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Taking a look at the map, I feel a little confused as to what the intention is. It seems to present a custom terrain which can be rather bland (I am not a melee map reviewer, however, so would like a second opinion on this), with a focus on new heroes being created and previously existing heroes being siphoned into the base four factions. I've taken a look at the custom heroes, however, and for the most part it seems to be a great deal of reskinned hero abilities being repurposed throughout their designs.
There appears to be an emphasis on the Valk'yr being a flying hero - a concept which has been explored - but with a concept like this, there needs to be great care in how it is executed. This execution doesn't seem to have that, and this one confuses me the most with its abilities. It has a reskinned Shadow Strike that does no DoT and starts off dealing 250 damage, with subsequent levels offering an additional 20 damage per level to the ability. In that sense, it's not worth leveling up in the slightest. I think the most noteworthy hero in your custom roster was the Warlock which drew a lot of inspiration from WoW. The abilities were once again simple, but there were some nice references to Warlock abilities from the MMO.
Unfortunately, there isn't much more to say about this. I'm not too sure what the overall goal is, I personally don't see this going too much further as it is and I'm not so sure this has much to offer overall. Perhaps another reviewer or map moderator will see something more here, and if you want to pursue that second opinion I certainly encourage it. As it is, I will be marking this as Simple/Substandard. Good luck with your future projects
There appears to be an emphasis on the Valk'yr being a flying hero - a concept which has been explored - but with a concept like this, there needs to be great care in how it is executed. This execution doesn't seem to have that, and this one confuses me the most with its abilities. It has a reskinned Shadow Strike that does no DoT and starts off dealing 250 damage, with subsequent levels offering an additional 20 damage per level to the ability. In that sense, it's not worth leveling up in the slightest. I think the most noteworthy hero in your custom roster was the Warlock which drew a lot of inspiration from WoW. The abilities were once again simple, but there were some nice references to Warlock abilities from the MMO.
Unfortunately, there isn't much more to say about this. I'm not too sure what the overall goal is, I personally don't see this going too much further as it is and I'm not so sure this has much to offer overall. Perhaps another reviewer or map moderator will see something more here, and if you want to pursue that second opinion I certainly encourage it. As it is, I will be marking this as Simple/Substandard. Good luck with your future projects
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