New champ info! Melf

[MehZhure]

Pure support for slot 12. Hmmm. Given the dominance of Zorbu in slot 12...hopefully he doesn't end up being an instant benchwarmer. Obviously, I will make up excuses to use him...even if they are nothing more than, "I don't want to use Zorbu anymore, and I don't care if the formation sucks because of it."

i am a bit bummed he doesn't qualify for nrakk's gith focus.

Works with all patrons, so that's a bonus.

We get a speed boost ability along side the support abilities...

And Melf has a debuff ability...which allows ultimates to gain additional damage from the debuff. Right after having this removed from all other debuffers in the game. People are gonna be happy about this...lol

i do like the ultimate. Somewhat reminds me of Stoki's ki explosion.

Interesting twist on the equipment. Slots 1&2 buff all champ damage. Slot 3, 4, & 5 buff each of the abilities. Slot 6 buff the ultimate damage. No ultimate time reduction. Unless the ultimate has a fast cooldown (it won't), I would rather have had one the first two reduce the cooldown, and the other item boost be increased accordingly.

http://codenameentertainment.com/?page=idle_champions&post_id=1018#blog

Anyone else have preliminary thoughts?

[Tharisdan]

Having always loved Greyhawk, I am looking forward to Melf!

I hope they bring some others over as well

[Soteria]

I was really hoping to see a magic-using tank. He looks cool, but it's still disappointing to see something so close but neither a tank nor a magic user.

[Kriminaal]

Takes Zorbu and Arkhan out if you use him.
Wizard, so not compatible with Black Viper.
Does have str 17 so works for Krond I guess.
Works for all patrons (So does Zorbs though).

I dunno, bench warmer after helping speed to the wall at best, unless his buff is so superior to other buffers you can use the 3rd or 4th ranked dps (Krond for me).

[Tharisdan]

Originally posted by Kriminaal:

I dunno, bench warmer after helping speed to the wall at best, unless his buff is so superior to other buffers you can use the 3rd or 4th ranked dps (Krond for me).

And at worst he will help speed things along, at worst not at best.

[SevenBlueSeven]

Originally posted by Soteria:

I was really hoping to see a magic-using tank. He looks cool, but it's still disappointing to see something so close but neither a tank nor a magic user.

Well, we have our support in Melf. We have our DPS in Krond. We hopefully get our magic-using tank (sword mage or something like it would be nice).

[MehZhure]

For a mage-tank, i would like to see either Otiluke or Mordenkainen.

[Tharisdan]

Originally posted by MehZhure:

For a mage-tank, i would like to see either Otiluke or Mordenkainen.

Very true, some great spells of thier names to be a tank

[Trunks]

Zorbu is dominating slot 12, but for people who are unlucky (like me) and still don't have the gold chest feat for Zorbu, Melf will be an option with the new patron Strahd.
I also love speed boosts abilities! I'll use him a lot!

[MehZhure]

Originally posted by marcel_brandao:

Zorbu is dominating slot 12, but for people who are unlucky (like me) and still don't have the gold chest feat for Zorbu, Melf will be an option with the new patron Strahd.
I also love speed boosts abilities! I'll use him a lot!

For sure! Melf's random-method speed ability looks fun!

[cybermastah]

Small note (entirely unrelated to the game but the history behind the character), Melf's name was legit Melf, not whatever it is they put here. Melf was actually 'Male Elf' shortened to Melf because there was no name on his character sheet, just 'Melf'.

[ptor]

I like Melf.

He's an accelerator, and it does it well.
Deekin? Speed, IF you can keep up
Sentry? Speed, IF it doesn't get damaged
Briv? Speed, IF charged AND RNG
Xander? Little speed, IF he misses AND someone kills AND RNG
Shandie? Speed, IF formation isn't damaged for a minute
Havilar? Speed, IF the right imp AND the right enemy

Melf? Melf has no IFs and no BUT. Melf gives no foxes. Melf says SPEED, and then he says DEAL WITH IT.

I like Melf.

[MehZhure]

I am inclined to agree. Melf has turned out to be pretty good. Maybe...that is because he is one of my best geared champs... Maybe...it is because Melf is one of the old-school D&D characters. Maybe...it is because Melf is not such a bad buffer. Maybe...it is because Melf has an enemy debuff that specifically boosts ultimates. Maybe...it is because he has a short cooldown for his ultimate.

It's not any of those. Instead, it's all of them together. Melf is not that bad.

[Soteria]

I kinda feel like putting him in slot 12 is an attempt to attack Zorbu's hegemony.

[MehZhure]

Originally posted by Soteria:

I kinda feel like putting him in slot 12 is an attempt to attack Zorbu's hegemony.

Given the new strahd variant having INT limitations, I agree. it seems they are trying to force the choice between zorbu or melf.

[Soteria]

Not to mention, making it so debuffs no longer affect ult damage... and immediately introducing a champion who has a debuff which DOES affect ult damage. Makes the previous change make a little more sense.