Rebalance Old Heroes

No, it isn’t–otherwise the whole #ideas-feature-requests category would be beta, right? SGG has asked that beta boards only be used to discuss what’s actively in testing.

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meh okay. i guess us beta testers can’t have a little fun and changes in here. sometimes things get drowned out in the public forum.

Thanks, @Kerridoc. I thought about posting it here, but I was afraid it’d get lost in the noise.

The developers need to continue to tweak these old heroes. The implementation of the class system makes it all the more imperative.

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I was going to move it to #active-player-lounge but you’re not there. :frowning:

Hmm. Is there something I’d need to do to get there?

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See Fast Pass to Active Player Lounge

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Hu Tao and Little John are often maligned because of their slow mana, but both can be extremely useful for events and quests. And I think Hu Tao is the more frequently maligned of the two, so I’m going to use LJ as a comparison to justify buffing Hu Tao a bit.

LJ is squishy but has the advantage of a high attack stat, so at least he’s also useful for titans and makes a difference when he goes off.

Comparatively, Hu Tao is a pile of blubber for defense and hp stats, but his attack stat and AoE percentage are low enough that he doesn’t do much damage when he hits. Blind is incredibly powerful in this game, but so is a mana debuff like LJ — which is also a guaranteed debuff, vs blindness that gives a chance to miss.

Comparatively, I don’t think Hu Tao being a meat shield makes him balanced with LJ as a benchmark for another slow Epic hero with a powerful special.

I think a little buff — nothing huge — to Hu Tao’s attack stat, or his AoE percentage, would make him a lot more usable, and more in keeping with the benchmark of Epic season 1 heroes.

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I agree, Zeph. Little John and Colen are excellent 4-star slow heroes; Hu Tao is not. A slight buff to his attack stat and a little nudge to his special damage will be a welcome addition.

Justice, similar to Hu Tao, is in need of a minor tweak. Held up to Hu Tao, she’s not distinctive enough, and put up against Drake Fong, she looks like a joke. Upping Justice’s damage a tad and her chance to miss from 35% to 45% would be enough to balance her out.

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Cyprian is kind of a odd ball hero to be getting the Paladin class, I think.

On the one hand, you can say his tank-like HP allows him to take some hits, and you’d generally want his defense not extremely spectacular because Riposte causes more damage to the opponent if he was hit harder (assuming he had enough HP to take it). On the first node upgrade, 5% chance doesn’t happen much, but if the final class update gets the Protect activated 30% of the time, it means the Riposte is not going to be as effective when it comes on if the Riposte is active during those 2 turns that Protect is on.

On the other hand, if going up against strong hitting monsters/Titans/heroes with talents who will hit harder than what you currently have, you would probably need to have that protection to prolong his survivability. Fortunately, that talent only applies to himself and not his flankers.

I hadn’t thought the rebalancing discussed here to concern classes, but you are right. Cyprian would make, like Boril, an excellent cleric.

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This is a matter close to my heart. I’m F2P and Aegir is my only 5*, and my only blue hero above 3*.

My only green above 3* is Skittleskull.

There are plenty of other threads for Aegir. I think boosting Skit’s attack or SS % damage a bit would help too

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This is quite a big list and I would actually disagree with some. E.g Kelile is imho perfectly fine. The generally agreed among many of general discussions threads are Thorne, Quintus, Boss Wolf, Rumpelstiltskin, Boomer.

But, what exactly do you suggest for them? I suggested that Thorne can get boost to his damage to 512% in the thread 1 post above (pity that thread didn’t have any follow up from SGG). What exactly do you suggest to do with each of these or each of those you suggested?

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It will definitely make a fully talented Cyprian more dangerous if he was a Cleric, means there is a 35% chance you can’t steal mana or seal his mana gain. Cleric class already made Rigard even more potent than he already is, had Rigard and Cyprian switched classes, Rigard will actually still be awesome with Paladin (he is a Cavalier by trade), but it will make both formidable, instead of a crippling effect on Cyprian.

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Something similar to the incremental changes SG used to implement regularly would work. Ten points in an attack stat here, a 5-10% damage increase there. Until they come in line with other, similar heroes.

Thoth’s minion could gain 5% attack and 5% HP and his overall attack damage could see a 5% boost.

Perseus’ damage could go from 355% to 365% (if not 375).

Horghall’s attack stat could see a 10-15 point boost and his damage-all go from 225 to 235%.

Elkanen could see a small bump in his damage and 10-15% increase in his life absorption.

Justice’s damage could go up 5% and her blind from a Hu Tao-level 35% to a legendary 45%.

Khagan’s damage could go up 15% to his target and 8% to those nearby. His defense buff could also probably see a 10% buff.

Domitia could see a damage increase, or her dispel could be changed to affect all enemies.

Saragossa could see his damage buffed another 5%, and Kestrel’s base damage another 10%.

And similarly with the heroes you recognize as subpar (Wolf, Thorne, Quintus, and Rump), give them a buff.

None of these changes would make any of these heroes OP (or more desirable than your Zelines and Panthers and Kages and Graves), but they would all make these heroes more desirable, and so incrementally work to balance the game.

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It seems to me that you are onto something fine here! These changes aren’t game changers, but would simply make mentioned hero’s more useful.

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Sounds really thought of! I would agree with all of these with caveat that they’d need to get through one month test stage.

I’d like to add: Rumpelstiltskin healing from 28% to 36% and also as I mentioned above quite a larger Thorn’s buff from 460% to 512%.

Also, not sure if you’ve seen a thread where I logged a request for Aegir (with links to previous general discussions about his issue):

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Does anyone think these heroes don’t need to be buffed? Or have another idea regarding the best ways to fix them?

I think the best way to balance most of these heroes is incrementally, a little at a time, until they’re actually respectable, but I certainly wouldn’t be opposed to bolder improvements should SG decide to make them.

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Nevermind you mean special skills

Sure but i doubt they will be. Think for there to be good 5* we have to have bad ones. And some people use the tc 5s so guessin they’re somewhat usable

Well, there are a slew of TC legendaries that are perfectly viable (Kadilen, Leonidas, Vivica, Richard, Elena) and many who are among the best in the game (Azlar, Lianna, Magni, Joon, Marj, Sartana).

As rare as legendaries are, I don’t think it’s too much to ask that they all be viable. They’re never going to be equal, but they can each have a role that they can play. With the implementation of the class system, I think it’s even more important that SG go ahead and try to balance these heroes.

I know it has been a concern for them in the past—I think they’ve just been consumed with other things recently (with wars, with the Season Two rollout, etc.) I’d love it if they could also try to test some of these rebalancing issues too.

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