[AGI-SENT] Ryuujin Flamestout, Spirit of Fire

[TL-Flames]

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v.5.4

Spirit of Fire
Ryuujin Flamestout

Strength – 17 + [1.7] Agility - 21 + [2.2] Intelligence - 20 + [2.1]

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Affiliation: Sentinel Role: Ganker, Nuker Damage: 52-57 Armor: 4 Movespeed: 295 Starting HP/MP: 473/260 Attack Range: 125	Spirit of Fire / Tracing Spirit when transformedFlamestrikeExplosive DischargeDragon Fire

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Few Pandaren choose to leave their homeland of Pandaria. Fewer still of those who leave are Shodopans, leaders of their respective clans. Ryuujin Flamestout represents the power and fury of the Pandaren race and in the short time that he has fought for the Sentinel, his presence has become an inspiration to all who stand beside him. Known as the Spirit of Fire, he wades into battle with his experience as a wardancer backed by a mastery over elemental fire that few have ever seen before. The Scourge would do well to fear his arrival as the very last thing they might see before the end is the incineration of all that they have fought for.

• Spirit of Fire
• Flamestrike
• Explosive Discharge
• Dragon Fire
  

• Spirit of Fire
• Tracing Spirit
  

Type: Active Targeting: Self-Buff Hotkey: Q

Ryuujin completely transforms into fire, increasing his combat abilities. Whilst in this form, Ryuujin is able to quickly travel over short-distances burning any enemies that come in contact with him as the cost of some of his life force.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	50	24	N/A	N/A	6s	Gains Tracing Spirit ability. 40% IMS, reducing over 4 seconds.
2	50	24	N/A	N/A	9s	Gains Tracing Spirit ability. 40% IMS, reducing over 6 seconds.
3	50	24	N/A	N/A	12s	Gains Tracing Spirit ability. 40% IMS, reducing over 8 seconds.
4	50	24	N/A	N/A	15s	Gains Tracing Spirit ability. 40% IMS, reducing over 10 seconds.

Notes:

• This ability has no casting animation.

• This skill is replaced by Tracing Spirit until the end of its duration.

Type: Active Targeting: Point-Targeted Hotkey: Q

Ryuujin rushes to his destination in a blaze of fire, using his life force as fuel and applying a stack of Heated to himself. Deals a percentage of his maximum HP to himself and enemies that come close by while traveling. Heated stacks indefinitely.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration (trail)	Effects
All levels	1% of Max HP for each stack of Heated	0	450	225	5s*	Deals damage equal to 2 times (number of stacks of Heated) of Ryuujin's maximum HP. Applies a new stack of Heated.

Notes:

Damage Type: Magical

• This ability has no casting animation.

• Ryuujin is invulnerable while traveling.

• Stack duration for Heated refreshes when a new stack is applied.

• Flamestrike
• Obscuring Smoke
  

Type: Active Targeting: Point-Targeted Hotkey: W

Calls down a column of flames from the heavens, dealing damage to enemies in the area. Creates a large amount of smoke that obscures enemy vision. Applies the Obscuring Smoke effect to the area, Ryuujin and allies if they are in or pass through the column.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration*	Effects
1	115	11s	650	325	5s	Deals 70 damage and applies Obscuring Smoke.
2	115	11s	700	325	5s	Deals 140 damage and applies Obscuring Smoke.
3	115	11s	750	325	5s	Deals 210 damage and applies Obscuring Smoke.
4	115	11s	800	325	5s	Deals 280 damage and and applies Obscuring Smoke.

Notes:

Damage Type: Magical

• *:Duration that the column's smoke stays. The column is effectively a stationary unit that has the Obscuring Smoke effect applied to it.

• Passing through or staying in the area will refresh the duration of the Obscuring Smoke buff.

Type: Buff Targeting: N/A Hotkey: N/A

Enemies outside of the smoke are unable to see inside. Enemies inside are unable to see outside and lose allied vision while inside.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration (trail)	Effects
All levels	N/A	N/A	N/A	250	3s*	Obscures vision.

Notes:

Type: Active Targeting: Point-Blank AoE Hotkey: E

The Spirit of Fire releases an explosive blast, stunning and damaging enemies around him. The blast rebounds off effected units, causing a smaller secondary blast. The strength of the primary blast also allows it to repels any incoming attacks that would harm Ryuujin or his allies.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration	Effects
1	90	8	N/A	275*/200**	1.2s	Primary deals 50 damage and stuns. Secondary deals 40 damage and stuns for 0.5 seconds. Applies a 0.1s duration invincibility in the area to himself and allies.
2	100	8	N/A	275*/200**	1.2s	Primary deals 100 damage and stuns. Secondary deals 60 damage and stuns for 0.5 seconds. Applies a 0.1s duration invincibility in the area to himself and allies.
3	110	8	N/A	275*/200**	1.2s	Primary deals 150 damage and stuns. Secondary deals 80 damage and stuns for 0.5 seconds. Applies a 0.1s duration invincibility in the area to himself and allies.
4	120	8	N/A	275*/200**	1.2s	Primary deals 200 damage and stuns. Secondary deals 100 damage and stuns for 0.5 seconds. Applies a 0.1s duration invincibility in the area to himself and allies.

Notes:
Damage Type: Magical
*: Primary blast
**: Secondary blast

• Enemies can only be effected by a secondary blast once.

Type: Active Targeting: Point Targeted Hotkey: R

Ryuujin supercharges his blades with Dragon Fire and smashes his foe with it, inflicting severe burns. When the flames expire, they explode, dealing additional damage to the target and the area around them.

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	Mana	Cooldown	C. Range	AoE	Duration(debuff)	Effects
1	150	65	150	250	3s	100 DPS to target. Explosion deals 20% of damage dealt during the duration.
2	175	60	150	250	3s	125 DPS to target. Explosion deals 30% of damage dealt during the duration.
3	200	55	150	250	3s	150 DPS to target. Explosion deals 40% of damage dealt during the duration.

Notes:
*: Initial Explosion
**: Secondary Explosion from Dragon Fire debuff

Damage Type: Magical (Dragon Fire DPS), Magical (Dragon Fire debuff)

• The debuff is applied before the damage is dealt.

• The explosion counts damage from all sources.

• If the target dies before the duration ends, they will still deal the explosion damage.

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2009

August

06/08/09: Posted suggestion (v.1.0)
07/08/09: Minor changes in skill tooltips. Added role of Hero.
08/08/09: Reworked Living Bomb. (v.1.1)
10/08/09: Major rework of the hero. Living bomb removed and replaced with Trace of Fire. New ultimate is Meteor Storm.(v.2.0)

Damage and stun increment increased slightly for Meteor Storm. AoE also increased from 550 to 600. Tooltip change for Engulfing Flames.

12/08/09: Heat Wave removed and replaced with Containment Sphere - Incineration. Minor tooltip changes. (v.2.1)
13/08/09: Minor tooltip changes. Slight change to Hero Story. (v.2.2)

Removed the strike cap from Meteor Strike. Instead of seeking a target, meteors will now just hit randomly in a fashion similar to Freezing Field.

14/08/09: Added Collapse subskill. (v.2.3)

Meteor Storm reworked.

Containment Sphere - Incineration: AoE slightly increased , tooltip change.

15/08/09: Meteor Storm - Duration decreased, time between each interval increased by 0.1.

Slight change to formatting for subskills.

Minor tooltip and story changes.

17/08/09: Containment Sphere - Incineration now disappears if the Spirit is killed.
18/08/09: Containment Sphere - Incineration: Collapse sub-skill removed, tooltip changes.

Tracing Spirit: Changed scaling for teleportation range (from constant 1500 to 400/800/1200/1500), cooldown increased (from 15 - 20).

Meteor Storm - AoE for each meteor reduced (250 - 170). Now ends upon the heroes death.

21/08/09: Trace of Fire: Lowered CD (15 - 7), Seals now last until destroyed, overused or overwritten.
23/08/09: Containment Sphere - Incineration: Magic resistance reduction removed, damage from knockback increased slightly.
27/08/09: Tooltip changes, added hotkeys.
28/08/09: Damage on Meteor Storm upped. You're able to dodge individual meteors so i don't see why it shouldn't hurt if you get hit.
31/08/09: Remade Meteor Storm. (v.2.4)

September

01/09/09: Meteor Storm - Slow changed to flat 25%. Slow is now applied after the knockback.
07/09/09: Tooltip correction for Containment Sphere - Incineration
08/09/09: Testmap added.
09/09/09: Updated testmap with icons and some tooltip changes. Hotkeys for Trace of Fire and Tracing Spirit switched. AoE on Sphere and Meteor Storm reduced by 100 and 150 respectively.
15/09/09: Changes to Trace of Fire and Tracing Spirit. Meteor Storm is now castable at a 500 units range. (v.2.6)
19/09/09: Meteor Storm casting range removed. Engulfing Flames remade. (v.3.0)
22/09/09: Engulfing Flames now has proper auto-cast icon. Stacks up to 4 times now instead of 3.

October

08/10/09: Changed name for Sphere.
11/10/09: Engulfing Flames is no longer an Orb Effect. Stack values changed (Max stack is now 3, 6% each stack.)
Fiery Release subskill added. (v.3.1)
12/10/09: Changed conflicting hotkeys for Trace of Fire's subskills.
22/10/09: Rescaled Incineration Sphere from 2/3/4/5 seconds to 2.5/3/3.5/4 seconds.
31/10/09: Fiery Release manacost reduced from 100 to 75. Bonus damage increased from 20/30/40/50 to 25/35/45/55.

December

1/12/09: Remade Meteor Storm (v.3.2)
5/12/09: Meteor Storm manacost reduced from 200/250/300 to 175/225/275.
14/12/09: Changed the scaling for Engulfing Flames. Damage is now constant, mana-cost and resistance reduction now scales.
17/12/09: Meteor Storm now lasts 4 seconds, with Meteors being called down every 0.4 seconds. Overall damage is slightly less. Adjusted Engulfing Flames scaling again. (v.3.4)
20/1209: Base MS increased (300 to 310). Incineration Sphere duration lowered (from 2.5/3/3.5/4 to 2/2.5/3/3.5) Lowered Meteor Storm manacosts (from 175/225/275 to 150/200/250)
23/12/09: Lowered manacost of Engulfing Flames by 10 at all levels. Seal and its subskill cooldowns are now 4/5 instead of 5/4. Lowered mana cost of subskills from 75 to 50.

2010

January

2/1/10: Trace of Fire seal's system replaced with charge system. Renamed skills appropriately. (v.3.5)
5/1/10: Replaced Molten Veins icon with a proper passive border. Minor tooltip improvements.
13/1/10: Minor tooltip fixes.

February

3/2/10:v.3.6

Engulfing Flames: Stack values rescaled. 3 maximum to 5. 6% per stack is now 4% per stack. Damage increased by 5% at all levels.

Molten Veins: Charge regain time from 10 seconds to 9 seconds. Charges lowered from 3/5/7/9 to 2/3/4/5.

Meteor Storm: Duration lowered from 4 seconds to 2.8 (total meteors from 10 to 7).

16/2/10: Engulfing Flames and Molten Veins remade completely! (v.4.0)
19/2/10: (v.4.1)

Tracing Fire now allows you to blink to an enemy that is effected by Burning. Manacost for Tracing Fire increased from 50 to 70.

Burning DPS rescaled from 2/4/6/8 to 3/4/5/6. Is now an Orb effect.

Agility gain reduced from 2.3 to 2.1

Intelligence gain reduced from 2.2 to 2.0

Base MS reduced from 310 to 305.

25/2//10: (v.4.2)

Manacost for Enflame reduced from 80/90/100/110 to 80/85/90/95. Burning duration reduced from 3 to 2 seconds. Explosion damage reduced from (12*N stacks) to (10*N stacks).

Now 4% reduction per charge in 300 AoE instead of 4%/225 AoE and 2%/400 AoE.

Minor tooltip amendments.

March

1/3/10: (v.4.3)

Burning debuff duration increased to 4 seconds. DPS reduced from 3/4/5/6 to 2/3/4/5.
Enemies will receive a Burning debuff every 2 seconds instead of 1 second.
Enemies hit by the initial cast from Enflame will receive a stack of Burning.
Minor tooltip amendments.

10/03/10: Burning now does damage in a 200 AoE around the unit. (v.4.4)
23/03/10: (v.4.6)

Molten Veins reworked.
Incineration Sphere knockback changed to 200 units.

April

23/4/10: Template changed to PD standard. Skills and synergy section added (finally!) (v.4.6)

Enflame: CD increased from 3.5 to 4. Duration of Enflamed areas increased from 12 to 14. Damage changed from 40/80/120/160 to 25/50/75/100.

Molten Veins revamped into Molten Blades.

27/4/10: Molten Blades CD increased from 0 to 0.5

May

05/05/10: v.4.7

Explosion removed from Burning debuff.
Incineration Sphere now collapses after 3 knockbacks. Knockback duration increased to 1.2 seconds.
Meteor Storm now targets a unit's initial position instead of being totally randomised.

08/05/10: Meteor Storm prioritises heroes over creeps now.
11/05/10: Enflame remade (v.4.8)

June

01/06/10: Enflame and Meteor Storm replaced by Spirit of Fire and Dragon Fire (v.5.0)
Base MS lowered from 305 to 295
10/6/10: Nerfs to Tracing Spirit. Containment Sphere AoE lowered from 500 to 400
29/6/10: v.5.1

Tracing Spirit now leaves a trail instead of doing instant damage for better synergy with Blades.

Damage removed from Molten Blades (codability issues and so that Ryuujin doesn't have ridiculous amounts of damage)

July

02/07/10: (Fixing mana problems. Number changes are so that Ryuujin can engage more consistently)

Stat gain adjusted: STR from 1.9 to 1.7. AGI from 2.1 to 2.2. INT from 2 to 2.1

Spirit of Fire: Duration changed from 7/10/13/16 to 5/7/9/11. CD changed from 40 to 24. Buff scales 4/6/8/10 instead of 4/8/12/16. Manacost increased from 50 to 120. Tracing Spirit is now the same at all levels.

Dragon Fire: Manacost reduced from 150/200/250 to 150/175/200

09/07/10: Detection AoE for Dragon Fire reduced from 150 to 125. Added hero introduction.
13/07/10: (v.5.2)

Each charge from Molten Blades now does 80 damage.
Dragon Fire: CD from 65/55/45 to 70/60/50. Hit DPS from 75/125/175 to 70/110/150.

August

12/08/10: v.5.3

Reworked Molten Blades.

Reworked Dragon Fire into a melee range version. CD from 70/60/50 to 65/60/55.

Removed the bonus AS from Spirit of Fire. Tracing Spirit cast range lowered from 500 to 450. Upped the initial bonus MS from 32% to 40%.

18/08/10: AoE knockback removed from Molten Blades. Knockback down from 200 to 150 units. Duration increased from 0.3 to 0.5.

September

04/09/10: v.5.4
Reworked Molten Blades into Molten Veins.
Changed how Spirit of Fire works.
Incineration Sphere: Manacost upped. Now 90/110/130/150 instead of 90/100/110/120

IMPORTANT: TESTMAP IS SEVERELY OUT OF DATE. If you want to see the premise which Ryuujin was built on, you may PM me for the testmap which was made for the 2.0ish version of this hero.

If you find a test-map maker willing to help with this hero i'll be very happy

Props to IceFrog for continuing his development of the game!

To the makers of the various templates which i've adapted for my own use (predominantly the Tabbed Hero Suggestion Template).

HiveWorkShop for the icons that i've used from there. prokatdn for the Dragon Fire icon.

Thanks to everyone that has given me their ideas and support! In particular chadpiety123, king_james, The_Juggernaut, newnar and possibly some others that i've forgotten to mention!

Zirath: Making a testmap for the hero.

[Averagedog]

I like the concept even though living bomb seems a little OP. but then again with hero magic resistance and all that the person would only be immobilized for like 1 second and will most likely take a little less than have the damage you posted.

[TL-Flames]

Originally Posted by Averagedog

I like the concept even though living bomb seems a little OP. but then again with hero magic resistance and all that the person would only be immobilized for like 1 second and will most likely take a little less than have the damage you posted.

Living Bomb would act sort of like Sven's current storm bolt, except that the damage is dealt after the stun duration is finished. Also, Living Bomb's immobilize (stun) is limited to one target at a time. I've tried to balance it in comparison to other non-ultimate stun skills such as LSA and Impale but it is a bit difficult given that Engulfing Flames acts sort of a mini-decrepify (you can still attack him though).

Still trying to think of a hero name so any suggestions are welcome!

[Lill]

About the 2nd skill:

Its used just like any other disable, except that damage is dealt at the end rather then straight away.

Exactly, that's the only difference. It changes absolutely nothing on how it's used, which makes it a bad skill.

[ElDoRado1239]

Very nice! I see you have thought this one trough. It gives sense, looks like fun to play with... very good.

I'm sorry, but I don't have anything to say right now, because I don't see any major flaws in your concept. Talking about numbers is ridiculous, every hero needs playtesting to fine tune numbers, so...

I'll just give you a t-up and hope to be able to see a testmap with him soon.

Edit:

Well, yeah, maybe the living bomb is a bit unoriginal. But, a stun is needed and you can't think of an unlimited ways to make a stun spell, can you?

[TL-Flames]

Originally Posted by Lill

About the 2nd skill:

Exactly, that's the only difference. It changes absolutely nothing on how it's used, which makes it a bad skill.

I was going to add a silence affect at the end of the stun period but i thought that might have been a bit too powerful. The only person that would be unaffected by the silence is the original target of living bomb. Might serve to add a little utility and survivability to a relatively sort AGI hero.

But this hero has 4 skills that are AoE and does a relatively high amount of damage because of Engulfing Flames debuff. This makes it quite hard to balance I think. I don't want to add to many effects to each skill as this would require nerfs in other areas.

Very nice! I see you have thought this one trough. It gives sense, looks like fun to play with... very good.

I'm sorry, but I don't have anything to say right now, because I don't see any major flaws in your concept. Talking about numbers is ridiculous, every hero needs playtesting to fine tune numbers, so...

I'll just give you a t-up and hope to be able to see a testmap with him soon.

Edit:

Well, yeah, maybe the living bomb is a bit unoriginal. But, a stun is needed and you can't think of an unlimited ways to make a stun spell, can you?

Sorry i haven't done any programming at all in the wc3 editor so no test map ^^".

Thanks for the comments everyone, keep them coming! Suggestions for improvements are welcome.

[ResQ]

Oh shi-!

Holy crap! This is awesome man! Maybe you should living bomb to.. Something else. Maybe a Damage over Time effect+ explode?

[ElDoRado1239]

Sorry i haven't done any programming at all in the wc3 editor so no test map ^^".

Well, maybe someone else should do that instead. I think this hero has a great potential.

[TL-Flames]

Living bomb has been reworked. Adding synergies tomorrow hopefully unless i sprain my wrist at breaking class again.

[Averagedog]

come to think of it, because the damage is dealt when immobilization is over. it can be used for last hitting in a team fight :P if everyone fails hard first. As for the Silence. I really fail to see how .5 second silence is useful in early game. If its not meant to be, I understand. Because usually it takes a person that long to react and click on one of their items to use them...

[ElDoRado1239]

Because usually it takes a person that long to react and click on one of their items to use them...

Click on them...? You should really learn to use keyboard shortcuts, it's much better... ^^

Anyhoo, I think the Living Bomb should damage units around it. Silence isn't needed that much.
What if the LB wouldn't stun the target, but would just build up in the target and then explode after some time, stunning the target and damaging units around it. So that you could use some strategy and timing, because only you would know what unit did you plant LB on. Just a thought.

[fruta]

what about Amaterasu?

"Amaterasu the Spirit of Fire" ftw!!

[TL-Flames]

OK, currently this is what i'm thinking. I'm thinking of removing Living Bomb completely and replacing it with Trace of Fire as an ordinary skill. For the new ultimate, i'm thinking of a time-delayed meteor storm type skill. If any of you has seen the Diablo 3 trailers for wizard, it'll be similar to that in terms of graphic. What you guys think?

Amaterasu was actually my first idea for a name but it seemed a little out of place to me ^^". If no-one comes up with anything else i'll use that name as a filler.

[TL-Flames]

Originally Posted by juLizen

what about Amaterasu?

"Amaterasu the Spirit of Fire" ftw!!

Amaterasu was actually my first idea for a name but it seemed a little out of place to me ^^". If no-one comes up with anything else i'll use that name as a filler.

OK, currently this is what i'm thinking. I'm thinking of removing Living Bomb completely and replacing it with Trace of Fire as an ordinary skill. For the new ultimate, i'm thinking of a time-delayed meteor storm type skill. If any of you has seen the Diablo 3 trailers for wizard, it'll be similar to that in terms of graphic. What you guys think?

Damn double-posted. Can a mod delete my above comment pls?

[ElDoRado1239]

Amaterasu is a really great name, but I don't think it fits well...

I mean, Storm Spirit is named Raijin Thunderkeg. It should also be a somewhat funny name.

Linfang Flamefur...?

[TL-Flames]

Major rework in hero skills! Please read and leave your comments.

[chadpiety123]

I have noticed that your first skill is a bit inconsistent or more properly, unspecific. How long does the effect last and how long does the debuff last? And does the debuff include the DPS or is it only when staying near Spirit of Fire. Same goes with the debuff, does it work only while enemy is near Spirit of FIre or is it a real debuff that stays even if you're outside of that AoE?

2nd Skill is just great! I suggest you swap the main skill and the subskill because it makes much more sense that way. No comments; it's just great!

3rd Skill's a waste of space IMO. Remake it ASAP with something else. A slow probably but do it! I think it's the weakest skill in terms of quality in his set and it's too much of a waste.

Ultimate is great but it's similarities to Eclipse and Freezing Field is a bit of a let down. Worry not though. I suggest that you increase the AoE to around 800, then make the AoE of each falling meteor 300. Make it stun not not only for a pitiful 0.3 seconds. I think 0.8 seconds is good. And don't make the meteor land on hereoes specifically; instead make it really random in the given 800 Area. Damage wise, it's not all that bad but it might need an increase.

For the change for Skill 3, I suggest make something that might bind everything up. For example, a Fire Prison that slows everyone inside by a small percentage, and exiting that ring gives a high damaging nuke. It's your call of course. And do take note of balance, I'm not really good with numbers.

[ElDoRado1239]

Well, I really like it! It's great, needs some skill to use right... very good. The Living Bomb now seems completely out of place, this gives sense as a whole much more.

Good work, no bad words for you. Keep it up.^^

[TL-Flames]

Originally Posted by chadpiety123

I have noticed that your first skill is a bit inconsistent or more properly, unspecific. How long does the effect last and how long does the debuff last? And does the debuff include the DPS or is it only when staying near Spirit of Fire. Same goes with the debuff, does it work only while enemy is near Spirit of FIre or is it a real debuff that stays even if you're outside of that AoE?

2nd Skill is just great! I suggest you swap the main skill and the subskill because it makes much more sense that way. No comments; it's just great!

3rd Skill's a waste of space IMO. Remake it ASAP with something else. A slow probably but do it! I think it's the weakest skill in terms of quality in his set and it's too much of a waste.

Ultimate is great but it's similarities to Eclipse and Freezing Field is a bit of a let down. Worry not though. I suggest that you increase the AoE to around 800, then make the AoE of each falling meteor 300. Make it stun not not only for a pitiful 0.3 seconds. I think 0.8 seconds is good. And don't make the meteor land on hereoes specifically; instead make it really random in the given 800 Area. Damage wise, it's not all that bad but it might need an increase.

For the change for Skill 3, I suggest make something that might bind everything up. For example, a Fire Prison that slows everyone inside by a small percentage, and exiting that ring gives a high damaging nuke. It's your call of course. And do take note of balance, I'm not really good with numbers.

Haha i thought the wording was pretty clear on Engulfing Flames but i'll change it to make it more specific i guess. When i first wrote up this hero, Heat Wave was replaced with a Fire Prison like skill coincidentally but i decided against it as a snare / hard disable that is original is hard to come up with. I put in Heat Wave instead as i believe it addresses the issue of melee heroes getting severely dominated most of the time in lane.

For the ultimate, i'm still unsure about the numbers. The numbers are just there as placeholders to showcase my idea. I agree with you that the damage and stun increment could do with a slight increase though. Oh and Meteor Storm affects all targets not just heroes. I'll add the allowed targets for each of the skill.

Thanks heaps for the review, much appreciated!

Originally Posted by ElDoRado1239

Well, I really like it! It's great, needs some skill to use right... very good. The Living Bomb now seems completely out of place, this gives sense as a whole much more.

Good work, no bad words for you. Keep it up.^^

Thanks for the encouragement! Still a lot of tweaking to do.

Keep those comments coming!

[king_james]

king_james review

Engulfing Flames: (8.5/10)
- Decent DPS skill. Something to pick up early game, i have no problems with this.

Trace of Fire: (9/10)
- Excellent skill. All i have to say is that its a good skill to pair up with Lanaya's traps. As soon as she activates, you can activate Trace of Fire to teleport to your Trap. Good skill.

Heat Wave: (6.5/10)
- I really don't like skills that deal damage based on their Attributes. I'd actually prefer a skill that traps your enemy in an AOE so you can maximize Trace of Fire and Meteor storm. Needs reworking, i don't see synergy in this.

Meteor Strike: (8/10)
- Decent skill. I just think the AOE is a little small, 170? WTF? That's really small, IMO. Good DPS skill, yet again.

Overall: (8/10)
- Potentially DotA-playable. He's a hero i can pick up and play with, good skills, but there's just something wrong with the synergy. So let's say i plant in Trace of Fire and Tracing Spirit towards an AOE where there is an enemy hero. You cast in Engulfing Flames, Heat Wave and Meteor Strike. By the time you start casting Meteor Strike, the enemy would have gone out of the AOE you casted in, that's why i suggest an entangling, stun, or trapping skill to make use of the ultimate's potential damage. Good hero, PM me if you have changes or if you think i thought i misunderstood. Good luck.