Maiev Shadowsong by Malkav

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Maiev Shadowsong

By: Malkav
Last Updated: Oct 12, 2017
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Maiev Shadowsong

Warden

Maiev Shadowsong is a night elf Warden and former Priestess of the Moon. She grew up in the ancient Kaldorei Empire and eventually joined the esteemed Sisterhood of Elune, rising through its ranks to become a senior priestess. During the infamous War of the Ancients, around 10,000 years before the events of the First War. Maiev played a major role in the fight against the Burning Legion, as part of the Kaldorei Resistance. (wowpedia)

I have set out to make a Maiev that is close to her Warcraft 3 counterpart, without copying Zeratul.

This incarnation of Maiev is meant to be an elusive tank. Her damage is meant to be low unless talented, but her mobility is designed to rival that of the most mobile assassins.

Her w, blink, has the range of Zeratul, but a much higher coldown, making it strictly worse.

This is combated by her trait, which reduces her cooldowns upon certain intervals of damage. Making her a strong fighter if performing her role as warrior, but a poor fighter if ignored by the enemy team. If the enemy team ignores you, you will be tested in landing your cc's in the form of fan or glaive.

If you know of the warden hero from warcraft 3, you will notice that I have turned fan of knives and shadowstrike into the same skill. Meaning that the skill functions more like shadowstrike if only one enemy is hit, and like fan of knives if several targets are in range.

The throw glaive spell is inspired by my encounter with a warden boss in the World of warcraft instance, Vault of the Wardens.

The damage numbers are not really important. I just copied them from spells i felt have a similar impact of what I am going for. Fan /shadowstrike has the damage of Sonya's spear. Glaive is somewhere between stormbolt and facemelt, while blinkstrike has the damage of Haymaker. Fan damage may be too low, but she has talents and a pretty risky trait to offset it.

I mostly made this as a challenge to myself, but any critique is welcome.

Health 2200 (+4% per level)

Regen 4 (+0.20 per level)

Mana 500 (+10 per level)

Regen 3 (+0.1 per level)

Attack Speed 1.25 per second

Damage 85 (+4% per level)

Combat Trait

1
Unyielding Resolve
Whenever Maiev loses 30% of her maximum hitpoints, trigger a full basic ability cooldown reset. Has a cooldown of 5 seconds

Primary Abilities

1
Fan of Knives
The Warden flings a flurry of knives at multiple enemy targets around her, dealing damage and applying up to 3 seconds slow. The total damage done by knives are equal to 180(+4% per level) divided by number of targets. If only one target is in range, damage is 180 and slow is 3 seconds, if 3 targets are in range, damage is 60(180/3) and slow is 1 second. Has a minimum damage and slow

Cooldown: 9 seconds
2
Blink
Short distance teleportation that allows the Warden to move in and out of combat
Cooldown: 22 seconds
3
Throw Glaive
Throw a long range, but slow moving projectile in target direction, once the glaive reaches max distance, it will return to Maiv, dealing damage 90 (+4% per level) and healing her for each hero hit. If a target is hit by both the outgoing and returning glaive, the target is also stunned for one 0,75 seconds.

Maiev can not attack while her weapon is traveling.

Cooldown: 15 seconds

Heroic Abilities

1
Avatar of Vengeance
Transform into an Avatar of Vengeance for 20 seconds. Gaining a short ranged attack. Nearby minion or hero death will restore 10% of Maiev's maximum hitpoints and summon invulnerable spirits, attacking the same target as Maiev.

Cooldown: 80 seconds
2
Blink strike
Maiev becomes unstopable and receives 90 armor for 1 second. If Maiv is hit by a damaging ability or attack during this period, she will instantly teleport.
If the attacker is within 3 (or 300 depending on Starcraft or Warcraft measurement) range, the attacking hero will be stunned for 2 seconds, and Maiev will be teleported 6 range in the opposite direction. If the attacking hero is beyond 3 range, Maiev will teleport behind the attacker, dealing 320 (+4% per level) damage

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Talents

TIER 1 TALENTS

Shadow Strike (q+)


If only one target is hit by fan of knives, deal and additional 60 damage for each second the target is slowed.
Quest: hit 15 heroes alone with fan of knives.
Reward: The maximum slow duration from fan of knives is increased to 7

Blade Flurry(q+)

Fan of knives always deal full damage and slow to non heroic targets

Quest: Hit 40 heroes with fan of knives
Reward: Fan of knives always deals maximum damage, doubles versus none heroic targets.

Blur (w+)

Whenever Maiev teleports (through blink or blink strike), she gains 50 armor for 2 seconds


TIER 2 TALENTS

Fortitude (Trait+)

Quest: Trigger Unyielding Resolve 10 times
Reward: Unyielding resolve can now be activated, but has a 60 second cooldown when doing so.

Disarm(e+)

Enemies hit by your glaive are blinded for 1 second.

Strong Arm(e+)


Increase glaive range and speed by 40%

TIER 3 TALENTS

Follow Through (passive)

After using an ability, your next basic attack within 6 seconds deal 40% additional damage.

Celerity(e+)

When her glaive is traveling, Maiev gains 30% movement speed

Wanted(q+)

Enemies hit by fan of knives are marked for 6 seconds, which makes them take an additional 60 damage from Maiev's next source of damage against them

TIER 4 TALENTS

Avatar of Vengeance

Transform into an Avatar of Vengeance for 30 seconds. Gaining a short ranged attack. Nearby minion or hero death will restore 10% of Maiev's maximum hitpoints and summon invulnerable spirits, attacking the same target as Maiev.

Blink Strike

Maiev becomes unstopable and receives 90 armor for 1 second. If Maiv is hit by a damaging ability or attack during this period, she will instantly teleport.
If the attacker is within 3 (or 300 depending on Starcraft or Warcraft measurement) range, the attacking hero will be stunned for 2 seconds, and Maiev will be teleported 6 range in the opposite direction. If the attacking hero is beyond 3 range, Maiev will teleport behind the attacker, dealing 320 (+4% per level) damage


TIER 5 TALENTS

Resilience(passive)

Every 30 seconds, heal for 50% of the next ability damage taken over 3 seconds

Infused Blades(q+)

Maiv heals for 10 percent of the damage dealt by fan of knives


Staggering combo(e+)

Enemies hit by Throw Glaive within 3 seconds of taking damage from fan of knives are also silenced for 1 second

TIER 6 TALENTS

Dual wield(e+)

Throw Glaive gains 1 charge. Maiev can attack as long as she has 1 charge of Throw Glaive.

First draw(q+)

Whenever Unyielding resolve is triggered, Maiev automatically throws an untalented fan of knives.

Shadow's grasp(w+)

Teleporting within 2 (200) range of an enemy hero, reduces their damage by 30% for 2 seconds


TIER 7 TALENTS

Single Minded

The duration of avatar of vengeance is increased by 5 seconds for each minion kill and 15 seconds for each hero take down.

Greatest Defense

If blink strike is triggered, reduce the cooldown to 5 seconds. Additionally, both the stun and damage effect are aplied to the attacker.

Wardens Arsenal

Unyielding resolve triggers at 10 percent health loss, coldown is reduced to 2 seconds.

Model


This is her model from warcraft 3, the model of avatar of vengeance, and the model of vengeful spirits.

They look very well, so maybe they are not the original blizzard models, and in that case I should give credit to the source
http://maievshadowsong.tumblr.com/post/110500823629/neva-shadowstalker-warden-and-avatar-of

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