The New Blade Mail Function We've Been Waiting For

It's always been difficult to say what the problem with blade mail is

Should the robe be a more expensive intelligent component in order to push strength heroes away from it a bit more?

Because Durable, Initiator, Disabler... REFLECTOR is too powerful of a concept?


Or should blade mail have also a natural passive ability that would allow a hero to attack himself therefore damaging enemy heroes at the attack range of the hero in an aoe around the hero, damage distributed evenly across the number of heroes there are within the radius of attack range in the form of pure damage?


And interestingly enough... what hero would get the most out of this concept?

IO would almost now want to stay at the -1 armor he starts out with and focus on life regen like he does anyways...

But would get the most out of the "attack himself" approach


Therefore making him an oddball effective against agility but the self attack reflect could still be evadable through evasion.

Most effective against intel it would seem...

Yo Kyfoid, I hope you remember your promise of Brewmaster's 6.89 fame and glory? Because I do. And if you won't keep it...





































Let's just say me and your mum will have a very serious discussion about your behaviour.

Brewmaster: Crimson Guard and Strength Version of Magic Damage

Echantress: Linken's sphere and hurricane pike



The problem here is that we don't really know what the strength version of magic damage is

Then when we realize or find what it is, we see the necromicon melee warrior with mana burn and the ranged warrior with mana burn both.

I see this as a redundancy of design flaw

The melee warrior should have a less effective but familiar "taunt" ability

That way it would more likely ensure its suicide against a hero like phantom assassin

Massive amount of magic damage done to PA in the strength heroes way of doing it.

Necromicon is probably one of the least used items.

The brewmaster would have made sure he takes off in farm first with offensive component of necromicon and reversed in to crimson guard

I understand what you mean Kyfrog

Int heroes have: Veil, drums, Hurricane pike, Guinso, Bloodthorn, shivas, Octarine....., they have almost everything and they have good stats + insane utility

Agi Heroes have: Manta, Diffusal, Buttlerfly and Skadi, it seems little but the combo of manta + diffusal is almost impossible to kill a agi hero and fast butterfly is gg

Str heroes have: Blade Mail ? Exactly, they just have this, the only buffed item and a definy gameplay one

Blademail: The strength heroes use it more then the intels yet it is an intelligence item

Echosaber: The strength and agility heroes use it more then the intels yet it is an intelligence item


Most intelligence heroes are ranged (omitting echo saber)

Most intelligence heroes are squishy (not making blade mail ideal)


I provided the solutions for each in order to make the ranged attack dominated intels relevant to their own item.

I will now quote Einstein

"It seems our biggest problem is a perfection of means and a confusion of aims"