Meat Wagon by DerpCity

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Meat Wagon

By: DerpCity
Last Updated: Sep 11, 2018
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Meat Wagon

Scourge Siege Weapon

One of the strangest and most dire tools utilized by the Scourge is the dreaded meat wagon. This rickety contraption is used to collect and store recently slain corpses from the field of battle. An invaluable support vehicle for the Scourge, the meat wagon strikes fear and woe into the hearts of even the most resolute defenders.

The Meat Wagon is a fragile Specialist that relies on collecting corpses in order to strengthen its long-ranged, hard hitting but slow basic attack, and as a resource to consume when using its spells.

Author's Note: Feel free to leave suggestions or criticsms. Do note that as a casual Heroes of the Storm player, this is likely either horribly imbalanced or incredibly weak.

Combat Trait

1
Corpse Transport
The meat wagon does not use mana for its abilities, and instead relies on corpses. Nearby enemy minions and mercenaries create one corpse upon death, while enemy heroes create four, which can be collected by walking over them or right clicking them. Corpses last for 5 seconds before they decay. The meat wagon can hold up to 16 corpses at a time, and gains 2.5% bonus attack damage for each corpse it is carrying. Toggling this trait prevents the Meat Wagon from picking up corpses by walking over them.

Also, the Meat Wagon's Basic Attack range is 4 further than most other ranged Heroes, and its vision radius is 2 further as well.

Primary Abilities

1
Attack Ground
Cost: 1 corpse per attack
Cooldown: Basic attack cooldown
Range: 9.5
Radius: 1

The Meat Wagon basic attacks the target point on the ground. Enemies in the center of the blast take full damage, while the rest of the enemies take 50% damage. The Meat Wagon continues to attack until it runs out of corpses or is given another order.
2
Disease Cloud
Cost: 2 corpses
Cooldown: 8 seconds
Duration: 12 seconds
Range: 9.5
Radius: 2

Launches diseased corpses at the target area, dealing 128 (+4%/level) damage to enemies in the area and creating a disease cloud. Enemies inside the the disease cloud take 32 (+4%/level) damage per second and are revealed for 2 seconds upon leaving it.
3
Unholy Burst
Cost: 1 corpse per second, 4 total
Cooldown: 10 seconds

The Meat Wagon gains a 100% bonus to movement speed and health regeneration for 4 seconds, automatically casting Drop Corpse every second. The ability ends prematurely should the Meat Wagon run out of corpses or if the Meat Wagon takes damage. This ability automatically activates with no corpse cost and with no health regeneration bonus while in the Hall of Storms. The Meat Wagon cannot collect corpses while using Unholy Burst.

Secondary Abilities

1
Drop Corpse
Drops one of the Meat Wagon's corpses.
2
Plague Ward
Requires the Plague Ward Talent.
Radius: 4
Duration: 30 seconds

Places a ward on the ground, providing sight in a radius of 4 for 30 seconds. When an enemy walks within 2 range of the ward, the ward explodes and creates a Disease Cloud.

Heroic Abilities

1
Book of the Dead
Cost: 8 corpses
Cooldown: 80 seconds
Duration: 30 seconds
Range: 7
Radius: 2.5

The Meat Wagon launches a pile of corpses at the target area, dealing 640 (+4%/level) damage on impact and summoning 4 skeleton warriors and 4 skeleton archers. Skeletons attack enemies within the Meat Wagon's attack range, prioritizing heroes. Reactivating the ability allows you to select an enemy hero, causing all of the skeletons to attack the target. Skeletons that leave the Meat Wagon's attack range persist for 5 seconds before collapsing.
2
Graveyard
Cooldown: 10 seconds
Range: 3

Places a Graveyard at the target position that automatically surrounds itself with up to 5 corpses, creating 1 corpse every 4 seconds. If the Graveyard is at maximum capacity, it instead summons a ghoul to push the lane it is in over a duration of 60 seconds. A Graveyard that has summoned up to two ghouls will not continue to summon Ghouls until they die. The Meat Wagon can only have 2 graveyards up at a time, and last until replaced or destroyed.

Special Mount

1
The meat wagon cannot mount and moves at 75% of the speed of other heroes.

Talents

Level 1 Talents


Exhume Corpses - Every 8 seconds, the Meat Wagon generates 1 corpse.

Plague Ward - Places a ward on the ground, providing sight in a radius of 4 for 30 seconds. When an enemy walks within 2 range of the ward, the ward explodes and creates a Disease Cloud.

Collector's Edition - Collecting a corpse increases the Meat Wagon's movement speed by 50% for 2 seconds. Quest: Upon collecting 96 corpses, the Meat Wagon heals for 2% of its maximum health every time it collects a corpse.

Level 4 Talents


Siege Weapon - Corpse Transport's damage bonus is doubled against buildings.

Epidemic - Increases Disease Cloud's area by 50%. Over its duration, Disease Cloud increases in size by another 50%.

Legion Doom-Horn - Allies near the Meat Wagon gain a 25% bonus movement speed and health regeneration while it casts Unholy Burst.

Level 7 Talents


Orb of Corruption - Attack Ground decreases the armor of all heroes hit by up to 50% for every corpse the Meat Wagon carries upon casting it for 5 seconds.

Orb of Darkness - Attack Ground creates a Dark Minion if it hits an enemy that gains up to 50% armor and attack damage for every corpse the Meat Wagon carries upon casting it. The Dark Minion lasts 30 seconds. This effect will not activate again until the Dark Minion dies or expires.

Orb of Frost - Attack Ground decreases the movement speed of enemies hit by up to 25% for every corpse the Meat Wagon carries upon casting it for 5 seconds.

Level 13 Talents


Festering Disease - Disease Cloud's revelation duration is increased to 4 seconds, and also causes Disease Cloud to apply its damage per second to revealed enemies.

Corpse Explosion - Corpses created by Unholy Burst explode at the end of their duration, dealing 160 (+4%/level) to enemies in a radius of 2 and slowing them by 25% for 1 seconds, but also reduces their duration by 3 seconds.

Runed Bracers - The Meat Wagon gains 50 Spell Armor while Unholy Burst is activated.

Level 16 Talents


Hail of Corpses - Attack Ground's area of effect is increased to 100% of normal damage.

Black Death - Disease Cloud's damage per second also deals a bonus 0.5% of the target's maximum health every second.

Rolling Thunder - Unholy Burst no longer ends prematurely upon the Meat Wagon taking damage.

Level 20 Talents


Scourge Bone Chimes - Skeletons summoned by Book of the Dead gain 50% armor and heal for 25% of the damage they deal.

Ghoul Frenzy - Corpses are created 50% faster. Ghouls gain 50% movement and attack speed.

Meat Tanker - The number of corpses the Meat Wagon can store increases to 24.

Corpse Flinger - The Meat Wagon gains 2.5% attack speed for every corpse they are carrying.

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