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New hero 'Artesia' revealed in Hero Spotlight


Arcane Bolts: Passive ability that unleashes a flurry of bolts at the nearest enemy hero each time she casts a spell.

Magic Missile: Low cooldown projectile that deals damage and slows in a small area. "Homes in" on the nearest enemy hero.

Dance of Death: Slowly heals a portion of Artesia's health and mana when channeled. For each second channeled, a charge is added that greatly reduces the cooldown of the next Magic Missile cast. Fires 3 Arcane Bolts per second while channeling.

Essence Projection: A spell with global range that places an arcane obelisk at the targeted location, which mimics all her casts of Arcane Bolts and Magic Missile. Restores health and mana over time to nearby allies.

Artesia, the last HoN hero designed by Richard "Nome" Liu before he left S2 Games, is an Intelligence hero who seems to lean toward being a semi-carry more than a support hero or ganker. Her ultimate can be used as a global support spell and she does has a minor slow, but that is the extent of her support role.

She seems more suited to play a carry role, dishing out large amounts of magic damage during teamfights thanks to her low-cooldown nuke and passive ability. Similar to heroes like Defiler or Soul Reaper, she will want to focus on survivability and mana regen so she can continually spam spells during fights.

The "homing" mechanic of her Magic Missile takes some of the "skill" out of skill-shot, but also gives the projectile an added ability to curve around a hero that's in the way, as shown in the video. I expect that we'll be seeing a lot of heroes at low-health getting picked off by Missiles from Artesia and her global ultimate.

A while back, Nome had this to say about Artesia (then called "Sylph") in his blog:

Richard "Nome" Liu:
I like to think that Sylph is my crowning achievement in HoN design for her simplicity, uniqueness, and synergy...she will also be the final hero I design for HoN.

We'll find out soon enough; Artesia enters Early Access status this Friday!

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