Current designRace: Beast; Class: Ranger; Size: Small 83 nora, 11 dmg, 6 spd, 2-5 range, 1 def, 42 hp Base abilities: Attack – gun Flight Renovate: This champion deals 10% extra damage for each starting ability on its target. Upgrades: Stat Bonus: Dmg (1) Stat Bonus: Dmg (2) Stat Bonus: HP 1 (+4 hp) Stat Bonus: HP 2 (+6 hp) Before buffs or nerfsRace: Beast; Class: Ranger; Size: ??? ?? nora, 11 dmg, 7 spd, 2-5 range, 1 def, 48 hp Base abilities: Attack – gun Flight Renovate: This champion deals 10% extra damage for each starting ability on its target. Upgrades: Stat Bonus: Dmg (1) Stat Bonus: Dmg (2) Stat Bonus: Health (1) Stat Bonus: Speed (1) EDIT: Will update information as we get it.
I like the arts comic relief and the sprite is cute, but I dislike (like the Pox Harbingers) runes that are designed to be entirely identical in all 8 factions. It will look out of place in anything but a full Strigg BG and in KF and IS (or/IS) you are looking at 9 flying ap on the turn after deployment. Giving the champion a speed upgrade is pretty silly since noone at all will choose to tkae anything over that, and the base speed of 7 is imo allready to much when you take KF/IS and Tailwind into account. In my opinion it is a badly designed rune.
I know its free and probably not an indicator of future champ design. but im still not a fan. at least the harbingers had a coolness factor. birds with guns? is this pox or pokemon. to be honest, I really don't want comic relief. it reminds me too much that this is a ccg disguised as a strategy war game (which take their lore and flavor a tad more seriously). I want pox to pick a world and stick to it.
I think it would a bit more helpful if we try to focus on how this rune will fit (or not) within the FW meta. We already know this champion will be nuts if is released like that on IS, KF or ST (heh, but FW and UD are always OP, figures), however it will be worth to be included into FW? We already have some of the best counters to superchampions, we have plenty of champions with long range and decent mobility, and we also had a little bird with similar stats. However, 8spd is too good to skip it, and depending on how is designed, the renovate ability could secure it a place on your vanilla good stuff FW bg.
From a FW perspective it doesnt really bring anything. Superchamps is not something FW has trouble dealing with as a rule of thumb. Flying ranged is allso something we have plenty of. Beasts isnt really a theme we have or can work with to a serious degree. So i dont think it will bethat usefull to us. If it´s super undercosted it will get included as good stuff, but otehr than taht i dont see it as something FW worty. (It is going to be speed 6 and the speed upgrade will be removed as per Geddens announcement in the thread)
It looks fairly boring to me. Nothing really that special or cool about it. I'd rather add a different Forsaken Waste rune to my group instead of this one.
Original post update with the release information. Relevant changes: SPD from 7 to 6 HP from 48 to 42. Upgrade SPD +1 removed, HP 2 (+6hp) replace it.