Official Heroes of Newerth Thread

[Scarth]

Waitwhat? In the test patch I assume? I wants screenie :o

[Skyve]

My Internet connection is sucking these days. Ragequitted twice today, lost about 5 games. Taking a break from this really stressing game >.>

[Skyve]

Patch 1.66 OFFICIAL RELEASE ELECTRICIAN,ZEPHYR?BANNED PICK AKA CM MODE?YES SIR

Spoiler!

- Banning Pick
* 3 bans per team, done by captains. Then alternates everyone picking their own heroes out of the remaining choices.
* 60s total extra time is given per team. Time is subtracted from your extra time when the normal countdown has reached 0. If the extra time reaches 0, a random choice is made.

- Attack abilities (Webbed Shot) and attack toggles (Harkon's Blade) now override attack modifiers (Frostwolf, etc)
- Building invulnerability now provides 9999 Magic Armor as well as the Physical Armor
- When a player buys back, it now uses the following calculation: Cost = 100 + Level * Level * 1.5 + GameTimeInMinutes * 15
- If you make any illusions/images (as with the rune or Geometer's) while having Steamboots they will no longer have less health
- Kongor has Treewalking naturally now. Kongor is not stopped by trees.
- Certain abilities were hitting runes that should not have
- Couriers will no longer aggro creeps, even when standing still
- Now the new neutrals vary their walk and idles, instead of acting in sync
- Fixed tooltip status effect information sometime being incorrect
- Fix combat type tooltip when multi-selecting units
- Fix so all forms of 'sheep' cancel an invibility spell if it's still in the fade time
- Fix for bottling a powerup twice in a single frame

- Bajillidan spelling corrections +1
- New game tips
- Fix cooldowns on spectator tooltips
- Updated french stringtables, thanks to Magissia
- Credit card purchasing now works ingame if you have not pre-purchased already

- Implemented 2 mods into the game
* Added a button to the top left hero picture that will share a courier with your whole team in a single click. Thread 69704 by Barter
* Clicking the Game Hint box while loading the game will display another random tip. Thread 71071 by Ignorance

Items

- Nullstone loses 5 seconds of cooldown time anytime an ability would be blocked but Nullstone is still in cooldown
- Can now disassemble Hellflower
- Frostwolf now using % based attackspeed slow instead of negative attack speed for stronger scaling late game
- Puzzlebox changed to 2 initial stock with 9 max stock, 10 minute respawn on each charge
- Ring of Sorcery will now only hit units with mana
- Fixed the sound stacking on Plated Greaves

- The following auras can now be toggled on and off
* Mock of Brilliance's damage aura


Heroes

- The following auras can now be toggled on and off
* Soul Reaper's Withering Presence
* Magebane's Master of the Mantra
* Kraken's Tidal Pull
* Soulstealer's Dread
- Tweaks to Maliken, Pharaoh, Magmus, Legionnaire, and Ophelia animations

Blacksmith
- Magic Armor reduction lowered to -1,-2,-3,-4 from -2,-3,-4,-5

Blood Hunter
- Blood Crazy is now just an unremovable debuff
- Proportions changed slightly

Chronos
- Time Leap now also does 50,100,150,200 Magic damage on impact
- Rewind reworked
* When damaged, Chronos has a 10,15,20,25% chance to heal back the damage at a rate of up to 25% of his maximum health per second
- Time Freeze renamed to Curse of Ages
* Steals 1/2/3/4 Agility per hit, debuff lasts 10 seconds. Each debuff is individually timed
* Four consecutive hits on the same target will lock that target in time (stun) for 1 second
* While someone is stunned by Curse of Ages, Chronos can not build charges towards another stun or steal any agility
* Does not stack with Brutalizer
* No longer propagates to illusions
- Chronosphere
* Allies can now move and cast while inside, but everything they do is reduced by 90% speed (MS, AS, CS)
* With Staff of the Master, the slow is reduced from 90% to 80%

Corrupted Disciple
- Fixed Overload so it applies -1 armor on the first impact

Deadwood
- Voice
- Base armor lowered to 1.24 from 4.24
- Int gain lowered to 1.5 from 1.9
- Rotten Grasp range changed to 1300 from 1500
- Slow from throwing a log now decreases linearly
- Fixed a bug when log was purged. It now takes away all the charges on the ability as well
- Trees killed by Clearcutting now have a cool new death
- Fixed an issue with Willowmaker preventing knocked down heroes from standing back up automatically

Demented Shaman
- Attack Range to 550 from 600
- Storm Cloud now applies a charge instantly when used

Devourer
- Slow from Decay now lasts an additional 2 seconds after someone leaves the area

Electrician
- Static Grip
* No longer does AOE damage but now deals 20,40,60,80 Magic damage per second to the primary target
* When Static Grip ends on a unit, its idle animations now play instead of it being frozen
- Electric Shield
* Shield now has a 12,24,36,48 Magic DPS 300 aura around the electrician while on
* Requires 20% mana to activate
- Energy Absorption
* Instant cast time
* Now does 85,165,225,300 magic damage and Electrician gains 50 Movespeed as long as he hits something with it
* No longer giving armor or magic armor
* Still gives mana at the same rate
- Cleansing Shock
* Cooldown lowered to 14,12,10
* Deals 600 Magic damage to enemy summoned units
* Cast time lowered to 100ms (from 300)
* Now Staff of the Master compatible. Chains to 2 additional targets
* If the target is a hero, it will only bounce to other heroes of the same faction
* If the target is a non-hero, it will bounce to the closest units (heroes or non-heroes) of the same faction

Engineer
- Tinker now also passively lowers the base attack time of the Turret by 15,20,25,30%
- Tinker now increases the damage of the Turret correctly

Forsaken Archer
- Base strength lowered to 17 from 18
- Strength growth lowered to 1.7 from 1.9
- Skeletons now have 20 health at all levels
- Skeletons do not propagate to illusions

Hellbringer
- Chain count lowered to 0,1,2,3 from 1,2,3,4

Jeraziah
- Protective Charm duration set to 5,8,11,14 seconds from 5,10,15,20
- Righteous Strike's slow duration set to 2,3,4,5 seconds from 5 at all levels

Keeper of the Forest
- If an enemy hero comes within a 300 radius of Keeper's Eyes, the eye will be made visible to that hero's team
- Camouflage now plays the spell visual effect on the correct target now when cast on allies
- Root effects now play even if he is stealthed when casting
- Can now turn while immobilized by Root

Madman
- Stalk's slow debuff is now only applied to Madman if he fails to do damage to enemy heroes for the duration. If Stalk is canceled prematurely (via attacking or using an ability), the slow debuff will also not be applied

Magebane
- Base strength lowered to 16 from 20

Magmus
- Voice

Night Hound
- Can no longer attack allied units when he stands in his Smoke Bomb
- Can no longer pounce on Couriers

Nymphora
- Grace of the Nymph can now only be cast on ally units with mana

Pandamonium
- Manacost of Flick increased to 85 from 65
- Tightened up damage range to 48-57 from 45-60

Pharaoh
- Finally fixed him randomly getting stuck in his mummies. Pharaohs rejoice!

Plague Rider
- Cursed Shield will no longer apply the slow to melee heroes who cast spells on whoever has the shield on them
- Cursed Shield cooldown increased to 10 from 5

Pollywog Priest
- Movement speed increased to 290 from 285

Puppetmaster
- Base strength lowered to 18 from 19
- Agi gain lowered to 1.5 from 1.7
- Int gain increased to 3.1 from 2.9
- AOE of Whiplash lowered to 150 from 200

Pyromancer
- Leveling Fervor now also grants all of your abilities and attacks the power to put a burning fire DoT on anyone hit
* Every time you hit someone with a spell or attack them, it refreshes the duration of the DoT and adds a charge. 1,2,3,4 Magic damage per second per charge, 3 second duration

Sand Wraith
- Desert's Curse's slow will no longer go through magic immunity
- Lowered the duration of the movespeed and treewalking buff if off of a Desert's Curse path to 3 seconds (from 4)

Scout
- Detonate will now refresh the cooldown when you lay a new eye
- Nullstone will now properly block Marksman Shot

Tempest
- Catman Leader and Vagabond Leader can no longer be transfigured

Valkyrie
- Javelin of Light sound radius lowered so enemies you throw it at won't hear it unless they are close
- Valkyrie's Prism cooldown to 120 from 160
- Valkyrie's Prism manacost to 100,150,200 from 200,250,300

Voodoo
- Mojo Mana cost decreased to 95,105,115,125 from 105,115,125,145
- Mojo cooldown decreased by 4 seconds at all levels

Witch Slayer
- Drain can now only target units that have mana

Zephyr
- Base int lowered to 15 from 19
- Int gain lowered to 1.8 from 1.9
- Leap removed, replaced with Gust
* Manacost is 120 at all levels
* Target a position and click/drag the mouse in a any direction to release the gust of wind from the point you click in the direction the mouse is dragged
* Enemies in the cone are pushed in the direction specified, stunned for 1 second and dealt 75,125,175,250 Magic damage
- Cyclones reworked
* No longer has a cool down
* No longer restores mana
* Manacost removed
* When a cyclone expires naturally, it automatically heals Zephyr for 15 health
* On use, consumes one cyclone instantly, healing for 30 health
* When consuming, automatically consumes the oldest cyclone first
- Wind Shield
* Now a passive and will now apply its buff to Zephyr for 3 seconds after a successful attack
* Chance on both evasion and redirection lowered to 6,9,12,15%
* Grants Zephyr 10% movement speed while active
- Wind Control renamed to Typhoon
* Cool down is now 100 seconds (from 120)
* Mana cost stays the same (100, 150, 200)
* 500 unit cast range
* Grants clearvision and kills trees in a 600 radius of the target location
* Summons a Typhoon at the target location for 6,8,10 seconds
* Typhoon itself has a 60 unit radius in the center and a winds radius of 550 units.
* Slows enemies based on distance from the center (99% slow at the center [100 movespeed], 0% at the outer edge of effect)
* Deals damage based on distance from the center. Up to 60,90,120 Magic damage per second with a linear dropoff. Max damage done if standing in the center.
* When cast, the maximum number of cyclones are spawned around Zephyr (based on the level of Cyclones)
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Oh Shaxe,they fixed F6 bug

[CrimsonNuker]

Pollywog Priest is a bastard hero.

[Skyve]

Pollywog Priest is a bastard hero.

Grip + Ult combo is deadly

Btw,(judging from your screenshot) you do know you can open up the "colored bars" under your allies portrait(BardUI) to show up their skills and cooldown,right?

[bakafish]

Did they just patch?

[Scarth]

I played the new zephyr a few hours ago in 1 game. He requires some more skill now, but once you get a HotBL, he's pretty much an invaluable asset to the team, being able to push heroes into your team, and then raping them with your superior AoE dmg.

[CrimsonNuker]

Pollywog Priest is a bastard hero.

Grip + Ult combo is deadly

Btw,(judging from your screenshot) you do know you can open up the "colored bars" under your allies portrait(BardUI) to show up their skills and cooldown,right?

SO THATS WHAT THOSE COLORED BARS MEANT!

I thought they meant the player's ping

[destructionmama]

The new patch buffed up ele and Zeph so much, more to ele, so tank. and the dps damage from the shield is insane, gonna play ele again. Man they're making the S2 exclusive heroes so strong.. its kinda too op in my opinion.

Had a game with behe and every time he ports in to ult he gets kill by zeph in like 3 hits, then ele comes in the cleaning shock everyone = gg

[Skyve]

Pollywog Priest is a bastard hero.

Grip + Ult combo is deadly

Btw,(judging from your screenshot) you do know you can open up the "colored bars" under your allies portrait(BardUI) to show up their skills and cooldown,right?

SO THATS WHAT THOSE COLORED BARS MEANT!

I thought they meant the player's ping

LOL NOOB!

Did they just patch?

Yup and F6 is fixed

I played the new zephyr a few hours ago in 1 game. He requires some more skill now, but once you get a HotBL, he's pretty much an invaluable asset to the team, being able to push heroes into your team, and then raping them with your superior AoE dmg.

I'd find it hard to do the vector targetting in a "hardcore situation",the stress would be too big for me to managed to aim the arrows and all.

The new patch buffed up ele and Zeph so much, more to ele, so tank. and the dps damage from the shield is insane, gonna play ele again. Man they're making the S2 exclusive heroes so strong.. its kinda too op in my opinion.

Had a game with behe and every time he ports in to ult he gets kill by zeph in like 3 hits, then ele comes in the cleaning shock everyone = gg

Meh it isn't always S2 Heroes, everyone gets their momments to shine and then they go down.(Ex: Scout and Engineer)

[Mirosuke]

The new patch buffed up ele and Zeph so much, more to ele, so tank. and the dps damage from the shield is insane, gonna play ele again. Man they're making the S2 exclusive heroes so strong.. its kinda too op in my opinion.

Had a game with behe and every time he ports in to ult he gets kill by zeph in like 3 hits, then ele comes in the cleaning shock everyone = gg

QQ

Well S2 are making those heroes who went from useless to OP. No wonder!

[Skyve]

On the HoN forums theres 3 really interesting threads. Each thread is a poll on which hero S2 should port next by "types".(AGI,INT,STR).

Although I didn't play DotA much I voted.

Invoker for INT.
Phantom Lancer for AGI.
Dragon Knight for STR.

[bakafish]

They need to port Nessaj.

[0l3n]

They need to port Nessaj.

They need to port Phantom Lancer, that guy was AWSOME!

[Skyve]

Message from a mod(S2Maliken) about the broken F6...

"There is a fix going in the game for this. However, I am willing to guarantee when you see how we decided to fix it, you'll be SUPER suprised!! "
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Went 8-1 with Slither Makes a noob like me so happy

[Scarth]

Broken F6? Wuzzat?

[CrimsonNuker]

I just had the best game ever.

My team:
Electrician (me)
Magmus
Pyro
Witch Slayer
Swift Blade

Their team:
Night Hound
Tempest
Predator
Forsaken
Kraken

We got a bound eye during late game and we must have made this NH rage like mad (we had him stunned for like 20 seconds every time we saw him).

[Skyve]

I just had the best game ever.

My team:
Electrician (me)
Magmus
Pyro
Witch Slayer
Swift Blade

Their team:
Night Hound
Tempest
Predator
Forsaken
Kraken

We got a bound eye during late game and we must have made this NH rage like mad (we had him stunned for like 20 seconds every time we saw him).

Get on, I wanna secure 1600 + with people I actually know

[Miguez]

Port Phantom Lancer, love that guy.

[Skyve]

Port Phantom Lancer, love that guy.

Played him at my friends house (he only have DotA), I love the spell where he throws a spear and when it hits,it makes a copy =).

[Scarth]

61st Hero Concept.

Spoiler!

OH
MY
GOD.
(L)

[CrimsonNuker]

I just got out of a game where my and my friend just griefed the whole time, funniest shit ever seeing these kids rage.

[Skyve]

61st Hero Concept.

Spoiler!

OH
MY
GOD.
(L)

Was gonna post that,HES A FREAKING BALLER Too bad they didn't mention if he was a Port or new concept I say Pit Lord or Doom if he's a port

[MasterKojito]

WTF is it ment to be? Why does it have a dick for a tail

[Skyve]

Rumors are its either Forgefiend (a fan suggested hero) or Doombringer(DotA). Anyways Im guessing he's gonna have some kind of
"belly suicide" spell.

[Skyve]

>> Wrong post to wrong thread<<

[Scarth]

Yeah, I read those, but judging the belly, I doubt it's Forgefiend, read Nome's thread. The belly is off.
I SO hope it's doombringer/Pitlord
That'd be awesome

[Skyve]

Yeah, I read those, but judging the belly, I doubt it's Forgefiend, read Nome's thread. The belly is off.
I SO hope it's doombringer/Pitlord
That'd be awesome

Whats their spells?

- Guy that played DotA 5-10 games.

[Scarth]

http://web.dota-allstars.com/heroes/2880
Doom Bringer

http://web.dota-allstars.com/heroes/2935
Pit Lord

But looking at their skills now, they don't seem all that logical. Maybe this will just be another S2 original, but we'll see.

[piootr]

I'm getting better now =D.

Started at 1500, went down to 1200 and now I'm back at 1500 and rising.