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12/21 (Thu) Balance Adjustment Preview [34]
Hello Heirs. This is Epic Seven.
We would like to inform you that the 5โ Limited Covenant Hero, Byblis, will undergo a balance adjustment.
Originally designed to counter Heroes with counterattacks and limit their attacking power simultaneously, Byblis received feedback from many Heirs regarding her overall usability. The primary concern was the significant variability in battle results based on the efficacy of her skill, "I'm Warning You," and the perception that her ability to limit counterattacks was not sufficient enough compared to enemy counterattacks. This resulted in her lacking strength against counterattacks. Upon analyzing the actual battle data, we have confirmed that Byblis's usability did not meet our expectations.
In light of this, we are implementing a balance adjustment for the 5โ
Limited Covenant Hero, Byblis. We apologize for any inconvenience, and we appreciate your understanding as the balance adjustment will be applied during the Limited Covenant Summon period.
โป The probability and number of turns are based on fully enhanced characters.
โป Skill Cooldowns will not be changed unless stated.
โป The skill descriptions mentioned in this preview may differ from the actual update.
1-1-1. Covenant / 5โ
Byblis
Gardener's Secret (Before) | Gardener's Secret (After) |
When an ally suffers a counterattack, activates I'm Warning You. Can only be activated once per turn. I'm Warning You: Attacks all enemies, decreasing buff durations by 1 turn and has a 50% chance to decrease Defense for 2 turns, before increasing Combat Readiness of the caster by 20%. | When an ally suffers a counterattack, increases Combat Readiness of the caster by 20%, and activates I'm Warning You. I'm Warning You can only be activated once per turn. I'm Warning You: Attacks all enemies, decreasing buff durations by 2 turns and has a 60% chance to decrease Defense for 2 turns, before recovering Health of all allies. Amount recovered increases proportional to the target's max Health. |
A Larunda's Hospitality (Before) | A Larunda's Hospitality (After) |
Attacks all enemies with a specially prepared gift, decreasing buff durations by 1 turn and decreasing Hit Chance for 2 turns. | Attacks all enemies with a specially prepared gift, decreasing buff durations by 1 turn and decreasing Hit Chance for 2 turns, before removing 10 Soul. . |
A Larunda's Hospitality (Awakened) (Before) | A Larunda's Hospitality (Awakened) (After) |
Attacks all enemies with a specially prepared gift, decreasing buff durations by 1 turn and decreasing Hit Chance for 2 turns, before granting a barrier to all allies for 2 turns. Barrier strength increases proportional to the target's Health. | Attacks all enemies with a specially prepared gift, decreasing buff durations by 1 turn and decreasing Hit Chance for 2 turns, before removing 10 Soul. Grants a barrier to all allies for 2 turns. Barrier strength increases proportional to the target's Health. |
Firstly, the effect of increasing Combat Readiness of the caster on her skill, "I'm Warning You," will be transferred to her basic skill effect of โGardener's Secretโ. This adjustment allows Byblis to gain Combat Readiness whenever an enemy counterattacks, removing the previous limitation based on turn count. Consequently, if enemies counterattack frequently, Byblis can gain her turn faster, enabling more frequent use of her skills.
Additionally, the debuff duration reduction by her skill, "I'm Warning You," will be extended from one to two turns. Furthermore, the chance to inflict decrease Defense debuff will be increased from a maximum of 70% to 80%, facilitating easier buff removal on enemies and more reliable infliction of the decreasing Defense debuff. The skill will now include an additional effect of restoring the Health of all allies, enhancing her ability to withstand counterattacks and enemy attacks.
Lastly, her skill, "A Larunda's Hospitality," will now remove 10 Soul from enemies. With the ability to gain turns faster when enemies counterattack frequently, Byblis can effectively disrupt the Soul usage of enemies, preventing them from using Soulburn.
The balance adjustment for the 5โ Limited Covenant Hero, Byblis is scheduled to be applied during the update on 12/21 (Thu).
We expect Byblis to be used in various content with this balance adjustment. Once Again, we apologize for how the balance adjustment is applied during the Limited Covenant Summon period.
We are committed to listening to your feedback and addressing it with care.
Thank you.
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Stillโฆ This does not solve my Lionheart problem.
Gg
When can we upgrade the guardians or find the fifth guardian
Would it be possible to make her S2 to take effect on skill counterattack too? Her S2 only works on normal counterattacks right?
I'm good now, the doll, Yufina is weak against defense break, it will cause little damage and it takes her easily since she hits based on defense
This isn't good enough. This is still underwhelming. Also, this is a LIMITED UNIT......... So why is this kit still so bad? Aybyssal Yufine & Capt Landy outshine this unit by a mile. At minimum, give us the option to get trade Byblis back in to get the bookmarks that were WASTED on this woefully sad "limited" unit
s.t.f.u.
FilbulwinterIt's giving NPC....
Deadwell?
what a whiny loser you are. it's your own fault for "wasting" bookmarks on a character, YOU pulled for her. don't blame smilegate for making a character not unbelievably overpowered.
This didnโt change anythingโฆ sheโs still a mid unit nonethelessโฆ sg, buff accordingly
dude, stop overbuff characters and think how balance the game. Buff over buff not the answer. You need to start thinking about the more than 180 characters it has. Stop creating units just to serve as a countermeasure to what is in the meta, and start nerfing units that are above average.
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Continua horrรญvel, ela precisa ativar em todo contra-ataque se nao, nรฃo faz sentido, uma vez nรฃo รฉ suficiente
And Christy?
While I'm happy they're trying, I still think Byblis's S2 is sub-standard at best.
I understand they cannot remove the "can only be activated once" since that'll break the game in this "Counter Era", still it would've been great if they could fine-tune it to work against Dual Attack. Since the thought of her skill warning the enemies, Dual Attack procs should be included. Also, Gardener's Secret should also be proc 1 time each for a counterattack and dual attack in one turn, resulting into to activations in a turn. They could adjust the CR push to be only at 10% or 15% per activation to make sure the skill will not be broken, and the reduce buff duration could be put as just 1 turn but aside from Def Break, the skill should also reduce Speed or Combat Readiness.
Her S3 can be just as is or the newly adjusted one.
She's great now, but she needs the shears to really shine. With those, she's a heavy debuffer with a 2 turns aoe def break who tank, heal, protect and dispel. That's busted but you need to fight a counter team. Make her bulky with high eff and good speed.
Survive and accelerate a little better, this was much needed; but I don't feel any real change. If they removed the "can only be used once per turn" limitation, maybe the hero would have a real impact specifically against counterattacks.
I don't think her S2 needs to include extra attacks, but I don't think LCermia's does either. This actually makes her pretty useful in my opinion. Though I do agree that there's a problem vs. AYufine when she's meant to stop counters. Making her S2 non-attack would solve that problem. Besides, she IS just warning you.
A non-attack skill would bring way too many issues just for dealing with Ayufine and if def break, she's basically dead, spzcially if you bring an extinction unit
Byblis Best Soulweaver
partnered with Roana
this would be unstoppable in Arena <3
very well thought adjustment!
No need to bring Roana honestly. Byblis has heal, barrier and loads of debuffs+stealth with her art. Just bring LHC and melt everything at first counter
Why didn't you guys give her resource reduction on the s2 counter?
Still very, very weak into ayufine.
"create a problem sell the solution lol classic moneygrab bad practice"
"Hey! Why didn't you hard counter this new unit with another new unit?"
I guess this only applies when you specifically have an issue with a hero huh.
Also protip ayufine isn't a counter hero. Most people run her on holy sac. You can avoid her countering at all by just not hitting her.
I know you're too bad to realize this because if you weren't you wouldn't have asked for an anti counter hero to stop her.Try extinction or any of the numerous oneshot heroes that exist. The fact you think anticounter beats her means youre just clueless.
astromancer Elena is also a thing but who actually wants to put in effort when you can just whine that you're helpless.
epic7#xfzbliSlow your roll openly hostile dude.
I use Lethe into her pretty often but imo units like ayufine that are godlike in ai arena defense and gw defense should have many active counters. I don't want to use Lethe comps on every single arena attack because that is very boring.
In RTA you can just ban byblis but as-is you don't want to ban her, you want them to pick her for the near guaranteed resource increase.
If you gave her 20% resource reduction it would ONLY nullify her own counter. I think would be very healthy and encourage using her. Zahhak has 60%. Ayufine is already a hard counter to byblis and she's brand new. An anti-counter unit is countered by a counter unit. That's insane.
This changes does not affect her that much. Also she need s2 to proc not only with counter attack aslo with extra attack ๐ฅบ
She's extremely efficient now, having a blast in Arena since that buff. In current meta, she easily proc her S2 each turn
No need for healing the problem is the only way to proc the 2nd skill is only counter attack.. they should make it counter attack and extra attack. Limited hero myass it's trash hero
u r dumb
SamใธTeof"You're"
This sounds like the opinion of someone constantly running NCLandy, LHCermia, AYufine, and OBLulu.
No need for healing ? That's the most interesting part of her buff lol with the 2 turns buff dispel
AjentOranje"This sounds like the opinion of someone constantly running NCLandy, LHCermia, AYufine, and OBLulu."
This sounds like the cry of someone that's too clueless to know how to deal with it.
And Christy?
Why didn't you guys give her resource reduction on the s2 counter?
Still very, very weak into ayufine.
I don't think her S2 needs to include extra attacks, but I don't think LCermia's does either. This actually makes her pretty useful in my opinion. Though I do agree that there's a problem vs. AYufine when she's meant to stop counters. Making her S2 non-attack would solve that problem. Besides, she IS just warning you.