Theramore Hero Defense

[grouteski]

Just won solo at hard difficulty with Spellblade
I like Frostguard, it slows enemies when hit but its a shame that when upgrading that item, the slow effect is changed to completely different effect. Its good against bosses i think.

Also Druids Starfall and ultimate abilitys description about Starfalls damage is not same
I feel like Dark Ranger could need some buffs?

 

[SgtSMOrc]

Wow, 2500 downloads already, thank you so much! I uploaded a new version with more balancing and fixes today. If you find any bugs or if you have feedback, let me know!

 

[ReizoBleide]

ive got bugs to report (i think these are bugs)
1. using the executioner's ulti can kill your own hero from time to time (is this intended?). from all of my playthroughs, it can only happen when the executioner and the enemy are on low health
2. activating brewmasters ulti causes me to fail arena bossfights in the event after my teammate dies, it also happens when im doing duo w/ my friend and solo
thats all im guessing, sry for bad english. overall, i enjoyed your map! so much so that ive done many playthroughs of this map already!!

forgot to rate map oops

 

[Dunha]

This map is amazing. The attention to detail and how Theramore is actually similar to the one in wow is pretty cool. I would love to see this map expanded, more quests, waves and a bigger map.

 

[SgtSMOrc]

I might add one or two more quests for mid-end game in the next patch!
Bigger map and more waves won't happen tho. I like the map length as it currently is.

 

[grouteski]

Geomancers Earthquake ability does always 50dmg/sec, no matter what level

 

[SgtSMOrc]

Thanks for reporting this, I found the issue. Will be fixed in next version.

Edit: Next version will have some hero balancing again
Sea Witch:

• Curse of the Tides rework: No more AOE damage every 2 seconds, instead the target explodes upon death and deals damage to all nearby enemy units instead.
• Chain Lightning: Massive damage buff, but less chain targets and shorter CD

Berserker:

• Whirlwind: Now also has a knockback effect

Dancer:

• Fan Dance: Damage/Heal Buff, Gold bonus for picking this ability removed
• Fan Tornado: Decreased CD

Blademaster:

• Windwalk: Now does 100 base damage (up from 50)
• Blade Flurry: Increased damage

Dark Ranger:

• Shadow Walk: Now does 100 base damage (up from 50)
• Black Arrow: Dark Minions no longer benefit from summon items as intended (I don't even know if that was the case before)

Sharpshooter:

• Explosive Shot: Increased AOE Damage

Feedback is appreciated

 

[Eisthorbaer]

Hi SgtSMOrc,

first of all: thank you so much for creating this map! I've played it probably more than 100 times in the last few months and i still love it. Such a good job!
Here are my thoughts about some things that could be improved. Note that i usually play as a 2 or 3 player coop.

- lack of item options: We all feel like we are always going for the same items
-> rushing Lifestone early game on every charakter (maybe it's too good or too cheap - makes you able to spam your early game items and gives a hell lot of sustain)
-> depending on your role, you always go for the same items, because there simply is no real option to the best items. Some more options would increase the replayability of the map a lot
- there is no good tank item besides the two shields
- there is no option for dps heros, it's always Killmaim that is bought first, for every dps hero this seems to be the best first item (after Lifestone)
- Mage items offer the best variability, but there are a lot of heroes that don't scale well with "X% spell damage increase" (is this intentional?).
- The fact that the bog lurker is available later in the game makes it waaaay harder to kill it in a 2 player coop, because you never really get the chance to kill him without time pressure after the first special event (don't get me wrong, i like that change in difficulty and i just wanted to share my experience about it)

- overall the game feels too easy, yesterday we played as 3 on legendary difficulty and we didn't have a singe problem all the way through the game. I'm sure we had a good comp, but it just seemed too easy for the hardest difficulty setting

Balancing:
Some heroes seem so overpowered, while others seem somewhat useless. I'm sure that you know about that, because you already made huge changes to the Sea Witch, that was the worst character before the remake (didn't play the new version yet). Aside from that, you built the best hero designs i have ever seen, it was so fun to explore all of them!
Here are my thoughts:
- Dark Ranger:
yesterday i played the new dark ranger (i don't remember playing her in the past and i read, that you rebalanced her lately) and she was insanely strong. I could easily kill my whole lane faster than the other two of my party (pyromancer and spellblade) and i could kill nearly every boss alone, without potions, just by using her ult. It's way too strong.

- Huntress:
she is very fine until she gets her Ult. As intended it works with both critical strike and lifesteal and that is what makes her absolutely strong in lategame. I guess removing one aditional target per level could fix that (just a quick suggestion)

- Brewmaster:
Using the ult makes the hero lose exp (just reporting that, not a real problem though). That might be inteded, because the ult seems very strong as well, the brewmaster can solo most of the bosses.

- Paladin:
compared to the other tanks, the Paladin seemed to be a little weak (or the others too strong?)

- Priestess:
one of my favourite heroes, it's so fun to play her. She is in no way too weak, but her ult seems quite useless most times (the other skills make up for it) and the summoning ult doesn't feel to fit into her kit somehow. The life regeneration aura of the Guardian spirit is the best about it, the spirit on level 1 + 2 is not really tanky and doesn't do too much as well.

- Assassin:
i like that hero a lot, but he doesn't really do what he is supposed to do: assassinate. He has those single target skills, but the damage numbers are equal to every other hero, that is not supposed to assassinate. The 50% attack speed bonus on his ult doesn't feel helpful, because you mostly need to back off from the damage afterwards.

Known bugs:
- Fire Totem of Shaman only does 50 dmg on max level, probably also on the other levels of the skill

I might update this list in the future.

Thank you so much for your work!

 

[SgtSMOrc]

Wow thank you for this extensive feedback!
I just came back from my holiday break and will continue working on the map starting tomorrow.

I felt like the Impossible mode was too hard but maybe it was just bad team comps. After reading your review I will revert the last difficulty changes and maybe make the Impossible mode harder by adding some additional mechanics during the waves or for boss fights. What do you think about this?

I will also work on the heroes and make some item balancing changes and maybe adding one or two more.

 

[planettampon]

Hi, first off this map is so much fun, and so impressive. Thanks so much for making it. I'm sure I'll continue to enjoy playing it for a long time.

Only issue I've encountered is that units can get stuck in/between these buildings. This happened to a few from the wave of flying naga, which Pained attempted to kill, ultimately getting stuck herself and ending my solo run This probably isn't a huge deal for most playthroughs but as a melee hero there wasn't much I could do about it.

 

[grouteski]

Tinkers flamethrower turrets damage is bugged, its always 11 no matter what level

 

[SgtSMOrc]

Thank you for reporting this bug! I uploaded a fixed version.

 

[grouteski]

Tinker cant attack some air units, one was batrider and maybe parrot

 

[zuko01]

Shaman needs a nerf, Magma totem is just insanely OP on it's kit for being a support class.