🧪 Early Information on the April 2020 HOTM (Malosi)

[zephyr1]

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 April 2020 HOTM, Malosi.

Click for Mostly Useless Information from Beta

Don’t get too attached

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

It’s incredibly common that heroes 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 skills to be removed or reworked, or for radical changes to stats to be made.

Malosi Beta Info & Stats

Attack: 743
Defense: 729
HP: 1303

Class: Barbarian
Resist: Defense Ailments – The Hero has an innate ability to resist status ailments that affect Defense. Doesn’t apply to status ailments that affect elemental defense.
Element: Holy/Yellow

Mana Speed: Very Fast

Special Skill: Power Punch

• Deals 370% 300% damage to the target.
• The target and nearby enemies cannot cast any new status effects or stacks on enemies or allies for 3 turns.
• Element Link gives all Holy allies +10% Critical Chance for 6 turns. This effect can’t be dispelled.

Here’s an explanation of Malosi’s secondary effect by @DaveCozy

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@DaveCozy

The game has specific definitions for what it considers status effects.

Everything that Malosi should block the target from casting is listed in the dropdown below:

Click to see all Status effects so far

@DaveCozy

Buffs

|Status|Buff_Icon|Description|Overwritten|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|Attack Up| |Increased offense|
|Defense Up| |Increased defense|
|Protect| |Paladin talent activated, increased defense|
|Special Skill Defense| |Increased defense against special skill damage|
|Martial Prowess| |Significantly increased damage of normal attacks, stacks with other attack buffs (up to +160% attack max)|
|Wrath of Tundra| |Greatly increased damage of normal attack that only applies if enemy HP is higher than attacker. Stacks with other attack buffs (up to +170% attack max)|
|Critical Up| |Increased critical attack chance (x2 damage)|
|Berserk| |Increased offense, further increased with each hit taken (up to 5 increases)|
|Gambler Stance| |Offense greatly increased with reduced accuracy|
|Mystic Virtue| |Offense greatly increased with reduced accuracy, if enemy HP is higher than attacker|
|Attack Heal| |Heal x% of damage dealt each normal attack|
|Recover Up||Increases recovery of healing skills and status effects|
|HP Regenaration| |Recovers HP over set amount of turns|
|Mana Gain| |Mana gained increased|
|Mana Regeneration||Recover mana per turn|
|Mana Protection| |Resists new negative mana ailments ( ) and effects that reduce mana |
|Special Skill Protection| |Resists new status effects that block special skill activation ( )|
|Ailment Protection| |Resists new status ailments|
|Damage Share| |Damage is shared between allies with this status effect|
|Taunt||Prevents enemies from using Special Skills on the owners allies (including dispels)|
|Just a Flesh Wound!| |Chance to drop any received damage to 1 point|
|Counter| |Returns a counterattack per each direct hit|
|Mana Gain per Counter| |Recover mana for each counterattack, decreasing amount of mana recovered for each successive counterattack in the same turn|
|Reflect Holy| |Reflect all status effects and damage, and block other negative effects from Holy special skills|
|Reflect Ice| |Reflect all status effects and damage, and block other negative effects from Ice special skills|
|Dark defense up| |Increased defense against dark element attacks and offensive skills|
|Holy defense up| |Increased defense against holy element attacks and offensive skills|
|Ice defense up| |Increased defense against ice element attacks and offensive skills|
|Nature defense up| |Increased defense against nature element attacks and offensive skills|
|Fire defense up| |Increased defense against fire element attacks and offensive skills|
|Lucky Nine| |Moderate chance to dodge special skills. If dodge is successful, user generates an attacking fox minion that recovers small amount of mana each turn (Minions do not count as status effects)|
|Hide in Shadows| |Chance to dodge damaging special skill and gain moderate amount of mana. Chance is higher the more damage the special skill deals|
|Immortal| |If the owner is defeated, they are resurrected the next turn with all status effects removed|
|Zombie Blessing| |If the blessed owner is defeated, they are reborn as a zombie the next turn with 100% health, 500 attack, 500 defense, and Poison Bite special skill.|
|Bruise Bro| |If the owner is defeated while this status effect is active, they are revived in Chameleon mode|
|Chameleon Mode||Increased attack, decreased defense, special skill replaced by Fierce Slash|*can’t be overwritten
|Ghost form| |Removes all buffs and ailments; moderate increase to normal attack; can’t gain mana; immune to all attacks, special skills, and status effects|*can’t stack with any other status effect
|Elemental Link Atk+Def up| |Gives a small attack and defense boost to all heroes of the same colored element|
|Elemental Link Recover HP| |Recovers a small amount of HP per turn to all heroes of the same colored element|
|Elemental Link Weakness Defense up| |Gives a moderate defense boost against elemental attacks that the colored hero is weak to (indicated), to all heroes of the same colored element|
|Elemental Link Mana up| |Slightly increases mana generation for all allies of the same colored element|
|Element Link Critical up| |Small increase of critical strikes chance (x2 damage) for all allies of the same colored element|

Ailments

|Status|Ailment_Icon|Description|Overwritten|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|Attack Down| |Decreased offense|
|Decreasing Attack Down| |Decreased offense, further decreased by -4% with each hit taken (up to 5 attack reductions)|
|Heal Reset Attack Down| |Attack decreased, turn duration reset if healed|
|Defense Down| |Decreased defense|
|Decreasing Defense Down| |Decreased defense, further decreased by -4% with each hit taken (up to 6 defense reductions)|
|Heal Reset Defense Down| |Defense decreased, turn duration reset if healed|
|Health Drain| |Steals health over a number of turns|
|Recover Steal| |Health recovered is stolen by caster|
|Deep Wound| |Reduces healing received|
|Sargasso’s Curse| |Reduces healing received|
|Mana down| |Mana gained decreased|
|Mana block| |Blocks mana gain|
|Mana Steal| |Mana gained is stolen by caster|
|Silence| |Blocks special skill use|
|Mindless Attack| |Skill replaced by mindless attack; targets an ally when mana is full, with chance to miss|
|Spell Slayer| |Receives damage when mana is full, mana is halved when full|
|Blind| |Reduced accuracy on offensive attacks and skills|
|Dark defense down||Decreased defense against dark attacks and offensive skills|
|Holy defense down| |Decreased defense against holy attacks and offensive skills|
|Ice defense down||Decreased defense against ice attacks and offensive skills|
|Nature defense down| |Decreased defense against nature attacks and offensive skills|
|Fire defense down||Decreased defense against fire attacks and offensive skills|
|Burn| |Receives damage over a number of turns|
|Poison| |Receives damage over a number of turns|
|Water||Recieves damage over a number of turns|
|Sand Twister| |Receives damage over a number of turns|
|Moonlight Serenade| |Receives damage over a number of turns, starting low and increasing with each turn|
|Bitten| |Receives damage over a number of turns, damage increases if afflicted with this ailment again|
*damage over turns increased if afflicted by caster again
|Wound| |Activated by normal attacks from Barbarians; receives damage over a number of turns|

Malosi should not prevent these things:

• Direct Damage
• Mana reductions
• Minion summoning
• Direct Healing
• Dispels
• Cleanses
• Removals

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Avoiding Overspending & Heartache

Or: How many summons are needed to get a HOTM?

Special thanks to @Garanwyn for assistance on summoning odds and proofreading for this section.

It’s important to remember that HOTM have very low summoning odds. No amount of summoning will guarantee a HOTM.

On average, in a 10-pull, you have a 12.3% chance of summoning the HOTM.

But that statistic can lead our minds astray in exactly how our odds play out as we continue summoning.

Some useful insights:

• 73 times out of 100, you’ll get a HOTM by pull 100
• 95 times out of 100, you’ll get a HOTM by pull 229
• 99 times out of 100, you’ll get a HOTM by pull 352

Putting that in Perspective

• 27 out of every 100 people won’t get the HOTM by the 100th pull
• If 1 Million players each summoned 100 times, 270,000 of those players wouldn’t get the HOTM
• 5 out of every 100 people won’t get the HOTM by the 229th pull
• If 1 Million players each summoned 229 times, 50,000 of those players wouldn’t get the HOTM

More Insights & Reading

I highly recommend reading these two threads for more information and context on summoning odds:

• How much should I spend?- HotM cost, and odds, analysis
• What exactly is a Gacha? (Read before posting things about “unfair pulls”)

If you’ve read them a million times before, you may consider reading them again before deciding on your budget for summoning. A little time spent deciding on how much money you want to risk on summoning goes a long way to avoiding disappointment, frustration, and regret later.

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For a full list of items currently in beta testing, as well as their related threads, please see:

• 🧪 The Beta Beat (v26) – Season 3 Heroes, Path of Valor, Costumes v2, Feb/Mar/Apr HOTM – Sharing the Big Picture on What's Going on in Beta
• 🧪 The Beta Beat (v25) – Path of Valor, Dec/Jan/Feb/Mar HOTM, Bug Fixes – Sharing the Big Picture on What's Going on in Beta

[Rigs]

Wth…

Same resistance as kunch?? Why…

[zephyr1]

@Rigs

Same resistance as kunch?? Why…

He seems like a natural counter to Kunchen, in part.

It seems a lot like Seshat having a resistance to Mana Reduction making her a natural counter to Guin, in part.

If Kunchen fires, Malosi wouldn’t be affected. If Malosi fires before Kunchen, no one would be affected.

He’s certainly useful for all sorts of other buff/ailment blocking, but his color, resistance, and Special Skill all make him potentially useful as a counter against Kunchen.

[Rigs]

Yea thought bout that after initial response. Still idk, somethin “unique” would have been cooler

Still waitin on a jackal replacement…but at least this hero doesn’t blind or mana cut so looks like someone in the design office finally decided to get at least somewhat creative

[Saw]

I find it good to counter kunchen, not having a jackal it’s quite difficult to knock it down … Can’t wait to see what it’s worth.

[zephyr1]

@Saw

Do you have a picture of this hero?

Yes, but they’re not allowed to be shared.

@zephyr1

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[Yayo]

So…a description?

[Rigs]

He’s a drug addict version of tarlak

Appearance wise

[Scarecrow]

So, if I hit Ariel just before she goes, what exactly she will do? Will heal without cleansing and buffing?

[lexinen]

He reminds me of the big guy from Moana.

Moana (2016 film)

[uvekolarz]

Probably will heal, NOT buff, then cleanse this effect

[Guvnor]

Seems overall pretty ok… Not op like the previous two HotM in beta.

It’s essentially a moderate sniper with a silence.

Also the last of the “critical boost” elemental links?

[Scarecrow]

Cleansing like dispelling is an effect, so I’m pretty sure cannot cleanse…

[Saw]

I totally forgot, I apologize.

[Suicide_Bunny]

Neat but looks balanced. I like the idea here. Seems like a material for my Barb tokens also, I keep them on 4s and 3s because not many decent 5* on that class that I have.

Does it prevent from firing or just applying the status? Does it matter that a status is not dispellable? I think it should… Because there’s too much poor collateral victims here - take Morgan or Natalya, with the status ailment resistance becoming more and more popular, they become completely obsolete, and they didn’t really shine before those either, so I don’t think they need to keep getting countered by those new heroes…

[tsoukalos]

ouch ta’s fast. april HOTM out alridi.

[Scarecrow]

@Suicide_Bunny

Does it prevent from firing or just applying the status?

It “silences” for 3 turns all specials which cast any effect. Actually is better than classic silence, because mana is wasted.

[Kenneth]

Really? From the description it doesn’t sounds like that.

So let’s say I hit Isarnia with Malosi’s special.
Is she able to cast, deal damage BUT NOT the def-down, or she wastes mana doing no effect at all?

[uvekolarz]

@Suicide_Bunny

Does it prevent from firing or just applying the status?

My understanding is that it will fire but won’t aplly any effects, for example Magni will deal damage but will not buff defense. But we’ll have to wait for clarification from actual testers.

[lexinen]

I just tested against Zeline. She inflicted damage but did not inflict her attack debuff. Not sure about the dispel since I didn’t have any buffs on at the time.