Blacksmith

**Blacksmith** is a melee intelligence hero in *Heroes of Newerth*. He is based on Ogre Magi from *Defense of the Ancients: All-Stars*.

## Abilities

 Target Unit
 **Type** - Magic
 Look out for embers.

	+ A 2x Multicast deal 200/300/400/550 Magic Damage and stuns for 1.8 seconds.
	+ A 3x Multicast deal 300/450/600/825 Magic Damage and stuns for 2.1 seconds.
	+ A 4x Multicast deal 400/600/800/1100 Magic Damage and stuns for 2.4 seconds.
* Chaotic Flames decreases cooldown to 10/8/6 seconds and increases Mana Cost to the following:
	+ Level 1 Chaotic Flames: 85/95/105/115
	+ Level 2 Chaotic Flames: 115/125/135/145
	+ Level 3 Chaotic Flames: 145/155/165/175

 Target Unit
 **Type** - Magic
 Let's get hammered!

15/20/25/30% Movement Slow20/25/30/35 Magic Damage per second-1/-2/-3/-4 Magic Armor, decreasing to 0 over duration.

* Projectile travels at 1800 speed.
* Chaotic Flames increases radius to 200/300/400.

 Target Unit
 **Type** - Magic
 I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you!

+20/30/40/50 Attack Speed (+30/45/60/75 to self)+6/9/12/15% Movement Speed (+16/19/22/25% Movement Speed to self)+30 Cast Speed

* Chaotic Flames decrease cooldown to 15/10/5 seconds.
* Bypasses Magic Immunity on ally heroes.

 The Blacksmith is experienced at gambling with fire, increasing the power of his other spells. When casting his other spells, he has a chance to achieve a much more powerful result.
Passively grants Fireball and Frenzy a chance to cast multiple times, up to 2/3/4 times.
* Decreases Fireball's cooldown by 2/4/6 seconds and increases Mana Cost by 10/40/70.
* Increases Flaming Hammer's AoE by 100/200/300
 And they said never play with fire.

	+ The first roll has a 25/40/60% chance to succeed.
	+ The second roll has a 0/50/50% chance to succeed.
	+ The third roll has a 0/0/50% chance to succeed.
	+ Therefore, Chaotic Flames actually has a 70/45/30% chance to cast once, 30/35/35% chance to cast twice, 0/20/20% chance to cast thrice, and 0/0/15% chance to cast quadraple.
		- Overall long-term average Multicast multiplier increased from 2.05x to 2.2x.
		- For Level 3 Chaotic Flames, average damage distribution for 1x/2x/3x/4x changed from approximately 20/29/22/29% to 14/32/27/27%, respectively.
* Staff of the Master effects:
	+ All three of your abilities have an individual 15% chance to cast. You have a 0.3375% chance to cast all three abilities on attack.
	+ Your attacks won't cast Fireball or Flaming Hammer if your target is Physical or Magic Immune, and won't cast Frenzy if your target is Physical Immune.
	+ *Risky Cast!* has a seperate cooldown from Fireball.
	+ Mana spent with *Risky Cast!* does not trigger effects that occur when mana is spent, such as  Nome's Wisdom.

## Changelog

**Version 4.10.0**

* **Strength growth per level** reduced from 3.2 to 3.
* Chaotic Flames
	+ Staff of the Master effect changes (to pre-existing):
		- Mana Cost increased from 20% Max Mana to 30% Max Mana.
		- Fireball and  Frenzy, when triggered by the passive autoattack portion of this ability, can no longer multicast.
		- Mana spent on this ability no longer triggers effects that occur when mana is spent (e.g.,  Nome's Wisdom).

**Version 4.9.1**

* Chaotic Flames
	+ Staff of the Master effect changes (to pre-existing):
		- Mana Cost reduced from 33% Max Mana to 20% Max Mana.
		- Chance to cast  Fireball,  Flaming Hammer or  Frenzy when auto-attacking increased from 10% to 15%.

**Version 4.9.0**

* Flaming Hammer
	+ Duration changed from 7.5 seconds to 5/6/7/8 seconds.
	+ Magic Damage per second rescaled from 10/20/30/40 to 20/25/30/35.
		- Overall Magic Damage dealt (before factoring in the negative Magic Armor from this ability) changed from 75/150/225/300 to 100/150/210/280.
* Frenzy
	+ Now grants an additional 10% Movement Speed for self.
	+ Now grants an additional 10/15/20/25 Attack Speed for self.
* Chaotic Flames
	+ Chance for a strict 1x Multicast (i.e. no Multicast) reduced from 75/60/40% to 70/45/30%.
	+ Chance for a strict 2x Multicast increased from 25/20/30% to 30/35/35%.
	+ Chance for a strict 3x Multicast increased from 0/20/15% to 0/20/20%.
	+ Chance for a strict 4x Multicast remains unchanged at 0/0/15%.
		- Overall long-term average Multicast multiplier increased from 2.05x to 2.2x.
		- For Level 3 Blacksmith Chaotic Flames.jpg Chaotic Flames, average damage distribution for 1x/2x/3x/4x changed from approximately 20/29/22/29% to 14/32/27/27%, respectively.
	+ Staff of the Master effect changes (to pre-existing):
		- Mana Cost changed from 60% of your current Mana to 33% of your Max Mana.
		- Cooldown increased from 8 seconds to 30 seconds.

**Version 4.7.3**

* Chaotic Flames
	+ Additional  Staff of the Master changes (to pre-existing):
		- Ability renamed to Risky Cast!
		- In addition to its current effects, Risky Cast! can be activated to spend 60% of your Current Mana to cast an instance of level 4  Fireball on an enemy unit with 8 seconds Cooldown.

**Version 4.4.4**

* Frenzy
	+ Bypasses Magic Immunity on ally heroes.

**Version 4.1.5**

* Flaming Hammer
	+ Projectile Speed increased from 1200 to 1800 units per second.

**Version 4.0.0**

* **Magic Armor** increased from 5.5 to 6.
* **Armor** decreased from 3.96 to 2.66.
* Flaming Hammer
	+ Magic Armor debuff now starts tapering off 2 seconds after its application (increased from 0.975 seconds).
		- This means that its max Magic Armor reduction window lasts for 2 seconds instead of 0.975 seconds after the state application.
* Chaotic Flames
	+ Mana cost increase to  Fireball based reduced from 30/80/110 to 10/40/70.
	+ Multicast chances for  Fireball and  Frenzy changed:
		- 2x chance changed from 25/40/50% to 20/40/60%.
		- 3x chance increased from 0/20/25% to 0/20/30%.
		- 4x chance increased from 0/0/12.5% to 0/0/15%.

**Version 3.6.0**

* Frenzy
	+ Cast Speed increased from 7/14/21/28 to 30 at all ranks
	+ Mana cost decreased from 75 to 50

**Version 3.5.0**

* Chaotic Flames
	+ Staff of the Master functionality added.

**Version 2.6.4**

* **Agility Gain** decreased from 1.55 to 1.5
* Fireball
	+ Damage increased from 75/125/175/275 to 100/150/200/275
* Flaming Hammer
	+ Now has a constant AoE of 100 without  Chaotic Flames
	+ Increases to 200/300/400 with  Chaotic Flames
* Frenzy
	+ Multicasts will prioritize Heroes correctly

**Version 2.5.20**

* **Health regen** reduced from 1.25 to 1
	+ This is a part of a global change to all melee heroes.

**Version 2.2.0**

* **Health regen** increased from 0.25 to 1.25 health per second
	+ This is a part of a global change to all melee heroes.

**Version 2.0.34**

* **Attach Range** now 128 units
	+ This is a part of a global change to all melee heroes.

**Version 2.0.14**

* Fireball
	+ Cooldown reduced from 15s to 12s
* Flaming Hammer
	+ Projectile Speed increased from 950 to 1200
* Chaotic Flames
	+ Fireball Cooldown Reduction decreased from 3/6/9s to 2/4/6s

**Version 1.0.7**

* Flaming Hammer
	+ Projectile Speed increased from 800 to 950

**Version 0.3.0.2**

* **Base armor** lowered from 4.96 to 3.96.
* **Base damage** lowered from 58-64 to 54-60
* Flaming Hammer
	+ Projectile speed lowered from 1100 to 800
	+ -Magic armor tapers to 0 over duration after the 1s
	+ Base mana cost increased from 95/105/115/125 to 95/110/125/140.

**Version 0.1.66**

* Flaming Hammer
	+ Magic armor reduction decreased from -2/3/4/5 to -1/2/3/4.

**Version 0.1.65**

* Flaming Hammer:
	+ Slow increased from 10/15/20/25% to 15/20/25/30%
	+ Target(s) Magic Armour lowered by 2/3/4/5

**Version 0.1.63**

* 4x **Multicast** impacts of  Fireball cause a mushroom cloud explosion.
* **Base intelligence** increased from 17 to 19
* **Intelligence gain** increased from 1.9 to 2.1

**Version 0.1.47**

* **Multicast** impacts of  Fireball hit consecutively, not simultaneously.

**Version 0.1.30**

* Chaotic Flames
	+ Interactions with  Fireball:
		- Lv.1: 25% chance for a 2x cast
		- Lv.2: 40% chance for at least a 2x cast, with a 20% chance to become a 3x cast
		- Lv.3: 50% chance for at least a 2x cast, with a 25% chance to become at least a 3x cast or 12.5% chance to become a 4x cast
		- Fireball Mana Cost increased by 30/80/110
		- No longer boosted by Staff of the Master