Last week on the blog we revealed the seventh of our updated Season 4 model cards, the Hunter’s Guild Snow Queen, Skatha. Today our reveals will be taking a bit of a change of pace, as we discuss some of our changes to the Falconer’s Guild in general.

Nobody Panics Because Its All “Part of the Plan”

As we mentioned in our last blog, one of the first things we did when we started the development of Season 4 was to take a look at the intended playstyle for every Guild as a whole, and then each model individually. This process helped us to identify not only which models needed to change, but also by how much and with what purpose in mind. These objectives were in addition to overall aims such as reducing complexity and tweaking game balance.

The Falconers haven’t been in the public for very long, so we haven’t had a huge amount of opportunity to collect data on them. So far, people seem to really enjoy their theme and playstyle. Positioning Harrier AOEs is a really fun little mini game that can be massively rewarding for a Falconer’s player if they get it right and Devana can have one of her more devastating activations. In terms of power level, as far as we can tell, they seem to be more or less fine.

Hunters players too seem to be really taking to the Falconers. Mataagi and Minnerva both offer really interesting additions to a Hunters line up. Through them, the Hunters have access to more punch when they need to break through more difficult enemy teams. So the questions begs, did we make any changes, and if so, why?

The answer being yes we did, but only to one player, Ikaros.