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Even though we all probably know by now because of the S2 e-mail notifications, I'll report this anyway.
We all got 3 beta invites!
We all got 3 beta invites!
SEN member or not, get them in the clan
Quadruple, technically.
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Even though we all probably know by now because of the S2 e-mail notifications, I'll report this anyway.
We all got 3 beta invites!
We all got 3 beta invites!
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TassadarZeratul, prepare to be owned by me, as soon as you tell me your email address, so I can send you a beta key. 
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Are you sure about that?
We should kind of list the heroes each person uses, so others can expect what heroes not to practice with, seeing how they will be unavialable during our games. Like, I want Bloodhound, but I think Kevin has got it.
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It's so easy to get a key for this.
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The following is a report of SEN's HoN performance by yours truly.
I am NOT going to discuss anything inside this collapse box here. Because everyone is going to thank me for their praise in The Good and argue with me over their flaws in The Bad, and I'm just not doing it. If you want to read this, and learn a bit about yourself and your team, then do, but if you want to read it and start a fight with me over my personal opinions and observations, save us both the trouble and don't bother.
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I am NOT going to discuss anything inside this collapse box here. Because everyone is going to thank me for their praise in The Good and argue with me over their flaws in The Bad, and I'm just not doing it. If you want to read this, and learn a bit about yourself and your team, then do, but if you want to read it and start a fight with me over my personal opinions and observations, save us both the trouble and don't bother.
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Jesus! You should publish that, it was that long. Excellent points and great post man.
I have to agree with this xD
Also, an addendum: Getting a level over an enemy (from a team push and 2-4 kills) is infinitely better than (at most) 300 gold from a creep wave.
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Choosing when to farm. Holy shit if there was ever a time not to farm you guys have found some of these. If you're using spells with long cooldowns or large mana costs (Tort) to farm, you are lowering your effectiveness when the time comes to defend a lane. If you are not going to have the time to go to base and come back to a lane that needs you, you should not be farming. Farming is for when all three lanes are pushed past the river and the enemy is not posing a direct threat on any lane. It is for when we are ahead in tower count, level, and kills. Which brings me to:
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Lane checking. Every time you die, respawn, enter, or leave the base, you should check the lanes, their towers, and the creeps. I know we are all aware that creeps = $$$ and a large creep wave is like money in the bank. I love them because Pyro is AoE. However, if they are not near a tower, that lane that has 2 enemy heroes pushing in it comes first. We need to start putting teamplay, towers, and rax above getting money. Yes its nice to have money, be farmed, and own, but if we lose our rax while getting it, we're as good as gone.
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I have actually made 600+ gold from large creep waves due to Pyro's AoE spells. However for other heroes that do not have crowd control, or a melee lacking a Runed Axe, it definitely is even less worth it.
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Runed Axe is so difficult with riki, since he doesn't auto attack.
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Madman has to be the most item dependent fuck there is. With just one item, his power increases drastically. And each item makes getting all the other items so much easier. When I can't even build steamboots, I am fucked. I don't think you get that. I also think you underestimate how incredibly weak madman starts out. Actually he's always weak. He is built around getting up to the enemy unnoticed and start butt fucking them and before they can even react, half their hp is missing. He only survives long battles with super fast attacks with life leech.
In team fights, I suppose the best and only thing he can do is what I do, wait around the corner and once the battle initiates, come in from the back and start raping. He definitely can not initiate (except late, late game with uber items). And if the battle is over before it's begun, it really is pointless for me just to die. If our team is dissipating, throwing myself in the middle of 5 heroes will only be a fast death. Before you even have a chance to use it to some advantage, I'll already be dead.
If there's a possibility for me to cause any good, I do throw myself in the battle.
I know my limitations rather well.
When you purposely kill steal someone I'm raping and will definitely kill, you hurt me. It is sometimes too obvious my target will die and your spells are unnecessary. I've intentionally backed off the enemy when someone has dealt 90% of the damage and is going to kill him.
Really? Must be nice.
That is all I have to say
I might try different early item builds and see where I can find a successful early game. Maybe I go back to starting with boots to get in and out of the creep lane for last hits. Maybe a strength relic for extra hp. Maybe even runes of blight, though I try to go straight for hp regeneration for cost effectiveness.
I also think you should try different heroes, especially madman ;o
Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Aug 7 2009, 11:00 pm by isolatedpurity.
In team fights, I suppose the best and only thing he can do is what I do, wait around the corner and once the battle initiates, come in from the back and start raping. He definitely can not initiate (except late, late game with uber items). And if the battle is over before it's begun, it really is pointless for me just to die. If our team is dissipating, throwing myself in the middle of 5 heroes will only be a fast death. Before you even have a chance to use it to some advantage, I'll already be dead.
If there's a possibility for me to cause any good, I do throw myself in the battle.
I know my limitations rather well.
When you purposely kill steal someone I'm raping and will definitely kill, you hurt me. It is sometimes too obvious my target will die and your spells are unnecessary. I've intentionally backed off the enemy when someone has dealt 90% of the damage and is going to kill him.
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I have actually made 600+ gold [in one creep group]
That is all I have to say
I might try different early item builds and see where I can find a successful early game. Maybe I go back to starting with boots to get in and out of the creep lane for last hits. Maybe a strength relic for extra hp. Maybe even runes of blight, though I try to go straight for hp regeneration for cost effectiveness.
I also think you should try different heroes, especially madman ;o
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Madman's definitely the type that requires extensive babysitting to be used early effectively.
Have you tried a different hero? I find like the the ready out of the box type heroes like Night Hound (though he's, in my opinion, one of the more difficult heroes, tactic-wise). I think that you would like Blood Hunter a lot.
I gotta say that NH is prolly my favorite hero. He's not really that well understood by most people, dunno why, but you can use this to create confusion. Plus, placing smoke is an art form. Based on where they are in relation to creeps, you and their situation there are optimal placements. Say, for example, he's running, you want to get as far ahead of him as possible (about half a hero's length in front of your target) and cast it slightly in front of them so that as it unenvelopes, they just start walking into it. It's then that you start attacking from behind. They're faced with a decision. Go back towards NH and face possible further onslaught by others chasing or simply lose ground, or you can keep running forward into the smoke (which on an endgame speed takes about 2-4 seconds to traverse) getting a constant stream of nukes from NH's backstab (deals 1x agility in addition normal attack, essentially 100% crit when attacking from behind as you should gear for all agi vs dmg) all the while silenced.
My item build is almost always the same:
2x Slippers (+3agi)
1x HP Pot
1x Courier
- Game Starts
2x Circlet (+2 all stats)
2x Wraith Band recipe (+1 all stats +extra inventory space. +6agi,+3str/int total)
-- Send Courier to Hero to deliver items
1x Marchers
1x Steam Boots
3x total Wraith Bands
-- By this time, on a good game, I've just hit 6. On a bad game I'm usually halfway through completing my Wraith Bands. If this is the case, I often opt to get marchers before finishing the bands
1x Slash
-- Here, I make a decision based on the enemy lineup. If it's a heavy int build, I go diffusal (Mana burn + castable purge/slow) or if it's more a melee or agi group, I go Hack and make Hack and Slash
1x Butterfly (I can never remember the name for this. This item was made for riki. +30 agi, +30% aspd, +30 damage and +30% dodge. This equates to, including backstab damage, +60 damage and +60% aspd. Rarely do I get this far in a game before winning)
Level 6 is when I start patrolling for ganks. My favorite is when an enemy hero's just finished a creep wave where they took heavy damage. I walk up (while invisible, of course) right behind them and cast cloud and start auto attacking. If t hey have an escape mechanism, they'll likely use it as soon as they're out of the cloud. I blink up to them immediately and usually finish them off by now. +200 gold and more than enough experience to make up for lost lane time (and usually I'm soaking up nearby laning exp too).
My skill build goes:
Blink
Smoke Screen
Blink
Backstab
Blink
Invisibility (lvl 6)
Blink
Backstab (-->max)
Invisibility (lvl 11)
Smoke (-->max)
Stats
Invisibility (lvl 16)
Stats (-->max)
Wow, I practically wrote a freaking guide! xD
Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Aug 7 2009, 2:07 pm by Kow.
Have you tried a different hero? I find like the the ready out of the box type heroes like Night Hound (though he's, in my opinion, one of the more difficult heroes, tactic-wise). I think that you would like Blood Hunter a lot.
I gotta say that NH is prolly my favorite hero. He's not really that well understood by most people, dunno why, but you can use this to create confusion. Plus, placing smoke is an art form. Based on where they are in relation to creeps, you and their situation there are optimal placements. Say, for example, he's running, you want to get as far ahead of him as possible (about half a hero's length in front of your target) and cast it slightly in front of them so that as it unenvelopes, they just start walking into it. It's then that you start attacking from behind. They're faced with a decision. Go back towards NH and face possible further onslaught by others chasing or simply lose ground, or you can keep running forward into the smoke (which on an endgame speed takes about 2-4 seconds to traverse) getting a constant stream of nukes from NH's backstab (deals 1x agility in addition normal attack, essentially 100% crit when attacking from behind as you should gear for all agi vs dmg) all the while silenced.
My item build is almost always the same:
2x Slippers (+3agi)
1x HP Pot
1x Courier
- Game Starts
2x Circlet (+2 all stats)
2x Wraith Band recipe (+1 all stats +extra inventory space. +6agi,+3str/int total)
-- Send Courier to Hero to deliver items
1x Marchers
1x Steam Boots
3x total Wraith Bands
-- By this time, on a good game, I've just hit 6. On a bad game I'm usually halfway through completing my Wraith Bands. If this is the case, I often opt to get marchers before finishing the bands
1x Slash
-- Here, I make a decision based on the enemy lineup. If it's a heavy int build, I go diffusal (Mana burn + castable purge/slow) or if it's more a melee or agi group, I go Hack and make Hack and Slash
1x Butterfly (I can never remember the name for this. This item was made for riki. +30 agi, +30% aspd, +30 damage and +30% dodge. This equates to, including backstab damage, +60 damage and +60% aspd. Rarely do I get this far in a game before winning)
Level 6 is when I start patrolling for ganks. My favorite is when an enemy hero's just finished a creep wave where they took heavy damage. I walk up (while invisible, of course) right behind them and cast cloud and start auto attacking. If t hey have an escape mechanism, they'll likely use it as soon as they're out of the cloud. I blink up to them immediately and usually finish them off by now. +200 gold and more than enough experience to make up for lost lane time (and usually I'm soaking up nearby laning exp too).
My skill build goes:
Blink
Smoke Screen
Blink
Backstab
Blink
Invisibility (lvl 6)
Blink
Backstab (-->max)
Invisibility (lvl 11)
Smoke (-->max)
Stats
Invisibility (lvl 16)
Stats (-->max)
Wow, I practically wrote a freaking guide! xD
Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Aug 7 2009, 2:07 pm by Kow.
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If Ex witnesses how I play he would've prolly put a larger block of text on the bad than on the good 
Anyway, I feel like learning to play a hero I've never played before. Since I don't want to go all the way to inspect each and every hero, might as well ask you guys. I'd like to play something support-oriented but with less buffs and more on the spell casting. Any suggestions?
Anyway, I feel like learning to play a hero I've never played before. Since I don't want to go all the way to inspect each and every hero, might as well ask you guys. I'd like to play something support-oriented but with less buffs and more on the spell casting. Any suggestions?
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Pollywog Priest or Puppet Master
I don't know the Puppet Master's spells that well, but they're nice cc (crowd control) and damage.
With PP, you've got 2 disables. In addition, you've got your ult which puts down a bunch of attacking wards. And your chain lightning farming skill. Your primary item build will consist primarily of mana regen.
I don't know the Puppet Master's spells that well, but they're nice cc (crowd control) and damage.
With PP, you've got 2 disables. In addition, you've got your ult which puts down a bunch of attacking wards. And your chain lightning farming skill. Your primary item build will consist primarily of mana regen.
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Pollywog Priest or Electrician. Their disables are amazing for ganking
I will be playing home once I am fucking home. I am sick of this place and its crappy internet connection, and more than ANYTHING else, sick of 1GB of RAM.
I will be playing home once I am fucking home. I am sick of this place and its crappy internet connection, and more than ANYTHING else, sick of 1GB of RAM.
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Pollywog Priest or Electrician. Their disables are amazing for ganking
I will be playing home once I am fucking home. I am sick of this place and its crappy internet connection, and more than ANYTHING else, sick of 1GB of RAM.
I will be playing home once I am fucking home. I am sick of this place and its crappy internet connection, and more than ANYTHING else, sick of 1GB of RAM.
Blegh, so am I. I think this is the year I finally upgrade.. >_>
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I'm in on this beta. My name is Reflection.
Unfortunately I'm having technical difficulties because whenever I try to open HoN, the line "D3D Create: CreateDevice() failed" appears and the application shuts down. Anyone have some advice as to what I'm doing wrong?
Unfortunately I'm having technical difficulties because whenever I try to open HoN, the line "D3D Create: CreateDevice() failed" appears and the application shuts down. Anyone have some advice as to what I'm doing wrong?
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Are you sure about that?
Kevin linked you to the HoN thread that specified how that error is caused by your graphics card.
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