Shadow Priest

[Mort]

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Shadow Priest

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Armor Type:

Heavy

Damage Reduction:
Chaos 100%
Hero 100%
Magic 125%
Normal 100%
Pierce 100%
Siege 100%
Spells 125%

Skills:

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Innate: Preservation
Give your team extra lives when used.

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Level 1: Enfeeble
Anti-magic potion and purification can remove the effect of this skill
Slow the xp earning for the targeted hero, both by personal kills and what he gains from the entire team.
Great way to reduce the levels for a caster or tank, lower level means less useful skills and lowered hp.
Note: Cancels Bard's Faenella's Grace.
exp reduced, lasts for 20 secs
05%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%

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Level 1: Shadow Art Mastery
An passive skill that increase the effect of all the other spells.
Increases the lives you can get from Preservation, how much the Greater Hallucinations get healed and how big chance the meteors has to hit creeps when using Armageddon.
preservation: -
enfeeble:1 sec more
greater hallucination: heal 150 hp
armageddon: 10% chance to hit an enemy
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preservation: 1
enfeeble:2 sec more
greater hallucination: heal 300 hp
armageddon: 20% chance to hit an enemy
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preservation: 1
enfeeble:3 sec more
greater hallucination: heal 450 hp
armageddon: 30% chance to hit an enemy
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preservation: 2
enfeeble:4 sec more
greater hallucination: heal 600 hp
armageddon: 40% chance to hit an enemy
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preservation: 2
enfeeble:5 sec more
greater hallucination: heal 750 hp
armageddon: 50% chance to hit an enemy
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preservation: 3
enfeeble:6 sec more
greater hallucination: heal 900 hp
armageddon: 60% chance to hit an enemy
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preservation: 3
enfeeble:7 sec more
greater hallucination: heal 1050 hp
armageddon: 70% chance to hit an enemy
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preservation: 4
enfeeble:8 sec more
greater hallucination: heal 1200 hp
armageddon: 80% chance to hit an enemy
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preservation: 4
enfeeble:9 sec more
greater hallucination: heal 1350 hp
armageddon: 90% chance to hit an enemy
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preservation: 5
enfeeble:10 sec more
greater hallucination: heal 1500 hp
armageddon: 100% chance to hit an enemy
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Level 6: Greater Hallucination
Purification can remove the effect of this skill
Much like Grazhir's Effigy, it copies an hero, damage done and damage taken increase/decrease for each level.
Only thing is that it's only targetable on friendly heroes.
To see what skills are transferred see this list.
Note: The hallucination will get the color of the targeted hero.
dmg=damage
deal 7% of original dmg
receive 145% dmg
30secs
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deal 14% of original dmg
receive 140% dmg
30secs
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deal 21% of original dmg
receive 135% dmg
30secs
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deal 28% of original dmg
receive 130% dmg
30secs
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deal 35% of original dmg
receive 125% dmg
30secs
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deal 42% of original dmg
receive 120% dmg
30secs
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deal 48%% of original dmg
receive 115% dmg
30secs
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deal 56% of original dmg
receive 110% dmg
30secs
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deal 63% of original dmg
receive 105% dmg
30secs
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deal 70% of original dmg
receive 100% dmg
30secs
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Level 10: Armageddon
Summons meteors to kill the surrounding creeps. It's a big area of effect, but it's not sure that the meteors will hit the creeps at first.
It also got a short duration of stun.
damage:(stun for 5 secs, this skill lasts for 20 secs)
800
1056
1393
1839
2428
3205
4231
5586
7373
9733

Recommend playstyle:

• style 1:
  

  Exp Drainer:
  Max out Enfeeble first. Level up your Armageddon as long as you are able.
  The 3rd skill you should max out is Shadow Art Mastery. This build is most suitable against bard. you can invest some points to the Greater Hallucination just in case that you need to save your tank.
  

  
  
  
• Style 2:
  

  
  Illusionist:
  Max your Greater Hallucination and your Armageddon first. Level up your Shadow Art Mastery if you cannot level up the 2 skills mentioned above.
  This build is hero dependent(if you mates build their heros correctly, your image can gain more benefits for you team)

  
  
• Styel 3: suggested by Marx

  • Enfeeble: 1 level removes spellblock or grace. Very low cd. Your other skills are much more essential before bonus, keep at level 1 and only start leveling after you have maxed everything else. However there are situations where maxing enfeeble first can be useful..
    
    
  • Shadow Mastery: first skill to max ASAP to buff up all your skills.
    
    
  • Greater Hallucination: the image can be purified . Use it to save the tank early on, and to share the damage with the tank later on.
    Leveling priority of this skill is after Armegadden.
    
    Its CD is almost constant at level 10, so if you use it right (and with a little teamwork) your tank can effectively have 1XX% more hp. [Remember you can CONTROL the image.]
    This skill is also essential on waves where tanks Pot CD cannot keep up with damage intake, as it gives the tank a brief hiatus from taking damage.
    Of course its also effective in providing a decoy to the creeps (and maybe to noobs ^_^) so your tank can go shop/combo items.
    
    For those with ethereal shield, remember to shield the image too, if your shield cd is low enough to shield both tank and image. life leeching from bloodthirst sword and evasion items.
    
    • Magic infusor.
      
    • Faenrae Champion's inner chaos form.
      
    • Troll or ranger if they dont get hit by monsters.
      
    • .......to be continued
      
    
    
    
  • Armagadden: After Shadow mastery is maxed, it is one of the best ultimates in the game. Not only is duration very long, so are the meteor's stun length. Use to counter most offenses, or make a dangerous wave harmless. ** Make sure you gauge the radius of the ulty, so you can keep an optimal distance from the creeps.
    
    

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Recommand items

• healing potions
  
• wing boots
  
• hisan -> Kirmhiro Draughts
  
• leather armor/elven armor
  
• elven boots
  
• paw boots -> combo boots
  
• antimagic potion
  
• ring of victory
  
• ironbark
  

Tips:

• His skills don't consume much mana, so you dont have to get staff for him. Hisan Salve and Kirmhiro Draught are enough for him.
  
• If you are against a bard, you would like to max out enfeeble first and cast it on the hero who is being graced. Otherwise, keep casting enfeeble on the same hero to maximize the exp suppressing.
  
• Use Greater Hallucination to save your tank or gain killing power(on ranger, sniper, troll, Faenrae Champion in Inner Chaos form).
  
• Armageddon is not a channeled skill, and it follows shadow priest wherever he goes.
  
• To be continued........
  
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This hero guide still under construction!

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Suggested Heros for Halluc:
Troll Cannibal
Grake
Pally
Ranger (so-so since see the wind is gone)
Magic Infuser

[sloshed]

Enfeeble works on all kills and not just your own (as with bards grace)

[ingenting]

image a tank b4 u use ur Armageddon
put it in front of you(use it as a decoy) so u can get closer to monsters

[ingenting]

anyone has a build for shadow priest and like to share it with us?
usually u use emfeeble on enemy's killer hero (has lots of kills or casting his ulti killing many monsters)

[marx]

I would upgrade this in 1.88. Enfeeble is very weak right now until mid-late game. And even then you would have to constantly do it for it to have effect.

usually i lvl ulty, mastery, and hallucination in that order, unless you have something worth cloning. (troll, fenrae, etc). Then i would max hallucination before mastery.

[Cheezeman]

Jan 23, 2009 14:15:59 GMT -5 marx said:

I would upgrade this in 1.88. Enfeeble is very weak right now until mid-late game. And even then you would have to constantly do it for it to have effect.

usually i lvl ulty, mastery, and hallucination in that order, unless you have something worth cloning. (troll, fenrae, etc). Then i would max hallucination before mastery.

There will be a lot of work to do in 1.88...
Maybe as you've seen I've provided new icons for 1.88 which means that Mort or ingenting will need to update many of the spells for Heroes.
Also there will be new Heroes to examine and give a full presentation of.
And new creep waves if I interpreted the teaser right.
And new game modes.
And etc...

Please, don't mention things like these again. There are forums with changes and updates.

[marx]

Mention what?

I just said enfeeble is getting reworked in 1.88, so ill post another guide then. But for now I posted a guide for 1.87 ( look above )

I think you misread my post

Sorry if that offended you.

[Mort]

Jan 23, 2009 16:31:40 GMT -5 Cheezeman said:

Jan 23, 2009 14:15:59 GMT -5 marx said:

I would upgrade this in 1.88. Enfeeble is very weak right now until mid-late game. And even then you would have to constantly do it for it to have effect.

usually i lvl ulty, mastery, and hallucination in that order, unless you have something worth cloning. (troll, fenrae, etc). Then i would max hallucination before mastery.

There will be a lot of work to do in 1.88...
Maybe as you've seen I've provided new icons for 1.88 which means that Mort or ingenting will need to update many of the spells for Heroes.
Also there will be new Heroes to examine and give a full presentation of.
And new creep waves if I interpreted the teaser right.
And new game modes.
And etc...

Please, don't mention things like these again. There are forums with changes and updates.

Pictures of spells is less than 5min per hero, so that isn't that hard to update.

IF the new hero will be out, for the next version, we haven't seen that yet!

And the "new" wave will not be to hard to update either.

The one thing that will take time for the next version, as of the current patch notes, is spellcurse(silence), that might take a bit of more time!

[Cheezeman]

@ Marx

You mentioned that there will be work to do when 1.88 is released.
Yes, you're correct indeed, but I think it's too obvious to post a post on the fact that there will be work to do in 1.88.
Mort and ingenting knows that already and I think they keep themselves updated on the forums.

@ Mort

Well, the teaser showed a new model for monsters: Ogre Shaman.
I guess it's a new wave or something for the bonus modes.
And it also showed the command buttons for a new Hero, which was pointing towards that there will be a Skeletton/Undead Hero in the next version.
However I might just be 100% wrong about this because everything Pedro, Bruno, Gorman and je5us do stays within their knowledge

[marx]

Jan 24, 2009 3:28:09 GMT -5 Cheezeman said:

@ Marx
Yes, you're correct indeed, but I think it's too obvious to post a post on the fact that there will be work to do in 1.88.

When I said "I would upgrade this in 1.88"

I was referring to upgrading this particular guide when 1.88 comes out. Not the skill itself

The skill is already upgraded in 1.88 (^_^ yes people other than you have knowledge about the game).


I hope I cleared up this issue.

[Cheezeman]

Jan 24, 2009 10:59:00 GMT -5 marx said:

Jan 24, 2009 3:28:09 GMT -5 Cheezeman said:

@ Marx
Yes, you're correct indeed, but I think it's too obvious to post a post on the fact that there will be work to do in 1.88.

When I said "I would upgrade this in 1.88"

I was referring to upgrading this particular guide when 1.88 comes out. Not the skill itself

The skill is already upgraded in 1.88 (^_^ yes people other than you have knowledge about the game).


I hope I cleared up this issue.

Sure it's cool... although I'm not the one to apologize to
I'm just a new member.
And maybe Mort or ingenting like to see these kind of posts?
In that case I should apologize

[worldtop]

I would lvl up enfeeble and mastery first, and ulti as soon as u are able to lvl it. image is kind of useless if ur melee cant build their hero the right way. only use image to save ur melee then.

[ingenting]

made some minor modification

[marx]

My unofficial guide (i was bored =\)





Shadow Priest

Enfeeble: 1 level removes spellblock or grace. Very low cd. Your other skills are much more essential before bonus, keep at level 1 and only start leveling after you have maxed everything else.

However there are situations where maxing enfeeble first can be useful..

Again, 1 level removes spellblock or grace.

Shadow Mastery: first skill to max asap. Why? You tell me.

Ulty: After Shadow mastery is maxed, it is one of the best ultimates in the game. Not only is duration very long, so are the meteor's stun length. Use to counter most offenses, or make a dangerous wave harmless. ** Make sure you gauge the radius of the ulty, so you can keep an optimal distance from the creeps.



Clone: Ah, this skill has such potential to be unbalanced. Of course, it can be purified

I will not share with you all its strategies but you can start from the basics.

Gist is: use it to save the tank early on, and to share the damage with the tank later on.
Leveling priority is after ulty.

Its CD is almost constant at level 10, so if you use it right (and with a little teamwork) your tank can effectively have 1XX% more hp. [Remember you can CONTROL the image.]
This skill is also essential on waves where tanks Pot CD cannot keep up with damage intake, as it gives the tank a brief hiatus from taking damage.
Of course its also effective in providing a decoy to the creeps (and maybe to noobs ^_^) so your tank can go shop/combo items.

For those with ethereal shield, remember to shield the image too, if your shield cd is low enough to shield both tank and image.

As for the rest, start with the list of passive skills that apply to clones and work out something from there It also gets -bt and evasion items. btw.









Enfeeble is getting buffed next version, so it's leveling order will change. We shall see