Myth Wolf – Geir Goldenfang
A Beastform Design Concept

We all know that every Myth form needs a minion, and in the past we’ve had minions that trap, minions that give absorbs, minions that cast negative charms, and minions that give pips. By process of elimination, blades is actually the last thing that a minion hasn’t done yet! Now, the difference between this minion and all the others is that if it blades itself, that would be potentially useless right? However, this won’t be the case. This minion will have 100 health, and every turn cast either a 0-pip 25 blade on a random teammate, or do a 0-pip 25 dmg attack on a random enemy. We know that the devs can do this since the Myth Rat has a minion that chooses between 2 0-pip spells. Once it gets to 4-pips, it will cast an AOE blade on the team for 50 each. Obviously a minion that can hit is super powerful even if it’s not that much, but with hitting, he can also ruin strategies and players will most likely target the minion more often. This minion accomplishes exactly what minions should… It’s a small buff to the team that doesn’t change much, but can be dangerous to the enemies if it’s not dealt with soon. I chose the name “Brute minion” since that’s how trolls have commonly been referred to in game, and the troll minion has not yet been used in Beastmoon, and they wouldn’t need to do any art work to make him!

You may see this spell and immediately think of Myth Draconian, and you wouldn’t be wrong to do so. Giving pips is a big thing that Myth Draco does, and while Myth Wolf does draw some inspiration from him and all Myth forms, there is a very big difference. When it clears the negative charm, which is different than a ward, rather than just giving yourself a pip, it will switch it around and give you a blade, making enemies careful about putting negative charms on anyone on your team.

As other Myth forms push traps back to you, this one will do the same with negative charms. Unfortunately, this won’t work with accuracy debufs since those are used before the cast, but if you have multiple on you, or it’s a weakness-like spell, you can put that burden on the opponent then hit them for 75, which is the value of the new nerfed Draconian. It seems pushing something over is worth about 25 damage, and I agree with that assessment, so this makes sense at 1-pip with 75 damage. Again, the negative charm is a staple of the Death school, and it’s important for Myth to properly counter them. This mechanic was introduced in Karamelle with Snack Attack, and they’ve added Karamelle mechanics to Beastmoon before, so I know they’d be able to do this.

Like the Storm Wolf’s 4-pip AOE, this is a spell that doesn’t remove a DOT from you, but it makes your spells do more damage. This is perfect for the Myth Wolf, because to take this giant tank down, you’ll need to do a lot of damage, and the spells that do the most damage per pip are the DOT spells, but with this mechanic, the enemies may have to resort to taking you down another way. For the damage, I put the initial hit at 75, which is lower than the DPP should be, but with the conditional at double the damage, it more for justifies the damage. We can look to spells like Myth Draconian’s “Butcher Bat” to see what kind of damage to do.

Nearly identical to the previous spell, this Goon packs quite the Wallop 😉 It follows the exact spell damage pattern as Butcher Bat, but with a different animation. It was important for Myth Wolf to not have a straight up 2-pip 200 damage spell, but with this, it will make enemies even more scared to hit with DOT spells. The Cat Thug has been used in Beastmoon before as a Balance spell, but I don’t think that’s a big problem since other spells have gone between schools before as long as they have lightly different colors, and I know they have different skins for this model.

Spells that target the minion require the minion to be alive and in place, which is why they typically can cast spells that Myth forms don’t usually cast at the same pip value as other forms use their own spells. For example, Myth Minotaur has a 3-pip spell that targets the minion for a 200 AOE absorb, which is typically something only ice forms can do. Likewise, this spell will target the minion for a 125 trap AOE for 3-pips, which is just about right for death DPP values. As reference, there’s a 125 AOE trap that also steals a blade for 4 pips. It’s safe to assume that stealing a charm is worth at least one pip. Also, there’s a 3-pip 200 trap AOE on the Death Rat, so I don’t think 125 would be a big problem. Also, there are other Myth forms that cast traps, so this isn’t too out of character either, but no other Myth forms have a spell like this. This spell’s name is my first example of something that KI likes to do, and that’s use big vocab words. I don’t know if this is to teach people more words or if it’s to show off, but I figured I’d copy them and add some big words into my spell names! Ambuscade means to attack without warning, which is a synonym for ambush, which is another name of a trap AOE spell in Beastmoon.

This spell has no effects, but does do a lot of damage. Looking at this number, it may look odd to you, and that’s because no other spell in all of Beastmoon does 275 damage! You’d expect it to do 300 since there’s no condition, and that’s what the formulas would suggest, but as I mentioned before, as a Tank form, it’s very important that this form be balanced and not be quite at 100 DPP. The designers of Beastmoon do have formulas and consistent ways to determine damage, but they also sometimes adjust things slightly to account for unique situations. Having a tank Myth form is one of those situations, and I think players will be happy with the amount of damage this does.

This secondary 3-pip damage spell has a lower DPP value of 75 since it has the very easily meetable condition of having a minion up. Many Myth forms have given absorbs in the past, so that’s not a big deal in and of itself, but with the powerful damage, this could be an amazing spell to use to both deal significant damage to the opponent and keep yourself alive a bit longer. The animation, Ninja Pigs, has not been used in Beastmoon before. Some may speculate that the devs are hesitant to add spells that look like the forms that exist, but we know that’s not the case since they already have spells that are like that like the Ice Wolf’s Minotaur spell.

Much like About Face, this spell is an AOE version that gives a slightly better blade. This spell was added to give him more of a support role and multiple ways to clear negative charms, which I wanted to be an emphasis of this form. When giving a form an identity, they usually need 3 or more instances of something unless it’s a very powerful and unique spell.

Last, but certainly not least, we have the damage AOE spell. This is a much better version of Myth Pig’s 2-pip spell that clears a negative charm to do more damage. This is yet another instance of this form countering negative charms, and the damage is actually on par with a 100 DPP form, which I found okay since you had to get to 5 pips to use it. If it meets the condition, this spell is supremely powerful and should scare death forms everywhere. The Humongofrog animation has not been used yet in Beastmoon.