Backdoor Beacon

[IndigoAura]

Purchased from the supplies tab for 200g. When used, the Backdoor Beacon drops a shining beacon on the ground for 30 seconds. Your allies can use a homecoming stone to teleport to this beacon.

Uses:

- Pulling in your team from all corners of the map to suprise gank a lane.

- Making people who dont like it when you backdoor cry.

[NoobishNoob]

Well this is very interesting... but there should be a cooldown though... Holding vote for now and wait what others think of this...

[Wobbletoes]

Probably better if it was return to tree/altar.

[sil]

absolutely not, would be way too imba.

[IndigoAura]

Probably better if it was return to tree/altar.


I dont see how this is better. A normal homecoming stone can do that.

[kameelyan]

Just play as nymph and get a staff of master. Then you could tele 4 people in a matter of about 8 seconds.

[IndigoAura]

absolutely not, would be way too imba.

care to explain your reasoning?


Just play as nymph and get a staff of master. Then you could tele 4 people in a matter of about 8 seconds.

True to an extent, but that requires your entire team to be near you, not to mention the need to be nymph and get a SotM. With a beacon, you can feint attack a lane and then drop to another while the enemy is occupied.

[S3ptic]

I think it should have a setup time, a minimap ping visible to opponents and be attackable with 5 hitpoints. Then it would be fine!

[Droggeltasse]

I think you ruined a great idea for a item that could bring great strategies to the game with the word backdooring. The word backdooring leads to a spamming on the vote No button without thinking about this item. It would be great for ganks and teamfigths too. Call your friends to yourself when you get ganked in the woods or sth. else...
I think this is the most intresting item suggestion i have seen so far cause it is something that is realy different and not just one more dps, tank, disable.... item. And it is a item that has to be implented (removed) in the beta cause it would have a great impact on the gameplay.

I would realy like to see this suggestion without the word backdoor again and the difference in the poll result.

Edit: I agree on the ping and the hitpoints to make it counterable.

[A1ias]

This has been suggested many times before in Dota and has been dismissed every time simply because of how imbalanced something like this is. For 200 gold you gain complete map dominance and forces the whole game to revolve around ganking. By doing this you are more or less eliminating carry heroes from competitive games.

[Droggeltasse]

This has been suggested many times before in Dota and has been dismissed every time simply because of how imbalanced something like this is. For 200 gold you gain complete map dominance and forces the whole game to revolve around ganking. By doing this you are more or less eliminating carry heroes from competitive games.

Was something like this ever implented. The gold cost can be changed but i think a beta is the rigth place to test what impact sth. like this would have on the game. If its horrible, just remove it but outside of a beta to try things like this would annoy alot of people.

[Flat_Head]

I'm not sure I like this idea but I voted yes because I love backdooring. Gold cost should be at least 4x more though, and there should be a cooldown from buying it in the shop.