Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Priest

Primary Abilities

Lesser heal (Q)

Heal 190 (+4%/level).

Cooldown: 5 seconds | Range: 18

Confuse (W)

Reorder the enemy hero's basic abilities in a random sequence for 7 seconds.

Cooldown: 12 seconds | Range: 18

Thoughtsteal (E)

Cast on an enemy hero, you can choose one of it's basic ability, which you gain. The gained ability take place on your "1" key. After 30 seconds the gained ability expires.

Cooldown: 6 seconds | Range: global

Heroic Abilities

Shadowform (R1)

Every healing effect turns into damaging effect, casting this ability refresh your cooldowns, and charge up your flash heal. Stolen abilities are 20% more effective. After you cancel shadow form the cooldown begins.

Cooldown: 70 seconds

Void shift (R2)

Swap health with another hero. After you cast, a bond appear between you and your health will swap over 2.5 seconds.

Cooldown: 60 seconds | Range: 14

Shadow Word: Pain (R3)

Cast on an enemy hero last for 10 seconds. For each ability that the enemy hero uses during the effect, suffer 20% of it's max health as damage over 5 seconds.

Cooldown: 45 seconds | Range: 18

User guide

This hero is a counter hero, so not a 1st or 2nd pick in the draft. You better pick him, if the enemy team have some good ability reliant heroes. You are bad against AA and specialist heroes as you can not really mess their life, and cant steal valuable abilities.

- Use his Q to heal allies from a far, and charge your flash heal.

- His W does not affect the hero directly, but the player who plays with it. Players use the hero's abilities on instinct, especially in a chaotic team fight, changing the key orders randomly can cause big troubles for the player as they have to focus on another thing too. You should use it on heroes that rely on landing their combos (Kerrigan, Alarak, Artanis, Zeratul...) as a preemptive action to ruin their combos. Or on heroes that try to engage, flank or disengage to make that harder for them to positon themselves or land skills that they want to use.

- Use his E to get a good ability that fits the situation best. If you need CC use it on the main tank, or if you need wave clear you can steal some, even from an another lane as it has global range.

- His trait is a burst heal on a 50 second cooldown, you need to cast 10 lesser heal (5s CD) to able to use it. Better save it for a bad situation. Passively you have a lot of CC reduction, you can position yourself more aggresively to land your stolen abilities as you are not that vulnerable to lock downs.

- Shadowform turns you into long range poking hero, with burst damage (trait), and also makes your stolen abilities 20% more stronger means 1,2x more dmg or 1,2x more CC time.

- Use Void shift if someone dives on you, or use it on a healthy enemy while you are on low health but in a safe position.

Talents

Level 1

Improved heal (Q): increase lesser heal cast range by 30%.

Holy water (Q) [quest]: Collect reg.globes. After 30 your Reward: using lesser heal also spawns a regeneration globe near you.

Priest's block (D): for every 2 charges on flash heal, you gain 50 physical armor against the next hero basic attack.

Level 4

Reduced confuse (W): reduce confuse cooldown by 5 seconds.

Mana steal (W): you gain twice the mana cost of the abilities, what used during the debuff and 5 seconds after.

Splash (Passive): your basic attacks deal splash damage around the target (in shadow form AA splash damage deals double damage).

Level 7

Lightwell (Active): place a light well on the ground, allies can drink from it, regenerate mana and hp. The well has 2000 HP.

Store (E): you can now store 2 abilities on your numbers bar (after 30 sec they still expire).

By the light (D): flash heal make the ally target unstoppable for 3 seconds.

Refreshing heal (D): flash heal refreshes basic ability cooldowns on the allied target.

Level 13

Mindgames (E): thoughtsteal can be cast on allied heroes too.

Mind block (E): the enemy hero can't use the ability, which you stole, for a 5 second. If it was on CD adds 5 second more CD to it.

Power word - Shield (Active): you can cast a spell armor on allies (50 spell armor against the next hero attack).

Level 16

Madness (E): You can use the stolen ability twice, with 1 second cooldown.

Curse (W): confuse gains an additional charge.

Loose control (W): movement commands do the opposite on the target during the debuff ( want to go up, insted the hero moves down etc...).

Level 20

Shadowpower (R1): in shadowform gain an aura that drain enemies mana, and slow them every second.

Quick shift (R2): swap your health instantly.

Shadow Word: Death (R3): The damage now comes instantly.

Mind vision (Active): Gain the heroic ability from the target. (what it chose)

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Woah. This is useless. Confuse is pretty much useless as people are looking at their bar to see cooldowns. He has other than that only heals, and shadow word pain is basically giant killer. E is useless because of how random it is. No.

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It takes some skill to figure out this hero uses.

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It takes some skill to figure out this hero uses.

WOw. If you don't actually know the general given purpose of your hero after creating him you've failed. A lot. Go away--your not fit for making a priest hero.

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You've failed to understand a single comment, you are a really dumb kid.

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You've failed to understand a single comment, you are a really dumb kid.

Now there is no need for you to start insulting another user.

Two heals standard in the base kit as well as a stacking crowd control reduction is way too strong for a Support Hero - no other Support has two heals built in starting at Level 1. Confuse is not all that game-changing for as soon as a player is targeted with it, he or she just needs to look at his or her Ability bar to see the new order. Thoughtsteal is so random that it could either copy, for instance, 's or his (and I would assume only one Ability could be gained at one time - Thoughtsteal grants an Ability for 30 seconds with only a 6 second cooldown). In one case this Hero has access to yet another heal while the other he has access to one of the least damaging Abilities in the game. While Shadowform does play on the fact this Hero has multiple heals, the lack of a duration can once again have a powerful outcome if the player was lucky enough to receive another heal Ability from Thoughtsteal or the player just cancels it after casting Lesser Heal and Flash Heal since both cooldowns were refreshed and Flash Heal received full stacks. Shadow Word: Pain is way too powerful as well - If the targeted Hero casts 5 Abilities within the 10 second duration, it dies. 20% maximum Health per Ability cast is just ridiculously high and the duration is too long.

Now while I feel this Concept is trying to do too much without much of a focus in mind, there is a play-style I can see in the 2 Abilities I have no problem with: Lesser Heal and Void Shift. Perhaps change the direction of this Concept to a back-line Support that keeps itself healthy as well as its allies and can swap its life with another for some insane burst healing potential.

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You say that no other hero has two heals from level 1, but you forget Uther :P
Everyone forgets Uther nowadays, it seems... :(

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You say that no other hero has two heals from level 1, but you forget Uther :P

True, I did forget the Unkillable , however one heal is a skill-shot while both heals in this Concept are targeted.

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RIP Uther, my best support. /cry
Possibility of 3 heals from level 1 is still pretty ridiculous, though.
RNG is also pretty bad. Void Shift, to me, belongs on a Shadow Hunter or something.
could pick out more things but i'm in a reply chain (<_<)

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Like the concept steal abilities looks interesting, but the other skills are basically just heal.

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Priest by rambomacko

Priest

Priest

Holy/Shadow

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