[QUOTE="QQabitmoar"][QUOTE="SKaREO"]Okay, so I've been experimenting with a few different item builds for the Lifestealer and this one is ridiculously strong. Feel free to copy/paste this to notepad and use it in one of your games. It's a very aggressive build meant for ganking enemies in lanes and jungling. Basically it works with Armlet of Mordiggian and Mask of Madness, using Blink Dagger to teleport on top of enemies, or to get away from danger quickly. You gain so much life and deal massive damage in a short period of time, a lot of times you can gank 2 at once after you have the Mask of Madness. [spoiler] Lifestealer - Maddening Rage Start 1 Tango 1 Clarity 1 Gauntlets 1 Stout Shield 375 gp Bracer 500 gp Boots 500 gp Gloves of Haste 450 gp Power Treads 450 gp Blades of Attack 500 gp Gloves of Haste 950 gp Helm of Iron Will 700 gp Armlet of Mordiggian 900 gp Morbid Mask 1000 gp Mask of Madness 2150 gp Blink Dagger 2150 gp Sange 2150 gp Yasha [/spoiler] SKaREO
With Naix, you want to start with a qb and a stout shield and one set of tangos, jungle your way to a midas and one set of gloves, if done right, you should have those at around 8.30~9.00, then start farming ancient camps and the large camp if on Sentinel, or keep jungling normally on the Scourge, building your way to Armlet+Treads+Basher.
Generally, having both armlet and madness on the same hero isn't recommended. Losing hp per second due to armlet, and taking extra damage from madness is never a good idea. Plus, Stygian or Maeltrom are mushc better orbs for Naix, his own life steal and ulti are more than enough to keep him alive.
I think you should try it before you knock it. I actually just added Soul Ring after Mask of Madness and it is devastating. Mask of Madness is truly ridiculous with Lifestealer, the 30% increased damage taken really makes no difference when you're ganking, you can just use the ultimate to quickly regain health mid fight too. I'll look into using the basher, it's a good one. Going Sange into Heaven's Halbred is pretty awesome too!I used to do sange and yasha or hablerd on naix in DotA 1....then i figured out that, s&y costs as much as a deso does, and with armlet+deso I can 3-4shot most supports and devastate anything else. Nowadays I just jungle till I have midas/treads/armlet/basher, which I usually get around 21~23 minutes, and by that point Naix is unstoppable. From that point onwards, anything is viable, and I can see the logic behind madness, but again, later on dagger should provide mobility and midas+rage already provide enough atk spd...
That said, going phase boots into armlet into madness could be viable for a lane naix, but if you have the unlimited jungle farm, the 'usual' build is just more efficient.
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