When I am cynical, I think they buffed him knowing that he would make us miserable with Hard FW!

....but that would imply an understanding of game mechanics, so then my realism kicks in and realiza it is just a coincidence.

The devs really did a good job making this feel like endgame content. Like they realized how important some team comps can work against the player. Especially running him with a Cleanser like Elva is disgusting.

Rae's circa-2019 6 turn CD on her Freeze skill really makes the Freeze Wave a total PITA.

She has needed a buff for a long time and now it is even worse.

I struggled with that stage for hours, and then while I was cursing "why don't dark elves have a healer" it occured to me i have a bunch of leveled and built painkeepers.

Ran with Rae, Luria, Mithrala and 2pks, got it done easy on the first try

The absolute bane of FW right now.

Hah.  Good Call.  I never even thought of bringing a Painkeeper for cooldown decrease.  I just took 2 stars.  Next time.     

Rae still needs a decrease in CD on her A3 at minimum to bring her up to 2025....however, the planned buffs for Mtn King & Blind Seer will still leave them mediocre IMO, so Plarium is getting good at bad buffs.    

I don't necessarily agree about MK but in general buffs have been very underwhelming - especially when buffs are few & far between.

if it's not ruining runs by accidentally killing things too fast, it's this idiot just being obnoxious as much as possible. :)

Fun needing to bring like 2 extra champs just to deal with his nonsense.  SO was nice cuz you can just ShamWow snipe him and be done with it.

I would be happy to be wrong and to find out that the Mtn King buff is solid, but they left all his skills as single target, single hit, so he will still be totally shut down by UDK in slow Stoneskin.

On Discord they said "The Mountain King will become faster and more furious....", but there is no mention anywhere of increasing his base speed, so that feels like another miss...

mountain king is getting a speed increase. plarium mentioned it last week when they first announced the rebalance. apparently the graphic designer in charge of the infographic didn't get the memo.

it's only going up to 95, so he's still quite slow; just not '5th lowest speed in the game' slow.

Well, at least that is a positive...

Maybe they also missed that the A3 will now be a double hit skill, and then I won't be so doubtful.....

I'm hopeful. He interacts with some pretty meaningful stuff with the A3 and in my case I'm fortunate enough to be able to make a +2 with a 5* awakening, so I shall see what I can do with le dwarf. 

UDK does hold him off a bit, much like Siegfrund and any other meta single hitters.

He gets a tm fill on his a1, a2 gives extra turn if it makes a kill, a3 reduces cooldown of a2 if it makes a kill.

That's why I figure he can cycle pretty quick.  So if you can take out the reviver and the main nuker in one turn you'll be fine to sit until the next turn. 

Also purple boss is absolutely BS.  I am all for difficult bosses but this dude has basically no counter play.  

Okay, I call total BS on this:

If you sheep Jingwon,

then put out a bunch of cc debuffs on the rest of his team while he's a sheep, when he comes out of being a sheep, whether by damage or when it wears off on his turn, he instantly cleanses and block debuffs them all.

Edit: I'm not saying I think it's a bug, I'm saying I think it's a massive pain in butt.

I am up to 585 stars.  

As of now, I am stopped on Ogres, Orcs & Banner Lords, but I am still progressing on the other factions. 

My first Hard Mode L21:  4 fusions and a free lego just shows how OP they have made Barbarians compared to some of the other factions. 

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602 stars now.  I think I am also stopped on Dark Elves & Sacred Order as well.