Firmament: The melee hero ya'll keep asking for

[Rosgath]

I keep seeing a lot of people want a dedicated melee hero. I decided to work up a concept that I think might be ok for that. Place filler picture is obviously a Place filler.


This hero has some SPECIAL RULES regarding his gun. The following are the details surrounding it.

• Primary Fire:
  • Air burst (from his fists, duh) that deals 1 Bullet damage
  • Unlimited ammo
  • 2 shots per second
  • 22m range, ~600mps Bullet Velocity
  • This is basically just a tool for securing souls. It can't even really be used to drop enemies due to the extremely low damage (unless you decide to grab something like Mystic Shot, which still works but is very meh)
• Secondary Fire:
  • Begins meditating, granting the “Focused” buff
  • Focused: +1m range to your next melee attack or ability. Stacks up to 5 times
  • -2s Parried Stun duration at max stacks (this is important given the increased range of his melee attacks. It would be too easy to parry abuse him otherwise)
  • +50% Stamina Regeneration while Meditating
  • Fire rate affects Stamina regen bonus and Focus stack rate
  • Focused Stack rate: 2 Stacks per second (Base)

Stamina is listed on the image above as scaling with Spirit, but is actually scaling with boons. The numbers mean that you will get a 3rd stamina bar at 16 boons (about halfway through the game) and a 4th bar at max boons.

ALMOST forgot the lore for him:

A Fate’s Tale

John Starr was ready the day the Eclipse happened. He had been watching the skies. Studying them. Preparing. Training his mind and body to harness the power of the Heavens. He knew the Patrons were coming. He’s certain they have nothing good planned for the world.



And he has a plan to turn their own strength back on them.

 

[Diamations]

melee characters and melee abilities are always a guilty pleasure of mine and they look fun with some cool movement options. i think T3 on falling star might be too much cooldown reduction for what the ability offers. Also im a little confused on what heavenly mind is supposed to do?

and btw how did you make these graphics, id love to know for my own stuff!