On January 21 2012 04:26 Manit0u wrote:
I still need a way to figure out how to make HoN not heat up my comp to 90C. Laptops are such a pain in the ass sometimes...

I hate laptop makers they put the most inadequate cooling for gpu's sometimes short of gaming laptops you get shitty crap like essentally passive cooling not even attached to cooper and thermal paste but just on a thermal pad, it's almost like they want the laptop to overheat in a game.

Slakkoo

Sweden1119 Posts

January 21 2012 10:41 GMT

#32324

I have this great urge to play dota, but where do you guys play? :0

Manit0u

Poland17614 Posts

January 21 2012 13:13 GMT

#32325

We play HoN. It's free now, you might just as well give it a shot.

Antimage

Canada1293 Posts

January 23 2012 02:03 GMT

#32326

if anyone is in the 1700s or high 1600s, msg me to play victor909 tell me you're from TL. It's getting frustrating to sometimes get really bad teammates, and it's hard to break the barrier it seems to high 1700s.

Happy honning!

sauman

Australia180 Posts

January 23 2012 02:05 GMT

#32327

been playing a lot of hon recently, if possible could I get an invite to the TL clan? Thanks :D

p.s username in hon = sunshiner

Cool Cat

United States1644 Posts

January 23 2012 02:26 GMT

#32328

On January 23 2012 11:03 Antimage wrote:
if anyone is in the 1700s or high 1600s, msg me to play victor909 tell me you're from TL. It's getting frustrating to sometimes get really bad teammates, and it's hard to break the barrier it seems to high 1700s.

Happy honning!

What makes you think that TL players at a certain MMR are any better than the average player at that MMR? In my experience, TL players actually tend to be worse than average, and seem to be just as liable to rage.

Antimage

Canada1293 Posts

January 23 2012 03:20 GMT

#32329

because with common ground, it's easier to get along with someone and easier to get to know them better. If I look for practice partners, I ask friends and I ask TL.

Manit0u

Poland17614 Posts

January 23 2012 10:48 GMT

#32330

Note to self: Do not play HoN when drunk ever again.

Wishful thinking

FinestHour

United States18466 Posts

January 23 2012 22:47 GMT

#32331

goddamit hellbourne kong advantage too stronk

semantics

10040 Posts

January 24 2012 00:22 GMT

#32332

i hear no rage /ignore add xxxxxx i do it every game

Manit0u

Poland17614 Posts

January 24 2012 08:38 GMT

#32333

On January 24 2012 09:22 semantics wrote:
i hear no rage /ignore add xxxxxx i do it every game

I just stopped looking at the chat and insta-mute all. Life has been so much better ever since.

Boblion

France8043 Posts

January 24 2012 14:31 GMT

#32334

On January 23 2012 19:48 Manit0u wrote:
Note to self: Do not play HoN when drunk ever again.

Wishful thinking

Drunkcius freezing himself ?

Also since i didn't really quit i want to know what are the strong points of soul reaper because really i don't understand, this hero looks like complete garbage to me.

Stats: decent for an int hero but you not gonna carry anyway. The dog and magebane are laughing at you.

Skill1: i guess you can push lanes when it is lvl4 ( lololol )

skill2: -1% health at lvl4 when everyone gets huge regen ? LOL ( or maybe i'm not getting how the spell works :O )

skill3: lol

Ulti: Ok that's actually something decent. Too bad it is only good for ksing and your carry will hate you if you use it.

Ranged 600, that's cool but the animation isn't good.
Speed: average ( 300 if i remember correctly )

So bascily soul reaper seems to be a tanky support with useless skills ( except his ult ) :S

Manit0u

Poland17614 Posts

January 24 2012 16:19 GMT

#32335

He's pretty ok. His Q works a bit like Jera/DS, healing your stuff and damaging enemy. Not huge heal/dmg by any means but works decent in sustained pushes. If you get Astrolabe on him the amount of healing is actually very decent. You can also pair it up with Mock and you get unstoppable push machine with constant healing and AoE dmg. Aura is much better than it seems (it's unbelievable how many kills it can get you at times, that's why you can also toggle it to not steal from the carrys). Notice that aura doesn't reduce healing or anything, it just does 1% of your max hp dmg all the time (which with 1k hp amounts to 10 dmg/sec that's not preventable in any way), during a 30 second team fight it's 300 dmg on each enemy, without you having to do anything except being within 1000 units. The aura also has huge range, I'm not sure if it stops PKs (it should but they made some changes to it, before it would also stop potions). Regaining mana is pretty much only useful when going push build on him as you get access to pretty much unlimited mana even early on (much like Plague). His ult is one of the best in the game, stuns and gets rid of some pesky guys who like to run around at half health (Maliken and Ra come to mind).

He isn't a bad hero in my experience, there just are many heroes that are better at any particular role.

Durak

Canada3685 Posts

January 24 2012 16:28 GMT

#32336

I love SR. He's great at pushing and fun to carry with. I think he's best in a solo lane (mid/short) against certain heroes or in a dual pushing lane (with slither for example).

His real problem was a sub-par animation, terrible ms, and no escapes. Maybe they buffed his ms from 285 or whatever it used to be.

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

January 24 2012 16:30 GMT

#32337

I haven't played in a while, anyone wanna play with me sometime in the next week? Not much going on school-wise for me, probably will have a bit of time for HoN along with SC2. I used to be 1800 about 4-5 months ago, but haven't played much since then.

This Grave Locket thing is really making me want to pull out my Hag again <3

XeliN

United Kingdom1755 Posts

January 24 2012 16:33 GMT

#32338

I'd have thought Genjuro's would be tempting your Puppet

Ethenielle

Norway1006 Posts

January 24 2012 16:34 GMT

#32339

Soul Reaper is absolutely not even remotely tanky without items, so you should never really play him as support. Definitely not a top tier hero, but not garbage either. Very farm dependant hero, but he has QE to do that with so it's not really an issue.

Laning phase you want to skill at least 2pts into skill3 which you laugh at, but if you last hit well it's extreeeeemely good with his Q. It boggles me why you laugh at his skillset because all of them are so very good. If you use ult to KS with then that's not the fault of the skill, much the same way with legionnaires R.

Lategame aura is a monster skill, and with tanky items and your Q you'll be dealing out a ton of damage. He's a good counter to high hp tanky heroes, just not as good/safe as a rangecarry with shieldbreaker which is what you see today.

A few tips to finish off:
Avoid support SR like the plague, it's awful and you WILL feed. If you end up in that role anyway, get lvl 3 in lane and go ancients with lvl 2 aura. Stack.
Play like carry, at least 2 pts in E, build tanky.
Never build sotm because it's shitty as fuck, your ult isn't your main damagdealer, it's your aura.
Skin has a better animation.

Antimage

Canada1293 Posts

January 24 2012 17:24 GMT

#32340

On January 25 2012 01:30 Pokebunny wrote:
I haven't played in a while, anyone wanna play with me sometime in the next week? Not much going on school-wise for me, probably will have a bit of time for HoN along with SC2. I used to be 1800 about 4-5 months ago, but haven't played much since then.

This Grave Locket thing is really making me want to pull out my Hag again <3

haha grave locket is a must on almost every hero in most games. a charge gives +3 to all stats too, ridic