Vareesa Windrunner by Sarm Kahel

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Vareesa Windrunner

By: Sarm Kahel
Last Updated: Dec 9, 2015
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Vareesa Windrunner

Ranger-General of the Silver Covenant

Vareesa Windrunner embodies all that Elven Rangers aspire to be: Tactical, Subtle, and most importantly, Effective. Early in her life she helped her future husband Rhonin foil Deathwings plans to repopulate his Black Dragonflight. After Rhonin's death she became more involved in the conflict between the alliance and the horde, calling for Garrosh's blood as vengance. She went so far as to nearly commit treason against the alliance, before putting her anger aside for the sake of doing what's right.

Now she leads the Silver Covenant calling herself their Ranger-General, a title once held by her sister Sylvanus as the leader of Silvermoon City's military forces. Her entry into the nexus was inevitable and only time will tell what victories her future holds.

Combat Trait

1
Steady Hand
The longer Vareesa fires at a target, the more confident her accuracy becomes. Successful basic attacks against the same target grant 5% Attack Speed and Attack Range for 3 seconds stacking up to 5 times. This effect fades if Vareesa attacks a different target.

Primary Abilities

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Powerful Shot
Vareesa's base Attack Speed drops by 50% for her next Basic Attack. This attack deals 100% bonus damage and stuns the target for .5 seconds.
                                                                                                                                                                   

Cooldown: 10 seconds
Range: 6
Mana Cost: 40
2
Targeted Volley
Vareesa lets fly a volley of arrows at a targeted area. The arrows land after .5 second delay dealing increasing damage the closer the targets are to the center of its area. Targets in the center of the volley take 195 (+4% per level) damage and targets on the edge of the volley take 115 (+4 per level) damage.
                                                                                                                                                                   

Cooldown: 16 seconds
Range: 7
Radius: 5
Mana Cost: 80
3
Reposition
Vareesa's movement speed increases by 35% for 4 seconds. During this time she is unable to use Basic Attacks. She can cancel the ability by reactivating it during use.
                                                                                                                                                                   

Cooldown: 24 seconds
Mana Cost: 55

Heroic Abilities

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Tactical Dash
Activating this ability gives Vareesa 3 charges of Rapid Dash which she can use any time in the next 8 seconds. This ability causes Vareesa to rapidly dash a short distance across the battlefield. During this dash she enters a brief period of stasis, and ignores all unit collision. As long as Vareesa has at least 1 charge of Rapid Dash remaining she is Unstoppable and can't be subject to Crowd Control effects.
                                                                                                                                                                   

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Rapid Dash Range: 6
Tactical Mobility Mana Cost: 80
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Enchanted Arrow
Vareesa fires an Enchanted Arrow at target enemy hero. This arrow deals 263 (+4% per level) embeds itself into the target and begins to emit a blinding light, revealing the target hero on the map and blinding them along with all allies within a Radius of 6 for 8 seconds.
                                                                                                                                                                   

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Range: 6
Mana Cost: 80

Vareesa in the Nexus

Vareesa is a powerful hero killing assassin who specializes in darting around the battlefield and using her increased range to reach targets who would normally be too well protected to take down. By making good use of her Reposition and Powerful Shot, she can stay ahead of the enemies trying to distrupt her, and using her Steady Hand she can make it hard for focus targets to escape. If the situation calls for it, she can even disrupt the enemy team with her Enchanted Arrow.

Her greatest weakness is her lack of durability. If she is locked down, she'll be taken down and despite having a great deal of movement speed, she has no immediate escape unless she has a heroic ability to burn. Her Reposition prevents her from auto attacking, and if the enemy can stop you from using that speed while its available, you will have simply wasted damage.

Basic Statistics

Health: 1311 (+4% per level)              Mana: 500 (+10 per level)
Health Regen: 2.73 (+4% per level)     Mana Regen: 3 (+.0966 per level)

Attack Speed: 1.25
Attack Range: 6
Attack Damage: 124 (+4% per second)

Talents

Level 1:

- Under Cover of Night: Increases the movement speed bonus of re-position by 10% from 35% to 45% while you are not visible to the enemy team.

- More Arrows!: Increases the radius of Targeted Volley by 25%. This does not effect the maximum or minimum damage of the ability.

- Siphoning Arrows: Targeted Volley returns 15% of its Mana cost for each enemy hero it hits.

- Seasoned Marksman: For every 6 enemy Minion or captured Mercenary kills near your Hero, gain 1 Basic Attack damage. Hero Takedowns count as 3 minion kills.

- Regeneration Master: Collecting Regeneration Globes permanently increases Health Regeneration by 1.5 per second.

Level 4:

- Focused Attack: Every 10 seconds, your next Basic Attack against a Hero deals 75% additional damage. Basic Attacks reduce this cooldown by 1 second.

- Powerful Range: Powerful Shot also increases the range of Vareesa's next Basic Attack by 25% of her Base Attack Range.

- Opportunist: Increases the damage bonus from Powerful Shot to 200% if the target is already stunned.

- Impatience: Increases the initial speed boost from Reposition by 10% but causes the speed boost to decay over the 4 second duration down to 10% below the normal speed boost.

Level 7:

- Unfocused: Causes Targeted Volley to deal 167 (+4% per level) to the entire area. Removes the higher damage towards the middle and lower damage towards the edge.

- Lingering Power: Powerful Shot also slows the target by 20% for 2 seconds.

- Keep it Steady: Reaching 5 stacks of Steady Hand will cause Vareesa to restore 15% of her Health and Mana. This effect can't occur more than once every 25 seconds.

- Patience: The duration of Steady Hand is increased by 2 seconds.

Level 10:

- Tactical Mobility: Activating this ability gives Vareesa 3 charges of Rapid Dash which she can use any time in the next 8 seconds. This ability causes Vareesa to rapidly dash a short distance across the battlefield. During this dash she enters a brief period of stasis, and ignores all unit collision. As long as Vareesa has at least 1 charge of Rapid Dash remaining she is Unstoppable and can't be subject to Crowd Control effects.

- Enchanted Arrow: Vareesa fires an Enchanted Arrow at target enemy hero. This arrow deals 263 (+4% per level) embeds itself into the target and begins to emit a blinding light, revealing the target hero on the map and blinding them along with all allies within a Radius of 6 for 8 seconds.

Level 13:

- Giant Killer: Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes deal bonus damage equal to 1.5% of the Hero's maximum Health.

- Scouts Pace: While Reposition is off cooldown, Vareesa gains 5% increased Movement Speed.

- Swift Volley: Reduce the delay before Swift Volley lands by 50%.

- Tireless Focus: Activating Reposition pauses the duration of your Steady Hand

Level 16:

- Between the Eyes: Powerful Shot applies 3 stacks of Steady Hand.

- Berserk: Activate to increase your Attack Speed by 40% and Movement Speed by 10% for 4 seconds.

- Execution: Basic Attacks deal 40% more damage against slowed, rooted, or stunned targets.

Level 20:

- Art of the Ranger-General: While executing a Rapid Dash, Vareesa will hit any enemy that comes within a range of 6 with a basic attack.

- Elven Enchantment: When Vareesa's Enchanted Arrow expires it will explode, dealing 533 (+4% per level) damage split between all enemy heroes within a radius of 6. Vareesa can reactivate the ability to end the effect and detonate the arrow early.

- Bolt of the Storm: Activate to teleport to a nearby location.

- Nexus Frenzy: Increases Attack Speed by 20% and Attack Range by 20%.

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