GamePress

Finally, a beast unit(fanmade)

Took a while to come up with an idea for her, but here's my waifu
I tried to make the weapon icon by hand since there obviously isn't one for beasts. She's a colorless 1 range attacker. All of her skills, except the one that has her name in it, are restricted to being inherited by other beast units.
Her base stats were chosen with consideration that in Awakening, she has middling atk, high speed, higher skill(which doesn't exist in Heroes) passable resist, and rather low defense.
Base Stats are
37/32/41/18/25 for a total of 153(equal to Frederick)
Weapon grants +5 HP +3 spd/def/res 15 mt. It does bonus damage to other cavalry, and cannot be refined. (Beast Stones give pretty significant stat boosts in their respective games)
Beast Fang has a 4CD and increases damage dealt by 30% of the user's speed, and can only be inherited by beast units.
Fur pelt gives +5 HP and reduces the bonus damage from weapons such as wolf tomes by half(so it gets a 1.25X damage, instead of 1.5x)
Panne Knight is exclusive and cannot be inherited. At the start of the turn, it grants any adjacent infantry ally +1 movement(but they are still limited to only 1 space through forests) Panne Knight is derived from one of her support scenes with Gaius in Awakening when it's mentioned she let him ride on her back to get down from a ledge he inexplicably got up on but could not get down from.

Thoughts on how to improve/better balance her?

EDIT: From the notes of how to rebalance her, I'll remove the HP and Def bonuses from her weapon, and reduce the mt to 12, so her HP will be 42 and her def stays at 18, while her atk goes to 44. Obviously, can't change the picture without making a new post.

Asked by kratos1098710 months ago
Report

Answers

Wouldn't beast units have a BST closer to Dragons? I made a huge list of my own beast units as well, unfortunately I have the list at home and I'm currently at work.

(EDIT: Oops I didn't realize she was a cavalier unit)

Report

by Daily 10 months 1 week ago

Reduce might to 12, have bonuses only effect Spd and Res. Otherwise, seems good enough to me.

Report

It feels like a powercreep, but the kind IS is already doing, so pretty fair in my opinion. Locking it to other beast also really helps balance it.

Report

I thought it could be like an alternate version of Iote's Shield(don't remember the name of the Cavalry one). Hence only half defense against bonus damage instead of full reduction, and offset that with an HP buff.

Report

by assix 10 months 1 week ago

Exclusive skills are normally B-slot, but this one makes more sense in the C, so I am a bit conflicted.
As fantastic as Panne is, I doubt she'll get an exclusive skill. Those are typically reserved for major units (excepting Arden, but he's a memelord, so he gets a pass). I think IS will save exclusive skills on beast units for the laguz royals imo.

Report