Naiads

This mod was made as part of mod jam 2022, organised by Vandy and Cataph. For the last mod jam before WH3, each modder chose a different prompt from a selection. Mine was ‘Font of Life’, so I made a hero based on river spirits described in lore.

Adds a new forest spirit hero for wood elves. The Naiad.
Recruitable from tier 4 of the forest spirits building (tier 3 for Drycha).
5 variants:

Naiads are reasonably fast ranged heroes. They fire jets of water for magical explosive damage and are decent in melee.
Their abilities include a debuff that lowers both speed and magic resist, making enemies more vulnerable to the water blasts as well as a bound spell version of tidecall.

I didn’t have much time to test them out before the jam deadline, so feedback on stats, abilities and the skill tree are all welcome.

I don’t do those. If any SFO submodder makes one, I’ll link it here.

Naiads share recruit cap with branchwraiths, so use mastervovan’s mod to increase the cap if you want more
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2519997492&searchtext=more+wood+elf+heroes

Big thank you to everyone on the Modding Den [discord.com] who made it possible for me to make this mod. In no particular order, special shoutouts to:

• Vandy for organising another great modding event
• Ole for creating the asset editor tool and helping me with animations
• Phazer, for creating RME editor
• ChaosRobie, for help with shaders and wsmodels
• Meh, for reminding me to sign up for the jam. And for allowing me to use his custom medusa campaign animations. I may not have taken part if he hadn’t also reminded me I’d talked about wanting to make a naiad a year ago

Check out my other wood elf mods here

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