WIP Custom Races for melee games. !!Hero Ideas!!

[iAmKablam]

Aloha

I'm making some new custom races to use in melee games, in addition to the other 4. I've played a lot of the other maps that use custom races, and some of them are really cool, but I've found that a lot seem sloppy, or thrown together.

So I've almost finished one of the races, and I wanted to post my ideas and see if you guys can give me some feedback to make them more balanced, fun and synergized (is that a word?).

The first race I've made is mainly Gnolls. The main melee and ranged troops are gnolls. There are kobold spell casters, and some razormane melee and spell casting units too. I'll describe them later on.

I'll just start off describing the heroes, and see if I get any useful feedback..


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Razormane Warfrenzy (?? could use a better name. just thought it sounded cool in WOW)
Strength based Tank-type hero

Abilities

- Quill shield
Basically a personal Thorns Aura. Returns percentage of damage to melee attackers. Not especially original, but it fits the character.

- Focus
Each time the Warfrenzy uses this ability, it adds a damage multiplyer to his very next attack. The idea is that he can charge up one brutal attack before going into battle, and then crush one enemy.

- Thousand needles
An AOE damage spell. Launches a barrage of needles at enemies. Big damage, relatively high mana cost and cooldown.

* Spawn of Agamaggan
Summons one bad ass giant boar. The boar is a ranged attacker with spkie shield, and frenzy. He also has a passive multishot ability which causes him to attack all nearby units, including friendlies. He is especially useful when fighting large groups of enemies.

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Gnoll Overseer
Strength based, healer/buffer type hero

Abilities

- Scavenge
AOE healing spell. Cast on a group of corpses, and then nearby friendly units get healed / # of corpses.

- Rally
2 part spell. First, the Overseer marks all friendly units in an AOE. Then he is able to instantly summon them to his location. Useful for getting troops in and out of battle quickly.

- ???
I was thinking he needs a good single target debuff spell to use on enemies. Any ideas?

* Rampage
His ultimate ability is basically a multi unit bloodlust. Greatly increases attack speed of nearby troops for a short time.

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Gnoll Shadow Weaver
Ranged, assassin type hero. Low HP, high damage

Abilities

- Vulture
Summons an invincible and semi-controllable vulture. The vulture cannot attack, but can be used to scout, and has his own Dread aura, which lowers enemy attack damage and armour.

- Shadow call
Casts on a unit, and causes its shadow to come to life, and tear shit up. The shadow's HP is linked to the target unit, and so he dies when the orignal target unit dies.

- Vendetta
This ability is casted on a single unit, and causes the Shadow Weaver to do massive dammage when attacking that unit only.

* Shadow slash
- Think omnislash, with cool shadowy effects.


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Kobold Mastermind
Intelligence based hero
Ranged spell casting hero, with low HP and high Mana

Abilities

- Dust storm
Unleashes a cloud of dust that slows down enemy attack speed and movement, while giving friendly units a greater chance of evading attacks

- Rock drop (needs a cooler name)
Single unit damage and AOE stun. Drops a large rock from the sky. Kablam!!

- ???
Having trouble coming up with good ideas for another spell. Thinking maybe some type of trap, or ward that activates when enemies approach. Any ideas?

* Guardian Golem
Channeling spell. Kobold summons a mighty golem, but has to continue channeling to keep the golem activated. I'm not sure about this spell, plus the razormane has a summon as his ultimate, so I may scrap this idea.

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So there you go. Most of the spells I've listed are completely finished and bug free. Any feedback? What are some cool hero skills you'd like to see in a melee game? Anything you think I should change to make them more playable?

Thanks for your input, everyone. I'll describe the rest of the units and the other races soon, if there seems to be any interest.

Peace

 

[toadish]

- ???
I was thinking he needs a good single target debuff spell to use on enemies. Any ideas?

purge?


- ???
Having trouble coming up with good ideas for another spell. Thinking maybe some type of trap, or ward that activates when enemies approach. Any ideas?

how bout a buff type spell that gives the unit +X def?

* Guardian Golem
Channeling spell. Kobold summons a mighty golem, but has to continue channeling to keep the golem activated. I'm not sure about this spell, plus the razormane has a summon as his ultimate, so I may scrap this idea.


how about a earth wind fire type ult, but instead of those, it would be heavy, sharp, and big...

 

[JacobSijsma]

Its almost as if you have stolen my idea ^_^... i made a thread about it once, but no one was interested.

 

[thewrongvine]

I'm too busy in my mind to think right now, but I'll be sure to get ideas later.

Btw, the Razormane Warfrenzy thing is a unit? That doesn't make sense Warfrenzy is a compound-noun. It's not a proper noun. How about: Razormane Warfiend? lol

 

[PrisonLove]

for the overseer what about

knockdown: strikes a target unit with such force that it knocks it over (plays its death animation) making it unable to move, attack or cast spells for X seconds. knocked over units are invulnerable until they come to.

for the mastermind

Etheral trap: summons a powerful ward which will send any enemy unit that enters a certain radius around it to be placed between realms. These units cannot move, attack, or cast spells, and become etheral, taking more damage from spells

 

[JacobSijsma]

Cool races and idea's

I was, thinking of continue'ng' my own map, but i can just as well help you with yours, if you want to... I had worked on my map for quite a while, and i got some idea's of those that you might wanna try.

You know the game type:

1. Vampirism:
   (vampire)
   Unit: Vampire -_-
   
   A vampire race that doesnt have much units or anything but build to survive, and live from the smaller creeps to feed himself.
   Its supposed to be a hard race to play ofcourse
   
   
2. Power Towers:
   (Human)
   Unit: Electricien.
   
   You might know the gametype... you build power plants that generate mana, and they use the unlimited transfer mana spell to link itself to a bridging tower, you can upgrade bridging towers to get a higher mana transfer rate.
   
   But you don't need that if the powerplant's transfer rate itself aint high
   enough.
   
   Eventually you use this power to support your offensive towers (Tesla towers for example ), they can use it to attack incoming creeps.
   
   
3. Tree planting
   (NightElf)
   
   Unit: Seeding Druid < (or anything else like tree planter)
   Planting tree's to replace cut-forrest is a great idea... you can allso plant atacking tree's.

Btw, there are races already made by blizzard for example:

1. Naga: From the campaign tab has creature's wich can build etc, also you don't need custom models since they are already there.
   
2. Fel Orcs: Blizzard didn't completely finish it, but the models are there... you can find them in the campaign tab and maybe make it an expansion for the orc race... since they are daemonfy'd orcs.