The majority of the time, I can't carry because my support can't manage to support: they would never harass, never heal, never target the right person, steal creeps, auto-attack and push the lane, feed, rambo in, or similar.

FaZ, any comments on SW? Especially on the hardness of SW, compared to other heavy carries e.g. Arachna, DL, MB, SB. Let's throw in Pesti, SS, and FA too.

SW IMO definitely needs some buffs to match up to the current metagame. Did some reading and play-testing, and I'd definitely say that Deserted needs a buff of sorts. Might be any combination or single buff of does not count creeps, affects creeps, increased damage. Desert Curse could use a rescale to either be a better farming tool or a better ganking tool (small buff on personal MS boost, maybe). Dissipate has a huge bundle of counters, and I think that a slight buff to the magic damage amount could serve him well. Stat boosts, in base damage and base STR, could give him a slightly easier time laning.

Either a variety of small, tiny buffs to SW or a slew of tiny nerfs to the majority of ranged Heroes. 'Cause the game and lineups are pretty much stacked against SW.
Considering all of the crazy animations, MSs, damage, etc. on ranged Heroes, the majority of melee are left behind, as you have said.

EDIT:
I'm really tired right now. I probably said some pretty stupid things that I don't actually want.
Core idea is that SW needs a slightly better early game. Primary focus of buffs on Hero's stats, as opposed to skills. Skill-wise, if we increased the effectiveness of Curse by boosting the MS bonus or decreasing the mana cost, that could work. Maybe, change Deserted such that it's procurement conditions are more lenient, e.g. damage is merely reduced by increase number of enemies, or it does not count creeps, or it deals 5/10/15/20 True when creeps are around and additional +1/3/5/7% if nothing is around (so LVL4 with nothing around, 20 True + 7% of base attack damage, True), or it can work on creeps.

Oh.. duhhh runed axe I thought you meant Hatchet, haha, thats what happens when you don't get any sleep for 36 hours. Yes runed axe attacks heroes and in DotA people bought two and even three of them for Kunkka.

Congratulations on having the 1666th post in the HoN thread.

Another thing all the HoN haters neglect is the fact that HoN is going to have a MAP EDITOR SDK which is another thing LoL won't have.

I'm glad kount aka ETEFT is actually good unlike many other SEN players. He may be the next Neki.

Can he play valk?

If not, then he's not the next neki. BTW, where has ultimo been lately? I haven't seen him at all.

Version 0.2.74
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General

- Report a player added
* This is a VERY rough state, interface and more are still being tweaked/worked on

- Gave Vulture Lord's second ability an icon (means the aura no longer displays a black and white checkerboard)
- Tons of tool tip updates and fixes
- Stores will no longer remove the 'can buy from me' state if you or a courier goes invulnerable
- Decreased in-game font size slightly
- If a player has modified their resources0.s2z file, then they will be disconnected when they try to connect to a game
- Fixed a mac/linux crash
- Fixed issue preventing players from selecting a potential hero during the banning phase.
- Disconnected players will no longer random when it becomes their turn to pick, unless they run out of time.
* Disconnected players are not allowed to use "extra time" in BP mode (if it is their turn, and they are disconnected, then they will pick their potential hero or a random hero)
- Added a new message when the courier is killed by a non-hero unit, it will now show a minimap ping along with the appropriate game message indicating which team the courier was killed by
- Fixed an issue in duplicate hero mode where if two players had the same hero "potentially" selected, only one would get it and the other would random
- Misc server optimizations to improve stability
- News is hidden when choosing to follow a player
- The client will no longer display a message indicating the player will get a leave for disconnecting if they are in a replay or a practice game


Items
- New Item: Blood Chalice (Initiation)

- Puzzlebox Minions will no longer be able to attack towers unless the owner is within 700 units of them
- Geometer's bane now applies the 0.1 seconds of invulnerability to the illusions that spawn, in addition to the hero that uses it
- Fixed a bug causing Astrolabe to be able to affect a target twice in short succession if the target was purged
- Frostfield Plate can no longer be used by Couriers
- Whispering Helm can no longer be used by Couriers
- Ground courier can now be attacked by towers/well

Bottle
- Fixed it so when you have illusion bottled and use it, the illusions still don't have it bottled!
- Double Damage will now correctly last 45 seconds instead of 30 seconds when used out of a bottle

Loggers Hatchet
- No longer works on splash damage


Heroes

- New Legion Strength hero, Gladiator, based off DotA's Kunkka
* Note: No sounds or voice yet

Balphagore
- Balphagore's third ability will no longer consume gadgets. Nom nom nom.
- Hell on Newerth
* Cast time removed
* Expanding ring now 'sticks' on Balphagore as he moves and expands to max distance 300ms faster

Behemoth
- Shockwave will no longer hit couriers

Bubbles
- When toggled on, Take Cover will now automatically be used if the source of damage is owned by an enemy hero (enemy pets/gadgets will trigger it)

Blacksmith
- Fixed an issue causing Frenzy multicast to not apply to the correct number of targets (usually one less than it should)

Chipper
- Players are now deny-able if they are burning from the Tar + Rocket combo

Chronos
- Time Leap
* Damage removed
* Manacost lowered from 135 to 120
- Curse of Ages
* Buff/Debuff time lowered from 10s to 8.5s
* Agi steal increased from 1/1/2/3 to 1/2/3/4 per hit

Devourer
- Devour now reveals any target bit for the duration

Engineer
- Turret reworked
* Changed to a vector targetting ability to decide the direction it is facing
* No longer controllable and only lasts 6 seconds
* No longer gets a copy of Engineer's items
* Lays down suppressive cover fire in a cone shooting 6 times across the cone's 800 range, 400 unit spread, 30 shots total
* Each bullet deals 25/40/55/70 Physical damage and applyes a 7% stacking movespeed snare (5s duration) to the first target it hits
* Can only be hit by a max of 5 bullets
- Energy Field
* Will no longer hit couriers
* Duration lowered from 6/9/12 to 6/8/10
* Hits to kill lowered from 5 to 4

Forsaken Archer
- Crippling Volley
* Ministun removed
* Radius lowered from 225 to 200
* Damage done increased from 85/140/195/250 to 85/150/215/280

Fayde
- Lowered movement speed from 305 to 300
- Charges from Scythe/Shadow Stance lowered from 2/3/4/5 and 1/2/3/4
- Reflection
* Movespeed while stealthed rebalanced from 10/20/30% to 10/15/20%
* Duration rebalanced from 30/35/40 to 20/35/50

Gauntlet
- Partially Reworked (See forum post)

Legionnaire
- Int gain increased from 1.6 to 1.9
- Terrify
* Cast time removed (0.6 -> 0)
* Now grants vision of the target for the duration of the charge
* Now reveals target for the duration of the charge

Madman
- Barrel Roll
* Stun removed
* Applies a 30/37/44/50% snare for 3.5s
* Damage increased from 100/150/200/250 to 100/160/220/280

Pebbles
- Can no longer throw invisible units

Puppetmaster
- Puppeteer's Hold
* Fixed a rare bug causing Puppet Strings' floating handles to never disappear
* "Snare" effect while under the effect halved from 155 force to 80 force
* Negative Attackspeed removed
* Cast point sped up from 500ms to 300ms

Rampage
- Completely reworked (See forum post)

Slither
- Wards will no longer apply their movement speed slow when they miss

Soul Reaper
- Demonic Execution will no longer be usable on couriers

Soulstealer
- Demon Hand now has a better indicator to its actual radius

Tempest
- Purge should now affect tempest's elementals after they split

Vindicator
- Glyph of Silence will properly silence heroes that go invulnerable during casts (Magmus, Madman, etc)

Wildsoul
- Illusions will properly copy themselves when he is under the effects of Bear Form

War Best
- Illusions will properly copy themselves when he is under the effects of Metamorphosis
- Wolf minions will no longer be able to attack towers unless Warbeast is within 700 units of them

Zephyr
- Gust
* Stun Removed
* Damage increased from 75,125,175,250 to 75,150,225,300