Blood Dancer

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Doko the Blood Dancer[/center]

Blood Dancer has the highest attack speed to start with and a decent damage dealer. He is very hard to kill with offensive spells since his spellblock will block most spells and his only true weakness is piercing damage and thorns.

Armor Type:

Unarmored

Damage Reduction:
Chaos 100%
Hero 100%
Magic 100%
Normal 100%
Pierce 150%
Siege 150%
Spells 100%

Skills:
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Innate: Blood Dance
Anti-magic potion and purification can remove the effect of this skill
A self buffing ability that increases both your movement and attack speed. It's good to get at least one level of train stats early on since it helps you keep up Blood Dance which in turn helps you kill more early on. While eventually you will reach your maximum attack speed naturally this still can be used for helping you run faster.

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Level 1: Magic Resistance (Passive)
A progressing spell block starts out as a 60 second spell block eventually going down to 0 making it a permanent spell block. You might just want to stick with a level one spell block for a while and instead spend your points in train stats since there isn't much difference between a 60 second spell block and a 20 second spell block to a experienced player. Of course you should eventually max it out, preferably at the first bonus wave so you don't have to worry about being stunned at the next stunner wave. A maxed out Magic Resistance means never having to say your stunned.


Level 1: Evasion Mastery (Passive)
An ability focusing entirely on granting the hero evasion that eventually maxes out to 70%. It would be useful early on and it is one of the most useful defensive ability against creeps throughout the game.

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Level 6: Earth-Shaking Strike
An ability that damages all the creeps around the Blood Dancer and slows down their movement and attack speed. If you can spare the mana for this ability do so since it helps the Blood Dancer survive longer as well as deals damage to the enemy creeps.

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Level 10: Wolverine Dance
The Blood Dancer will whirl around for a short period of time dealing damage to creeps that touch the Blood Dancer's whirl during this state. A very deadly ability, but to who? Well thats up to you and how you use it. You should remember that when using it you can move to or away from the creeps, you can still use potions, all buffs or debuffs will be removed because you are magic immune, his movement will be slowed, and Evasion Mastery will be disabled. However the evasion given by the items in your inventory stays.

Wolverine Dance also makes you magic immune which can be useful to remove harmful spells. This also means you don't have to worry about dying if you use Wolverine Dance on magic attack waves, though it also means they will ignore you.

Warning! You lose your evasion mastery while you are spinning which means monsters can hit you 100% (but the evasion provided by items remains, such as tower shield or paw boots.)


You can't see it due to the zoom, but the Paladin is actually standing pretty close with a level 10 Courage aura, but it does not affect the Blood Dancer due to Chadatru's Blessing. Wolverine Dance is affected by auras it's just the Chadatru's Blessing which is canceling the aura.

Note: Move speed items and auras do affect the speed you can move in Wolverine Dance. This means having the Elite Elven Boots is actually worth it if you plan to use Wolverine Dance.

Status Gain per Level
Str+2
Agi+3
Int+1

Suggested playstyle:
The Blood Dancer is immune to most offense and has great evasion but has low health for a Combat Hero. This makes him one of the best high level tanking heroes so if you can boost his level or stats it helps him significantly.

Magic Resistance should only have one point put into it at start, and after first bonus wave you should retrain your skills to max this one. Or if you think the other team is using lots of offense early on. If you keep getting offensive spells on you before first bonus, try to put more points into it.

Evasion Mastery is always useful, and it should be max asap. if u max this skill early, you might want to get ruby ring or blood stone ring to buff up you health points.

Earth-Shaking Strike should be maxed out after your evasion is maxed, and used whenever you have lots of creeps around you, it helps you survive longer and can be used for slowing creeps down so you can use your Wolverine Dance or buy items.

Wolverine Dance is a dangerous spell to use, as it removes your evasion, so you will lose health faster than ever using this spell however using Earth-Shaking Strike first will help you stay alive longer.

Tips:
When confronted with Hav'roth as a Blood Dancer there are a number of ways to counter it, by using the Vampiric Potion, by canceling your attack with "S" mashing, by constantly clicking move on an empty spot, by running away and lastly by using Wolverine Dance.

If there are lots of creeps around you, and you think you'll need to use your ulti, use Earth-Shaking Strike, to slow their movement/attack, then teleport to an area where the creeps are not slowed and use ulti, moving in the direction of the slowed creeps.
Summoning an Uthmor is also a good way to help Blood Dancer survive longer while using Wolverine Dance.

Using Vampiric Potions on creeps who are ranged and have thorns is a good way to help keeping your health up.

Use Tower Shield against ranged creeps, as Blood Dancer recieves increased damage from piercing, unlike other tanks.

Don't use your ulti if your health is dropping rapidly, because you lose your evasion when you're spinning, meaning everything will hit you which is very painful. You will however gain magic immunity which may be useful if your magic resistance is low.
Also try to have the cooldown of health potions ready, so when you're spinning, you can heal if you take to much damage.

If you use a Vampiric potion, against ranged/thorns, run away before the effect has faded away, if you keep attacking them once it has run out, they'll most likely kill you.

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Advanced Ability Info:


Innate: Blood Dance
Hotkey: B
Increases hero's attack speed by 40% and movement speed by 80% for 40 seconds, costs 40mp.



Level 1: Evasion Mastery (Passive)
Level 1: 7% chance to dodge an attack
Level 2: 14% chance to dodge an attack
Level 3: 21% chance to dodge an attack
Level 4: 28% chance to dodge an attack
Level 5: 35% chance to dodge an attack
Level 6: 42% chance to dodge an attack
Level 7: 49% chance to dodge an attack
Level 8: 56% chance to dodge an attack
Level 9: 63% chance to dodge an attack
Level 10: 70% chance to dodge an attack


Level 1: Magic Resistance (Passive)
Level 1: Spell targetted at hero will fail once every 60 seconds.
Level 2: Spell targetted at hero will fail once every 53 seconds.
Level 3: Spell targetted at hero will fail once every 46 seconds.
Level 4: Spell targetted at hero will fail once every 39 seconds.
Level 5: Spell targetted at hero will fail once every 32 seconds.
Level 6: Spell targetted at hero will fail once every 25 seconds.
Level 7: Spell targetted at hero will fail once every 18 seconds.
Level 8: Spell targetted at hero will fail once every 11 seconds.
Level 9: Spell targetted at hero will fail once every 4 seconds.
Level 10: Spell targetted at hero will fail once every 0 seconds.


Level 6: Earth-shaking Strike
Level 1: Deals 50 damage to nearby enemy land units, and slows their movement and attack speeds by 10%, costs 40mp.
Level 2: Deals 75 damage to nearby enemy land units, and slows their movement and attack speeds by 15%, costs 42mp.
Level 3: Deals 112 damage to nearby enemy land units, and slows their movement and attack speeds by 20%, costs 44mp.
Level 4: Deals 168 damage to nearby enemy land units, and slows their movement and attack speeds by 25%, costs 46mp.
Level 5: Deals 253 damage to nearby enemy land units, and slows their movement and attack speeds by 30%, costs 48mp.
Level 6: Deals 379 damage to nearby enemy land units, and slows their movement and attack speeds by 35%, costs 50mp.
Level 7: Deals 569 damage to nearby enemy land units, and slows their movement and attack speeds by 40%, costs 52mp.
Level 8: Deals 854 damage to nearby enemy land units, and slows their movement and attack speeds by 45%, costs 54mp.
Level 9: Deals 1,281 damage to nearby enemy land units, and slows their movement and attack speeds by 50%, costs 56mp.
Level 10: Deals 1,922 damage to nearby enemy land units, and slows their movement and attack speeds by 55%, costs 58mp.
Notes: Lasts 15 seconds.


Level 10: Wolverine Dance
Hotkey: W
Level 1: Deals 1,000 damage per second to nearby enemy land units, costs 100mp.
Level 2: Deals 1,500 damage per second to nearby enemy land units, costs 106mp.
Level 3: Deals 2,250 damage per second to nearby enemy land units, costs 112mp.
Level 4: Deals 3,375 damage per second to nearby enemy land units, costs 118mp.
Level 5: Deals 5,062 damage per second to nearby enemy land units, costs 124mp.
Level 6: Deals 7,593 damage per second to nearby enemy land units, costs 130mp.
Level 7: Deals 11,390 damage per second to nearby enemy land units, costs 136mp.
Level 8: Deals 17,085 damage per second to nearby enemy land units, costs 142mp.
Level 9: Deals 25,628 damage per second to nearby enemy land units, costs 148mp.
Level 10: Deals 38,443 damage per second to nearby enemy land units, costs 154mp.
Notes: Lasts 7 seconds. Cooldown decreases with level.

[ingenting]

in worst scenario, u get 1 gleaming, vamp, pot, wing boot,armor; then bt and nimsha


someone told me stomp isnt worth to get, but its useful to stomp a group of seals/scorpian b4 doing ur spin

i will go with status and stomp, since more white str = more life leech with bt later, save money for bt

to be perfectly safe in pub, dont pick him
ws /champ /barb is better
with barb u are never short of gold with a nimsha in ur hand

save ur spin for stunner (of course u need to lvl it up) so u can harvest gold at stunner lvl(you are the only one immune to stun(ya, max immunity b4 stunner)

[zigzag]

I retrain on bonus, throw all my points into evasion, immunity, stomp and spin, until that point i have my 2 level 1's at level 1, my stomp/spin maxed as much as possible. The trouble is, with only a gleaming it's kinda hard to kill enough imo. Maybe it's because I save my spin for mobs, crazy me.

[ingenting]

Sept 11, 2008 0:28:56 GMT -5 zigzag said:

I retrain on bonus, throw all my points into evasion, immunity, stomp and spin, until that point i have my 2 level 1's at level 1, my stomp/spin maxed as much as possible. The trouble is, with only a gleaming it's kinda hard to kill enough imo. Maybe it's because I save my spin for mobs, crazy me.

no u need status
evasion should be max the last
early spin is no good, cd is too long
its tricky that u have to plan what wave u gonna use it
and lvl it up so u can sweep all.
lv3 spin should be enough b4 bonus
status is more important,
to gain gold? go telo then
he should be a damage melee not a tank
pair with another tank or mage is better

[ingenting]

after discussing with some ppl, I think maxing out evasion isnt a bad idea after all
However, pls keep in mind that you lose you evasion when u use ur ultimate skill(the dance)
so think b4 you spin

[zigzag]

Dec 30, 2008 7:18:28 GMT -5 ingenting said:

after discussing with some ppl, I think maxing out evasion isnt a bad idea after all
However, pls keep in mind that you lose you evasion when u use ur ultimate skill(the dance)

If your lacking health, get a small str ring. It will boost your health a good amount, and give you a slight damage boost.

[ingenting]

Jan 12, 2009 0:20:46 GMT -5 zigzag said:

Dec 30, 2008 7:18:28 GMT -5 ingenting said:

after discussing with some ppl, I think maxing out evasion isnt a bad idea after all
However, pls keep in mind that you lose you evasion when u use ur ultimate skill(the dance)

If your lacking health, get a small str ring. It will boost your health a good amount, and give you a slight damage boost.

i totally agree with this but hate to say this
ppl still cant get rid of the idea that bd with swords------------>good
bd with rings---------wtf? boooo
LOL
however bd with blood stone ring replys on his teammates to kill.

[worldtop]

It seems that you should max your evasion asap, then put points in Wolverine dance if you don't have good caster,
It's subjective on the levels of immunity before 1st bonus wave, if you keep getting offensive spells hit on you, maybe it's good idea to level it up first with evasion.

You have to face the fact that he has lower health points than other combat heros, he is more like a damage combat than a real tank.earth-shaking is a skill for him to survive and provide a more safe situation for him to use his Wolverine dance if you use it right.

i also admit his base damage is not high, he just has higher attack speed/movement speed cause of his blood dance skill
It's better to pair blood dancer with a good AOE spell caster/ support hero.

so I would suggest that order of leveling your skill :
if you don't have good aoe
evasion > Wolverine dance >magic immunity > earth-shaking(2-4 points before bonus) > status/attributes
with good aoe
evasion > magic immunity > status/attributes > earth-shaking > Wolverine dance
of course u still need to max magic immunity before first stunner wave arrives

One thing has to point out is that the ring build lacks physical damage, and rely on either ur wolf dance or ur teammates's aoe/ killing power.
so if u want to go rings build, u might wanna make sure u have good aoe caster or lvl up ur wolf dance.

You should get armor for him before wave 7.

[Pedro]

I have two builds with this Hero, one for public games and one for serious games.

The "pub build" relies on Train Stats, so I get the first 3 points into TS, one in evasion, and then one in Magic Resistance. From than on, I get TS and evasion at a 2:1 ration until I get evasion level 10 (of course, getting Wolverine Dance when possible). I don't get his level 6 because this build focus on low attention span and offensives (I generaly play more with my SB than with my hero on pub games).

Depending on the frequency of offensive spells the other team casts, I get more levels on Magic Resistance... but I usually end the game with only 1 point on it. If I'm in the mood, I retrain it for the stun level, but usually I just get an AM potion or rely on Wolvering Dance + Team mates.

My items are the usual, Gleaming, Armor, Bloodthirst, Spineripper, vampiric and pots.. later on the blood dancer starts to be too fragile to tank properly, so I have to sacrifice good damage items to get Leathers and Dragonscale.

When you pick Blood Dancer you must have in mind that the game will end quickly. You can use his lack of skill to focus on the offensive spells and kill the other team quick, or you can be mislead by his easyness to play and let the game pass the 25th wave, and by than BD will lose his effectiveness exponentially and eventually be a burden.

For these reasons you should pick him on a rushing strategy, focusing on killing the other team quickly. THAT's the best use of him in my opinion.

[BlackMagister]

Put some more Wolverine Dance tips in.

[sackpuncher]

You still gain Empaths armor aura while in Wolverine dance

[BlackMagister]

You're misinterpreting what I said. It's the Paladin's lvl 6 that cancels out certain auras not the Blood Dancer's ultimate "Wolverine Dance."

Wolverine Dance only cancels out spell buffs not aura buffs due to magic immunity that it gives the Blood Dancer.

Paladin's lvl 6 cancels out certain auras because it gives invulnerability. Mainly those auras it cancels are those that give move speed. I'm going to write out which exactly which auras are canceled in the Paladin section. Not sure when but soon.

[sackpuncher]

No sorry, i was just mentioning that a good thing to know is that while BD's ultimate cancels out his evasion it doesnt cancel out certain things. Such as Pally's 6, empaths armor aura, or the effects of cabalists naptha on creeps. Just things to keep in mind while trying to decide if you need to use his ultimate or not

[BlackMagister]

Oh lol a little behind with the patches didn't realize they modified Paladin's 6 to make it work with all abilities even channeled so the BD picture with his ultimate is kind of pointless because everything works.