⚖ Hero Balance Discussion: Exeera

[FraVit93]

SGG had come to the conclusion that damage increase special skills scaling off shields (AKA tiles) were enough to make a hero good but didn’t remember that all of the previously released heroes had a useful secondary skill and dealt direct damage… or healed in Alexandrine case.

Frigg

@Guvnor

Special Skill: Brittling Force

• Deals 100% damage to all enemies.
• Deals additional 18% damage per Nature shield on the board, up to 244% damage in total.
• All enemies get -8% defense, and a further -4% decrease per each Nature shield on the board for 3 turns, up to -44% defense.

Odin

@Guvnor

Special Skill: Fury of Grimnir

• Deals 100% damage to all enemies
• Deals additional 18% damage per each Holy shield on the board, up to 244% damage in total
• All allies get +8% mana generation, and a further 3% increase per each Holy shield on the board for 3 turns, up to +29% mana generation.

Octros

@PlayForFun

Special Skill: Stalling The Hallowed Blade

• Deals 180% damage to all enemies.
• Deals additional 20% damage per each Fire shield on the board, up to 340% damage in total.
• All enemies get -24% attack for 3 turns.

Alexandrine

@PlayForFun

Special Skill: Stalling Shimmering Shield

• Recovers 18% health for all allies.
• Recovers an additional 3% health per each Ice shield on the board, up to 42% health in total.
• Alters the critical chance or accuracy of all Ice shields on the board. When an attacknig Hero casts the special, the shields become enhanced with +54% critical chance. When a defending hero casts the special, the shields become weakened with -47% accuracy.
• Element Link gives +10% increase for any healing received for all Ice allies for 4 turns. This effect can’t be dispelled.

Exeera

@PlayForFun

Special Skill: Saturated Suffering

• All enemies receive 237 Water damage, and an increase of 33 damage per each Ice shield on the board over 3 turns, up to 633 damage. This effect is uncleansable for all Fire enemies.
• All Ice enemies are immune to this attack.

She got a sloppy uncleansable effect on fire enemies only and an ice immunity drawback.
It would have been a lot better if instead of this she would have dealt a fixed amount of damage and a turn reduction based upon the Ice shields on the board plus some other useful effect.

Here a basic example:

• Dispels buffs from all enemies
• All enemies receive X Water damage over 3 turns, the duration is lowered by 1 turn for every 3 Ice shield on the board becoming instantaneous with 9 or more Ice shields.