Isendra by bun72

Level 1

Electrified: Charged Bolt now creates one more bolt, totaling in 7. ! Quest: Hit enemy heroes with Charged Bolt up to 40 times. ! Reward: After hitting 20 times, create another bolt, totaling in 8. After hitting an enemy 40 times, create two more bolts, totaling in 10.

Conductor: Lightning cooldown is reduced by 1 second for every enemy hit.

Warmth: ! Quest: Collecting a Regeneration Globe increases your Mana Regeneration by .5 up to 15 total. ! Reward: After collecting 30 Regeneration Globes, gain 750 bonus mana.

Level 4

Recharging Bolts: Charged Bolt restores 3% maximum Mana when hitting an enemy.

Lightning Strikes Twice: Hitting an enemy with Lightning that was previously struck by your last Lightning cast will deal 100 bonus damage.

Shocking Arrival: After casting Teleport, enemies near the target location will also take the passive damage from Static Shield.

Level 7

Fully Charged: Charged Bolt now travels twice as far and stuns up to 100% longer against further enemies.

Paralyzing Strike: Lightning slows targets by 25% and up to 50% on distant targets.

Concentration: Teleport only costs 10% current mana if cast without Static Shield being active within the last 3 seconds.

Level 10

Thunderstorm: Create a thunderstorm surrounding Isendra for 10 seconds. Thunderstorm damages a nearby enemy for 40 damage every .5 seconds preferring the closest heroic target. If Thunderstorm damages an enemy, Isendra restores 2% mana.

Nova: Summon an expanding ring of pure lightning from Isendra's location at cast. Enemies hit will suffer 250 damage and have their movement slowed by 20%. Enemies closer to Isendra take increased damage, up to 100% bonus damage. Enemies farther away from Isendra are slowed more, up to 60% slow.

Level 13

Debilitating Bolts: Charged Bolt now reduces the damage an enemy deals by 40% when struck for 4 seconds.

Thunder Barrier: Lightning hits grant a Spell Shield which reduces the next source of spell damage taken by 50%, stacks up to 5 charges.

Static Shock: Enemies damaged by the passive from Static Shield have 25% reduced attack speed for 2 seconds.

Level 16

Lightning Tendrils: Charged Bolt now pierces through enemies.

Chain Lightning: Lightning no longer pierces heroes, but instead bounces towards another enemy hero who hasn't been struck yet, can only hit a maximum of 5 targets.

Static Field: Static Shield passive damage increased to 7.5% of enemies' current health and causes basic attacks to deal 2% of the target's maximum health.

Level 20

Charged Storm: Thunderstorm now creates a charged bolt emanating from the target every time it strikes.

Reversed Nova: Nova now starts from the maximum radius and shrinks inward, it now pulls enemies a short distance with it.

Lightning Mastery: All spells reduce enemy spell resist by 5, stacking up to 20.

Electric Synergy: Deal 3% more damage for each talent which affects a different spell, maximum 12%.

Play Style

Isendra is intended to be played melee, although she will be a ranged hero. Most of her spells have increased effectiveness at closer ranges and her trait requires her to be up close. Her trait active-atable gives her survivability enough to act as a bruiser, it should be on 99% of the time. Through talents she can focus more on survivability and CC through Charged Bolt or more damage throughput with Lightning. Teleport talents will help her mobility. I wasn't sure about having a straight up teleport on a bruiser but it's such an iconic ability for the Diablo 2 Sorceress, so to balance it, it costs a chunk of mana which will make it very dangerous to use frequently. Mana management will be crucial, without Static Shield active her health will be very small, think D.Va pilot form.

Isendra will teleport next to an enemy, unleashing Charged bolt which will likely hit and stun, if you are close enough the target might get hit by multiple bolts. Follow this with a close range lightning for decent damage. She will then continue to hug her target as best as possible to continue to use abilities triggering her passive. Her damage should hurt but will unlikely be able to kill a target quickly by herself (the numbers need balancing.)

Inspiration

Isendra is inspired by an Energy Shield Light Sorceress build from Diablo 2. These characters would stack as much energy as possible and invest in Energy Shield which allowed damage to be taken by mana instead of life. They would then teleport to their boss of choice, get right ontop of them and cast Static Field (Deals % of current health as damage) several times to chunk the boss. After that finished the target off with Lightning. Charged bolt, Nova, and Thunderstorm, are all iconic lightning Sorceress abilities as well.