Tectus by kid-karma

I may be misreading the ability but does earthen pillar do any damage as it does not say. I think it does but i am unsure.

LOVE this entire concept! That being said, perhaps by bringing his HP to 0, it should award the enemy with experience. As if killing each stage grants .25 of a kill? Similar to The Lost Vikings.

This way, you don't have an enemy bring Tectus to 0, manage to kill a Shard only to have a Mote run off and hide until he respawns while the other pieces continue to fight and buy time for the mass respawn. Players should feel some sort of reward for making sure they clean up ALL parts of Tectus. That being said, if you killed all pieces and each were worth .25... You would have a total of 7 parts worth exp.. Dang, that's hard to balance :/

The reason I inquire, is because I understand that Tectus doesn't "Die" when brought to 0. But if the enemy cannot kill all aspects of him, then he NEVER dies so long as one escapes. Thus, the other team gets no reward for even bringing him to 0 unless they can squash each component. In the end, they have to drop the equivalent of 200% more health on top of his first bar. Say we give him very low end HP for a Warrior, and hit roughly 3600 at level 20 (Rexxar). He has to be dropped 10,800 HP to fully kill him. And that is w/o him respawning any motes/shards. Actually. If you gave him a bar like Rexxar, then it keeps him from being super strong... BUT makes him WAY fragile. I don't know, food for thought

Aside from any discussion over his Innate, I love his abilities and his strong control of a battlefield. And am totally In love with his zoning ability and the power to basically lock down tight routes in the jungle. Plenty of slows, some roots and stuns. Mmm, fantastic. Even with a smaller Health Pool, this feels like a Warrior I would really enjoy playing!

Thanks! Yea it definitely needs some tuning in terms of numbers (ie. what % of Tectus' health should Shards and Motes have? Too much and his overall health pool becomes massive. Too little and they become too easy to kill), but I feel like he'd be a fun addition to the game in terms of gameplay and character.

I love this concept, keep fine tuning it! I would love to see this in the game!

"What happens if you have one shard, but only one mote? Do you stay like that forever?"

If a Mote has died it will respawn after 10 seconds, so you'll be back to running around as one Shard and one Mote. Maybe that was unclear, I'll see if I can clarify that in the description.

"Also, once you die, does your timer start normally, and you either revive when your shards reform or when your timer ends"

I think there has been some confusion over this. Tectus the hero doesn't die until all motes have been killed. Lowering Tectus' health to 0 is just the first phase of the hero's health pool and marks the point that he will split into Shards. Shards and Motes ARE Tectus, just smaller versions of him.

What happens if you have one shard, but only one mote? Do you stay like that forever?

Also, once you die, does your timer start normally, and you either revive when your shards reform or when your timer ends (IE : Tectus dies, and starts a 60 seconds cooldown, but can control his two shards while alive. He manages to flee, and his shards reform into himself, so he revives before his death timer.) (IE(2): Tectus dies, and starts a 60 seconds cooldown, but his shards do not manage to reform before he dies, so he respawns normally, while having had something to do while "dead")

Or, if he still has shards alive but his timer ends, does he respawn where the shards were, and would that work with motes, or would he require the two shards for that, and would instead respawn at the altar, should he resurrect with less than two shards?

Made some changes:

- incorporated his original heroic ability "Accretion" into his trait as it seemed to be a necessity

- nerfed the stun and duration of Earthen Pillars

- removed the damage bonus enemies received against Tectus while he is channeling Tectonic Upheaval and changed the way he receives health from this ability

Er, not two instant respawns necessarily. It's just a change in form that's there by design, and balanced by the fact that Tectus doesn't have a large health pool.

Ok, 2 Instant Respawns, thats pretty cool. Thanks for clearing that up.

Yes you control the Motes/Shards. They all move together as one hero. If the last mote is killed you receive a normal death timer and respawn as a complete Tectus.

Do you command the Mote/Shards of Tectus and how will the Deathtimer work?