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[Nillo]

Her aura is still kinda bad when you think about it. ~26% of like 60 agil is such a trash can buff to damage...and then only works on ranged people -.-.

You're ignoring the fact that 14 of those percent are given at the first level. So for a fourth of the commitment (in skill points), you get more than half of the benefit.

no but seriously, max range, 1 point headshot, stats sniper whoaaaaaa (maybe 1 point in shrapnel for vision)

What, this is new? I thought it was how everyone played Sniper for the last few years...

[The Monster King]

it was worth it to put points into headshot before, now im not sure you need more than 1 since it already has max chance, stun and it also never misses

[Pandara_RA!]

Her aura is still kinda bad when you think about it. ~26% of like 60 agil is such a trash can buff to damage...and then only works on ranged people -.-.

You're ignoring the fact that 14 of those percent are given at the first level. So for a fourth of the commitment (in skill points), you get more than half of the benefit.

no but seriously, max range, 1 point headshot, stats sniper whoaaaaaa (maybe 1 point in shrapnel for vision)

What, this is new? I thought it was how everyone played Sniper for the last few years...

Here is the not ignoring version. drow gains 26 + 1.9/lvl (Agil)
lvl 1--> 14% of 27.9 agility = 3.9 damage (better to go stats as it gives HP+armor+attack speed)
lvl 6 --> 14% of 77.4 agility (with the double bonus)= 10.8 damage (bad if ignoring leveling other skills (silence/arrows), better than stats for 1 point)
Lvl 11 ---> 14% of 106.9 agility = 14.966
Lvl 11 With manta ---> 14% of 132.9 = 18.6 damage
Lvl 16 ---> 136.4
Lvl 16 (with manta) ---> 162.4

So what does all this mean? Drow should go 1 point in Precision Aura at the earliest lvl 7, then should only lvl above 1 over stats at around 100 agility even for pure dps as 3-4damage is about equal to 2 damage + 2 attack speed.

 
Before you would never ever level Shrapnel till the very very last 4 levels.

Headshot is not a 1 point wonder, in fact it's one of the strongest single skills in the game even before the buff, think of it as cold snap from invoker...but always, with no cooldown directly and no internal cooldown though has a miss chance. I'd much rather hold 4 levels in headshot than range it's simply a free almost-MKB now...with a 40% chance of true strike.

[Nillo]

Drow has more than 28 agi at level one if she purchases items (which she should, lol). Also, you're not counting the damage that it gives to ranged allies. It feels like you're trying to make the aura sound worse than it is.

I still need to try the new changes, but I think my new skill build for Drow will be either QEQWQ, EQQWQ or EQW-stats depending on the situation. Q is better at level one vs melee heroes or if I find a double damage rune. E is best for last-hitting or for team benefit. One point in everything then stats seems like the best farming build (but makes you useless until you have your items), just like the 1-1-1-stats AM build.

[Pandara_RA!]

 

Drow has more than 28 agi at level one if she purchases items (which she should, lol). Also, you're not counting the damage that it gives to ranged allies. It feels like you're trying to make the aura sound worse than it is.

I still need to try the new changes, but I think my new skill build for Drow will be either QEQWQ, EQQWQ or EQW-stats depending on the situation. Q is better at level one vs melee heroes or if I find a double damage rune. E is best for last-hitting or for team benefit. One point in everything then stats seems like the best farming build (but makes you useless until you have your items), just like the 1-1-1-stats AM build.

I'm not trying to make it sound bad at all actually. before when I said "trash can damage" I was referring to those who will be maxing it out right away when in actuality it's only a 4% increase per lvl.

including starting items drow lvl 1 is 35.9 agil 14% of that is 5 damage. (double slipper, 2 branches, 1 pot, 1 tengu). This is important because it's not till about 7-8 more agility will you gain an extra 1 damage from it.

[deathtotheweird]

I don't know who would suggest maxing it first. one point would be the most efficient, then maxing it last. it's obviously a late game skill, you can read the tooltip and figure that one out for yourself.

[Bandages]

I'm pathetic 

[Pandara_RA!]

Holy shit, I just noticed drows aura...works on RANGED CREEPS...GOLBAL.

wut wut wut...so much auto push. + liek 40-60 damage on anything ranged...then you take a ranged rax and you sit there and these creeps hit harder than most heros like welp.

ENGIMA that ranged damage goes from liek 20-30 to like 120 each little mini guy.
wtf is this, drow for tier 1.

[CanvasPhotosOnline]

Hi Nillo
Thanks for your nice post. I am appreciate to you.

[The Monster King]

drow enigma and quas exort invoker in a team... pew pew

[Bandages]

new drow is insane

every ranged thing on my team had +54 damage last game when I was level 18

creep waves were pushing t3s on their own

[Pandara_RA!]

at first I was like well this skill is pretty meh, when it was like, oh wait every single ranged thing that you own ever is going to hit like a truck, like having NP in all lanes at all times.

add in anyone like np with her and the lanes will auto push to the position he needs to tree it down.

[Nillo]

Has anyone tried the allegedly incredible Drow + Enigma combo yet?

[deathtotheweird]

had an awful game where we lost because our drow had her aura on the entire game. so our lane was always pushed, we had to go past the river to get experience or cs. after about 20 minutes no one saw any meaningful cs besides the jungle. it was awful.

all the drow aura did that game was feed easy cs to the enemy's chaos knight and starve our team from lane creeps.

centaur was another huge reason we lost that game. that ultimate is imbalanced.

[Nillo]

Incoming Stampede nerf?

[Bandages]

Stampede has won every teamfight I've had the misfortune of being in.

Seriously, everything is going well, teamfight proceeds as normal and suddenly they all have haste and phase and a stun that does a million damage. Really bogus. And it's global, for some reason.

It's so stupid that it doesn't even make sense flavor-wise.

[Pandara_RA!]

Has anyone tried the allegedly incredible Drow + Enigma combo yet?

My experience with it was they auto kill towers like serpent wards on a short cooldown, once they multiply it's over if they have like ~30 damage bonus.

Drow does INSANELY well with natures prophet the lanes mid/late game are always pushed and they never EVER stop being pushed. the ranged creep has literally +30 to +60 damage at all times which is like 3-4 times it's normal damage and will always push the lanes, letting natures TP and summon right in position to push down anything he wants unlike before where he had to set up the push.

if drow gets late game, the game is simply over 9/10 times. Period. I got +70 damage on the ranged and every time the enemy pushed out they would pound on a tier3 or rax, they would push back and then about 2 mins later same thing automatically.

[The Monster King]

icefrog if you're gonna make dumb stuff like drow aura and centaur ult global how bout you make everything global

skeleton king ult global.........

[Blademasterbobo]

isn't it already?

[Bandages]

Global abilities should make some kind of sense. How is drow being really agile a hundred feet away from a ranged creep going to make it suddenly hit like a truck. Why would centaur ulting in the fountain make heroes in the enemy jungle stampede?

I'd really like to see a global ravage, or maybe a global black hole