Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Deckard Cain

Combat Trait

[Trait]: The sages contemplation and gratitude

Contemplation:
Deckard Cain moves slower than other heroes and it takes him 1 second longer to get mounted. While not mounted he sometimes drops a magic scroll by accident. This can occur once every 30 seconds.

Gratitude:
Allied heroes can pick up the scroll by right clicking and walk near Deckard Cain to return it. Cain then automatically grants that ally health and mana regeneration equal to the amount of a regeneration globe.

Primary Abilities

[Q]: Identify

Deckard Cain fires a thin magic bolt from his staff in a long line, dealing 140 (+4% per level) damage to all units it passes through and revealing enemy heroes hit for 7 seconds.

Mana: 25
Cooldown: 10 seconds
Activation: skillshot

[W]: Stay a while and listen

On enemy cast:
The targeted enemy hero is silenced for 1 second. If the target is facing Deckard Cain at that moment, it also is forced to slowly move towards him for this duration.

On ally cast:
Deckard Cain reads to one ally from his journal, increasing their ability power and attack damage by 10% for 5 seconds.

Mana: 60
Cooldown: 8 seconds
Activation: targeting (0.75 seconds delay)

[E]: Help!

Activate to call for help, place yourself in Stasis and gain Invulnerability for 1 second. Allied heroes who move towards Deckard Cain in a large area around him gain 20% increased movement speed during 3 seconds after activation.

Mana: 40
Cooldown: 16 seconds
Activation: automatic

Heroic Abilities

[R1]: Horadric Cube

Deckard Cain calls down the power of the Horadric Cube. Translucent walls materialize out of thin air to form a huge cube shaped area that cages enemy heroes inside for 2 seconds.

Mana: 100
Cooldown: 80 seconds
Activation: ground targeting (1.5 seconds delay)

[R2]: Town Portal

Activate to open a portal nearby an allied building that leads to a portal in the Hall of Storms allowing Deckard Cain and allied heroes to go through it in both directions. After 5 seconds the portal expires.

Mana: 60
Cooldown: 50 seconds
Activation: ground targeting nearby allied structure (0.5 seconds delay)
Usage: channel for 0.5 seconds

talents

>work in progress<

Talen ideas:

trait: gratitude - healing granted to all nearby allies
q: makes bolt even longer
q: also makes enemy heroes hit vulnerable (lvl 16)
W: on enemy cast - if the enemy faces decard cain, force him to walk with 20% incresed movement speed
r1: cube walls materialize faster, decreasing delay to 0.5 seconds
r2: portal can now also be opened nearby a destroyed allied structure

Health	995 (+4% per level)
Health Regen	6.8 (+4% per level)
Mana	500
Mana Regen	3
Speed	3.25
Attack Speed	0.8
Attack Range	6
Attack Damage	70 (+4% per level)

Health

995 (+4% per level)

Health Regen

6.8 (+4% per level)

Mana

500

Mana Regen

Speed

3.25

Attack Speed

0.8

Attack Range

Attack Damage

70 (+4% per level)

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Your ideas inspired the build I created for him. Thank you.

http://www.heroesfire.com/hots/concept/deckard-cain-6154

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The most ideas of this concept i love. But in my opinion his "[E]Help!" should be more a secondary ability(talent-choose) with more duration. Also his [R2]Townportal looks like Medivh´s [E]Portal as a global version.

And for the role of a supporter he heal to less.

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Thanks for your feedback!

Yes, I also think his [E] might be a bit boring. I'm working on a new ability but can't think of something innovative just yet. The similarity between Town Portal and Medivhs portal is obvious - but funny thing is that this concept is actually older than Medivhs release. Might be changing this as well in the future, though.

It is intended for him to have relatively low heal. First of all Decard Cain is kind of known to support his allies against evil through his wisdom and he never actually heals in Diablo 2 at least. So I made him more like a utility support kind of like Tyrande with a mini heal and huge utility. In my opinion there are enough heal supports and for a unique character like him I wished for a more different playstyle than most of the supports, thats why I made him more of a non-healer.

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Hey I thought about that. For the "HELP! (E)" Ability. Could that be like a cloak that Cain could use on himself? I see him as a wanderer and a old man who is hard to catch and hard to know how could he have ended in a cage in Tristram or even in Leoric's chamber. He must be slippy for such a frail man!

That cloak could also give him Unstoppable or Invulnerability for X secs.

I totally agree with you that we need new mechanics for the supports, like supports who buff like no other their team. No healbots XD.

The two ultimates don't feel like they are representative to what they truly do XD. I mean, the horadric cube does have a transmutation mechanic. How about making it so that it could "Transmute" an interactive object that is already added to the game?
As for the Town Portal, I do think that it's a bit weak for an ultimate. It could have a longer duration than Medivh's portals (maybe it could persist as long as Cain doesn't go back a forth in it, like town portals do in the Diablo's Universe)? But I'm ok with the idea of a more defensive-retreating portal use.

Man, I like that silence on Stay Awhile and Listen XD!
I never knew that identifying items to Cain could shoot some magic bolts, but hey why not lol. I like the long-last reveal though.

I agree that Cain is frail and that it should be showed in his stats. But maybe we could "age" his base stats gained per level? (I have made an idea of that in my Cain's concept. Go check it out!)

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