I think you hit it on the head at about 9:24... "After you have a solid roster of heroes, things get a lot more casual". I've been in that position for a very long time. A lot of people obsess about trying to beat the most amount of content with the smallest stable of heroes, and that's a fine mindset for when you're starting. Eventually, you just play for the joy of playing, and you stop caring about whether a hero is best-of-the-best or just "interesting". There's also a snowball effect, eventually, because getting more and more depth into your roster allows you to start experimenting with hero combos, like Solcadens and Annai linked by Burning. As you play with that type of theory craft, you do find more and more uses for heroes, and things have stayed interesting for me. Shamir, like Gwendolyn and Brokkir, only takes 6 legendary skill crystals to fully-skill... and that makes me believe that the Devs wanted all three of those to be development cornerstones. I am a big fan of Shamir, and I am using him as one of my magic DPS in GD2-10 autorun. His base HP is enough higher than Nocturne's that I don't need to regear to run with POD. I use Shamir a lot in VRNM, and he's on my GR2 team. I also use him daily in basic trial, although you could certainly run many of those areas without him. I do have a solid set of Whirlwind/SA set on him. I could probably increase his speed or crit damage slightly, but I'm pretty happy with where he's at. Gwendolyn... I use her a lot with King Harz, because so much of his kit (DEF increase, damage reduction, freeze, etc) kicks in when he is shielded. The pairing of those two heroes is a solid combo. Their passives even increase each other's shield size. She also enables a lot of other Northern hero abilities (like Valkyra's ultimate, Harpun's ignore 30% of DEF, Eldrr's damage boost, etc) and so she should be viewed as an enabler/unlocker as much as she is a shielder. I really hope her summon event comes back around, because I really want to get her to A5.
Morrigan can make an extremely effective bait team in GvG. One of my guild mates has it setup this round, currently has 17 holds lmao. And that's at A0 in unimpressive gear.
My first leggo was Setram and he was a godsend. He carried me through so much content. Now that I'm basically endgame and Setram is only A1 I'm a little sad I bench my boy so much now.
My biggest skilling up regret was for Zelus because I *thought* he could help me progress in Gear Raid I. Thank goodness we got the reset token (cuz of Boreas) and I used it on him to get back those precious legendary skill crystals back.
Alaura helped me get past gear raid 3 stage 20. I don't have any strong DPS archers like Arrogance or Silas. Her skill still need 4 more to max out. At least she helped me complete campaign, void nightmare and gear raid 3 stage 20. She is getting a lot of hate but she works for me until I get Silas.
Cerberus + Volka is extremely useful! His 2 20% damage upgrades are game changing. I don't know what your talking about bro. Cerb is a monster when geared up a d lvld up properly. Plus he is double faction, so you can pair with a faction lord for more damage
Maxing skills not difficult. As a f2p more that 20 legos skills max, in a year of playing. Which f2p in raid shadow legends can have 20 legos with max skills in a year?
A1 Shamir with 600 ATK SPD is amazing dude! A1 has imobolized state for 1 second. His regular attack rotation is 2.6 seconds. With 600+ speed you van get it down to 1 sec. You can freeze a single enemy while your mages go to work! Extremely useful if you know how to use him! Just like his talent description says, Shamir is for CONTROL!
You can do faction trial without maxed shamir, skill dust is enough. I also used Glacius when I completed it so maybe it wasn't out when you did, but I didn't use him for topside mobs, so I don't think it matters as much. Morrigan was my first lord early on and I have her maxed out also. She needs high atk speed to do damage, but indeed, she's not Khamet,Vierna,etc. Tho no regrets, she helped me complete GD1-Stage 10 ( by helping vierna clear 1 wave without ulting which in my team comp was kinda needed ) and I also use her in my cultist arena team which is doing fairly decent ( plat 3 ). Got overlord with this team also 3-4 weeks ago, but now with all the ingrid/praetus/valderon comps it's not possible anymore. For Nyx you can use her in AOE/Anti-Air arena, her ult just doesn't run out since you got her A4, definetely not a bad investment. For GD, for sure you meant 2 and she can be used to clear topside mobs, but only up to a point. Maybe with your awakenings she can replace Hatssut in the later stages (8-10), but probably not. For me the only hero I regret investing into is Kai, got him really really early, I thought he was a god xD Tho helped me a lot at that time, so I guess no regrets. I think one of most important things is to actually not max-out some heroes. For example, Khamet, I have him maxed but if you think about what makes Khamet broken, it's not the basic, it's not the first passive ( obliteration ), it's just the ult and the 2nd passive kinda. So, if it happens that those 2 are last and they're like at 4/5, maybe save those 2 crystals, etc.
I think you hit it on the head at about 9:24... "After you have a solid roster of heroes, things get a lot more casual". I've been in that position for a very long time. A lot of people obsess about trying to beat the most amount of content with the smallest stable of heroes, and that's a fine mindset for when you're starting. Eventually, you just play for the joy of playing, and you stop caring about whether a hero is best-of-the-best or just "interesting". There's also a snowball effect, eventually, because getting more and more depth into your roster allows you to start experimenting with hero combos, like Solcadens and Annai linked by Burning. As you play with that type of theory craft, you do find more and more uses for heroes, and things have stayed interesting for me.
Shamir, like Gwendolyn and Brokkir, only takes 6 legendary skill crystals to fully-skill... and that makes me believe that the Devs wanted all three of those to be development cornerstones. I am a big fan of Shamir, and I am using him as one of my magic DPS in GD2-10 autorun. His base HP is enough higher than Nocturne's that I don't need to regear to run with POD. I use Shamir a lot in VRNM, and he's on my GR2 team. I also use him daily in basic trial, although you could certainly run many of those areas without him. I do have a solid set of Whirlwind/SA set on him. I could probably increase his speed or crit damage slightly, but I'm pretty happy with where he's at.
Gwendolyn... I use her a lot with King Harz, because so much of his kit (DEF increase, damage reduction, freeze, etc) kicks in when he is shielded. The pairing of those two heroes is a solid combo. Their passives even increase each other's shield size. She also enables a lot of other Northern hero abilities (like Valkyra's ultimate, Harpun's ignore 30% of DEF, Eldrr's damage boost, etc) and so she should be viewed as an enabler/unlocker as much as she is a shielder. I really hope her summon event comes back around, because I really want to get her to A5.
Morrigan can make an extremely effective bait team in GvG. One of my guild mates has it setup this round, currently has 17 holds lmao. And that's at A0 in unimpressive gear.
My first leggo was Setram and he was a godsend. He carried me through so much content. Now that I'm basically endgame and Setram is only A1 I'm a little sad I bench my boy so much now.
My biggest skilling up regret was for Zelus because I *thought* he could help me progress in Gear Raid I. Thank goodness we got the reset token (cuz of Boreas) and I used it on him to get back those precious legendary skill crystals back.
Alaura helped me get past gear raid 3 stage 20. I don't have any strong DPS archers like Arrogance or Silas. Her skill still need 4 more to max out. At least she helped me complete campaign, void nightmare and gear raid 3 stage 20. She is getting a lot of hate but she works for me until I get Silas.
I recently 100% maxed my regulus. Hes unstoppable in GvG. I am very satisfied with him. Currently 27 wins and 4 losses in defense.
Cerberus + Volka is extremely useful! His 2 20% damage upgrades are game changing. I don't know what your talking about bro. Cerb is a monster when geared up a d lvld up properly. Plus he is double faction, so you can pair with a faction lord for more damage
Maxing skills not difficult. As a f2p more that 20 legos skills max, in a year of playing. Which f2p in raid shadow legends can have 20 legos with max skills in a year?
A1 Shamir with 600 ATK SPD is amazing dude! A1 has imobolized state for 1 second. His regular attack rotation is 2.6 seconds. With 600+ speed you van get it down to 1 sec. You can freeze a single enemy while your mages go to work! Extremely useful if you know how to use him! Just like his talent description says, Shamir is for CONTROL!
thats true. shamir a3 is nuts with that aspd basically mobs go almost standstill with immobilize debuff
Shamir with elder and ardea is very annoying to deal with
Just use Marri she's so much better
You can do faction trial without maxed shamir, skill dust is enough. I also used Glacius when I completed it so maybe it wasn't out when you did, but I didn't use him for topside mobs, so I don't think it matters as much.
Morrigan was my first lord early on and I have her maxed out also. She needs high atk speed to do damage, but indeed, she's not Khamet,Vierna,etc. Tho no regrets, she helped me complete GD1-Stage 10 ( by helping vierna clear 1 wave without ulting which in my team comp was kinda needed ) and I also use her in my cultist arena team which is doing fairly decent ( plat 3 ). Got overlord with this team also 3-4 weeks ago, but now with all the ingrid/praetus/valderon comps it's not possible anymore.
For Nyx you can use her in AOE/Anti-Air arena, her ult just doesn't run out since you got her A4, definetely not a bad investment. For GD, for sure you meant 2 and she can be used to clear topside mobs, but only up to a point. Maybe with your awakenings she can replace Hatssut in the later stages (8-10), but probably not.
For me the only hero I regret investing into is Kai, got him really really early, I thought he was a god xD Tho helped me a lot at that time, so I guess no regrets.
I think one of most important things is to actually not max-out some heroes. For example, Khamet, I have him maxed but if you think about what makes Khamet broken, it's not the basic, it's not the first passive ( obliteration ), it's just the ult and the 2nd passive kinda. So, if it happens that those 2 are last and they're like at 4/5, maybe save those 2 crystals, etc.
Nyx is awesome. All the other piercers are single target and she has AOE. She's great in codex.