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Call of Dread


Call of Dread

"Miss me with those sleepy-ass Dreadlord abilities."

Draws enemies towards the Dreadlord, dealing 65 damage and slowing them by 25% for 2 seconds.


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Ensemble


Green

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Purple

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Red

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  • Changelog

5/6/19 - Uploaded


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Call of Dread Green (Model)

Call of Dread Purple (Model)

Call of Dread Red (Model)

Reviews
General Frank
Works in-game, performs appropriately and is a good addition to the model section.

Kyrbi0

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Level 44
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Jul 29, 2008
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Dang that is intense. Varied & interesting. Love how it looks & even the name.

If I had to pick a nit, I'd have to suggest toning it down ever so slightly (or including a lesser version & recognizing this for the ULTIMATE ABILITY IT IS). : )
 
Level 7
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Jun 28, 2017
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if only you made an infinite loop variant of this effect so it could be used as a power up kind of thing:)
I agree, just like i truly recommend his Stormfall effect model looping other day too as the best idea to be the combo for call of dread to be looping. :)

@hemmedo Whatever it is, to be honest, it's best to potentially use them (along the ones i want to use for energy weapons fire) in fantasy along sci-fi WC3 maps and mods too you know. :thumbs_up:

e.g: Alien Craft glassing a planet via using the Stormfall SFX by Mythic for the beam. :peasant-thumbs-up:
 
Level 24
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Feb 9, 2009
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Made good use of the purple one, made me want to re-create an item effect from the ps2 game Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, the item is called Vampire Skull:
A skull containing the undead spirit of a vampire.
Upon impact, It drains the life from your enemies
and offers it to you. Light damage, Short range

Since there's no damage values I just split (250/400/550) [oops, actual values are supposed to be 200/320/440!] amongst the targets hit effectively making a aoe instant life drain!
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Made good use of the purple one, made me want to re-create an item effect from the ps2 game Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, the item is called Vampire Skull:


Since there's no damage values I just split (250/400/550) [oops, actual values are supposed to be 200/320/440!] amongst the targets hit effectively making a aoe instant life drain!
vampire-skull-gif.322409

I love they way you used that effect on your spell! can you make a map on that spell i want to configure it myself? (is it vJass or not? cuz i'm really bad at vJass xd)
 
Level 24
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Do you do requests?
I was wondering if you could do a reversed red version with bats flying out and model scaled down 20% (model seems to be a little big compared to Roar and similar SFX)
In my map there is a spell called Scream of Terror which is like a reverse taunt, causing enemies to run away.
It's for a flying bat-like hero, so it's very thematically appropriate.
I'm asking because i already tried changing it with animation functions, but it didn't work so.
Or if you're okay with it, letting me put up a request in request section for this change?
 
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Level 12
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Jan 30, 2020
Messages
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Wow.

Another magnificent piece of work. And as often without additional textures !

Fact is you are completely unable to create average models, there always has to be something special with them...

You have my total respect !
 
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