What are your cool Trait ideas?

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For many heroes, one of the most important aspects of their kit is their trait. Ones that play a major role in the hero’s playstyle (such as Artanis’ Shield Overload), or even in some cases act as the pivot point for the hero’s entire playstyle (such as Imperius’ Valorous Brand), are often intricate and engaging.

So let’s come up with more ideas like that! What kinds of abilities or effects can you think of that would make for awesome traits?

One of the ones I had in mind was sort of a reverse of Valorous Brand. Instead of basic abilities marking enemies and basic attacks being empowered by consuming them, the basic attacks are what apply marks and the abilities are what consumes them. Each ability would be empowered differently, such as increased range, heavier or longer CC, more damage, or reducing armor or damage output.

What are your ideas?

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First off, I like that most of the alien heroes from Starcraft all have a variant on the shield-trait. I didn’t notice it until recently, but realized how much of a nice touch it was and representative of the Starcraft universe.

Those things aside, I’d love to see more team-support traits for some heroes, or traits that negate some of the more cheese-aspects of HoTS like stuns, sleeps, or just hype-burst damage. (The one thing I definitely appreciate about DW in how he alters the meta.)

Another cool trait idea would be if you could ‘swap’ with a tagged ally hero … so long as you aren’t taking damage (or teammates simply have to opt-in for it to be enabled to work). This would be cool if it was a tank/bruiser like hero, and would counter things like Garrosh throws, etc.

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Ooh ooh!!

  • Ithereal, inescapable fate. 20 second cooldown, activate to make the next q or w able to be cast anywhere within vision. (These would be a circle skillshots, and a channel laser type thing)
  • Malygos: Master of Magic, whenever malygos is hit by an enemy basic ability, the enemy hero who hit him is silenced for .5 seconds. (Maybe .25? I dunno how long the silence would have to be to be balanced).
  • Sombra: literally just her trait in overwatch, but 25% health instead of 50%. So vision on 25% or less heroes. I can’t take credit for this one but it would be cool.
  • onyxia: lay an egg. It hatches when destroyed, and a bby dragon comes out. 10 second cooldown. Up to 30 eggs possible at a time.

I have even more cool ideas for abilities and ults, but you said traits.

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Oh god, now I’m just imagining some careless AoEs summoning 30 baby dragons at once. Now that would make for excellent WTF Moments fodder.

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I feel the counter-stun would work if the trait has a cooldown of 20 sec., or something. Then it would be strategic on who initiates the inherently defensive trait. ;3

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  • Hero has otherwise long cooldowns (and costs), but using their trait refreshes their cooldown. (Such as a prayer for divine power, or reloading weapons that use ammo instead of mana)
  • Next basic attack is ranged (on a hero that using a melee weapon that can be thrown)
  • Afflicting a target with 3 separate effects causes them to proc additional damage (ie, have to hit multiple skillshots)
  • Hero self-targets damage/debuffs (non-cleanse/ anti-heal proc) but heals or buffs others around them. (blood mage/priest design)
  • Flash: hero causes afflicted enemies to be… fixated, revel in disgust, take offense or otherwise be inconvenienced by such indecent behavior.
  • Reverse misha: rexxar is a ranged hero with a melee pet; have a melee hero with a ranged pet (such as bishibosh to rakanishu: ranged pet heals/revives the melee character)
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A tanking trait similar to Hand of Sacrifice from WoW, where when activated, you can target an ally which splits the damage taken by them between the two of you.

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An off-tank that has is hp dependent on his size unit. At full life, he’s big as DW, but at 1%, he’s tiny as Ana and gets 1.5% bonus move speed for every 10% missing hp.

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The trait I want to change the most is that of Traitless Tyrael. I would remake as follow:

Holy Ground
Cooldown: 60s
Create a ring for 3 seconds that blocks enemies from entering the area teleported to using El’Druin’s Might.
Quest
-Hit hero with El’Druin’s Might 20 times
-Shield ally heroes for 2,000 damage with Righteousness
-Participate in 5 takedowns
Reward
Each completed quest reduces the cooldown of Holy Ground by 15 seconds. When all 3 quest are completed, Holy Ground is always activated.

With this, I want to promote the idea that Tyrael is gaining more recognition through his feasts on the battlefield. And finally attained the status of a Holy being. Which is much more fitting than his current one that’s of a vengeful demon.

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-ragnaros: now stands up and squishes insects using the feet that he he didnt skip leg day with instead of letting the other minuscule heroes do his cleanup job.

–a trait that reduces CDs of the hero’s / allies’ cooldowns

–a trait that makes me an old god xD
(yes, im looking at anyone ( all of u ) who didnt see my new hero -_- )