*FULL TALENTS ADDED* Due to this concept's popularity, I posted his talents on HF as well
(Ranged Specialist) A ghostly mage with a global presence that can reform his body to reach full power.
Due to my apparent bias for Warcraft and desire to fix that, I decided to work on one of my wishlist heroes from the Diablo universe, and who better than Alarak's verbal rival? His Q and W were simple, being drawn directly from his boss fight (with Fireball being relegated to a talent), and the wizard's Magic Weapon spell was retooled and renamed to Transmute to hint at Kulle's alchemical background. Being a specialist from the start, I gave him Archive Terminus as a unique form of global that both heralds his status as a (former) Horadric mage and brings Diablo's famous waypoint system into HotS. His trait took the most thought, but I knew I wanted to represent both his living and ghostly appearances, so, with some inspiration from Leoric's trait, I incorporated his immortality into being an altered death state, with no hard timer. Bind Soulstone offers a variation on resurrection mechanics, referencing how he looked over the soulstones. Kanai's Cube I'm still not entirely satisfied with, but condensing it faithfully into one ability would more than likely overcomplicate and even bloat it more than it already is.
STRENGTHS:
-Global pressure and waveclear
-Defies the normal death timer
-Strong utility and crowd control
-Remains useful in his specter state
-Decent damage once living
-Good at zoning both ranged and melee heroes
-Punishes lack of waveclear from the enemy team
WEAKNESSES:
-Must spend a significant amount of time gathering globes after death
-Lack of mobility
-Lack of self-sustain
-Map presence limited if your team is pushed back
-Riskier to play on two-laned battlegrounds
-Starts the match unable to damage heroes
-Can be denied globes for his trait
STATISTICS:
Hard Difficulty
1520 health (while living)
85 basic attack damage
1.2 attack speed
5.5 attack range
600 mana
4% scaling
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