Ragnaros | |
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"By fire, be purged!" | |
Basic Info | |
Title | The Firelord |
Role | Bruiser |
Difficulty | Medium |
Franchise | Warcraft |
Price | 625 / 7,000 |
Release Date | December 14, 2016 |
Base Stats | |
Attack Type | Melee |
Health | 2075 |
Health Regen | 4.3242 |
Resource | 500 Mana |
Unit Radius | 1.0 |
Attack Speed | 0.83 |
Attack Range | 2.0 |
Attack Damage | 180 |
Data Page |
Ragnaros, the Firelord, is a melee Bruiser Hero from the Warcraft universe. Ragnaros is a powerful Bruiser who can sow the seeds of destruction in a team fight or simply when defending his team's forts. Ragnaros is a unique addition to the Nexus Hero pool thanks to his ability to take over allied Forts or destroyed Forts with his trait, Molten Core. Seizing control of a Fort grants him a new set of Abilities that allow him to defend against the enemy's siege or lay waste to an enemy Town in an allied push.
Ragnaros is a Bruiser who can nullify enemy pushes against his Forts and Keeps.
Background[ | ]
Ragnaros is the Elemental Lord of Fire - like a flame, his only desire is to watch everything burn. The Firelord and his brethren once held sway over the entire world. As a servant of the Old Gods, he fought against the Titans for domination over the planet. The victorious Titans banished him and his brethren to the Elemental Planes — there to remain imprisoned until the end of time. It was then and there that the elementals turned on each other. For five millennia a battle was fought at the core of this world, with Ragnaros biding his time in the Firelands.
Ragnaros returned to the surface when the Dark Iron clan, in a desperate attempt to fight back against the other dwarven clans, summoned him into Redridge. His emergence permanently scarred the land and created the volcano known as Blackrock Mountain. Ragnaros swiftly proceeded to enslave the Dark Iron clan, and remained inside the Molten Core of the volcano to gather his strength. Now, he has turned his fiery gaze toward the Nexus in his quest to bring about the end of days by purging all life in flame and ash.
Harness the volcanic wrath of the Firelord to call down flaming meteors, crush foes with the explosive might of Sulfuras, and summon lava waves that will incinerate an entire lane's worth of enemy minions. When faced with a counter-attack, Ragnaros can empower a fort or keep, becoming a towering inferno over the structure and gaining a second set of abilities that will help you engulf assailants in the fires of doom. Ally yourself with Ragnaros to bring about a new era of destruction in the Nexus and show your opponents the true meaning of the words "raid boss".[1]
Gameplay[ | ]
Ragnaros is a Bruiser who can nullify enemy pushes against his Forts and Keeps.
Strength[ | ]
Weaknesses[ | ]
- Poor Mobility
- Heavy Poke
- Crowd Control
Abilities[ | ]
- See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.
Talents[ | ]
❢ Quest: Every time Empower Sulfuras kills a Minion, its damage is increased by 1, up to 25.
❢ Reward: After killing 25 Minions, increase its damage by an additional 100.
- Gives credit if the Minion dies to anything with 0.25s of being hit by Empower Sulfuras.
Each time an enemy is hit by the same Living Meteor, they take 6% increased damage from it.
❢ Quest: Hit 75 Heroes with Living Meteor.
❢ Reward: After hitting 75 Heroes with Living Meteor, its duration is increased to 2.25 seconds, and it can be reactivated to change its direction once per use.
- Stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Living Meteor's damage.
Increase Blast Wave's damage by 75% and its radius by 15%.
- Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Blast Wave's damage.
When Living Meteor hits an enemy Hero, gain a charge of Spell Armor, reducing damage from the next enemy Ability by 50%.
Stores up to 2 charges.
- Hitting a Hero multiple times generates a charge for every hit.
- Does not stack with other positive Spell Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Blast Wave Slows enemies hit by 40% for 2 seconds.
❢ Quest: Gathering a Regeneration Globe increases Ragnaros's Health Regeneration by 1.25 per second, up to 18.75.
❢ Reward: After gathering 15 Regeneration Globes, activate Catching Fire to gain 25 Armor for 3 seconds, reducing damage taken by 25%.
- Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
If Empower Sulfuras hits at least 2 enemy Heroes, refund 10 Mana and its cooldown recharges 100% faster for 4 seconds.
- While active, reduces the cooldown of Empower Sulfuras by 0.125 seconds every 0.125 seconds.
If Living Meteor hits enemy Heroes at least 5 times, reduce its cooldown by 7 seconds and refund 30 Mana.
Every 10 seconds, Ragnaros's next Basic Attack against a Hero deals 60% bonus damage. Hitting enemies with Basic Abilities reduces this cooldown by 1 second.
- Every enemy hit including Structures triggers the cooldown reduction.
- Cannot empower damage on Basic Attacks affected by Empower Sulfuras.
- Damage from Blast Echo and Meteor Bomb talents can grant cooldown reduction, but periodic damage from Giant Scorcher doesn't.
- Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting Ragnaros's Basic Attack damage.
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Hurl Sulfuras at the target area, landing after 0.75 seconds, dealing 250 damage. Enemies in the center take 594 damage instead and are Stunned for 0.5 seconds.
Cooldown: 120 seconds
Release a wave of lava from Ragnaros's Core that travels down the targeted lane, dealing 240 damage per second to non-Structure enemies in its path and instantly killing enemy Minions. Damage increased by 100% versus Heroes.
Empower Sulfuras heals for an additional 45% of damage dealt to Heroes over 2 seconds.
- Healing is based on the actual damage dealt (not including overkill) only to the Hero most radially outward from the primary target, multiplied by the number of Heroes hit.
While Ragnaros is Stunned, he gains 40 Armor for 3 seconds, reducing damage taken by 40%.
This effect has a 15 second cooldown.
- Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Empower Sulfuras burns enemy Heroes for 9% of their maximum Health over 3 seconds. This additional damage does not heal Ragnaros.
- Does not stack with itself. Subsequent applications refresh the duration.
- Damage over ticks do not trigger cooldown reduction for Blistering Attacks.
Living Meteor explodes at the end of its path, dealing 220 damage. Enemies at its center take 30% increased damage.
- Outer: 3.0
- Center: 1.25
- Meteor Bomb does not interact with talents affecting Living Meteor.
- Enemies hit by Meteor Bomb grant cooldown reduction for Blistering Attacks.
- Center damage bonus stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect Meteor Bomb's damage.
After Blast Wave explodes, another Blast Wave is created on Ragnaros.
- The secondary Blast Wave has the same properties as the inital and fully benefits from all Talents affecting Blast Wave.
Sulfuras Smash Slows enemies by 50% for 2.5 seconds, and the Stun duration of enemies hit in the center is increased by 1 second.
Lava Wave gains an additional charge and its cooldown is reduced by 30 seconds.
Molten Core has 25% increased Health and Damage, and its cooldown is reduced by 50 seconds.
- Does not affect the Health decay, effectively also increasing the duration of Molten Core by 25% to 22.5 seconds.
Cooldown: 60 / 0.5 seconds
Active: Ragnaros submerges below, entering Stasis and healing for 600 Health over 3 seconds.
- Submerge can be reactivated after 0.5 seconds to end its effect early. All other Abilities are disabled for its duration.
- Ragnaros retains collision during Submerge.
- Submerge does not interrupt friendly Abilities, like Phase Shift, which channeling was initiated before the activation.
Builds and guides[ | ]
Ragnaros Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire
Ragnaros Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth
Skins[ | ]
Mounts[ | ]
Portraits[ | ]
Sprays[ | ]
Emojis[ | ]
Quotes[ | ]
Development[ | ]
Ragnaros was an immense challenge for the Heroes of the Storm team. They wanted a hero that can manipulate the battlefield, and one of the very early prototype ideas was having Ragnaros replace the core. He had a global set of abilities and these abilities would allow him to rain destruction from the sky with meteors, send lava waves, throw Sulfuras into the air - a lot of the abilities you actually see on his kit today, but he also had the ability to summon a Son of Flame. The Son of Flame was controllable by the Ragnaros player and gave him a lot of his team presence. However there was an overwhelming amount of feedback from our their team saying: "I don't feel like Ragnaros". The first problem was that the players were controlling that Son of Flame the majority of the game. That was kind of the avatar they saw, that was the hero they were playing. Number two, the only time you ever saw Ragnaros was when you were losing. He was a stationary core hero, so you never saw him except for his global abilities, and that felt horrible.
The next idea was to give Ragnaros the ability to submerge and move the core. Jade Martin explained: "As you can imagine, this is a terrible idea. Terrible. There are so many things wrong with this. I mean, What gets left behind when he moves the core? The team realized that this wasn't going to work as many problems came up with it (like "Is he invulnerable?", "Is he taking actual core damage?", "Does he move away other heroes in that space?", "Can he block that space?")." So they cut the idea, but they did learn something from it: It was really cool to see Ragnaros in the battlefields despite all the problems it caused, and they wanted to chase that fantasy of the raid boss being summoned in. Finally the idea came up that he could take over forts and keeps. They knew the space is large enough, he's not just showing up in random chokepoints, and forts and keeps are all over the map.
The next idea was to summon Ragnaros on those chokepoints by Majordomo Executus, who actually did it in the Molten Core raid. Majordomo got a set of abilities, but his primary goal was trying to summon in Ragnaros. The developers took this to the test team and the feedback was: "I still don't feel like Ragnaros, I love playing as the raid boss, it's cool when I summon him in, but when I lock-in Ragnaros as my hero, I don't want to play as Majordomo."
The final idea was "What if we just let the player play as Ragnaros the whole time?" So he has that hero form, and then the Molten Core form. The hero form is kind of like his weakened state. He is not quite as powerful, but when he takes over that fort, he becomes this gigantic raid boss that enemies fear.[2]
Trivia[ | ]
- Firelords debuted in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (July 2003). Ragnaros made his video game debut in World of Warcraft (November 2004).
- Ragnaros is voiced by Chris Metzen in World of Warcraft and Matthew Mercer in Heroes of the Storm and Hearthstone (March 2014).
- Ragnaros was one of the two heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2016.
- The biggest hurdle for new Ragnaros skins is the heavy load of FX work associated with him.[3]
- The Sulfuron skin was inspired by the armor Ragnaros wore in the Firelands.[4]
- The Lil' Ragnaros skin is a reference to the Lil' Ragnaros pet from World of Warcraft.
- Ragnaros's ability animations were designed to look distinct from the fire abilities used by Kael'thas and the Butcher.[5]
- Ragnaros's hammer, Sulfuras, can be obtained in World of Warcraft both as a drop in the Firelands, and as a blacksmithing plan.
- Ragnaros's signature line, "By fire be purged!", is sometimes said by Kael'thas.
Gallery[ | ]
General[ | ]
Concept art[ | ]
Abilities[ | ]
Videos[ | ]
References[ | ]
- ↑ New Heroes and More Announced at BlizzCon 2016!. Blizzard. Retrieved on 2016-11-04.
- ↑ Blizzplanet: BlizzCon 2016 Heroes of the Storm Deep Dive Panel Transcript
- ↑ Art and Animation AMA with Heroes Developers - July 11, 2018
- ↑ Blizzplanet: BlizzCon 2016 - Ragnaros: Concept Design
- ↑ Blizzplanet: BlizzCon 2016 - Ragnaros: Concept Design
External links[ | ]
- Ragnaros Hero Week
- Ragnaros - Heroes of the Storm
- Ragnaros - Wowpedia
- Ragnaros Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
- Ragnaros Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm
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