Abilities, roles and builds with an explanation for every purchase.
HERO GAME PLANI farm and apply pressure with the double while keeping the main hero in a safe position.
A splintered fragment of the same primordial power as the Ancients themselves, Zet the Arc Warden has pledged to see the clash between Radiant and Dire finally end. Assault lone enemies with fluxing energy, or distort space to generate a protective field around allies. Summon a Spark Wraith to patrol an area for enemies to infuse with harmful magic, then create a double of Zet, items and all, to overwhelm your foes.
My recommendation is a starting point. We choose another position together with the team and for its needs.
Levels, lane control and joining the team at the right moment matter.
I need protected farm, my item window and damage on important targets.
This is an editorial starting plan based on hero mechanics. It is not presented as a match I have already tested or a popularity ranking.
Here is my initial plan: I do my role's job first, then choose the items the team needs. I adapt the order and expensive purchases to the opponent.
Provide attack speed and switchable attributes for farming and managing my resources.
Accelerates your economy if you have time. A greedy choice: I first consider the team’s urgent needs.
Speeds up creep clearing and adds attack damage against multiple targets.
Adds an area root to the Maelstrom build path and helps the team follow up on a focused target.
Provides a window for my actions against eligible magical damage and disables. I check effects that pierce the protection.
Boots of Travel ↗Help you quickly move between areas of the map and pressure lanes; you need safe places to arrive.
Scythe of Vyse ↗Provides a strong targeted disable for an important target when a normal slow or silence is not enough.
Bloodthorn ↗Strengthens focus fire on one target; an expensive upgrade path when a regular Orchid is no longer enough.
I do not assign one ‘correct’ minute to every purchase. I look at my gold, the next fight and the problem: am I missing mana, target access, control or protection? If an expensive slot will arrive too late, I get a useful answer earlier.
Original Valve icons and descriptions. Cooldowns and mana are shown by level from the data snapshot; talents and upgrades can change the values.
Infuses a lone enemy unit with swirling, volatile energy, dealing damage over time and slowing the target. The damage is not applied if another enemy unit is near the target.
Infuses a lone enemy unit with swirling, volatile energy, dealing damage over time and slowing the target. The damage is not applied if another enemy unit is near the target.
Flux silences when the target is alone, deals more damage, and lasts longer.
Arc Warden generates a circular distortion field of magnetic energy. The Magnetic Field grants bonus attack speed and protects allied units within it by evading attacks coming from outside the field. The Magnetic Field pulls runes, and runes inside Magnetic Field automatically activate.
Summons a Spark Wraith that slowly materializes and patrols a targeted area until an enemy comes within its range. Once a target has been found the wraith fuses with them, dealing magical damage and slowing the unit.
Briefly concentrating his fragments into a single form, the hero creates a perfect electrical copy of himself whose abilities and items have separate cooldowns.
Briefly refocusing its fractured elements into a single form, the Arc Warden is able to create a perfect electrical duplication of itself. The duplicate can use all of Arc Warden's current items and spells, except most consumables and items that drop on death. The duplicate has separate item and ability cooldowns. The Tempest Double loses its sense of self and fractures over time, becoming slower and less accurate.
On creation, the copy gains the effects of Arcane, Invisibility and Haste runes for 12 sec. Does not grant Runic Infusion bonuses.
These abilities are not necessarily available at the same time. I check the condition beside the name: innate ability, another form or an Aghanim purchase.
Runes of Power fuse to the Self. Arc Warden gains +1.5 all attributes permanently whenever Arc Warden or the Tempest Double activates a Power Rune.
Runes of Power fuse to the Self. Arc Warden gains +1.5 all attributes permanently whenever Arc Warden or the Tempest Double activates a Power Rune.
These are fields from the official source. The hero's final values in the client account for attributes and other active mechanics.
Items, slang and real episodes help connect abilities with what happens in a match.
