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philosopher's stone is a great bet as long as you get it early.
are you assuming that you never sell it back? ^_^
Omgwtfbbq. There is so much changing >_<Zileas said:
it IS nice
Agreed. I played only Warwick for a long time. If you've got a great 4 man team + you, your jungling really helps them with getting gold and levels, so early game if they don't die your entire team is super leveled. Once you get your bloodrazor and attack speed and lifesteal, you're the best 1v1 hero in the game. Unfortunately, all you can do is try to catch people as they leave the base to help their teammates. It works sometimes, but everyone now has Flash or a getaway move that really makes it hard for warwick to do his thing. He's the best in the game at killing weakened opponents due to his blood scent thing, and his universal attack speed buff is good.... but he's basically worthless in a team fight. Too low of HP to tank, not enough lifesteal to survive, and his moves all do crap damage.
mana regen is vital for supports (and tanks since they have very little mana to begin with, and their stuns and things cost a great amount of mana at lower levels); you talk like carries are the only thing needed for a team-based game.
well, it's a closed beta, first of all... and it's in quite the infancy, seeing that it's only on version 0.1.56. When new things come out, they generally are "OP" or garbage, and so they do this thing called patching, where they fix those problematic mehcanics. Patches come out generally once a week or so. And these new heroes that come out are, most of the time, direct hero ports, with exact damage, durations, cooldowns, etc. Only reason why a hero can be broken in HoN is because it's Maliken or because the development team is obsessed with porting carries over, without porting over the ability to counter them effectively.
They don't do a very good job of mentioning to people that its NOT in beta anymore. Technically its already launched, although there are enough bugs/missing features to make you think otherwise. They are actively working on it though, and its slowly improving.
Thats the exact reason why HoN isn't nearly as good as LoL in my opinion. I think porting DotA exactly as it was is a garbage idea. I don't believe the DotA formula is strong enough to stand on its own as an independent game, and why would they not want to make changes to the game when they develop their own engine? I just don't get it.
I wholeheartedly agree that the best rune setups are completely dependent on champions, but you have to look at this first from the standpoint of those with limited IP to spend. What kind of rune book would be best for every champ? Given just how ability-focused LoL is, I would have to argue that CD reduction is the best universal rune page to get. Although once we get into higher levels of play, we'll have to customize rune pages per champion we play or else we'll get slaughtered.
trying to get back into DotA right now, actually, just waiting on my friends that are better at it to be able to play at a time that i'm available... though i've been waiting for well over a month for them to be able to.... and lemme play some in-houses with y'all so i can see how it requires as much teamwork as DotA, or the L4D series even.