[Altered Melee] gold sapping spell

[Cheshire]

Hey there,

For an altered melee I'm working on I'm giving one of the heros a spell where he makes gold-sapping wards.

I'm trying to decide how much gold per-second they steal from nearby players (you put them near buildings and they steal gold from the owners of the building). i want this to be useful and exploitable, but not completely broke and imba. you should need to stack a nice number of wards on a player before actually nullifying their income.

would be happy for some opinions how much gold to sap per second for each of the 3 levels of ward. thanks!

[and don't answer that the balanced thing to do would be to nix this ability completely.a. I know. B. balanced is a relative term, and there are many ....quirky abilities in this map...]

 

[cleavinghammer]

1/3/5?

 

[noob]

With 5 per second a single gold sapping ward drains fast: every second you gain 10 gold relatively to the drained opponent.

 

[Cheshire]

Is it accurate to say that all races pretty much average at 10 Gold per second? (from 1 full mine)