The Gnome Builder

[Mikazuki]

Just adding on to the flow of suggestions ^^

Gnome Builder

The Gnome Builder is part baser, part titan hunter, part supporter. It is focused on upgrading his harvesters and giving them items to improve their combat ability, making them very effective in supporting other basers, defending your own base or killing off titan minions. The idea is that the Gnomes are brilliant inventors, and have constructed Gyrocopters to help defend against the Titan. They can then invent/create more things to boost their allies, themselves or their Gyrocopters in combat, as well as infinitely upgrade their Gyrocopters as long as the resources are available.


Main Builder Stats


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Model: Peasant or Gnomish Inventor (custom model: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/resource.php?t=47735)
Health: 300
Armour: 0, Unarmoured (does it matter unless it's fortified? =/)
Movement Speed: slower than average (say.... 300?)
Building Style: Human
Attack Stats: normal attack stats (125-125, normal, etc).
Harvesting: 10 per swing, 10 max capacity
Abilities: Invent - allows the gnome to create unique items using combinations of other items, gold and lumber. Spell Book ability.
Has 6 inventory slots.


Main Builder Abilities - Inventions

This is a major part of the Gnome builder, as these inventions assist your teammates or buff your Gyrocopters. I would prefer that the titan can pick these up as well. Most inventions can be built once you meet the costs, but the better ones late game require the Steel Affinity upgrade. All inventions are spells, but do not do anything without the required costs. They all have no cooldown.

Gnomish Rocket Boots

Costs: 1 Flask of Rejuvenation, 1 Staff of Teleportation OR 1000 lumber
Effect: Can be consumed to maximise movespeed for 5 seconds. 1 charge. (a consumable Panic item)

Scale Armour
Costs: 5 gold, 3 Turtle Scales
Effect: Gives +1 armour and +50 health to the holder.

Scalemail Armour
Costs: 10 gold, 2 Scale Armours
Effect: Gives +3 armour and +100 health to the holder.
Requires Steel Affinity

Gnomish Spyglass

Costs: 1 Eye of the Ocean
Additional Costs: 5 gold, 1 Eye of the Ocean, 1 Flask of Regeneration
Effect: Increases sight range of the holder (by about 400?).
Additional Effects: May be used to reveal a very small area (about 300 AoE?) anywhere on the map, revealing invisible units within that area. Reveal lasts 3 seconds. 120 second cooldown.
Creating this with additional effects requires Steel Affinity (and having additional costs met).

Regenerator

Costs: 15 gold, 3 Flasks of Rejuvenation, 1 Armoured Scales
Effects: Grants a 20hp/s regeneration rate to the holder.
Requires Steel Affinity

Pointy Stick

Costs: 1 Healing Ward
Effect: Increases attack damage of the holder by 5.

Pointy Beast Stick

Costs: 1 Pointy Stick, 1 Scroll of the Beast
Effect: Increases attack damage of the holder by 10.

Pointy Super-Beast Stick

Costs: 5 gold, 1 Pointy Beast Stick, 2 Scrolls of the Beast
Effect: Increases attack damage of the holder by 25.
Requires Steel Affinity

Super-Pointy Super-Beast

Costs: 5 gold, 1 Pointy Super-Beast Stick, 1 Healing Ward
Effect: Increases attack damage of the holder by 35. Grants a passive aura that heals units in the area by 1% of their max health per second (healing ward aura, does not stack).
Requires Steel Affinity

Explosive Barrel
Costs: 10 gold, 1 Healing Ward, 1 Scroll of the Beast, 1 Eye of the Ocean, 1 Flask of Rejuvenation, 1 Teleport Staff
Effect: Lays down a bomb that explodes after 2 seconds, dealing 300 damage to all enemy units in the area. The bomb has 200hp and may be destroyed. 1 charge.
Requires Steel Affinity

Boomstick

Costs: 5 gold, 1 Healing Ward,1 Scroll of the Beast, 1 Eye of the Ocean, 1 Flask of Rejuvenation
Effects: May be used to fire at an enemy unit up to 1100 range away, dealing 200 damage. 1 charge.
Requires Steel Affinity


Units

Gyrocopter - 10 lumber, 25 food

Gyrocopters are the heart and soul of the Gnome builder. They start off as simple harvesters (that can fly and attack...) but can be upgraded and enhanced into powerful defenders and hunters. They depend on a fuel system (mana) to operate, and having 0 mana at any time kills the harvester (or maybe just pause, whatever works). They cannot detonate.
Health: 100, no regeneration
Mana: 100 max capacity, 55 initial, -5 mana regeneration
Armour: 1, medium
Movement Speed: 330
Attack Stats: 15-15, Normal, 2s cooldown, 250 range (Flak Cannon attack, not bombs).
Bounty: 4 gold, 4x (regular harvester) experience
Harvesting: Wisp style, 40 per tick, 5 second interval
Abilities: Hellfire Missile - Fires a single missile that deals 100 damage to the target. 50 mana cost, 30 second cooldown. 700 casting range. Requires Hellfire Missile Pods.
Gyrocopters have low sight range (err... 600?).
Gyrocopters come with 1 inventory slot.
Gyrocopters are mechanical and can be repaired by the Gnome builder.


Structures

Shelter - 10 lumber
A basic shelter
Model: Marketplace
Health: 200
Armour: 5, fortified
Units trained: Gyrocopter
Notes: no lumber upgrade for the Gnome builder

Factory - 5 lumber
Food structure, exactly the same as Goblin's (so I wont list the stats)

Reseach Lab (for lack of better name) - 200 lumber
Basic research structure.
Model: Tavern
Health: 200
Armour: 5, fortified
Research Available: Hellfire Missile Pods, Basic Hull Enforcement, Greater Hull Enforcement, Indestructable Hull Enforcement, Booster Upgrades, Greater Booster Upgrades, Enhanced Tracers, Piercing Tracers, Exceptional Tracers, Greater Fuel Capacity, Maximised Fuel Capacity
Items Sold: Turtle Scales

Refueling Tower - 100 lumber
The Gnome's 'tower' that isn't very effective at defending a base, but is required for extending the life of Gyrocopters.
Model: Watch Tower
Health: 150
Armour: 5, medium
Abilities: Defense Mechanism - Fires missiles to all enemy units within a 700 AoE every second. Each missile deals 25 damage. (based of Phoenix Fire)
   Refuel - Restores 1 mana to all units you control in a 500 AoE. 1 second cooldown. (based of Spirit Touch)
Requirements: Shelter

Gnomish Factory - 1500 lumber
Another unique building, this structure gives permanent boosts to specific Gyrocopters with abilities that cost gold and lumber. The bonuses can stack on a single Gyrocopter.
Model: War Factory (3x3 pathing)
Health: 200
Armour: 5, fortified
Abilities:
   Armour Piercing Rounds - Permanently increases the damage of target Gyrocopter by 5. Requires 1 gold to cast.
   Enhanced Gatling Guns - Permanently increases the attack speed of target Gyrocopter by 5%. Requires 1 gold to cast.
   Rocket Boosters - Permanently increases the movement speed of target Gyrocopter by 10. Requires 1 gold to cast.
   Hull Enforcement - Permanently increases the health of target Gyrocopter by 50. Requires 2 gold to cast.
   Fuel Tank Efficiency - Permanently increases the mana capacity of target Gyrocopter by 20. Requires 2 gold to cast.
Requirements: Research Lab
Notes: All abilities have 5 second cooldowns.

Gnomish Observatory - 20 gold, 2000 lumber
The Gnome's ARC. Doesnt have many upgrades, but unlocks alot of other upgrades and stuff.
Model: Arcane Sanctum (3x3 pathing)
Health: 300
Armour: 5, fortified
Research Available: Steel Affinity, Cargo Bays, Infantry Survival Training
Requirements: Research Lab, Gnomish Factory

Merchant
Same as every other builder

Iron Wall - 50 lumber
A simple tier one wall.
Model: Scout Tower (dark grey)
Health: 250
Armour: 5, fortified.
Upgrades to: Steel Wall

Steel Wall - 200 lumber (to upgrade)
Gnome tier two wall, with 5 less armour than other tier two walls but 50 less lumber cost. They can be upgraded to hold items.
Model: Scout Tower (lighter grey)
Health: 500
Armour: 10, fortified


Research Available

Hellfire Missile Pods - 5 gold, 750 lumber.
Unlocks Hellfire Missile for Gyrocopters.

Basic Hull Enforcement - 5 gold, 500 lumber - Tier one Hull Enforcement
Increases the health of Gyrocopters by 150.

Greater Hull Enforcement - 10 gold, 750 lumber - Tier two Hull Enforcement
Further increases the health of Gyrocopters by 150.
Requirements: Gnomish Observatory

Indestructable Hull Enforcement - 15 gold, 1000 lumber - Tier three Hull Enforcement
Further increases the health of Gyrocopters by 150.
Requirements: Merchant, Gnomish Observatory

Booster Upgrades - 1 gold, 500 lumber. - Tier one Booster Upgrades.
Increases the movement speed of Gyrocopters by 20.

Greater Booster Upgrades - 5 gold, 1000 lumber. - Tier two Booster Upgrades.
Further increases the movement speed of Gyrocopters by 20.

Enhanced Tracers - 1 gold, 500 lumber - Tier one Tracers
Increases the damage of Gyrocopters by 10 and range by 150.

Piercing Tracers - 5 gold, 750 lumber - Tier two Tracers
Further increases the damage of Gyrocopters by 10 and range by 150.
Requirements: Gnomish Observatory

Exceptional Tracers - 10 gold, 1500 lumber - Tier three Tracers
Further increases the damage of Gyrocopters by 10 and range by 150.
Requirements: Merchant, Gnomish Observatory

Greater Fuel Capacity - 5 gold, 1000 lumber - Tier one Fuel Capacity
Increases the maximum mana capacity of Gyrocopters by 100.

Maximised Fuel Capacity - 15 gold, 1500 lumber - Tier two Fuel Capacity
Further increases the maximum mana capacity of Gyrocopters by 200. (maximum 400 mana capacity)
Requirements: Gnomish Observatory

Steel Affinity - 10 gold, 1750 lumber
Unlocks many item skills for the Gnome builder.

Cargo Bays - 5 gold, 1000 lumber.
Gives the Gnome's walls and Gyrocopters an additional 2 inventory slots.
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Changelog
-Changed cost of Scale Armour, removing 2 Armoured Scales for 3 Turtle Scales.
-Increased cost of Scalemail Armour by 5 gold.
-Lowered armor bonus on Scale Armour by 1 and Scalemail Armour by 2.
-Lowered cost of Regenerator by 1 Flask of Rejuvenation.

[Zen1400]

Someonehad a idea kind of similiar to this, but the problem is that you can give it all to like a nature hunter, and he now is a walking death machine for all minions.

[o(O.Oo)]

Does darox have a problem with custom models? or was it just WC3 itself?

If not.. PEPSIFTW!

[Mikazuki]

I thought everyone liked death machines :<

And ID doesn't use custom models (except for Pandamine's builder, with that dodgy tree), so I provided two models for the main builder.

[JayceJa]

nice ideas for basing, but the items thing could be a bit much, with problems of passing to make people more uber, like nature hunters or sats

[Bounty235]

Wow amazingly all of the builders everyone is suggesting are good.

[Mikazuki]

Mmm, the items were intended to be passed around after the Gnome player equipped his Gyrocopters. I admit some of the items are really powerful for builders, but they're also supposed to be a little difficult to make

[Zen1400]

Well if daorx kept the Darox & RCxquake shop, they won't be.

[Mikazuki]

The Darox & Rcxquake shop items are a little expensive though. The builder is meant to have lumber problems as a racial thing, but I think I made Gyrocopters harvest too quickly. =/

[rage_no]

i love the idea but you need to change or remove the scalemail armour
6 of them=+30 armour and +600 hp

[Darox]

Well if daorx kept the Darox & RCxquake shop, they won't be.

I didn't, by the way.

[Mikazuki]

Well if daorx kept the Darox & RCxquake shop, they won't be.

I didn't, by the way.

Ouch =/ I think I should make the Scale Armours a little easier to get, since you cant buy the armoured scales now.

[rage_no]

dont make them stackable though

[Xx_Jewbacca_xX]

Isnt the average builder speed like 300, anyways? o.o

[Defcon_5]

Very inventive.  However, everytime i hear the word Gnome, i imagin a little garden gnome and i want to kick its fuckin head in XD

Great idea, and the item passing is a tid bit imba :/