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The Bristleguard荆棘战甲

Specialization relationships

The Bristleguard is one of three specialization choices offered to Skorn in the recovered specialization-choice sheet, listed at position 3 of the three. Skorn is a Tank hero of the A Temple guild, tagged Poison, Stall in the balancing sheet. An attack range of 1 puts them on the front line. Base Health 950 sits clearly above the roster average of 805. Defense 60 is the highest value in the roster. In the game's lore, Skorn goes by "The Bulwark" — "Let them try. I'll take it gladly.". The mana curve runs 30 starting Mana into a 105 pool, regenerating 4/s. Picking this choice links Skorn to the passive ability The Bristleguard.

HeroSkorn
Hero classTank
Owner guildA Temple
Linked abilityPassive: The Bristleguard
TagsPoison, Backup
Current data snapshotclient 0.5.9 · build 25323618
Extracted effect

The Bristleguard links to The Bristleguard in the recovered specialization sheet. The effect below is the linked ability's game text from the client 0.5.9 · build 25323618 snapshot, with available variables resolved from the balancing data.

At start of combat, for each Tank in combat inflict 10+10_Rank Poison on all enemies and give 10+10_Rank Defense to all Heroes. Backup.

Recovered values in this effect

{0}10 …,]<bold> for each Tank in combat inflict {0}+{1}_Rank Poison on al…
{1}10 …old> for each Tank in combat inflict {0}+{1}_Rank Poison on all en…
{2}10 …poison> Poison on all enemies and give {2}+{3}_Rank Defense to…
{3}10 …on> Poison on all enemies and give {2}+{3}_Rank Defense to all…
The three choices for Skorn

The Haughty

Active ability: Come At Me! · Tags: Shields, Stall

Recovered values: {0} → 10 · {1} → 10 · {2} → 10

How The Bristleguard differs

  • It carries the Backup tag, which the other two choices lack.
  • It is also the only one of the three touched by the 0.5.3–0.5.8 balance patches (see below).
Balance history · 0.5.3 – 0.5.8

Cross-checked between the extracted 0.5.2 (build 24436268) ↔ 0.5.4 (build 24690909) and 0.5.4 ↔ 0.5.8 (build 25188298) balancing snapshots and Leyline's official Steam patch notes for 0.5.3 – 0.5.8. Entries tagged 0.5.5-0.5.8 cannot be pinned to a single patch from data.

  • 0.5.3 The Bristleguard (specialization): Base Defense per Tank 5 → 10 and base Poison per Tank 5 → 10. verified in extracted data

Read Leyline's official patch notes on Steam.

Details
Passive AbilityThe Bristleguard
TagsPoison, Backup
Metadata
IDHeroSpecialization_1203
CategorySpecializations
Name ENThe Bristleguard
Name 中文荆棘战甲
SourceLocalization + balancing sheets · Guildrun Demo client 0.5.9 · build 25323618