I think Wulfstan is reasonably well-balanced overall
I think Wulfstan is excessively weak, and needs a buff (increase of their strength)
I think Wulfstan is excessively strong, and needs a nerf (decrease of their strength)
I’m not sure yet
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If you think Wulfstan is well-balanced, too strong, or too weak — why?
Are there specific, concrete suggestions you’d make to the game designers to alter Wulfstan ? Or are there specific reasons you think they should remain unchanged?
Purpose of this thread:
To provide an aggregate place for the topic here on the forum; thus preventing there being a million threads popping up. And to provide an actual set of impartial votes rather than a Ideas & Feature Requests which has no real voting.
In short, to neaten the forum and to give players and outlet for their thoughts on his balance without bogging down the rest of the forum or the other Wulfstan thread.
I wouldn’t say he is weak, I just think he is designed wrong. He inflicts too less insanity to the enemies. One heal and all the insanity is gone, while you have to heal six times in order to get rid off the 55 insanity on Wulfstan. Maybe make him hit only three targets, but increase the inflicted insanity to at least 35, maybe even 40. To be featured in such an expensive portal doesn’t feel right. I mean compare him to Dolores or Zavinia, which were also featured. Both of them are by far better, and ofc I got two times Wulfstan, which will be both unleveled if he keeps like this.
I was thinking the same, stats are good, special is not good.
On a side not I fought a team of Melancholia, 2x Dolores, 1x Wulfstan and another I can’t remember. Melancholia went insane and revived four of my dead heroes and I won the match, sublime.
And reduce insanity to 50 atleast and inflict insanity to others by atleast 20
Like insanity heroes are controversial heroes (i really don’t understand the double standards kettle became hated hero for being random what about insanity heroes🤡)
Anyways now that i got one… I can’t fire wulfstan even with 3-4 healers(more than once) his insanity pops up to 90?? My enemies rarely get insane with 10 (my team self suicides by itself because mechanism… Not even a titan hero (because of no defense down)
And not to mention hundreds of pulls others did to pull these sub par insanity heroes and selling it in 450 gems portal
Insanity heroes are they even worth all this
And for a 2025 newly launched only insanity hero (its practically waste of joy from my side ) lasted like 2 days when i realized it’s basically a stupid mechanism. . I was happier when i got scrollbeast and he still is my Comrade but wulfstan can got to hell useless bish
And yes don’t even mention using him for raid defense (enemies don’t need to put much effort) wulfstan will act like suicidal bomber to destroy his allies on his own (very effective to drop cups in raids)
On attack, you fire him once and he’s 55% insane. Can’t realistically safely (35%) fire him again unless you heal him twice. Even then, there’s a good chance it backfires. So in that attack team, you need 2 healers, Wulfstan and another 2 attackers. Can the 3 attackers take out a modern 7700 team with a healer or 2?
No. So you need another 9 tiles and maybe Wulfstan backfires and you lose. That’s assuming it’s not a healing tank. If it’s a strong healing tank, you will never beat it.
So this hero doesn’t do enough at all. His insanity to opponents is cancelled by a single heal, he should apply a cloning “spreading bolt” Laselle type of fiend which maxes out at 30 insanity. This gives him a lasting impact on the battle with 1 special fired.
When Wulfstan was in beta testing, did the devs give any reason for why he’s so bad? Is there a niche goal they’re trying to accomplish with him (like, making stoneskin an even more valuable passive? Or maybe they’re trying to min/max heroes that literally can’t be successful on defense?)
I dunno – in beta-testing do they ever offer their reasoning/logic for their decisions? Or did they really just mess up and give us an awful hero?
They don’t care about our feedback so much if the hero it’s bad or OP and exactly for this reason I have stopped to provide feedbacks for any hero. They are making what they want and that it’s.
This hero is in dire need of an update or buff. His stats are fine, his first ability is good, but with having cast 55 insanity on himself while doing so is absurd! In my experience of using him, there’s been many times where he’s ready to go off again and not only gives back the buffs he stole, but all the other buffs from the entire team! The cultist and investigator heros are desired for a reason, him being the first featured hero in the most expensive portal in the entire game is not acceptable, this guy needs to be made proper. It could make sense that you left the same passive that all the other heros in both families off in order to balance and buff him the january update, but since he was left off that list, he needs to be done right. My suggestion would be to give him back his passive, and lower the insanity he gives to himself to 35. Or if you keep him at 55 then have him give everyone on the other team 35 - 55 as well, that way he will actually be wild card exciting to use. I prefer the first option with lowering his self inflicted insanity, but the second option would be insanely fun. Either way, the trade off is not at all worth it, 10 insanity inflicted and 55 self, is completely unbalanced.
Im a beta tester but wasnt able to during this heros testing… the absokute insanity (no pun intended) is that beta testers thought he was reasonably well balanced! I think thats absolutely absurd cause he is trash, worst insanity hero yet besides the reviver one.
I dont like this hero one bit, the missing passive makes no sense, the insanity on self/enemies is was disproportionate shouldnt have removed his DD and the buffs should be distributed to all allies imo. RN he is terrible and not worth the mats aethers emblems nothing. I hope they fix his special i really like the artwork on this guy and as my only insanity hero id like to level him but not as is.
Don’t understand why they didn’t rebalance him in the Jan update.
Maybe there wasn’t enough complaints here.
Just be fair. If Atwood can do 135 (45x3), Wulfstan should do at least 125 (25x5) or 150 (30x5).
Pulled him when first released and was so excited to get a new featured hero in a new portal and I’m very disappointed he made it through beta like this. Look at the other new heroes in other portals and this is what we get??? In an expensive portal with other heroes that give so much more insanity and receive so much less. How does this make sense at all?
I, along with many others, fully expected Wulfstan to get a buff before the shadow portal came back around. But here we are and nothing has changed. Only 10 to all while taking 55 is a JOKE. Should be more along the lines of 10 to all enemies plus another 10 every time they are hit for 4 turns. Or if you are not gonna give him a mechanic like that, then he should only take 10 insanity himself. Maybe…maybe 20 max. He is nowhere near on par with other insanity heroes.
Wasted mats and xp leveling him only because yellow is my weakest color. The ONLY way I’ve gotten any use is to put him on a team with someone to give him softskin. But then you have to worry about timing heroes and it can get messy. Just terrible.
I think he is in the wrong family, but its too late now.
His card would be great without insanity where it is if he was in, say, the Gargoyle family gen 2 or the slime family. Pick any other family, he would be great.
But, because he’s in this family, a completely unusable card unless the insanity he inflicts changes.
It seems the majority of the community feel a higher amount be given to the enemies and lower the amount he gives to himself. Also, why no passive?
Wulfstan needs a buff.
Dularfulr received the heal she desperately needed after her release by listening to the community.
Now she’s a desirable hero.
This is the second time he’s been featured with no change.
Hopefully, something will change.
All new cards in this portal need a fix. If they don’t fix them no one will pull again for so damaged cards at this cost. It suppose to be a good portal with this cost and at this odds but it is maybe the worst with the broken cards they release
For the price of the portal, I thought that applying insanity to oneself was for the summoner to have a chance to shoot twice, while the enemies on themselves, need to remove this insanity applied to themselves or reduce the insanity to 10.
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(my team self suicides by itself because mechanism… Not even a titan hero (because of no defense down)