Elite Hero skills

[kevin32]

Elite Hero skills are special skills that function like Rain of Fire, but they're custom made for each hero. Here are some options for implementation:

• It's manual controlled, with the same recharge time as ROF.

• It can have its own skill tree like ROF, with 6 levels. Level 0 has a local, low-powered effect, while level 5 has a battlefield wide, high-powered effect.

• Certain skills can cause conditions on the enemy (burning, poison, slowdown, etc).

• If it's too overpowered to use both ROF and Elite skills in the same stage, here are some options:
> Maybe there can be a menu option to choose between one or the other. However it's possible to use both and maintain some balance if the recharge time for Elite Skills is extended to say, 2 minutes. Either that, or Elite Skills can be single-use, meaning you can use it only once in the stage.
> Some form of grinding could be implemented. So the hero has to deal a certain amount of damage before the elite skill becomes enabled (and even this could be compounded, so the more damage dealt the stronger the elite becomes). Or perhaps a rage meter could be used, so the skill is enabled after the hero deals a certain amount of damage. Either way implies some sort of way of "earning" the use of the elite skill rather than waiting for it to recharge.

Elite Hero skills is simply a suggestion for variety. If you would like to suggest an Elite skill, spill it.


Elora's Winter Storm:





Ashbite's Inferno:





King Denas' Holy Edict:





Mirage's Flash Step:





Alleria's Volley of the Elves:





Grawl's Earth Shatter (suggested by Big Bad Bug):





Bolin's Minesweeper:





King Denas' Royal Treasurer (suggested by Big Bad Bug):





Ingvar's Summon of the Ancients:





Dierdre's Martyrdom:





King Banesti's Eternal Bondage (based on this thread.)





Sha'tra's Space Laser (suggested by Big Bad Bug)





Captain Blackthorne's Ultimate Kraken (suggested by Ashbite)





Elora's Ice Age: Elora freezes everything on the screen. The player then has 10 seconds to click and destroy as many enemies as possible. The stronger the enemy, the more clicks needed.





Alric's Sandstorm:

[kevin32]

Reserved for suggestions.

Elora Wintersong Winter Storm- Uses snowballs and ice chunks to damage and freeze enemies.

Level 0: Snowballs- 3 snowballs fall from the sky
Level 1: Snow Flurry- 2 additional snowballs and increased snowball damage
Level 2: Frostbite- Snowballs freeze the ground, damaging enemies over it for 5 seconds
Level 3: Ice Shower- Increased snowball damage, explosion radius by 25%
Level 4: Ice Storm- Doubles damage and duration of Frostbite
Level 5: Winter Storm- Rains additional snowballs over entire battlefield, dealing massive damage and Frostbite

Alric Sand Storm, Uses a sand storm to blind and damage enemies. Tornados move along the path. Blind enemies over time.

Ashbite Inferno. Fireballs and stuff.

Dierdre Holy Wrath- Uses rays of light from the sky to strike and burn enemies. Burns enemies over time.

Alleria Swiftwind Arrow Volley, calls archers (that are offscreen) to fire arrows all at one spot, dealing high damage in an area. Poisons enemies over time (or burning from fire arrows).

[BubblesMaster]

Dude! I love your artwork! Great job!

[TheHallMonitor]

It's official, Postimage hates me. ;_;

[mastermoo123]

Awesome

[Julian]

In my eyes this wouldn't add anything to the gameplay experience :>

[BubblesMaster]

In my eyes this wouldn't add anything to the gameplay experience :>

I agree it wouldn't change much, but I think it'll add some more replay value, if not, the artwork is still flippn' awesome.

[BubblesMaster]

Alric Sand Storm, Uses a sand storm to blind and damage enemies.

Level 0: ???
Level 1: ???
Level 2: ???
Level 3: ???
Level 4: ???
Level 5: ???

Alleria Swiftwind Arrow Volley, calls archers (that are offscreen) to fire arrows all at one spot, dealing high damage in an area.

Level 0: ???
Level 1: ???
Level 2: ???
Level 3: ???
Level 4: ???
level 5: ???

I don't have ideas for the separate levels yet, I don't care if someone else comes up with some, feel free to add them!

[kevin32]

In my eyes this wouldn't add anything to the gameplay experience :>

So, given that an elite skill has the same "effect" as ROF, and each hero had their own personalized version, if this was actually implemented in the game, and you had to choose between using an elite skill and ROF, are you saying you would always use ROF?

Come on, saaaay it. Saaay it

[Julian]

In my eyes this wouldn't add anything to the gameplay experience :>

So, given that an elite skill has the same "effect" as ROF, and each hero had their own personalized version, if this was actually implemented in the game, and you had to choose between using an elite skill and ROF, are you saying you would always use ROF?

Come on, saaaay it. Saaay it

I'd first try out all elites skills and afterwards I'd probably stick to RoF ;P

p.s. really nice art though

[kevin32]

Added Ashbite's Inferno.

[kilele]

More suggestions :

Rain of Thor or Rage of Roy (hero spamming the premium lightning spell)
A thor-like viking over a cloud which acts as a gun machine of thunders, the cloud looks varies from white to black when fully recharged

Rain of Gold
This is the Bard hero's spell to stop/bribe enemies by throwing your gold over the points the player is interested in slowing enemies down.

[kevin32]

Added King Denas' Holy Edict.

[SairiRM]

Kevin your a huge mass of ideas. xP

[Zonoro13]

Awesome!

[benni369]

Haha, "Epic...", haha.

[kevin32]

Updated OP to include Mirage's Flash Step, where she sort of zips across the screen.

[benni369]

Updated OP to include Alleria's Flash Step, where she sort of zips across the screen.

You mean Mirage?

[kevin32]

Yep, Mirage. Thanks!

[shadownight]

Awesome Artwork again kevin