Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) (6/12/18)

DeNappa

dr tinykittylove said:

Is it true healing? 

"restores X health", not 'burst of X health', so I'd guess so,

LifeofAgony

WEBGAS said:

Wiccan seems interesting...until he'll be nerfed.

BTW , thank you Devs to keep releasing characters during an Alliance event.
Give me a Boss Battle anytime instead of those recycled PVE resulting in a race to clear faster than the other players in your bracket. Less stress, more fun with your allianc's mates. 
Win Win for everyone.
Thank YOU 

The term everyone is not applicable here.  Not everyone wins doing boss events for new releases.

WEBGAS

LifeofAgony said:

WEBGAS said:

Wiccan seems interesting...until he'll be nerfed.

BTW , thank you Devs to keep releasing characters during an Alliance event.
Give me a Boss Battle anytime instead of those recycled PVE resulting in a race to clear faster than the other players in your bracket. Less stress, more fun with your allianc's mates. 
Win Win for everyone.
Thank YOU 

The term everyone is not applicable here.  Not everyone wins doing boss events for new releases.

OK, almost everyone 

jamesh

LifeofAgony said:

WEBGAS said:

Wiccan seems interesting...until he'll be nerfed.

BTW , thank you Devs to keep releasing characters during an Alliance event.
Give me a Boss Battle anytime instead of those recycled PVE resulting in a race to clear faster than the other players in your bracket. Less stress, more fun with your allianc's mates. 
Win Win for everyone.
Thank YOU 

The term everyone is not applicable here.  Not everyone wins doing boss events for new releases.

But not everyone wins during regular release events either.  In fact, it's only the top 100 from each 1000 person bracket.  So the question should be "do more than 10% of players clear round 5 in boss events?".

broll

jamesh said:

LifeofAgony said:

WEBGAS said:

Wiccan seems interesting...until he'll be nerfed.

BTW , thank you Devs to keep releasing characters during an Alliance event.
Give me a Boss Battle anytime instead of those recycled PVE resulting in a race to clear faster than the other players in your bracket. Less stress, more fun with your allianc's mates. 
Win Win for everyone.
Thank YOU 

The term everyone is not applicable here.  Not everyone wins doing boss events for new releases.

But not everyone wins during regular release events either.  In fact, it's only the top 100 from each 1000 person bracket.  So the question should be "do more than 10% of players clear round 5 in boss events?".

The number of people who 'win' go from top 1-10% of players to probably more in the 20-40% range I would guess.  It's a net gain for the game as a whole with those at the top losing a little from the exchange.

That people at the top losing could be easily solved with updating the rewards and supporting SCLs.  Make SCL9 have 5 4* covers from progression but be hard enough that only those top alliances can do it.  Make SCL8 4 4*s, SCL7 3 4*s etc.

ThaRoadWarrior

Our alliance has only recently begun to get to round 7 in alliance events; so tying my ability to acquire a new character to the performance of other people I don't know IRL and only have so much influence over can be frustrating. But I'd say we are at least as likely to get a single cover for a new release this way, and increasingly likely to get more, so I am generally in favor of it compared to a standard event. I'd still like to see some sort of SCL-based scaling on the refreshes though

Borstock

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Our alliance has only recently begun to get to round 7 in alliance events; so tying my ability to acquire a new character to the performance of other people I don't know IRL and only have so much influence over can be frustrating. But I'd say we are at least as likely to get a single cover for a new release this way, and increasingly likely to get more, so I am generally in favor of it compared to a standard event. I'd still like to see some sort of SCL-based scaling on the refreshes though

You could always switch to a more competitive alliance. If you're someone who consistently finishes in the top-100, you should have no trouble finding an alliance that finishes boss events.

PenniesForEveryone

LakeStone said:

Mystical Destiny -  Passive
Wiccan is destined to become the Demiurge, a powerful being who will rewrite the laws of magic. At the start of the turn, if you have at least 6 AP in all colors, Wiccan transforms into the Demiurge and this power becomes Power of the Demiurge.

Power of the Demiurge -  Passive
As the Demiurge, Wiccan has the power to shape reality to his will. All matches made by Wiccan will clear their row or column, dealing damage and generating AP. Wiccan becomes the target of all enemy attacks.

Does this mean he also makes all matches?  Otherwise this power is useless with 5*s.....or even most 4*s since new characters will now take forever to get leveled enough to tank any colors thanks to dilution.

DAZ0273

PenniesForEveryone said:

LakeStone said:

Mystical Destiny -  Passive
Wiccan is destined to become the Demiurge, a powerful being who will rewrite the laws of magic. At the start of the turn, if you have at least 6 AP in all colors, Wiccan transforms into the Demiurge and this power becomes Power of the Demiurge.

Power of the Demiurge -  Passive
As the Demiurge, Wiccan has the power to shape reality to his will. All matches made by Wiccan will clear their row or column, dealing damage and generating AP. Wiccan becomes the target of all enemy attacks.

Does this mean he also makes all matches?  Otherwise this power is useless with 5*s.....or even most 4*s since new characters will now take forever to get leveled enough to tank any colors thanks to dilution.

I assume that his design means that you want to get his yellow power out before you trigger the change to help protect him whilst he draws fire but yes, without covers he will be difficult to get best out of.

abmoraz

broll said:

I’m liking the trend of 4* release boss events.

Ditto this.  I just wish they'd run a Boss event sometime other than Thursday thru Sunday so the majority of my alliance could participate.  Weekends are when most of us work.  It'd be nice to have like 1 in 10 that started on Monday and ran until Thursday so the same people weren't getting screwed over every time

Daredevil217

DAZ0273 said:

PenniesForEveryone said:

LakeStone said:

Mystical Destiny -  Passive
Wiccan is destined to become the Demiurge, a powerful being who will rewrite the laws of magic. At the start of the turn, if you have at least 6 AP in all colors, Wiccan transforms into the Demiurge and this power becomes Power of the Demiurge.

Power of the Demiurge -  Passive
As the Demiurge, Wiccan has the power to shape reality to his will. All matches made by Wiccan will clear their row or column, dealing damage and generating AP. Wiccan becomes the target of all enemy attacks.

Does this mean he also makes all matches?  Otherwise this power is useless with 5*s.....or even most 4*s since new characters will now take forever to get leveled enough to tank any colors thanks to dilution.

I assume that his design means that you want to get his yellow power out before you trigger the change to help protect him whilst he draws fire but yes, without covers he will be difficult to get best out of.

I think he's one who will be better on paper than in practice.  I think I'm going to bonus Spidey out of the next two to enter packs.  Really excited about that Miles synergy.

cschwinge

abmoraz said:

broll said:

I’m liking the trend of 4* release boss events.

Ditto this.  I just wish they'd run a Boss event sometime other than Thursday thru Sunday so the majority of my alliance could participate.  Weekends are when most of us work.  It'd be nice to have like 1 in 10 that started on Monday and ran until Thursday so the same people weren't getting screwed over every time

Plenty of us have weekday jobs

ThaRoadWarrior

PenniesForEveryone said:

LakeStone said:

Mystical Destiny -  Passive
Wiccan is destined to become the Demiurge, a powerful being who will rewrite the laws of magic. At the start of the turn, if you have at least 6 AP in all colors, Wiccan transforms into the Demiurge and this power becomes Power of the Demiurge.

Power of the Demiurge -  Passive
As the Demiurge, Wiccan has the power to shape reality to his will. All matches made by Wiccan will clear their row or column, dealing damage and generating AP. Wiccan becomes the target of all enemy attacks.

Does this mean he also makes all matches?  Otherwise this power is useless with 5*s.....or even most 4*s since new characters will now take forever to get leveled enough to tank any colors thanks to dilution.

I'm curious if this means he jumps in front, or just eats all damage from wherever he is. Nothing about this power says he needs to tank any color

abmoraz

cschwinge said:

abmoraz said:

broll said:

I’m liking the trend of 4* release boss events.

Ditto this.  I just wish they'd run a Boss event sometime other than Thursday thru Sunday so the majority of my alliance could participate.  Weekends are when most of us work.  It'd be nice to have like 1 in 10 that started on Monday and ran until Thursday so the same people weren't getting screwed over every time

Plenty of us have weekday jobs

Agreed.  I have a weekday job.  But there's a non-insignificant amount of players that don't.

I'm not asking for every Boss event to be moved, or even the majority of them, just to have an occasional one that runs some other time than Thurs-Sun.

Blindman13

ThaRoadWarrior said:

PenniesForEveryone said:

LakeStone said:

Mystical Destiny -  Passive
Wiccan is destined to become the Demiurge, a powerful being who will rewrite the laws of magic. At the start of the turn, if you have at least 6 AP in all colors, Wiccan transforms into the Demiurge and this power becomes Power of the Demiurge.

Power of the Demiurge -  Passive
As the Demiurge, Wiccan has the power to shape reality to his will. All matches made by Wiccan will clear their row or column, dealing damage and generating AP. Wiccan becomes the target of all enemy attacks.

Does this mean he also makes all matches?  Otherwise this power is useless with 5*s.....or even most 4*s since new characters will now take forever to get leveled enough to tank any colors thanks to dilution.

I'm curious if this means he jumps in front, or just eats all damage from wherever he is. Nothing about this power says he needs to tank any color

Based on other characters with similar abilities, I expect it means he will jump to the front during the enemy's turn. If Wiccan is on the other team, you will not be able to switch to another enemy. Time will tell for sure.

Jaedenkaal

ThaRoadWarrior said:

PenniesForEveryone said:

LakeStone said:

Mystical Destiny -  Passive
Wiccan is destined to become the Demiurge, a powerful being who will rewrite the laws of magic. At the start of the turn, if you have at least 6 AP in all colors, Wiccan transforms into the Demiurge and this power becomes Power of the Demiurge.

Power of the Demiurge -  Passive
As the Demiurge, Wiccan has the power to shape reality to his will. All matches made by Wiccan will clear their row or column, dealing damage and generating AP. Wiccan becomes the target of all enemy attacks.

Does this mean he also makes all matches?  Otherwise this power is useless with 5*s.....or even most 4*s since new characters will now take forever to get leveled enough to tank any colors thanks to dilution.

I'm curious if this means he jumps in front, or just eats all damage from wherever he is. Nothing about this power says he needs to tank any color

Use with Vulture. I hear Vulture doesn't make his own matches very often

broll

abmoraz said:

broll said:

I’m liking the trend of 4* release boss events.

Ditto this.  I just wish they'd run a Boss event sometime other than Thursday thru Sunday so the majority of my alliance could participate.  Weekends are when most of us work.  It'd be nice to have like 1 in 10 that started on Monday and ran until Thursday so the same people weren't getting screwed over every time

The boss events are less time consuming than normal PvP events.  By design you've got 8 hour windows were there is generally nothing that can be done other than potentially one boss clear if a round changes.  As long as your members do a clear before work and one after and don't have like 12 hour work days I don't see the challenge.  

ZeiramMR

Hmm, seeing mention of Demolition in the Cascade thread had me thinking.

The Demiurge blue passive is just doing tile destruction that collects AP, with different flavor text, right? If the other tiles in the column/row are treated as matched instead that makes a difference for a lot of powers that it could trigger.

Straycat

Sounds like he should be a beast when boosted. Unboosted, underleveled, or paired with 5*s and he'll be pretty limited, tho if he can tank a couple colors there should be good cascade potential. And unlike Mockingbird, you don't have to bait the enemy into matches. His yellow works much better to keep him alive while you are extending the match to save up ap. Green is a decent nuke that could have crazy cascades if he's transformed.

Probably not top tier, but I like the design. I don't think his blue needs to be 2 stages since his first stage doesn't do anything.

mega ghost

Straycat said:

I don't think his blue needs to be 2 stages since his first stage doesn't do anything. 

It was probably necessitated by the fact that in Stage 2 he becomes the target of all enemy attacks, whereas he is not in Stage 1.