Dust of Clear Vision

[Qwernakus]

Dust of Clear Vision

"What is clear vision?" Clear vision, or Clear Sight, is vision that is not obstructed. That means you can see freely through trees, over ramps and beyound cliffs. If you are still unsure what Clear Vision is, go to Practice mode. Go the watchtower map and kill Transmutanstein, as he drops a gadget that grants you clear vision.

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Type: Consumeable item
Cost: 100 each, sold in bundles of 2 (like Dust of Revelation). The game starts with 2 bundles avaiable. Another bundle becomes avaiable every 5 minutes.
WHEN USED
Mana cost: 0
Range: 500
Radius: 1000
Cooldown: 5 seconds
Sprinkles the targeted area with Dust of Clear Sight, revealing the area for 20 seconds.



Why implement this item? Well, it is a useful anti juke item. It is mainly used by Gankers to prevents jukes. You know that area to the right of the first mid hellbourne tower? Yeah, those tress are hard to lit up. A normal ward cant do it. A player has a hard time catching a hero hidding in there. But throw som dust in the middle of the trees and he hides no more. There are many areas of that type, for example the area above first top hellbourne tower, or the one below the first legion bot tower. It could even be used to watch an area against enemies temporarily, as a kind of weak, very short term ward.


Limitations: The item only have half the normal ward sight range. That, combined with only a 20 second duration makes it a lot less useful for defensive warding, AKA anti-gank wards. It does, however, still retain a stock and has a cooldown, so you cant horde them and view an entire area.



Comments appreciated.

[_Archangel_]

It's a good idea and concept, but it will be used defensively. Set it down in the trees next to you while you farm, nobody can gank you as long as you pay 200 gold every 6 minutes! This might sound like what Wards of Sight currently do, but they are mostly used to cover the Rune spots and such; there are other pathways for ganking than those common areas where orange Wards are placed. This kind of thing prevents ganks from the trees, etc.

You should probably make it a Dust-like item instead: Grants Clear Sight in 900 AoE of your hero when used for X seconds, like that.

[fosb]

I agree with the poster above. Make is a dust like item

[Qwernakus]

Good idea.

I need some feedback here though: Do you want the dust to reveal an AREA or give the USER of it clear sight? Or even everyone around you?

[Qwernakus]

Bump.

[BarneyGumbal]

I was skeptical of the concept, but your implementation for restrictions is good. I like it.

[Qwernakus]

I was skeptical of the concept, but your implementation for restrictions is good. I like it.

Thanks :)

[Qwernakus]

Bump.

[izzmad]

The game does not need any sight-cosmetics other than those already in.
Adding questionable stuff only decreases the usefulness of the current sight-tools (wards, dust etc)

So for me personally, this is redundant. :^/

[VitaTimH]

I think its use for juking doesn't make it redundant, but I think that the duration / cooldown should be reversed, or something similar. Like 15 second cooldown, 10 second duration. 20 seconds is more than enough to kill a juker... I feel that would completely eliminate the tactic.

If instead of casting in an AoE around you, you could target the location though, this could be a cool magebane blink-TP counter :D

[AeiOwnedU]

No - Would make the game to simple.

They'll never take juking out of the game.

[Matemeo]

TUP. Very useful item, well thought out and fills a niche not yet filled.