Former Orcish shaman of the Shadowmoon clan, who became the first Orcish warlock. Gul'dan is considered by many to be the most cunning and powerful mortal warlock to ever have existed.
Combat Trait
1
Soul Shards
Passive
For every 8 minion kills near your hero, gain a Soul Shard. Maximum of 2. Hero kills count as 8 minion kills. Regenerate 1% health per stored Soul Shard every 2 seconds.
2
Soulburn (D)
Active
Consume a Soul Shard to empower you abilities for 4 seconds. Empowered abilities share a cooldown with their basic ability counterpart.
Primary Abilities
1
Hand of Gul'dan (Q)
Placed AoE Cooldown: 10 seconds Cost: 50 mana
Summon an explosion of fel energy at the targeted area, inflicting (x) damage and an additional (x) damage over 4 seconds to all enemies caught within the blast.
2
Unstable Affliction (W)
Skillshot Cooldown: 8 seconds Cost: 30 Mana
Deal (x) damage over 7 seconds.
3
Drain Soul (E)
Channeled Cooldown: 2 seconds Cost: 15 mana per second
Assault your target's soul, dealing (low) damage every second. While affected by Drain Soul, all damage you deal to the target is increased by 35%.
Secondary Abilities
1
Chaos Wave (Q - Soulburn)
Cone AoE Cooldown: 10 seconds Cost: 50 mana
A wave of fel energy engulfs all those in its path, inflicting (x) damage and an additional (x) damage over 6 seconds.
2
Haunt (W - Soulburn)
Skillshot Cooldown: 8 seconds Cost: 30 mana
Deal (x) damage.
3
Consume Soul (E - Soulburn)
Channeled Cooldown: 2 seconds Cost: 15 mana per second
Assault your target's soul, dealing (low-medium) damage every second. While affected by Consume Soul, all damage you deal to the target is increased by 50%.
Heroic Abilities
1
Dark Bargain (R)
Cooldown: 90 seconds Cost: 45 mana
Prevent all damage taken for 4 seconds. After this effect expires, take 50% of the prevented damage over 4 seconds.
2
Demonic Gateway (R)
Cooldown: 75 seconds Cost: 30 mana
Summon a gateway between your location and another up to (x) yards away lasting 10 seconds. All friendly players can use the gateway to transport between the two locations once every 20 seconds.
Talents
Tier 1 - Level 1
1. Fel Armor: Increase total health and all healing received by 10%. 2. Energizing Souls: Stored Soul Shardsnow also regenerate 1% mana every 2 seconds per soul stored. 3. Agony (W): Reduce the cooldown of your Unstable Affliction and Haunt spells by 2 seconds. 4. Feast of Souls (D): Recover (x%) total HP every time Soulburn is cast.
Tier 2 - Level 4
1. Gathering Power: Passively grants 5% Ability Power. Each Hero takedown increases this bonus by 2% to a maximum of 15% . This bonus Ability Power is reset to 5% on death. 2. Devoured Souls (D): Soulburnempowers your abilities for an additional 2 seconds. 3. Mannoroth's Blood: Nearby non-heroic units and mercenaries deal 50% additional damage and attack 25% faster. 4. Drain Life (E): Drain Souland Consume Soulnow heals for 100% of the damage done.
Tier 3 - Level 7
1. Contagious Affliction: Unstable Affliction and Haunt deal 30% damage to all enemies within 10 yards. 2. Lasting Corruption (Q): Your Hand of Gul'danand Chaos Wave spells damage over time effect lasts an additional 4 seconds. 3. Twisting Nether (Active): Become invulnerable and gain stealth for 1 second. 60 second cooldown. 4. Demon Skin: Reduce all damage taken by 50% for 1 second after using a basic ability.
Tier 4 - Level 10
1. Dark Bargain: See above 2. Demonic Gateway: See above
Tier 5 - Level 13
1. Curse of Exhaustion (W): Unstable Affliction and Haunt slow the target by 20% for the duration. 2. Kil'Jaeden's Cunning (Q): Increase the cast range of Hand of Gul'danand the distance of Chaos Wave by 30% 3. Mortal Coil (Q): Unstable Affliction and Hauntalso silence the target for 0.5 seconds. 4. Eye of Kilrogg (Active): Place the Eye of Killroggat target location, revealing a large area around it for 15 seconds. The Eye is Stealthed but is easily destroyed by enemies. 60 second cooldown.
Tier 6 - Level 16
1. Life Leech (D): Heal for 30% of all damage you deal while Soulburnis active. 2. Infused Energy (Q): Reduce the cooldown of your Hand of Gul'danand Chaos Wave spells by 1 second per enemy hit. 3. Jar of Souls: Increase maximum number of stored Soul Shards to 3 and gain 5% damage per stored Soul Shard. 4. Curse of Doom: Unstable Afflictionand Hauntcan now be directly cast on any enemy. (Removes skillshot)
Tier 7 - Level 20
1. Empty Promises (R): Increases the duration of Dark Bargainby 1 second and gain unstoppable while it is active. 2. Nether Travel (R): Reduces the cooldown of Demonic Gatewayby 10 seconds per use. 3. Fel Volcano (Q): Hand of Gul'danno longer has a travel time. Chaos Wavedeals an additional 10% damage per enemy hit. 4. Rewind (Active): Reset all basic ability cooldowns. 60 second cooldown.
Author's Comments
ALL NUMBER NEED ADJUSTING. I don't claim to a balance pro and I think especially with this type of hero, the numbers would be a ****shoot to try and guesstimate. You can assume Gul'dan in this state is meant to be one of the squishiest heroes in the game without any defensive talents taken, but his presence should frighten the enemy team due to the damage he can output.
FEEDBACK GREATLY APPRECIATED! This is actually my first concept and first passthrough at this hero as well, so all help is welcome.
@mermeoth yeah I definitely agree Gul'dan needs to be very fel focused. I actually changed the graphic for both hand of Gul'dan and chaos wave to be fel green colored instead of the default purple. You have given me some great feedback and it is greatly appreciated!
Well in W2 he had standard Death knight abilities, which are more necromancer like.
In wow rpg book it is stated he summons many demons to distract enemy before he will unleash spells and enter melee combat.
In WoD he didn't show much yet, he was just throwing or summoning some green stuff.
Imho I imagine Gul'dan as someone who summons demons for short duration to aid the fight, throwing some green soul fire and cataclysm like spells. Hand of gul'dan fits him well ofc (it has his own name in it :)
@nairb Thanks! I think it would be fun to play, and that's why I made it :)
@Mermeoth Thanks for the input. I do have to disagree though, when I think of demonology warlocks I think of two things - minions and metamorphosis. Illidan already has metamorphosis so that is out entirely. With Gul'dan (imo) needing a spot in the Nexus, I feel like this is a decent representation.
I have thought of the idea of Shadowbolt being a basic ability, and I agree that it probably fits in better than say Unstable Affliction. That being said though, I liked the idea of Drain Soul increasing dot damage and didn't want to make him Jaina 2.0, which it may feel like with a skillshot direct damage spell like shadowbolt + an AoE like HoG.
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In wow rpg book it is stated he summons many demons to distract enemy before he will unleash spells and enter melee combat.
In WoD he didn't show much yet, he was just throwing or summoning some green stuff.
Imho I imagine Gul'dan as someone who summons demons for short duration to aid the fight, throwing some green soul fire and cataclysm like spells. Hand of gul'dan fits him well ofc (it has his own name in it :)
@Mermeoth Thanks for the input. I do have to disagree though, when I think of demonology warlocks I think of two things - minions and metamorphosis. Illidan already has metamorphosis so that is out entirely. With Gul'dan (imo) needing a spot in the Nexus, I feel like this is a decent representation.
I have thought of the idea of Shadowbolt being a basic ability, and I agree that it probably fits in better than say Unstable Affliction. That being said though, I liked the idea of Drain Soul increasing dot damage and didn't want to make him Jaina 2.0, which it may feel like with a skillshot direct damage spell like shadowbolt + an AoE like HoG.