Heroes-The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

[Morgan le Fay]

After the patch I would be highly tempted to move Cianna and Shayd into the Bad, or maybe the Ugly, category. Shayd's hit rate actually seems worse against bosses with a lower stun rate to boot. Cianna isn't as useful as she used to be since her stun rate was decreased and she doesn't do enough damage on skill attacks to make up for the reduced stun rate.

I've noticed that both Cianna and Shayd have been extensively nerfed, so the initial strategy types are becoming defunct. Since stunning isn't as foolproof as it was I'm having to rethink....

Rhize + Adam + Vipsanius w/ righteousness lvl6 could sweep 1line in 1turn

True, although a good counterform would blitz that attack.

After the patch I removed Cianna and Shayd from my formation completely. They're not even there as a substitute.
And I'm trying to level a new hero now to replace Bloodstorm in the main 5 hero formation.

Yes, that's how much the patch has shaken things up.

If you still see Adam, Blood, Cianna, Shayd, Main hero setups, it's either they're too lazy to try the other heroes out, they don't know anything about the other heroes, or they're too scared to test new things.

Herja + Flavius + Adam + Alci + Main -> 3 AOE attacks + 1 driving blow every turn.

That's just an initial example.

It has. I've been testing Flavius Aetius today. As far as I can tell his WarCry removes 20 points of morale from all phyisical heroes. WarCry is a skill similar to Thousand Strikes but has the added touch of reducing an opponents morale.

It seems that with the amount of morale drainers available now hybrid formations could become more common rather than the single mage + physical heroes that are the norm now. Watch this space.