Warrior Mage

[Mort]

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Tyrsan the Warrior Mage[/center]

A really good caster who has rather low health, but he has good defensive skills and can really clear lanes.

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: Tingle
An offensive spell used on enemy heroes to make them drop whatever it was in 1 item slot them item becomes invisible for a short period of time. This is freaking deadly spell when used right as it can deny people the use of health potions or leave expensive gear behind even if the item wouldn't normally be drop able. When using it to try and kill someone time it a little before they would use their potion since it has a slight delay before it takes effect. If not trying to kill use it on them when they're leaving the shop going back to the front or leaving the front and going to shop. This will force them to go back to where they just came and if you can make them drop it near creeps they might not be able to retrieve it for a while. Of course since its random the potion drop will only happen 100% when its the only item and gear you will just have to get lucky.


Level 1: Ethereal Shield
Anti-magic potion and purification can remove the effect of this skill
Can be casted on allied units/heroes and gives them an armor bonus as well as slowing the attack speed of any enemy melee units that attack them. Useful since it can also be casted on the Fortress of Ice which will slow the creeps down without having to put a hero in danger. The Warrior Mage also shouldn't have that much trouble managing mana so he won't need train stats.
Note: Casting range is pretty long, so you can cast Ethereal Shield on a hero without getting the creeps attention.

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Level 1: Aether Lance
Shoots out a blue lance that does damage to creeps in a that touch it as it travels in a straight line. It starts out with a long cooldown and fairly weak but it should still be used early on simply because its the best way for the Warrior Mage to kill until Rain of Fire. Position yourself and aim right to not only save mana, but to kill the creeps faster. Either bunch them up yourself or have your Ice Ward or an ally bunch them up for you. So essentially cast where the lance will hit the most amount of enemies.

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Level 6: Fortress of Ice
Two Purifications can remove the ice fortress
Creates an Ice Ward with high health and armor that taunts enemies around it with a weak attack. Early on the Ice Ward can only has a short timed life so save for offenses to buy yourself some time. However when it gets maxed out around mid game it can hold back a huge amount of creeps, and it's very useful when it slows down a large part of the creeps movement speed when it attacks them. When they're bunched up finish them with you or your allies spells. It might seem invincible early on or on lower difficulties but it can be killed by creeps and purifications.
Note: You can target creeps yourself, to slow the movement down, useful if the fortress leak or if you just want to slow down the creeps hitting it/other heroes.

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Level 10: Rain of Fire
Channelled skill
Fire rains down in a few waves dealing large initial damage with some damage over time afterwords. Rain of Fire can get a huge area so when using it make sure your doing it on a huge mob of creeps. This is quite easy because of the Fortress of Ice spell. Its similar to the Arcane Mistress ultimate expect you don't have to worry about the channeling time too much because its so short and it does damage after-wards to.

Suggested playstyle:
When you play Warrior Mage efficiently you really have to know when and where to do things, he is pretty much all about doing the right thing in the right place.
His Lance will kill most creeps, or at the least, hurt the badly, later on it will kill almost anything in a straight line, and you can recast it again after-wards.
This is a very efficient spell to remove enemies from your tank, especially on ranged, if you aim it right you can kill most ranged with a few lances, instead of using your ultimate.
His Fortress i a great help when tanking, later you can even have 2 of them, a cool thing they do is that they give a area of effect cold when they hit something, so if you manually target creeps you can max the use of this spell.
His ultimate is without a doubt one of the most deadliest in the game, huge area of effect, high damage, this can really clear lanes.


Tips:

• Getting Elven Stalking Boots is recommended and whenever you is able to, the combo boots, as running is one of the best thing you can do with warrior mage when using lance, just run to the right position, and use lance, then run back to regenerate mana.
  
  
• Use your Fortress Manually whenever you can to get a better use of it. And always use Ethereal Shield on it if and when you think it's needed.
  
  
• Use tingle as much as you can, but also try and do it smart, if a tank has to retreat from a spot, and u use tingle, chances are that they might not get that item back for a while.
  
  
• When you have your Fortress summoned, plan where and when to use Aether Lance, so you max it's damage.
  
  
• Use the -range command to make sure your Warrior Mage won't run off and try killing a creep.
  

Additional Spell Info

Aether Lance
50
125
262
493
865
1448
2347
3721
5807
9000

Ethereal Shield Formula

Armor: Level*2.5
Mana Cost: Level*5+20
CD: -4 secs from 40, for each level after level 1
Frost Effect: 15 seconds all levels
Duration: Level*5+15
Note: Tooltips for the spell appear to be wrong, not showing the .5 for armor level ups.

Level 1: Armor Bonus 2.5, Mana Cost 25, Cooldown 40 seconds, Frost 15seconds, Duration 20seconds
Level 2: Armor Bonus 5, Mana Cost 30, Cooldown 36 seconds, Frost 15seconds, Duration 25seconds
Level 3: Armor Bonus 7.5, Mana Cost 35, Cooldown 32 seconds, Frost 15seconds, Duration 30seconds
Level 4: Armor Bonus 10, Mana Cost 40, Cooldown 28 seconds, Frost 15seconds, Duration 35seconds
Level 5: Armor Bonus 12.5, Mana Cost 45, Cooldown 24 seconds, Frost 15seconds, Duration 40seconds
Level 6: Armor Bonus 15, Mana Cost 50, Cooldown 20 seconds, Frost 15seconds, Duration 45 seconds
Level 7: Armor Bonus 17.5, Mana Cost 55, Cooldown 16 seconds, Frost 15seconds, Duration 50 seconds
Level 8: Armor Bonus 20, Mana Cost 60, Cooldown 12 seconds, Frost 15seconds, Duration 55 seconds
Level 9: Armor Bonus 22.5, Mana Cost 65, Cooldown 8 seconds, Frost 15seconds, Duration 60 seconds
Level 10: Armor Bonus 25, Mana Cost 70, Cooldown 4 seconds, Frost 15seconds, Duration 65 seconds


Rain of Fire(15secs; 3waves)
(format:initial damage:continuous damage; the total damage will be initialX3+lastX15)
150:250
225:375
337:562
506:843
759:1265
1139:1898
1708:2847
2562:4271
3844:6407
5766:9610

[Pedro]

It's also a good idea to set his acquisition range to something almost melee, since he often leaves his safe position to attack creeps. If you're not used to this, it's a better idea to use the -range command.

[enr]

Imo unbalanced.

As long as you know when to retrain you can get perma frost fort early game.

Also if you are good with this character 1~2 lances can take out entire waves, as long as you know how to lure : ) (watch out for offense).

Luring with the warrior mage is different than with most other aoe users. (You need to lure into a line). Ill post a replay if wanted~

Usually lancing enemies that gather around a fortress is most effective when you make an X shape with the center going through the fort into the 2 side lanes (they form a line going to the middle). You can also use the lance the clear the bottom way out for a trapped tank.


His lvl 10 is ridiculous, and should be saved for critical situations.~ At the time you get it to lvl 3 ONE wave of fire rain is enough to kill all enemies up bonus.

For later waves remember that you can ethereal shield your frost fort, making it last much longer. (think 93% reduction with slowed attack speed).

Warrior mage is one of the best mid to late game tanks due to ice fortress (Since at lvl 10 it lasts longer than the cd, dual purify is not too big of a threat) . And his lvl 10 is hands down the best AoE in the game.

Btw, I think warrior mage has much more health than the other casters, almost on par with a tank.

[ingenting]

good job!
nice and useful tips

[Mort]

Yea, once again good job!
When i have to run in middle with Warrior Mage I use Anti-magic potion to prevent stuns, this isn't as useful in bottleneck as there you have the time to react to stuns.

[zigzag]

His level 6 doesn't last that long late game... and I don't know why people say you can have 2 level 6's, by the time you summon your second one the first one is gone, or will last for 2 seconds (not even exgaterating...).

[ingenting]

Sept 19, 2008 16:32:58 GMT -5 ingenting said:

Sept 19, 2008 16:28:29 GMT -5 zigzag said:

His level 6 doesn't last that long late game... and I don't know why people say you can have 2 level 6's, by the time you summon your second one the first one is gone, or will last for 2 seconds (not even exgaterating...).

In 1.87-1.86, I 2nd zig's comments about ice fortress
In order versions, u can have 2 ice fortress at the same time late game
I dont know if he is imbalanced, surely a good wm is annoying(tingle, ice fortress)
I like to deal with ice fortress at late game; the right wave of monsters+1 purification can easily take it down.

[enr]

2 purifications = 200 mana. I'd say that is a great exchange for a fort late game, where every point counts.

It does last long late game Zig. Since its constantly there until archers come (granted you clear some with lance). I'd say that's pretty long

2 ice fortress is for early-mid game. Anything before skeletons.

[ingenting]

again i think in 1.87, u cant have 2 ice at the same time(not with muse) they might overlap 2 secs or less
and right timing for purification on ice fortress can turn the table, so i think it's priceless.

[enr]

Sept 20, 2008 22:01:01 GMT -5 ingenting said:

again i think in 1.87, u cant have 2 ice at the same time(not with muse) they might overlap 2 secs or less
and right timing for purification on ice fortress can turn the table, so i think it's priceless.

If mage was the only tank .

And in that case. better combo is required ~

[ingenting]

Sept 21, 2008 0:00:18 GMT -5 enr said:

Sept 20, 2008 22:01:01 GMT -5 ingenting said:

again i think in 1.87, u cant have 2 ice at the same time(not with muse) they might overlap 2 secs or less
and right timing for purification on ice fortress can turn the table, so i think it's priceless.

If mage was the only tank .

And in that case. better combo is required ~

well, dont lose your tank then or you should think over ur combo

[ingenting]

If you have a decent tank(s), you dont need to cast ice as soon as it's available. only cast it to save your tank or mates even urself.
and stay away from ice, in case your enemies purify it when u look away.
It would be nice to inform you mates that the ice will be gone in 10 secs or so , so they can prepare themselves(or u can share your unit with them, then they can select ice to check its time life)

[zigzag]

in 1.88 warrior mages lv10 will do less damage.

[marx]

Slightly .. lol..

Which means im thinking i cant 1 hit till small beatles anymore.

[ingenting]

actually, it might be a good thing
if u know what i mean