đŸ§Ș The Beta Beat (V53) – New S2, S3 and HotM Costumes, S5 and Christmas Heroes -- Sharing the Big Picture on What's Going on in Beta

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Here is the topic of heroes for the new Alliance Quest’:

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But no January HotM?!? Bad, bad SG. I was hoping for a glace before I decide whether to use my covenant pulls.

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Covenant summon will stay active until November 16.
The next Beta is expected on November 15.

So you can still hold off your pulls until that time.

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20 characters of thanks!

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Sorry for the delay, but here is the topic for the new Alliance Quest:

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V53 Beta 4 is just arrived

  • New S4 Hero
    • Xenda
  • New Journey Family Hero (part of the War of the Three Kingdoms event)
    • Erlang Shen
  • Hero of the Month for January 2023
    • Roughian & Nurgib
  • Season III Epic and Rare Costumes
    • Fura
    • Almur
    • Nordri
    • Ei-dunn
  • Contest of Elements Quest: Nature

I will start to work on topics soon.

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]

Improvements

  • Edited for clarity the following description texts:
    • Alliance War Chest participation and rewards
    • Alliance War “opt out” pop-up
    • Barbarian Talent
    • “Complete Underwater Stages” Daily Challenge
    • Kravekrush’s Special Skill
    • Superior Jinx
  • Food Bundles added as rewards to certain stages in The Masquerade
  • Hero Roster view usability improvements
    • Added “Scroll to Top” and “Scroll to Bottom” buttons
    • Classic Family icon now only displayed for fully Ascended Classic Heroes
    • ON/OFF toggle for prioritizing teams
  • Text color in Superior Class Talent UI adjusted for readability
  • You can now also check Limit Broken + fully Emblemed stats for Heroes in the Summon Gate
    • Talent Nodes on the LEFT side of the tree are taken for these previews
    • Previous default stats (fully leveled, not Limit Broken, no Emblems) are also still visible — use the toggle button on the Hero card to switch between the two settings

Fixes

  • Added a “Time Left” countdown timer to Covenant Quest
  • Added Mighty Pets Event Challenges to Path of Valor
  • Addressed the following visual issues:
    • Alliance Quest UI not immediately recognizing whether an Alliance has unlocked the next difficulty tier
    • Animation not playing when a Hero casts their Special Skill against an enemy of the same Element behind an Elemental Barrier
    • HP bars occasionally failing to reflect the actual HP values of Heroes with health steal mechanics
  • Addressed an old issue in which matched tiles would sometimes stay stuck in place when a player Continues a battle with Gems after losing their last Hero to counterattack damage
    • The game will now wait for any ongoing cascades to conclude before Continuing the battle
  • Caught a bug causing offer icons to be displayed when viewing the Event/Quests map
  • Monster Hunter Family has been renamed to Plains Hunter Family
  • Rhys’s Passive no longer incorrectly reduces mana generated from “Start Battle With Mana” Passives
  • Rhys’s Passive now correctly reduces mana generated from Special Skills of the following Heroes: Alucard, Fenrir, Grimble, Misandra, Topaz
  • Toto (Legendary Hero from Mighty Pets) has been renamed to Max
  • Typo removed from Superior Class Talent UI
  • “Wave N/N” announcement UI no longer missing from certain event/map/quest stages
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I know he’s part of Chinese mythology, but what does he have anything to do with WO3k? Isn’t he a god?

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They gonna make wizard of Oz heroes in the future. So toto has to change his name

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Balance update for Roz:

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Topic for new S4 hero is here:

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Say what, now? I kinda just want them for the name!

About freakin’ time!

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this is a new family within the event, isn’t it?

yeah, does it mean now they will mix Journey to the West in with the historic War of 3 Kingdoms?

@Shohoku79 I’m sure you have thoughts on that my friend

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Finally! Hopefully, S2 will receive new 3* and 4* costumes as well in the near future. Players who don’t spend hundreds of bucks each month need realistic chances to draw new and exciting heroes, not ten new overpowered 5* they mostly don’t get anyway.
I hope C. Fura and Almur are good enough to be used also in wars and tournaments. As for Nordri, already his base stat boost will help survive against 14* titans. Nevertheless, I’d love it if the costume is useful as well :smiley:

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I don’t know, just because they’re Chinese doesn’t mean they work well together.
On a side note, would wu Kong get a name change as well so that there could be a 5* sun wukong?

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yeah agree, the main link they have is they’re both from China
 very tenuous

Also thought about dear Wu Kong, but I wonder if they will just use a different name for any new 5* they would intro. and this is SG, of course there wil be a 5* Monkey King sooner or later :stuck_out_tongue:

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New Journey hero topic is here:

2023 January HoTM topic is here:

New Season 3 costumes topic is now ready too:

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After the three kingdoms entrance into E&P, I am not even going to act surprised that they are starting to include other Asian themed characters into this. Probably part of their plan to appeal to the Asian market. Erlang Sheng belongs in this game as much as Wu Kong does (which is, not really and they very well could’ve totally used some other original character to do what he does, it’s just a card). But Wu Kong was a solo entry into this game, not a cash grab attempt like the Three Kingdoms.

But thrusting Erlang as part of the 3 kingdoms is a no gouda. Again, he belongs in the 3 Kingdoms just as much Wu Kong, which is not even close. Shows lack of vision and research done on $GG’s part, so they forced rammed ROTK into E&P, they probably realized some of the fan base probably won’t appreciate just continuously adding Three Kingdoms character into the summon portal (believe me, there are a lot) like they do with the Sangoku Musou / Dynasty Warriors games (which the company responsible for the creation has been doing with each release), and maybe need to frantically find some other famous Asian themed characters in. ROTK is one of the four major Chinese literary fictional works, the others being Water Margin, Dreams of the Red Chamber, and Journey to the West. Thrusting Erlang Sheng, a “supporting” character in JttW into the RoTK universe is just dumb.

But what do I care, I care not for the W3K event, nor do I care for the heroes from the event, my opinion matters diddly squat to what $GG does.

@TidyUp brings up a good point, Erlang Sheng is made a 5* because he is a god, Wu Kong isn’t exactly small potatoes in the novel, he’s the main character actually. Are they going to make a “True” Wu Kong? Because I seriously doubt they are going to move him out of S1 and promote him to a 5* and give him the journey man family bonus because he is quite acquirable under his current S1 vanilla 4* status.

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I can imagine Dorothy as a blue healer and cleanser and Scarecrow as a yellow hero with mindless attack

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Nature Contest of Elements Quest:

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You don’t just dump anything Chinese into WO3k. It’s like putting avalon into LOTR. I won’t be surprised if I see Mulan in the future
Regarding Wu Kong as well. It’s not a nice representation of him as well with his current skills. Isn’t sun wukong like S tier OP in the stories. This game treated him like a gambling addict

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