Please remove Ritual Dagger

[Xelfire-11383]

Bring back Scroll of Healing to Undead Shop. It was much more relevant for Undead going ghouls. They already have blight for out-of-combat regen, and ritual is strictly worse than scroll of regeneration, redundant, and requires sacrificing a skeleton, which usually means buying a second item. Make scroll of healing available at tier 2, that would’ve been a better solution than ever inventing this item. If you really feel Undead needs more out of combat regen, just improve blight regen or make sacrificial skull cheaper.

[Dani-2192]

You are right about removing Ritual dagger. I posted it a while ago:

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@Dani-2192

Ritual Dagger removed from tomb of relics.

Ritual dagger is too complicated to use, only used early game and bad in team games for instance when night elf or orc buys it. Maybe your teammates could sacrifice their summons such as treant or spirit wolf but still not worth it since healing salve and moon wells are better. Ritual dagger should not have been added, it should be deleted from the game. You need to make the game less complex, not more complex, especially for undead. If you look in the list you can see I suggested that “Claws of attack +5” and “Crystal ball” should be removed from creep loot table to balance the game, which would make for instance “Replenishment potion” drop more often. As mentioned before, this would allow undead to use more tavern heroes such as tinker and beastmaster early game before getting for instance a statue for heals. There needs to be more viable tactics to make it more fun especially in team games.
Previously in a PTR, “Rune of lesser healing” and “Vampiric potion” were added to creep loot table but then removed. “Rune of lesser healing” is bad if your hero already has full health because you can’t bring it with you and doesn’t focus on healing your hero (if you’re playing undead and selected brewmaster you need items that heal your hero only and not the ghouls and skeleton warriors). “Vampiric potion” is not good for all heroes, doesn’t allow different tactics, doesn’t heal you when out of combat early game, becomes overpowered in the late game and undead already has vampiric aura. “Replenishment potion” is much better because it’s good for all heroes no matter what abilities you pick and it can be used whenever you want, with the thrill of trying to not get hit after using it.
You would also have to do other suggestions in the list such as making ghouls and abomination start with cannibalize already researched.

Do NOT add scroll of healing to tomb of relics. It exists in goblin merchant which makes the area near goblin mechant more contested instead of “turtle tactics” at your base. It’s a bad idea to improve blight regen since it’s already strong and doesn’t allow different tactics for instance it doesn’t heal Beastmaster or Tinker if you play them as undead. Sacrificial skull was already improved years ago, for instance graveyard requirement was removed.
Instead focus on the undead unit abilities that heal:

@Dani-2192

370. Crypt fiend unburrow/burrow 0.15 seconds faster.
371. Carrion beetles (level 2 and 3) unburrow/burrow 0.15 seconds faster.
372. Carrion beetles (level 2 and 3) hp regen when burrowed increased from 2 to 5.

@Dani-2192

380. Ghoul and Abomination start with Cannibalize already upgraded by default.

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399. Gargoyle cast Stone form ability 0.1 second faster (land on the ground faster).

Statues are mandatory because healing abilities of other undead units and items dropping from creeps are currently lackluster which doesn’t allow for different tactics, so you want to nerf the statue like this in the end:

@Dani-2192

392. Obsidian statue maximum mana reduced from 600 to 500.

I recommend you read my entire suggestions list to better understand each of my suggestions.