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New Hero critique: opinions?

09-10-2003, 12:53 AM#1
Uratoh
I'm working on the final new hero for my campaign and I thought I'd get input...he is a blue dragonspawn, entasked to guard the Forgotten Ones from the world, keep them sealed. He currently needs a name, something noble and reptilian.

stats base: Paladin

Ability 1:
Breath of Frost - 125 mana, breathes out frozen breath to chill and damage enemies over time.
-Level 1: 50 base damage, 7 per second for 5 seconds
-Level 2: 75 base damage, 10 per second for 5 seconds
-Level 3: 100 base damage, 13 per second for 5 seconds

Ability 2:
Guardian Spirit - 75 mana, summons two Arachnathid guardians to fight for the hero. lasts for 60 seconds.
-Level 1: 200 HP, 9-10 damage, ranged attack.
-Level 2: 300 HP, 15-16 damage, ranged attack and poison sting.
-Level 3: 400 HP, 19-20 damage, ranged attack, poison sting, and burrow.

Ability 3:
Devotion Aura

Ability 4 (Ultimate):
Tranquility

currently I want overall critique, especially in the following areas:

Breath of frost: does it do enough damage at higher levels?
Tranquility is a placeholder, any ideas for a more themed ultimate?
09-10-2003, 12:58 AM#2
Hunter0000
hmmm, how bout an ultamite where 2 blure dragons swoop in from eaither direction breathing frost as they go by(I could do this for ya if you want)? Also I recomend you change dev to a custom spell.
09-10-2003, 01:13 AM#3
bludragn
Or an ultimate where the blue dragon spawn morphs into a larger red dragon spawn with more hitpoints, armor, and damage. Also it should get breath of fire that deals more damage in exchange for breath of frost and maybe magic immunity. Last for like 60 seconds or something.

For a name, something like Ssrath or anything with two Ss's in front is a good reptilian name.

The damage on breath of frost is ok if it is a melee hero, but if it only hits ground units you may want to up the damage.
09-10-2003, 01:17 AM#4
Uratoh
the morphing to red dragon spawn is just silly (no offense), is there anything about the bombardment that would make it different from frost breath?
09-10-2003, 01:22 AM#5
Hunter0000
hey you forgot me:(
09-10-2003, 01:23 AM#6
Uratoh
I did not! read the whole post.
09-10-2003, 01:26 AM#7
Hunter0000
umm yea you did, what does bombardment have to do with my post? did you read mine?
09-10-2003, 01:44 AM#8
Uratoh
I was refering to your spell as bombardment. its basicly damage over an area.
09-10-2003, 01:50 AM#9
Hunter0000
Acculy, no I don't use that, lets just say im a little TOO familiar with pheoix fire.....:ggani:
09-10-2003, 01:54 AM#10
Uratoh
how would the ultimate work exactly?

also, I'm debating a new ultimate for another character, Battle Fury...it would represent the hero going into a berserk rage for a period of time...i need some suggestions on stats for it.
09-10-2003, 02:31 AM#11
Thunder-Hunter
Name him "Lord Reptilios".

And ulti maybe make it Avatar.. or something like it. He would make a great gaurd as he gets +hp, spell imune, +armor, +dmg. The name of the ulti could be like "Defensive Manuvers"... or maybe like last resort or something that sounds like a gaurd move.
09-10-2003, 02:42 AM#12
Hunter0000
Well it would involve a trigger but kinda like this,

it creates two blue dragons with NO standard attack about 2000 from the target on either side. Then the dragon are orderd to move to a region that would be placed on the target, then move forward in their curret direction for about 2000 then remove them. The trick is, you give them a modified peonix fire with 0 duration and a blue dragon attack animation. Just the the initail attack to the damage you want per shot and so forth. I call it the Dragon Driveby:D
09-10-2003, 03:08 AM#13
Uratoh
hmm...i'd like something a bit simpler...

in any case, for my other hero, the blood lord
(Shockwave, Howl of Terror, Cleaving Attack, Reincarnation)
I've decided on the name for his ultimate

Slaughter. It will use the corpse explosion art cos thats just messy. i need ideas on exactly what stats it should do.