šŸ§Ŗ Early information on the April 2024 HOTM -- Zarga [Part of The Beta Beat V65]

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This thread is to provide early insights and discussion on the April 2024 HOTM, Zarga

All Information from Beta is Subject to Change!

Donā€™t get attached

Details from beta, especially brand-new beta content, donā€™t tend to be very reliable for actual hero release.

Itā€™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 wouldnā€™t get too attached to any of this ā€” itā€™s not unheard of for entire portions of skills to be removed or reworked, or for radical changes to stats to be made.

Zarga Beta Info & Stats (Extremely Likely to Change)

Zarga
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Fancy name: Fast Blade

Gender: Female
Power: 977

Attack: 1050
Defense: 927
HP: 1612

Element: :fire: Fire (Red)

Class: Rogue
Family: Legends 2024
Aether Power: Mana Boost

Innate Ability: Heal on Bleed
This character regenerates 50 HP each time an enemy receives Bleed damage

Innate Ability: Mana on Bleed
This character receives 8% mana each time an enemy receives Bleed damage

Mana Speed: Fast

Special Skill: Thousand Cuts

  • Deals 435% damage to the target.
  • The target has 50% chance to get 905 Bleed damage over 5 turns.
  • The target becomes Bleed marked for 6 turns. Whenever a marked target suffers Bleed damage, they gain a stack (Max: 10). Each stack increases all damage the target receives by 5%.
  • Element Link gives all Fire allies +5% dodge chance for 6 turns. This effect cannot be dispelled.

:money_with_wings: Avoiding Overspending & Heartache :broken_heart:

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

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

Itā€™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, youā€™ll get a HOTM by pull 100
  • 95 times out of 100, youā€™ll get a HOTM by pull 229
  • 99 times out of 100, youā€™ll get a HOTM by pull 352

Putting that in Perspective

  • 27 out of every 100 people wonā€™t get the HOTM by the 100th pull

  • If 1 Million players each summoned 100 times, 270,000 of those players wouldnā€™t get the HOTM

  • 5 out of every 100 people wonā€™t get the HOTM by the 229th pull

  • If 1 Million players each summoned 229 times, 50,000 of those players wouldnā€™t get the HOTM

More Insights & Reading

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

If youā€™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. :slight_smile:

For a full list of items currently in beta testing, as well as their related threads, please see the master beta-beat thread:

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Fast is good.
Stack increasing damage is good. The stack can increase each turn while the status effect is active is good.

But

50% chance of bleed is rough

Passives are decent if you can land the bleed.

Iā€™d slot them into my titan team over cb.Scarlett for the stacks. Maybe the stats are good enough that theyā€™re not better than my marjana?

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typo
20characterssssssssss

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If other heroes make a bleed, this hero will still get a passive right ?
Looks good to me. Look promising (or easier to use) than Jan/Feb/Mar HOTM

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There are a ton of heroes that make the whole enemy team suffer bleed damage. And if the wording is correct, this guy gets 8% per enemy, so 40 % when the whole enemy team is poisened

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Thx, I have fixed this.

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I canā€™t imagine why not. Iā€™m thinking she could be homies with my Tahir. Red is a weak color for me, so Iā€™d be happy landing this one.

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How about Barbarians? Would make that class useful for once.

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If the wording is correct, this guy gets 8% per enemy, so 40 % when the whole enemy team is ā€œBleedingā€.

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Looks like a very good hero. Hope the charge move stays as is.

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1 my first impression is this is a boy
2 Zarga should deal 520% damage since she is sniper
3 others no comment

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Oh barbarians will come in handy. This might be the first hero that makes barbarians look competent in PvP

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This is the R&N of the 2024, and imo gladius done right. Imagine him with carmenta and a couple of barbarians

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Soā€¦ pair her with chomper and barbarian heroes? Sheā€™s not that good where you want to build a team around herā€¦ but she might be better than terrible which is what the last few hotms have beenā€¦ for me at least.

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Iā€™m just a little ignorant hereā€¦ who? I know chomper lands a hit 3 bleedā€¦ not sure who else does.

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Barbarians have great synergy because if you land the bleed and get a barbarian talent bleed, you can add two stacks per turn.

Yes. I used tyr to apply bleed to a wave of three enemies. Passive proced three times.

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Sounds like Rnā€™Nā€™s goth cousin. :sweat_smile:

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My biggest issue with this hotm is that my barbarian heroes stink. Just very little synergy with the decent part of my roster

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Should have followed R&N and called themselves ā€˜Zarga and eipgamā€™

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Off the top of my head, Otis has a hit all bleed.

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