Yeah I take back my like on that comment GMagic. Solblaze is quite diverse with his reliable sweeping and sleep revenge. I’d like him to see use in a number of teams, rather than being restricted to fire-only where sleep revenge may not be useful.
I’d still prefer them to go down the route of making him a speedy sweeper with the passive to put people off killing it, since that looks like his original design. Auto-speed would be a great passive for him then accelerate to accelerate ally 50TU so you can line up a fast strike nicely (as you currently can). SS of swift fast strike. That might be a bit deadly but something along those lines would be cool or… hot I should say.
You do realize that we already have a sweeper that fills that niche, in fact, we have a lot of them. It would be better for him to be totally redesigned.
I was listening to you, until you started listing those monsters. Yeah we do have a lot of sweepers which have a passive that puts off attackers. Most good sweepers either have a passive like this, stun immunity or hold ground. However, sleep revenge is a pretty unique one and extremely powerful. Also, the main design of him is to be speedy with his attacks… by the looks of things. So he already has his design that, while overused on monsters, is unique in its own way. Personally I think monsters should stick to their original design and new ones should do things which are a bit more unique. The old ones which never worked should have their design buffed until it is somewhat viable, only redesigned if it’s not possible to make viable.
Except that sleep revenge is entirely based on luck, it’■■■■■ hard, or totally fail. There is hardly any in-between.
Note that sleep revenge isn’t unique at all with balancion having it, and spiritotem having a single sleep variant. Solblaze is also an incredibly slow sweeper, with a speed of 30-ish and fast strike taking 160(!) seconds in order to kill something, this amount of time is rediculous, and due to the way faststrike works, I can trade 2 monsters for ample amounts of time to do something in a fight before killing it when I am confident that sleep revenge will do absolutely zilch. Another option is just directly knocking it back. Sure, it has accelerate, but that does it at 40 second amounts, which is too much. It’s slow, has little payoff, has a randomized deterrent, and doesn’t function well. It’s also a limited legend, which means it should be doing faaar more than it currently is. It needs to do something unique, not be cannibalize fodder.
Still enough to keep it in check. People wont kill it cuz the passive can lay down heavy damage. However, not killing it is fine too, as his tu attacks are very high, and hes stunable, so he isnt a very big threat while alive.
Maybe stun immue will make him more of a threat, and more useable
Sol is in rare eggs. I got him last month in one. Not super great. He is slow and usually dies before I can get bloodthirst charged. Pairing with tinker and taking out his Box jaws with assisted flare after stun flash works some of the time but again 200 tu gets him killed before I can use bloodthirst. He would greatly benefit from a speed boost and decreased TUs.
You cant have a speed boost(see chrono on the past as example) and lower tu
What you can have is slower tu on faststrike 100sec woulb be perfect or is thirsty changed to fury a SS could also be added shield could be a good thing helping him to survive and charge is fury/thirsty
I didn’t realize you can’t boost speed and lower TU. But I would be good with anything. My legend pool is still so small I don’t have a lot of choice yet but your suggestions would be great.
Could give him a passive like “Heating up”. Every time this monster uses a move, it’s TU is reduced by X% up to a cap of 50%(stacks with accelerate, but accelerate only affects this passive once). This way if people ignore him he’s a ticking time-bomb so he has to be dealt with quickly.
Just a thought, and an idea I’ve had for a passive for a while now.
True Solblaze does have only one passive which is sleep related and kinda is thematic as once the sun goes away sleep tends to happen in nature. It would be cool if they could do something with solar flares and after a monster (enemy specific) uses a move they may receive increased time units at a % due to solar interference or something maybe 25-50 seconds. I don’t know just my two cents for an interesting idea. Also the above seemed good.
Reading the post from GaryOak makes me think of Ultima with blood duplicate haha I don’t see the need of stun immunity AND double survivor. Switching protect teammates for survivor is a pretty decent idea but I do like the way how they can draw the fire onto their death revenge, no other DR monster has that.