Overview

Fashioned by a forgotten haemomancer eons ago,
the Blood Chalice drains one’s vitality and converts it to pure magical energy.
Only the audacious soul dare make this contract!

Cost:  875

(Equivalent to Dota’s Soul Ring)

Passive Bonuses

+3 HP Regeneration Per Second

+70% Mana Regeneration

Activation

Self

Type: Superior Magic

On use removes 150 heath and grants 150 mana

Requirements

Scarab (325)

Trinket of Restoration (350)

Blood Chalice recipe (200)

On use, removes 150 health and grants 150 mana.
One second after use, the bonus mana will begin being draining away over the next 10 seconds.
Only the bonus mana initially gained can be drained and the drain is dispelled as soon as it is used up.

Usage Guide

Blood Chalice is essentially a half-price Ring of Sorcery that only gives mana to your hero, instead of also to your nearby teammates like Ring of Sorcery does.  While Blood Chalice removes your hit points, remember that its passive +3HP per second regeneration will nearly heal all of that up in the 35 seconds it takes to cool down (35*3 = 105 HP, more than 2/3 of the 150 you lost by activating it), so this is not as major an inconvenience as it may initially seem.

With this in mind, consider using Blood Chalice on Strength heroes that like to spam spells but don’t have the mana recovery to do so without an item. Blood Chalice is a cheaper alternative to Ring of Sorcery and a similar alternative to Bottle that would be good in the type of situation, for example, where you are not leaving your lane enough to control runes, or one or more of your teammates already have Bottles and are using them to control runes.

It can also decent on Int heroes with high early-game mana requirements, but be wary of taking a 150 hit point drop on these already fragile heroes.  Consider getting it on heroes that have a self-healing nuke like Soul Reaper and Succubus, so that they can inherantly cancel the hit point loss when they use the mana from Blood Chalice’s activation.  For this reason, Blood Chalice can even be good on Blood Hunter, a mana-challenged hero that has an easy way to regenerate health (by last hitting).

Specific heroes that benefit from getting Blood Chalice:

• Jeraziah
• Behemoth
• Blacksmith
• Balphagore
• Keeper of the Forest
• Accursed
• Soul Reaper
• Succubus
• Tempest
• Blood Hunter

Tags: blood chalice, HoN, item guide

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