Thank you for posting this information. It is greatly appreciated
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Sounds like there will be a week I’ll be glad I didn’t eat Carver, even if I pretty much never needed him by the time I finished him…
Interesting trend in SG’s new content, both this and the class system…making otherwise very unfavored heroes suddenly useful or even necessary…making bigger rosters with more diversity more valuable.
Suspect that it will continue. Gives those of us who couldn’t pull Kageburado something interesting to work on.
And with this plus the buf in beta, if it makes it to release, maybe I’ll take Justice to 3/70 instead of that spare Delilah…
Edit: I intended to write unfavored, not unflavored. 
but maybe it accidentally worked anyway; IDK.
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I’m really excited about this, it makes so much better use of the wide variety of heroes SG has designed, and it makes the game so much more accessible.
I’m sure there will still be Weekly Raid Challenges where the competition and winners are those with piles of HOTM and the best 5* — but having even some in the rotation that favor (or at least don’t disadvantage) F2P/C2P/newer players/hero hoarders will bring some great variety to the gameplay.
And I think it’s great for game longevity. I know I’m a lot more excited to keep plugging away on leveling heroes when I have something to use them for, and I’m not just building bench depth for lack of anything better to work on.
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Will heroes that are already fast be even faster? Heroes like Scarlett
In all fairness, I’d say that the Very Fast game rule does not necessarily benefit the slow heroes more than others. It equalizes the playing field for heroes by bringing them all to the same speed. It is simply more fun that everyone got pushed up to Very Fast rather than normalizing everyone on Average.
Those slow heroes @Epigenetic mentioned are not the best ones suited for the Very Fast event. Specifically, the best 4* tank under those rules is Kiril. I had suspected that Li Xiu would be the best tank but if purple heroes are allowed then Li still gets edged out by Kiril. Healing at Very Fast rates is overpowered, but mana steal is only borderline overpowered. Healing + def buff + attack buff at very fast rates breaks the meta.
So the bottom line is that the speed of the hero is not what you should be looking at if you want to build a bench for these events. Instead look at the power of their SS and imagine how that could be abused at very fast rates. The slow heavy hitters arguably have the most to gain from the very fast game mechanic.
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Interesting — Kiril makes a lot of sense to me.
I figured that mana stealing/reduction/slowing wouldn’t be as useful, since everyone is so fast.
But I would have thought Hu Tao would be solid. Blinding at Very Fast seems like a good way to dull an attacking team having specials to fire so frequently.
Pairing Hu Tao and Kiril could make a lot of sense, hmm…
And just to round things out the things we’ve learned in beta:
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Double buff duration is worthless. Undispellable buffs can be frustrating. Debuffs and status ailments are both normal in duration and can be dispelled. Flipping a defensive buff to a defensive debuff w/ Gormek, Grimm or Tiburtus still works. One assumes attack buffs are flippable to debuffs as well, but I never paid attention to that. And if you pack Wu Kong, you deserve what you get.
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@Epigenetic’s description of No Healing is not entirely correct. Healers are allowed entry into the event, you can still bring Kiril, Boldtusk, etc. It’s just that their healing ability will be reduced to 0. Their buffs still work though. Damage over Time (DoT) heroes become much more favored, in defense teams anyway. If healing cannot be used to offset DoT then the efficiency of DoT over direct damage is magnified.
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There is one more boring event category called No Rules. There’s no special rules and all the normal rules of raids apply. Everyone was kinda meh over this.
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I’m pissed they are dropping 1* and 2* challenges. I am ready for them 
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@Madmarv great points. There are a couple things. First, while Kiril might be the best tank I am not 100% sure he is. We shall see with the larger game. A lot of the challenges got screwed up by bugs so we never could see what was happening.
Also, I never said that the slow heroes were the only ones you needed, but they were the ones I didn’t have leveled. Most of us have Kiril and some have multiple Kirils. Hu Tao, Skittles, etc. are very useful in the challenge. I had Colen leveled and he was quite good too. My Li Xiu tank got abused. I think the population of beta testers has some particularly nasty raiders and that may make a difference.
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Maybe if the 1 and 2* challenges are all ready to roll out, suggest to SG that it be capped to players under say lvl 20-25?? That way they could compete for some nice loot and it wouldn’t be over ran by higher levels.
Have a few questions on the structure if it is every week or one week a month? Also if it keeps a trophy count and standings based on that? Might already be that info out there now, I’ll search around.
Thank you for the great info!
Hi BYD we did suggest exactly that. There is still a problem though because beginners will put their resources into heroes that should be temporary instead of into 3* and above that are useful in other aspects of the game
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I’ll love to see a Very Fast Guardian Owl tank.
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Will they at least give us more roster space? I have to pay 200 gems per 5 slots already. Seems unfair that we should pay to keep something we bought and then be forced to pay more because SG keep rolling out new heroes & features that require even more resources.
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Oh crap I want to reroll
I’m sorry, but if Horghall suddenly becomes very fast I’ll always want him to stay that way 
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Also — some of the events restrict what colors you can bring (omitting one color was as much as we saw). So it may not be enough to bolster that perfect 3* team if suddenly some key heroes are excluded.
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Off topic, but that’s a very very good point.
Ps. I thought 100 for 5 was bad(what I’m paying) What level or how many spaces before they hose ya for 200
Thank you so much for the info! Really appreciate it 
I just hope it doesn’t mean that you can’t compete because you do not even have enough heroes to fill the roster like in the Trials. That goes especially for newer & intermediate players (f2p will be most affected). My C2P account can’t complete in most of the 3rd stages of trials yet albeit that it is already a few months old. It will put players off & cause a lot of harm imho
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Every 5th goes up by 50.
Ps. Imho I’m on topic. Planning (heading) require new heroes in roster space, it is a huge problem for some