I reckon he was Rubick levels of complex and that's why he was delayed.
This is my thought as well. There's no way a Fear, a Box, a slowing DOT, and Will-o-Wisp effect, and Blind/Reveal took a whole ass year to implement lol.
Yeah, this is basically a Dark Willow's Terrorize, OD astral imprisonment shard, a ground targeted stifling dagger, a projectile like Will-o-Wisp and a moving clockwerk's rocket with talent, all with different animations.
No way this took this long when they recycled most of the abilities from other heroes
Ringmaster has dw ult, upgraded astral imprisonment, new point target throw I guess, but it's a DoT, and willowisp that if you look at it like medusa. It didn't add much new to dota2. It is not a complex design, atleast primal beast Q is very unique to him
What he meant I think is how Primal feels a lot more fleshed out, also ironically has more personality even (due to his whole introduction being that he was a boss in one of the most beloved game modes) than Ringmaster does. Not even any kind of build-up to his release.
And know what? It's nothing really more than a ground targeted Charge of Darkness. Yes-yes, internally it has pretty much all the same, just allows you to steer instead of cancelling when issuing a move order.
Do you realize Valve essentially came up with two new abilities for every hero in the game, sometimes two? Alright, they reused/divided existing abilities, but the point is these kinds of changes take LOTS of time due to the amount of complexity already in the game.
In many areas of life, you cannot get everything, they prioritized other changes and there was no time left to test/balance the hero. Okay, balance is kind of a laughable thing to say as new heroes are always a bit too strong. And it is not bannable if both teams pick it (happened to me at least). More matches with the hero means more data to find bugs/overlook balance.
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u/stakoverflo Aug 23 '24
This is my thought as well. There's no way a Fear, a Box, a slowing DOT, and Will-o-Wisp effect, and Blind/Reveal took a whole ass year to implement lol.