| The Nathrezim Agent is a much needed agility-based, short-ranged hero. The Undead faction has three strength-based tanky heroes, which is far too boring in my opinion. Also, the original Dreadlord is hardly to never used in any game, solely on the fact that he just gets overshadowed by all the better options. For the Nathrezim Agent, I wanted to make a unique and lore-integrating stand on the hero. The Nathrezim are known for their tricky, deception, and their capabilities with teleportation - none of which were presented with the vanilla Dreadlord. These demons are also bound by their own laws to fight as one; thus should have some sort of bond in the battlefield. I believe that this hero feel fit in fairly well with the rest of the Undead faction. He brings forth the aspects that no other hero there has. His play style can be either solo, commanding, or a dual-role with his brethren. The hero may be solo, like the main role of Undead, this hero is self sustaining; he may remain invisible while still feeding upon the enemies mana. As a commander, he may summon forth an entire army across the enemy base; or use it for a hasty escape. And finally, as a dual-hero, the Agent is made specifically for fighting along side Dreadlords. He has two abilities that work specifically designed to increase the Dreadlord's offensive capabilities. Maybe now the Dreadlord won't be so outrageously underused. | ||||||
Affiliation: Burning Legion Role: Support/Attacker Race: Nathrezim Gender: Male |
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| Ability Name: Mind War Ability description |
| Level | Duration | Cooldown | Mana Cost | Range | Area of Effect | Allowed Targets | Effect |
1 | 6 s | 15 s | 75 | 900 | 150 | Air, Ground, Organic, Enemy | Prevents Attacks |
2 | 9 s | 15 s | 75 | 900 | 200 | Air, Ground, Organic, Enemy | Prevents Attacks |
3 | 12 s | 15 s | 75 | 900 | 250 | Air, Ground, Organic, Enemy | Prevents Attacks |
| Ability Name: Deceive Ability description |
| Level | Duration | Cooldown | Mana Cost | Range | Area of Effect | Allowed Targets | Effect |
1 | N/A | Toggle | 25, -10 per s | N/A | 900 | Self, player's Dreadlord | Shade, +10% attack rate |
2 | N/A | Toggle | 25, -10 per s | N/A | 900 | Self, player's Dreadlord | Shade, +20% attack rate |
3 | N/A | Toggle | 25, -10 per s | N/A | 900 | Self, player's Dreadlord | Shade, +30% attack rate |
| Ability Name: Feeding Ability description |
| Level | Duration | Cooldown | Mana Cost | Range | Area of Effect | Allowed Targets | Effect |
1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 900 | Self, Player's Dreadlord | Drains 8 mana per strike, nearby Dreadlord receives 4 mana |
2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 900 | Self, Player's Dreadlord | Drains 12 mana per strike, nearby Dreadlord receives 6 mana |
3 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 900 | Self, Player's Dreadlord | Drains 15 mana per strike, nearby Dreadlord receives 7 mana |
| Ability Name: Summoning (Ultimate) Ability description |
| Duration | Cooldown | Mana Cost | Range | Area of Effect | Allowed Targets | Effect | |
| 4 summons | 120 | 175 | Infinite | 500 | Air, Ground, Player Units | Teleports 3 player units from a select location to the Nathrezim Agent every 3 seconds | |
Nice one.
Nearby Dreadlords? You mean dreadlord heroes?
Here's my WIP (sorta) for the Undead faction.
Nathrezim Agent
General Information
Abilities
The Nathrezim Agent is a much needed agility-based, short-ranged hero. The Undead faction has three strength-based tanky heroes, which is far too boring in my opinion. Also, the original Dreadlord is hardly to never used in any game, solely on the fact that he just gets overshadowed by all the better options.
For the Nathrezim Agent, I wanted to make a unique and lore-integrating stand on the hero. The Nathrezim are known for their tricky, deception, and their capabilities with teleportation - none of which were presented with the vanilla Dreadlord. These demons are also bound by their own laws to fight as one; thus should have some sort of bond in the battlefield.
I believe that this hero feel fit in fairly well with the rest of the Undead faction. He brings forth the aspects that no other hero there has. His play style can be either solo, commanding, or a dual-role with his brethren. The hero may be solo, like the main role of Undead, this hero is self sustaining; he may remain invisible while still feeding upon the enemies mana. As a commander, he may summon forth an entire army across the enemy base; or use it for a hasty escape. And finally, as a dual-hero, the Agent is made specifically for fighting along side Dreadlords. He has two abilities that work specifically designed to increase the Dreadlord's offensive capabilities. Maybe now the Dreadlord won't be so outrageously underused.
Affiliation: Burning Legion
Role: Support/Attacker
Race: Nathrezim
Gender: Male
Strength = 16 + 1.9 Agility = 20 + 2.6(Primary) Intelligence = 16 + 1.5
Movement Speed: 300Attack Range: 350 Attack Cooldown: 2.0 s
Causes trickery in the mind of enemies in the an area, making them unable to attack for a short time.
Ability Name: Mind War
Ability description
Level Duration Cooldown Mana Cost Range Area of Effect Allowed Targets Effect
16 s 15 s 75 900 150 Air, Ground, Organic, Enemy Prevents Attacks
29 s 15 s 75 900 200 Air, Ground, Organic, Enemy Prevents Attacks
312 s 15 s 75 900 250 Air, Ground, Organic, Enemy Prevents Attacks
Infuses the Agent with layers of darkness, making the Agent invisible even when attacking or casting spells. Nearby Dreadlord and the Agent gain additional attack rate while ability is active. Drains mana until deactivated.
Ability Name: Deceive
Ability description
Level Duration Cooldown Mana Cost Range Area of Effect Allowed Targets Effect
1N/A Toggle 25, -10 per s N/A 900 Self, player's Dreadlord Shade, +10% attack rate
2N/A Toggle 25, -10 per s N/A 900 Self, player's Dreadlord Shade, +20% attack rate
3N/A Toggle 25, -10 per s N/A 900 Self, player's Dreadlord Shade, +30% attack rate
The Agent's vampiric magics drain the mana from enemies he attack, replenishing his own in the process. Nearby Dreadlord gains half as much mana.
Ability Name: Feeding
Ability description
Level Duration Cooldown Mana Cost Range Area of Effect Allowed Targets Effect
1N/A N/A N/A N/A 900 Self, Player's Dreadlord Drains 8 mana per strike, nearby Dreadlord receives 4 mana
2N/A N/A N/A N/A 900 Self, Player's Dreadlord Drains 12 mana per strike, nearby Dreadlord receives 6 mana
3N/A N/A N/A N/A 900 Self, Player's Dreadlord Drains 15 mana per strike, nearby Dreadlord receives 7 mana
Convene player-units in an area, teleporting them to the current location of the Agent. Summons 3 random unit's in the area to every 3 seconds. Each summons group arrives at the Agent's current location, not the point where it was casted. Lasts for 4 summons.
Ability Name: Summoning (Ultimate)
Ability description
Duration Cooldown Mana Cost Range Area of Effect Allowed Targets Effect
4 summons 120 175 Infinite 500 Air, Ground, Player Units Teleports 3 player units from a select location to the Nathrezim Agent every 3 seconds
You should make it cool or I will kill you
They look good, be careful if it becomes OP.
Suggestion though; reduce the AoE of each Crossfire piece.
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That's totally cool. And don't worry about "things already being taken"; the rules say nothing about "dibs" (i.e. people can't "call ideas/models" & reserve them for themselves), and In-Game is somewhat constrained so I expected there to be a few Heroe submissions that would use the same model; it'll just go to show how creative either of you are as by direct comparison.
I don't know about "imbalance" (time & play-testing will tell that), but I can tell you to check the First Post; your Hero is definitely a bit AoS-styled (you even said so with the 'long description'
), and this Contest is about making Heroes that fit in with Melee (Standard/Ladder/etc) Heroes, so that might be an issue.
I kinda posted with that purpose. xD
)Love Seeker said:
CakeMaster said:
Please check the Rules in the First Postbusterkomo said:
I don't see why not; it's not in the Rules one way or another, and it's just using a tool to make your map smaller (not substantively change it or utilize outside/custom resources)... But I fail to see why you would need to; is the KB limit that small? "In-Game" contest means filesize limit is nearly a non-issue, methinks.Love Seeker said:
Bwaah? Nonsense. You don't have to be good at spells to make this Contest work for you; you just have to be good at Design! There are loads of unused Abilities in the Object Editor that you could take a look at... And as for "minimum 2 triggered abilities", well simply have a "Dummy-Casted" ability and you're set!Edge45 said:Dang it!, I would have joined this if I was good at spells, >.<#
Well, goodluck to the contestants,
Glad to see you coming around, man. And unfortunately for you, while Night Elves are generally unpopular, that hasn't stopped me from making myKingz said:
Schweet! Glad to see some people coming out of the woodwork to come full-circle (mixing euphemisms...). Hope you like how this one goes.busterkomo said:
Sure, I don't see why not. People, don't get too hung up on the "ENTRANTS MUST GO SOLO" thing; this is a community of collaboration. Now, I think we can all expect that the entry must be physically created (i.e. Editor-work) by you, and I think a majority (if not all) of the actual Design should be from your own mind... But getting some help playtesting? Trigger debugging? Tossing ideas around? That's all fair game, methinks.Footman16 said:
Thanks!Garfield1337 said:
1) S...u...r...e? I don't know in what setting they would be used (please let me know), but Blizzard has the golden-yellow Tooltip color, so everyone's should (at least) have that... Do you mean, like, information about the map (like at the beginning), or in the tooltips?Shadow Fury said:
Eh, see above (Shadow Fury). When it comes to Contest Rules, I intend to be rather strict; when it comes to things inside the Rules it's up to you. "Theme" & "Role" are major components of the Criteria and are (hopefully) well-explained; if you want to make a Forest Troll hero by all means, go ahead. However, you might struggle in the Judging if you can't adequately rationalize what Forest Trolls are doing in whatever Faction you pick (Orcs being the most logical choice, but they have Darkspear Trolls now, so...)Chenralstrasz said:
)Oh dang, thanks for reminding me about that. I meant to attach that map to the first post (even though anyone who can enter must have World Editor & thus Warcraft 3, & should be able to find it).Empirean said:
I would say something about how having only 1 "Proper Name" is problematic for fitting into Wc3... But see the above (Chen & ShadowFury). Just keep that in mind. : )Dalvengyr said:
Wow, what a fancy-dancy WIP you got there, man... A few years back, and I'd be right there with you (posting a beautifully-illustrated WIP post)... But nowadays I'm lucky if I have time to make the darn thing. Well anyway...Wa666r said:
). Even with the differences between them (icon, black-wing-lines) they are literally identical, and especially from an in-game perspective will be very difficult to tell apart (one of the hallmarks of Blizzard's (good) aesthetic design is that each character (unit, hero, etc) is distinguishable from every other at a distance & in the blink of an eye). Moreover, intra-racial Hero interaction, while neat, seems a bit more fitting to an Altered Melee or even AoS (is he powerful enough to go alone? And/or is the "dual-Dreadlord team-up" too powerful to consider alternate options? etc).Cokemonkey11 said:
u gaiz r 2 smrt 4 me...Dat-C3 said:
)...?); as long as they are publicly available (i.e. "already uploaded to the site") it makes sense that people can use them.See the above (Shadow Fury, Chen, Dalv, etc). We won't dictate to that level what contestants do, but remember that it will be judged according to Theme & how well it fits in Wc3, and (like with Wa666r), using the same exact model (even with SFX attachments) could prove problematic.
This is precisely why I put that Rule in 'underlines', because I wasn't positive about it's implementation. See my earlier post about why this might be a good Rule to keep, Dat-C3... But as for you, CokeMonkey, I'll be honest; I have no friggin' clue. Lol, I would've said "spells are chunks of code that make a specific custom ability" and "systems are stand-alone instances of code that let you do some different things more easily"... But I am realizing that the distinction is not quite so clear-cut as I had hoped. (How are things 'differentiated' here in the Spells Resource Section, then??)
'Spells' are one-night-stands, while 'Systems' are full-on marriages.
As in my earlier post, we want to encourage people to create as much as possible 'from scratch'; if, for example, someone were to whip up a Hero utilizing entirely existing Systems & uploaded Spells, that would not be fair to those whoslaved over a hot Trigger Editor or JNGPworked hard to make their stuff from scratch.
Almia said:
Those both sound really interesting, but I would like to point out that those seem rather "AoS-y" (one Proper Name, a unique & non-repeatable entity, self-centered spells, etc)... Maybe it's just me, but remember the setting for this Contest (i.e. Hero Additions to the Factions).CakeMaster said:
Um no?So basically you're saying you'd prefer to limit the quality of others' software engineering so that you can make things marginally more difficult for people who want to reuse code?
originality and design are judgment criteria, not line-count and obfuscation. That's just masochistic
Good questions... Erg...VermillionEdict said:
Meh, we'll see. I'm not super-sold either way.
It's a fine line.Kingz said:
Kyrbi0 said:u gaiz r 2 smrt 4 me...
This is precisely why I put that Rule in 'underlines', because I wasn't positive about it's implementation. See my earlier post about why this might be a good Rule to keep, Dat-C3... But as for you, CokeMonkey, I'll be honest; I have no friggin' clue. Lol, I would've said "spells are chunks of code that make a specific custom ability" and "systems are stand-alone instances of code that let you do some different things more easily"... But I am realizing that the distinction is not quite so clear-cut as I had hoped. (How are things 'differentiated' here in the Spells Resource Section, then??)
Think of it this way...
'Spells' are one-night-stands, while 'Systems' are full-on marriages.
As in my earlier post, we want to encourage people to create as much as possible 'from scratch'; if, for example, someone were to whip up a Hero utilizing entirely existing Systems & uploaded Spells, that would not be fair to those who slaved over a hot Trigger Editor or JNGP worked hard to make their stuff from scratch.
At the same time, there are certain systems (I believe; again, showing my ignorance as a true Coder) that provide invaluable functionalities & really make life easier for Coders (things like Timers, Damage Detection, Dynamic Hash-Duplex Indexing (<- made that up
I think? Let me know. I will definitely ask some questions of my betters about it, though.
scope FrozenSpellpack
globals
private constant integer DUMMY_ID = 'h000'
private constant real SFX_DECAY_TIME = 5.0
endglobals
private module FrostwaveData
static constant integer SPELL_ID = 'A000'
static constant integer SHARD_COUNT = 7
static constant real LAUNCH_Z = 40.0
static constant real SPEED_MIN = 20.0
static constant real SPEED_MAX = 50.0
static constant real ACCELERATION = 5.0
static constant real TURN_RATE = 6.0 * bj_DEGTORAD
static constant string MISSILE_PATH = "war3mapImported\\IceBolt.mdx"
static constant method aoe takes integer l returns real
return 100.0
endmethod
static constant method damage takes integer l returns real
return 60.0 * l
endmethod
static constant method duration takes integer l returns real
return 2.75
endmethod
endmodule
native UnitAlive takes unit id returns boolean
private function getDistance takes real x, real y, real xt, real yt returns real
return SquareRoot((xt - x) * (xt - x) + (yt - y) * (yt - y))
endfunction
private function getAngle takes real x, real y, real xt, real yt returns real
return Atan2(yt - y, xt - x)
endfunction
private function isInBound takes real x, real y returns boolean
return x >= WorldBounds.minX and x <= WorldBounds.maxX and y >= WorldBounds.minY and y <= WorldBounds.maxY
endfunction
private struct Freeze
static method apply takes unit u, real dur returns thistype
local thistype this = allocate()
return this
endmethod
endstruct
scope Frostwave
private module KillShard
call UnitApplyTimedLife(i.m.u[j], 'BTLF', SFX_DECAY_TIME)
call DestroyEffect(i.m.e[j])
set i.m.e[j] = null
set i.m.u[j] = null
set i.m.b[j] = false
set i.m.c = i.m.c - 1
if i.m.c < 0 then
call i.m.destroy()
set b = true
endif
endmodule
private struct data extends array
implement FrostwaveData
static constant real TAU = bj_PI * 2
static constant real ANGLE_ADD = TAU/data.SHARD_COUNT
static constant player PASSIVE = Player(PLAYER_NEUTRAL_PASSIVE)
endstruct
private keyword Frostwave
private struct IceShard
readonly integer c
readonly real array s[data.SHARD_COUNT]
readonly real array a[data.SHARD_COUNT]
readonly real array x[data.SHARD_COUNT]
readonly real array y[data.SHARD_COUNT]
readonly unit array u[data.SHARD_COUNT]
readonly boolean array b[data.SHARD_COUNT]
readonly effect array e[data.SHARD_COUNT]
private static method inRadius takes real x, real y, real xt, real yt, real r returns boolean
return (x - xt) * (x - xt) + (y - yt) * (y - yt) <= r * r
endmethod
static method move takes Frostwave i returns boolean
local integer j = 0
local boolean b = false
local real a
loop
exitwhen j > data.SHARD_COUNT
if i.m.b[j] then
set i.m.x[j] = i.m.x[j] + i.m.s[j] * Cos(i.m.a[j])
set i.m.y[j] = i.m.y[j] + i.m.s[j] * Sin(i.m.a[j])
if isInBound(i.m.x[j], i.m.y[j]) then
if inRadius(i.m.x[j], i.m.y[j], i.tX, i.tY, i.m.s[j]) then
implement KillShard
else
set a = getAngle(i.m.x[j], i.m.y[j], i.tX, i.tY)
call SetUnitX(i.m.u[j], i.m.x[j])
call SetUnitY(i.m.u[j], i.m.y[j])
call SetUnitFacing(i.m.u[j], i.m.a[j] * bj_RADTODEG)
if data.TURN_RATE != 0 and Cos(i.m.a[j] - a) < Cos(data.TURN_RATE) then
if Sin(a - i.m.a[j]) >= 0 then
set i.m.a[j] = i.m.a[j] + data.TURN_RATE
else
set i.m.a[j] = i.m.a[j] - data.TURN_RATE
endif
else
set i.m.a[j] = a
set i.m.s[j] = i.m.s[j] + data.ACCELERATION
if i.m.s[j] > data.SPEED_MAX then
set i.m.s[j] = data.SPEED_MAX
endif
endif
endif
else
implement KillShard
endif
endif
set j = j + 1
endloop
return b
endmethod
static method create takes real x, real y, real f returns thistype
local thistype this = allocate()
local integer i = 0
set f = f - data.ANGLE_ADD * (data.SHARD_COUNT/2)
set .c = data.SHARD_COUNT - 1
loop
exitwhen i > .c
set .s[i] = data.SPEED_MIN
set .a[i] = f
set .b[i] = true
set .x[i] = x
set .y[i] = y
set .u[i] = CreateUnit(data.PASSIVE, DUMMY_ID, x, y, f * bj_RADTODEG)
set .e[i] = AddSpecialEffectTarget(data.MISSILE_PATH, .u[i], "origin")
if UnitAddAbility(.u[i], 'Amrf') and UnitRemoveAbility(.u[i], 'Amrf') then
endif
call SetUnitFlyHeight(.u[i], data.LAUNCH_Z, 0)
set f = f + data.ANGLE_ADD
set i = i + 1
endloop
return this
endmethod
endstruct
private struct Frostwave extends array
unit c
player p
real tX
real tY
real a // AoE
real d // Damage
real r // Duration
IceShard m
implement CTL
local boolean b
implement CTLExpire
set b = IceShard.move(this)
if b then
call destroy()
endif
implement CTLEnd
private static method onCast takes nothing returns boolean
local thistype this = create()
local integer l
local real a
local real x
local real y
set .c = GetTriggerUnit()
set .p = GetTriggerPlayer()
set x = GetUnitX(.c)
set y = GetUnitY(.c)
set .tX = GetSpellTargetX()
set .tY = GetSpellTargetY()
set l = GetUnitAbilityLevel(.c, data.SPELL_ID)
set a = getAngle(x, y, .tX, .tY)
set .m = IceShard.create(x, y, a)
set .d = data.damage(l)
set .a = data.aoe(l)
set .r = data.duration(l)
return false
endmethod
static if not LIBRARY_SpellEffectEvent then
private static method check takes nothing returns boolean
if GetSpellAbilityId() == data.SPELL_ID then
call thistype.onCast()
endif
return false
endmethod
endif
private static method onInit takes nothing returns nothing
local trigger t
static if LIBRARY_SpellEffectEvent then
call RegisterSpellEffectEvent(data.SPELL_ID, function thistype.onCast)
else
set t = CreateTrigger()
call TriggerRegisterAnyUnitEventBJ(t, EVENT_PLAYER_UNIT_SPELL_EFFECT)
call TriggerAddCondition(t, Condition(function thistype.check))
endif
endmethod
endstruct
endscope
endscope
