LogFAQs > #879045645

this, including the vote.

also arthas is apparently a pro debuffer, which is pretty bad if you're trying to fight vergil

For reference, since I'm a neutral party with no particular hype over Arthas, this is what his raid gives him and I found notable (source: http://www.wowhead.com/npc=36597/the-lich-king#abilities):

-Berserk: Increases attack speed by 150% and damage by 900%. This is possibly his enrage, someone confirm, if so ignore this.
-Defile: Autoplaced trap AoE underneath a random target. Any enemies caught are dealt shadow damage and the zone grows based on how many it hits.
-Ice Lock: Traps enemy in ice, unable to move. Has no end duration listed but I assume it's got one.
-Infest: Deals Shadow damage to all enemies within 60 yards (or 60 meters if you prefer). They're dealt continuous, and increasingly higher and higher damage, until they're healed back up to 90%+ HP.
-Necrotic Plague: Hits the target with a plague that does massive damage (50 thousand - for reference Infest dealt an initial 6600 thousand or so) every 5 seconds for 15 seconds. If the target dies before the effect ends, it extends by 5 seconds and jumps to another target. If dispelled, it's instead shortened by 5 seconds and jumps to a nearby enemy target.
-Raging Spirit: Creates a clone of a target within 100 yards, causing it to attack them.
-Remorseless Winter: Creates an ice storm that deals about 10k shadow damage per second to all enemies within 40 yards.
-Soul Reaper: Strikes a target, dealing half Arthas' basic attack damage. After 5 seconds, deals 50k damage and gives him doubled attack and cast speed for 5 secs.
-Shadow Trap: Creates a trap that deals shadow damage to all enemies within ten yards of it and knocks them back - around 20k damage or so.

Numbers I've found say a Cataclysm-era endgame hero has about 120k HP or so. This means Arthas can twoshot or threeshot opponents much stronger than the ones who faced him with some of his abilities. Notably, he doesn't get the Death Grip Chris mentioned. That's a Deathknight (the player class) ability. Your call whether he gets it or not. I lean 'no' because it clearly says 'bossfight and HotS'.

Speaking of, Heroes of the Storm stuff he gets (reference page: http://www.heroesfire.com/hots/wiki/heroes/arthas/abilities-talents):

-Death Coil: Hits a target for a solid chunk of damage. Can be selfcast to heal Arthas by about 10% of his HP, every 9 seconds.
-Howling Blast: Roots enemies in an area for 1.25 seconds, cooldown of 10 seconds.
-Frozen Tempest: Damaging field around Arthas that slows enemy movespeed and attack speed by 10% per second to a maximum of 40% if enemies linger around him.
-Summon Sindragosa/Army of the Dead: Ultimate abilities that he does not in fact get here, since one's his ability and the other's a summon that isn't explicitly allowed.

Talents can make Death Coil heal even when hitting opponents or reduce its cooldown by 3 seconds, reduce Howling Blast's cooldown by 2 secs and make it root everything in the path to the target area as well, or make Frozen Tempest root enemies if they take three instances of damage from it, once every 10 seconds (or speed Arthas' attack speed by up to 60% as it damages dudes). It's uncertain what talents he gets exactly, and we might clarify this because nobody enjoys Schrödinger's Mercenary, but some combination of these is feasible. So basically you really really don't want to linger close to him because he will passively make you awful, you want dispellers around or he wrecks you (same for healers), he can make a clone to fight you, trap you in ice, and he heals himself for a fat chuk of HP every 10 seconds unless you disrupt his ability to cast blade magic spells consistently. Dude's pretty good for sure, though not as good as Chris would claim I feel.
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