Hello peoples of middle earth this is my first time posting something on here and I hope your not to harsh on me for my first time
and I hope you enjoy
So my idea, with the addition of Nori to Erebor we know that it is possible for dwarf hero's to have mithril without the icon saying that they have it, because Nori automatically gets mithril at level 10. So I propose that when hero's receive their mithril they gain an extra ability. I will list my abilities for each hero I don't have pictures of what they could be or if they are even balanced so please bear with me
Lets start with Erebor shall we?
King Dain:His ability would be called "All Hail The King"
Description:
Dain is now king of the lost kingdom of Erebor Allies near Dain are filled with hope that the dwarves will be prosperous once again.
(passive) All dwarves near Dain are healed when out of combat and hero's near Dain gain 30% armor.
Gloin:His ability would be called "Past Adventurer"
Gloin was one of Thorin Oakenshields companions on their adventure to take back Erebor
For a short time hero's near Gloin and filled with excitement that Erebor is back in rightful hands and gain 20% damage to structures and take 30% less damage from projectiles
Gimli:His ability would be called "That Still Only Counts As One!"
Gimli encourages hero's around him to fight harder by calling out to them how many lives he has taken
For a short time all hero's near Gimli gain 30% attack speed and hero's near Gimli abilities recharge 35% faster as well
Thorin III: (E)
With Dain,Throin's father becoming King of Erebor we can assume he left his son in charge of the Iron Hills so his ability would be called "Lord Of The Iron Hills"
Now I have two ideas for this ability
One would be that he would upgrade Dains assembly barracks and allow the Iron Hills units to spawn with heavy armor and banner a carrier for free this is because the lord of the IH would send his men to help Erebor with the best outfitted units available
Second which I highly doubt would be to allow the barracks to train ram riders (I don't have my hopes set high for this one)
This ability would be placed like his runes
Next we shall travel to the Iron Hills
For Iron hills I had three ideas for Dain but since two of them fit in with Murin and Drar I gave it to them instead
Dain II Ironfoot:His ability would be called "To The King!"
Dain Ironfoot looks to inspire his dwarves when there is no hope in sight
Dain selects a (IH) hero to inspire his dwarves. This hero now causes knockback with his melee attacks and dwarves near the hero gain 50%armor for a short time
Murin:His ability would be called "Send In The Goats"
I gave this to Murin because of his "Charge Of The Iron Hills"
Murin sends in the rams of the Iron Hills to run down his foes all rams on the map gain 50%less trample revenge and 30% arrow protection for a short time
Drar: His ability would be called the "Twirly Whirlies"
I gave this to Drar because siege/building destroyer hero and I know the ballista's from botfa isn't in the game but I am working with what I got
so I suggest a ability similar to Gothmogs "Release The Prisoners"
Drar orders his artillery to fire arrow reflecting ammo, for a short time iron hills catapults near Drar deal 50% less damage but units near the catapult are resistant to arrows
Thorin III: (IH)
His ability would be called "Like Father Like Son"
Thorin and Dain fight together as father and son
When Dain and Thorin are near each other Dain gains 30% armor and Throin gains 30% damage (passive)
Now let us venture into the blue mountains
Thorin Oakenshield:
His ability would be called " Will You Follow Me One Last Time?"
Thorin realizes his greedy ways and asks his friends to fight with him one last time
All dwarf hero's near Thorin gain 35% movement and attack speed as well as regaining all their health for a short time
Dwalin:
His ability would be called " Brotherhood Of The Dwarves"
Dwalin is a fierce warrior willing to do anything to protect his kin
For every member of Thorin's company near Dwalin. Dwalin gains 5% Armor (passive)
Bofur:
His ability would be called " Go Bofur Go"
I have no idea if this is at all possible but my idea is that when this is activated Bofur will start riding a giant from the old goblin faction in vanilla bfme2 and once he wants to dismount the giant it would have a chance to turn on him and try to attack him and you could only ever have one at a time
Balin::
his ability would be called " I Am Getting Too Old For This"
Balin rides a battlewagon(or chariot if they are added) into battle and runs down his enemy's
this battlewagon would show Balin driving the battle wagon instead of the normal dwarf who does and have increased health and constantly heals allies close to it
Bilbo:His ability would be called "You Don't Have A Home That's why I Came Back"
Bilbo risks his life to save a company member
For a short time Bilbo choses a hero to risk his life for, the selected hero gains 25% armor while Bilbo gains 25% damage but loses 25 % armor
And that about wraps it up folks I would love to hear what you think about it. I know its not all balanced but I hope you get the idea. maybe by adding a extra ability to the dwarf hero's the team can num down how good they are at the moment but any way I hope it was a good read cheers