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[Dota 2] Nyx Assassin, Keeper of the Light, and Visage this week, and straight to CM.
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Does this mean when that one guy who always leaves the Co-op leaves, it won't be 4v5 anymore. That would make me pretty happy.
But nothing in this game is on par with the control complexity of an RTS.
They'd better fix carrion swarm.
That's exactly what it means. I watched a game in the test client where two players had left and two of the bots on the other team were just sitting in the fountain doing nothing.
Also, how effective is it to rush RoB and Necrobook? Between W, E, R, RoB (and later Vlad's), it feels like Lycan can seriously buff his minions into a powerful chasing/pushing force... I'm seriously thinking that I should get a Sange (later built into Halberd) to make it easier for my minions to keep hitting my target.
If it can help: People should not play Chen, Bane or Sniper until they have more experience. Chen is obvious, but Bane and Sniper are way, WAY harder than they look like and are very positioning reliant to do well with. If you need more heroes to the list I can always add Invoker, Puck and Lina to the list, the latter mostly because arrrgh her animations
No one.
AHHH they butchered my Brewmaster. Brewmaster is by far my favorite hero and I don't think valve could of done anything that would of made me happy with the port. That being said, the voice work could of been a lot better, should be more like Storm Spirit's, not like a town drunk. The animations aren't as good as the DotA animations as well.
Interestingly, HoN's Sniper and Bane equivalents (along with Moon Queen, who is she in Dota?) were the first heroes I glommed on to, loved, and did well with when I was learning HoN. But you're right, incorrectly utilized Nightmares from Bane can ruin team fights, and underfarmed Snipers are damn near useless by mid-late game.
moon queen = luna in dota
This, but instead of the % damage aura (which was actually Drow Ranger's aura on Moon Queen) she has a + bonus damage aura that also increases her night vision.
He's easy to lane with, beyond his ruthless early game mana costs. But you need to leverage his early game ganking/cc strength before the team phase hits and he becomes worthless. Something new players aren't going to be very good at.
But I tend to see Sniper as a pretty good noob hero to play. Easy as hell to last hit and deny with. Only 1 active skill, that's a nice AOE damage ability, and a pushbutton ult like Zues.
when luna was ported into HoN she still had the %base damage increase aura
I don't really see anything wrong with the way Krob looks, for example. Whats so bad about her? Or Brewmaster? Just that he isn't an actual panda now?
Played a few bot games on him on the test. It's like I never left him. But I need to work on swapping through pandas.
Steam: pandas_gota_gun
There are elements of Nevermore that I don't care for, and I think Enchantress' torso looks a bit too big for her lower body, but I otherwise agree. I think Krob looks great - I love her long, freaky looking arms. And I was as giddy as a little kid when I saw the final model for Brewmaster. He looks so neat!
Brewmaster looks like a half drowned rat with a big stick. His animations aren't even as cool as the ones in wc3, including the split.
Mind = blown.
he can literally push all 3 lanes by himself by warping up, doing march, ulting, and warping to the next lane
...aaaand then I got BKB and armlet and started two-shotting all their support in team fights. Yay Skeleton King!
As I told you in the chat, Lion is a hero the CAPS LOCK LEORIC guide specifically warn you not to face (he's a homosexual mana vampire).
I am going to blow your mind even further:
Tinker ultimate + Scythe of Vyse. Some items don't work with his ult (BKB and refresher orb among them) but this one does, and it's glorious.
I don't know what the Dota2 equivalent is, but adding Manta Style to Tinker with BoTs makes your pushing power even crazier. And in those rare occasions where you port in only to find that another hero is there you just split and rape their mana before porting out, rendering them useless. You don't even have to kill them, which Tinker can't really do 1v1 against anyone with over 2000 hp.
Manta + BoTs + Scythe + Shiva's Tinker = push all lanes. If you're clever with it you can keep pressure on 2 lanes as well as help out the team if your enemy goes for a 5-push, which means that if they keep pushing up 1 lane they will lose 2 rax in exchange.
when the indigo children come
Lion wilts like a wet paper bag if you can get to him. It's just that getting to him can be so damn difficult.