[hero]The Necromancer, Mahl' Crou

[eleazar03]

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The Necromancer
Mahl' Crou

Background Story
A former elven scholar and theologian and one of the distinguished writers of elven temples despite not being a priest himself. Born of Lordaeron he went back and taught in Catechetical School of Lordaeron. At first The High Priests supported him but as his practices became more unearthly he was expelled and sent to the gallows. And in death he found the last piece of the puzzle he required. Now He walks in between, controlling lifeless bodies and wreaking havoc to the living.

Strength - 17+ [1.7]
Agility - 15+ [1.6]
Intelligence - 21+ [2.7]

Affiliation:	Scourge
Damage:	39-43
Armor:	1
Movespeed:	300
Starting HP/MP:	473/273
Attack Range:	450

MoveStopHold PositionAttack
PatrolAttribute BonusBound by SpiritsHero Abilities
Skeleton HordeNecrosisFlesh and BoneThe Haunting

• Skeleton Horde
• Necrosis
• Flesh and Bone
• The Haunting
  

• Skill
• Unit
  

Skeleton Horde - (Active,single Target)

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The Necromancer channels powers from the underworld to raise skeletons to attack the target unit. He raises more skeleton every second. The corpse he has collected gives him more connection to the underworld and increases the number of skeleton and their strength.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	100	30s	600	N/A	5s	summons a min of 1 skel
2	120	30s	600	N/A	5s	summons a min of 2 skel
3	130	30s	600	N/A	5s	summons a min of 2 skel, upgrade skel
4	140	30s	600	N/A	5s	summons a min of 2 skel, upgrade skel

Notes:

• summons (number of corpse)/2 skels per second

• skels can attack only once and has 522 ms

• skels are magic immune

• he can continue channeling even if the target goes out of the 600 range. has a 1000 max range.

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	HP	Damage	Armor	MS
1	200	15	1	522
2	300	20	2	522
3	400	25	3	522

Necrosis - (DPS,Debuff,AoE)

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Mahl' Crou forces death to an enemy unit giving them necrosis. Units under necrosis will be silenced for a small amount of time, when the silence ends the unit will lose 1%HP/s for every 10%HP missing for 7s. Unit also gets an incrementing slow every second

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	100	25s	700	N/A	2	2s before damage
2	125	25s	700	N/A	3	3s before damage
3	150	25s	700	N/A	4	4s before damage
4	175	25s	700	N/A	5	5s before damage

Notes:

• damage begins after the skill duration

• Slows by 5%+5% every second.

• also deals damage to any enemy units within 500 AoE of the target.

• DPS is pure damage

• simplest way to math this i could think of:
  MAXHP*((10-[(HPstart/HPend)*10])*.01)

• 10%hp is based on HP when buffed not 10% of Max HP

• 1%HP DPS is based on max HP

• further loss of HP(15% of maxHP) will increase damage by 1%of maxHP

• Flesh and Bone
• Bound by Soul
  

Flesh and Bone - (AoE,Affects corpse)

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The Necromancer has learned to use his abilities to harness a portion of a unit strength through their corpse. He collects corpse to increase his armor and regeneration and strengthen his link with the underworld enabling him to summon more units and stronger units. Can collect up to 10 corpse.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	100	45s	N/A	350	N/A	increase armor and regen by 1 and skel damage by 2
2	100	40s	N/A	350	N/A	increase armor and regen by 1 and skel damage by 3
3	100	35s	N/A	350	N/A	increase armor and regen by 1 and skel damage by 4
4	100	30s	N/A	350	N/A	increase armor and regen by 2 and skel damage by 5

Notes:

• gathers corpse in a 350 AOE.

• Scatters all corpse upon death in a 1000 AOE

Bound by Spirits - (Single, chain)

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Mahl' Crou summons the spirits of the corpses he has collected and commands the to sacrifice themselves to hurt his enemies. The angered spirits sacrifices their own corpse for this final attack just to end their suffering. Each spirit can damage 3 units. The more corpses he has the more chains he has.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	70	25s	700/300	N/A	N/A	Deals 25(+5per bounce)/soul
2	80	25s	700/300	N/A	N/A	Deals 25(+10per bounce)/soul
3	90	25s	700/300	N/A	N/A	Deals 25(+15per bounce)/soul
4	100	25s	700/300	N/A	N/A	Deals 25(+20per bounce)/soul

Notes:

• Doesn't work like normal chain.

• all souls will attack the initial unit dealing 250 damage(number of corpse=number of souls) and each soul bounces seperately 3x

• 1 unit cannot be hit more than once at 1 bounce but can be hit again by a consecutive bounce(not from the same soul)

• spirits will prioritize units with less or no damage received from this skill for the nxt bounce.

• Depletes corpse count

• enemy A gets hits all souls getting 250dmg

• then(bounce 1) enemy B, C, and enemy D recieves damage from 3 souls each receiving 135dmg each.(9 spirits left, the 10th was not able to bounce coz of limitation

• then(bounce 2) enemy C or B orD receive damage from 3 souls receiving 330 dmg each and the rest get hit by 2 spirits for 130 dmg(still 9 units)(does not concider A for 2nd bounce coz spirits prioritize units that has receive no or less damage)

• then(bounce 3) comes enemy E which gets hit by 3 soul for 315dmg and enemy B,D will be hit by 2 spirits recieving 210 dmg and enemy A,C will be hit by 1 spirit getting 130 DMG.(assuming C got hit by 3 souls on the 2nd bounce, then C and A would have had the most damage and would be targeted by less spirits)

The Haunting - (AoE,Damage/Heal,Affect all units)

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Mahl' Crou conjures 10 corpses in an area. Any enemy unit in that area are bound to a single corpse and receives a certain amount of damage. When bound they are slowed by 45%. Breaking the link to the corpse will anger the spirits resulting to a haunting. Haunted unit will be visible to all allied units if it is near a corpse.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	150	150s	600	1000	5	100dmg(chaos), Haunted units receive 10dps +(5%*number of corpse nearby) and .3ministun
2	250	125s	600	1000	6	150dmg(chaos), Haunted units receive 20dps +(5%*number of corpse nearby) and .3ministun
3	400	100s	600	1000	7	200dmg(chaos), Haunted units receive 30dps +(5%*number of corpse nearby) and .3ministun

Notes:

• Link is broken when unit goes more than 250 units away from corpse.

• considers collected corpse for the damage bonus

• ministun occurs every 1.5s near any corpse.

• corpse are not necessarily summoned near an enemy unit.

• any corpse in the target area will also be linked to enemies in a 250 area of it

• a unit cannot be linked if it comes near a corpse after the initially casting of the skill

• Haunting requires any corpse within 700 AoE of the unit.

• 45% slow is removed when link is broken

• breaking the link would result to a .3s ministun

• haunting will still occur if link is broken by blink or teleport or simply walking to far from corpse

• units are link to a corpse for 5/6/7s and haunting duration is 5/6/7s after breaking link

• does not use up collected corpses

• any corpse is counted in haunting

• summons any random unit's(allied/enemy/neutral) corpse.

• corpse will decay after 10s

• DPS is magic.

Change Log
june 5 2010(v1.1)

• change ultimate skill due to constant complaint

[Previous Ulti - (AoE,Damage/Heal,Affect all units)

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In his journey the Necromancer has learned how to use corpse to heal allies or deal damage to his enemies.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	100	90s	900	350	N/A	25%corpse HP
2	150	80s	900	350	N/A	30%corpse HP
3	200	70s	900	350	N/A	35%corpse HP

• Removed suicide skill of corpses

June 12 2010(v1.2)

• Changed background story as requested

• Reduced max raised units for Undead Army

July 10 2010(v1.3)

• Changed 2nd skill

August 13 2010(v1.4)

• change how corpse affects DPS in The Haunting(now give% bonus)

• Added New look thanks to The Lord God

August 26 2010(v1.5)

• Changed 1st skill

Undead Army - (Active,AoE Target,Affects corpses)

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The Necromancer raises units back from the dead on an target area for a limited time. Can only raise lvl3 units and below.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	100	30s	1000	300	25s	Animates 4 Max Units.
2	120	30s	1000	400	50s	Animates 5 Max Units.
3	130	30s	1000	500	75s	Animates 6 Max Units.
4	140	30s	1000	600	100s	Animates 7 Max Units.

Notes:

• Number of units raised are can stack up to the maximum allowed.

• Animates a max of 4 units for each cast

• Change corpse collection name to Flesh and Bone

• Change Flesh and Bone effects

• Necrosis now gains more damage depending on further loss of MAXHP while its active

Sept 15 2010 (v1.6)

• Change Scatter corpse name to Bound by Spirits

• New Bound by Spirit effects

[adityacakasana]

Cool hero, T-up!!

[OMGjun]

T-up!!!!!!

[ALEXALEX303]

This looks synergied well, but i think the ultimate is kinda booring, think about that.
T-Null.

[Nevfigalo]

+3 armor for lvl 4 skill is too low.
He needn't suicide ability.
First Skill is little powerful, in theory he can collect 7 Centaurs' corpses, drop them and raise them all.
Corpse's Gift is a aoe nuke, 1400*10*0,35 (again collects Centaurs' corpses), 4900 dmg, not so huge. Is it works only on collected corpses?

[eleazar03]

Originally Posted by ALEXALEX303

This looks synergied well, but i think the ultimate is kinda booring, think about that.
T-Null.

I know. Still thinking of better ways to incorporate the corpse or animated units to the skill. Until then lets make do with this one.

Originally Posted by Evfeed

+3 armor for lvl 4 skill is too low.
He needn't suicide ability.
First Skill is little powerful, in theory he can collect 7 Centaurs' corpses, drop them and raise them all.
Corpse's Gift is a aoe nuke, 1400*10*0,35 (again collects Centaurs' corpses), 4900 dmg, not so huge. Is it works only on collected corpses?

I guess i could enforce a level limit of creeps that can be animated.
does that solve both problems?

please check out my other heroes.

[vermillionpy]

T-up!!!

[KZ]spawn]

First Skill is okay, tho decrease the number.

Second skill is okay, syngergises well with the first one.

Third skill i like the most.

Ulti okay..


Overall 8/10. Change Corpse Collection into Soul Harvest. Sounds better imo

[Averrios]

T-up, good Hero, ulti is a bit boring but cool

[Scooby18]

The Ulti could be changed around a bit but the rest looks perfect!!!

T-UP!!!!

[barnii]

Icons: I like 4.5/5

Model: good. 5/5

Stats: seems to be in order. 4/5

1st skill: nice pushing skill. very unique to dota. 5/5

2nd skill: nice to go with the first skill. also does well with pit lord's aoe stun (longer staying corpses = more stuns). also unique. 4/5

3rd skill: good to have skill. since the hero heavily depends on corpses, it's good to have some with you no matter where you go. also unique to dota. 4/5

ultimate: this is so good i can't even comment on it. also unique. 4/5

synergies: the hero's full of them. 4/5


overall: 34.5/40 (86%)

4 stars out of 5! T-up!


note: my jaws locked for saying corpse too many times.

more notes: i think pit lord and your hero would be arguing most of the time (pit lord's like: "to hell with your corpse preserving sh*t. let's blow them up!". and your hero's like: "shut the crap up pit lord or i won't reanimate your d*ck. everyone knows it's long dead". Then abaddon passes by and he's like: "oh no he di-in't".)

[eleazar03]

Finally came up of new ultimate skill. I hope this gets a better response

[PuЪLiㄷEиəℳy#1]

Mahl' Crou the Necromancer

• Background Story: A bit too short. 5/10
• Icons and Model: Icons are good enough but Leragas and the guys on Dirge’s tombstone look like him. 6/10.
  P.S. I would hate him to frequent by the secret shop. I might click the wrong guy.

Skills:

• Undead Army: Animate Dead returns… reduce the number of raised corpses. By the way, I suggest naming this skill into “Corpse Corps”, it’s synonymous with Undead Army but more creative don’t you think? Although it isn’t very much original because there is such thing in the animé Blood+, it would sound better. 7/10
• Necromastery: He’ll definitely have an issue with Azgalor. 7/10
• Corpse Collection: Useful. I have thought of a synergy for this skill which would involve a stunner, the Necromancer, and Pit Lord. Stunner ally stuns the enemy, Mahl' Crou, will scatter the corpses, and Azgalor would make them explode. 10/10
• The Haunting: Drum roll please… <insert sound effect here>, ASTONISHING! 10/10

Grand Total: 7.5/10. Quite a remarkable hero. Although it possesses several similarities with the Old Pudge from the earlier versions of DotA especially with the first and third skill, I truly think that he is very much DotA-worthy. Work on your storyline, though. It made him nothing more than a typical undead.

[RussianPro]

Great all... but about 1 and 2 skill. Dont you think that 10 units with maxed "Necromancery" will not too strong?

[eleazar03]

Bump???????

[sheep.skin]

T-up! Nice skills...

[desane]

t-up for sure!

[eleazar03]

Bump... need more comments that contains more than 5 words.

[Prometheus]

it's a good idea ,but This Concept I see so many,I think U can fix it better.errrrr,do U best!

[dreamcatcher0]

ok... here's my review:

theme - 8/10
model - a necrolyte.... 8.5/10
stats - 9/10
concept - 8/10
icon - fix your icons please.... 6/10
synergy - 4.5/5
balance - 5/5

skill 1 - dirge's old skill.. raise zombies.... ok... 7/10
skill 2 - somewhat forced to 1st skill... and the name needs to be changed... 7/10
skill 3 - from the concept of nvrmore's necromastery... and the sub skill seems not done yet... 7/10
skill 4 - boring... :| 7/10

overall: 77/100 = 77%

= 90~
= 81 ~ 89
= 61 ~ 80
= ~60