Baal by Gr222

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Lore: As the Lord of Destruction, Tor'Baalos is happy only in an eternity of infernal ruination. Through the selfless sacrifice of the mage Tal Rasha, the Horadrim were able to imprison him beneat the deserts of Lut Gholein. However, Destruction may not be so easily contained. Wrestling control of Rasha's body, Baal laid waste to Northwestern Sanctuary, and corrupted the Worldstone itself. All denizens of the Nexus should fear, for his aspirations should be too much the same here.

Role: A heavy crowd control mage with abilities to disrupt the entire enemy team.

Design: With Baal, I wanted to capture the idea of someone who is amped up by causing destruction, but grows "bored" when out of combat and has nothing to destroy.

His Passive Trait achieves this by rewarding staying at the frontline and punishing disengagement. The drawback of this design is you must use your abilities economically, or risk missing them and losing all your stacks while they are on CD. Using abilities economically is the opposite of the chaos-loving Tor'Baalos should do, and therefore was his Active Trait implemented as a sort of safety net that you can activate to keep Baal fighting if you're stuck with all abilities on CD. In turn, you are balancing the risk of having severely reduced damage. Still, in the hands of a skilled player it is still perhaps too useful, hence the 25 second cooldown.

The rest of his basic kit focuses on zoning, crowd control and peel, with his W serving as his most potent DPS tool. Note that Q and E have a Minimum Casting Range, meaning he is quite reliant on his team's ability to protect him from a dive, although the secondary rupture of his E can buy him some time.

One of his ultimates seemed fitting to be a global ability targeting all enemy heroes, since his brothers, Mephisto and Diablo also have these. His iconic Festering Appendages were taken from his Diablo II incarnation, made targetable and destroyable to balance this otherwise potent ultimate.

Mana Rift used an interesting mechanic not currently found in the game, and no time like a speculative hero to experimentally implement. It serves as his DPS-oriented ultimate option.

Basic Stats:
Max. HP: 1430
HP Regen: 2.8437
Basic Attack Damage: 65
Basic Attack Speed: 1
Basic Attack Range: 2.5

Feel free to comment your opinions, questions or observations. This is my first venture of making a full conceptual hero, so some contradictions are to be expected.

Combat Trait

Restless Calamity

Passive: Baal gains 1 stack of Restless Calamity when hitting an enemy minion with his basic abilities and +3 when hitting enemy heroes. Each stack increases Baal's spell power by 1%. While Restless Calamity is active, Baal regens 1% of his maximum health and mana per second.
After 4 seconds, stacks begin to rapidly decay at a speed of 25% of stacks lost per second.
Can be refreshed while active.

Active: tap to immediately lose 75%+10 of Restless Calamity stacks but reset all basic ability cooldowns. Cooldown: 25 seconds.

Primary Abilities

Hoarfrost

Cooldown: 11 seconds
Point and drag to create a wedge-shaped torrent of frost that knocks back enemies along its path, dealing 57 damage and slowing them by 35%(scaling with spell power, 0.5% extra slow/spell power), decaying over 2 seconds.
Projectile Width: 2.5
Projectile Length: 1.9
Casting Range: 8
Minimum Casting Range: 2.5
Mana Cost: 40

Torment Bolt

Cooldown: 8 seconds
Target an enemy to unleash a bolt of contagious energy, creating a radial effect (range 3) around the target upon hit. After 1.2 seconds, deal 127 damage and spread this effect to all enemies caught in range. Each enemy can only receive this effect once.
Range: 5.5
Mana Cost: 30

Upending

Cooldown: 14 seconds
Crack the earth beneath target location, creating a rupture at the impact zone, dealing 84 damage and stunning enemies for 0.7 seconds. A secondary rupture emerges from the initial impact zone that travels towards to Baal's location, dealing 100 damage and stunning enemies along its path for 1 second.
Casting range: 7
Minimum Casting Range: 1.5
Initial impact zone radius: 2
Secondary rupture area width: 1
Mana Cost: 70

Heroic Abilities

Mana Rift

Channel to unleash a firestorm in a cone in front of Baal, dealing 100 damage per second. Enemy heroes hit lose 5% of their maximum mana per second, and suffer it as damage.
Baal's movement speed is reduced to 30% while channeling this ability. Duration: 10 seconds. Move the cursor to rotate Baal's facing direction and the targeting zone.

Festering Appendages

After 1 second, summon a Festering Appendage under each enemy hero. Appendages have a range of 2, and will tether the first enemy hero they hit, Silencing them and dealing 95 damage per second. Appendages have hitpoints equal to 150% of Baal's spell power upon cast, and they lose 25 hitpoints per second.
Cooldown: 75 seconds

Talents

Level 1

Avalanche: Hoarfrost's length is increased by 40% and its width by 15%.

Hunger for Havoc: Quest: Hit 20 enemies with Upending. Reward: Upending gains a second charge.

Vestige of Tal Rasha: Gambit: Reduce the spell power reduction of Restless Calamity's activation by 50%. Every death increases the reduction by 10%.

Level 4

Stygian Storm: Hoarfrost leaves behind an ice field upon hitting at least two targets, slowing enemies by 35% (increased by Restless Calamity, extra 1% slow /5 stacks). Lasts for 3 seconds (increased by Restless Calamity, extra +0.1 seconds/5 stacks)

Spreading Chaos: Quest: hit 35 enemy heroes with Torment Bolt's radius. Reward: Torment Bolt's effect can be applied to targets twice.

Shattering Roar: upon catching Upending, an explosion erupts from Baal in a 1-sized radius, dealing 100 to enemy heroes and stunning them for 1 second.

Level 7

Skin of Frost: hitting an enemy hero with Hoarfrost grants Baal 25% armor for 4 seconds.

Sadistic Glee: enemies hit by Torment Bolt take +120% basic attack damage from Baal for 3 seconds.

Molten Boulder: Upending creates a piece of impassable terrain at its initial target, lasting for 6 seconds and dealing 64 damage per second to enemies around it.

Level 13

Festering Wounds: Torment Bolt deals an extra 60% damage to Slowed targets.

Tectonic Reach: Upending's casting range is increased by 1 for every 15 stacks of Restless Calamity.

Turmoil Won't Tarry: Restless Calamity increases Baal's movement speed by 2% per 10 stacks, up to a maximum of 30% extra movement speed.

Level 16

Jaws of Winter: enemies hit by Hoarfrost are marked for 3 seconds. Upon getting Stunned, target loses the mark and suffer 250 extra damage.

Rend the Earth: if Upending hits an enemy hero, 4 secondary ruptures are created that travel outwards of the target in an X-shape for 1 second. Enemies hit by secondary ruptures are Stunned for 0.75 seconds.

Chaos Blitz: Restless Calamity's active ability noe teleports Baal up until a distance of three, but its cooldown is increased to 10 seconds.

Level 20

Mana Inferno: the effects of Mana Rift persist on affected ground for 2 seconds. Mana Burn Slows enemies by 10%. At Upending's erruption point, create the effect of Mana Burn in a radius of 2.

Tendrils of Unmaking:
Active: send out a projectile with a range of 8 that creates a Festering Appendage after 0.5 seconds of colliding with terrain or hitting an enemy hero.

Passive: the hitpoints of Festering Appendages are increased to twice of Baal's spell power, and they deal an additional 265 damage over time under 4 seconds to enemy heroes hit.

Eye of Baal: Torment Bolt creates a damaging pool of poison centered around the primary target. Enemies inside are Slowed by 30% and have the effect of Torment Bolt applied to them. Lasts 5 seconds.

Wanton Destruction: increase the duration of Restless Calamity to 6 seconds. Upon reaching gaining 40 stacks, reset the cooldown of Baal's basic ability currently on the longest cooldown.

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Baal by Gr222

Baal

Baal

Lord of Destruction

Combat Trait

Primary Abilities

Heroic Abilities

Talents

Level 1

Vestige of Tal Rasha: Gambit: Reduce the spell power reduction of Restless Calamity's activation by 50%. Every death increases the reduction by 10%.

Level 4

Stygian Storm: Hoarfrost leaves behind an ice field upon hitting at least two targets, slowing enemies by 35% (increased by Restless Calamity, extra 1% slow /5 stacks). Lasts for 3 seconds (increased by Restless Calamity, extra +0.1 seconds/5 stacks)

Spreading Chaos: Quest: hit 35 enemy heroes with Torment Bolt's radius. Reward: Torment Bolt's effect can be applied to targets twice. Shattering Roar: upon catching Upending, an explosion erupts from Baal in a 1-sized radius, dealing 100 to enemy heroes and stunning them for 1 second.

Level 7

Molten Boulder: Upending creates a piece of impassable terrain at its initial target, lasting for 6 seconds and dealing 64 damage per second to enemies around it.

Level 13

Festering Wounds: Torment Bolt deals an extra 60% damage to Slowed targets.

Tectonic Reach: Upending's casting range is increased by 1 for every 15 stacks of Restless Calamity.

Turmoil Won't Tarry: Restless Calamity increases Baal's movement speed by 2% per 10 stacks, up to a maximum of 30% extra movement speed.

Level 16

Level 20

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Heroes of the Storm

Spreading Chaos: Quest: hit 35 enemy heroes with Torment Bolt's radius. Reward: Torment Bolt's effect can be applied to targets twice.

Shattering Roar: upon catching Upending, an explosion erupts from Baal in a 1-sized radius, dealing 100 to enemy heroes and stunning them for 1 second.