Heroes of Newerth 2.6.16 Patch Notes

I will no longer post the Changelog on my website(#), you can check it in game or on the Newerth official forum, from now on I will only comment on the changes. First of all congratulations to S2 for Envy (Parasite Alt avatar), the game mechanics are stunning!

On this patch i would like to highlight The "Iron Rage" bundle, the Magebane and Flux alt avatars are awesome and you can get them with a 20% discount with this pack, Deadwood also got a new avatar "Icy Deadwood" but this will only be released on the 27th August together with the second deadly sin "Sloth" an alt avatar for Armadon.

As far as Hero changes, Bombardier was buffed, so as Magmus attach damage. But the most important change is that now Kraken Ultimate also stuns magic immune units.

Wen it comes to items, only Post Haste was reworked. You can no longer Teleport to allied pets. Sad we can't use Booboo as a port point.

(#)As some of you know and you may have noticed by the lack of adds, HonGuideIt current ad provider(adsense) has declared that HonGuideIt lacks unique and Original Content. I'm trying to fix thisproblem so I'm avoiding any kind of Copy Past from the HoN's Forum and news.

Oogie preview

Next week S2 will be releasing Oogie, an intelligence melee carry (finally!), so far there is few information about the hero and of course testers are now allowed to reveal more(Sorry).

As far as I can say is damage stacks with mana :)

Other things I can tell you are the names of Oogie abilities:

Tar Quake;
Conflagrate;
Kindled Fury;
Primal Surge;

More things i can talk about are the speculations about his abilities, "more damage has less mana he has", "more mana and damage as more trees are around", "extreme low mana/coldown ultimate  that gives damage", "passive ultimate that gives damage acording to your mana pool"... and it goes on and on.

You will need to wait for the spotlight. But I'm sure all carry style players will love it. Oogie + Hellflower = OP.

DDOS Vs Fanatic.Raidcall

What a game so far.. DDOS dropping top raxes at the 20 min mark, but [FNTC]Era with his Magebane is just farming like crazy..

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Well even tough era is on the 350 gpm it is over, DDOS just got bot raxes. Awesome warding job by [DDOS]getviolator. When you ally proper offensive warding with Nynfora's ultimate you simply dominate the game.


GG's dropped at 22 minute, great aggressive plays by DDOS. And those wondering how do you win Vs [FNTC]Era on Magebane, well that is how, aggressive pushing team.

DDOS 1 Vs Fanatic.RaidCall 0

It is a best of 3 so stay tuned to the HonCast ;)

And 2 - 0 for DDOS, Fanatic.RaidCall just gave up on that second game, it is sad so see a Rage Quit at this Level.. [FNTC]Notail, shame on you..

Heroes Of Newerth Legionnaire

Legionnaire is one of the strongest tanks/ initiators / junglers in the game. And also has one of the coolest Alt Avatar in the game "Lumberjack Legio", with the addition of this limited edition "Executioner Legionnaire" its just becomes over-awesome!

As I would like to make a small note, some times(most of them) is not advisable to pop up Barbered Armor as soon as you PK in and use Taunt, it may not be advisable because of all the armor bonus.. but well it all depends on the amount of armor you have put on Legionnaire. Remember that Taunt gives your a 20 armor bonus on level 4, and that Barbed Armor reflects 80% of received damage, if u receive 300 damage and your have already 20 armor you get 20 from taunt that makes 40 Armor, that represents a total of 70.6% Damage Reduction. So out of the 300 damage you only "get"  ~30% that is 90 Damage. Barbered Armor reflects 80% of those 90 damage that is 72 damage that then goes trow your enemy Magic Armor, lets say he has 10 Magic armor that gives a damage reduction of 37,5% so he only gets  45 damage at the end.. Not bad but if you use it after the taunt armor goes off you can get up 20% more damage back, of course you also receive 20% more damage but well unless those 45x3 or x4 kills the enemy you will be getting those additional 20% damage anyway..

Today while talking to my viewers on stream I noticed that most of them have no clue about how Armor works, about how much 1 armor will give you on Damage Reduction.. so tomorrow if i have the time i will make a quit tutorial about how the armor works and how important it is on tanks and over all heroes.

HoN Rally Guide

I found this Rally guide, it is made by Raawrr, the voice is not the best but he goes "all over" the hero, explaining how the skills work, how they synergize, what items to pick, and of course the skills level up order to get the best outcome from Rally.

You don't really need to see all the 15 minutes of the video since the last 5 minutes are some game-plays where you can really see Rally on action (not awesome moves, but well the dude only played Rally for half a day so well.. could be worse).  

Enjoy!

Smite Beta Keys- Giveaway

That is right we have 3 SMITE Closed Beta Keys to Give away!

Two of them will be given to HonGuideIt Facebook Fans, and one to the most creative "slogan"  for HonGuideIt (place it as comment on this page). The winners will be chosen randomly between all facebook fans on 16th August on the end of the day same goes for the best comment.

So like the Facebook page, and set your creativity free! You may join me in some action at this amazing new game ;)

Heroes of Newerth 2.6.14 Patch changes

== New Content ==
- Added a new Valkyrie Alt Avatar: Headhunter Valk
- Added a new Devourer Alt Avatar: Shibo Shinobi
* Released on August 13

- Added New Courier: Hamster Courier
- Added New Tempest Skin: Phantom Tempest
* Released on August 15

- We are introducing a third option for avatars: Skins!
* This new non-premium avatar option will be available at a reduced Gold and Silver cost from the outset!


== General ==

- Lock Pick has been re-enabled as a matchmaking option and should work correctly
- Added new voices for Artesia and Arcannis
- Fixed the buttons for First Pick in Banning Draft and Lock Pick
- Fixed slots being exceeded in public games
- Video driver restarts are now handled correctly
- Fixed skill being still active when you hit the button and then issue an order afterwards
- Increased texture slots, fixes textures sometimes not loading


== Item Balance ==

Blood Chalice
- +50% Mana Regeneration added
- Mana gained decreased from 100 to 85


== Hero Balance ==

Amun-Ra
- Strength gain increased from 2 to 2.5

Drunken Master - Finally Drunken master will be back on the competitive scene..
- Drink : Charges gained increased from 3/6/9/12 to 4/7/10/13
- Drink : Charges expire time increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds
- Stagger : Movement Speed and Attack Damage bonus increased from 15/30/45/60 to 30/40/50/60

Engineer
- Spider Mines : Cooldown decreased from 7 seconds to 3.5 seconds

Martyr
- Sol's Conviction : Amount healed increased from 20/30/40/50% to 35/40/45/50%

Slither
- Starting Intelligence increased from 15 to 16
- Toxin Wards : Vision increased from 600 to 650.
- Poison Burst : Mana cost decreased from 200/300/400 to 175/275/375

Soulstealer
- Soul Burst : Damage is now based off number of souls; 20/30/40 per soul + 150/225/300 static damage within 100 range
* Damage decreases linearly to 0 at max distance. Snare and damage reduction apply with the damage now instead of separately
Latter on i will explain how does the Soulstealer Ultimate works now and the "why" behind the alteration.