User blog comment:Nearthel/Maraad, the Hammer of the Light/@comment-1330314-20161005080644/@comment-5235176-20161005174131


 * Passive: I kept the Holy damage because I don't think it's that "less clean" as you say. It just means that you can't build against him as you would do against any other champion, health is good against him as he doesn't have any % health damage. I like the idea of forcing him to build hybrid, so I changed this part of that passive (I know that it didn't add much to gameplay) to something similar to Vladimir passive.
 * Q: Riot talks a lot about "Windows of Opportunity". This is the idea behind this ability. When playing against Maraad, you should fight him while he doesn't have 3 Holy Power, and retreat while he has. I added a slow to the ability, though, as I agree that it doesn't feel like a good ability.
 * W: The DoT is exatly what Consecration does in WoW. Of course, I didn't want just a DoT, so I thought about lots of things to do to enemies standing on it, but finally I decided that I liked more the idea of empowering him. Enemies still don't want to fight in the consecrated ground as Maraad could easily fight 1v2 there.
 * E: I took your idea of the Hand of Freedom effect. Consecration already empowered his Q, so I thought implementing that effect only while standing on the Consecration was a good idea.
 * R: Done.