I think it's kind of cool at least. Cool to see people coming together for the sake of a competitive videogame. Makes me think back to all my old clans/guilds from various games and what it'd be like if there was a huge tournament for those that allowed us all to get together and practice/hang out in one place haha. I used to be competitive in Guild Wars GvG, and I know that if my team from that all got invited to a giant huge money GW2 beta tournament at some event it'd be one of the coolest things ever. :p
On August 10 2011 18:22 roofs wrote: Also about the whole HoN->DotA 2 thing.... hmm. I was initially under the impression that DotA 2 would absolutely destroy HoN's playerbase, especially with that tournament announcement and all the vocal pessimistic people in the HoN community complaining and threatening to switch.
But earlier today, after watching a bunch of HoN streams and inhouses, it seems like the HoN players who were able to get DotA 2 beta invites actually prefer HoN better (one of them was Kebap I think, also H4nni refused to play DotA 2).
So.... I'm a bit iffy now. Was totally under the impression that DotA 2's game quality would wreck HoN and LoL to the point of unanimous switching (similar to a majority of RTS players -> SC2), but now not too sure given that a (single yeah I know...) pro player actually prefers HoN better. Even though it's still in beta.... if they're planning to have a tournament on it, I can safely assume it has most of its features down.
sidenote: klops seriously? just do a quick google search of "chu8". you'll find that he was able to get to #1/2 within 2 months of playing.
Well, the last dota showmatch h4nni was in he raged about puck's hotkeys and got completely raped (something like 0-5 by the 10 minute mark). So I think he's still a little bitter. (Specifically I think he said fuck dota because in hon bubbles (puck port) shell surf skill can be ported to with q, and cast with q while in dota illusory orb has 2 separate hotkeys. Sure, you can blame the first death on this, but feeding 4 more?).
Also, I think kebap is on a dota team currently, and begged someone to stay and be their captain after they lost puppey (I'm really not that informed about euro dota, this was off one gg.net article I skimmed through a week ago). So he's not playing hon right now anyways.
There was a poll in the hon competitive forum and 85% of the readers of the forum said they would be going to dota 2. (This included the s2-approved moderators of the competitive forum, and some high profile players such as jah` and likely some significant others).
No he wasn't. You're confusing him with Chaox. I don't ever remember seeing him above 1900. He was probly just fine but he didn't get dat ratin.
I remember hearing this from 10-15 fairly reliable sources, that Chu had reached #1 rank on some lol ladder. I also heard that he lost it about 10 hours later, but still. I don't really think it's a particularly noteworthy accomplishment, as solo queue/ladder is fairly meaningless in both games. (Note that this was probably in may or june, a long time ago)
Hey what is the big deal about number 6. I have not played Dota in a number of years and that just seemed like a farmed Naix killed some silly morphling?
Hey what is the big deal about number 6. I have not played Dota in a number of years and that just seemed like a farmed Naix killed some silly morphling?
I won't rewatch the video since it'll take ages (DLing), but from what I recall it was a fat naix killing 2 of sentinel and on his way out morphling tried to avenge his teammates except he was too weak so naix chased morphling off slightly then walked away and turned off armlet which reduces his hp. Morphling being the dumbass that he is waveforms into an obvious bait and naix turns his armlet back on for the increased hp and rapes the morphling who's like 'wut'
Hey what is the big deal about number 6. I have not played Dota in a number of years and that just seemed like a farmed Naix killed some silly morphling?
I won't rewatch the video since it'll take ages (DLing), but from what I recall it was a fat naix killing 2 of sentinel and on his way out morphling tried to avenge his teammates except he was too weak so naix chased morphling off slightly then walked away and turned off armlet which reduces his hp. Morphling being the dumbass that he is waveforms into an obvious bait and naix turns his armlet back on for the increased hp and rapes the morphling who's like 'wut'
Not very impressed with this volume
yeah pretty sure it was just the bashluck at the start + good armlet use.
Wasn't the best video but had one or two well timed moves in it.
On August 10 2011 17:41 how2TL wrote: Can anyone explain to me how runes are fair?
The way I understand it, someone who has bought a full rune page can have exactly the same character as you except their version has +30% IAS, better crit chance, etc.
Point is everyone has these runes at level 30 (player level effects things like how many runes+masteries, 30 is max) and everyone who plays competitively has proper sets. So everyone ends up with the same buffs pretty much and so no one has an advantage at the top level.
LoL only really makes sense to talk about/play at level 30, you are missing out on so much until you get there.
Hey what is the big deal about number 6. I have not played Dota in a number of years and that just seemed like a farmed Naix killed some silly morphling?
One of the worst I've seen. Number one was sick though, even though it appeared he was owning the other team his dmg didn't seem that high but he dodged SO MANY SKILLS. The windrunner and spectre clip also made me go wow.
On August 11 2011 03:00 Crimson wrote: HoN adding magic penetration and magic damage lifesteal with rhapsody....
I thought this was HoN not LoL.
Wtf do you think spellshards/Harkons is? Where have you been. As for magic lifesteal, it's a hero mechanic not something everyone can have afaik. Got any more irrelevant complaints?
On August 11 2011 03:00 Crimson wrote: HoN adding magic penetration and magic damage lifesteal with rhapsody....
I thought this was HoN not LoL.
Wtf do you think spellshards/Harkons is? Where have you been. As for magic lifesteal, it's a hero mechanic not something everyone can have afaik. Got any more irrelevant complaints?
Yup. At level 4 of Arcane Hymm Rhapsody gets 4 magic penetration as an aura. That is a free level 2 spell shards and only one less than harkons.
On August 11 2011 03:00 Crimson wrote: HoN adding magic penetration and magic damage lifesteal with rhapsody....
I thought this was HoN not LoL.
Wtf do you think spellshards/Harkons is? Where have you been. As for magic lifesteal, it's a hero mechanic not something everyone can have afaik. Got any more irrelevant complaints?
Yup. At level 4 of Arcane Hymm Rhapsody gets 4 magic penetration as an aura. That is a free level 2 spell shards and only one less than harkons.
It's nice to talk to friendly people though.
So... it's like Soulstealer's aura but for magic? I'm not suprised, it just continues Hon's push towards wanting a more viable late game for magic dmg. Soon there's gonna be a -mgc armor team. Bsmith, Rhapsody, etcetcetc
Edit: And if you want to talk to friendly people don't sit there and imply with snide comments that Hon is becoming LoL b/c they're trying out magic pen shit when magic pen has been in Hon since Harkons.
On August 11 2011 01:20 hideo wrote: Is gg.net's kebap the same kebap that was active in HoN?
Yes. He's Tompa v2 - Germanic Version.
Tompa must have had some defining characteristic for you to say that - can you elaborate?
Both played on good teams despite character short comings (raging and flaming) and both were large sized. Kebap came on after Tompa left the scene though.
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