Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Araneae

Combat Trait

Devour

Cooldown: 4.0 seconds

Araneae instead of mana, has a satiation and hunger bar. She starts game with 10/10 satiation points and looses 1 point every 30 seconds. She may devour a minion every 4 seconds to satiate 1 point. Each point provide her +1.5% maximum health and +0.5 regeneration.

Primary Abilities

Spiderling

Cost: 1 Satiation Point | Cooldown: 2.5 seconds

Araneae lays an egg with a Spiderling inside it. After 1.5 seconds a Spiderling hatches. It will live until killed. Each Spiderling does 30% of Araneae's damage (both physical and poison) and has 30% of her maximum health. It has the same attack speed as Araneae. If egg is destroyed before the Spiderling hatches, the creature inside egg is killed. Limit of living Spiderlings: 3.

Poisonous Spit

Cost: 1 Satiation Point | Cooldown: 8 seconds

Araneae spits poison at nearby enemies. Every enemy withing cone (length 3) suffers 380 (380 +3% / level) damage over 4 seconds. While the poison lasts, Araneae and her Spiderlings deal 10% more damage to the poisoned enemies.

Araneae's Calling

Cost: 2 Satiation Points | Cooldown: 15 seconds

Araneae lures all minions and mercenaries in radius 5 (centered on the caster) for 5 seconds to come as close as possible and stay next to Araneae for the whole duration. After 5 seconds, Araneae deals all nearby minions 360 (+4% / level) damage over 2 seconds.

Heroic Abilities

Queen of the Land

Cooldown: 80 seconds

Araneae may target any building and cover it with small, yet powerful spiders. They damage the structure, dealing damage equal to that building's 1% maximum health per second. The spiders also cover building with web, what makes it impossible for towers and forts to attack. Deals only 30% of the damage to the enemy core and does not affect its ability to attack. Effect lasts 20 seconds.
Passive effect: Araneae's basic attacks and Spiderlings deal 70% more damage to all non-Heroes.

Queen of the Hunger

Cooldown: 90 seconds

Araneae knows how to use her hunger. She attacks a single target and deals 3,75% of victims maximum health per every missing Satiation Point. Target is slowed down by 10%. Effect lasts 5 seconds and during its duration, Araneae and Spiderlings deals 15% more damage to the attacked Hero.
Passive effect: Araneae's basic attacks and Spiderlings deal 70% more damage to all enemy Heroes.

Talents

LEVEL 1

Royal Appetite - Devour Talent [D] - Using Devour on minions also heals Araneae by 4% of her maximum life.
Heart-Eater - Devour Talent [D] - Regeneration bonus for each Satiation Point increases to +1. Quest: After collecting 25 regeneration globes, Araneae gains 15 magic armor.
Her Majesty Devourer - Devour Talent [D] - Quest: After Devouring 40 minions, maximum Satiation Point quota is increased to 11; Quest: After Devouring 80 minions, maximum Satiation Points quota is increased to 12.

LEVEL 4

Deadly Spit - Poisonous Spit Talent [W] - Length of the cone is increased by 1 and the bonus to damage to poisoned enemies is increased to +15%.
Fed on Magic - Spiderling Talent [Q] - Spiderling gains +30 magic armor, lowering damage caused to the creature by all spells by 30%.
Fed on Blood - Spiderling Talent [Q] - Spiderling gains +30 physic armor, lowering damage caused to the creature by all basic attacks by 30%.
Balanced Diet - Spiderling Talent [Q] - Spiderling gains +15% armor, lowering damage caused to the creature by all kind of attacks by 15%.

LEVEL 7

Lure of the Queen - Araneae's Calling Talent [E] - Each Minion Killed by the Araneae's Calling heals her by 1.75% of her maximum health.
Blinding Poison - Poisonous Spit Talent [W] - Spiting at enemy Heroes blinds them for 2.5 seconds.
Quick Poison - Poisonous Spit Talent [W] - Poison does damage over 2 seconds instead of 4. Cooldown is reduced by 1 second.
Child-Eater - (activated) Araneae may eat her own Spiderling healing herself by 5% of her maximum health and empowering her next attack by 15%. Empowered attacks stack up to 3. Cooldown: 12 seconds.

LEVEL 10 - Heroic Abilities

Queen of the Land - Araneae may target any building and cover it will small, yet powerful spiders. They damage the structure, dealing damage equal to building 1% maximum health every second. The spiders also cover building with web, what makes it impossible for towers and forts to attack enemies. Deals only 30% of the damage to the enemy core and does not stop its attacks. Effect lasts 20 seconds.
Passive effect: Araneae's basic attacks and Spiderlings deal 85% more damage to all non-Heroes.
Queen of the Hunger - Araneae knows how to use her hunger. She attacks single target and deals 3,75% of victims maximum health per every missing Satiation Point. Target is slowed by 10%. Effect lasts 5 seconds and during its duration, Araneae deals 15% more damage to the attacked Hero.
Passive effect: Araneae's basic attacks and Spiderlings deal 85% more damage to all enemy Heroes.

LEVEL 13

Stronger than Others - Spiderling Talent [Q] - Health and damage of the Spiderlings increase to +40% and their attack speed increases to 1.35.
There's Too Many - Spiderling Talent [Q] - Limit of living Spiderlings is increased to 4, but the cooldown increases to 3.5 seconds.
Corrosive Poison - Poisonous Spit Talent [W] - Buildings attacked by Poisonous Spit receive 15% more damage from all attacks for 5 seconds.
Weakening Poison - Poisonous Spit Talent [W] - Heroes attacked by Poisonous Spit deal 10% less damage with their abilities and receive 20% less healing.

LEVEL 16

Fed on the Lured - Araneae's Calling Talent [E] - If at least 6 minions are killed with single usage of Araneae's Calling, Araneae regains 2 Satiation Points.
Sticky Traps - Trap Talent (1) - Trap gains an additional usage and slowing effect is increased to 55%.
Observe and Strike - (passive) First hit after claiming the a watchtower does 75% more damage.

LEVEL 20

The High Queen - Queen of the Land Talent [R] - Usage drains 80% of structure's remained ammunition.
Passive effect: Additional +15% damage to all non-Heroes.
The Bloody Queen - Queen of the Hunger Talent [R] - Araneae heals herself by 20% of the dealt damage.
Passive effect: Additional +15% damage to all enemy Heroes.
Crazed Hermit - (activated) Summon Crazed Hermit that will fight on Araneae's side. Upon Hermit's death, a Spiderling comes out of Hermit's body. That Spiderling does not count to Araneae's Spiderling limit. Cooldown: 80 seconds
Mythic Speed - (activated) Araneae and her Spiderling receive +20% moving speed and +15% to attack speed. Effect lasts 5 seconds. Cooldown: 45 seconds

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First things first, muticlass support-specialist wont happen. Specialists dont have a specific role. Specialists are heroes who 'go outside the box', aka play weirdly. They tend to belong in one of the other 3 roles, they just handle said role in an unique way(Naz and zagara are sustained damage mages who work via summons, Xul is a melee assassin, sylvanas is a pretty standard ranged assassin except for her trait, sgt.hammer's an auto-attack assassin in all sense of the word, medivh's a support, etc).

So that leaves this concept as a support hero who can build for wave clear, which is kinda cool.

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Great Concept, but needs toning down. Decrease Spiderling damage, and decrease both ultimate's damage bonuses for spiderlings only. Overall, I like the idea of a hunger-like energy system, and overall the kit is really powerful. Lacks a bit of defense, but she definitely makes up for it in damage.

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It's not that bad :) However I lowered it a bit :) She starts with 68 + 18 (total: 86) damage. That's not much. Varian starts with 95 dmg. When he picks dps ult, his damage increases by 100%, while Araneae's damage now increase only by 70%. He has 1.25 attack per second, Araneae has only 1.05 attack per second. Lower attack, lower bonuses and lower damage increase is balanced with her Spiderlings. Anyway, I lowered some stats a little bit.
Thanks for your opinion!

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