The entire Heroes of the Planes affiliation have been a part of Idle Champions for quite a while now, including everyone's favorite friend in shrub form: Penelope! With the benefit of time, and now surrounded by all her Heroes companions, Penelope deserved a rework of her kit. Because while she might be everyone's friend, she's also ready to pack an earth filled punch to protect them! So let us introduce you to the new and improved Penelope Half-Pint!
I. Penelope
- Penelope "Half-Pint" is a halfling who just wants to be everyone's best friend, even if they are evil, or a plant, or a rock. With friends that already include a treant named Neverember and a clan of chwinga that have adopted her, Penelope is ready for anything! She has the heart of a true hero and will always stand by her friends...until she goes into shrub mode of course.
Penelope is a Support, Gold Find, and Healing Champion who focuses on crowd control by slowing and debuffing enemies. She'll have her insect friends ready for when you swap her with Arkhan in seat 12.
Check out our Champion Spotlight Video embedded below for a quick overview of Penelope's abilities, and read on to get all of the details!
II. Penelope's Stats
| Race: Halfling | Alignment: Chaotic Good | |
| Gender: Female | Pronouns: She/Her | |
| Age: 33 | Affiliation: Heroes of the Planes | Class: Druid (Circle of the Moon) / Warlock |
| STR: 10 | DEX: 16 | CON: 14 |
| INT: 8 | WIS: 17 | CHA: 14 |
Role: Support, Gold Find, Healing
Eligible for Patrons: Mirt, Vajra, Zariel, Elminster (available from April 3rd, 2024 until April 3rd, 2027)
Seat: 12 (Arkhan)
III. Penelope's Abilities
Basic Attack
- Go Away - Penelope jumps out and hits the closest enemy with her quarterstaff, dealing damage and knocking it back slightly.
Formation Abilities
- Have You Met My Friends - Whenever Penelope attacks an enemy and doesn't kill it, for the next 30 seconds, all Champions deal 500% additional damage against them.
- Insect Plague - Upon entering an area, Penelope summons 4 medium-sized, randomly positioned Insect Swarms on the near 2/3rds of the battlefield. Enemies who are in a Swarm are slowed by 100% and are afflicted by the Have You Met My Friends debuff. The slow effect can stack multiplicatively if an enemy is inside multiple Swarms. Every second that one or more enemies are inside the swarm, the slow effect is additively reduced by 1%. When the slow effect reaches 40%, the swarm is dispersed and disappears.
- Chwinga Mask - When any enemy enters one of Penelope's Insect Swarms, Penelope dons her chwinga mask, calling an elemental friend to her aid. It sits on her shoulder while her mask is on. All Champions adjacent to Penelope gain the following charm(s) based on their tags. Charms last until the party changes areas.
- Healing Charm (Tank Champions) - Penelope heals affected Champions for 100 HP every second.
- Tools for the Job Charm (Healing, Support, or Gold Find) - Penelope increases the damage of all Champions by 400% for each Champion affected by this charm. This effect stacks multiplicatively.
- Story Time - Each time a Champion adjacent to Penelope attacks, add a stack of Story Time. The party's gold find is increased by 1% for each stack of Story Time, stacking additively. Story Time stacks are capped at 1,000,000,000. Whenever a boss enemy enters an Insect Swarm, the number of Story Time stacks are increased by 2.5%.
First Specializations
- Keep Your Friends Close - Increases the effect of Have You Met My Friends by 150% for each Good Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
- Keep Your Future Friends Closer - Increases the effect of Have You Met My Friends by 125% for each Evil Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
- Everybody Gets To Be Friends - Increases the effect of Have You Met My Friends by 70% for each Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
Second Specializations
- Fury of the Fireflies - Each time one of Penelope's Insect Swarms is dispersed, the effect of Chwinga Mask (both charms) is increased by 200%, stacking multiplicatively and resetting when you change areas.
- Splitting The Hive - Each time one of Penelope's Insect Swarms is dispersed, another smaller swarm appears randomly (preferring to appear on an enemy if possible), damaging monsters in it for 15 seconds of BUD damage and slowing them using the same rules as the original Insect Plague. These smaller swarms do not spawn additional ones when they disperse.
- Dance of the Ladybugs - Each time one of Penelope's Insect Swarms is dispersed, Penelope reduces the cooldown of all adjacent Champions ultimate abilities by 20% of its remaining cooldown.
Ultimate Ability
- Erupting Earth - A fountain of churned earth and stone erupt in the enemies' path (centered on the nearest enemy), dealing area damage in a large radius and creating difficult terrain that lasts for 30 seconds. Enemies that encounter the difficult terrain have their movement slowed by 50% while they travel through it.
IV. Penelope's Epic Equipment
| Slot 1: Global DPS |
Slot 2: Have You Met My Friends |
Slot 3: Chwinga Mask Healing Charm |
| Slot 4: Chwinga Mask Tools for the Job |
Slot 5: Specializations |
Slot 6: Ultimate Cooldown |
V. Penelope's Achievement and Adventure Variants
Achievement:
- Slow down a minute! - Slow the movement of 1,000 enemies with Penelope's difficult terrain from her Erupting Earth ultimate.
Adventure Variants:
Half-Empty Crypts - Half of the crypts are empty! We've interrupted some grave robbing!- A collection of Grave Robbers appear in each area. They don't drop gold, nor do they count towards quest progress. While one or more Grave Robber is alive, Undead Creatures move 100% faster and deal 200% additional damage.
- Area Goals:
- Tier 1: Complete Area 75.
- Tier 2: Complete Area 250.
- Tier 3: Complete Area 600.
- Tier 4: Complete Area 1200.
Half-Full Outlook If we're going to make such a mess, let's clean up as we go!
- In each wave, Awakened Cleaning Supplies spawn. Awakened Cleaning Supplies deal 200% additional damage and spawn with 4 hits-based health chunks. However, Penelope and her positive outlook can destroy each of these enemies with one hit. Penelope starts in the formation. She can be moved.
- Area Goals:
- Tier 1: Complete Area 125.
- Tier 2: Complete Area 350.
- Tier 3: Complete Area 800.
- Tier 4: Complete Area 1400.
Half-Pint Friends
- Penelope starts in the formation and can't be moved. Penelope's base attack cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds. Only Good champions can be used.
- Area Goals:
- Tier 1: Complete Area 175.
- Tier 2: Complete Area 450.
- Tier 3: Complete Area 1000.
- Tier 4: Complete Area 1600.
VI. Conclusion
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