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Ratos Jarscoff - The Bard

Created by Bard Man on 2007-03-24
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A young man hailing from the village of neben, Ratos is a practitioner of the musical arts. Normally, he'd be that last person you'd see on a battle field, but with recent events as horrifying as they are, and the shadow of the scourge looming over head, Ratos felt it was time for him to take up arms against the undead and lay down a lyrical beatdown! The Sentinel were happy to give him special enchantments to help him in combat, and make his music strike a chord with all who hear it. With his trusty harp, he can inspire his allies to give them greater power in battle, and make his enemies lose confidence in their own powers. Beware the sound of music evil, for it will drown out even your most horrid death cry.

Battle Hymn (B)
With his music, Ratos can inspire his allies to victory by making them do more damage in battle, and give them a slight armor increase. "Fight on, fight on, oh brave Sentinel warriors!" Makes Ratos give off an aura that boosts attack damage, and armor. The aura 400AOE.
Level 1 - Level 1 - 9% damage and increases base armor by 1
Level 2 - Level 2 - 14% damage and increases base armor by 1.5
Level 3 - Level 3 - 20% damage and ncreases base armor by 2
Level 4 - Level 4 - 28% damage and increases base armor by 2.5
Mana Cost: n/a
Cooldown: n/a

Framework: A command aura pulsing around ratos at all times.

Notes: This is just something that came to mind when I first thought of a bard. Supporting allies with songs of battle. The other skills I had to think about alot more.

Bard's Luck (C)
Along with music, Bards are famous for being lucky. Ratos is living proof that that, yes it it true. Often he will narrowly evade enemy attacks by mere inches and stike pricise blows that leave the enemy wondering how they got beaten up by a bard.
Level 1 - Level 1 - gives a 9% chance to dodge and to deal 1.3 critical damage
Level 2 - Level 2 - gives a 13% chance to dodge and to deal 1.7 critical damage
Level 3 - Level 3 - gives a 17% chance to dodge and to deal 2.1 critical damage
Level 4 - Level 4 - gives a 21% chance to dodge and to deal 2.5 critical damage
Gives a % chance to evade attacks and 10% chance to deal extra damage.
Mana Cost: n/a
Cooldown: n/a

Framework: N/a

Notes: Every bard needs to know how to not get punched. The critical strike was just something I felt he needed due to being melee. Kinda evens the odds out.

Revenge of the Minstrel (R)
Even the kind soul of Bard has it's limit for suffering. Should an enemy find Ratos at his wits end from trudging through the blood soaked battlefield, they will be lashed out at relentlessly with his concealed dagger. May they learn in death what they did not know in life. NEVER MESS WITH A BARD!!!! Slow effect will last 3 second
Level 1 - Level 1 - causes Ratos to leap at a targeted opponent and stab them with his knife. Deals 100 Damage and slows enemy movement by 3% 450 range. Slow effect will last 3 second
Level 2 - Level 2 - causes Ratos to leap at a targeted opponent and stab them with his knife. Deals 180 Damage and slows enemy movement by 7% 550 Range. Slow
Level 3 - Level 3 - causes Ratos to leap at a targeted opponent and stab them with his knife. Deals 260 Damage and slows enemy movement by 12% 650 range.
Level 4 - Level 4 - causes Ratos to leap at a targeted opponent and stab them with his knife. Deals 340 Damage and slows enemy movement by 17% 750 range.
Mana Cost: 85/105/125/145
Cooldown: 45/40/35/30

Framework: Faceless void's leap effect at one enemy and a blood splatter effect on the target when he makes contact.

Notes: This I made up because it seemed like a perfect mana useage skill. The last thing we need is another leap into the dark at an all passive hero.

Aria of Sorrow (D)
A song created by Ratos for the soul purpose of causing enemies to write in pain. As Ratos sings his Aria of death, all enemies within start losing the will to fight and start slipping into depression. Their defenses become nearly useless, and the need to attempt escaping almost pointless to them. As soon as the hero leaves the Raidius of the song, their strength will slowly return.
Level 1 - All enemies within a 500 AOE have there attack and movement speed slowed by 30% and have thier armor reduced by 3. Channels for 10 seconds.
Level 2 - All enemies within a 600 AOE have there attack and movement speed slowed by 35% and have thier armor reduced by 6. Channels for 10 seconds.
Level 3 - All enemies within a 700 AOE have there attack and movement speed slowed by 40% and have thier armor reduced by 9. Channels for 10 seconds.
Level 4 - n/a

Mana Cost: 300/275/250
Cooldown: 200/250/300

Framework: A black aura surrounds Ratos and all heroes within the AOE and a little blue soulburn marker will go above thier heads.

Notes: This is going to be a skill that defines the Bard as a force to be reckoned with. By casting this, you not only slow your enemies to a crawl, but you make their armor worthless.

Discussion:

Skill Synergy!

Battle Hymn + Bard's Luck

Aria of Sorrow + Revenge of the Minstrel

Bard's Luck + Revenge of the Minstrel

Item Synergy!

Attack speed boosting and high damage are a must. Also boody your HP since you are a melee hero.

Hero Synergy!

Any hero with an armor reduction, or a miss inducing skill will be good. Note: The vengeful Spirit's aura won't stack with his, nor will Sven's. They won't be of any use sided with him other then stunning the shit out of people.

HEROES TO AVOID!!!

Heavy nukers: These bastards will be the ultimate thorn in your side, due to your low health and melee range. Do what you can to avoid them, and try to stick with fighting other melee heroes until you can lay down a bardic ass beating.

Long Range heroes: You know the type. Clinkz, Kardel, Traxex. If you try taking them on early and/or alone, you'll get your ass bruised up bad.

A good early game idea be to get treads, then fill your inventory with wraith bands. This will boost your health a bit along with damage and attack speed. After doing that, save up for Battle fury and farm as much as possible. Sell the bands as needed and work your way up to buying greater items. (Guinshoo's, HoT, Etc.

Final Thought: This is my first hero Idea and I feel confident that I covered all my bases for him. If you feel that I missed anything, please tell me, as this will help me make Ratos a better character.

Changelog:

2007-03-27: I nerfed Aria of Sorrow so that it's no longer godly and made Revenge of the Minstrel's slow effect last only 3 seconds. Not gonna strengthen it unless I get alot of requests for it. Also changed his stat gain a little. I fell I should appologize for Aria of Sorrow pre-edit.

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1 By Shimrra_3 2007-03-24

HOLY... all good except the Ult. Ult is very very imba. Very very very very (y'know, FULL PAGE of 'very') IMBA! I think the Dagger is overly powerful but it does have that huge cooldown, looks good for a Dagon combo. I'll rate after more comments.

2 By `UnholY` 2007-03-24

ultimate has a channeling time of 10 seconds!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!/
what the??? also too strong for team battles..

i like bard's luck and battle hymn it's cool...

questions:

1) Does the battle hymn affect you?
2) Does the ultimate really channel for 10 seconds?!

Suggestions:

1) maybe add a little more int gain and lower str gain a little since he already has evasion...

2)increase the chance of critical strike to 15% so it would be much more useful.

3 By blood_lust 2007-03-24

hehehe not bad but i hate your ulti skill and im also basing on combo of your skill
im not rating now maybe next time

4 By VikiFanatic 2007-03-24

Uli is very imbalanced. It scares me.

5 By n_hapitan 2007-03-24

actually, his ultimate could destroy the balance of team games IMHO.

6 By TOPAK™ 2007-03-24

I agree with the other guys said. The Ulti can mess up game balance. Is it really 10 seconds of channeling?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

*thinks when to rate the hero*

7 By blood_lust 2007-03-24

aw your a lucky guy i automaticaly press vote without changing the score 10 aw it's not worth it!!!!!!

8 By kaizer9 2007-03-24

ulti a channelling for 10 sec?

it will destroy the balance of the game

using this against a stunner/perma-basher is a big no no
since a 700 aoe is almost as big of a screen you can easily be spotted and destroyed by this units

9 By Jimmizzle 2007-03-24

I think the ulti is the only problem about his hero... channeling time for 10 sec is way to much... but his other skillZ very nice

10 By Tronulax 2007-03-24

I think blink dagger would be good. LIke any other hero that needs help positioning their ulti. BKB+Blink in+start ulti+team starts whacking=PWNAGE And i think assault cuirass would be a good item becuase it gives off an addition -5 aura making it -21!

11 By KillahKwon7 2007-03-24

SO GAY just shaved the bandits mustache; lmfao

12 By ExG Tamahome 2007-03-25

Nice hero there dude, i hope it is improved because the Ulti is imbalance come to think of it, you bypass Slardar's Ultimate skill.

I like the hero.
Well i vote for 9 stars ^_^
Good luck and improve the work ^_^

13 By uberkill 2007-03-25

3rd skill should be the 1st skill...

1st skill should be the 2nd skill...

2nd skill should be the 3rd skill...

14 By `UnholY` 2007-03-25

@uberkill

what's the difference if the skills were in a different arrangement?

15 By Shimrra_3 2007-03-25

Concur - spammer. Shoo. Go away. We do not want you here.

16 By nthomas5143 2007-03-25

Great Idea but Ult is IMBA. Look at Slardars armor reducing Ult. Its 15 to a single target. try mabye 5/8/10. And make it so its only a AoE. Meaning once they escape the effect vanishes. And one question: Whats the duration of the Revenge of Mistrals move reduction effect?. thx make some changes and it could be a good hero. Ill rate later after changes.

17 By Boofus 2007-03-25

personally i thought the 21% to do 2.5 dmg was a bit too much, the ulti is pretty imba as well. but thats why we have the hero concept section.

18 By Drow 2007-03-26

What if i used this hero to fight against Sentinel, and i use the 1st skill? My side (Scourge) will be the looser.

and about the ulti.. the AoE is too big.

19 By Shimrra_3 2007-03-26

@ Boffus = Read the skill again, it says its a 10% chance to crit and 21% chance to dodge. Does need rewording, I took a while to reach this myself.
Dagger duration required, yes. And it SHOULD be an AOE for the ult, not a duration.
Still deperately needs fixes, no rating from me yet.

20 By hiromico 2007-03-26

Cool!

21 By xiaomage2 2007-03-26

hmm, maybe make the 3rd skill stornger
but only applicable when your hp is really low
so its REALLY revenge of a minstrel
then also
when you channel your ulti and get hit, you can deal a lot of damage while their still under effect of ulti

22 By xiaomage2 2007-03-26

23 By battledemon 2007-03-26

I love this hero idea, my kinda hero

24 By Parekoy 2007-03-26

How will you use your ulti have lothars in the middle then cast it? but yes ulti is too strong it can be abused and cool down is long could be okay but still too strong and channeling means you'll be left vulnerable right?

And.. here's the thing this hero sings which means it needs finesse but it looks ugly.. just kiddin'.. This hero just needs more finnesse

25 By Greedygood 2007-03-26

Good hero, original concept. It's designed well enough that I can easily see it in DOTA. I take it you have to get Lothar's for the ultimate, else those 10 seconds of channeling is you asking for it. Only recommendation I have is to increase mana cost (instead of decreasing) for ultimate. 60% penalties for that long for only 250 mana is a little insane.

26 By Bard Man 2007-03-27

Ok, I get where you're coming from. I was getting flack of the ult from a buddy of mine to begin with. To answer a few question, yes, battlehymn DOES boost you. It'd be pretty useless in a 1v1 fight if it didn't. The Ult I'll rework.Increase the cd and mana cost.. Also gonna have to nerf the armor loss.

Big thanks to all you merciful people who gave me very little flak over the ult.

For not fixing this before posting the hero, I give myself a 3 out of 5

27 By KHORNErp 2007-03-30

omg this ulti is very very very IMBA

28 By Shimrra_3 2007-03-30

Ult still confusing me... the whole channeling bit... after or before? And that cooldown is horrible too. Fix that a bit more... no rating yet o0.

29 By raz 2007-03-30

Bard is still way to powerful, critical and dodge, to imba

30 By Bard Man 2007-03-30

Listen and listen CLOSELY!! Bard's Luck on;y has a 10% chance to critical hit. The 21% chance you see is the damn dodge chance. As for the ult, it's supposed to keep heroes weakened during the channeling. Just like with Death Ward hurting you while channeling occurs. *Sigh.* Atleast I can take solace in the fact that nobody bitches over Battle Hymn.

31 By Firesky 2007-03-30

Revenge of the minstrel ok... the details are good ulti is imba he basically has blink strike and command aura and blur -invisibility effect

32 By Shimrra_3 2007-03-31

Ah. So you sit there ten seconds slowing the F*** outta everyone. I get it... could be costly obviously.

33 By Shadowinks 2007-04-01

Just as others said: ulti is psychotic. Not rating yet.

34 By Greedygood 2007-04-02

Well Mr. Bard Man, you got my vote on this bard. I hope these other dudes don't get u down too much. As I said before, I actually like the ultimate - I just think it should cost more mana to cast rather than less, and then you can decrease the cooldown, like SK's resurrect. But, I suppose the opposite works fine too, and it's just my preference.

35 By bleach00 2007-04-02

all i can say is the ulti is very ouch!

700 AoE and 10sec channel

36 By mjs 2007-04-04

Ultimate is too powerful

37 By Farmstalker 2007-04-05

Hey dude! I enjoy this Bard guy - a buff/debuff melee AGI with AOE effects = fun to play.
Like Greedygood said about the ulti, I'd up the mana cost and decrease the cooldown, and maybe make it channel for 6-8 seconds instead of 10...
Other than that, good stuff!

38 By Lennox 2007-04-06

This hero is awesome. His skills are perfect. Im starting to feel that hero is the one for me

39 By Bard Man 2007-04-06

I do what I can, Lennox. I do what I can.

40 By Tomas0113 2007-06-26

Hey, BardMan, Could you help me on this Hero Idea I create?

His name was KABET- the Dirge of the Damned, His stats were:
Range: 100 MS: 300
Primary: STR
Str: 50 + 1.9 | Agi: 20 + 1.5 | Int: 25 + 1.7
Damage: 80-83 | HP: 900 | MP: 600
HP Regen: 2 | MP Regen: 1.5
AS: 1.3 | Armor: 0 (he's weak, am I right?)

Skills:
Blade Armor [M]- Whenever the damage Kabet Received, gets back to the enemy.
lv1: 5% damage returned.
lv2: 10% damage returned.
lv3: 15% damage returned.
Lv4: 20% damage returned.
(Half for Ranged. He is also immune to magic EXCEPT Lifedrain...) Passive skill.
Framework: Blade mail + rage effect. A feast aura will appear.

Drunken Revelry[R]- Due to the unknown properties of the Ronin's Broad Glass sword, It can make a hero drown on alcohol and the Ronin can damage more.
lv1: 15% miss, Kabet's total STR x .25
lv2: 20% miss, Kabet's total STR x .50
lv3: 25% miss, Kabet's total STR x .75
lv4: 30% miss, Kabet's total STR x 1.00
Passive skill.
Framework: Pandaren's Deunken Haze + Rikimaru's Backstab effect.

Dirge of Corruption[E]- upon 250 AoE, enemy's armor was penalized.
lv1: 2.5 Armor is penalized.
lv2: 5 Armor is penalized.
lv3: 7.5 Armor is penalized.
lv4: 10 Armor is penalized.
Passive skill
Framework: Slardar's Anplify Damage effect but of the passive type.

Yin Blade[B]- Kabet will attack the enemy hero with his broad glass sword full of negative energy. Deals HEAVY damage.
lv1: 750 Concentrated damage will be received by the enemy.
lv2: 1050 Concentrated damage will be received by the enemy.
lv3: 1400 Concentrated damage will be received by the enemy.
Cooldown: 200 seconds | Manacost: 200/300/400
Framework: Kabet's Total damage will be received by the enemy.

[Since Kabet was like N'aix, maybe I could go for:
Satanic: for lifesteal
Butterfly: Since the Ronin was a STR type, maybe you could go fore a faster attack.
HoT: Since N'aix sometimes do'nt use this, I'll use it. Revelry+Lifesteal+YB= GG (Gunggong Client)! ^_^
PTreads: Why BoT?
Aegis: Since he has 0 Armor, Use it!
Radiance: any melee stunner takes mor damage.]
Do you think that was a GOOD inventory? to whom you could reccomend Kabet? [good allies and worst foes]
I know you are a GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD Skill master, sure hope you could answer it...

41 By chickenheap 2007-07-07

cool idea.. too imba (ulti and dagger) also little spelling tip you kept spelling their wrong, you kept saying thier. WRONG! Miss 3rd grade? lol jk nj.

42 By vendetta003 2007-10-29

wat is IMBA

43 By Riaining 2007-11-18

I loved your concept. Just thought i'd tell you. :)

44 By AXCELACCEL 2007-11-21

nice hero idea like it

45 By DragonLord1 2007-12-04

ok if i wanted to submit a hero to this site how would i do it???

46 By Kynth 2007-12-04

I think the bard should be able to move after using your ult like how the healing ward that jugg has, but at like a 60% reduction. unless he already can then its pretty nice.

47 By Ghost 2007-12-10

your bard has given me little to no inspiration for my (now fashionable) bard.

48 By Bard Man 2008-04-19

Yea right...