Deckard

Deckard
"So, it begins."
Basic Info
Title	The Last Horadrim
Role	Healer
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Diablo
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	April 24, 2018
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	1700
Health Regen	3.543
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.625
Attack Speed	0.91
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	63
Data Page

Deckard Cain, the Last Horadrim, is a Healer hero from the Diablo universe. As an avid scholar, Deckard Cain has dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge. He has been an advisor, storyteller, and friend to Sanctuary's greatest heroes, guiding them through peril time and again. When Deckard speaks, it's wise to stay awhile and listen.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to Diablo universe.

Deckard Cain, or Cain the Elder, is a returning NPC from previous Diablo games. He narrates the reveal trailer for the Eternal Conflict event, and provides voiceovers in regards to treasure goblins at the start of matches held during said event. Cain is a proposed hero from the Diablo franchise.

Cain is the last surviving member of the original Horadrim, an ancient order of mages charged with trapping the Prime Evils within Soulstones and guarding them thereafter; his ancestor, Jered Cain, had led the party that had pursued and captured Diablo. Cain acts as adviser and guide, accompanying the player's character through each act of the games and providing a great deal of the lore to be found in-game.

Cain remains in Tristram for the entirety of the first game, standing next to the fountain in the middle of town, where he provides his wisdom and identifies items for a small fee. In Diablo II, he is rescued by the player character from a gibbet next to that fountain, and travels with the player throughout; he continues to identify items for the player. In Diablo III, he is rescued from the ruins of Tristram's Cathedral as the Skeleton King Leoric, reanimated by the "fallen star", sends his guards to attack him. Directing most of the major quests of Act I, Cain is fatally wounded by the witch Maghda and her Dark Coven, who seek the "fallen star" (revealed to be the fallen archangel Tyrael) and his broken sword, recovered by the player. Cain's last act before dying is to use his Horadric magic to reforge the sword, and determine it is angelic in origin. At the cinematic leading into Act II, Cain is cremated on a pyre in the graveyard outside the Cathedral.

Heroes of the Storm Comics

Deckard is exploring Dragon Shire when the forces of the Raven Lord accuse him of hiding a girl from them. Said girl, Orphea, turns out to be a powerful magician of some sort and the two of them travel to the court of Raena, the Lady of Thorns and a powerful Realm Lord. There, they warn her of the Raven Lord’s designs on her realm and the rest of the Nexus.

She's initially reluctant to get involved due to her own problems with a curse that's turned her husband to stone and is now slowly afflicting her. When Cain explains that her people are already in danger too and that the Raven Lord has already set his eyes on a new realm which would give him more power than her, she rallies her armies and allies to defend King's Crest and oppose the Raven Lord's forces in his plans to conquer Alterac Pass.

Later, the Lady of Thorns, despite being deeply injured, confronts the Raven Lord and opens a portal, urging Deckard Cain to lead her people to safety. Raena then succumbs to her curse and is turned to stone.

Gameplay

Deckard is a burst Healer who excels at preparing the battlefield before a fight and can cripple enemies with crowd control. Deckard's only healing Ability, Healing Potion, has a high healing-over-time output and the unique ability to be used "on the ground" to allow allies to heal at their leisure. Being able to set up several Healing Potions ahead of time is crucial to Deckard's ability to deal with burst damage.

Strength

• Healing
• Area Denial
• Debuffing

Weaknesses

• Mobility
• Silences
• Limited waveclear and general damage output

Abilities

See Data Page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

Fortitude of the Faithful

When at least 1 other allied Hero is nearby, Deckard gains 10 Armor and his Basic Abilities recharge 50% faster.

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Type: Damage modifier: Armor / Cooldown reduction
Affects: Self
Range: 6

Q

Healing Potion

25 Mana Cooldown: 4 seconds

Throw a Healing Potion on the ground that heals the first allied Hero that comes in contact with it for 270. Limit 5 active Potions.

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Type: Healing
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Self, Allied Heroes
Targeting: Point target
Properties: Area of Effect, Self-castable
Cast time: 0.125+0 seconds
Range: 8
Radius: 1
Travel time: 0.625s, 0.4375s, 0.125s

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• Healing Potions do not grant any vision.
• Healing Potion cannot be picked up by a Hero at full health.
• Travel time has three possible values depending on the distance of the toss.

W

Horadric Cube

35 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

Release the Horadric Cube. After 0.5 seconds it explodes, dealing 80 damage to all enemies in the area and Slowing them by 35% for 1.75 seconds.

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Type: Damage
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: Point target
Properties: Area of Effect, Slow, Self-castable
Cast time: 0.125+0 seconds
Range: 12
Missile speed: 20
Travel time: 0.6s (max range)
Area of Effect: 8x8 square

E

Scroll of Sealing

40 Mana Cooldown: 16 seconds

Unfurl an enchanted scroll over 2.25 seconds, forming a triangle that deals 150 damage to enemies inside and Roots them for 1.5 seconds.

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Type: Damage
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: Point target
Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping, Root, Self-castable
Cast time: 0.1875s
Range: 12
Area of Effect: Equilateral triangle (side: 12)

R

Stay Awhile and Listen

60 Mana Cooldown: 70 seconds

After 1 second, Channel for 3 seconds, putting enemy Heroes in front of Deckard to Sleep while Channeling, and for 2 seconds after. Enemies can only be put to Sleep once per cast, and Sleep's effects end instantly if they take damage.

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Type: Sleep
Affects: Enemy Heroes
Targeting: Point Target
Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping
Range: 10
Arc: 150°

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• Sleep cannot be interrupted for the first 0.5 seconds.

R

Lorenado

40 Mana Cooldown: 40 seconds

Vector Targeting
After 1 second, create a swirling tome tornado that travels in the targeted direction, continually knocking away enemies that come into contact with it.

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Type: Knockback
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: Vector Targeting
Properties: Area of Effect
Cast time: 0.1875s
Range: 14
Radius: 2.5
Total travel distance: 18
Travel speed: 3
Knockback distance: 4.375

Talents

1

Scroll of Identify

❢ Quest: Hitting an enemy Hero with Scroll of Sealing reveals them for 8 seconds.
❢ Reward: After hitting 16 Heroes, Scroll of Sealing also reduces Armor by 15 for 4 seconds and the reveal duration is doubled.

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Type: Damage modifier: Armor (reward)
Affects: Enemy Heroes
Additional properties: Revealed (passive)

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• Armor debuff is applied after the damage is dealt.

Field Study

Each enemy Hero hit by Scroll of Sealing grants 20% Spell Power for 16 seconds, up to 30%.

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Type: Damage modifier: Spell Power
Affects: Self

Sapphire

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Active: Activate to increase the Slow of the next Horadric Cube by 30%. Only 1 Gem may be active at a time.

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• A Gem goes on cooldown once the Horadric Cube is cast.
• An activated Gem can be deactivated only by activating another Gem.
• Cooldown between swapping gems: 0.5

4

Potion of Shielding

Whenever an ally is healed by a Healing Potion, they gain a 122 Shield for 6 seconds.

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Type: Shield
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Self, Allied Heroes

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• Shields do not stack past given value. Subsequent instances refresh the duration.

Rejuvenation Potion

Healing Potions restore 10 Mana and heal for an additional 108 over 4 seconds.

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Type: Heal over time
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Self, Allied Heroes
Tickrate: 2 / second (x8)
Healing per tick: 13.5

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• Healing-over-time does not stack. Subsequent instances refresh the duration.

Ruby

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Active: Activate to make the next Horadric Cube spawn 3 Lesser Healing Potions from each enemy Hero hit, healing allied Heroes for 250 when picked up. Lesser Healing Potions last for 10 seconds. Only 1 Gem may be active at a time.

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Type: Healing
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Self, Allied Heroes
Potion Radius: 0.5

7

Cube Mastery

Reduce the Mana cost of Scroll of Sealing from 40 to 25. Each enemy Hero hit by Horadric Cube reduces the cooldown of Scroll of Sealing by 4 seconds.

Kanai's Cube

Horadric Cube reduces Hero damage dealt by 30% for 4 seconds.

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Type: Damage modifier: Debuff
Affects: Enemy Heroes

Emerald

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Active: Activate to make the next Horadric Cube reduce healing received by 75% for 4 seconds. Only 1 Gem may be active at a time.

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Type: Healing modifier
Affects: Enemies

10

Stay Awhile and Listen

Cooldown: 70 seconds
After 1 second, Channel for 3 seconds, putting enemy Heroes in front of Deckard to Sleep while Channeling, and for 2 seconds after. Enemies can only be put to Sleep once per cast, and Sleep's effects end instantly if they take damage.

Lorenado

Cooldown: 40 seconds
After 1 second, create a swirling tome tornado that travels in the targeted direction, continually knocking away enemies that come into contact with it.

13

Super Healing Potion

If a Healing Potion isn't picked up for at least 2 seconds, it heals for 120% more.

Potion of Revival

When a Healing Potion is picked up, it also heals all nearby allied Heroes for 50% of the healing amount.

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Type: Healing
Scaling: -
Additional properties: Splash
Splash radius: 3

Ancient Blessings

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Activate Fortitude of the Faithful to empower nearby allied Hero Basic Attacks for 8 seconds, causing them to deal an additional 62 damage in an area and heal for 90 for each Hero hit.

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Type: Attack modifier - Damage / Healing
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies / Allied Heroes
Targeting: No target
Properties: Area of Effect, Splash (damage)
Radius: 6
Splash radius: 2.5

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• The damage dealt as a separate instance of Spell damage.
• Effect is applied only once per second. Does not stack.
• The bonus damage is scored to the attacker but the healing is scored to Deckard.

16

Scroll of Stone Curse

Scroll of Sealing deals 200% more damage when hitting at least 2 Heroes.

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Type: Damage modifier
Affects: Ability

Safety in Numbers

If at least 3 allied Heroes are nearby, Fortitude of the Faithful grants an additional 15 Armor, 50% mana regeneration per second, and causes Deckard's Basic Abilities to recharge an additional 50% faster.

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Type: Damage modifier: Armor
Affects: Self

Horadric Staff

Every 5 seconds, Deckard's next Basic Attack Stuns Heroes for 0.75 seconds.

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Type: Attack Modifier
Affects: Enemy Heroes
Properties: Stun

20

Respect the Elderly

Stay Awhile and Listen Silences and Blinds enemies for 3 seconds upon waking up from Sleep.

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Additional properties: Blind, Silence

Morenados!

Lorenado's cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds every time an enemy Hero is knocked back. This effect can only occur once per 0.5 seconds.

Bottomless Flask

After use, Healing Potions recharge after 8 seconds.

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• Once a Potion recharges, it benefits from every talent affecting Healing Potion, including this talent.

Perfect Gems

Reduce the cooldown of all Gems by 25 seconds and the cooldown of Horadric Cube by 6 seconds.

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• This talent does not require any Gem talent to be picked.

Skins

Deckard Skins
The Last Horadrim
Backstory: As an avid scholar, Deckard Cain has dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge. He has been an advisor, storyteller, and friend to Sanctuary's greatest heroes, guiding them through peril time and again. When Deckard speaks, it's wise to stay awhile and listen
750 / 10,000 The Last Horadrim	Free Mystic	Free Ennead	120 / 75 Angelic	120 / 75 Afflicted
Deckard Pain
Backstory: As the United States signed the Malta accords, their sovereignty ended, and Viper's began. Yet, in secret, Maj. Pain had been given leadership over a team with a very particular set of skills and one final mission: resistance.
Features: Themed abilities, themed animations.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Viper organization skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Infiltrator	600 / 1,200 Desert Ops
Wastewalker
Backstory: Few know what lies buried beneath the wastelands. But Deckard has wandered far and wide, gleaning knowledge from forgotten ruins. He may soon discover what came before, and why the world ended.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Warchrome Wastes skins.
250 / 300	250 / 300 Scourged	250 / 300 Diesel

Portraits

Deckard Portraits
Carbot Deckard120 / 75	Deckard Emblem75 / 40	Deckard Hero	Deckard Mastery	Deckard Pain75 / 40	Horadric Puzzle Cube60	Nefarious Potion60
Nutty Elder Cain60

Sprays

Deckard Sprays
Carbot Deckard120 / 75	Horadric Starter Set150	I Can Hold All These Potions75 / 40

Emojis

Deckard Pack 1			Deckard Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Deckard Happy	:deckardhappy:		Deckard Angry	:deckardangry:
	Deckard ROFL	:deckardlol: :deckardrofl:		Deckard Cool	:deckardcool: :cool:
	Deckard Sad	:deckardsad: :sad:		Deckard Embarrassed	:deckardoops: :deckardembarrassed:
	Deckard Silly	:deckardsilly: :silly:		Deckard in Love	:deckardlove: :deckardinlove:
	Deckard Speechless	:deckardmeh: :deckardspeechless:		Deckard Surprised	:deckardwow: :deckardsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Deckard/Quotes

Development

Deckard was intended for inclusion in Heroes of the Storm as of April, 2014.

When being worked on, Deckard originally had an "explosive magic" set. However, the developers felt that this wasn't true to the character. Rather, they found that abilities that were tactical and strategic were a better fit. The Horadric Cube originally worked differently. Here, Deckard would place it on the ground, 'throw' abilities into it, and thus change how they worked. It was found that putting the cube on the ground limited players' decisions, where they were constantly casting on the single point.It was shifted to its current form. His E ability was originally Identify (an ability of his from the Diablo series). In this form, he would channel the ability against an enemy hero, which would reveal them and reduce their armor. When it came to playtesting however, it didn't seem to fit, given that the channel ability was a 'destructive ability' that didn't match his nature as a scholar. Scroll of Sealing was created as the replacement, which better fit Deckard's tactical playstyle.

During an interview, Matt Villers talked about the difficulties of adapting the iconic character in a MOBA: "There were concerns in adapting Cain for sure, it was fun to try and tackle that. As is the cast with most heroes we started in earnest on him about a year ago, and he took the standard six to nine months of development time. We needed to create a version of Deckard that could stand up to these characters, which is basically how we approached his design. It's less destructive, and more about how he can be clever and strategic. I really like his super potion, where if you leave your potion for a while it heals for more, and the Ruby talent upgrade spits out a bunch of tiny potions if you hit them with a cube. It's great!"

He expanded on how he got his two heroics, a sleep debuff brought on by a magical scroll reading (Stay awhile and Listen), and a tornado of books (Lorenado): "We knew right away we wanted 'stay awhile and listen.' But we initially tried giving him the ability to use heroics of other Diablo heroes and thought 'that's not really Deckard.' Then we had this idea called 'The End Times,' where he would summon a meteor strike at his location and leap out of a town portal unharmed in a comical fashion, which started to work but in testing kind of fizzled. We found that people wanted to run into the enemy team and call the strike which didn't make sense for a support. Then we pulled Lorenado in, which was in the Diablo III April Fools joke for the Archivist class and it worked!"

During the PAX East in April 5, 2018, Deckard Cain was announced as a playable Hero.

Trivia

• Deckard Cain was announced to be the next healing hero in the game on April 5 during PAX East 2018.
• Deckard Cain is just called 'Deckard' in-game and not 'Cain'. According to Matt Villers: "We always have many opinions around the office on how to shorten hero names, and Deckard was no exception. I think in English the name 'Cain' by itself conjures a more rough image, so Deckard felt like a better fit."
  • However, ping messages refer to him by his full name, e.g. "Deckard Cain is on the way."
• Deckard made his debut in Diablo (December 1996).
  • His book debut was fifteen and a third years later, in Diablo III: The Order (May 2012).
• Deckard is voiced by Micheal Gough.
• Deckard Cain was the narrator of the reveal trailer for the Eternal Conflict event, and provided voiceovers in regards to treasure goblins at the start of matches held during said event.
• Deckard Cain's design is a blend between his appearance in Diablo II (light blue cloak and white beard and well kept appearance) and Diablo III (overall posture, holding a cane, and carrying tomes and scrolls).
• Due to his age, Deckard often has to pop the joints in his dorsal vertebrae before hearthing or exiting combat stance.
• One of Deckard's gag quotes references the Horadric Cube and the uses of footstools.

Gallery

General

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  Deckard's artwork

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  Deckard home screen

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  Deckard menu screen

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  Cain in Dragon Shire

Concept Art

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  Deckard Cain concept art

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  Wastewalker Deckard concept art

Abilities

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  Q: Healing Potion

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  W: Horadric Cube

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  E: Scroll of Sealing

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  R1: Stay Awhile and Listen

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  R2: Lorenado

External links

• Deckard - Heroes of the Storm
• Deckard Cain - Diablo Wiki
• Deckard Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Deckard Build Guide on Icy Veins
• Deckard Cain Soundfiles