Balance Dump

[[IaF]Skyve]

Why did I only notice now that there was no Riftwalker Speculation thread?

[Hubaris]

Because the hero hasn't caused too much of a problem as I've seen so far.

Fairly balanced and viable with certain setups... IMO of course.

[[f13]`11411181]

The hero is a diluted fusion of Dark Seer and Chaos Knight mechanics, diluted because there is random tacked-on damage numbers on every skill.

[Hubaris]

Naw we all know that Blitz is Dark Seer. The random damage is really only tacked on on the vacuum, but in her defense its delayed and doesn't have the AoE of Dark Seer's, not even close.

[[GoVn]w3wStarBoy]

Dark seer wat??
Ds is a tank and melee hero, half nuke

Blitz is a half-range hero, soft, heavy nuke (but still not get enough damage)

And why S2 still dont make 3rd skill Revenant like invi rune?, ( can use bottle attack in fade time, can change steam boot,turn on/off aura etc)

[[f13]SomethingOdd]

Here's a question:Should we have access to the changes being tested in SBT?

[[RCT]Reldnahc]

Here's a question:Should we have access to the changes being tested in SBT?

Kills marketing and leaks everywhere. Only suggestion is to apply yourself or something.

[[f13]SomethingOdd]

I'm 1250 mmr.

[[LsE]Hsssh]

I remember back in the day it was open to everyone but majority of people just watched at what was going on(SBT patch notes, forum threads) to satisfy their curiosity instead of actually trying to help with testing so it was made private. Now if you want to satisfy your curiosity you have to help at least a little.

[Hubaris]

Dark seer wat??
Ds is a tank and melee hero, half nuke

Blitz is a half-range hero, soft, heavy nuke (but still not get enough damage)

And why S2 still dont make 3rd skill Revenant like invi rune?, ( can use bottle attack in fade time, can change steam boot,turn on/off aura etc)

I was being facetious.

[[GR]XFlame]

Ravenor seems interesting enough. Pretty basic and seems like he's supposed to be played fairly aggressively. That being said, his shield is a genuine Charged Hammer effect ripoff.

[[IaF]Skyve]

Well, he's certainly better than the early leak was (basically all that was missing on that was 600 range to be another silhouette). He still doesn't really seem to have any kind of real "niche", other than maybe being good against stacked armor, but we have Harkon's Blade anyways :/

[[LsE]Hsssh]

Wonder how he'll fare against magic vestments.

[skeloperch]

Seems like he'll do fairly well considering how much damage he was doing (assuming that is without vestments). I'm interested in the mechanics behind his W, though.

[[IaF]Skyve]

Just wanted to say clan IaF #1, defeating angrytestie in team matchmaking and even getting an annihilation during all of that shizzle

Which also might have made him quite angry. Especially that one unknown blacksmith that protected most of the runes.

And I still managed to feed.

[skeloperch]

Just wanted to say clan IaF #1, defeating angrytestie in team matchmaking and even getting an annihilation during all of that shizzle

Which also might have made him quite angry. Especially that one unknown blacksmith that protected most of the runes.

And I still managed to feed.

Do you know his name? It might've been me or one of my friends that trained at the Blacksmith dojo and mastered him and his beardy ways.

[[IaF]Skyve]

Well, the match ID is 91802860, so find out for yourself

[[LsE]Benny0]

So am I alone in thinking shrunken head is fundamentally flawed, in a sense? The stun/silence/disable immunity is utterly necessary for carries to function in this game, but sometimes I feel like the whole "absolutely no magic damage taken" aspect is a bit too much. Void Talisman at least has a downside to activating it, but of course it's much cheaper and whatnot.

I dunno, I think the sheer damage reduction is just kind of silly against some team comps.

[[IaF]Skyve]

I dunno, I think the sheer damage reduction is just kind of silly against some team comps.

But then you also have to question whether those teams would be OP without the existence of Shrunken Head (or Vindicator :P) to counter them.

[[f13]`11411181]

So am I alone in thinking shrunken head is fundamentally flawed, in a sense? The stun/silence/disable immunity is utterly necessary for carries to function in this game, but sometimes I feel like the whole "absolutely no magic damage taken" aspect is a bit too much. Void Talisman at least has a downside to activating it, but of course it's much cheaper and whatnot.

I dunno, I think the sheer damage reduction is just kind of silly against some team comps.

Necessary evil. In order to have spells at a power level where they can generate action early on to prevent stagnation of a game, yet not just mindlessly take over a game - you need an accessible counter that isn't available minute 0 to everyone.