Sand Wraith's Ult Visual / Name

[VitaTimH]

When Sand Wraith was first released, I instantly thought of the scene from The Mummy where Imhotep makes a giant wall of sand with a face. Sand control = cool.

When I saw Wraith's ult (Mirage), I felt it was a copout. So the enemy hero just IMAGINES there's a sand monster near him that's smacking him, and he still takes damage from it. And the sand monster can inhabit the form of something the enemy just THINKS is there. In fantasy RPG terms, this is acceptable, but lame.

Who thinks it would be a lot cooler if instead of making a measly ILLUSION, Wraith actually makes clones of himself from the sand? (Think Gaara from Naruto, for a childish comparison) I can envision an amazingly cool visual for the ult now -- instead of dudes just appearing briefly, then going for your throat, sand could gather on the ground and form into a sand-tinted Wraith. This could explain the 1 second delay on the illusions attacking too!

Name would also be changed to something more fitting, but I'm drawing a blank here. Skill description could be changed too. Obviously no gameplay changes.

Thoughts?

[The_Nix]

I'm indifferent but as long as they weren't actually clones they still were "illusions" in terms of the game mechanic than i would see no reason why they couldn't try and make his animation cooler.

[Sacrificulum]

I use the ulti for quick blinks from place to place, the illusions barely even stay there for a second. Visual effects are always cool but.. why bother?

[VitaTimH]

@Nixon: Yeah, in terms of game mechanics they are illusions. This is purely a flavor change.

@Sacrificulum: You're playing Sand Wraith wrong. Also, S2 likes visual effects -- look at the damn trees having bigger and bigger explosions as Deadwood tromps through them.

[Raz0r]

sand sucks so hard at the moment...i don?t even want to talk about him...
his curse is still bugged. his movement is ridiculous...a "wraith"(hunter) should be faster than 295...i got outrunned by corrupted or deadwood so often... -__-

i would find even 320 movement speed(like moonqueen or magebane) justified if the manacosts of deserts curse won?t get lowered

since savage mace?s ministun doesn?t apply to sandwraith?s ult anymore... i would say...rework the ult AND deserted!

the Illusions aren?t thaaat strong...
I think it would be cooler if special monsters like mummies or...sandghosts with about 20-30% power of sandwraith would spawn insted of just "illusions"
or even maybe 3 different monsters:
1 kind of monster for str. heros maybe a kind of scorpion

1 dealing magic dmg for agi heros for example a giant snake

and maybe one with manadrain for int heros a ghoust made out of sand

i think this would be really cool!
And still let sand teleport to them with an ritual that kills them to let their "master" the Sandwraith appear! :)

[Muggins]

So..

Ophelia is wandering through the jungle. Was she moves from the easy creep camp to one of the stronger ones, the sand begins to build up beside her. It forms into the sand wraith and, after a few brief hits from her creeps, gains it's colour with nothing else to distinguish it. Sand Wraiths proceeds to scare the crap out of Ophelia.

The sand could have the same kind of animation as Sand Wraith has when he's moving on Desert's Curse sand. It builds up from the ground and makes his form. I'm liking it. :D