DotA Guide: Purist Thunderwrath - The Omniknight Introduction

DotA aka Defense of the Ancients remains one of the most popular custom made maps for Warcraft III. To allow players a better understanding of this complex and sometimes intricate game here is a hero guide.

The Omniknight is a strength hero that can be recruited at the Sentinel tavern. Purist Thuderwrath is a certified support hero and a great one at that. His mere presence in a clash can turn tides in favor of his allies.

The mightPurist has a quite formidable story: "A former member of the Order of the Silver Hand, Purist has joined the Sentinel to avenge the death of the Order's leader, Uther the Lightbringer.

Trained by Uther himself in the ways of the Paladin, Purist brings the power of the Holy Light to the battlefield. He can purify the souls of allies, harming any nearby Scourge in the process.

Able to protect allies from harmful unholy magic, the mere presence of a man of the Holy Light atrophies any nearby enemies. In times of dire need, Purist can call upon God himself to protect him and his allies."

His magic abilities are quite awesome: a heal and pseudo nuke that can change the outcome of any battle. An aura that can literally slow an enemy to a crawl. Lastly a superb ultimate that grants every ally around him near invulnerability status for seven whole seconds.

- Purification (shortkey R): Instantly heals a friendly unit and damages all nearby enemy units within a 250 AOE. The cooldown remains at 12 seconds while the heal/damage increases with every level: 90/180/270/360 hit points.

- Repel (shortkey E): Creates a powerful divine ward that blocks all magic from affecting a target unit that lasts 6/8/10/12 seconds. This spell removes most effects from the target when cast, including Guardian Angel.

- Degen Aura (shortkey D): Greatly degenerates the movement and attacking capabilities of units that stray too near with 7/14/21/28%.

- Guardian Angel (shortkey G): Grants all nearby friendly units near physical invulnerability and increases hit point regeneration greatly. It lasts 5/7/9 seconds. This will affects even allies with magic immunity. When activated it will also grant +1000 Armor and +25 hp/sec regeneration.

  This hero performs various task quite well: support, tank, initiate, nuke, gang, carry, disable. As far as items go, there are a lot of choices. Among them should be: life steal, Battle Fury and something with a lot of mana regeneration.

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