Who is by far lowest pick ratio first hero in the game?
Who is one of the least played hero in the game overhaul?
Who the only have cast time on main ability?
Who’s nuke ability cost more than most heroes ultimate?
Which hero are have worst winratio as first hero in the game?
The only hero which main ability is countered by right clicking with your sweet sweet 20 apm?
Yest - its Blood mage - the least popular, worst designed hero in the game.
But i have few suggestions which will be totally ignored to make something good to this dead hero and dead game.
- Flame strike is 135 mana, 0.8s casting (plus hero animation time btw), showing where its will land, dont hitting air, hitting your own units abomination of a ability. So I suggest few possible changes.
- Easy one - just make it instant or at least about 0.3 s cast time.
- Hard one first type - make it 100 mana but with 0.8 sec cast (make this hero lil better for creeping) and only 75% damage to buildings
Hard one second type - 100 mana, instant damage yet make it channeling for its 3 seconds, so its will be powerful yet with obvious counterplay and 75% damage to buildings.
But flame strike isnt the only bad boy ability there, syphon mana…
- Syphon mana lock your range hero who supposed to do damage to mana SUCK all fight instead of dealing damage, so blood mage is the only hero who is BAD with items like claws.
Solutions: - Syphon becomes channeling for 3 seconds yet with lower drain power than for old 6 seconds. something like instead of 15\25\35 for 6 seconds - 25\40\55 for 3 seconds yet giving mana must be the old 6 seconds and cooldown still be 6 seconds.
- Rework in completely to ability version of wand of mana stealing. Cost 10 mana 50\100\150 mana steal with 6 second cd, instant but without possibility to grant your mana to allies.
Changes like this will NOT even touch existing meta, but will give the worst hero in the game some fun time.
P.S. I know that no one give a single f, but i believe that changes like this will make this old fart moldy game some new colors. Thanks for reading.