Played a few games as Visage lately. Really cool hero but hard as hell to play effectively with the ultimate. I noticed it really bothers me how much gold people get if they can kill my familiars (100 each); it makes me play overly cautious with them. Kinda sucks that if I want to go in with my
summons for a risky kill, I give up a hero kill's worth of gold if they die. They don't have much health to begin with either!
I keep looking over at the Invoker summons who have twice as much HP, do decent sustained damage, are on a very low cooldown, and give half as much gold (if actually killed and not run away/resummoned), and it makes me think the bounty on the gargoyles should be reduced a bit. I know you can't compare them very fairly, and the Visage familiars are clearly superior, but that bounty is always hanging over my head.
Soul assumption is sweet though, especially early-mid game. The range on that spell is awesome.