Xin the Ember Spirit - A Guide From a Noob for Noobs (WIP)

I think that I should explain my comment. The way that I worded it was weird, and then I didn't really explain my thinking very well. Here we go.

Everybody has their own opinion on Ember builds, and most of them are right. The most common way, chasing people down with max Flame Guard and Phase Boots works, as well as my way, which involves being able to stay in fights for longer, because you have more mana to work with, and short cooldowns. Playing Ember Spirit] got a lot easier for me once I started thinking of him as a burst hero that functions off of mana, like [[Storm Spirit]] or Skywrath Mage(Skywrath's Ultimate costs 800 mana). Or, Earth Spirit. I actually play all of those heroes regularly.





These are, sort of, the reasons and explanations for my skill and Item build:

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1. I hate Drum of Endurance too.
The reason why people get it is that you simply don't have a big enough manapool to be able to keep in long engagements. Drums gives you 119 mana, which is basically another Searing Chains. Actually, that is really good.

On the other hand, Arcane Boots gives 250 maximum mana, and has an active that gives you another effective 100 mana(because it restores 135 mana at a cost of 35 mana), and gives 1.82 mana per second. To Drum of Endurance's 119, it gives an effective 350 max mana, which is almost a Flame Guard, Activate Fire Remnant, and a Searing Chains.

I mentioned Soul Ring because it is another alternative to Drum of Endurance, but it lowers your already-tiny HP pool even more.


2. I want maximum burst early on, and then a transition to Sleight of Fist. (Skill + Item Builds in Chronological Order)

Since whoever came up with this Arcane Boots, it isn't really possible to chase people down with Flame Guard, because of a lack of Phase Boots. Therefore, there isn't much point in maxing it out early. However, you still want to be able to push the lane, and the 2nd level of Flame Guard absorbs 4x as much damage as level one. And so, I get it at level one and 3, and get Searing Chains at level 2 and 4, as expected. It is important to note that at level 2 it is a 2 second disable, which is what many disables are at level 4. I get Sleight of Fist at level 5 for the extra 950 range on Searing Chains. I just value that as a chase tool more than the double damage on Searing Chains from level 2-3. After that, I find that not maxing Flame Guard first makes you a bit squishy, and so I max that next.

Since, with Arcane Boots, you don't have to buy Drum of Endurance, you can get a Battle Fury faster. A Blink Dagger is good too, because Blink Dagger ---> Searing Chains is really powerful.

Anyway, this timing on the Battle Fury means that you get it around the time you are level 13, if you have been farming well. At level 14, you can have max Sleight of Fist to go along with it. Here is where the transition into a Sleight of Fist build comes. After my first Battle Fury, I just keep stacking them unless I need a Black King Bar.

Then, after 2 Battlefuries, I get either a Desolator or a Eye of Skadi, depending on how good the Eye of Skadi is against their lineup. If they have carries without a lot of attack speed, or lots of carries, then get Skadi. If they don't, or you just need more damage, go for the Desolator.

Finally, as your last Item, if you don't need a Boots of Travel, spring for a Daedalus. The game probably won't go on the long, but we don't care about that.

If you haven't already, pick up the Boots of Travel for 6 slots.









I did not intend to spend as much time on this as I did. Hope you found interesting, though.

I like the formatting. I really like the formatting.

Anyway, I play Ember Spirit Quite a bit, and I usually go straight for 2 Battle Fury, unless I need to buy a Black King Bar. Also, usually, I go with Phase Boots or Arcane Boots because of Ember's small mana pool. If I ned to be an active mid, I get Arcane Boots.

Also, this is another correct skill build:

1 Flame Guard 2 Searing Chains 3 Flame Guard 4 Searing Chains 5 Sleight of Fist 6 Fire Remnant 7 Searing Chains 8 Flame Guard

9 Flame Guard 10STATS 11 Fire Remnant 12 Sleight of Fist 13 Sleight of Fist 14 Sleight of Fist 15 Searing Chains 16 Fire Remnant

Through large amounts of testing, I have found that you still usually want to rush Battle Fury. It scales the best into the late game, and the damage just gets better the later the game goes. The sustain is also needed, and just getting a Battle Fury keeps you from having to buy a Soul Ring.

While it true that you have published the guide very eraly, even if you wanted a feedback, from the part that is available it seems very promising. Generally I strongly dislike "standard" guides that you can't even distinguish from others, they don't give any really useful info on the hero, but that one there doesn't seem like "standard" guide, so far it at least describes Ember Spirit's ACTUAL pros/cons/pick/do not pick and not generalised ******** most(even top rated) guides contain.

I think you should you add something aside reasoned skillbuild and itembuild, gameplay chapter and some pictures would be great. WIth that this guide can easily become the top one, because it will be relevant, reasoned and thotough. Good luck.

Where is build m8?