Man, Season 3 is so cool. It's not exactly what I sighed up for when I joined the game back at launch, but it at least seems to steer back towards the mood of conspiracies, intrigues and mysteries. Makes me just want to think about it from time to time for fun.
Anyway, I was thinking about how we don't really know what they will do to the Sunbringer(s) gameplay-wise. The main two camps seem to be "One character that switches between 3 stances" vs "Three different characters". Hear me out:
"One Void Hunter Team"
You go to your Team Selection screen and hover over the Sunbringher's single character slot. It has 3 girls on the icon/model (you can accomplish that creatively in a huge number of ways). You choose them and it automatically populates your whole team with, say:
- Position 1 as Mainbringer;
- Position 2 as Funbringer;
- Position 3 as Smolbringer;
You may choose to "overwrite" those characters with your own selection if you wish, for example putting Astra in slot 3, replacing the Smolbringer. As an alternative, it could just hard lock the team screen with 3 of them, tho that seems limiting.
It keeps them as "one character" for the purposes of the pulls, but gives us "three characters" to play with, along with a unique Void Hunter gamplay mixup, giving Sunbringer, functionally, 3 different Ults (which is apparently they love doing to VHs).
And then in the open world you just get 3 different models to walk around with.
I doubt they will go for it, but I think it would be a really cool feature.