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Basic Info | |
Title | The Lich King |
Role | Tank |
Difficulty | Medium |
Franchise | Warcraft |
Price | 625 / 7,000 |
Release Date | March 13, 2014 |
Base Stats | |
Attack Type | Melee |
Health | 2860 |
Health Regen | 5.957 |
Resource | 500 Mana |
Unit Radius | 0.8125 |
Attack Speed | 1 |
Attack Range | 2 |
Attack Damage | 95 |
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Arthas Menethil, the Lord of the Scourge, is a warrior hero from the Warcraft franchise.[1] Once the crown prince of Lordaeron, and protege of Uther the Lightbringer, Prince Arthas was corrupted by the cursed blade Frostmourne in a desperate bid to save his people. Now he rules over the damned as the Lich King and all shall know his wrath.
Arthas engages with his enemies directly, freezing and slowing them, and uses the power of Frostmourne to empower his attacks. He is a slow moving hero, capable of dealing and withstanding massive amounts of damage.
History
Arthas Menethil was the son of Terenas Menethil II, King of Lordaeron and was the Prince of Lordaeron and Knight of the Silver Hand led by Uther the Lightbringer. He was trained as a paladin by Uther. Even though he was a promising knight, he went down a path of vengeance.
Stratholme was one of the first cities to be struck by the Plague. Upon discovering this, Arthas ordered Uther and a Kirin Tor mage by the name of Jaina Proudmoore to help him purge the city to prevent the plague from spreading further. Uther and Jaina did not follow his demands so he went on to purge the city himself which is where his downfall began. After the Culling of Stratholme, he encountered a dreadlord by the name of Mal'Ganis. Mal’Ganis and Arthas fought briefly. Then after the fight, Mal'Ganis told him to go to the frozen wastes of Northrend where he should fulfill his destiny.
Arthas then gathered an army and set sail for Northrend. While on Northrend, he went on a search for the ancient runeblade Frostmourne; as he heard it contained the power to slay Mal'Ganis. Accompanied by an old friend Muradin Bronzebeard he found the sword. Despite Muradin's warning, he took the sword which caused Muradin to go out cold, then his downfall was coming to a climax.
He searched for and found Mal’Ganis who told him that the voice he was hearing was the Lich King, but Arthas replied saying that the voice was instructing him to destroy Mal'Ganis. Mal'Ganis was very surprised and ultimately destroyed by Arthas. After the fight, he abandoned his men and wandered the frozen wastes losing every last bit of his sanity. Once Arthas returned to the Eastern Kingdoms, he killed his father King Terenas Menethil II and everyone in Lordaeron; raising them after death to add to his undead army.
With his new army, he marched through Quel'thalas where he encountered Sylvanas Windrunner. He killed her and raised her as a banshee while also destroying the High Elf capital city Silvermoon. After the destruction he caused in Azeroth he made his way to the Frozen Throne in Icecrown where he had a confrontation with Illidan Stormrage. Once Illidan was defeated, he climbed the Frozen Throne where he put on Ner'Zhul's helmet to fuse their souls, thus becoming the Lich King.
Skills
Talents
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❢ Quest: Root enemy Heroes with Howling Blast.
❢ Reward: After Rooting 5 Heroes, Howling Blast's cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds.
❢ Reward: After Rooting 10 Heroes, Howling Blast's range is increased by 20%.
❢ Reward: After Rooting 20 Heroes, Howling Blast also Roots enemies in its path.
- Actually gains a stack per Hero hit even if they are not Rooted (due to Unstoppable).
- Howling Blast's projectile speed is increased if it is cast beyond 8 range.
❢ Quest: Use Frostmourne Hungers on an enemy Hero.
❢ Reward: Increases the Mana it restores by 4, to a maximum of 40, and its damage by 4.
Every 5 seconds, gain 75 Physical Armor against the next enemy Hero Basic Attack, reducing the damage taken by 75%. Stores up to 3 charges.
- Does not stack with itself or other positive Physical Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Increase the range of Death Coil by 30%, reduce its cooldown by 3 seconds, and if Death Coil is used on an enemy Hero its Mana cost is refunded.
Frozen Tempest Mana cost reduced by 2 per second.
❢ Quest: Damage enemy Heroes with Frozen Tempest.
❢ Reward: After damaging enemy Heroes 150 times with Frozen Tempest, the Movement and Attack Speed Slows of Frozen Tempest last an extra 1.5 seconds against enemy Heroes.
- Every Hero hit counts toward quest progress.
Gain 3% Attack Speed for 1.5 seconds every time a Hero is damaged by Frozen Tempest, to a maximum of 60%.
- Attack speed stacks additively with itself and other effects that can affect Arthas's Attack Speed.
Gain the healing effect of Death Coil even when used on enemies. If Death Coil is used on Arthas, it heals for an additional 50%.
- Healing on enemy cast is applied when the missile returns to Arthas.
- Bonus healing stacks additively with other healing dealt modifiers that can affect Death Coil's healing.
Every 3rd Basic Attack heals Arthas for 5% of his max Health.
Cooldown: 35 seconds
Active: Activate to gain 25 Armor, reducing damage taken by 25%, and reduce the duration of Stuns, Slows, and Roots against Arthas by 75% for 3 seconds.
- Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Summons Ghouls that last 15 seconds and attack for 20 damage. Sacrifice Ghouls to heal for 267 Health.
Deals 230 damage and Slows enemies by 60% for 4 seconds. Also disables Minions, Mercenaries, Monsters and Structures for 20 seconds.
Enemy Heroes hit by Howling Blast have their Armor reduced by 15 for 4 seconds.
- Does not stack with other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Each second an enemy is damaged by Frozen Tempest, it deals 12.5% bonus damage, up to a 50% bonus.
- Damage bonus is tracked independently for every affected unit.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and multiplicatively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Frozen Tempest's damage.
Reduces Frostmourne Hungers's cooldown by 2 seconds. Frostmourne Hungers also Slows the enemy by 50% for 1.5 seconds.
Death Coil deals more damage and heals more the lower Arthas's current Health is, to a maximum of 100% bonus damage and healing.
- Bonus damage and healing percentage equates to the percentage of Health Arthas is missing.
- Bonus damage stacks mutiplicatively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Death Coil's damage.
- Bonus healing stacks additively with other healing dealt modifiers that can affect Death Coil's healing.
Enemy Heroes that remain within Frozen Tempest for 3 seconds are Rooted for 1.25 seconds. This effect can only happen once every 10 seconds.
Increases the amount of Basic Attacks empowered by Frostmourne Hungers to 2.
3 additional Ghouls are created. Ghouls deal 50% more damage, heal for an additional 50% and last 5 seconds longer.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Ghouls' Basic Attack damage.
- Healing bonus increases the base healing of Sacrifice to 400.5, causing the given percentage to stack multiplicatively with healing dealt modifiers that can affect Sacrifice's healing.
Sindragosa flies twice as far. Enemy Heroes are Rooted for 2.5 seconds, and then Slowed by 60% for 4 seconds.
Increases Movement Speed by 10%. Frozen Tempest's maximum Movement Speed Slow and Attack Speed Slow are increased from 40% to 60%.
- Also increases the Slow's amount per tick from 5% to 7.5%.
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Active: Activate to make Arthas Immune to Spell Damage for 4 seconds and heal Arthas for 25% of the damage prevented.
- Anti-Magic Shell absorbs all incoming Spell Damage, similar to Protected status.
- The amount of damage absorbed, and thus also healing done, is calculated after damage modifiers, such as Armor.
- Healing does not benefit from Arthas's Spell Power or other healing dealt modifiers.
- Note that Percent damage in all its forms is a type of Spell Damage, therefore Arthas fully benefits from this Talent when applied to it.
Skins
Lich King
- Once the crown prince of Lordaeron, and protege of Uther the Lightbringer, Prince Arthas was corrupted by the cursed blade Frostmourne in a desperate bid to save his people. Now he rules over the damned as the Lich King and all shall know his wrath.
- Arthas The Lich King 1.jpg
- Arthas The Lich King 2.jpg
- Arthas The Lich King 3.jpg
Master
- As Frostmourne devoured more and more souls, the Lich King's dominion over the damned grew ever stronger. It wasn't long before his armor began to manifest changes.
- Arthas Master 1.jpg
- Arthas Master 2.jpg
- Arthas Master 3.jpg
Crown Prince
- As his hands gripped the hilt of the cursed blade Frostmourne, a dimensional gateway erupted from the icy pedestal dragging the young prince Arthas into the Nexus.
- Price: $9.99 / 8.99€
- Arthas Crown Prince 1.jpg
- Arthas Crown Prince 2.jpg
- Arthas Crown Prince 3.jpg
Frost Wyrm
- After the death of the Ashen Verdict's champions none could halt the Lich King's advance. As an eternal reminder of his victory he grafted the bones of his fallen allies onto his armor.
- Price: $7.49 / 6.49€
- Arthas Frost Wyrm 1.jpg
- Arthas Frost Wyrm 2.jpg
- Arthas Frost Wyrm 3.jpg
Removed skins
Death Knight
- As the victorious Arthas ascended the Frozen Throne the Lich King's voice echoed through his mind... Without warning, the words pulled away as he found himself in the heart of the Nexus.
- Price: N/A (no longer available)
Trivia
- Arthas was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
- Uniquely, his art was designed first, and his role in the game came later.[2]
Gallery
Videos
External links
References
- ↑ StarCraft. 2011-10-20. Blizzard DOTA Trailer. Youtube. Accessed 2011-10-22.
- ↑ 2011-10-23, BlizzCon 2011 - Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm and Blizzard DOTA - Art & Technology Panel (Full). YouTube, accessed on 2011-11-07
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