Stormcaller Hero Class spoiler

[Jonathan]

Thought I’d revive this topic since there’s been a bit more recent discussion and to avoid derailing and respect the topic of Salty’s Gems of Streaming thread.

Recent relevant context:

@Neritar

16th September 6 30 PM PDT: Stormcaller preview. Weapon, affixes, class, talents, etc etc. <3

Trait #3: Storm Soul
Conjure a random Storm when matching 4 or more Gems.

Talent #1 from Storms talent tree (available after 1 fight with that class)
Summon a random storm on 4 or 5 Gem matches.

Please, change the 3rd trait. You still have a time to do that. We don’t need that trait - all players will be able to choose it from lvl1 talent if they will need it.

@Saltypatra

I knew this was going to get brought up. And I’m ready for the heat on stream.

@TheIdleOne

I don’t think people want to give you heat for it; we just want to have slightly more creative go into this 3rd trait, the same creativity that has kept this game afloat for as long as it has.

@Maxx

I knew this was going to get brought up. And I’m ready for the heat on stream.

If you knew people didn’t like it and will complain about it why not change it?

@Fourdottwoone

I knew this was going to get brought up. And I’m ready for the heat on stream.

That does sound like pretty awful work conditions. “Yeah, adding the opening to the top and the bottom of the coffee mug is a pretty questionable design decision. Our roadmap gets set in stone half a year ahead though, so there’s no way to possibly get this changed. Not all is lost though, my stream will provide some handy advice on how to dress up as pirate, you’ll be able to use our coffee mug as telescope. Please don’t flame the messenger too much.”

@Slypenslyde

Yikes. I kind of agree. Now I really want to hear what Salty says about it.

I can understand a lot of things about the publisher pushing events but I can’t understand why badly-designed hero classes that are supposed to promote spending in said events are part of that plan. I wish Salty didn’t have to expect heat in her streams.

@KYLENATOR001

I think the real reason is the stryx hero must be bad because you hate birds. Does Cyrup know?

In all seriousness, I do hope it gets changed to be storm related in a different way such as a team buff if a storm starts or during a storm.

@Fiara

It could be the champion of (random) storms like Skadi or the Sunspear hero class.

Storm Soul: Create a random storm at the start of every turn.

@Saltypatra

Unfortunately I wasn’t involved with the design of this class, or any other class! I’d recommend asking Steve and Nim on our next Q & A stream.

@TheIdleOne

Didn’t people try to ask sirrian and nim in the previous Q & A and you answered the question without letting the question reach them?

@Voq

We’re still talking about Stormcaller right? That was already asked about several times during the last dev Q&A and were given the “No plans to change it at this time.” answer.

@killscreen

The lack of creativity given to hero classes and troops is shocking and the responses to the concerns raised by the community from the devs is disappointing.

@Saltypatra

Well, there are no changes being made at this time.

I don’t know else you want me to say or do. So yeah, there you go.

@Fleg

I advise everybody not to get the 3rd trait on this class. Remember, once you upgrade it you can’t undo it. Talents can be changed whenever you want but traits can’t.