More than likely one of the new heroes in the next saga box will be a revamping of Faramir. His Lore version is very underwhelming, with high threat and an ability that doesn't necessarily work well with the archetype. I was curious what the new hero would look like and started brainstorming, what are others ideas?

He will have the same stats because so far when they make a new version of a hero or ally they use the same stats. Therefore 11 threat, 2 wp, 2 att, 2 def, 5 hp. I think Faramir should be in Leadership, his ability would read, when playing a trap from hand reduce the cost by 1, to a minimum of 1. Second ability would be an action: exhaust Faramir to deal 1 damage to every enemy with a trap attachment.

I thought this ability might go well with the new traps we will be getting. Does anyone else think this is too powerfful? not powerful enough?

Man! You guys needs to stop getting my hopes up and put [speculation] or something into your thread titles.... first Gollum and now Faramir, can't a get go a couple of days without a false alarm?

On topic though, I'm happy with him keeping the same stats (although there are now plenty of examples of ally/hero versions that do not have the same stats, and hero/hero as well if you compare Baggins sphere Bilbo vs. Lore Bilbo).

Like you, I would like to see Faramir interact with traps in some way. Or at least with Ranger trait allies. How about this: Leadership sphere, with text:

Ranged.

Action: Exhaust a Ranger ally you control to reduce the cost of the next Trap attachment you play by 2 until the end of the phase.

It would be a first, I think: a hero whose ability hinges upon exhausting another character. But it fits thematically, and Faramir would be ordering one of his men to get and set a trap.

I would see him as a leader of the Rangers. So for example:

Ranged.

Any Ranger character that joins Faramir to attack gains +1 attack and Ranged for the duration of the attack.

Action: You can put 1 Ranger character from your hand into play with paying its price. (Limit once per game.)

And as for trap synergy? I would give it to the oher hero comming in this cycle (Damrod?).

He would have to be very good to earn a spot next to the ally version of Faramir.

In my play group ally Faramir has been our savior countless times, boosting a player's allies willpower.

The new hero version will be tried of course, but I can't see him becoming a staple as strong as the ally version very fast. At least in my group.

Same would go for hero Arwen. Ally Arwen is just too good!

Lore faramir looks great and I wish I could use him more but most games I played so far didn't use his skill to much, maybe " Anduin " scenario, or combine with spirit deck that can keep tl very low. His ally version on the other hand is one of the strong part of leadership crew.

Just make him leadership and put the same ability of the ally Faramir and you got a pretty amazing hero right there.

But seriously though, a leadership Faramir that interacts with rangers or boosts them in some way is OK by me. If they don't make him lore, I don't think he'll interact with traps at all, which is not to say that he won't work well with them.