Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Gul'dan

Primary Abilities

Curse of Weakness

Cooldown: 13 Seconds
Cost: 45 Mana

Curse an enemy Hero to deal the 25 (+7.5/level) per second and increasing damage taken from all sources by 15%. The curse lasts 5 seconds.

Drain Life

Cooldown: 10 Seconds
Cost: 15 Mana/Second

Channel a beam to your targeted enemy Hero to steal 15 (+5.5/level) health per second and slowing the target's movement speed by 30% for 5 seconds unless the target runs away too far.

Dark Bargain

Cooldown: 30 Seconds
Cost: 60 Mana

Cast a shield on yourself that absorbs all the damage done to you for 4 seconds. After the shield expires Gul'dan will suffer 50% of the damage absorbed during the next 4 seconds.

Heroic Abilities

Curse of Fear

Cooldown: 10 Seconds
Cost: 20 Mana/Second

Strike fear into an enemy Hero making the target run around in fear for 3 seconds. If the curse is cleansed or removed in any way the target explodes dealing 275 (+25/level) damage to himself and half that amount to nearby allied Heroes, Minions and Mercenaries.

Level 20 talent bonus:

Hand of Gul'dan

Cooldown: 75 Seconds
Cost: 375 mana

Summon a fel flaming meteorite from the sky to hit the targeted location dealing 300 (+40/level) damage to all enemies in the area and stunning them for 0.5 seconds.

Level 20 talent bonus:

Gul'dan as a Specialist

Gul'dan was/is a very difficult hero for me to design because theoretically he could do anything. Being perhaps the most powerful mortal warlock in Warcraft's history and we haven't seen him in action in real combat in Warlords of Draenor. So there's lots of room for speculation that what kind of warlock Gul'dan is. Is he a Destruction warlock who uses a lot of destructive fire spells? Demonology warlock who summons demon minions to fight for him? Or is he Affliction warlock who focuses on painful curses? He could be any of those. I however chose the Affliction specialization.

Why Affliction? Well, I could easily see Gul'dan as a Destruction warlock but the problem is that they're very similar to fire mages. So I was afraid that Gul'dan would be too similar to Kael'thas if I tried to make him as a Destruction warlock. I didn't choose Demonology simply because we already got quite a few heroes who can summon strong minions. Plus Gul'dan doesn't look like the type who summons demons like your every other normal warlock does. He's too badass for that. But I also don't see Gul'dan as the real fighter type. He avoids it a lot. So I see Gul'dan more like the type of warlock who weakens his enemies from a safe distance away so that his minions/allies can finish them off. And so I decided that Affliction specialization is the best one for Gul'dan.

The second big challenge was to choose his Trait. I was thinking of doing something with Soul Shards (like many others have) but in the end I decided to go for something else. Demon Circle teleportation? No. Most of the Gul'dan hero concepts I have seen have that as his Trait and I don't know why. It's not very warlock like Trait. Sure, warlocks have that spell. But it doesn't give the warlock vibe, you know what I mean? It's more mage like Trait since they teleport a lot. So I started to think that what warlocks really are about. What is the thing that every warlock has in common? Sacrifice. That's what it is. They need to sacrifice something in order to gain power. So I got this warlock idea who sacrifices his own health to gain mana. His Trait is Life Tap you use to sacrifice your health for mana. That sounded great to me and so I decided to go with that.

However, this Hero Concept is not done. Most of the spells above may be changed in the near future. But you should get the idea what I am aiming for here. If you agree with this Gul'dan warlock hero approach and you got ideas what spells to give him, feel free to give me suggestions.

Talents (WIP)

Tier 1 (Level 1) Talents:

1. Regeneration Master
Collecting Regeneration Gloves permanently increases Health Regeneration by 1.5 per second.

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Tier 2 (Level 4) Talents:

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Tier 4 (Level 10) Talents:

1. Curse of Fear
Cooldown: 10 Seconds
Cost: 20 Mana/Second
Strike fear into an enemy Hero making the target run around in fear for 3 seconds. If the curse is cleansed or removed in any way the target explodes dealing 275 (+25/level) damage to himself and half that amount to nearby allied Heroes, Minions and Mercenaries.

2. Hand of Gul'dan
Cooldown: 75 Seconds
Cost: 375 mana
Summon a fel flaming meteorite from the sky to hit the targeted location dealing 300 (+40/level) damage to all enemies in the area and stunning them for 0.5 seconds.

Tier 5 (Level 13) Talents:

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4. Spell Shield
Upon taking Ability Damage, reduce that damage and further Ability damage by 50% for 3 seconds. Can only trigger once every 30 seconds.

Tier 6 (Level 16) Talents:

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4. Blood for Blood
Activate to deal 10% of target enemy Hero's Max Health and heal for twice that amount.

Tier 7 (Level 20) Talents:

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4. Bolt of the Storm
Activate to teleport to a nearby location.

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Okay, I hope you'll do your best and this will be an awesome invention. However, a trade 1:1 health for mana sounds like 1 gold for 1 ore in Heroes of Might and Magic (you know, 150 health at level 10 is nothing comparing to 150 mana :P). I would understand this if he would be some kind of mana-addict and had very expensive abilities, however their mana costs are rather... low (In exception of Hand of Gul'Dan, this one was...Original I would say ;o).
I did sent you all Gul'Dans (or almost all Gul'Dans) not to show you to do not the next one. I just wanted to help you to find some suggestions for talents/abilities. Also, you wanted to do Gul'Dan not being present in battle (this doesn't mean not fighting or intervening into it in any other way), so if so, these defensive traits like Spell Shield or Regeneration Master don't suit to him. For me. With these perks, it would be like Gul'Dan in the middlest of fights and taking lots of damage. But it's just my opinion, Conjurer's Pursuit would be better than Regeneration Master, but the other way of stacking stats would be even better for him, like +2 damage per second to Curse of Weakness for each takedown or whatever else.
By the way, what do you think about my Gul'Dan? :P

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I know that there's like a hundred Gul'dan hero concepts and I don't really like any of them. They're either poorly thought out or I don't agree with the choice of his Traits and abilities or I just simply find them boring. Plus if I did give him minion summoning abilities (like Zagara, Azmodan, Gazlowe and Abathur have) he would not be that 'unique' now, would he? If I thought any of those were very good if not near perfect I would not have bothered to make a concept of my own.

Anyway, I have updated the concept by changing his abilities quite a bit and I'm quite happy with the changes so far. The point is that Gul'dan is about cursing enemies making them weaker, get mana or a shield by sacrificing his own health which he tries to replenish back by draining life from his enemies. I don't think he can be classified as an Assassin because he's not doing great amount of burst damage at any point. He's an Affliction warlock with high sustainability and curses his enemies from afar making it easier for his allies to kill them. I am going to start working on the talents really soon so stay tuned for that!

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