📕 Gestalt – 5* Fire / Red from Untold Tales

[PlayForFun]

New Untold Tales hero is released: Gestalt

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

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Gestalt

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed	Mana CB
Legendary	Fire/Red	Cleric	CT Changing Tides	5%

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80 +1 Costume	898 1014	949 1072	1800 2124
4/85 +1 Costume	967 1092	1023 1155	1940 2289
4/90 +1 Costume	1107 1250	1170 1322	2219 2618

Origin	Family
Untold Tales	Nightmares of Atlantis family

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.

Ability: Effects on Special Skill 50% chance to perform the following actions when this character casts their Special Skill: - Deals 80% damage to all enemies. - The caster get +19% mana generation for 2 turns.

Special Skill: Underwater Magma Cube

Special Skill need consecutive uses to reach full power, the following order: 1st: Deals 300% damage to 3 random enemies. Hit enemies became afflicted with Underwater Magma Cube. While afflicted with Magma Cube the owner get -34% defense. Magma Cube explode in 3 turns doing 300 damage to their owner. If Magma Cube is dispelled, the owner get -34% mana generation for 3 turns. 2nd: Deals 350% damage to 5 random enemies. Hit enemies became afflicted with Underwater Magma Cube. While afflicted with Magma Cube the owner get -44% defense. Magma Cube explode in 3 turns doing 450 damage to their owner. If Magma Cube is dispelled, the owner get -54% mana generation for 3 turns.

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

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Family Bonus

Heroes become stronger when teamed with other unique Heroes of the same family.

Nightmares of Atlantis family
Bonus for 1+ Heroes:

• This Hero is counted as part of the Atlantis family if teamed with at least 1 Atlantis hero. Heroes share the following effect when teamed with Atlantis heroes:
  • +5% / +10% / +15% / +20% / +25% defense.

Bonus for 1/2 Heroes:

• 50% / 75% chance to cast -10% mana generation for 3 turns on an enemy who deals Special Skill damage to this character.
• If the enemy’s Special Skill defeats this character, the chance is 75% / 100%.

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Balance Changes

July 2024

@EmpiresPuzzles

Costume mana generation bonus increased for various Hero families

• +1% → +5%
• Legendary heroes of the following families affected:
  • Nightmares of Atlantis family

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Changes from Beta

• Attack is decreased from 964 to 898.
• Defense is increased from 920 to 949.
• Health is increased from 1610 to 1800.
• Charge 1 damage is increased from 200% to 300%.
• Charge 1 defense reduction is increased from 30% to 34%.
• Charge 2 damage is increased from 250% to 350%.
• Charge 2 defense reduction is increased from 40% to 44%.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Round 3 of Untold Tales Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v60]

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What do you think of Gestalt ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Gestalt.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Gestalt worth summoning for?

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

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Gestalt ?

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

• Would you give Gestalt Cleric Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

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

• If you Summoned Gestalt and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Gestalt, 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 Gestalt when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Gestalt, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Gestalt (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Gestalt), 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

• 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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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 3 of Untold Tales Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v60]

[PlayForFun]

Feedback Poll - Gestalt (post release)

Is Gestalt worth Summoning For?

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

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

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Defense Debuffer
• Damage Dealer (Delayed)
• Mana Generation Debuffer (if delayed damage dispelled)

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

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

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

Is Gestalt worth giving Cleric 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 Gestalt is best used?

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

How do you think Gestalt 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 Gestalt worth Limit Breaking ?

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

If you would emblem Gestalt 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

[Suraj283]

Barkley and Gestalt’s special skill stacks greatly, it will be fun to watch both ransacking enemy.

[Tidyup]

Already have 2 of the featured, will not risk it this time round trying to get this guy even though his skill is fascinating

[L33tVortex12596]

I agree this guys special looks extremely interesting…hope he’s not more bark than bite though

[PlayForFun]

The OP is adjusted wih the changes. Polls are now enabled.

[Frozen]

On the third roll with coins.

[Kenzo]

Does someone know if the same enemy gets hit multiple times by the cube, will the subsequent hits be done after the defence ailment is applied?

[Zakuha]

Although I don’t like “hit random” heroes, at first glance he seems quite useful.
Just did some quick tests on 2/60, but I am still wondering what would be a good Team Setup for him. Carmenta spreading his MagmaCubes work, but is somewhat unreliable due to his randomness

[Zakuha]

Uhm…is he bugged or what am I missing?

Gestalt, simple Test

Its his second cast and the 450 Cube Damage happens immediately?

Edit:
Gestalt 1. Cast does not trigger the Cube-Damage…but “spreading” it with Carmenta did?

Gestalt, simple Test 2 - Carmenta spreading cube triggers it?

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EDIT 2:
Okay,seems I just had not enough Coffee and finally got it myself

The Damage from the MagmaCube gets triggered if the Cube-Effect is “refreshed”.

Video2: Guin already had a cube, when Carmenta spread a “new one” onto her.

Video1: I missed, that on his second Cast he fires 5 Cubes and it was just a coincidence that he only hit 2 enemies.

[Dorkus]

Gestalt’s defense down cubes stacked with regular defense down in beta. Can anyone confirm if this is still true?
e.g. Tetisheri DD = -54%, Gestalt charge 1 DD = -34%, combined should be 69.7% drop w/ both applied. with Tetisheri + Gestalt charge 2DD, overall should be 74.2% drop of original defense stat.

[Zakuha]

@Dorkus

Can anyone confirm if this is still true?

just tested…seems to be still the case:

[Obsidianj3]

If you’re fighting this guy amd his special goes off, you’re pretty much dead if you dont have ailment blocking. Id try to pull for him, but I already have two legendaries from the portal

[Dzibong]

It’s amazing, but I managed to get him today thanks to the first free pull, so I decided to start upgrading him as soon as possible. I currently have him at level 3.33 and I found him to be durable enough for me to take him into his first fight - here’s the result:

Gestalt (TP 4552 vs TP 5510)

Maybe I’m an exaggerated aesthetician, but the first thing that caught my eye was the poor animation of the cubes (Alfrike has a much better one), because you can’t see how many cubes are hitting which target - only after hitting you can tell by the damage how many cubes hit a given hero.
Coming back to the character itself, even at 3.33 it hits quite hard, because it deals about 400-500 damage with each hit, plus a cube explosion after 3 turns

[Sapu]

Yes…it’s random…you can hit 2 equally up to 5 times in the untold stories stages like hitting 1 5 times and another once…

[Sapu]

He is a Magnificent hero with large numbers. His numbers are scary at first glance when you read his card, but then when you play you see that he is very balanced.
He does not use his great power as soon as he leaves, but rather he draws it out over time and if he reaches extraordinary limits, he seems to me to be a sublime hero on par with the enemies that appear in the events. .
He doesn’t seem like an assault hero to me. There he needs a lot of help… he is really effective from the third shot. Then he becomes a beast since he can throw cubes with the sum of 450 damage per cube that explodes when launching his second or third shot.
I’m not going to do more advertising because I want to see if it makes the cut…if it doesn’t this is going to be very bad news.

[Kenzo]

Oh I’m aware he can hit the same enemy multiple times, I was more wondering whether after the first hits they will hit harder because of his defence down, or whether the defence down occurs after all the hits.

[Warren500]

Well, I thought I’d do some pulls in the untold tales portal as I currently have none of the 5* heroes. I decided to do 2 x 10 pulls - Gestalt in particular was the one I wanted from those featured. I really like his specials skills especially on charge 2.

On the 19th pull I got lucky and pulled him

I also think given the bonus chest, the game wants me to level him

[0valRainbow]

wonderful, comes along with the mats ^^

[Bandolivin]

Is this a chat gpt generated post?