[Overhaul] Tweak, nerf and buffs

[AbyssPetra]

Click the following link for Unique Aghanim Scepter Upgrades

Update:
17th September '011

• Added Rhasta
• New AOE to Wave of Terror
• Added Medusa
• Added Tinker

• Close
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For many, the problem is the stopping when changing Orbs, Ice Frog says(or so i thought) that it could not happen because hitting the button too fast may/will cause a bug(not registering).

Solution: Why don't just add a mini-cooldown(shared perhaps)? In exchange to able to move while changing Orbs and lower Invoke cooldown by few seconds.

Gameplay: Third skill invoked spell slot on Level 25.

Shrapnel - Improvement due to nerf of AoE

Option

1. Shrapnel last 4 seconds even when unit exits the AoE
2. Change from simple AoE Slow with DPS to two types of effect according to time Shrapnel is released. Click spoiler below

Like Unstable Concoction, when you cast/use the ability..a timer will start counting down/up, the longer it is, the higher the damage output and stun duration will be, but what im suggesting is, when you use/cast Shrapnel ability, a 3 second timer will start counting down. This number of seconds determine if its going to be an instant AoE explosion or a shower of slowing shrapnel(current).

Remember, its a countdown (5-4-3-2-1) not (1-2-3-4-5).

Cast Load SH[R]APNEL > wait timer (0-1 sec(s) = Shower Shrapnel/2-3 seconds = Exploding Shrapnel) > Launch SH[R]APNEL.

Warning: Not releasing Shrapnel for 4 seconds after 0 would reduce Sniper's attack by -(5*Skill Level)% for 4 seconds.

Projectile: Canon Ball.

Headshot - [Refer stun section] Passively increase base damage by 10/20/30/40.
Option

1. Has 25/30/35/40% chance to stun an enemy for a 0.01/0.1/0.2/0.2 seconds. Now works well with Critical
2. Same as above but increase chance by 2% every 1% of missing Movement Speed
3. Click spoiler below

Prodigious Accuracy [Passive-Toggle] Buff-Placer
Gives a chance to deal a chosen status with each attack.

Level 1 - 15% chance.
Level 2 - 20% chance.
Level 3 - 25% chance.
Level 4 - 30% chance.

Attack level increases according to Headshot level.

Take Aim - Reduce Assassinate casting time by (.2*Skill Level), also increases casting range of Kardel's skills. Increase survival and threat of Shrapnel due to the old nerf on AoE

Assassinate - Change from target unit and wait for casting time to target unit/ground and wait for locked on.

Works like Razor's Static Link(the one which steals damage over time when latched onto an enemy hero) but, instead of stealing target damage, sniper automaticly pulls the trigger..dealing 355/505/655 damage on target.

CAST > LATCH TRAVELS WHILE REVEALING > LATCHED! > BOOM! HEADSHOT!!!!

• Latch/Locker has 275 sight range
• Latch/Locker travels at 1000 speed
• Can be evade by blinking once projectile is traveling
• Only consume mana once projectile is released
• Canceling will still trigger cooldown

Howl of Terror -

• Increase damage from 18.75/37.5/56.25/75 to 30/45/60/75. Scales better.
• New AOE will be 300(Wave), 400(Self)

Netherswap - Aghanim Specter Upgrade:
Options.

1. Slows units(including target) in between Target and Shendelzare by 90% for 1.75 seconds.
2. Deals 25% of swap distance in pure damage to target.
3. Deals 25% of swap distance in magic damage to units(including target) in between Target and Shendelzare.

Ghost Ship - Shows a Rock(ghost) shape marker as a mark where the Ghost Ship will crash(only visible to allies). Ship crashes "..dashed on the rocks for damage.."

Thundergod's Wrath - Shows a marker of enemy heroes(like teleport, recoloured) on mini-map when Thundergod's Wrath is used. Because the new blip for heroes are too dark on Scourge side(Sentinel POV)

Scream of Pain - Affects invisible units and in FoG. Because its a sound type skill, sound spreads like sonar.

Meld - [SuperFizzBoy]After braking the invisibility lanaya have max 1 second to strike, dealing damage and reducing armor. (not only when her direct attack brakes invisibility) - Click to view more

Psi Blade - Constant 380 Spill Range at all level from 320/340/360/380.

• Close

Shuriken Toss - NothingGondar throws a shuriken to the target point. Shuriken will damage and slow each units it passed by.

Jinada - Gondar smartly strikes the enemy while being careful not to recieve a blow from the target.

JinadaAbility Type: Passive
Targeting Type: N/A
Ability Hotkey: J
Passively adds a critical strike and a status effect to Bounty Hunter's next attack according to his intelligence, has a cooldown. Target is inflicted with 100% miss before gondar finish his swing. Miss last for 1 attack or 2 seconds.

• (*) Has 2 second fade time

Level 1 - 15 seconds cooldown.
Level 2 - 12 seconds cooldown.
Level 3 - 9 seconds cooldown.
Level 4 - 6 seconds cooldown.

Wind Walk - Change from Backstab to Raw Bonus Damage.

• Wind Walk last for 15/20/25/30 seconds.
• Adds bonus damage to gondar for 16/21/26/31 seconds or one attack

OR

Change to Grapling Rope.

Grapling Rope

Pulls gondar towards the first tree/unit(when aimed ground) it hits or pulls the unit(when targeted) towards gondar. Casting distance - target(enemy) MS = final distance pulled

Level 1 - Range, cooldown
Level 2 - More range, less cooldown
Level 3 - More range, less cooldown
Level 4 - More range, less cooldown

Track - Bonus gold is shared among allies except for Gondar, Gondar recieves bonus gold without share. So its 75(75), 75 is shared and another 75 just for Gondar.

• Tracked unit will have a crown on their head(only visible to allies)
• "Abilities\Spells\Human\InnerFire\InnerFireTarget. mdl" - Crown

Mana Break - Change from Passive Orb Effect to Toggle(Like medusa Split Shot). Opens up more orb effect options for him.

Pit of Malice - Gains a corpse counter, each unit Pit Lord kills adds 1 to counter and each 1 corpse slows enemy unit within the Pit. Last until unit exits the area or Pit of Malice ends.

Explusion - AbyssPetraDoes not stop searching after failing twice. Click to see more

Stifling Dagger - Dagger will travel 500 unit infront of her before homing towards the target. Meaning you can curve your dagger to trick the enemy and don't need to turn.

Phantom Strike -

• Phantom Strike's auto-attack doesn't taunts nearby enemy creeps
• Changing position with each attack by using blink strike(0 bonus damage, back-front-left-right)
• Enable ground as target but gains not bonus attack speed

Blur - teStud0The Phantom Assassin becomes hard to see by blurring her body completely. [Transparency is removed when Mortred has taken hero based damage.] Farther attacks are reduced. Click to see more

Coup de Grace - Automaticly triggers or increased to 100% chance when Critical Damage reached/exceeds enemy hero(why hero only? we dont want abusive Battlefury do we?) health points, but has a 60 second cooldown.

Rocket Barrage - Most of the time, Rocket Barrage didn't have the time to finish all its 30 missile in 3 seconds. Improvement

Options

1. Fires up to 2 target at once
2. Deals damage in 50 AoE.

Hellfire Blast - Deals 80/120/160/200 (total DPS) and Leoric's Strength as Initial Damage

• Increase projectile speed to [?]
• DPS damage from 15/30/40/50 DPS to 20/30/40/50 DPS.
• DPS starts on initial damage rather than after stun ends.(2 > 4 seconds duration)
• Initial Damage from 50/100/150/200 to x1 Leoric's Strength
• Slow scales from 15% at all level to 15/17/19/21%

Critical Strike - Change to Critical Slam

Critical SlamAbility Type: Active
Targeting Type: Instant
Ability Hotkey: C
Units in a cone are thrown away by the massive force of King Leoric's swing. Enemy units are applied with reverse leap/pounce for 75 range away from King Leoric. Deals 5% of King Leoric's strength as multiplier

Level 1 - 350 Area of Effect.
Level 2 - 400 Area of Effect.
Level 3 - 450 Area of Effect.
Level 4 - 500 Area of Effect.

Cooldown: 25/20/15/10 seconds
Manacost: N/A

Flesh Golem - Aghanim Scepter Upgrade

Units that dies within in Plague Aura will release it's own Plague, and when another unit dies within dead unit's Plague Aura, IT will release its own plague too. So it keeps growing and growing. Last for 10 seconds.

• Close
• Stun
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Runes - Clones can pick up runes and shares among other clones and main(DD is split evenly, Illusion only on Main)

Bladefury - Change how Bladefury works, does not silence self.

BladefuryAbility Type: Active
Targeting Type: Instant
Ability Hotkey: F
Once activated, Juggernaut will start to spin, dealing damage every enemy unit in it's path. If Juggernaut is ordered to physically attack, the spin will stop on each attack and resumes spinning while not. Bladefury can be used while Omnislashing

Omnislash -

• Can target allied unit as first target
• Bladefury can be used with Omnislash if Bladefury were activated/used before omnislash.

Aghanim Scepter - Options

1. Decrease time spent doing Omnislash by making moving faster in exchange for inflicting Incapacitated(fancy word for Time Lock[Void Bash]), Stopping Enemy Heroes for 2 seconds and instantly killing Lesser Creeps.
2. Slash on creeps doesn't count or counts as half.

Aghanim Scepter - Area of Effect starts at (1*Skill Level) step higher

Rabid: Combine with Battle Cry.

Battle CryAbility Type: Active
Targeting Type: Instant
Ability Hotkey: C
Syllabear release a roar with intense combative fury. Adds damage, armor, movement and attack speed to nearby units controlled by Syllabear.

Level 1 - +10 damage, +2 Armor, +15 AS, +10% MS
Level 2 - +15 damage, +3 Armor, +20 AS, +10% MS
Level 3 - +20 damage, +4 Armor, +25 AS, +10% MS
Level 4 - +25 damage, +5 Armor, +30 AS, +10% MS

Duration: 10 seconds.
Manacost: 75 at all levels
Cooldown: 30 seconds at all levels

True Form: Swap Battle Cry with Synergy.

SynergyAbility Type: Passive
Targeting Type: N/A
Ability Hotkey: N/A
Increases the Lone Druid's synergy with his Spirit Bear and himself with each level, upgrading spells.

Level 1 - Adds +30 damage and movespeed on Spirit Bear, increases Battle Cry duration by 10 and Syllabear hp by +300.
Level 1 - Adds +35 damage and movespeed on Spirit Bear, increases Battle Cry duration by 15 and Syllabear hp by +350.
Level 1 - Adds +40 damage and movespeed on Spirit Bear, increases Battle Cry duration by 20 and Syllabear hp by +400.

Troll Warlord(Bash) - Bash > Rake Armor

Faceless Void(Time Lock) - Has 10/15/20/25% chance to Time Lock an enemy unit for 2{3} seconds and deals no bonus damage Time Lock pauses unit(Skill[cooldown], Item[cooldown & silence], income and buffs. (only those are possible)

Slithereen Guard(Bash) - No changes

Dwarven Sniper(Headshot) - Passively increase base damage by 10/20/30/40 and 25/30/35/40% chance to stun an enemy for a 0.01/0.1/0.2/0.2 seconds. Now works well with Critical

{} = Creeps

Bash - Changed to Rake Armor. Has 10% chance to remove -0.8/1.2/1.6/2 armor of the victim. Last 5 seconds.

Whirling Axes(Melee & Range) - Magic > Physical Damage

Battle Trance - [ASU] NothingGrants +20% MS boost while in Battle Trance, AbyssPetraDamage received while in Battle Trance is 75% now & 25% after Battle Trance ends, non-lethal damage. NON-ASU AbyssPetra v2Last 5 seconds for both allied hero and self but twice the speed amount for self.

Vladmir's Offering - Allow the ability to mask/unmask the Item while wearing it. Toggle Life Stealing(Orb Effect) ability, clicking the item will make the hero wear The Mask of Death, granting you the Mask's life stealing but does not stacks with the Aura. To prevent the item from being overpowered. Works on ranged units.

• Close

Shackles - Change from 40 damage per second to 10 damage every 0.25 seconds. Increasing the total damage from 80/120/160/160 to 100/130/160/180.

Split Shot - 2/3/4/5 arrows, each deals 75% at all level.

Laser - Blinds in 275 AOE, since it does't last that long on heroes. Secondary units are blinded for half the duration

[Mr. Burns]

Invo: T-null
Sniper: Huge T-up
Venge: T-up
Kunkka: T-null
Zeus: T-null
QoP: T-up
Lanya: Huge T-up
Gyro: T-up
Gondar :T-up
Am: T-up
Pit: T-up
Mort: T-down
Leo: T-null


Overall: Nice suggestions!

[AbyssPetra]

Added Gondar and AM.

[SuperFizzBoy]

Thanks for the credit bro. T-Up anyways i'm drunk.

FizzBoy.

[condorzai]

You need to add PitLord to the "buff"

[Gheizen64]

Lol buff to venge seriously? No.

Magina is also uncodable pretty much. Also very similar to waveform.

Gondar jinada remake is horrible and a shitload of text for a very simple already nicely scaling skill.

The rest of the changes are decent, but honestly there are 20+ melee heroes that need their laning buffed before buffing already decent or downright strong ranged heroes.

[AbyssPetra]

Originally Posted by Gheizen64

The rest of the changes are decent, but honestly there are 20+ melee heroes that need their laning buffed before buffing already decent or downright strong ranged heroes.

^ could you name me those 20 heroes. ill think of something.

-Removed impossible AM change

[Gheizen64]

Originally Posted by AbyssPetra

^ could you name me those 20 heroes. ill think of something.

-Removed impossible AM change

Omni: scarce lane control at earlier levels, basically useless in tri-lanes due to short range on purify.

Tiny: again, shit range on abilities, unsusteinable mana costs, unusable in tri-lanes and bad soloer due to 0 armor and no spammable lane control skill.

TC: decent laner, but need at least two levels to even land a pseudo-stun. Need an overall buff.

Rigwarl: almost completely countered by stick, most short ranged abilities + need mana items early.

Davion: decent pick but underpar in tri-lanes due the fact he has slow movement speed and a melee-range stun. Can't really solo decently.

Magnus: unpicked, but imho slightly underrated. Buff his initial mana pool and he should be k.

Sand King: bad lane control at lvl 1-3 make him unusable in tri-lanes. Not that good of a soloer, too. Need a slightly stun rescale with better range on lvl 1-3 and he'll be used again.

Bara: remake this shit, he's just annoying to play agains and with.

Tide: again, he's decent, but he need levels fast. In tri-lanes he isn't bad, but then you won't get that fast ulti. Dunno what he could need.

Axe: if melees come back, he will too. As of now he can't be played.

Chaos Knight: imho a bit underrated. Maybe a slightly buff on initial int is needed, but not anything more he has three very strong skills.

Naix: he's decent enough thanks to his high base damage + spell immunity. Still, need something more to be picked. Maybe slightly better slow or some more armor.

Aba: borderline viable, he could use some little buff, but not to shield cast range since it would make it too annoying again.

Lycan: beast of a jungler, he's probably just hated out because of the fact he doesn't really fit in the current main strategies. However a small buff like making the wolves perma-phased wouldn't hurt.

Pit: remake.

Pudge: still an almost obligated solo due to short hook range on lvl 1-2. Slightly buff range on hook and he's one of the best tri-laners out there.

Leoric: too hard to farm with, too little he bring at teamfights since aura is melee only.

Yurnero: he has good laning, but he's too easily countered and he's still paper.

Gondar: need more int or less mana costs to spam his skill a bit more in lane.

Void: need slightly more agi later to be efficient enough withouth 20k items since he's a bad farmer.

Meepo: dunno, but he's still unplayed.

Slark: again, unplayed.

Mortred: 0 lane presence. Need a lot of levels to be effective.

Spec: see mortred, but with worse farming abilities.

AM: sigh.

Those are 26, and most of them see the light of the day once every 10 games if not even less considering competitive chinese games. On comparison, sniper, invo, gyro, lanaya, qop, zeus are much more common picks, with Venge perma-picked/Banned.

[condorzai]

Omni: scarce lane control at earlier levels, basically useless in tri-lanes due to short range on purify.
[Yes]

TC: decent laner, but need at least two levels to even land a pseudo-stun. Need an overall buff.
[Agree, but just slightly need some buff]

Rigwarl: almost completely countered by stick, most short ranged abilities + need mana items early.
[Agree too]

Davion: decent pick but underpar in tri-lanes due the fact he has slow movement speed and a melee-range stun. Can't really solo decently.
[Non-sense]

Magnus: unpicked, but imho slightly underrated. Buff his initial mana pool and he should be k.
[Not needed]

Sand King: bad lane control at lvl 1-3 make him unusable in tri-lanes. Not that good of a soloer, too. Need a slightly stun rescale with better range on lvl 1-3 and he'll be used again.
[Bull-shyt, he can done very well in sandstorm]

Bara: remake this shit, he's just annoying to play agains and with.
[Bull-Shyt]

Tide: again, he's decent, but he need levels fast. In tri-lanes he isn't bad, but then you won't get that fast ulti. Dunno what he could need.

Axe: if melees come back, he will too. As of now he can't be played.
[Crap]

Chaos Knight: imho a bit underrated. Maybe a slightly buff on initial int is needed, but not anything more he has three very strong skills.
[Sounds reasonable]

Naix: he's decent enough thanks to his high base damage + spell immunity. Still, need something more to be picked. Maybe slightly better slow or some more armor.
[Bull-Shyt]

Aba: borderline viable, he could use some little buff, but not to shield cast range since it would make it too annoying again.
[Make some sense =D]

Lycan: beast of a jungler, he's probably just hated out because of the fact he doesn't really fit in the current main strategies. However a small buff like making the wolves perma-phased wouldn't hurt.
[Totally bull-shyt, you want make him imba?]

Pit: remake.
[Sounds reasonable but maybe not all, PitOfMalice must be retain ]

Pudge: still an almost obligated solo due to short hook range on lvl 1-2. Slightly buff range on hook and he's one of the best tri-laners out there.
[Bull-shyt, he had a 360 pure damages imbaggness hook with 1000range which bring meal in front of your table. What else does you espect?]

Leoric: too hard to farm with, too little he bring at teamfights since aura is melee only.
[Very-True]

Yurnero: he has good laning, but he's too easily countered and he's still paper.

Gondar: need more int or less mana costs to spam his skill a bit more in lane.
[Sounds reasonable]

Void: need slightly more agi later to be efficient enough withouth 20k items since he's a bad farmer.
[He can own with MOM]

Meepo: dunno, but he's still unplayed.
[Wtf, take DD rune and you had x8damages, what else you expect?]

Slark: again, unplayed.

Mortred: 0 lane presence. Need a lot of levels to be effective.
[She can done very well without any core-item if you know when to throw dagger]

Spec: see mortred, but with worse farming abilities.
[Not really. He had descent skill and one of the best ulti in the game]

AM: sigh.

[Gheizen64]

Originally Posted by condorzai

blablabla

Then tell me why those heroes are completely unpicked in the competitive scene, and please no "because pros are noobs", i've had enough of that stupidity.

sigh

[AbyssPetra]

Chill guys, dont fight SK is freakin hard to think.

[condorzai]

@Gheizen64
-Meh~ because they are all invited to Pandaren Brewmaster drinking party so non of them will show up in the Dota tavern =D
-CM, Akasha, Enchantress, Luna, Spectre, Lanaya never get invited because they hate panda T.T Don't cry Raijin >< it's ok

[NoA.Slash0r-]

Davion: Dts often plays him at Solo/Dual/Trilane
Naix: Strong at Dual/Trilane , often picked by Competo for example.
Yurnero: Strong at Dual/Trilane picked by Asianteams like Ehome or Stars Boba.
Leoric: Sometimes played by Asianteams, but a buff would be nice.

The rest i agree with.

[AbyssPetra]

Originally Posted by NoA.Slash0r-

Davion: Dts often plays him at Solo/Dual/Trilane
Naix: Strong at Dual/Trilane , often picked by Competo for example.
Yurnero: Strong at Dual/Trilane picked by Asianteams like Ehome or Stars Boba.
Leoric: Sometimes played by Asianteams, but a buff would be nice.

The rest i agree with.

^ yeah..i watched that SB vs LGD.au.

That yureno was good

[Gheizen64]

Originally Posted by AbyssPetra

^ yeah..i watched that SB vs LGD.au.

That yureno was good

1 Pick every blue moon isn't really indicative that the hero is fine, it's more indicative of the opposite. Not that i'm saying that every hero need buffs and must be a viable pick, but if we are here to buff someone, we may as well buff the underpicked heroes for a change.

[AbyssPetra]

Increase AoE perhaps? on all Jug's skill.

Bladefury - Can attack while spinning and +AoE of damage or Damage to Physical
Ward - Heal AoE
Omnislash - Search foe AoE

[Vot1_Bear]

The only thing worth t-upping is invoker's orb mini-cd and kunkka's ghost rock XD
snipe's headshot sugg is creative, but not that good. the current is perfectttttttt. Maybe use it on a hero suggestion

[[P]rokatdn]

Scream of Pain - Affects invisible units and in FoG. Because its a sound type skill, sound spreads like sonar.

Sonic Wave - Increase casting range from 700 to 800. Because Wave travels 800 range.

SoP already affect invisible units and in fog.
Sonic Wave change is unnecessary, because Carrion Swarm, Dragon Slave still work like that.

[AbyssPetra]

Originally Posted by [P]rokatdn

SoP already affect invisible units and in fog.
Sonic Wave change is unnecessary, because Carrion Swarm, Dragon Slave still work like that.

Queen of Pain - DotA Hero Details
• Damage type: magical
• Units not visible by Akasha will not be affected, even if they are within the range of the skill

@SW - Understood.

[Gheizen64]

Increasing base damage of sniper by 10 at level 1? Now i'm pretty sure you're just trolling.