Alani, Battleborn's "Warrior-monk healer" was revealed last week as the first post-release DLC character, available to those who bought the Digital Deluxe, Season Pass, or participated in the PS4 open beta.
Alani will cost 47,500 credits in-game, or one Hero Key awarded to aforementioned Season Pass/Digital Deluxe players. Everyone else will be able to earn a Hero Key thorugh normal gameplay.
Also for everyone, Alani will be made available May 31. A gameplay video below shows off Alani in action, as well as a list of her abilities underneath. There is also a skills video specifically to show what she can do.
Alani Attacks and Abilities:
- TORRENT: Through years of training in Ket, her order's martial art, Alani has honed her ability to control water, hurling water bolts to damage enemies.
- WELLSPRING: Channeling her focus and strength, Alani heals herself for a small amount or envelopes an ally in water to heal them.
- RIPTIDE: Alani sends forth a wave of water that deals damage to enemies, pushes them away, and leaves a trail hastening allies’ movement speed.
- GEYSER: Calling upon the power of the oceans, a groundswell erupts, knocking enemies into the air, damaging and binding them.
- EMERGENCE: Alani summons a water dragon that deals damage to everything caught in its wake.
- (Passive) OSMOSIS: Alani's healing abilities swell and recede like the tide. Successfully landing hits with Torrent grants up to three stacks to temporarily increase the healing power of Wellspring.
What's more, the next free character has been revealed. A post on developer 2K's blog site revealed the next hero to be Pendles, a humanoid-snake thing. Creepy. I don't like snakes. He's described as thus:
Hailing from the water world of Akopos, and pals with Alani, Pendles is a cold-blooded killer. No, literally. This anthropomorphized reptile will ssssneak up on you, poison you, perforate you with dual kamas then – poof – disappear without leaving a trace. Oh, yeah, and he wears a dope pair of sneakers. Get it? “Ssssneaky”?!? Wears sneakers?!? (Fine…fine.) This Rogue’s rogue may be a cold-blooded assassin-for-hire, but Ghalt felt was safer to have him on the team, than not.
Pendles will be coming in "the next couple months" but when he arrives, expect him to be unlocked via the same requirements as Alani. 2K will release more information on him as the time nears. Rest assured, I likely won't be using him much. Seriously...
All other patch notes, including character and balance tweaks can be found here.
