Melancholia - 5* Dark / Purple from Shadow heroes

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New Secret Hero is released: Melancholia

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

Melancholia
Rarity Element Class Mana Speed
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Legendary		 :new_moon:
Dark/Purple
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Paladin		 S
Slow
Level Attack Defense Health

4/80		 :crossed_swords:
1009		 :shield:
1071		 :heart:
1884
4/85 1087 1154 2031
4/90 1244 1320 2324
Origin Family
Shadow Summon Cultist
Image Aether Power Description
ailment-immunity
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 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.
:hourglass: Ability: Marked by the Old Ones
All damage is reduced by 5% per 10 Insanity for this character up to a maximum reduction of 50%.
:dizzy: Special Skill: Grim Awakening
  • Revives all allies with 70% HP and 50 Insanity.
  • All allies get +74% defense against Special Skills for 5 turns.
  • If any ally except the caster is defeated in 5 turns, all enemies receive 400 damage.
  • Inflicts 55 Insanity to the caster.

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

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:hugs: Family Bonus

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

Cultist family
Bonus for 1 / 2 / 3 Heroes:

  • +20% / +30% / +40% defense.
  • +20% / +30% / +40% health

:balance_scale: Balance Changes

May 2024

:test_tube: Changes from Beta

  • Hero name is changed from Secret hero IV to Melancholia.
  • Attack is decreased from 1025 to 1009.
  • Defense is increased from 1025 to 1071.
  • Health is increased from 1643 to 1884.
  • Revive HP is reduced from 100% to 66% with 66 Insaniry instead of 60.
  • Self Insanity is increased from 55 to 60.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Secret Heroes and Secret Summon [Part of The Beta Beat v66]

:thought_balloon: What do you think of Melancholia ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Melancholia.

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

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

  • Is Melancholia worth summoning for?

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

  • Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Melancholia ?

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

  • Would you give Melancholia Paladin Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

  • What do you think of special?

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

  • If you Summoned Melancholia and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Melancholia, 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 Melancholia when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Melancholia, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Melancholia (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Melancholia), so other players are presented with realistic experiences of the rarity of Legendary Event Hero.

:money_with_wings: Avoiding Overspending & Heartache :broken_heart:

More Insights & Reading

I highly recommend reading these three threads for more information and context on summoning odds:

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. :slight_smile:

:thinking: 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.

:link: Related Threads You May Be Interested In

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Feedback Poll - Melancholia (post release)


:question: Is Melancholia worth Summoning For?

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

:question: How many copies of Melancholia 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
0 voters

:question: What do you think Melancholia’s Primary Purpose is?

  • Reviver
  • Damage Buffer
  • Condtional Damage Dealer
0 voters

:question: What do you think of Melancholia compared to other Heroes?

  • Over Powered (OP)
  • Little stronger than Most
  • On Par with Most
  • Little Weaker than Most
  • Completely Broken (Under Powered)
0 voters

:question: How does Melancholia’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Melancholia’s Base Stats?

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

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

:question: Is Melancholia worth giving Paladin Emblems to?

  • Yes absolutely
  • Depends on who else you got
  • Hmmmm, not sure yet
  • No I don’t think so
  • No… Not at all.
0 voters

:question: In Defence, where do you think Melancholia is best used?

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

:question: How do you think Melancholia is best used?

  • PvP Raids/ War attack
  • Normal Defence
  • War Defence
  • Titans
  • Farming
  • Tournaments
  • Event Teams
0 voters
Choose up to 3 options

:question: What do you think is Melancholia worth Limit Breaking ?

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

:question: If you would emblem Melancholia 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)
0 voters

:question: What do you think about the artwork ?

  • Amazing
  • Refreshingly new
  • It’s ok
  • It could be better
  • Very bad
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Apparently she was toned down a bit (she gets more insanity and revived heroes as well, plus I think revived heroes get less HP, though the last one means more likely for them to get killed and deal damage upon death). Thankfully, though I think she’s still Insane. :crazy_face:

Edit: Though now thinking about it, this one can’t at least inflict Insanity on enemy team.

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It’s not the chance, it’s the HP after the revival which occurs 100% of the time. Also, you didn’t include the name of the hero during beta like you did for Atwood for example.

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Thx, I am adjusting the Changes from Beta part.

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Everything should have been 66%
Counter damage should have been 666 damage

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But really this is quite a weak skill, not even 666 is enough damage imo

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Polls are enabled.

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The high insanity to all revivied AND caster make a this Slow Only(mostly) Reviver pretty mehhhhhh

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So no insanity for enemies, and it punishes allies for getting revived with a high insanity. Strange mechanics.

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I don’t get the skills of this hero. Half the time she’s working to put her allies in a disadvantage. She has no insanity cast on enemies but on allies. Her only perk is that it’s a guaranteed revive? Doesn’t make sense to me

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Not sure she makes much sense, and typically the only secret hero I pull :rofl:

Feels like the risk of reviving enemies on a second charge is too great and even if you revive your own heros they have a decent chance of using the special skill on you?

The revive is of course great but the downside doesn’t seem worth it, even if you revive healers that could reduce the insanity they might just heal the enemies

Feel like I must be missing something but the more I think about it the less useful it seems to be?

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I kinda still don’t understand Insanity but if revived with 66 Insanity does it mean there’s 66% chance of your own hero using offensive special on you (or healing enemies)? If so then I retract all nice things I said about her. HotM is better and so is Dabria who is faster and doesn’t screw you up.

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I guess if they reverse target and kill your own heros at least it damages the enemies with 400 for each kill but hardly seems worth it especially if a healer reverses and heals enemies it’s negated already

Feels like insanity needs to be toned down and not given to her either, imagine reviving all enemies by mistake! Should also do something to the enemy… when going off and all heros are still alive this doesn’t do much at all except the status effect and then gives insanity to herself and a chance to revive enemies on the next charge.

I assume insanity isn’t given to heros who aren’t revived but will test… tested and no it doesn’t as expected

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My guess is that if they gave her HOT like C mother north, she is disgustingly OP.

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Her Fancy Name / Title anyone ?

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Acolyte of the old ones

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Yeah but its only -5% per heal so it would take a while to get down low. Many many turns and by then just sitting around not using specials you will lose…so why bother.

Sounds like its one of thoes oh ■■■■ im gunna lose 100% but if i use this there is a small chance I can come back with insanity luck going in my favor but it would be way better to use any other reviver in her place IMO…

Hmm…

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The huge insanity is the drawback for the guaranteed revive so the HOT can still be used here to compensate a little. I feel like if you park her in the wings she’s still going to stall till the cows come home and this is a very annoying hero to come across. You absolutely need kravekrush to block her revive even with the huge insanity disadvantage on her side, just don’t bother playing games with her

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So basically she revives everyone so they can kill themselves and the rest of your team. Though on the other hand if she reverses and revives everyone she will give them insanity as well. Still, I can hardly think of another hero as detrimental as this one. Even Salmon Loki at least doesn’t hurt your own team.

Can HoT be used to remove insanity though? I thought only direct healing counted. Sheesh, this Insanity is, well, insane, as this is the first mechanic in the game I have problem to understand, probably because I have yet to see it in action.

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