[CONTEST] Item Creation Contest VII

Straight Flush · 07-16-2011, 02:00 PM

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Welcome to
Item Creation Contest VII

CURRENT PHASE: 5
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STATUS (All Dates are based on GMT +8:00)

Phase 1: (July 17 - August 7) Registration phase. Judge and contestant registration is opened. Contestants may also begin their entries.

Phase 2: (August 8 - August 22) Editing phase. Registration is closed although judges may still enter. Entrants are still allowed to edit their entries.

Phase 3: (August 23 - September 5) Voting phase. You must vote for your top 3 items in terms of rank. The top 8 items will move to the next phase and be judged. Each judge may select a single entry that has not been selected as a wildcard. One of those entries will join the other contestants on the next phase. Judge registration is closed.
If contestants edit their entries during this phase points will be deduced.

Phase 4: (September 6 - September 20) Judging phase. All 9 entries will be judged based on the rubric.
If contestants edit their entries during this phase points will be deduced.

Phase 5: (September 20 Onwards) Contest is over, results are published.

Results

Dirty Scarf (57/75)
Item Concept (8/10): Pretty useful and helps summoning heroes as well as Meepo significantly, which is something DotA is lacking right now.

Recipe (8/10): The recipe seems alright but consider the recipe price, as well as who else can use it besides Meepo. Consider PL and Brood. I reckon you should’ve at least had the price at 400+ although you wouldn’t have had such a “nice” number.

Bonuses (9/10): The bonuses are suitable since you don’t have completely random effects unlike some other items.

Balance (7/10): Summoner’s Aura is pretty much balanced but I feel as if Traveler’s Reward is slightly underpowered since you acquire 1 charge per 1000 distance (which is balanced) but you can only reach 15 charges. Since this is pretty much an upgrade from Magic Wand I would’ve expected 20 charges, dealing 300 damage and 300 mana burn, after, you know, traveling 20000 units.

Originality (8/10): As much as I liked Summoner’s Aura, it resembled Rubick’s Null Field too much (which is unfitting for him anyway but still). As for Traveler’s Reward, full marks

Effectiveness in Game (6/10): Summoner’s Aura will prove useful and incredibly effective for heroes like Chen, Enchantress, Brood and Chen but Traveler’s Reward? That wouldn’t be as effective as you’d have to constantly be in motion in order to gain enough charges. Actually with Meepo, you could just patrol an area in base while the rest of your clones farm LOL.

Fun Factor (2/5): In terms of casting mechanics and such, dealing damage based on how far they don’t move isn’t exactly too fun.

Cosmetics (4/5): Even if it’s a WoW icon, it fits perfectly with the rest of the items in game. But in terms of colour, I don’t think it would fit in the Arcane Sanctum since all of the items have colourful backgrounds. In terms of the Item and Ability names and flavor text, they’re great.

Simplicity (5/5) : Easy to understand, easy to use.

Shiftree Tunic (59/75)

Item Concept (8/10): A nice, but situational upgrade to Vanguard, and a useful item for junglers.

Recipe (9/10): Actually it’s a nice upgrade to Vanguard and Buckler since Headress already has Pipe, this seems like a nice, physical oriented counterpart.

Bonuses (9/10): Actually nothing’s changed besides +1 to all attributes and the abilities, which is good considering the recipe only costs 300.

Balance (7/10): This one is something I’m not too sure of. With Tree Protection, it can either be grossly overpowered or nearly useless. I assume Tree Protection blocks all forms of damage instead of just attacks?

Originality (8/10): Pretty original, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone use trees in this way yet, besides you on the forum.

Effectiveness in Game (7/10): Like with balance, this is either completely OP or completely useless. However, Natural Hide makes this incredibly useful, boosting DPS spells significantly while granting your allies impressive damage resistance.

Fun Factor (4/5): What it loses in terms of situational balance, it makes up for in terms of fun. With this, you can easily cut through trees when being chased while carrying a Force Staff will allow you to both attract attention and drag enemies to any sort of ambush.

Cosmetics (3/5): The icon is nice but a bit grainy but I reckon Tree Protection could’ve used a better name.

Simplicity (4/5): Oh, although this is simple to understand, it wouldn’t be as simple to use. Tree Protection is simple enough as a passive, just stick to the trees and use enemies to plow yourself a path.

Staff of Alacrity (61/75)
Item Concept (9/10): This is one of my favourite items actually, since it’s everything Chen needs, as well as any other hero that has summons.

Recipe (8/10): For a mass TP and global movespeed aura (even if it is more non-hero units), the recipe is awfully cheap. I would’ve increased the recipe price to 650 or maybe added in a Bracer/Null Talisman or maybe added a Janggo.

Bonuses (9/10): As far as bonuses are concerned, everything is great. For 500 gold you get 2 INT, +2.5% MS aura, increase number of units TP’ed, decreased cooldown and delay. Oh and decreased mana cost.

Balance (8/10): This is one of the more balanced suggestions out and, with enough gold, heroes can be almost everywhere.

Originality (6/10): This is where you lose points however. Movement Aura is similar to Janggo (albeit global) and Mass Teleport is pretty much Dark Rift. A Pit Lord with a Janggo can do the same thing. Although together they are useful and unique, take them apart and it’s just that. A Pit Lord with a Janggo.

Effectiveness in Game (9/10): Back to being positive, this item is hella useful since it increases Chen (and any other hero’s) global presence and allows him to push two lanes effectively, which is something early game heroes have to do in order to survive.

Fun Factor (4/5): Actually I find this item quite fun, with global TP and the like. Items that influence displacement or positioning is something that DotA lacks right now. All we have is Force Staff and Blink Dagger. And although this doesn’t give YOU better positioning, it allows you and your creeps better positioning.

Cosmetics (4/5): Nice icon although a bit funny looking, nice name and a whimsical description. Lovely. The only thing I find lacking is the name of Movement Aura, which is rather lackluster compared to the rest of the item.

Simplicity (4/5): The whole recipe-improves-everything isn’t exactly as simple as it looks but in terms of effects, it’s great.

Stardust Rod (55/75)
Item Concept (8/10): AoE damage attack based on mana consumed? Sounds reasonable enough.

Recipe (8/10): These items are basically what every mana hungry caster needs. Bonus mana and bonus INT. However the recipe cost feels a bit low due to Discharge. It might be better to have nudged it up to 700-800.

Bonuses (8/10): Since the recipe price is at 525 the slight nudge in INT and mana is excusable as well as the bonus effect. However, why’d you put +2 attack speed? It really doesn’t make a difference.

Balance (3/10) For 3.2k you can use this item on Harbinger to

Increase your mana pool by 275
Increase your INT by 8 (which is +8 damage and +104 mana)
Increase your damage by 100 if you autocast Arcane Orb, not to mention casting any other spell/Essence Aura will bump up the damage to 175
Increase Level 4 Arcane Orb damage by 34 when your mana pool is full.

That’s insane considering this has a mid game price range. Also, Storm can abuse this as well, with his Ball Lightning + Overload which is basically a massive amount of damage there too. The percentage of mana added to the buffer should’ve been decreased significantly, to something like 30-50%, and that’s still awfully powerful. And the problem with this is it also increases damage based on how much mana gained, so heroes would gain additional damage as well from mana regeneration.

Originality (8/10): In terms of originality, this item is great. Right now we have no AoE DPS items besides Battlefury, which can only be used by melee heroes anyway.

Effectiveness in Game (9/10): This will be incredibly effective, especially against Antimage.

Fun Factor (2/5): Since this is a passive, point-and-click item there isn’t really anything fun about it, unless you like calculating numbers on how much damage you’re about to do per attack.

Cosmetics (5/5): I’ve always loved that icon and it fits with the rest of the recipe. The name and the flavor text fits as well.

Simplicity (4/5): In terms of what you wrote, that is pretty complex but the ability itself is simple in terms of use.

Poseidon’s Trident (52/75)
Item Concept (7/10): Oh this is interesting, since you can position and reposition yourself to increase enemy vulnerability.

Recipe (6/10): The recipe’s fine considering it’s almost stronger than an Ultimate Orb minus the intelligence. I would’ve increased the price further, since heroes with multiple units (Meepo, Naga, PL, and to a lesser extent, CK) would be able to farm the gold necessary to use a powerful item. I would’ve had it at 700+

Bonuses (7/10): Like I’ve said above, it’s almost stronger than an Ultimate Orb since the heroes who are going to use this don’t require INT as much as other heroes.

Balance (5/10): This is incredibly powerful if placed well, and combined with other heroes (Magnus, DS, Cent) this can be used at its full power. But for most other heroes this is mediocre. This, in itself, is balanced. Until you count other external factors (ie, AC, Medal and Deso). 7 seems like too large a number (especially when combined with Naga’s Rip Tide. For Old Naga this would be relatively balanced).

Originality (8/10): This is actually one of the more unique suggestions I’ve seen recently, using units to create an area of effect. There aren’t too many abilities I can recall that do the same thing, besides GoD’s CTAX entry and my Silencer Remake.

Effectiveness in Game (5/10): Like I’ve said in Balance, if you can pull it off, it is incredibly powerful but mediocre if not. Since you’ve designed this for earlier ganking attack and not teamfights I would’ve preferred something like Medallion before replacing it with AC for late game instead of this item as they’re far more effective.

Fun Factor (5/5): Actually this is pretty fun spell, considering you can control the shape of the AoE.

Cosmetics (4/5): In game icon, nice flavor text but you should’ve left Armor Corrosion as just Corrosion since it just flows better. Besides that, everything is good.

Simplicity (3/5): This is one of the more complex and harder to position type of abilities, but nonetheless it’s effective and simple.

Alexander (53/75)
Item Concept (10/10): Wow, that’s something I haven’t seen ever. The only thing that comes close to it is FallingDevast’s Stardust Rod and Lycan’s Mein Kampfy Rocketchair

Recipe (8/10): Uses Soul Booster, which is something that isn’t seen too often, and utilizes Blademail, which is something that tanks use and need. The 1160 gold recipe is worth the item (maybe a bit too much), even if it does make it the most expensive item in the game, although why 6660?

Bonuses (7/10): Oh this is interesting, how you level up to improve its attributes. The fact that you lose 400 mana and the mana regen would give your score a massive blow, but besides that, giving a late game item the ability to improve, even after you hit level 25 is incredibly powerful.

Balance (5/10): Actually I really did like this item but you may wish to take a look at the Experience Pool. It seems significantly low considering at this point; heroes will give massive amounts of xp. And in the case of Alexander you would have massive amounts of HP incredibly fast. Holy Judgement and Perfect Defense however, seem relatively balanced.

Originality (8/10): Nearly perfect. The only thing I have qualms with is how Perfect Defense resembles Old Blademail but besides that it’s good.

Effectiveness in Game (7/10): Useful and powerful, but by this stage in the game I assume Alexander would die in a couple of seconds, giving no time to cast Holy Judgement.

Fun Factor (4/5): In terms of the item, this is pretty fun, giving your item to grow beyond you. And the way Holy Judgement is cast allows heroes (like Axe and Magnus) to deal impressive amounts of damage depending on how they position themselves

Cosmetics (2/5): The icon is just bad, there’s no flavor text and you may wish to rename Perfect Defense to something else (considering it’s not perfect)

Simplicity (2/5): As much as I would enjoy this item in game, it’s far too complex compared to other items.

Crown of the Death Knight (60/75)
Item Concept (8/10): Awesome upgrade to Vanguard and also increases your DPS.

Recipe (8/10): Something that increases your survivability and comes in small cheaper parts. The massive recipe cost is worth the effects.

Bonuses (7/10): The passive effects (ie +armor, +HP, +HP regen) seem a bit low for 1.1k. I would’ve preferred increasing the +HP to at least 350. As for the other bonuses they’re great.

Balance (8/10): Ok, this is well balanced. Damage Conversion pretty much does the same thing as Vanguard Damage Block, but it stacks with any other Damage Block item and grants you damage whenever you heal, which would be useful for one hero (which is Abaddon). Masochism looks to be one of my favourite spells, maybe because it’s requires hair trigger reactions, and being able to negate up to 600 damage as a reward.

Originality (7/10): Although Damage Conversion is unique, Masochism resembles a mini-Borrowed Time, but besides that, it’s alright.

Effectiveness in Game (8/10): Okay, this would be effective for any tank, not to mention any carry who improves their Vanguard and carries a lifesteal item.

Fun Factor (5/5): Masochism wins it for me. To me, it’s almost as rewarding as Phase Shift.

Cosmetics (5/5): Everything is great here, no MSI icon, great flavor text and nice names for abilities.

Simplicity (4/5): It’s not as simple on paper but it’s easy to use in practice but difficult to master.

Arcane Ring (58/75)
Item Concept (8/10): A revival of Arcane Ring which cuts down mana consumption significantly. Very useful, not to mention a semi-counter of Antimage, who’s popular thanks to The International.

Recipe (8/10): Old recipe? I was thinking it needed a bit more flair but since you use Energy Booster to upgrade it, it is a lot more useful that way.

Bonuses (8/10): The recipe seems relatively fine but you may want to take a look at Balance

Balance (7/10): Ok, first level, for the price of 1175 gold you increase your armor by 3 and mana by 250 and technically increase your mana pool by 15% due to the effect. If you were to purchase the Ring and the Energy Booster by themselves you wouldn’t have to increase in mana pool effect. I would’ve preferred +250/+450/+650 mana since there’s no recipe.

Originality (8/10): Simple and original. There’s no item which basically increases your mana pool by a percentage.

Effectiveness in Game (10/10): This spell would fit any caster hero. Period.

Fun Factor (2/5): Well this is a passive effect with no awesome side effects so there’s nothing that makes it stand out in terms of fun.

Cosmetics (3/5): Old Arcane Ring? Ok. Flavor text? Okay… Triggered Mana Heal? You should’ve thought of a better name like Recuperation or something along those lines.

Simplicity (4/5): Simply put, it’s simple.

Chaser Boots (61/75)

Item Concept (8/10): Upgrade to upgraded boots? I’m not so sure how that’ll fly but the item itself is great, rewarding yourself for moving.

Recipe (8/10): Reminds me of Old Phase Boots with the armor and all. With the current effects maybe Force Staff would’ve fit in somewhere but that would look and feel retarded. I’ll just leave it.

Bonuses (9/10): The bonuses are alright considering you lose Phase but gain the ability to have +125 MS plus the bonus armor which is nice indeed.

Balance (8/10): Since you lose the original Phase and gain a new way to travel faster anyway it seems relatively balanced. What I’m not so sure about is still giving armor to boots, which is why Phase got nerfed in the first place.

Originality (9/10): No accelerating items here, none at all. This is one of my more favorite items because it rewards you for movement but doesn’t give it to you instantly.

Effectiveness in Game (7/10): There aren’t too many heroes who can actually take advantage of this. (Only heroes I can think of are Clockwork, BS and SB, or any Radiance carriers really)

Fun Factor (5/5): Windburst won me over easily. Displacement skills are something that I enjoy a lot, since with them you have much more control over the battle than most other heroes.

Cosmetics (3/5): I never really liked that icon as it felt too blurry. The names of the item and the abilities are great, except the flavor text is not particularly interesting

Simplicity (4/5): Easy to understand and use, hard to master, and I love it for that.

Menage0a0trois' Dirty Scarf

D'Eradicated's Shiftree Tunic

The ][nquisitoR's Staff of Alacrity

FallinDevast's Stardust rod

GenocYda's Poseidon's Trident

lulurouge89's Alexander

Rafiiki's Crown of the Death Knight

O_xD's Arcane ring

God of Death's Chaser boots

Rules

Contestants Must:

Contestants who want to participate will have to send a request via PM to the host. In their PM, they have to send the link to their entry.

AND

All contestants have to fulfill the main challenge completely. Otherwise, they either won't be added.

AND

Contestants cannot vote for themselves or ask other people to vote for them.
Violating these rules results in disqualification

Judges Must:

Send a PM to the host, stating that they want to become a judge.

AND

Have at least 200 posts in suggestion forum.

AND

Have a positive judging history.

Challenge

MAIN CHALLENGE:
Create an item that would be a core item on a chosen hero.
If you disregard the main challenge or the item has direct upgrades to spells (ie, like Aghanim's Scepter), you'll be disqualified.

Core items are items that would support a hero to it's full extent and synergize with all of his abilities. There must be an explanation to all of the abilities.

Optional Challenge 1:
Your item must thematically suit the hero of choice.
Up to 5 Points for Complying

Optional Challenge 2:
Your item must pay homage to any Final Fantasy game.
Up to 5 Points for Complying

Big Bonus Opportunity:
You may pick from the pools of heroes below. Two heroes from the DotA Hero Pool and four from the PD Hero Pool give bonus points while the rest cause deductions.
+15 Points for a successful pick.
-15 Points for a unsuccessful pick.

Template:
You must use the template provided here
-50 Points for Not Complying.

Judges' Rubric

Item Entry (xx/75)

Item Concept (xx/10) : explanation

Recipe (xx/10) : explanation

Bonuses (xx/10) : explanation

Balance (xx/10) : explanation

Originality (xx/10) : explanation

Effectiveness in Game (xx/10) : explanation

Fun Factor (xx/5) : explanation

Cosmetics (xx/5): explanation

Simplicity (xx/5) : explanation

Bonus Points (xx/25)

Optional Challenge 1 (xx/5)

Optional Challenge 2 (xx/5)

BBO (xx/15)

Overall Score: 100

Judges

Straight Flush
Unan1mous
{Empty Slot}
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Contestants (In order of pm submission)

Item Name

Entrant

Item Description

Votes

Dirty Scarf

menage0a0trois

Improves spell resistance of allied units and deals damage based on distance traveled

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[10]

Enchanted Lance

LANCER6O

100% Lifesteal if you haven't moved away from a point

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Arcane Ring

O_xD

Restores a percentage of mana lost

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Shiftree Tunic

D' Eradicated

Trees used to absorb damage taken

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[11]

Staff of Alacrity

The][nquisitoR

Intelligence item with group teleport and movement speed aura

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[8]

Scroll of Fire

TheBig(D)

Rewards constant movement and allows backwards blink

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[0]

Chaser Boots

God of Death

Boots that can give you constant acceleration as you move.

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Cauldron of Earthen Power

fremdlaender

Gives any hero immolation and bonus ms at the cost of being disabled

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[0]

Stardust Rod

FallinDevast

Uses spent/regained mana to amplify attacks

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[11]

Infused Battery

Zephyrus.Row

Creates an turret which deals low damage at high speed.

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[1]

Natural Zule

Klagger

Grants manasteal and damage delaying

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[0]

Poseidon's Trident

GenocYda

AoE armour reduction

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[11]

Crown of the Death Knight

rafiiki

Converts HP gain into bonus damage

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[7]

Cloak of Night

inreet

Permanent invisibility and improves combat at night

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[2]

Dread Soul

gilvert

Slows units everytime a foe loses HP

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[0]

Essence of Blight

No0b.1337

Deals increasing damage over time and uses it to regenerate allies

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[3]

Wingman's Footwraps

Anura

Allied oriented boots which improve based on assists

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[2]

Alexander

lulurouge89

Survivability item that gains experience and improves

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[9]

Note for contestants
To help with the judging, contestants are asked to provide an explanation with his/her entry. The explanation must specify:

The hero chosen
How the item improves the hero's role
How the item improves the hero's spells
How the item is thematically fitting
How the item pays homage to Final Fantasy, along with a link from your source

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Fate Trap · 07-16-2011, 02:07 PM

1st

menage0a0trois · 07-16-2011, 02:32 PM

Dirty Scarf

1337

Bought From :
Arcane Sanctum

A dirty Snow Scarf found among the black forests encompassing Germania. The only clue to its origin is a short label, "Mog".

Magic Wand (509)
Planeswalker's Cloak (550)
Ironwood Branch (53)
Recipie (225)

Old
New
+4 All Attributes +6 All Attributes
+15% spell resistance Summoner's Aura (passive)
Energy Charge (active) Traveler's Reward (active)

Summoner's Aura
+30% spell resistance to units owned by the player except the bearer which receives only +15% spell resistance.

Global AoE

Traveler's Reward
Gains 1 charge per 1000 units traveled.

Maximum of 15 charges.

Cannot gain more than 1 charge per second.

Steals 15 health and mana per charge from the target.

15 of health and mana stolen is returned per 75 distance traveled by target.

If the affected unit moves more than 375 distance in 0.5 seconds, only 75 of health and mana stolen is returned.

Target has 5 seconds to undo health and mana steal.

Klagger · 07-16-2011, 02:36 PM

nice

O_xD · 07-16-2011, 04:05 PM

I picked storm but it can be core on any hero that tends to waste a lot of mana, or used as a counter to heroes that waste your mana.

Arcane ring

1175/2175/3175

Bought From :

I want my mana back!

Ring of protection (175)
Energy booster (1000)

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New
+2 armor +3 armor
+250 mana +250/500/750 mana
NoThlnG Triggered mana heal(Passive)

Triggered mana heal

For every mana point lost, instantly restores 0.15/0.25/0.35 mana.
With mana burns ex.Mana break, it would deal the whole damage but restore the mana

How to update???

Just buy another energy booster

What the hell does disassembling do?

It removes 1 energy booster from the ring
A level 1 arcane ring cannot be disassembled

phungboy · 07-16-2011, 04:10 PM

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3 Crystal Shards

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Bought From :
ShopName

3 shards of the four elemental crystals needed to seal Exdeath away, each shard grants the holder unique powers.

ItemName1 (GoldCost)
ItemName2 (GoldCost)
ItemName3 (GoldCost)
ItemName4 (GoldCost)

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Warrior
Berserker
Mage
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Is able to toggle between Warrior, Berserker and Mage (Similar to how treads can toggle between str/agi/int)

Warrior
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Berserker
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Mage
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Challenge:

Main Challenge:

Optional Challenge 1:

Optional Challenge 2:
IMO, My item pays homage to Final Fantasy 5. One of my favourite FF games, I played this one ages ago, but considering how long these games are, I sadly never finished it. I still plan to one day.
Anyway, in FFV, your main party had to collect a series of crystal shards to ultimately seal away the main antagonist of the game, and for each crystal shard collected, classes were unlocked for the characters to change to. This class system is one of the main aspects of the game that makes it my favourite of the series.
This item represents a portion of those crystal shards, and the classes represented by them.
I have also altered some of the classes used to fit DotA more:
- Berserker in the game can only auto-attack, so I'll change that since that would be boring in DotA)
- There are multiple types of mages, but for the sake of simplicity, I'll leave them as one.

Big Bonus Opportunity:
My chosen hero has been taken from the BBO pool.

Work in progress.

L-60 · 07-16-2011, 04:17 PM

menage0a0trois · 07-16-2011, 05:15 PM

Is it too early to ask for reviews?

FallinDevast · 07-16-2011, 05:44 PM

Oh wow I haven't played any FF game, guess I'll search the internetz then.

O_xD · 07-16-2011, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by menage0a0trois

Is it too early to ask for reviews?

Good concept you got there, but i think it is suppose to be useful for more than 2 heroes.
IMO summoners aura is good only for syla and meepo, and maybe lycan,

when you think about the travelers reward, syla can abuse it with his bear, it is really abusable with blink or any ability that moves you really fast and has short cooldown, also you need more explaining.Is the damage done before the duration starts and then healed as the unit walks, or the damage is dealt after the duration?

Overall, good item concept but way too situational, you need more options

PS: I need a simple review before i submit my PM, thought you might help

menage0a0trois · 07-16-2011, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by O_xD

Good concept you got there, but i think it is suppose to be useful for more than 2 heroes.
IMO summoners aura is good only for syla and meepo, and maybe lycan,

when you think about the travelers reward, syla can abuse it with his bear, it is really abusable with blink or any ability that moves you really fast and has short cooldown, also you need more explaining.Is the damage done before the duration starts and then healed as the unit walks, or the damage is dealt after the duration?

Overall, good item concept but way too situational, you need more options

Summoner's Aura affects ANY and ALL units owned by the player. This includes summons, illusions, wards, and others of the like.

But your right, I nee to explain this more. Thanks.

Quote:

Originally Posted by O_xD

PS: I need a simple review before i submit my PM, thought you might help

Is "Triggered mana heal" a passive effect or an active one? It's okay I suppose but your taking a bit of a risk reintroducing Arcane Ring aren't you? Also, why does upgrading it result in missing +mana. Energy booster adds 250 mana but upgrading Arcane Ring only adds 150.

O_xD · 07-16-2011, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by menage0a0trois

Summoner's Aura affects ANY and ALL units owned by the player. This includes summons, illusions, wards, and others of the like.

But your right, I nee to explain this more. Thanks.

Edit: Is "Triggered mana heal" a passive effect or an active one?

How the hell does it help wards?

Also name a few summons that really need magic immunity, except meepo's clones and syla's bear, who are the usual targets of nukes? WTF does a illusion that takes 400% damage benefit from 30% immunity?

menage0a0trois · 07-16-2011, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by O_xD

How the hell does it help wards?

Also name a few summons that really need magic immunity, except meepo's clones and syla's bear, who are the usual targets of nukes? WTF does a illusion that takes 400% damage benefit from 30% immunity?

It's not really helpful for ward, since they can't be targeted by spells anyway HOWEVER, illusion and summoning heroes will benefit from this. "WTF does a illusion that takes 400% damage benefit from 30% immunity?" The most widely accepted counter to illusions are AoE nukes.

If a hero's illusion has 1000hp and is nuked with Carrion Swarm(300 dmg),

With out Dirty Scarf; 1000 - (300 * .75 * 4)= 100 hp left.
With Dirty Scarf; 1000 - (300 * .75 * .7 * 4)= 370 hp left.

Yes, a 270 hp difference is not much to look at, however, it is significant. No, it's not a great way to buff your illusions, but it is a decent way to do so.

As for other summons that could use magic resistance?

Eidolons
Spiderlings
Spiderites(to a lesser extent, only against low damage nukes)
Infernal
Chen's converted creeps
Enchantress' converted creeps
Dominated Creeps(HotD)
Pandaren's Primal Split.(Storm Earth and Fire)

Also, The spell resistance is an AURA, even the +15% the wearer gets, this means this will stack with resistance provided by items like Planeswalker's Cloak.

Antonius_Block · 07-16-2011, 11:47 PM

HERO CHOSEN:

Abaddon, Lord of Avernus

HOW THE ITEM IMPROVES THE HERO'S ROLE: Well, the item is good for any hero that tanks. Abaddon does get a lot of attention because of his supportive role and this item helps him deal with all that attention. Not to mention it greatly improves his damage output, giving him the chance to semi-carry.

HOW THE ITEM IMPROVES THE HERO'S SPELLS: If you use Masochism before casting Death Coil, you'll get healed instead of damaged, which can be done with Borrowed Life also but this helps you use it as a much more constant healing/nuking tool. The item also makes your ultimate last a little longer and also turns any amount of healing into bonus damage, and Abaddon will heal a lot of HP with his ultimate almost all time.

HOW THE ITEM IS THEMATICALLY FITTING: Well, it's the crown of a Death Knight, and Abaddon is a Death Knight. It also goes well with his masochistic theme (he is good at recieving damage, he even self-inflicts damage LOL)

HOW THE ITEM PAYS HOMAGE TO FINAL FANTASY: There's a Death Knight class in FF Tactics: The War of the Lions. It is good at absorbing HP from his enemies. This pays a homage to that class, the HP absrobing attack can be seen in this link, under the Shadowblade name, also the Defend abbility is in someway similar to my Masochism abbility.

Unan1mous · 07-17-2011, 03:50 AM

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Facebook · 07-17-2011, 04:08 AM

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O_xD · 07-17-2011, 07:41 AM

Need a short review on mine before i submit my PM

menage0a0trois · 07-17-2011, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by menage0a0trois

Is "Triggered mana heal" a passive effect or an active one? It's okay I suppose but your taking a bit of a risk reintroducing Arcane Ring aren't you? Also, why does upgrading it result in missing +mana. Energy booster adds 250 mana but upgrading Arcane Ring only adds 150.

I updated my old reply.

FallinDevast · 07-17-2011, 08:58 AM

Ok so who will do Kimahri's, I meant Azwraith's?

O_xD · 07-17-2011, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by menage0a0trois

I updated my old reply.

Tnx, u are saying it needs a buff. I will make it 200 mana instead of 150. Triggered mana heal is passive, and it doesn't have to be arcane ring, i just liked that item a lot in the older versions

off to submit my PM

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