Dirge - Undying

the least agility gain(only 0.8!)

sorry my bad its 4.

Actually it's 5 active spells.

My point is he already has a huge mana pool more than even lina, enigma, etc. Plus a huge int gain. Bloodstone costs too much just to give him survivability and mana which most won't be needed. Bracers will do for survivability and 2 sobi masks is more than enough or even take some clarities if you want and it saves so much gold.

Radiance works amazingly with his ulti and since he's also a tank he's a decent candidate to carry that item. Plus it helps alot in chasing.

All this guy really needs it mana. 4 active spells... 2 spamming ones means he needs alots of mana to rape well and constantly.

IDK damage items are needed no him too much... unless your entire team has no DPS. Its better to just tank up.

Arcane, pers -> bloodstone, shivas, phase was been working well for me with Mek, Pipe, or Linkens as alternates.

Plus radiance works amazingly with his ulti in team clashes and in chasing.

the 60 damage isnt wasted since he still hits once in a while. Plus tombstone makes it really easy for you to farm radiance fast.

I usually just get 2 sobi masks and thats enough to sustain your mana throughout the game and you can sell one of them and make use of the other one if you like.

Radiance late game is useless since the burn effect barely does damage anymore.

He already has a decent manapool and int gain so mana shouldn't be much of a problem. As for survivability just 2 bracers and decay is enough for you to survive. In team clashes you're bound to hit atleast 2 people with decay so thats already 8 str and with such a low cd you can cast it twice.

Radiance is an item build mainly for tanks since they're always the last one standing and is always rushed for max effect

@slyfe

While Radiance is certainly a viable item on Dirge, i will hardly consider it as a core item. What Dirge really needs is survivability and mana to sustain his spells. Bloodstone provides both. Radiance provides neither. The 60dmg is wasted on Dirge as he is not much of a hitter. So ur paying 5k plus for the immolation which is nice to have but not essential to Dirge IMO. I will get Radiance on Dirge only after bloodstone. I see it as a luxury item.

don't worry about getting targeted first because no one ever attacks the tank first in clashes because it's just a waste of time. Unless you can kill him in less than 5 - 8 seconds then it's a waste. It's a waste because while you're trying to kill the tank the dps heroes and casters will kill you b4 u can kill the target. In clashes focus on the heroes you can pick off easily and the ones who are the real threats like big disablers and dangerous dps heroes like mort.

No radiance thats his core item and i prefer getting tombstone early on for harassing, farming plus when you go ganking you already have it.

Skill build:

1)Soul Rip
2)Decay
3)SoulRip
4)Tomb
5)Tomb
6)Ulti
7)Tomb
8)Tomb
9)Decay
10)Soul Rip
11)Ulti
12)Soul Rip
Then max Decay and get Ulti at 16

1 level of Decay early helps in weakening heroes or finishing off fleeing red hp heroes. 2 levels of soul rip will suffice earlier on as u hardly come across any scenarios with more than 10 units in the laning phase. Max tombstone by level 8 for the 600 hp death lust for ganks/ counter ganks. You should be there for ALL team clashes level 8 on.

Best item build

Core(in order):
Sobi
Boots
Perse
Phase Boots
Bloodstone

Items After:
Heart (if ur tanking alot)
Shivas (synergises well, more AOE)
Hood (alot of casters)
AC (if ur team has agi heroes that need the AS)

Dirge is a TEAM HERO. He is NOT a DPS hero and should NEVER be played as such. Your job is to provide devastating AOE presence in team clashes with your spells, snipe off enemies with Soul Rip and heal low hp allies. Im sick and tired of seeing noobs getting DPS items on him!

Daredeamon are you talking about me?

The powerful caster and can beat the DW total damage since it has a plague and soulrip based on tmb stone zmbie+the decay is very useful at all time

OWNING!!

As a matter of fact, the whole thing is old except for the skill explenation

Hey, don't want to sound cruel...
but the skill build is from the old Dirge u noob

skills. Only tankish heroes can carry rad since its useless for most int/agi heroes to carry it since they are always the first to go down. Except for some exceptional agi heroes like spectre.

You have soulrip to heal you anyways and they never target the tanks which carries radiance... they go for the highest dps heroes with little life like casters or agi heroes. He's already so hard to kill if they attack you first then just run soulrip and keep casting decay which will boost your hp by alot and with the plague on it's hard for them to kill you.

Rad is a core item for him since it helps alot in chasing since he's not much of an attacker anyways and it works well with all of the

@slyfe: you shouldn't get rad because you will be focus fired so dirge won't be dealing much damage when using the ult. Your allies will. So they should get rad, and you should get HoT/hood/pipes/whatever items help you tank even more.