Item Build

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Starting Items



Any combination of these items is good for early game. 

My personal favorite starting items are the following : 



The reasons why these items are my favorite is because you're pretty tanky early game against any type of damage, the damage is quite good for last hitting and you've got plenty of HP regen with 1 Tango kit and 1 Salve.

But when jungling, you need one of the 2 following combos :



or



As you can see, there's either 2 Stout Shields or a Stout Shield and a Ring of Protection. The reason is without at least 2 of these protective items, the neutrals are gonna hurt you more than you can heal with Feast, resulting in the embarrassing situation often seen by my mates :

Another reason for this happening was that I use choke point jungling. So have 2 Stout Shields or a Stout Shield and a Ring of Protection, and you'll have eliminated a cause for receiving the Rise of the Noobs award !


Because your Army Group has support units (heroes), a supply truck (courier) should be available so you have at least the following inventory : 



The STR Power Treads are the obvious boots of choice because it gives survivability, and the IAS has a wonderful synergy with Feast. As a side note, abuse from stats manipulation with Power Treads ; if you need to regenerate some HP/mana, put it in Agility to get more from your Tangoes/Salves/Magic Wand. Magic Wand is a great item for the burst HP regen. TP scroll is mandatory for surviving/ganking/farming in a free lane.



VI. Core Build

This is the Core Build you should have : 



Plus one of the following : 



BCT and AIT are finished, Soldier, you and your TD crew can now hunt enemy tanks (carries and support heroes are also possible targets). Armlet of Mordiggian is here to make you tankier and significantly boosts your DPS. Hyperstone is for the wonderful synergy with Feast (DPS and self-healing) and because it upgrades into Mjollnir or Assault Cuirass, 2 great items on the TD. Note that if you plan on getting MjollnirAND Assault Cuirass, you can get the 2 Hyperstones before upgrading them, as it's a very cost-effective solution as shown later.

Urn of Shadows, Medallion of Courage and Ring of Basilius all serve one purpose ; to help you keep enough mana for a kill. Depending on your playstyle and the current in-game situation, choose which item fits best your needs.

WTF WHERE IS THAT STYGIAN DESOLATOR ? NOT IN THE CORE. Indeed, as I'll prove a bit later, Stygian Desolator is bested by at least 2 other items (hint : They're based on an Hyperstone...). 

WTF WHERE IS THAT KELEN'S DAGGER ? NOT IN THE CORE. Indeed, as I'll prove a bit later, the real question is whether you get a Kelen's Dagger OR an Hyperstone, and what counts isn't getting instantly or not at the enemy, it's in a given time and depending on the reaction possibilities (stun, blink, running away, etc.) of the enemy, what kills him the fastest. Also remember question 5), and you'll see that you don't necessarily need Kelen's Dagger for maximum efficiency.



VII. Situational Items

VIII. Luxury Items

Besides your standard M82 APC-T (Armor Piercing Capped-Tracer) projectiles, Ordnance Department can supply you additional materiel : 




Improved training allows your crew to fire shells much faster at the enemy, with 25% of the shells being M71 HE for AOE effects. Additional MG mounts (Static Charge) allows you to defend yourself on some attacks.

Definitely the best item for the TD in most cases and on par with the following item in the other cases. If you plan to get Mjollnir, you can skip the Hyperstone to get Maelstrom first for pushing purposes, faster jungling or simply faster farming. If you see an enemy farming a Radiance, get Mjollnir so he can taste Static Charge !





Widespread distribution of T30E16 HVAP-T (Hypervelocity Armor Piercing-Tracer) through your TD platoon improves armor penetration. At the same time, your dedicated training with your TD platoon boosts its firing rate. And your security-concerned attitude about your whole TD platoon makes you order all the crews to add appliqué armor for enhanced protection.





Your TD crew has the chance of getting a few T33 AP-T shots, the best you can get for piercing armor.

Although Stygian Desolator makes every hit hurt a lot, it's not as good as the 2 previous items for 4 reasons ; the self-healing isn't as good because there's no IAS, and the time needed to kill someone isn't as good because of the very nature of N'aix, whose Feast is the equivalent of such great damage, though variable, that it emphasizes on IAS and not that much on damage. The -armor debuff is only useful to your team at the conditions that you hit one enemy with it, AND your team wants to hit that enemy, 2 conditions that are absolutely not needed with Assault Cuirass/Medallion of Courage. Finally, it's an orb effect and buff placer, meaning you can't use Orb of Venom. The only advantage Stygian gives is a faster tower-razing, as it now reduces the buildings' armor.





M71 HE on every shot for greater AOE effect.

This item should be considered if Mjollnir alone doesn't do the job of clearing tight enemy groups. Don't forget that the cleave doesn't care about the armor value.





Enhanced training and brand new sights provides you a higher probability to achieve mobility and firepower kills, which can lead to catastrophic kills.

This item is the best option for dealing with carries, as they most of the time have a Black King Bar, being therefore near-invulnerable to spells, and rely on lifesteal and their DPS to keep them alive. Frequent bashes thanks to Rage and the core items lead to a drastic reduction in their DPS, and therefore their survivability. It also raises your team's survivability significantly as a side effect. 





Improved camouflage give the enemy a hard time estimating your position, making them miss some of their shots.

This is the item you should get if you don't go for an Assault Cuirass, as it's the best item for survival against physical damage, as proved below :

For the DPS side, Butterfly can be superior to Assault Cuirass depending on how much damage you deal and the enemy's armor. Check Malle's wonderful armor reduction/damage amplification, found in EcceLex's Slardar guide if you want to calculate a bit. Of course, if someone else on your team is already wearing an Assault Cuirass, Butterfly is superior to Assault Cuirass for the DPS.

Note that if no one gets Assault Cuirass, it's better that you get it for the sake of the team. 

Another note about Butterfly ; the Talisman of Evasion only costs 1800 gold and already grants you an impressive +25% Evasion. It is not always necessary to complete Butterfly immediately, as it "only" grants you an additional +30 damage, +30 Agility, +30 Attack Speed and +5% Evasion. The 4200 gold you've saved can be reinvested somewhere else (Battlefury costs only 4350 gold, Stygian 4400 gold, Maelstrom 2700 gold, etc.)





If the enemy uses camouflage to evade your incoming shots, a new set of higher-power binoculars and your excellent gunner's eyes will prove them that every of your shots hits the mark !





A fresh new gun barrel makes your shots more accurate, giving you a high probability to hit a critically weak spot on the enemy tank.

This item should be considered only very late in the game, as raw damage (The Critical Strike can be considered as additional raw damage.) gets effective only after you have a pretty high IAS on N'aix.





In order to win the war once and for all, you've been supplied secret experimental ammo, that's highly effective against all kinds of targets. Its power is so great that if it were to fall into hostile hands, reverse engineering would allow them to use it against you !

That's the kind of "5-6th inventory slot" item you can consider, because once you've got a very high IAS, +250 damage will make more bang for the buck than more IAS. 


 

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