Heroes who were recently added to Staff of the Master

[Juular]

Since the tooltips are not regularly updated, I have attempted to compile a list of the heroes who are boosted by staff of the master (and how!)

I hope you find this useful.


Heroes who are boosted by Staff of the Master:


Intelligence

Thunderbringer - Increases damage by 110 (from 460 -> 570).

Wretched Hag - Increases damage by 125 (from 600 -> 725).

Succubus - Increases damage per second by 65 (from 215 -> 280).

Pollywog Priest - Increases number of wards to 11 (from 8).

Pyromancer - Increases damage by 200 (from 950 -> 1150).

Glacius - Increases damage by 60 per second (from 250 -> 310).

Ophelia - ultimate cooldown is reduced to 30 seconds (from 120).

Nymphora - Gains new ultimate ability, Nymph's Call. Teleports target friendly hero to Nymphora after channel time (1.5 sec). Shares cooldown with normal Ultimate.

Demented Shaman - Increases radius to 800, increases duration to 35 seconds.

Torturer - Increases damage by 29 per second (from 144 to 173).

Voodoo Jester - Increases ward's damage by 30; ward splits its attack to hit 3 targets simultaneously.

Plague Rider - Increases damage by 90 (from 460 to 550).

Soul Reaper - Increases health missing/damage ratio by .3 (from 0.9 to 1.2).

Agility

Chronos - Cooldown is reduced to 75 seconds. Chronofield lasts for 6 seconds.

Swiftblade - Cooldown is reduced to 90 seconds. Swift Slashes hits 10 times (up from 8).

Andromeda - Cooldown is reduced to 10 seconds (from 45).

Moon Queen - Increases number of Moon Beams by 2 (from 10), increases max number of times it can hit a target by 1 (from 4 -> 5).

Slither - Increases damage per second by 29 (from 81 -> 110).


Strength

Magmus - Cooldown is reduced to 80 seconds. Increases duration to 3.5 seconds. Increases end radius to 800.

Devourer - Ultimate heals Devourer for amount of damage dealt. Also does 175 + 0.75 x strength magic damage per second.

Accursed - Increases duration to 7 seconds (from 6).

Pharaoh - Reduces cooldown to 20 seconds, changes "impact" type to affect allied heroes as well as non-neutral enemy units.

[Griddler]

Who are the other heroes affected? I was trying to figure out if it does anything for defiler or not ><

[Etdashou]

Who are the other heroes affected? I was trying to figure out if it does anything for defiler or not ><

To see if it helps Defiler or not, you can look at the tooltip of her/his? Ultimate and see if their is a RED text saying something like: "This spell is boosted by by Staff". If you don't see this, then it is not.
You may want to try like Swiftblade and see an example of the tooltip.

Or you can look at those screenshot:
Defiler Ultimate SKill (http://www.maxgweb.com/download/defiler.jpg)
Swiftblade Ultimate skill (http://www.maxgweb.com/download/swift.jpg)

So I think Defiler = No

[dreamex]

To see if it helps Defiler or not, you can look at the tooltip of her/his? Ultimate and see if their is a RED text saying something like: "This spell is boosted by by Staff". If you don't see this, then it is not.
You may want to try like Swiftblade and see an example of the tooltip.

Or you can look at those screenshot:
Defiler Ultimate SKill (http://www.maxgweb.com/download/defiler.jpg)
Swiftblade Ultimate skill (http://www.maxgweb.com/download/swift.jpg)

So I think Defiler = No

This would be true if HoN tooltips were properly updated. For a long long long time Pollywog's Ultimate didn't list SoM benefit yet it clearly did provide the buff to the number of wards spawned.

[Etdashou]

This would be true if HoN tooltips were properly updated. For a long long long time Pollywog's Ultimate didn't list SoM benefit yet it clearly did provide the buff to the number of wards spawned.

True...

[the1ivo]

This would be true if HoN tooltips were properly updated. For a long long long time Pollywog's Ultimate didn't list SoM benefit yet it clearly did provide the buff to the number of wards spawned.

Exactly right. The ward count goes from 8 to 12 when you have SotM. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing the list of heroes in the tooltip, or even, something a little more insane, have three specialised versions of SotM for each attribute of strength, intelligence and agility. Giving each something extra to suit, like +10 agi or int... *from the original 10, to go to 20 agi and so on.

Something to ponder about.

[Griddler]

K well thats good to know. The staff itself just says "improves the ultimate of many heroes" but doesn't say which, and I knew some new ones ahd been added and some old ones (poly) were never listed on it anyways.

[GuyGin]

This is a wonderful post.

What's up with blacksmith and staff of the master?

Oh yeah and WTB decapitate buff with SotM...

[sjsivak]

Nymphora's new skill has a casting time that is .5 seconds lower than the normal ult. So at the first level it is 3.5 seconds because the ult cast time is 4 seconds.

At least that is what I remember from yesterday.

[noodle0117]

yay devourer!!!
now he heals for damage as well

[Santoriin]

Nymphora's new skill has a casting time that is .5 seconds lower than the normal ult. So at the first level it is 3.5 seconds because the ult cast time is 4 seconds.

At least that is what I remember from yesterday.
Nymphora's new spell is 10 kinds of amazing for map control and surprise, i love it

[dadumbass]

Does Staff boost Blacksmith's ulti? I remember seeing one holding a Staff.
Btw, you forgot hag.

[Juular]

Does Staff boost Blacksmith's ulti? I remember seeing one holding a Staff.
Btw, you forgot hag.

No, it doesn't. At least not anymore. It used to, but it was grossly overpowered (he got 5x multicasts every other cast).

EDIT: Thanks, I forgot about her.

I'll go test what staff does for each individual hero tomorrow; tonight I'm just too lazy/tired, and my ISP is being terrible.

EDIT2: Topic updated! All heroes who are boosted by staff of the master are now listed!

[Juular]

Who are the other heroes affected? I was trying to figure out if it does anything for defiler or not ><

Defiler is not boosted by staff of the master; her passive synergizes well enough with her ultimate that S2 decided it would be overpowered, I guess.

EDIT: Ooooops, double post. :(

[Juular]

Triple post, oh well. Updated with 0.1.46 heroes!

[Scione]

Great guide..Should be sticky'ed

[dune]

May want to add Pharaoh as well ^.^

[Czech0]

The items used to build staff of the master have made it better option too for strength and agi heroes

[Bobble]

May want to add Pharaoh as well ^.^

Got that right. I love hooking to my allies!

[Juular]

May want to add Pharaoh as well ^.^


Oooh, yeah, I'll go add him right now.

Pharaoh added!

Information updated - Nymph's Call channel time was incorrect.

[Puchi]

Thanks for this guide, cant wait to test staff on pudge and Retarded Shammy

[Juular]

Updated information with original damage -> boosted damage.

[ShadowsCrush]

seems like this list would be better listing the heroes that arn't boosted by staff

[xanderK]

Plague Rider's ulti gains a bounce with SotM too.

[gwho1]

Moon Queen - Increases number of Moon Beams by 2 (from 10), increases max number of times it can hit a target by 1 (from 4 -> 5).


you forgot cd reduction, which is the biggest highlight of mq's bonus imo.

[Impressive]

There is something i dont understand - Why Staff of the master does not boost blacksmith's ultimate? That is one thing i think should bee added.

[Aldy]

There is something i dont understand - Why Staff of the master does not boost blacksmith's ultimate? That is one thing i think should bee added.

Becuz it did before a certain patch (5x Multicast), but was way to strong ( Instantkill any other Int-Hero).

[gwho1]

another way would just be to increase the percentage than the number of multicasts.

[SGP]

"Ophelia - ultimate cooldown is reduced to 30 seconds (from 120)."

Is this true? I find that totally awesome.

[Tanubis]

One thing that'd be really nice on this list is a % indicator of effective boost. For example, Ophelia's if true is effectively a 4x multiplier to the ability (400%!), whereas on pyro it's only about an 18% increase.

[VenomKing]

Demented Shaman - Increases radius to 800, increases duration to 35 seconds.


Chronos - Cooldown is reduced to 75 seconds. Chronofield lasts for 6 seconds.


Magmus - Cooldown is reduced to 80 seconds. Increases duration to 3.5 seconds. Increases end radius to 800.


Need 0original values here.

[Taggsvamp]

Very nice thread :D

[Taggsvamp]

And about ophelias ulti what i have seen it's true aobut 30 secs CD