weave

• The caster and nearby allies counterattack with 100% of the damage received for 4 turns.
• The caster and nearby allies reduce all received damage by 50% for 4 turns.
• The caster and nearby allies get +24% mana generation for 4 turns.

Boss wolf is weeping somewhere

@zephyr1

The caster and nearby allies are immune to buff dispels for 3 turns.

This doesnt effect chameleon or gazelle right.

@zephyr1

Stack: The caster gets +5% attack. The maximum size of stack is 10.

works well with brynhilda no? can see shenanigans here as well…

@zephyr1

The target and nearby enemies are immune to new buffs for 3 turns.

Does this include elemental links from HOTM and does this eff innate abilities?

Since he doesnt inherently target a specific enemy does blind eff this special?

@zephyr1

Casts 5 Dark Cubes to random enemies.

[Bonecrusher]

Am I wrong in thinking that Fenrir is S3’s Kage in reverse, with a cherry on top?

[amessofamind]

Wish blue would have got something a bit more interesting then another sniper… just don’t really see a need for more of that in blue (make Fen red please) … but still seems like a good hero, have a feeling he’ll be overrated a bit. The very slow dark seems insane… the holy look interesting (hate counter) … fast minion Freya seems fun but not a need… oddly enough, most excited about some of the 3s and 4s here.

[Rigs]

@zephyr1

• Deals 300% damage to the target.
• Deals 600% damage if the target has less than 50% health remaining.

Hmm a reverse kage…interesting

Guess to balance the heals

[Natural-Lite]

are you in beta rigs I thought you were?

[Rigs]

Nope lol

Get asked that daily

[Math-Teacher]

Costume opportunities?

[DaveCozy]

@Mr_Style_Points

When max hp is increased by 500, presumably an additional 500hp is added with it, not just the potential.

Yes, the additional 500 is added if the hero is going to be “over-healed”

@Mr_Style_Points

REDUCING max HP seems to occur after damage is dealt, is an equivalent amount of hp also removed even if not at max hp?

No, the HP reduction only affects max HP value.

@Mr_Style_Points

if an opponent is at 300/1200 HP after receiving damage from an Alf cube, does the max hp reduction leave them at 300/865 HP

It’s this. Gryphonknight explained well in a post above for Fura

@Gryphonknight

Example
800 / 1200 HP becomes 800 / 1000 HP
1100 / 1200 HP becomes 1000 / 1000 HP
1200 / 1200 HP becomes 400 / 400 HP after enough castings.

@Natural-Lite

Is the health reduction boosted by troops or emblems or is it a flat 200 no matter what?

Flat, regardless of troops.

[Natural-Lite]

Does Fenrir look at original max health or at the reduced max health???

also a few other question from post 191 if you have an opportunity to test them.

[ChrisLamb]

Why do we still have heroes who are ‘very slow’
I would expect that the new heroes are quicker rather the opposite. Happy that there are new heroes in any case. And thank you SG for always moving forward and continuously bringing innovations. Good job Team!