That's all part of the strategy, not abuse.

When the Pest casts Vitaliugum on someone, any health lost for one unit will be health lost for the other. Likewise, any health gained by one will be gained by the other. Yes, the Pest could cast Vitaliugum on a hero and then intentionally lose a ton of health, but that puts the Pest at risk.

One of my favorite planned strategies for the Pest is to cast Vitaliugum on an allied unit who is returning to base to heal. Since the linked hero is gaining health, the Pest will gain health as well. It'd be as if the Pest were at the base healing while being in the heat of combat.

wow these little tricks are making me want to play so badly.

This does, however, potentially open the Pest and his ally to a double PK if either one is hit with some really powerful spell. If I were you, I'd be -REALLY- careful when using it.

Precisely.

We've made a decision to do non-regenerating roots killable individually and do the percent damage reduction mechanic for armor.

Excellent. This is truly pushing StarCraft mapping to the absolute limit.

Amazing :0

I think the roots should be partial regenerating. Either, each root could only regenerate like %20 of it hp from it's current state (i.e. root has 38/100 hp, it will only regenerate to 58/100 hp)— or, each root could only regenerate when past a certain threshold of maybe 20-25% (i.e. the root can only regenerate up to a max of 20/100 hp when injured to below 20 hp)

Name = Tree Siege

There are four words that cannot exist in the title (in no particular order):
Temple
Siege
Hero
Sanctuary

Aeon of Donuts. Do it.

If it's a successor to Aeon of Strife, I find that "Scions of Strife" or "Standards of Strife" sound good. Moreover, they are symmetrical names and what can be more beautiful than symmetry?

Name it "Yggdrasill: Tree of Genesis" >:O

Or or, how about: ZynAOStor?
Anyways, nice to see that the map is progressing. Wish I could say the same about mine...

Arbor Incursio

Latin for Tree Assault.

He made Oblivion .

How about Amaranthine. Eternally beautiful and unfading; everlasting.

I'm going to support Arbor Incursio for the name, with Amaranthine as a close second.
Those are all really cool words actually... I'm gonna to try to use it in my English Essay now.

Io Mechanic:
Lifesteal goes through your armor rather than your target's, enforcing a fine balance between lifesteal and armor.

The official equation is this:
[HealthGained] = [AttackDamage] * [1-(your)%DamageReduction] * [%Lifesteal].

Makes more sense to be your target's armor no?