In what sense?
If you mean different elements, itās the same result.
In what sense?
If you mean different elements, itās the same result.
It would definitely be something new have a ailment disappear mid cascade. Agree, would be nice to get this confirmed if all tiles in the cascade get boost or just the first one
Thatās a bummer. Maybe that should be part of the beta feedback - that Balbar should work as @Vino describes. That gives the hero a unique kind of niche against titans and also makes them slightly more usable in other contexts. This sleep mechanic is interesting, but it would be more interesting that way.
OTOH, I guess it could be considered broken if multiple specials were fired on the same turn, and sleep boosted them all by 50%, but honestly, how many heroes are going to survive more than one or two specials with that kind of boost anyway? I donāt see it as creating horrible imbalance.
If the Sleep skill activated for a minimum of 2 or 3 turns regardless of damage taken, I think this would be a much more valuable heroā¦
iād be happy to pull this hero. why are we so concerned about the āsleeping target is woken once it takes damageā? he obviously sounds like heās not a good fit with minion heroes, and tiles? bad cascades are such homewreckers, but theyāre not a problem exclusive to Balbar.
i personally like the suggestions of pairing him with a sniper. itās like elemental defense down without it being elemental defense down. i also think the wing targeting option is a viable; it does require looking at the board and seeing what available moves and potential setups for further matches two to three turns later might look like, but shouldnāt we all be doing that anyway?
what i canāt wait to see is putting a Ninja to sleep and watching a tile go into it, except it doesnāt because the Ninja dodged because of the family bonus. but because it dodged, it didnāt take damage, so it stays asleep and still canāt attack or gain mana.
Early artwork.
Jiggly puff !!! Jigallly
Iām so glad they brought a sleep dubuff into empires and puzzles.
Thereās no law that says you have to give him emblems, is there? That would avoid the druid minion problem. If heās too squishy without emblems one could always limit break him for survivability - thereās no law that says you have to LB and emblem the same hero either. Maybe thatās the cunning plan, rather than that devs hadnāt thought through the implications of his class. Or maybe it isnāt
Beta Update:
The OP is updated.
This update makes him very interesting!
Yes, now he is better.
Do off-color tiles that do 1 damage wake the target?
If so, then Balbar wonāt really be useful to shut down a tank. Heās more like a single target defense down hero where youāll often have to immediately fire your sniper or other damage dealer right after him. In fact, even if you target a flank, youāll probably want to immediately fire your sniper on that target just incase your next move comboās and hits the target.
He also has poor synergy with DOT allies, as the dot will just wake the enemy up
Question: if the target that is put to sleep by Balbar is a rouge, or is affected by a dodging buff for example cKadilenās buff or Magaretās buff or Hanitraās (the upcoming HotM) buff, then does the target still have a chance to evade or dodge while being asleep? If the target is still be able to evade or dodge while being asleep, isnāt that a contradiction: how can you evade or dodge a hit while being asleep? Seriously, evading or dodging in their sleep!? It just sounds not right and very contradictory by nature. There should be a consideration of making the asleep target unable to evade or dodge.
he dodges in sleep. endo of story
When you sleep you donāt dodge. You canāt dodge when you sleep. Thereās no such thing as dodging while sleeping. The next time that you are going to sleep, ask somebody to get a cake and hit it in your face in the middle of your sleep, and see if you have a +45% chance of dodging it (the cake). Ok, Iām just joking about the cake.
Zocc 2.0
I lack greens but I dont want another ānewā mechanic niche hero. Green HOTM are being too weird lately. Got Elradir and was happy about him but ahā¦ Didnāt used him much.
tell that to Pokemon where attacks can still miss despite enemy Pokemon being asleep or frozen!
donāt ever underestimate what games are capable of saying āoh yes, thatās intendedā
in Pokemon, if your attack misses, the game doesnāt specify whether it was missed because your hit had low accuracy (like blindness) or the attacked pokemon dodged the hit, so you canāt tell which case actually happened.
Still, evade/dodge will happen more likely because the asleep hero is a rogue or is affected by a dodging buff of cKadilen or Margaret or Hanitra (the upcoming HotM)-case 1, and less likely because the hero is a ninja-case 2. Therefore, an asleep hero evading/dodging a special skill (case 1) will cause you more trouble than an asleep ninja (case 2) dodging a tile match, not to mention an asleep ninja can still dodge a special skill, causing you even more trouble.
and a ninja only has 5%/10% (with 2/3 members) chance to dodge a tile or special skill, much less than the chance of a rouge evading (20%) and the chance of dodging by a buff (45% in case of cKadilen or Hanitra or 30-90% in case of Margaret). So the fact that an asleep ninja can dodge matched tiles doesnāt matter as much.