Shadow Hunter, Mana Shield, and a few other things

Let's start off with mana shield:

It is currently OPed. By end-game, int heroes get about 2k mana, and with an item that allows them to use a mana shield that absorbs 1.5 damage per mana, that's like giving int heroes an extra 3k hp that they can also use for spells and regens much faster than HP. With skills/items that increase mana regen even moreso, some heroes become almost unkillable in late game (Lord of Change, Zoan, Tao Pathfinder, and Big Mek are the first few that come to my mind, mainly because I've experienced it against all 4.).

My suggestion would be to either make Mana shield block 70%-80% damage by doing mana damage instead, and having the rest affect HP, or to make it block 0.5-0.8 damage per mana.



Also, Shadow Hunter is good. Too good in fact.
I think his ulti, while good how it is as a move, needs a slight cooldown, so you can't just keep reactivating it if the enemy tries to run. It also needs a better description. I wouldn't have figured it out if I hadn't already seen you explain it to someone (And it took me forever to explain it to others too).

Also, his skill that makes his agi increase every hit should either A) not affect buildings, or B) have a timer after which it resets if you haven't hit anything.
The reason I say this is because I found I could attack outposts to get that buff to it's max (Almost 200 base agi), then not attack anything until a hero comes around, use my ultimate, then have a bonus of around 230-240 damage per hit (which ironically enough, even when dealing 400-500 damage per hit like that, it's still not enough to kill the 4 int heroes I mentioned earlier with mana shield it seems...)




Finally, what exactly does Necron Lord's Gaze of Flame do? The description is obviously wrong, anf the only thing it seems to do right now is make the opponent switch targets momentarily.

gogo reverse order!
gaze of flame: stop = "s" = a stop command, not a stun or snare or any sort of disable

biting blade: 96 agi max, and it will instantly reset on the begining of an attack, not when the attack damages. so he doesnt get the bonus damage from his built up agi when attacking heros.

shadow strike: yeah, i can give it a cooldown. and maby nerf the agi bonus a bit.

manashield: yah, ill prolly do a bit of both. 1 mana per damage, and make it block 80%

edit: hows this

While active, Karandras is untargetable, greatly faded and he gains bonus movement speed. The invisibility end if he comes too close to an enemy, but the bonus movement speed takes a few seconds to fade away. Karandras deals bonus damage based on his agility while he is still under its effects.

I finally understand how the shadow hunter's ult works.

lmao sry for the not so obvious tooltip XD

Grass Hopper wrote:gogo reverse order!
gaze of flame: stop = "s" = a stop command, not a stun or snare or any sort of disable

biting blade: 96 agi max, and it will instantly reset on the begining of an attack, not when the attack damages. so he doesnt get the bonus damage from his built up agi when attacking heros.

shadow strike: yeah, i can give it a cooldown. and maby nerf the agi bonus a bit.

manashield: yah, ill prolly do a bit of both. 1 mana per damage, and make it block 80%

edit: hows this

While active, Karandras is untargetable, greatly faded and he gains bonus movement speed. The invisibility end if he comes too close to an enemy, but the bonus movement speed takes a few seconds to fade away. Karandras deals bonus damage based on his agility while he is still under its effects.

That's... kind of pointless... I mean, it stop channeling, but yeah... If you want it to do that, maybe bring down the manacost by a lot, the cooldown by a certain amount, and make it single target? (That way you can interrupt focus firing and spell channeling, without it costing a third of your mana pool, and one target so that if, say, your ally is being chased, you don't stop him as well by accident. I finally understand how NL is supposed to be played, I think, and I think that would help fit in his general playstyle better.)


I don't think you understood what I meant. Biting blade can allow your base agility to go up to around 200. Shadow Strike allows you to get an attack buff based on the agility you had WHEN you were invis. So basically, if you go invis with 200 or so agility, your bonus damage is huge (200 or more.). Also, I may be wrong, but it seemed like the first attack when switching target does the damage that you had built up with your increased, since your agility reverts only AFTER the first attack.

The rest sounds good, and that tooltip/description sounds much better!

no, biting blade checks your agility on attack, as long as u haev the speed buff

and the machanics for biting blade: it chekcs at the START of an attack, and removes it before damage is dealt

edit: and an aoe stop, with a (now) 4 second cd, is alot more valuable than u think, specially considering it only costs 80 mana... which i mnight lower at lower levels if it needs it. also, it goes great with ur ult, cause heros can still focus u before their vision goes, so this way there is no way for them to do anythign once ur ult is on

My mistake. You're right.

Also, I don't know if this is intentional or not, but Grot Herder's innate skill seems to have a much higher percentage than it says at higher levels (Like when it told me I had a 5% chance to spawn a grot on hit, and I got one on each of my 8 next attacks.). Does the number of grots out affect the chance to spawn or something?


Also, when Grot Herder attacks a building, it always spawns a grot if he has less than a certain number out already (not sure quite what that number is atm though.). Is this intentional? It makes capturing outposts ridiculously easy.

its 5% per nearby dead unit

Oh!

That makes more sense.
Does the tooltip say that? I checked a number of times and didn't see it anywhere, though I am good at missing obvious things.


Also, that's not what's happening against buildings. They spawn no matter what if there are less than a certain fairly high amount.

ur just getting luky then cause its def the same for buildings, and im pretty positive its in the tooltip

I can send you the replay again. This game went on for over an hour and 15, and I took most of the outposts. It was happening far too consistently to be luck (And it was awesome when taking enemy towers!).

I'm pretty sure this isn't like the SH thing, since it's much easier to see/observe.

That being said, I was playing .39, not .39b

nothin changed involving bionik limbz from version 39 => 39b