🧪 The Beta Beat (V76) - Woodland Faun heroes, Moth hero, New Hotm, Astral Dwarf heroes, Beowulf heroes -- Sharing the Big Picture on What's Going on in Beta

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:thinking: What’s this all about?

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Often players on the Forum wonder about what’s going on in Beta.

If you’re a regular reader of the Forum, then you’ll find that there’s actually abundant conversation about what’s going on in Beta at any given time.

And that’s actually allowed!

What’s restricted is images and videos — but discussion is ok:

The challenge is that information is often scattered around the Forum. I’ve created The Beta Beat to help centralize it for those who are 0interested.

The Beta Beat is a series of threads which are evolving as I get feedback on what’s helpful to players.

My main focus is giving some high-level guidance of what’s going on in current testing, so players outside of Beta can be better informed.

Like Beta itself, this thread is experimental and will evolve based on your feedback.

Information from Beta is frankly often mostly useless, so don’t get too attached.

Details from Beta, especially brand-new Beta content, don’t tend to be very reliable for actual release.

It’s incredibly common that heroes and features are changed during Beta testing, or sometimes even after testing but before release.

That is, after all, the purpose of Beta testing.

So I wouldn’t get too attached to any information from Beta — it’s not unheard of for entire portions of hero skills to be removed or reworked, or for radical changes to hero stats to be made, or for large chunks of new functionality to be completely changed.

Often Incomplete Information Circulates

Many of us have seen screenshots and other information shared on LINE, Discord, Facebook, and other groups — often without context or explanation.

These can lead to confusion and misunderstanding.

Often, early Beta information — the least reliable or useful — is circulated…and then updated information is missed.

I’m hoping centralizing some high-level information on the Forum may help to reduce this as well.

What’s Going on in Beta Right Now

IMPORTANT: I wouldn’t get too attached to any information from Beta — it’s not unheard of for entire portions of heroes or functionality to be removed, reworked, or radically changed beyond recognition.

2025 May Hotm

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Woodland Faun heroes

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Beowulf heroes

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Astral Dwarf heroes

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Moth heroes

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Other Beta Content

(These were tested in earlier Beta versions. These might come back to testing or not…)

Earlier Beta contents

Hero academy update

2025 April Hotm

Astral Dwarf heroes:

Bard heroes

Beowulf Challenge

Birthday Summon

Challenge Event Costumes

Clash of Knight costumes

Fox heroes

Garrison Guard heroes

Hero Coach

Knights of Avalon hero

Legendary Troops and Portal update

Night of the Moths

Ninja heroes

Opera

Plain Hunter heroes

Secret Heroes + Secret Summon + Shadow heroes

Slime heroes

Special Guest Event

Springvale

Starfall Circus costumes

Titans

Tournament Rule

Untold Tales 2 heroes

Woodland Faun heroes

Dragonspire

Legendary Dragon Quest

Beta Feature Tracking/ Forecasted Content

Staff have not yet released any further insight into the future V74 Beta testing content.

:left_speech_bubble: Feedback?

I’d love to hear thoughts on whether this information and format is useful, and how you’d like to see information presented in the future. Any thoughts or ideas?

Please try to limit discussion in this thread mostly to the information sharing process and feedback on the thread, so we don’t end up with a jumbled discussion of a bunch of different heroes — use the threads linked above for each individual hero to discuss more.

Thanks! :slight_smile:

:calendar: Beta Schedule

Beta Name Status Open Closed
Beta 1 Testing Planned THUR 06.03 MON 10.03
Beta 2 Testing Planned WED/THUR 12.03/13.03 MON 17.03
Beta 3 Testing Planned WED/THUR 19.03/20.03 MON 24.03
Beta 4 Testing Planned WED/THUR 26.03/27.03 MON 31.03
Final Beta Testing Planned TUE 01.04 FRI 04.04

:exclamation: Beta Updates

This section will be updated over time as there are updates to the V75 Beta Testing Cycle

March 06, 2025

  • 2025 May Hotm
  • New Woodland Faun heroes
  • New Beowulf hero
  • New Astral Dwarf heroes
  • New Moth hero
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The topic for the May Hotm:

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This beta includes “mimic family” heroes that have a chance for additional feeder heroes when used in farming. I just did 14 runs on season 2 9-4 (what I run in AR). I got four heroes and 20 heroes from the mimic family.

Based on this limited testing, one mimic hero leads to a 100% increase in feeder heroes gained from farming.

Unfortunately each is a sniper so this will slow down farming. And unknown way to acquire them (insert your jokes).

Edit: did another 13 runs. 10 feeder heroes regularly + 33 from mimic. Not exactly the 100% increase per mimic hero but still sizable

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I assume loot tickets will work for these?

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I suggested creating Mimic Heroes in last survey. Didn’t know they exist in Beta :astonished_face:
May I ask you (not sure if it’s allowed), if they look like chests?

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Yes I did this all with loot tickets

Yes we’re allowed to discuss what they look like.

They look like the treasure quest chests at first sight. I didn’t do an exact comparison.

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Thanks! :slight_smile:
I’m really happy and impressed they did Mimic Heroes. It will be fun to play with my favourite Drooling Mimic :joy:

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So does it mean that by “additional loot rewards” they mean just extra feeders?

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I would be delighted to welcome a mimic to my roster. :smiling_face_with_heart_eyes: After all, a mimic-like luggage is Rincewinds most reliable companion :sweat_smile:

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Topic for the new Beowulf hero:

Balance change for Jolyon:

Topic for the Woodland Faun heroes:

Topic for the new Moth hero:

Topic for the new Astral Dwarf heroes:

Topic for the Mimic heroes:

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