Kit Reveal: Geonosian Brood Alpha

UNIT NAME: Geonosian Brood Alpha
ALIGNMENT: Dark
CATEGORIES: Dark Side, Support, Geonosian, Separatist, Leader
Geonosian Support that swarms enemies with summoned allies and Hive Mind

ABILITIES:

Basic: Shield Bash

Final Text: Deal Physical damage to target enemy and dispel all buffs on them on a critical hit.

Special 1: Glaive Sweep (Cooldown 3)

FINAL TEXT: Dispel all buffs on all enemies. Deal Physical damage to all enemies and Expose them for 2 turns. Then, remove 15% Turn Meter from debuffed enemies.

Special 2: Conscription (Cooldown 3)

FINAL TEXT: Dispel all debuffs on all Geonosian allies. Summon a Geonosian Brute to battle if the ally slot is available, or if a Geonosian Brute is already present, he gains Critical Damage Up and Offense Up for 2 turns. Then, all Geonosian allies gain 15% Turn Meter and recover 35% Health and Protection.

Leader: Geonosian Swarm
FINAL TEXT: (ZETA) Geonosian allies have +15,000 Health and Protection, and +50% Health Steal. Geonosians allies recover 3% Protection when they use their Basic ability. Basic abilities of Geonosian allies deal 10% more damage for each buffed enemy.

Unique 1: Queen's Will
FINAL TEXT: (ZETA) Geonosian Brood Alpha has +60% Tenacity. All Geonosian allies have the Hive Mind buff while Geonosian Brood Alpha is active, which can't be dispelled or prevented. When another Geonosian ally is defeated, reduce the cooldown of Conscription by 1. At the start of the encounter, summon a Geonosian Brute who Taunts for 1 turn.

Hive Mind: Assist whenever another Geonosian ally uses an ability during his turn, dealing 50% less damage; equalize Health and Protection with Hive Mind allies whenever an enemy uses an ability

Unique 2: Geonosian Brute
UNIT NAME: Geonosian Brute
ALIGNMENT: Dark
CATEGORIES: Dark Side, Geonosian, Separatist, Tank

Basic: Goading Strike
FINAL TEXT: Deal Physical damage to target enemy and Taunt for 1 turn.

Special 1: Swarm Tactics (Cooldown 4)
FINAL TEXT: Deal Physical damage to target enemy and call all other Geonosian allies to assist.

Unique 1: Reckless Retaliation
FINAL TEXT: Geonosian Brute has +25% Offense for each active Geonosian ally and +100% counter chance.

Unique 2: Summoned
FINAL TEXT:

This unit's stats scale with the summoner's stats
This unit can only be summoned to the ally slot if it's available.
This unit can't be summoned in raids.
This unit can't be revived.
When this unit is defeated, it is not considered a defeated unit.
When there are no other allied combatants, this unit escapes from battle.
A unit can't be revived if this summoned unit exists in their slot.

SYNERGIES:

DaPowerfulJedi
New Spectator
6 years ago
Poggle the Lesser when he realizes that the Brood Alpha has a way better leader ability:
Syk0mm0nk3y
6 years ago
I'm guessing raids don't have an ally slot, is that why Brute can't be summoned in raids? Or do you just like giving darkside chracters abilities that are useless in raids?
Perfzilla
6 years ago
"Salacious_B_Crumb;c-1886850" wrote:
I'm guessing raids don't have an ally slot, is that why Brute can't be summoned in raids? Or do you just like giving darkside chracters abilities that are useless in raids?

To make up for it, they're going to make another bounty hunter that has abilities that are useless in everything but raids.
MightyWizard134
6 years ago
"leef;c-1887025" wrote:
"CoastalJames;c-1887022" wrote:
"MightyWizard;c-1887021" wrote:
Wait do we really need a new b-tier character with two zetas though?

If you don't want him then don't get him :) I won't be.

Because I don't need a new B-tier character with two zetas :)

we will probably need brood to get wat tampor (or what ever his name is). Whether the zetas are required remains to be seen.

This. I will most likely want Wat Tambor for my Separatists, and if the zetas are required to beat the hardest tier(probably) then yeah. Steep price for a Padme counter. My zeta back-log is already killing me.

But the deeper issue here is that we have another(!) b-tier character that requires 2 zetas in order to work. If this is the new standard, then we will need a lot more zeta mats. Twice as many zeta mats, to be somewhat precise. And honestly I don't see CG giving us twice as many zeta mats.
NotRealUltra
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
"Darth_DeVito;c-1887466" wrote:
"CG_SBCrumb;d-206316" wrote:
FINAL TEXT: (...) Summon a Geonosian Brute to battle if the ally slot is available, or if a Geonosian Brute is already present, he gains Critical Damage Up and Offense Up for 2 turns.
(...)

I hope this final text isn't really that final because the above sentence is a grammatical nightmare. I can deduce the meaning, but it's really painful to read. Just take out the subclause to see what I mean. How about:

"Summon a Geonosian Brute if a free ally slot is available. Only one Brute can be active at a time. Then, the Geonosian Brute gains" etc.
Crumb version is better
ColonelMatt88
6 years ago
"Nihion;c-1886656" wrote:
"ColonelMatt8;c-1886549" wrote:
It would be nice to see some of this stuff spread around existing Geonosian units rather than just giving this new one all the mechanics. You could still make him a vital part without giving him single target dispel, mass dispel, mass cleanse, mass assists, mass healing, mass health equalisation, passive assists and flat geonosian buffs.

Where’s the money in that?

You'd still need alpha for his leadership and his abilities to make the team work.

What they did with Imperial Troopers and Bounty Hunters were amazing; that's what reworks should look like.
Nihion
6 years ago
"ColonelMatt8;c-1887581" wrote:
"Nihion;c-1886656" wrote:
"ColonelMatt8;c-1886549" wrote:
It would be nice to see some of this stuff spread around existing Geonosian units rather than just giving this new one all the mechanics. You could still make him a vital part without giving him single target dispel, mass dispel, mass cleanse, mass assists, mass healing, mass health equalisation, passive assists and flat geonosian buffs.

Where’s the money in that?

You'd still need alpha for his leadership and his abilities to make the team work.

What they did with Imperial Troopers and Bounty Hunters were amazing; that's what reworks should look like.

I was mostly joking, but you’re right, I love that kind of faction makeover too.
NotRealUltra
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
"Darth_DeVito;c-1887966" wrote:
"Ultra;c-1887547" wrote:
"Darth_DeVito;c-1887466" wrote:
"CG_SBCrumb;d-206316" wrote:
FINAL TEXT: (...) Summon a Geonosian Brute to battle if the ally slot is available, or if a Geonosian Brute is already present, he gains Critical Damage Up and Offense Up for 2 turns.
(...)

I hope this final text isn't really that final because the above sentence is a grammatical nightmare. I can deduce the meaning, but it's really painful to read. Just take out the subclause to see what I mean. How about:

"Summon a Geonosian Brute if a free ally slot is available. Only one Brute can be active at a time. Then, the Geonosian Brute gains" etc.
Crumb version is better

Maybe I'm misreading it. Does the brute only gain crit damage and offense up if he was already present? Either way, the sentence ought to be rewritten. You should be able to remove a subordinate clause without creating any grammatical problems or changing the meaning in the main clause, which is most definitely not the case here. If it's already confusing in English, it's bound to cause problems in localized versions.
Yes. Grammar isn't my strong suit but I think its fine as is.

There are two things going on:

1.
>Ally slot is available
>Summon brute

2.
>If Ally slot is being used by Brute when using this ability
>Only Then Brute gains CD Up + Offense up for 2 turns

There are few issues with your reworded statement, "... If a free ally ..." There is only one ally slot so the usage of the makes more sense than 'a' which implies many

Its a given that you can only summon one brute since only one ally slot exists. So the second sentence is unneeded and it implies that in mirror matches you cannot have more than one Geonosian Brute which would be incorrect.

The third problem is order of operations, you are saying that GBA summons Brute and then gives him CD + Offense up, which is not how it works. (see point 2 above)
13Teague
6 years ago
First generic character with a leader ability. Yet Malak, boss of KotOR, leader of Sith armies, doesn't get a lead. Lore wise, this game is getting weirder and weirder.
ninjah9
6 years ago
Anybody know how this character will be released? Marquee? Where to farm?