Cactuar Crate - Ronin Edition

3/8 of those in meta are mine >.>, he's too expensive for not having a basic attack. The only reason he's run is because every other shatter for ST is trash

 

Lolk. Yeti scout is so trash.

 

regarding soulstrike on EWS,

Whenever this champion successfully hits an opponent with a basic attack, target champion loses life equal to 25% of its max HP. This ability ignores immunities.

It has a magical attack as a basic attack.

Shouldn't the magical attack be dodge/blockable? It sounds like soulstrike should proc only if the magical attack actually hits.

 

http://forums.poxnora.com/index.php?threads/2015-02-04-top-200-meta.11261/

bro do u even scout yeti

 

Is that meant to prove something? It just shows me that people build really wierd bg's. Hence the lack of Shadowstrikers, Scouts, Nokhan guides and Nokhan apprentices

 

Cast: Ghostly Visage and Invoke Hungry Mire cost 30 Nora each. Invoke also costs more AP than all the other Cast: X abilities (though it does share a short CD with Cauterize on the goblin).

Cast: Cauterize is 6 Nora, has the lowest range (being both single target and RNG 3) but a relatively low CD as well.

Cast: Alacrity is 10 Nora, has a moderate CD of 5.

As spells, Alacrity is 45 nora, Hungry Mire 35, Ghostly Visage 40, and Cauterize 35.

Seems to me that Cast: Ghostly Visage and Invoke Hungry Mire are rather over-costed, or the other Cast: abilities highly undercosted, or perhaps a bit of both.

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On a related note: Why does Deploy: Artillery Marker cost more than Deploy: Land Mine? Both relics cost the same as individual runes, there's no difference in terms of range on either ability, or on CD, and Deploy: Artillery Marker even costs AP on top of all that where Deploy: Land Mine doesn't (and of course shouldn't given it's operation).

 

- This begs for consilidation ... Also intimidating needs to be part of this. Just have arrow eater and sword eater....drop the damage gaining component and remove elusive/intimidating. Or remove the other idc.

 

- RIP defiler knight .... This lame ability and others are the main culprit in a lot of legendary uselessness post revamp

 

Cast abilitys do need a second look. especially ghostly visage is absurd expensive.

 

Cast: X should almost always be an upgrade ability so they don't weigh down a rune's usefulness.

 

- Especially since they are spells no one runs and very niche

 

Make Thor the Thunder Boar a Demi-God Paladin

Edit: On a slightly more serious note, what is the reasoning behind Assassinate being unable to miss?

 

From a lore perspective, I always figured it was if you're able to take the time to be precise enough to do x2 or x3 damage, you're probably not going to miss. I can't really speak for game balance concerns, but it might just be intended as yet another way to get around dodge/block and the like. Sort of an alternative to Precision, with some potential play around since it isn't constantly available. Just a guess on that end though.

 

Well often the theme is predicated on summoning so it would matter very little what the actual rune is. For spiders, you could summon 1 hp spider blobs that did nothing, they exist to feed surge as do skeles. Myx are predicated on the pooping out of drones as evidenced by the pupae and brood bond. Constructs also are built around a good deal of summons as the majority of the themes support runes have the ability to summon stuff.

There are also summons that have no base rune that get receive upgrades. I would assume all behave this way but I know the two serpents from the serpent master behave in such a fashion.

 

Barbs are forever doomed when it comes to their racial.

 

FS Angel is only getting a switch of abilities (Regen 3 swapped to base and Transfer Life to Upgrade 1) which still has her being the same as she is now? I thought the problem with her was her healing capabilities + Enlightened?

 

The drone had charge and scour base before the revamp is memory serves. They were simply given to upgrades with the revamp as they were simple and the drone lost all of its interesting upgrades in the process. That is why you don't see drones run anymore. It used to have crushing charge, bravery, and a few other possible very nice upgrades. They are all gone, you get charge, you get scour. That is why you don't see the real drone because now it is no different from the summoned pupae.

The reason there is no consistency is because each change was made haphazardly without though for the other similar sets of things out there. That's why some summons still have upgrades and some don't. Should all summons lose upgrades? Yeah probably, but the reason there is no rhyme or reason is because it was all changed piecemeal.

 

Could we please add race: Vampire to Angel of Death, she is already present on the spell "vampirism" and she already has lifedrinker which is vampirish so it would be nice to add a little synergy with that god forskaken theme... wouldnt be too much would it?