🧝 Hammerclang – 5* Fire / Red from Astral Elves

[PlayForFun]

New Astral Elf hero is released: Hammerclang

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

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Hammerclang

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed
Legendary	Fire/Red	Rogue	F Fast

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80	1027	1052	1678
4/85	1107	1134	1809
4/90	1267	1297	2070

Origin	Family
Plane of Astral Elves	Astral Elves

Image	Aether Power	Description
	Special Boost	At the start of each turn, this Hero’s Special Skill deals an additional +30% damage for 6 turns. In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.

Resist: Resist Poison This character has innate resistance against Poison.

Ability: Share Received Damage 20% of damage received by this charater is shared with other allies.

Special Skill: Celestial Anvil
This Special Skill never misses its targets Deals 400% damage to the target and minor damage to all other enemies. All damage all enemies receive is increased by 30% for 3 turns. All enemies get -30% attack for 3 turns.

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

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Astral Elf Family Bonus

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

Astral Elf Family
Bonus for 1 / 2 Heroes:

50% / 70% chance to dispel a random dispellable effect buff from an enemy who deals Special Skilll damage to this character.

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Balance Changes

Apr 2024

@EmpiresPuzzles

Passive Skill changed

• Resist Blind → Resist Poison
• Affects all Astral Elf heroes

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Changes from Beta

• The Aether power is changed from Defense Up to Special Boost
• The mana speed is changed from Average to Fast
• Skill added as first: This Special Skill never misses its targets.
• 495% damage to target is replaced to 400% damage to target and minor damage to all enemies.
• The damage increase now applies to all enemies instead of the target, but the increase is just 30% instead of 55%.
• +50% attack buff to allies is replaced with -30% attack for enemies.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Round 2 of Astral Elves Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v65]

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What do you think of Hammerclang ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Hammerclang.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Hammerclang worth summoning for?

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

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Hammerclang ?

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

• Would you give Hammerclang Rogue Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

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

• If you Summoned Hammerclang and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Hammerclang, 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 Hammerclang when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Hammerclang, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Hammerclang (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Hammerclang), 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 2 of Astral Elves Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v65]

[PlayForFun]

Feedback Poll - Hammerclang (post release)

Is Hammerclang worth Summoning For?

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

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

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Damage Increaser
• Attack Debuffer

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

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

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

Is Hammerclang worth giving Rogue 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 Hammerclang is best used?

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

How do you think Hammerclang 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 Hammerclang worth Limit Breaking ?

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

If you would emblem Hammerclang 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

[Maciurella]

He’s useful for titans, and I think only for titans.
Ok, maybe for events, but there are many better heroes.
Game Well

[Nightmare2048]

Where I live is right after midnight (Central Europe) so Today 8:00 AM is fine.

Anyway the hero good for titans, but I don’t like that damage intake is increased only for target. That limits his usability for Events. And average sniper for Raids? Well, I dunno. I feel Sparklight does much more for this speed.

[Maciurella]

I haven’t realized it’s already after midnight .
Forget what I said

[Tidyup]

They changed him to fast and damage amp to all. So way more desirable now

[Vandermar1979]

I do like those changes but wish they hadn’t changed it to -30% decrease in attack instead of 50% increase to allies damage. Still a nice hero though.

[ProfessorBlaq]

Am i trippin, or did we have Astral Elves like 2 or 3 weeks ago?

[CaptainFurface]

He is basically just a better HOTM Gladius with less cool art.

[PlayForFun]

The OP contains all the changes. Polls are enabled.

[Ven0m_dk]

Why only titan worthy? He is great to take against Dodge heroes like e.g. Tametomo is as well.
I can’t drag a Dead cat out of those astral portals, so 150€ later I am just mehh, f that. I would like him or Lemonwood though!

[Maciurella]

Totally reworked after release.
But I think his old version was better…

[Its_Sherlock]

He’s probably going to replace Buster in Events

[JAWS_3D]

@Vandermar1979

I do like those changes but wish they hadn’t changed it to -30% decrease in attack instead of 50% increase to allies damage.

Agreed. I think maybe he was stepping on Gastille’s toes too much. Still looks like a solid support hero to swing a battle

[Danoh70]

Fast damage dealer with increased damage to all? He seems like a great hero to me for all aspects of the game.

[Frostbite]

As I got no 5* Owls or Goblins I got Starwalker twice and Sparklight so I’m on team Astro Elves.

I really live my two guys and if I’m going to spend some money it’s gonna be on this portal.

Hopefully Hammerclang will soon join the team.

[ProfessorBlaq]

I got nothing during the last portal, but here he is. Dupe sparklight

[VFROOD]

My last pull… has cost some euros…

After an overload of the red 3 star horse rider this came as full surprise

[Panjunkie]

I ended up with the 2 reds, Hammerclang and Sparklight, which one is better? Can really only work on one.

[QuikStrikeNinja]

Club Quikstrike is all about referrals you have to know someone that knows someone. Recently, I’ve been searching for a blacksmith. The blacksmith I had employed, Andre retired to Dark Souls. Lemonwood said he knew someone got me in contact with him, hired him on the spot. Really liked the name Hammerclang. it shows how much he enjoys his work.