Why is Magnus Str and not Int?

Funny thing is, this last game I started with the ring of protection.... ran out to lane with 428 gold and grabbed boots of speed really fast...

Then got boots of tranq asap

Immediately after I got morbid mask, then helm of dominator


with these two items rushed you can jungle easy with the life regen, etc.

Because of his farming ability at this point, I guess I could see how he has such a good opportunity to rush a satanic.

I guess I could see his tanking ability there...

But I rushed dagon and maxed out dagon asap since it just gets progressively not as good late game..

Realize I just try to max it out or get it high level before going all out caster with it...

Build works great...


oh yeah, i max empower first...

Works great for jungling... double cleave...

Its pretty much established that str heroes are the big muscly guys, int are the wizard dudes and agility the assasin fighter guys. Does magnus look like a wizard to you?

The point that I see lies in the fact that if a character is going to start out with more life then armor/ias and mana, then he must have to be classified as a strength hero....

However, I personally feel like this supports lore more then realistic balance.

He relies much more on his mana/mana pool far more then he does on his life pool and the damage he gets from it.... this is obvious with 3 heavy casting mana spells that are suppose to also be generally more important then empower... he has hardly any time to dink around with life steal, unless again, you consider the way I play him.

That's pretty much supported by eveyone who maxes out empower last, while I prefer to rush tranq boots, get another melee carry in my lane, empower us both to farm, grab dominator and jungle.

Then I basically jungle myself to that veil of discord since it has a huge area of effect, which you can use to force enemies to divide up...

If i catch 3 in my veil of discord they will usually always back off the lane, if not, then slash, charge, ulti, slash on 2-3 guys...

But mana is still a huge problem there.... I guess that's where a soul ring could make sense.


3 out of 4 skills classified as magical...

Maybe if one of those was classified as physical i would rush an orchid.



Soul Ring + Veil of discord in to refresher.

End of story...

1v1?Your stupid builds against my build?Let us settle this already,this is getting out of hand.

even then, i would much rather max out a dagon asap since at least all the components support mana

Actually, I got a question... is there any hero that can cast invis on another hero besides treant protector?

I daresay Magnus is one of the heroes that a Dagon isn't such a good item on. If you want intelligence utility, I'd rather go Necromicon or similar.

And when lategame strikes, he won't run out of mana until after a team clash is finished, so you don't really need MORE mana. =P


Mirana's Moonlight Shadow

Here we go again.... The 20 pag long clinkz stupid *** thread renamed as magnus....

Kyfoid, just try it in game, tell us the results and post a match ID.

I got one question first, does cleave work with bash?

Cause if it does, then my new item goal is as follows

-Soul ring
-Power Treads (intellegence)
-Skull basher
-Mask of Madness
-Shadow Blade