📗 Gandr – 5* Holy / Yellow from Untold Tales 2

[PlayForFun]

New Untold Tales 2 hero is released: Gandr

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

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Gandr

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

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80	1143	1137	2109
4/85	1232	1225	2273
4/90	1409	1402	2600

Origin	Realm
Untold Tales 2	Nidavellir

Image	Aether Power	Description
	Ailment Immunity	At the start of each battle, this Hero is immune to new status ailments for 6 turns. In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.

Resist: Empowered Resist Burn This character has innate resistance against Burn and gains 450 boosted heath and 5% mana each time they resist.

Ability: Molten Core This character has a Molten Core. The Molten Core activates each time this character’s Special Skill is cast: - All enemies receive Corrosive Burn for 3 turns. With fully charged Molten Core, the Corrosive Burn deals 283 Burn damage, and lowers the target’s defense by -10% each turn. Deals extra damage against heroes with Minions or Mega Minions - The Burn damage is scaled by the amount of charge in the Core. All charge is exhausted when the Core is activated.

Special Skill: Spearwand Gale
Attacks all enemies with Firestorm Strike, dealing up to 2000 damage. Deals 40% more if the target is of the Nature element. This Special Skill never misses its targets. Heals all allies for 25% of the damage dealt. All allies counterattack with 60% of the damage received for 5 turns.

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

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Nidavellir Realm Bonus

Realms empower their members in unique ways. The more unique members of the same realm there are in the team, the more powerful the realm effects.

• The Molten Core is charged each time this character receives damage from normal attacks or Special Skills.

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Balance Changes

December 2024

@EmpiresPuzzles

Gandr

• Stats increased
  • Attack: 1133 → 1143
  • Defense: 1126 → 1137
  • Health: 2078 → 2109

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Changes from Beta

• Attack is increased from 1118 to 1133.
• Defense is increased from 1112 to 1126.
• Health is increased from 2037 to 2078.
• Burn damage in passive is increased from 223 to 283.
• “Deals extra damage against heroes with Minions or Mega Minions.” phase is added to the passive.
• The Special Skill is now never misses its targets.
• Firestorm Strike damage is increased from 1900 to 2000.
• Counterattack is increased from 55% to 60%, and the duration is increased from 3 to 5 turns.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Round 1 of Untold Tales 2 Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v71]

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What do you think of Gandr ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Gandr.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Gandr worth summoning for?

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

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Gandr ?

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

• Would you give Gandr Ranger Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

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

• If you Summoned Gandr and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Gandr, 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 Gandr when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Gandr, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Gandr (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Gandr), 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 Round 1 of Untold Tales 2 Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v71]

[PlayForFun]

Feedback Poll - Gandr (post release)

Is Gandr worth Summoning For?

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

How many copies of Gandr 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 Gandr’s Primary Purpose is?

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Healer (Immediate)
• Counterattack Buffer

What do you think of Gandr 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 Gandr’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Gandr’s Base Stats?

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

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

Is Gandr worth giving Ranger 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 Gandr 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 Gandr is best used?

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

How do you think Gandr 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 Gandr worth Limit Breaking ?

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

If you would emblem Gandr 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

[Violent.Wounds]

My token 10 pull using coins at the start of a new portal… I’m happy!

…also got the new 4* and the 3* (three of him!)

…and to top it off, the chest paid off too!

[Steve9999]

Had enough coins for two Untold Tales pulls this morning …

Shocked! Both slow heroes, but crazy odds.
Plus a bonus Graymane!

Most of those coins were winter gifts from my awesome alliance crew … so big up The Pirate Horde.

I need to take a gander at Gandr!

[PlayForFun]

The hero card is updated with the changes.

I have just enabled the polls.

[Nightmare2048]

Got her too.

Slow, but for AoE attack that never misses and heals for 25% of damage dealt (Shaal heals for 20%) and then gives Counterattack (if rather weak) to everyone is great combo; weaken enemy team, heal yours and then let what’s left of adversary get crippled further. And, of course, Molten Core and Empowered Burn Resist, a rather nasty surprise to Toon/Glass Azlar.

[Skeens]

She seems pretty good. I needed another yellow hitter. Almost all my yellows heal. Now I have her and Scroll Beast too.

[kungFuDiscoElf]

Just scored one of these…she looks like she might be a fun tank for VF.

[Bliksem82]

So I happened to pull Gandr few hours ago, didn’t think anything of it. Then I tested her special on LV1/1…And I was suprised. Her special reads “heals allies for 25% of damage dealt”, which is deceptive as I thought its overall. But, her special heals allies 25% of damage PER hit enemy. Calculate that from the special’s damage per hit… and that… is crap load of heal! If she had boosted heal instead of normal, she’d be OP. Color me impressed, she’s gone to the top of my level up list. Costume Medea’s gonna have to wait a little longer…

[Durins_Bane]

I read it correctly but haven’t had the pleasure of testing yet. It’s potentially 2k+ heal to all. Crazy for rush wars

[Nightmare2048]

Shaal works like that too, though she’s faster, heals only 20% of each hit and has Repair Core that also boost HP by up to 25%, so essentially she can heal half-dead team to full or even over. Not Gandr is slower, but heals more, heals at least (125 x number of enemies) HP (lower cap for her damage not counting in flat damage reduction), has better stats and while she does not heal from the core, Corrosive Burn is also annoying. Oh, and that Riposte.

On the other hand be careful if there is hero that blocks heal and does damage on attempt, like Mistweaver or Xiaotu, as this will cause her to do that damage per hit enemy.

[Kenzo]

@Bliksem82

And I was suprised. Her special reads “heals allies for 25% of damage dealt”, which is deceptive as I thought its overall. But, her special heals allies 25% of damage PER hit enemy.

Is it not more or less the same heal, just that it breaks it down into smaller heals? For example, if there were 4 enemies and you did 1k damage to each, that would be 250 + 250 +250 +250 = 1k vs. 25% of 4k damage = 1k?

[Skeens]

I was thinking like a 4k hit would be 1000 heal but like spread among allies so like 200 heal each.

[Durins_Bane]

If he hits for a total of 4000, each ally will heal for 1000. It just shows as a lot of little heals because each is getting 25% of each hit

[Durins_Bane]

Testing his special in farming levels, I noticed that it only does 2400 damage to green enemies. The card reads 40% increase, which would make it 2800? I checked on the first few provinces, it deals 2000 to other colors, and 2400 to green. Bug?

[Domdom]

It’s 40% increase of the base damage (1000), not the max possible damage, this is consistent with the owls’ specials

[Durins_Bane]

I appreciate it, thank you!

[jkdevore]

The issue with Mistweaver and Xioato is they won’t hold up long enough to fire. They are essentially a 3* now compared to Gandr

[PlayForFun]

The hero card is updated with december balance update.

[Skeens]

I’ve been getting a lot of dupes lately and today I Pulled another Gandr. Plus 2 Regins, 3 Cao Caos, 2 Von Rothbarts, 2 Mr Pengis and 2 Whitefang. My question is, are any worth leveling 2 considering the powercreep that’s getting worse each new portal? Or save mats for future heros?