Blessings is a new feature introduced in Raid Shadow Legends to aid players in strengthening their champions to tackle challenging content such as Hydra Clan Boss, Demon Lord Clan Boss, Doom Tower, and Dungeons! Blessings were released in Patch 6.00 (6th September 2022) along with Awakening System, which requires champions to be awakened before they are able to unlock the Blessing!
Blessings Overview
- Blessings are powerful new abilities that can completely transform how a Champion performs, unlocking new levels of strength. They become available after Awakening your Champion to at least Level 1!
- Each champion can only use one Blessing at a time, and it will be indicated on the Champion’s icon. As Blessings are dependent on Awakening, they are only available to Rare, Epic, and Legendary Champions.
- Each Blessing belongs to a Divinity, and each Divinity has Rare, Epic, and Legendary Blessings. Rare Champions can only access Rare Blessings, Epic Champions can only access Epic and Rare Blessings, and Legendary Champions can access all Blessings.
- There are 4 types of Divinities, which are Light, Dark, War, and Chaos!
- Each Blessing has 6 Levels, and improving these Levels is directly tied to a Champion’s Awakening Level. So, if your Champion is at Level 5 of Awakening, they will receive the Level 5 benefits of any Blessing you choose automatically. The benefits of leveling up are unique to each Blessing, from improving stat bonuses to unlocking new effects and abilities.
- If you choose a Blessing for a Champion that is of a lower Rarity than the Champion’s Rarity, they will receive additional stat bonuses at certain Levels. For example, if a Legendary Champion takes a Rare or Epic Blessing, or an Epic Champion takes a Rare Blessing.
- Blessings can be swapped at any time. Like Masteries, the first change is free but any subsequent changes will cost Gems. You can change to any Blessing available from any Divinity, but switching Blessings within the same Divinity will be slightly cheaper.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Team Blessing?
Team Blessing refers to a blessing that can apply to all champions in the team rather than only affecting a specific champion on the ally team or enemy team. There are some Team Blessing that cannot co-exist with each other, such as Intimidating Presence and Commanding Presence. For these 2 blessings, only the higher rarity one will take precedence, which is Intimidating Presence.
What is a High Awakening Blessing?
Champions who have at least Awakening Level 5 and above, can enjoy additional benefits compared to other blessings that are non-high or non-mid Awakening Blessing type.
What is Mid Awakening Blessing?
Champions who have at least Awakening Level 3 and above, can enjoy additional benefits compared to other blessings that are non-mid Awakening Blessing type.
Useful Articles
Blessings Tier List
Here is a tier list of champion blessings ranked based on their usability. The higher the rank of the blessing, the bigger the positive impact it can provide to your team!
S Rank Blessing
- Brimstone (Legendary Chaos Blessing)
- Intimidating Presence (Legendary Light Blessing)
- Phantom Touch (Rare Light Blessing)
A Rank Blessing
- Commanding Presence (Epic War Blessing)
- Cruelty (Epic Dark Blessing)
- Crushing Rend (Epic Chaos Blessing)
- Lightning Cage (Legendary Light Blessing)
- Temporal Chains (Legendary Dark Blessing)
- Soul Reap (Legendary War Blessing)
B Rank Blessing
- Faultless Defense (Rare War Blessing)
- Hero’s Soul (Rare War Blessing)
- Carapace (Rare Chaos Blessing)
- Survival Instinct (Rare Chaos Blessing)
- Ward of the Fallen (Legendary Dark Blessing)
C Rank Blessing
- Dark Resolve (Rare Dark Blessing)
- Chainbreaker (Epic Chaos Blessing)
- Indomitable Spirit (Rare Light Blessing)
- Iron Will (Epic Light Blessing)
- Miracle Heal (Rare Light Blessing)
- Life Harvest (Legendary War Blessing)
- Polymorph (Legendary Chaos Blessing)
F Rank Blessing
- Heavencast (Epic Light Blessing)
- Incinerate (Epic Chaos Blessing)
- Lethal Dose (Epic Dark Blessing)
Light Blessings
Icon | Rare Light Blessings Description |
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Indomitable Spirit
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Indomitable Spirit blessing is utilized to block crowd control debuff from being applied to your champion by the enemies. The downside of this blessing is the success rate of blocking is low and it does not block all crowd control debuff. It’s recommended to go with a blessing that could provide increased Resist stat along with a wider range of crowd control debuff to be blocked, such as Dark Resolve. Having a high resistance stat will allow your champion to block all types of debuffs consistently and effectively making your battles more predictable. |
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Miracle Heal
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Miracle Heal blessing has a niche usage, where it’s primarily used against Hydra Clan Boss as one of the Hydra heads is able to destroy your champion’s Max HP each time they receive healing. Hence, it’s best to use Miracle Heal blessing on heroes who can heal to recoup the loss of Max HP done by the Hydra. This blessing is recommended for Apothecary, Rector Drath, Reliquary Tender, and Vogoth. |
Icon | Epic Light Blessings Description |
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Iron Will
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Iron Will blessing is aims to reduce damage intake from enemies inflicted through ally joint attack champions or counter-attack champions. This has a very niche usage and most probably you would want to use it on your defensive champions such as revivers or tanks for Arena battles. There are better blessings you can opt for such as Commanding Presence or Faultless Defense. |
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Heavencast
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Heavencast blessing is aimed toward debuffer heroes as it provides additional ignore resistance stats so that they are able to inflict debuff on the enemies with their default ability. However, the downside of this blessing is it does not apply to other abilities they have. It’s kinda pointless to use this blessing because you will need to equip your champions with sufficient Accuracy stats for them to inflict their debuff if its present on their Active Skills. It could be used for Attacker heroes such as Leorius the Proud and Rotos the Lost Groom to inflict debuff on enemies, but there are better blessings out there that provides better value. |
Icon | Legendary Light Blessings Description |
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Intimidating Presence
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Intimidating Presence blessing is an aura used to amplify your team’s aura effect while reducing the enemy’s team aura effect simultaneously! It’s the successor of Commanding Presence with better effects. It’s highly recommended for this blessing be applied to a Supporter hero who is mostly used in many team setups. Recommended champions for this blessing are Arbiter, Lady Kimi, Nekhret the Great, Ursuga Warcaller. |
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Lightning Cage
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Lightning Cage blessing is a useful buff to protect your attacker heroes against an enemy debuffer heroes, especially in Arena. In addition, it helps your Attacker hero to deal additional damage with fully stacked Lightning Orbs too based on your hero’s Max Health! If you are using the Attacker hero on the enemy’s supporter hero who applies many buffs (e.g. Siphi the Lost Bride, Duchess Lilitu), they will gain additional Turn Meter quickly to be able to cut into the enemy sequence. It’s one of the best blessings to deal extra damage and protect your attacker heroes simultaneously! The recommended heroes for this blessing would be the ones that you use for both Arena Offense and Arena Defense, such as Candraphon and Cupidus. |
Dark Blessings
Icon | Rare Dark Blessings Description |
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Dark Resolve
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Dark Resolve blessing is suitable for Support champions who you are using against the enemies who can inflict Freeze, Provoke, and True Fear. It’s a better version of Indomitable Spirit because it can handle True Fear rather than Fear, especially for Hydra Clan Boss Head of Torment! Healers and Reviver champions are recommended for this blessing since you would want them to be always ready for emergency rescues! |
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Phantom Touch
Awakening Level
Additional Information
Who should use this blessing?Phantom Touch blessing is best suited for damage-dealing heroes in Arena, Clan Boss, Dungeons, Doom Tower, and Faction Wars. The damage dealt is a mini version of Warmaster or Giant Slayer (Tier 6 Offense Mastery). For Rare and Epic champions, you can go with this blessing to deal additional damage, whereas Legendary champions would go with Brimstone blessing as it’s a better version of Phantom Touch, especially for Support heroes and HP heroes! Recommended champions for this blessing are Coldheart, Bellower, Heiress, Maneater, Pain Keeper, and Seeker. |
Icon | Epic Dark Blessings Description |
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Cruelty:
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Cruelty blessing is best suited for champions who specialize in raiding clan bosses and dungeon bosses because it allows you to increase your team’s damage output significantly with the reduction of the enemy’s defense! It takes approximately 5 rounds for the boss’s defense to be decreased to the max of 20%! You only need 1 champion with this blessing to reduce the boss defense, and have the remaining champions with damage-boosting blessings such as Phantom Touch and Brimstone!. Recommended champions for this blessing are Deacon Armstrong, Demytha, Maneater, and Warcaster. |
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Lethal Dose
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Lethal Dose blessing is best suited for champions who specialize in inflicting Poison debuff on their enemies. However, Poison is not the meta right now in Arena as most of the battles are more towards AoE speed nuke battles to quickly rack up points to reach higher Arena tiers. In addition, it’s difficult to set up a Poison team for Arena to deal sufficient damage against enemies even with champions who can activate poison such as Kalvalax. |
Icon | Legendary Dark Blessings Description |
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Temporal Chains
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Temporal Chains blessing is utilized for competing in Speed battles, especially in Arena. However, this blessing is not that great compared to Intimidating Presence as it only applies speed reduction on the enemy but not improving your ally’s speed. Apart from that, Arena defense champions that are equipped in Stoneskin Set are immune to Temporal Chain’s Turn Meter reduction effects when they receive buffs from their allies. However, there could be a unique strategy using a combination of these 2 blessings (Intimidating Presence and Temporal Chains) in 1 team to significantly reduce the enemy’s speed depending on the enemy’s champion formation. |
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Ward of the Fallen
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Ward of the Fallen blessing is utilized mainly on attacker heroes by dealing extra bonus damage and decreasing the damage received. It’s similar to the Lightning Cage blessing but suited mainly against enemy champions that deal a massive amount of damage through direct hits rather than relying on debuffs to weaken your attacker hero. It’s preferable on champions who have in-built counter-attack abilities such as Cupidus so they can recharge the Bone Armor each time they attack the enemy! |
War Blessings
Icon | Rare War Blessings Description |
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Hero’s Soul
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Hero’s Soul blessing is mainly used against mobs of enemies, such as Spider’s Den, Nether Spider, and Frost Spider. It’s a useful blessing to improve your Rare champion’s damage output. However, for Epic and Legendary champions, there are better blessing options that you can take to deal more damage to the boss such as Phantom Touch, and Brimstone. |
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Faultless Defense
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Faultless Defense blessing is useful to use on champions to increase their survivability against multi-hit enemy champions, especially for PvE mob enemies in Faction Wars and Doom Tower. You can find a list of multi-attack champions here. Apart from that, it is useful to be used on your supporter heroes for Demon Lord Clan Boss when he is below 50% HP where he can perform multiple AoE attacks. |
Icon | Epic War Blessings Description |
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Commanding Presence
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Commanding Presence blessing is recommended to use on a Supporter hero who is used in many team setups. This is to avoid equipping many champions with this blessing, while the rest can be equipped with the damage-boosting blessing to improve your overall team’s damage output! You will save tons of gems in the long run without the need to constantly switch blessings. |
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Chainbreaker
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Chainbreaker blessing is useful for removing all crowd control debuffs that were inflicted by the enemies. If the debuff wasn’t removed successfully upon taking their turn, each hit they receive during that period will boost their Turn Meter, so they can remove these debuffs by reducing the debuff duration by taking their next turn! However, the success rate of filling up the Turn Meter is pretty low and the fill rate is too little to make a comeback, especially in Arena where the battle is fast-paced. I would recommend opting for a different Epic blessing that could provide more value for your champions. |
Icon | Legendary War Blessings Description |
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Life Harvest
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Life Harvest blessing is useful to tackle difficult enemies who relies heavily on revive to sustain their team, especially against Arena Teams and Doom Tower with multiple revivers (e.g. Siphi the Lost Bride, Duchess Lilitu). However, if your champion roster is fairly diverse and have sufficient end-game gears to handle these revivers easily, then this blessing will not be useful for you as it’s better to cleave your way using AoE Speed Nuke team with 1-2 hits to knock them out rather than slowly decreasing the revived fallen enemies Max HP. It’s recommended to opt for other Legendary blessings that enables your heroes to deal more damage as it will help you in other areas as well. |
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Soul Reap
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Soul Reap blessing is recommended for damage dealers to deal extra damage, especially for Arena Offense. The Soul Reaper appears after the initial attack and deals some damage to the target, which ignores their defensive buffs and has the chance of inflicting True Fear to crowd control them in case the enemies survive. The downside of this ability is the enemy’s current HP (Hit Points aka Health Points) needs to drop below a certain threshold to trigger this Soul Reap blessing such as below 20% HP if your damage nuker isn’t able to 1-hit knock out the enemy. Champions that are recommended for this blessing are Leorius the Proud, Trunda Giltmallet, and Candraphon. |
Chaos Blessings
Icon | Rare Chaos Blessings Description |
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Carapace
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Carapace blessing is suited for champions who frequently face enemies who can apply crowd control debuffs, such as Arena, and Hydra Clan Boss. It could be also used for champions who inflict this debuff on themselves such as Skytouched Shaman and Tormin the Cold to reduce their damage intake from enemies while under these conditions. Apart from that, you can take advantage of the additional Defense and Resist stats to make your supporter heroes more tanky against against enemy attacks. |
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Survival Instinct
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Survival Instinct blessing is useful for debuffer champions, especially for Poison champions of Rare rarity to allow them to gain more turn meter and finally gaining an additional turn to apply more stacks of Poison to deal damage. |
Icon | Epic Chaos Blessings Description |
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Crushing Rend
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Crushing Rend blessing is best suited for damage nukers against tanky enemies who have a high amount of Defense stats. It can be used for PvE content (Player vs Environment) such as Hydra Clan Boss where the higher the level of the enemies, the more defense it can be ignored! For example, you can ignore defense up to 31% if you use this blessing against a Level 310 Hydra Clan Boss. However, it does not provide a significant amount of damage to Demon Lord Clan Boss as its based Defense stats are much lower than Hydra Clan Boss. |
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Incinerate
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Incinerate blessing is best suited for champions who specialize in inflicting HP Burn debuff on their enemies. However, HP Burn is not the meta right now in Arena as most of the battles are more towards AoE speed nuke battles to quickly rack up points to reach higher Arena tiers. In addition, it’s difficult to set up an HP Burn team for Arena to deal sufficient damage against enemies even with champions who can activate HP Burn such as Ninja and Sicia Flametongue. |
Icon | Legendary Chaos Blessings Description |
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Polymorph
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Polymorph blessing is recommended for highly resistant tanky champions, especially in setting up an Arena Stall Team. The drawback of this blessing is the enemy is able to cast their abilities before the Polymorph occurs (e.g. remove buffs, inflict Decrease Defense, and Weaken). This results in the enemy AoE Speed Nuke team can cleave their way through your defense without much hassle. In addition, it provides the enemies a way to heal themselves with 50% Health upon recovering from Polymorph. It’s recommended to opt for other useful Blessings unless you would want to improve your RESIST since there aren’t many Blessings that offer it. |
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Brimstone
Awakening Level
Who should use this blessing?Brimstone blessing is suited for high HP (Hit Points aka Health Points) such as HP role or Support role champions to deal additional damage to the enemy, especially against bosses! The damage dealt is through the Smite debuff similar to the HP Burn debuff but based on your champion’s MAX HP. However, it does not stack up like Poison debuff, which means it’s best to have at most 2 champions with Brimstone blessing to deal damage every turn as this Blessing has a cooldown of 2 turns! To maximize the damage output for your boss raid teams, it’s best to have a mixture of Brimstone, Cruelty, and Phantom Touch blessings! |
Prioritizing Blessing Rarities
You might have a mixture of Rare, Epic, and Legendary champions in your team. Hence, it’s recommended to start off with the highest rarity champion in your team and prioritize the highest rarity blessings first to maximize the benefits that they can bring to your team! Below is a list of combinations of blessing recommendations based on the areas your team will be battling!
Demon Lord Clan Boss Blessings
- Brimstone (Essential) Prioritize to only 1 Legendary champion.
- Cruelty (Essential) Prioritize to only 1 champion, preferably an Epic Support champion who can perform multiple hits to stack this quickly.
- Commanding Presence (Optional) Prioritize to only 1 champion, preferably an Epic Support champion who can perform multiple hits to stack this quickly.
- Phantom Touch (Attack Damage Dealer) Improves Attack champion’s damage output.
- Crushing Rend (Defense Damage Dealer) Improves Non-Attack champion’s damage output. (Unlocks at 6 Star Awakening)
Hdyra Clan Boss Blessings
- Brimstone (Essential) Prioritize to only 1 Legendary champion.
- Cruelty (Essential) Prioritize to only 1 champion who has AoE attacks) to stack up quickly on all Hydra heads.
- Commanding Presence (Optional) If you use Aura to improve your team, prioritize this on an Epic champion as Legendary Aura is not needed.
- Miracle Heal (Optional) Prioritize on AoE Healers such as Doompriest. This blessing does not work with Leech nor Continuous Healing.
- Crushing Rend (Enemy Max HP) Best choice for Enemy Max HP damage dealers but requires 6 Star Awakening to unlock this mechanic!
- Soul Reap (Optional) Defeat the Hydra heads with Soul Reap after selecting a champion to be equipped with Brimstone!
- Phantom Touch (Damage Dealer) Best damage-dealing blessing if you have no other options.
Dungeon Boss Blesings
- Brimstone (Essential) Prioritize to only 1 Legendary champion as it will hurt the boss significantly!
- Curelty (Optional) Useful for a boss wave but not much for the first 2 enemy waves.
- Commanding Presence (Optional) If you utilize an Aura, prioritize on your Epic champion as a Legendary Aura is not needed.
- Crushing Rend (Essential) If you use any Enemy MAX HP champion (e.g. Seer), then this will be very powerful against enemy waves.
- Soul Reap (Optional) Executes the boss wave quickly to speed run the dungeon.
- Phantom Touch (Damage Dealer) Best damage-dealing blessing if you have no other options.
Arena Go First Team Blessings
- Inspiring Presence (Essential) If you utilize Aura,prioritize on Legendary champion or you can substitute it with an Epic Higher Awakening blessing.
- Temporal Chains (Optional) Using this blessing will give you an edge in the speed race against enemy teams who uses Nekhret the Great or Shield Sets.
- Soul Reap (Essential) This blessing deals the most damage when used for defeating enemies in a speed nuke team.
- Crushing Rend (Optional) This is the next best damage-dealing blessing, especially for Epic damage dealers.
- Chainbreaker (Optional) Useful for debuffer heroes at 4 Star Awakening.
Arena Go Second Team Blessings
- Polymorph (Essential) This is used for stalling the enemy offense team as this stops the enemy from removing or stealing your buff and preventing them from debuffing your champions. You can use as many champions as with this blessing! However, it does not prevent the enemy team from destroying your team after reverting from sheep!
- Temporal Chains (Optional) Disrupting the enemy’s turn meter is valuable in preventing them from setting up for the kill.
- Lightning Cage (Essential) This blessing protects your damage-dealers event at 1 Star Awakening and much preferred over Soul Reap.
- Survival Instinct (Optional) Provides additional turn meter to your champions when receiving debuffs from enemy, so you can quickly overturn the tide of battle!
- Faultless Defense (Optional) This blessing dramatically reduces the enemy’s multi-hitter incoming damage.
Blessings Patch Notes
Blessings Videos
MacChan: All Blessings Revealed And Reviewed… Which One Is Your Favorite?
MtgJedi: Blessings Explained and Ranked!! Raid: Shadow Legends
ASH: The Very BEST BLESSINGS in RAID (All Rarities)
Discussion
Let us know what you think about these Light, War, Chaos, and Dark Divinity blessings in the comments down below! Do you think that you will use any of these on your Champions?
In the section about prioritizing rarities, under demon lord blessing, there might be a small error, where the text recommends using Commanding Presence on “an Epic Support champion who can perform multiple hits to stack this quickly.” I think maybe this was copied from the description for Cruelty? Commanding presence also works on support champions, but it does not stack, and is not dependent on multiple hits.
Anyway! Thanks for this comprehensive guide!! I visit this website everyday and I never build a champion without coming here first 🙂
hundreds of words about blessings.
Where are they?
My champion has one red star, but I have to find where the blessings are to choose one
I know how stupid I sound, so just tell me please.
Does Cruelty stack with abilities that reduce defense (like Harima’s A2)?
Potentially stupid question about the intimidating/commanding presence blessings: considering that at 6* they give a 35% increase I’m supposing they aren’t additive, otherwise they would be too powerful, right? Which means if you slap a 4* commanding presence (which gives a 7.5% boost) on Urogrim (who has a 20% speed aura), does that mean his aura is now 21.5%? Does the game even recognize decimals or does it get rounded up (or down?)? I’m trying to build a speed tuned clan boss team with Urogrim in the lead and I don’t want to spend money on regearing only to get the speeds wrong.
Hello,
Do you plan to add suggested blessings to the different characters?
@Nuno Silva: It depends on where would you want to use Steelskull. If you are using him primarily for Faction Wars as the lead (Defense Aura), then having Commanding Presence strengthens the defense aura. If you are using him for Clan Boss too, then ensure that you have a suitable candidate in the lead to provide a useful aura to Steelskull can strengthen it. Alternatively, check the Tier List provided here, identify the Blessing from the best to worse, and see how it fits the champion’s role in the team!
@Mayhem: Thanks for the correction! I have removed High Khatun from the recommended champion for the Intimidating Presence (Legendary Blessing).
in the description for Legendary Blessing Intimidating Presence, one of the recommended champions is High Khatun but she is only an epic.
She should probably be listed as a recommended champion for the Epic blessing Commanding Presence.
which is the best blessing for stellskull?, i have 4 stars blessing to choose.
thanks in advance
Does anyone know the cost of essence to increase stars, assume it is hero dependant.
I think Heavencast can be decent on support champs which have a good debuff on their a1 but on the rest of their kit are more themed around healing/cleansing/reviving. Like Mauso Mage, Steelskull, Hoforees or Broadmaw.
What’s a good blessing for Dreng? I use him in Spider, dungeon progression (16-24 in all dungeons), Doom tower, Iron Twins… I can see some recommend soul reap, but wouldn’t it kill off the spiderlings?
Is there a summary showing the tiny graphic shown on the Champ portraits anywhere?
in the S Rank Blessing section, Phantom Touch is listed as a (Rare Light Blessing) when it is actually a Rare Dark blessing.
As an Epic Champion High Khatun can’t use Intimidating Presence (legendary Blessing)
Sure, would be helpful if you’d give us a button we can push after typing in a specific champions name and then just get all your opinions and feedback on which blessing would be best for them cuz most of us are seriously confused out here!
I agree with you completely, Max Bini. And that is why all enemy turn based damage should be changed to click damage over time, else we are wasting a slew of DB slots that will never be used. I would love to see this game turn away from turn based play and move directly to real time play, at least in the arena, where we would have to make teams with clan members or other random players. /rant
With regards to the blessings, I tried Intimidating Presence on Deliana for my CB team, but Brimstone is sooo much better. And when I play her in the area, the enemy usually dies before the big rocks from the sky hits them. This should be instant damage.
Not 100% sure if I’m going crazy or not but I swear the phantom touch mastery messes up some skills. I have this on a Coldheart and sometimes her heartseeker will do the turn meter reduction, a tiny amount of damage but no big crit damage like the phantom touch hit overides the main damage. Before I got the blessing she always chunked the spider.
Some are really good and some are just useless. Do not see the point of having a poison and a hp burn blessing for Arena only – they are not that helpful and they are not usually long enough fights for that to help. Some of the better ones are team blessings, so there is no point in having more than one of them per team.