Hero Spotlight: Goldenveil, the Gilded Sellsword

= New Hero: Goldenveil =

Goldenveil the Gilded Sellsword has fought in every corner of Newerth for countless banners, crowns, and causes -- none of which he cared about -- and the only constants he's witnessed are death and gold. These two are inextricably intertwined, and long ago Goldenveil slithered his way between them to offer his legendary, lethal skills to the highest bidder. He served as a scout and assassin for Lord Commander Maliken Grimm during the War of the Single Banner, silently dispatching enemy sentries and scoffing at any mention that he had sold his soul to the true enemy: mankind. When The Second Corruption tore Newerth asunder and gold temporarily lost all value -- survival was the only currency worth anything -- Goldenveil wisely used some of his blood money to sail beyond the known borders to fight for civilized customers.

But every new country, culture, and kingdom was eventually overcome by the relentless Hellbourne corruption, and when this sly mercenary ran out of new battlefields, he returned to the land, and profits, he knew best. The once-prosperous city of Hope's Keep was unrecognizable. It had been reduced to rubble and charred corpses within hours of The Second Corruption, but in the ensuing years the nightmare of Hell's Keep had grown to meet the demands of the Hellbourne war effort. The negotiation with Maliken Grimm was short and brutal, exactly how Goldenveil operates: Kill as many Legion soldiers as possible and collect the heads of Jeraziah and Ophelia. The reward will be a fortune, more than the coffers of Adkarna and Arasunia combined, and the Gilded Sellsword gets to keep every ounce of gold he takes from his victims along the way. Death and gold: inseparable, eternal, and Goldenveil collects them both.


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Stats

Strength: 16 + 1.5
Agility: 19 + 1.8
Intelligence: 21 + 2.6 (Primary)
Base Damage: 51-54 (30-33 when not considering primary attribute)
Movement Speed: 290
Attack Range: 600
Armor: 1.5 (-1.2 when not considering primary attribute)
Magic Armor: 6

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Ability 1: Dagger Dance
*Radius: 300
*Mana Cost: 80/100/120/140
*Cooldown: 9/8/7/6 seconds

- Activate to whip your daggers at the closest enemy in radius every 0.25 seconds for 3 seconds, dealing 15/25/35/45 Magic Damage per whip. Total damage output of 180/300/420/540 over the duration.

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Ability 2: Perch
*Range: 1000
*Mana Cost: 40 (first jump only, 0 on subsequent jumps)
*Cooldown: 2 seconds

- Target a tree to hop on top of it, gaining Clearvision of the surrounding area and becoming invisible to enemies, but immobilized.
- While Goldenveil is perched on a tree, he has 450 Attack Range. Goldenveil can reactivate this ability to jump to another tree, or cast the sub-ability Plunge.
- If Goldenveil is knocked down from a tree, he will be Stunned for 3 seconds.
*While perched, Goldenveil can unperch from the tree by issuing a Move command.

Subability: Plunge
*Range: 800
*Radius: 250
*Mana Cost: 40/60/80/100
*Cooldown: 12 seconds

- Target a position to jump there after a short delay, dealing 80/140/200/260 Magic Damage and a 1.6/1.9/2.2/2.5 Second Stun to all enemies in the area.
- Places Perch on a 12/10/8/6 second cooldown.



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Ability 3: Recluse
- Passively regenerates 10/20/30/40 Health per second when you are not seen by enemies.


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Ability 4: Greedgutter
*Range: 900
*Mana Cost: 150/175/200
*Cooldown: 60/45/30 seconds

- Target an enemy to throw your golden dagger at them, applying a 60% Movement Speed Slow for 4 seconds and dealing 150/200/250 Magic Damage + 50/75/100 Magic Damage per token.
- If Goldenveil kills or assist in killing a hero, he receives 60/90/120 Gold per token and his team receives 20/30/40 Gold per token. Killing the entire enemy team will reset the tokens and grants each member of Goldenveil's team 100/200/300 Gold.
- Passively applies 3 golden tokens on enemy heroes when this ability is learned. Enemy heroes lose a token whenever Goldenveil kills or assists in killing them.

[NewbieTorque]

Everyday we stray closer to being fully dead

[wiljamvandijk]

"the game that would kill league"

[MrTeknown]

I wish this game was more popular than lol and dota. The team are more creative than the rest on a lower budget.

[ndntakeover]

So this is where League got its idea for Pyke's and Talon's abilities.

[maximvannelli]

i fkn love you breakycpk! Keep doing Honcasts!!

[fuuuuIND]

even though i decided to stop playing 1 month ago, this still intrigue me. not enough to get me playing though. if i were still playing, i'd go crazy for goldenveil. good job for hero design team.

[rommelmanagbanag]

Next update, mobile versions of hon hehehe

[LovelyKuore]

Dota copy heroes, skills and items from HoN

HoN copies heroes, skills and items from Dota

This is not news and it's been years since they do it

[listasanhanguera]

Use to love this game, had become impossible to play since they closed LAT servers because others asked...

[jimmyardie]

When you copy your friend homework but you added some new words .

[gujmark]

1 gyro
2 mk
3 slark
4 bh

Nice combination

[dmike]

is this game still alive? still trying to survive eh. jeezz

[Frostburn]

A unique hero, hon never disappoint s me, keep improving guys even haters come here just to watch and thinks they want to try this hero, imagine that.

[Jeb]

need more support hero -_-...we been getting ton of bloody carry already. jesus

[rockyu_mw]

... > non-creative, altered Swiftblade Spin
... > Tree Dance from MK in Dota2
... > Slark's Ulti Passive as a passive in Dota2
... > Altered Track ability from Bounty Hunter in Dota2

I mean... the concept is nice, but come on. Be a little more creative?!

[meijimarts]

His design looks more suited as an agility hero rather than an intelligence hero

[nazrertwo]

I didn't know this game still existed, I really wanna play a few games now

[garretwoeller]

So like are you guys making a ranged hero who turns into a melee hero like troll warlord is because i love troll warlord and master of arms doesnt scratch that transformation hero itch that troll does

[datasapien]

OP Hero since day one, honestly HoN marketing area is fucking cancer

[TheDarkerOne]

Looks like Frostburn used CIrce's ult on Valve.