Faeona – 5* Holy / Yellow - December 2024 HOTM (Hero of the Month) -- Initial Release

[PlayForFun]

New HOTM Released for December, 2024: Faeona

This thread is for discussing strategy related to Faeona, as well as your thoughts on Faeona.

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Faeona

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed
Legendary	Holy/Yellow	Sorcerer	S Slow

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80	1036	1102	1709
4/85	1116	1187	1842
4/90	1277	1358	2108

Origin	Family
Hero of the Month	Legends 2024

Image	Aether Power	Description
	Defense Up	At the start of each battle, this Hero gets +20% defense for 6 turns. In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.

Resist: Resist Mana Reduction This character has innate resistance against mana reduction.

Ability: Mana on Buff Received This character gains 5% mana when they receive a buff or positive stack.

Special Skill: Revitalizing Orb
Recovers 45% health for all allies. All allies get +30% increase for any healing received for 5 turns. Stack +3 (Max 10): The caster gets +15% mana generation. (Affects only mana generated from matching tiles or mana gained by the defense team at the end of their turn.) Element Link gives all Holy allies +20% critical chance for 6 turns. This effect cannot be dispelled.

All-in-one still under construction. Card image to be added when available.

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Changes from Beta

There appear to be no changes to Faeona from last-seen Beta stats, skill, and design.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early information on the December 2024 HOTM -- Faeona [Part of The Beta Beat V72]

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What do you think of Faeona ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Faeona.

Based on preferences Forum members have expressed, please try to stick mainly to Faeona and not wander off topic too much to other heroes.

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Faeona worth summoning for?

• Would you use Faeona on Defense? Offense? War? Quests/Events? Titans?

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Faeona ?

• What heroes would you take when facing Faeona as an opponent?

• Would you give Faeona Sorcerer Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

• What do you think of Faeona’s character design?

• If you Summoned Faeona and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Faeona, and whether/how you plan to make use of them.*

*NOTE: Summon Results posted without any commentary/feedback at all should be flagged as Off Topic and removed, based on preferences expressed by the Forum community. Please include some comments about what you think of Faeona when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Faeona, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Faeona (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Faeona), so other players are presented with realistic experiences of the rarity of Legendary Event Hero.

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Avoiding Overspending & Heartache

More Insights & Reading

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

• How much should I spend?- HotM cost, and odds, analysis

• [WARNING] A Summons Experience - Chasing Guardian Panther - A Warning for Chasing Heroes

• https://forum.smallgiantgames.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-gacha-read-before-posting-things-about-unfair-pulls/29490?u=playforfun

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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Wondering About Your Personal Situation?

Feel free to discuss your team and roster here, and ask for advice from other Forum members.

If you’d like more extensive advice on sorting out your particular roster, I recommend creating a new thread in Gameplay Help & Tactics, and posting screenshots of your hero roster, along with your questions.

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Related Threads You May Be Interested In

• 🧪 Early information on the December 2024 HOTM -- Faeona [Part of The Beta Beat V72]

[PlayForFun]

Feedback Poll - Faeona (post release)

Is Faeona worth Summoning For?

• Yes, absolutely
• Only if you’re P2P
• Yes, but only when featured.
• Not really
• Not at all

How many copies of Faeona would be useful to keep & Level?

Note - this is roster space dependent & isn’t the same for everyone!

• Zero
• Just one
• 2
• 3
• All of them

What do you think Faeona’s Primary Purpose is?

• Healer (Immediate)
• Healing Buffer
• Mana Generation Buffer

What do you think of Faeona compared to other Heroes?

• Over Powered (OP)
• Little stronger than Most
• On Par with Most
• Little Weaker than Most
• Completely Broken (Under Powered)

How does Faeona’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Faeona’s Base Stats?

Note this means Faeona’s Class, Attack, Defence & HP Stat

• Perfectly
• Better than Most
• On Par with Most
• Worse than Most
• Terribly

Is Faeona worth giving Sorcerer Emblems to?

• Yes absolutely
• Depends on who else you got
• Hmmmm, not sure yet
• No I don’t think so
• No… Not at all.

Is Faeona worth giving Master Emblems to?

• Yes absolutely
• Depends on who else you got
• Hmmmm, not sure yet
• No I don’t think so
• No… Not at all.

In Defence, where do you think Faeona is best used?

• Left Wing
• Left Flank
• Tank
• Right Flank
• Right Wing
• Not on defence at all.

How do you think Faeona is best used?

• PvP Raids/ War attack
• Normal Defence
• War Defence
• Titans
• Farming
• Tournaments
• Event Teams

Choose up to 3 options

What do you think is Faeona worth Limit Breaking ?

• Yes, but only once
• Yes, twice
• No

If you would emblem Faeona then which Emblem Path would you select ?

• Sword path
  (Selecting Attack talent nodes when possible)
• Shield path
  (Selecting Health and Shield talent nodes when possible)

What do you think about the artwork ?

• Amazing
• Refreshingly new
• It’s ok
• It could be better
• Very bad

[Gargon]

yawn yawn yawn yawn how many do I have to do to fill 20 chars?

[sleepyhead]

Just pulled… goes in the queue. I’ll probably use her in the Tower events at some point, the heal + healing increase + mana buff to self could be useful there.

Not super exciting, but has her uses.

[MorsAngelu]

Dunno. I don’t think I use as many heroes at the tower anymore. Unless it’s the Styx tower whith those crazy changing restrictions

[MorsAngelu]

Doesn’t sound any good, except for that mana stack. I thought the same of Leadria last year and finished between my favorite heroes, tho. Assaults taught me to think opposite

[PlayForFun]

The polls are just enabled.

[Nightmare2048]

Nothing special outside VF, but in VF will be super annoying as she gets faster even in that mode so if tanking she’ll heal more than Toon Vivica and her mana can’t be cut. However, unlike Toon Viv she’s susceptible to Mindless (and she’s Sorcerer so no resistance to statuses without Monk-main Legendary Troop) and heal block/heal drain (Umeko, C-Perseus, C-Victor), so even then she should be not much of trouble unless you don’t have such heroes.

[Rufzeichen]

while perseus and c-victor will pose a problem, umekos heal reduction is dispellable and eill be counteracted by heal increase like attack buffs counteract attack reduction, will it not? maybe they shouldve buffed her by bringing heal increase to the top of the skill list and reducing the %heal to 35-37ish. that way she would be less vulnerable to heal block, but more vulnerable to buff block. hmm…, s i am typing i dont know if shes fine the way it is or if she’s missing something.

[2puttshaqur]

I saw there is a count down timer on her stacks… which seems weird… but here’s an fyi on how many tiles it take for her to charge based on the stacks and 20% mana troop and a 4% emblem bonus.

This is not considering the mana chunks from her passive… so not especially great…
9.677 with 20/4/0
8.633 rounded to 9 with 20/4/15
7.792 rounded to 8 with 20/4/30
7.101 rounded to 8 with 20/4/45

Now let’s consider the mana chunks she gives herself due to the passive.

after first special she goes from needing
9.677 with 20/4/0 to needing
7.563 with 20/4/15
6.826 with 20/4/30
6.22 with 20/4/45
6.041 with 20/4/50

She gives herself 2 buffs, which means she gives herself a 10% chunk after the first special.

I like her… and would probably level her up… but I say that today, not having her…

[fishepa]

Another yellow healer. Yawn

[nodrog]

No idea who is voting “on par with most” because this is hot garbage. I’d rather run Toon Rigard/Kiril.Melandor than a slow speed healer that has no secondary effects like dispel/cleanse/defence=up

The mana up stacks is an interesting idea (a slow speed hero who becomes average after the first hit) but it isnt going to work, since it will come too laet in the match to have any real effect.

[Nightmare2048]

Why? Most heroes have quite low stats without costume boosts, so stat-wise she’s really on par with the most heroes in the game and plenty of older heroes have comparable functionality (Lidenbrock, Vivica etc.). The fact we see like 2% of heroes in the game used in meta with recent stats doesn’t change the fact there is like 500 5* heroes, most of them pretty average, so in line with Faeona. And she has at least two good passives, which is more than good chunk of heroes.

About 4*, I find that against current 5* even top-tier 4* such as Goldie or Greg with Master Talents and 2LB die too easily.

[SabrewulfofNight22]

At first glance, this one was somewhat disappointing because there is nothing special or great here for me. First of all, they are slow. Second, they don’t boost any healing, compared to Chloris released months ago and they are still another sorcerer, but now yellow. Buffing mana generation in some situations with a stack from slow speed mana generation is just not entirely convincing to me, but the buff-related passive they have can help increase mana to speed up the process. The hero could be dead by the time those stacks can be more useful, so I think rush battles fit with this character best. The critical chance as in similarity to any other HotM is a nice average bonus as usual.

After receiving Rosalind back when she released at the goblin portal, when it comes to stacks and anything defensive and offensive here, I’d still take Rosalind at fast speed with her damage reduction and mega minion.

[TohOutar]

Goldie 2lb is 100x better than this junk.

[CL_Fire]

Contgratulation Faeona! You beat Celidana in having the worst design in game!

Like seriously, she looks SO out of place it’s absurd.

[notyou87]

@PlayForFun

Stack +3 (Max 10):

What does it mean by the +3 part? I am deeply confused. I am sure it’s simple and obvious, but I just don’t understand it

[King_Kyree77]

With the right heroes, she is a great hero. Rhys and her will do wonderful things together.

[ENP777]

Update: (tested in game)

+3 stack = Each stack is 5%. After she cast her special, 3 stack is total of 15%. (3x5%)

If she fire her special again within 5 turns, it add another 3 stacks. 6x5%, Total 30%. Stack is renewal.

Max stack is 10. 10x5% is the max.

[JoshuaK]

Where does it say that her stack has a 5 turn limit? The only thing I can read that states 5 turns, is her additional 30% heal to all received healing in 5 turns. Not a thing about the stack having a turn limit.