Xavier

The second dragon character, and the reviewer flags the scale of him up front: all six of Xavier's classes are new, which means every skill on him is new too. He skips his usual preamble and goes straight to the fully manifested passive to keep the video under control. (0:00, 0:33)

Everything below is read off a fully built copy, so the figures are the Max Manifestation and rank-2 class values rather than the first-acquisition ones listed higher up this page.

Silver Breath at full manifestation

Spell Power and Crit Rate +30%, Max HP +20%, and his basic attack becomes Ice Bolt. He holds three effects: Bloodline of the Deep Cold, Guardian of the Veil and an Ice Dragon's Blessing.

Bloodline of the Deep Cold carries penetration and -10% damage taken, and once per match it saves another allied player from lethal damage — restoring 100% of their HP at this tier and applying Frozen Preservation.

He tested the wording, and the answer matters. The clause reads "an allied player who has not received a death-prevention effect", which could mean "whose revive hasn't fired yet". It doesn't. He took Heidelun below 50% HP, where Heidelun's own survival mechanic no longer applies, and let him take lethal damage: he just died. So it means a character who doesn't have a death-prevention mechanic at all. Xavier saves the units with no revive of their own — and naturally nothing at all if Xavier died first. (1:04, 1:35, 2:06, 2:36)

Frozen Preservation is not Banish, and he's precise about the difference: the target can't be targeted but can still be caught by area attacks — they're simply damage-immune, so nothing lands. Banish blocks even that. (2:36, 3:06)

Guardian of the Veil hands Frost Veil to one damaged ally within 3 tiles. The catch he found is the threshold: it reads HP above 1, not "1 or above" — so a character left sitting at exactly 1 HP, like Iron Mask after Backup Protocol, doesn't qualify. And it explicitly doesn't fire twice at once, so only one ally is covered at a time. (4:10, 4:40, 5:10)

Ice Bolt is 80% of Spell Power, and on a critical hit adds a second strike worth 40% plus 20% per ice debuff on the target, to 60%. (5:10, 5:42)

The Ice Dragon's Blessing scales off how many ice-type skills the whole team is carrying — the same shape as Hellkite's, in ice. Base stats +30% and damage-over-time taken -20%. (6:14, 6:44)

His framing of the character: mechanically very close to Hellkite, noticeably less durable, and much better at keeping other people alive. (4:10)

Class: Frost Sage, almost by default

Frost Sovereign is +20% Spell Power and -40% damage taken — 50% with the passive's base — at the cost of 30% less healing and shielding received. It holds Ice Born, which stacks Condensed Mana: one stack whenever anyone casts an ice skill, one at turn start, three when an allied player dies, each worth +10% Spell Power, damage-over-time and Max HP.

Ten stacks is +100% to all three and around 60% total damage reduction, and he's blunt about the problem: you die before you get there. Attack decks are still experimenting with it. (7:16, 7:46, 8:17, 8:49)

Frost Sage is +50% Spell Power, -30% damage taken, Chill Armour on every ice skill — and, decisively, Frozen Preservation on himself when he takes lethal damage. That's a second revive on a character whose whole job is keeping people standing, and it can't be sealed. His verdict is that the other classes are good but the revive is too good to pass up: defence decks always take Frost Sage. (8:49, 9:21, 9:53)

Glacial Oracle is +40% Spell Power plus the kit's only real source of Crit Rate outside a base 30%. Its Foresight cuts a cooldown on a crit-chance roll and grants Frost Veil after taking a critical hit — which he notes sits awkwardly against the same class reducing how often you get crit. The cooldown-control clause pairs with Anemone, whose re-action applies exactly that debuff, for -5 cooldown and +1 TP; he doesn't expect it to come up often. (10:26, 10:56, 11:27, 11:59)

Blizzard is the reason people call him broken

Blizzard targets a ground point rather than a unit, covers two rings, and deals 20% of Spell Power five times, applying Chill and Frostbite. 30% of everything hit is locked into Ice Prison, and summons are locked into Glacier Prison at 100%.

Ground-targeting plus that radius plus five instances is the whole package: the five hits also stack Frost Fissure to five by themselves. He says Heidelun simply dies to it. (16:41, 17:13, 17:44, 26:25)

His standard line is Frost Veil into Blizzard: Frost Veil costs 1 TP, shields a chosen ally and himself, extends his removable buffs by a turn, and grants an extra turn — and he's careful about why that word matters. Equipping it also raises every shield he gives by 40%. Anemone's re-action applies a shackle debuff; an extra turn doesn't. So he runs in, casts Frost Veil for the shield and the turn, advances again and drops Blizzard. (15:06, 15:38, 16:10, 29:30)

The rest of the actives

• Crystal Hammer — 90% of Spell Power as physical damage on the target plus 50% fixed physical around it. Against a target under action control it rises to 150%, but it also removes one action-control effect, which he finds self-defeating. Normally skipped. It does explain why a mage's weapon carries physical penetration. (11:59, 12:31, 13:02)
• Ice Nova — 100% on the target and two adjacent tiles, applying a removable movement cut and an unremovable 2-turn root. Targets a unit, so rarely worth a slot. (13:02, 13:34)
• Ice Breath — a 3×4 line for 90% resistance-ignoring damage with Chill and Frostbite; he calls it the ice version of Anne Millennium's Fire Jet. It also grants him Frost Veil on cast and scatters Ice Thorns across the area at 40%. Fine, but crowded out. (14:05, 14:36, 15:06)
• Ice Meteor — 180% physical to adjacent tiles, falling 20% per tile to 120% at the edge. He calls it a Strike skill, which would be unusual on a mage, though gmap tags it simply as ranged, so treat that as his read. The large-monster and summon rider (+100% damage taken, a cooldown back and 1 TP) marks it as raid kit. (18:15, 18:45, 19:15)
• Glacial Circle — a buff placed on allies within 2 tiles of a target point, clearing 2 debuffs from each: Max HP +30%, penetration resistance +30%, and after one of them is attacked it applies Cold Erosion to the attacker: 60% of Spell Power as ice magic at action end, critable, ignoring damage reduction. He compares it directly to Black Mirror, which is 80% and doesn't stack with it, and notes the 3-trigger cap. It also clears debuffs. He rates it highly. (19:15, 19:46, 20:47, 21:17)

The ultimate is Blizzard, slightly worse

Glacial Breath covers 4 tiles for 180% of Spell Power, scatters Ice Thorns at 35%, and locks the primary target into Ice Prison at 100% with 30% on everything else and summons into Glacier Prison. He points out it's the same effect as Blizzard on a wider radius but aimed at a unit rather than the ground — and concludes you'd usually rather just cast Blizzard. (21:17, 21:50)

Gear

Chancellor of Darkness two-piece as part of a split set. For the accessory he rates Goddess's Blessing for its Crit Rate, while flagging that its Focus overlaps with the weapon's and that there's currently a bug where the TP doesn't actually arrive. Hyper Bomber is his own pick for the area damage, and he relays that Dancing Queen is well regarded here — an area attack applying healing reduction to everything it touches. (21:50, 22:20, 22:50)

The weapon: ★3 minimum, ★5 if you can

Spell Power and Max HP as base stats, with physical penetration, magic penetration, critical damage and damage-over-time on top.

• ★2 adds skill range +1.
• ★3 is the real step: Guardian of the Veil reaches 4 tiles instead of 3, and the Focus effect loses its once-per-turn cap, so with re-actions the TP keeps coming.
• ★5 adds the damage-over-time bonus and relaxes the Focus condition to TP 2 or lower.

Since he's a damage-over-time character, that ★5 line is worth real money. One trap he flags: the weapon's skill range +1 does not extend his basic attack, because the transformed basic attack isn't counted as a skill — Deimos of Chaos's weapon is the only one in the game that does raise basic-attack range. (23:20, 23:50, 24:20, 24:51, 25:22, 25:53)

Runes

His budget setup is Moon / Lightning / Sun / Lightning / Sun / Moon, picking up Crit Rate, area damage, health and critical-damage-taken reduction at once. He calls it the most unremarkable setting possible and suggests premium-rune owners build around what they have. (26:25, 26:55)

Artifacts

Craving for Warmth+1 more → is the pick and he doesn't hedge: Spell Power and Max HP, an aura within 2 tiles, healing an ally for 60% of Spell Power whenever he casts a skill on them, plus turn-start debuff shortening and a 15% Max HP heal. Essentially mandatory.

Resonance Stone of Magic+2 more → applies its debuff after attacking, so it never boosts the attack that applied it — he reads it as raid-oriented. Xavier's Blessing+2 more → hands penetration, defence, resistance and ice resistance to nearby allies, which he finds unremarkable given they have to stand next to him. (27:27, 27:57, 28:27, 28:58)

Verdict

Frost Veil, run in, Blizzard — that's the character, on attack and defence alike. What makes Blizzard frightening isn't the damage but the lock: Ice Prison is not Stun, not Banish and not Fear, so nothing's immunity applies to it. Drop it on a cluster and two units can simply stop playing.

He's uneasy about the power level, and says so plainly — this is the second release in a row where he's felt new characters are arriving too strong. He pulled anyway, for the ally revive, and is at 5★.

On investment: 3★ already grants the revive, and he reckons 6★ with the weapon at ★3 is a perfectly good middle setting. (29:30, 30:01, 30:31, 31:02)