Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Blackheart

Combat Trait

Undying Greed

Blackheart does not use mana for his abilities. Instead, he spends Doubloons to empower his abilities.

In addition to regeneration globes, mage minions near Blackheart drop 3 Doubloons upon death. Additionally, Enemy Heroes killed near Blackheart drop a Treasure Chest which contains 5 Doubloons. Blackheart can hold up to a maximum of 50 Doubloons.

Doubloons lasts for 10 seconds while Treasures last 50% longer.

The Hero Blackheart's Doubloons are Silver Doubloons and are smaller compared to the Map Announcer Blackheart's Gold Doubloons.

Spend Doubloon (2)

Activate to increase the amount of Doubloons Blackheart spends when he casts an Ability by 1.

Save Doubloon (3)

Activate to reduce the amount of Doubloons Blackheart spends when he casts an Ability by 1.

Primary Abilities

The Black Ship (1)

Cooldown: 30 seconds (Starts upon summoning, not after destroyed.)
Duration: ∞
Health: 400(+4%) [Same as Probius Pylons]
Minimum Firing Range: 6
Maximum Firing Range: 16
Firing Range Angle: 36° Cone

After a 2 second delay, summon a cannon that lasts indefinitely at a target location, facing a target direction. After materializing, Blackheart gains the ability to use Fire!!(Q).

Spend Doubloons(D)
Blackheart can spend up to 9 Doubloons on a Cannon. For every doubloon spent, its Cone Shaped Firing Range's Angle widens by 36° up to 324°(+36° Baseline = 360° Circle).

Spend 10 Doubloons (D x 10)
Blackheart's Ship will be summoned instead of a cannon, increasing its health by 200%. However, it materializes 100% slower, have a global announcement, is always revealed to enemies, its cooldown begins only after death and grants 25% experience when killed.

Reactivating this ability when a cannon/ship is active causes it to gradually return to its ghost form and disappear from the battlefield after a 3 second delay. Does not refund coins.

FIRE!! (Q)

Cooldown: 4 seconds
Minimum Firing Range: 6
Maximum Firing Range: 16
AoE Radius: 2
Center AoE Radius: 1 [Malfurion W]
Requires: Cannon or Black Ship

Fire a cannonball at a target location within the cannon/Black Ship's firing range that deals 130 damage(+4%) and enemies are knocked slightly away from the center. Enemies hit at the center take 50% more damage and are stunned for .5 seconds.

Spend Doubloons(D)
Blackheart can spend up to 2 Doubloons on Fire!!(Q). Spending Doubloon causes enemies in the center to be stunned for 0.25 seconds longer and causes the cannonball to travel 10% faster. Can spend up to 2 doubloons.

Creator Note: The range is balanced by the fact that it is stationary, has minimum range, and hitting the enemy backline with it isn't too great as no one will be there to follow up on its stun without leaving the cannon vulnerable to flank.

Plundering Crew (W)

Cooldown: 8 second cooldown
Cast Range: 4.5

Send 2 Undead Pirates to attack a target enemy, dealing 23(+4%) damage per attack for 8 seconds. Enemy heroes they attack are marked with the Plundering Debuff for 3 seconds.

Every 3rd Basic Attack against an Enemy Hero under Plundering by Blackheart or his Crew causes Blackheart to gain 1 Doubloon.

Can reactivate this ability to retarget the Pirates.

Spend Doubloon(D)
Blackheart can Spend up to 3 Doubloons on Plundering Crew(W). For every Doubloon spent, the pirates gain 10% movement and attack speed up to a maximum of 30% for 3 seconds.

Pirate Stats

Attack Damage 23(+4%)
Attacks per Second: 1
Damage per Second: 20.01 (Anubarak Beetle)
Attack Range: 0.7
Health: 390(+4%)

Ghastly Booze (E)

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Blackheart drinks his ghastly booze, becoming a drunk ghost for 2.5 seconds. While Blackheart is a ghost, he is invulnerable, moves through units and heals for 90(+4%) health per second.

Spend Doubloon(D)
Blackheart can Spend up to a maximum of 3 Doubloons on Ghastly Booze(E). Drunk Ghost Blackheart creates an AoE around him that applies Fear to enemies within. For every Doubloon spent, the Fear Radius is increased by 1 up to a maximum of 3.

Heroic Abilities

Deathly Ram (R1)

Cooldown: 80 seconds
Range: 18
Ship Width: 3
Ship Length: 6
Ram AoE Radius: 1.5 (At the tip of the Ship's front)

Activate to charge Blackheart's Ship to a target direction at high speed. Enemies hit during the charge take 90(+4%) damage and are feared for 3 seconds. The ship is unstoppable during the charge.

The ship additionally crashes upon reaching its maximum distance, dealing an additional burst of 180(+4%) damage and stunning enemies for 1.5 seconds but the ship takes damage equal to 100% of its health. The crash deals 100% more damage to structures.

The Ship's stun has priority over the fear.

Spend Doubloon(D)
Spending Doubloons on Deathly Ram consumes up to a maximum of 4 Doubloons. For every Doubloon spent, recover 25% of the ship's cooldown up to 100%.

Captain Ship (R2)

Cooldown: 8 seconds

Channel for 2 second to enter the Black Ship. When Blackheart is inside his ship, he gains the ability to drive it.

When inside the Ship, Blackheart can move and use his basic abilities but he takes 2.5 seconds to turn the ship 180° and loses his Basic Attacks.

Reactivate this ability to channel for 2 seconds and exit the Black Ship. Cooldown begins upon exiting the Ship.

Spend Doubloon(D)
(Passive): Blackheart can now spend more than 10 Doubloons on his Black Ship, up to a maximum of 15 Doubloons. When spending more than 15 Doubloons on his ship, its health is increased by 120 for every additional Doubloon spent on the ship up to 600.

Health increase is a flat amount and doesn't scale with levels.

Talent Tree

Level 1

Block (Passive)
Every 5 seconds, Blackheart and his cannon/ship each gain 50 Physical Armor against the next enemy Hero Basic Attack, reducing the damage taken by 50%.
Stores up to 2 charges.

Hard Liquor (E)
(Quest): Gathering Regeneration Globes increases the healing from Ghastly Booze by 4 up to 100.
(Reward): After Gathering 25 Regeneration Globes, Ghastly Booze will now last 1 second longer.

Treasure Hunt (Active)
(Active): Send a Fast Running Pirate Crew at a target location to collect Doubloons and treasures for Blackheart. The Pirate Crew has 140% movement speed and lasts for 15 seconds. 20 second cooldown.
(Passive): Doubloons and Treasures will now drop whether or not they are located near Blackheart. Additionally causes a Treasure to spawn upon the destruction of Forts and Keeps. When there is a Treasure in the battlefield, it will now appear in the minimap.

Pirate Crew Health: 310 (+4%)

Level 4

Cheap Bribery (Active)
Spend 2 Doubloons to Bribe a Mercenary, instantly defeating it. Does not work on Bosses.

Working Dead (W)
Upon taking fatal damage, Blackheart's Undead Crew becomes an invulnerable ghost for 2 seconds. They die after the 2 second duration.

Eyes of the Dead (E)
While Ghastly Booze is active, Blackheart can see Stealthed Enemies within his vision range. Stealthed Enemies are seen by Blackheart and dead allies but are not revealed to his living allies. Enemies revealed by Ghastly Booze have a Neon Green Revealed Marker instead of Red.

Paralyzing Fear (E)
(Quest): Fear enemy heroes for 20 seconds.
(Reward): Ghastly Booze now slows enemies' movement speed by 20%.
(Quest): Fear enemy heroes for 30 seconds.
(Reward): Reduce the coin cost of Ghastly Booze by 50%. Every coin will now grant 1.5 radius Fear AoE from 1.

Level 7

Golden Shower (Active)
Spend 4 Doubloons to Bribe a target enemy hero, forcing them to attack their nearby ally, prioritizing heroes for 3 seconds. The bribed hero cannot be attacked or healed by either team for the duration of the bribe.
60 second cooldown.

Rotting Blades (W)
Pillaging Crew's basic attacks slow enemies' movement speed by 5% stacking up to 50% for 2 seconds.

Ghost Ship (E)
Activating Ghastly Booze also grants his cannon and the Black Ship its effects even if Blackheart is not driving it for 2 seconds.

Shiny Momentum (Passive)
Every Time Blackheart gains Doubloons, his basic abilities' cooldowns are reduced by 0.25 seconds.

Level 10

Deathly Ram (R1)

Captain Ship (R2)

Level 13

Blackheart's Revenge (Passive)
Every time Blackheart loses 25% of his health over 1 second from an enemy hero, he marks that hero with a pirate symbol for 15 seconds. Every time he hits his cannonball on the marked enemy, its cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds. Only 1 mark may exist in the battlefield.

Commondore Ford's End (Q)
Every Doubloon spent on a cannon shot increases its damage against structures by 75% up to a maximum of 150%.

Greed is Good (Trait)
Every Doubloons Blackheart holds increases his ability power by 0.5% up to 25%.

Dead Man's Chest (Active)
Open Blackheart's Treasury to instantly gain 15 Doubloons.
100 second cooldown.

Level 16

Terror of the Black Flag (1)
The Black Ship now also reduces the Physical Armor of enemy heroes within its firing range by 20, causing them to take 20% more damage against Basic Attacks.

Krakken Slayer (Q)
The Black Ship's Cannonballs now also deal damage equal to 2% of enemy heroes Max health and an additional 1% for every Doubloon spent on the cannonball to the enemies in the center.

Hurry you Idiots! (W)
While Blackheart is within the Black Ship's Firing Range, Plundering Crew recharges 100% faster.

Level 20

Ghastly Sail (R1)
Blackheart's Ship now enters its Ghost Form during the charge, it to deal no damage but also take no damage from the crash. Additionally, Deathly Ram will now reduce enemies armor by 25% while feared.

Deathly Ram additionally can now change direction at a maximum of 45 degrees at the cost of 1 Doubloons each time.
Enemies can only be affected by Deathly Ram's Fear debuff once.

Drop Weights (R2)
Lighten up the ship to speed up the Ship's turn rate by 50% and movement speed by 20 % but its health is reduced by 20%.

Fully Paid (Passive)
Fire(Q) will now shoot cannon balls with its fully paid effect for free.

Bargain with Death (Active)
Spend 1 Doubloon to reduce Blackheart's Death Time by 10 seconds.

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I imagine it would be awkward on blackhearts bay with a duplicate of him... that would be interesting.

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Blackheart is my favourite announcer. :P

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Awesome concept. Who wouldn't want to be a plundering ghost pirate?

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Thanks~ :D

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