Being a Team Player
This means do your fucking job. If you are a support hero your job is to support your carries and not use your nukes to take up all the last hit’s on the creeps. Get wards. Buy items like an Astrolabe, or a sheep stick and help your team win. I’ll explain this later in the roles section but just do your job and be there in all the team fights if you can be.

The early game is the most important part of the game!
The first fifteen minutes are probably the most important of the game. In this part of the game you should be doing everything you can to stay in lane, last hit creeps, harass enemy heroes, watching your back, not dying, and not making any mistakes. This doesn’t mean play like a cautious bitch though, you need to know when to take opportunity. Example: You see an enemy hero with low HP but he will make it back to the tower before you can finish him off but you WILL finish him off in the tower, but you might die. This is OK. At Early levels as long as you kill him and get the experience for his death you can die between levels one and four and you will come out as the victor even if you die to the tower after.

Know Your Role

Support – back up the team, get wards, help win.

Disablers
Your job is to throw stuns and disables to help your team. You need to use your skills to effectively shut down enemy heroes. Heroes like this are Pollywog Priest, Witch Slayer, and Glacius. Clutch support players can win a game more times than a pro hard carry can. Your job is to back up and babysit your carries early game and help them kill the enemy during the entire game. You can effectifly turn a 5v5 into a 3v5 if you play right.

Healers
These support players will throw heals and buff ally heroes so that they have more survivability.  Jereziah, Accursed, and Nymphora are all examples of this category of hero. You need to babysit your lane mate during the early part of the game and back up your team during the rest of the game.

Carry - deal damage and kill enemy heroes.

Hard Carry
These carry heroes are heroes like Scout and Stealth Assassin that can rip through enemy heroes like a hot knife through butter at the end of the game. Your number one job is not to die. You want to farm like mad early game and if you can sneak in some hero kills then that would be amazing but if not, you need to just work to be be strong and have a really good item like a Savage Mace on scout at about 25-30 minutes.

Nuke Carry
These are heroes like Thunderbringer, Pyromancer, and Witch Slayer. These heroes are really good solo middle heroes but they are also really good lane partners, except Thunderbringer.  Your main job on these heroes is to rape early game hard enough that you are over leveled during mid game (15-30 minutes) so that you can gank the other lanes and help your team win. You won’t be good enough to instant kill anyone anymore after like 45 minutes unless you are squatting all over the enemy team and stopping them from leveling or making money but you will still be useful in team fights.

Strength Carry
Heroes like Maliken, Hammerstorm, Panda, or Kraken. In the hands of an experienced player these heroes are devastating. In the hands of an average player they are just another body on the team that can throw a stun or slow.  Kraken for example, has one of the most powerful ultimates in the game so if you get a blink dagger you can start all fights whenever you want to and you can kill 2 or 3 enemy heroes before their teammates can do anything. These heroes need to have a strong early game, buy effective items that give them some survivability, and then work on ganking the enemy during the middle of the game.

Tank - direct damage to yourself so your allies don’t die.

Meat Shield
The tank is the easiest role to understand, you need to get lots of armor and hp and after you get those items you can start to get some damage items that help your team to kill the enemy hero faster. These are heroes like Legionnaire, Devourer, and Armadon. You can normally take these heroes and tank them out so they have high survivability and they will be VERY hard to kill and very useful to your team. Your job is to start fights and take the damage that the weaker heroes can’t survive.

A grain of salt
Take the role list with a grain of salt because when you are good enough you can fulfill multiple roles with any hero. For example Legionnaire can tank and carry the game because he does so much damage. When you are that good you wont need to read articles like this anymore though.

Survive
If you die in one hit then you aren’t any use to your team. Get a shaman’s headdress if you die to nukes, a Shrunken Head if you are getting disabled, some fortified bracelets if you get killed early game. Always have a way to regenerate your life early game! Do this and you will set yourself up to win the rest of the game.

Last Hit Already!
Do you sit there and auto-attack and hope that you are getting the last hit on a creep or do you deliberately dance around in the back if you are a ranged hero or right next to the creeps if you are a melee hero and wait to swoop in at the last second and secure the last hit?

I hope you do the second part. Last hitting allows you to control you lane much more effectively. Because you are last hitting and not auto attacking, the enemy creeps die slower and it allows for your creeps to die faster, which allows for the enemy creeps to push into your lane making it easier for you to farm, and safer too! It is safer because you don’t have to worry about over extending yourself and getting ganked from the back.

When you are last hitting, make sure you are last hitting your own creeps with Attack+Click when they get low enough hp to deny, under 30%. Use the ingame health bar viewer to see the creeps health by pressing ‘.

Wrap Up
The only thing I have left to say in this article is to Play Smart! Work as a Team! Once you do this you will start to win more and more games, but remember it is a team game and you above all need a team that will help you to win, do remember that you are part of that team though and you need to help them to win too.

Gameplay
Gameplay in HoN is generally much faster than in DotA. The first few levels take some time, not too long, but once you hit level 5 you can really plough through the levels and max out at 25 in about 40 minutes as opposed to the 60+ minutes of DotA. I think that this is mostly because of the hero imbalance right now in HoN and this will probably change as people get better and develop better ways to work together.

Pub-stomping in HoN is quite rampant right now and not because people actually try to do it but because so many people with no DotA experience jump in to the no noobs games and try to play with people who have been playing dota for the last 4-5 years. This should go away with time but once your Kill:Death ratio gets over 2 people don’t want to play with you unless they are a 5 man team because they are so worried about their stats.

Maps
There are currently only two maps in HoN, one that is a copy of an older DotA map, you will notice some of the more secret paths are missing. There is a completely new map that people don’t really play but I don’t know why because it is really quite good and it keeps some variety in the game, which was one of DotA’s main problems once you played it for a long time. There is also another map in the pipeline that should come out very soon.

Community
Right now, the community for HoN kinda sucks. It is hard out there for a new player because people really don’t want to help you out, they expect you to know how to play and they want to win. The elitism from the DotA community is running rampant through the HoN community but it should improve as soon as more people start to play the game.

The VOIP in the game allows for people to communicate much better then they could in DotA, I only wish you could talk trash to the enemy in your lane! I still prefer ventrilo but the in-game voice works very well.

Game Latency
Until recently, gameplay latency was the area that HoN completely and utterly destroyed DotA. But with the popularity of HoN’s beta increasing and there being nearly 8000 users on at all times with nearly 15000 during peak times, the offsite hosted solution that HoN has opted to use versus Battle.net’s dedicated user host system has started to show its vulnerability to mass use. The past games that had virtually no delay have begun to slow down and skip with some delay. I full expect this to be fixed in the next patch or before the game comes out though, so I am not worried because I saw how majestic it was a week or so ago. Hell, it is still quite good during the day time too!

I plan on writing a lot more about HoN as soon as I get some more time and I will post some screen shots and videos as soon as the NDA loosens up a little bit. If you can’t wait to get in on the action, then ask for a beta invite in the comments, if you can prove you have DotA experience it will be even better for you!

Here are some things you should know about Listchecker and the new Battle.net now:

1. Listchecker drops games you host after 2-3 minutes, so you must constantly use the /hostbnet command and keep your game active.
2. Maphacking in custom games will get you banned by Battle.net just like in ladder games now.
3. TDA bots have had their feature set reduced by the Battle.net changes but they should be fixed sometime in the near future

That’s all you need to know,  just keep playing and bear with everyone.

Buying Gold:
I have bought gold two times from Guy4Game and both times I have received delivery in under 24 hours. The only thing you need to know about buying gold from Guy4Game is that you need to get online with their chat associates after you place your order so that you can speed up the delivery process. They deliver in two ways: (1) Direct Trade – they directly trade you the gold you paid for and then you are done & (2) Bank Withdraw – they invite you to a guild and you have to withdraw your money out of the bank. I don’t like the bank withdraw method because there is an easy to find log of bank transactions that anyone can see, even other gold buyers (people on your sever) and if they don’t like you they could report you! I wouldn’t worry about this because that means they are  buying gold too and they can’t really report you.

Powerleveling:
I ordered powerleving to finish my account from level 75-80 and they said it would take about three days. Their levelers were so efficent that they made it in a day an a half. They also quest to level and they leave money on your account from leveling! This was the major selling point because for the 5 levels they leveld my character they left over 3000 gold on him! The price is higher than other compnies but the quality is well worth it.

Final Verdict:
Guy4Game is a great company and I will continue to use them with all my personal orders! They offer prompt service, speak great English, and offer great customer retention programs! I would give Guy4Game a 9/10 and would recommend them to anyone! Go buy some stuff!

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I am pleased to say for Blizzard and the 11+ million subscribers out there, that WoW is so solid that I don’t think it will be going anywhere anytime soon, even with the bad graphics compared to Warhammer and Age of Conan. There are somethings, such as play-abliity and gameplay, that you just have and WoW has both of them.

So far Leveling in Northrend has been fun, the zones are Huge and there are over 130 quests in each of the first two zones that you can start in. The leveling doesn’t take too long and if you are going at a leisurely rate you could probably still pull a level a day.

From the hour or so I spent of my Death Knight I will have to say that I am diggin it to the fullest.

This expansion pack actually feels like an expansion pack to me and not just a content patch that we had to pay for like TBC did. I can’t wait to get to 80 and start raiding again because that is my favorite part of the game, as a rogue I do love the competitiveness involved in maintaining your raid spot.

Do you play WoW? Excited for the Expansion? What’s your favorite part of the game? If you have any thoughts / ideas about WoW post a comment and let us know!

Lyrics

Red one
Convict
Gaga (oh, yeah)

I’ve had a little bit too much
All of the people start to rush. Start to rush by.
How does he twist the dance?
Can’t find my drink oh man.
Where are my keys, I lost my phone.
What’s go-ing out on the floor?
I love this record baby, but I can’t see straight anymore.
Keep it cool what’s the name of this club?
I can’t remember but it’s alright, alright.

Chorus:
Just dance. Gunna be okay.
Da-da-doo-doo
Just dance. Spin that record babe.
Da-da-doo-doo
Just dance. Gunna be okay.
Duh-duh-duh
Dance. Dance. Dance. Ju-ju-ju-just dance.

Wish I could shut my playboy mouth.
How’d I turn my shirt inside out? Inside out babe.
Control your poison babe
Roses have thorns they say.
And we’re all gettin’ hosed tonight.
What’s go-ing out on the floor?
I love this record baby, but I can’t see straight anymore.
Keep it cool what’s the name of this club?
I can’t remember but it’s alright, alright.

Chorus

When I come through on the dance floor checkin out that catalogue.
Can’t believe my eyes so many women without a flaw.
And I ain’t gonn’ give it up, steady tryna pick it up like the car
I’ma hit it, I’ma hit it and flex until the til done until tomorr’ yeah.
Shawty I can see that you got so much energy,
The way you twirling up them hips round and round
There’s no reason, I know why you can’t leave here with me
In the meantime stand, let me watch you break it down and …

Dance. Gunna be okay.
Da-da-doo-doo
Just dance. Spin that record babe.
Da-da-doo-doo
Just dance. Gunna be okay.
Da-da-doo-doo
Just dance. Spin that record babe.
Da-da-doo-doo
Just dance. Gunna be okay.
Duh-duh-duh
Dance. Dance. Dance. Ju-just dance

I’m psychotic synchypnotic
I got my blue burners and phonic
I’m psychotic synchypnotic
I got my brand electronic
I’m psychotic synchypnotic
I got my blue burners and phonic
I’m psychotic synchypnotic
I got my brand electronic

Go. Use your muscle carve it out work and hustle
I got it, just stay close enough to get it
Go slow. Drive it, clean it like so clean it’s been molesto,
(I got it)
and your popped coll’
(I got it)

Just Dance. Gunna be okay.
Da-da-doo-doo Just dance. Spin that record babe.
Da-da-doo-doo
Just dance. Gunna be okay.
Da-da-doo-doo
Just dance. Spin that record babe.
Da-da-doo-doo
Just dance. Gunna be okay.
Duh-duh-duh
Dance. Dance. Dance. Ju-just dance

New Modes

There are 2 new modes in COD5, War and Capture the Flag. We all know what Capture the Flag is so I won’t say anything else about it. War is a great new mode. It is inspired by the Battlefield franchise in my opinion and it consists on the two sides taking a series of flags. You have to capture the flags in order and as you capture the flags you build momentum, if you are stopped you can lose momentum and even have the tides of battle shift on you!

Vehicles

Another cue from the Battlefield franchise are vehicles, there are tanks in the game which is a nice new touch. The tanks aren’t really overpowered as you would think because they are slow, the turret speed is slow, the rate of fire is slow, and there are a ton of counters for a tank.

You also have vehicle perk which allows for you to improve one aspect of the tank, say you don’t like the turret speed you can use the perk that increases the turret speed rotation.

Gameplay/speed

The gameplay in COD5 is a little more team orientated than COD4. It feels that you kind of have to work as a team most of the time to do anything because of how balanced the guns are compared to COD4 where most people used the same guns.

The friends feature is nice and kind of eliminates the need for X-Fire when you are playing COD now. It is still a little rough and could use a little bit more of an UI overhaul, but it is a good start.

Conclusions

COD5 is a fun game that excells in many of the areas that COD4 was weak in. Treyarch took a great game by Infinity Ward and just made it better in most areas. They could have shown a little more creativity with gun attatchments and done the bouncing betty differently (they are rediculously overpowered in their current state) but the game is just overall fun. Even though I was expecting a future themed game, I guess the nostalgia of WW2 is nice.

I can’t wait for Infinity Ward’s COD6 Future Warfare though!

Buy of Not? Depending if my friends want to change from COD4 to 5 I will buy it. If I don’t buy it I will probably borrow a copy from my friend and play on cracked servers like I did before I bought COD4.

Summary:
———
* Added a new hero (Windrunner)
* Added a new hero (Admiral Proudmoore)
* Added a new item (Magic Stick,239688)
* Added a new item (Dust of Appearance)
* Added a new item (Phase Boots)
* Added a new item (Glyph of Fortification)

* New Loading Screen
* Redesigned and improved Sentinel and Scourge bases as well as nearby terrain
* Added a new game mode (-captainsmode/-cm)
* Rewrote creep/neutral/powerup spawn systems. The game timer now counts down to 0, at which point the creeps and powerups spawn. 30 seconds later the neutrals spawn. This behavior is the same as various popular modes, but it is now standardized to the entire game with the new clock. All game events are based off of this time rather than an arbitrary time based on the mode you used.
* Lots of various performance improvements and fixes

* Reworked Keeper of the Light
* Various changes to Enchantress’s abilities
* Reworked Bounty Hunter’s Track
* Rebalanced Insatiable Hunger
* Reduced vision aoe on Spin Webs and tweaked cooldown and manacost progression
* Minor improvements to Anti-Mage’s base stats
* Tweaked Blur evasion chance per level
* Reworked Call of the Wild stats and mechanics
* Decreased Watcher’s vision a little bit
* Increased Rhasta’s movement speed a bit
* Improved Crystal Maiden’s Brilliance Aura a bit
* Minor improvement to early levels of Bloodbath
* Increased Spirit Lance cast range a bit
* Improved Sven’s Agility gain
* Increased Sand King’s armor a bit
* Changed SA’s Blink Strike to move him behind the target(231470)
* Lowered Chaos Meteor cooldown from 70 to 55
* Rebalanced Haunt cooldown (150/120/90 -> 120)
* Improved how the manacost scales on Crippling Fear
* Improved level 2 and 3 manacost and regen on Death Pact
* Improved Psionic Trap’s cooldown progression
* Nerfed the duration on Battery Assault
* Increased Hookshot cooldown
* Quill Spray manacost no longer goes up per level
* Decreased day vision on Visage’s Revenants by 400
* Removed magic immunity from level 3 Revenants and added improved magic resistance
* Improved movement speed of the ghosts on Exorcism a bit
* Undid previous damage return threshold change on Exorcism
* Increased Death Prophet’s base strength a bit
* Added an extra arrow to Medusa’s Split Shot
* Rescaled Medusa’s Purge cooldown from 12/11/10 to 12/10/8 seconds
* Reduced Chronosphere cooldown
* Ravage AOE decreased for level 1 and 2
* Decreased Guardian Angel AOE and duration a bit

* Changed how Scroll of Town Portal works
* Reworked Black King Bar
* Rebalanced Sange, Yasha, and Sange and Yasha
* Changed Lothar’s Edge Recipe
* Changed Diffusal Blade Recipe
* Changed Maelstrom Recipe
* Aegis now respawns you where you died with full hp and mana but is undroppable and unstackable. Roshan takes it back when he respawns if it is unused
* The game now announces who acquires Aegis
* Increased Guinsoo’s Scythe of Vyse cooldown
* Tweaked Manta Style
* Reduced Kelen’s Dagger cooldown from 30 to 15 seconds
* Kelen’s Dagger now only triggers on player controlled damage
* Changed Max Stock on Observer Wards to 2
* Decreased Sentry Ward’s truesight range
* Couriers can no longer place wards
* Blades of Attack price reduction (650->500)
* Chainmail price reduction (620->550)
* Gloves of Haste price reduction (550->500)
* Increased Armlet recipe cost by the same amount Blades of Attack and Gloves of Haste were reduced
* Increased Power Treads recipe cost by the same amount Gloves of Haste was reduced
* Increased Vanguard hitpoints by 50
* Increased Boots of Travel movement speed by 5
* Boots of Travel now takes the same time as scrolls teleport (4->3 seconds)
* Increased Heart’s regeneration rate from 11 to 15
* Added Scroll of Town Portal to Goblin Shop replacing Javelin
* Added Ring of Regeneration to Goblin Shop replacing Hyperstone
* Added Magic Stick to Goblin Shop replacing Gloves of Haste
* Rebalanced tangos to come in batches of 3 (same overall regen per pack)

* When there is only 1 Assist to a Sentinel or Scourge kill, the kill is
instead given to that hero. When there are multiple assists to a Sentinel or
Scourge kill, the gold is split amongst those assisters rather than the
entire team
* Changed First Blood to be given to the Assist players when creeps kill the
hero rather than giving it to Sentinel or Scourge and splitting
* Tower gold is split if Sentinel or Scourge gets the last hit
* Denied towers give 50% team gold rather than 0%.
* Changed and standardized the bounty values on all structures
* Slight adjustments to gold bounty variance on Sentinel and Scourge creeps
* Global team tower bounty increases a little per tower level
* Roshan now gradually becomes stronger over time instead of after death
* Increased Hero Kill Experience bonus a little bit (+8 unshared experience per hero level in an area)
* Hero Kills now give a flat gold bounty in an area (+40, not to killer)

* You can now purchase items in your base without a courier (they drop to the floor)
* Improved image compression used in the map (243150)
* Added a new command -quote # that plays a hero quote, -quote random will play a random hero quote. The quote entry method will be improved when more heroes are added. It has Witch Doctor, Nightstalker, Alchemist, Silencer, Sniper and Rhasta right now, i will add more over time
* Changed the Goblin Shops terrain a bit and increase the shop aoe
* Buyback is now done at your Circle of Power
* Shops can be added to control groups
* Added new flavor texts to some items (Magical Bottle, Refresher Orb, Eye of Skadi, Blade Mail, Gem of True Sight, Null Talisman, Staff of Wizardry, Scroll of Town Portal, Belt of Giant Strength, Point Booster, Energy Booster, Vitality Booster, Soul Booster and Tangos)
* Fixed an old Viper Strike glitch
* Reduced extra damage taken by Rune Illusions
* Added a new command to swap items (-itemswap x y where x and y correspond to numbpad location) inventory slots primarily for when dealing with undroppable items or items in cooldown
* Fixed some bugs with -kickafk
* Changed Sentinel consumable shop model
* Couriers now have a “Drop All Items” ability
* Added a buff indicator for Blur
* Added soundsets to the shops for when you select them
* Adjusted Blur’s visuals for self/allies
* Changed -SD time to be the same as AP
* Fixed Maledict effect sometimes getting stuck on a hero
* Fixed a potential bug with Devour and Decrepify
* Fixed Illuminate’s interaction with Cliffs and units very close to it
* Fixed some performance issues with Nature’s Attendants
* Changed the World Tree/Frozen Throne tower models (236560)
* Added an undead crown model to King Leoric (205388)
* Improved Glaives of Wisdom projectile (219546)
* Lots of various terrain fixes and improvements
* Fixed minor bug with Alchemist’s starting strength
* Improved Magnus movement animation (189265)
* Added an allied only visual effect to Charge of Darkness (219684)
* Improved Black Hole visual effect
* Added new animation for Night Stalker during the night (213624)
* Renamed the “new” recipe shop
* Added a new command for viewing your Hook Accuracy (-ha)
* Added post creepspawn gametime to replay data for parsers
* Fixed a very minor rounding issue for -ms
* Fixed Blackhole to properly pull Infernal
* Fountain heal range increased by a small amount
* Added a message to show who killed a tower
* Fixed a terrain glitch near the Scourge Secret Shop
* Added a new mode -fastrespawn(-fr) that causes respawns to take half as much time
* Clicking Power Treads no longer interrupts commands
* Removed Crow’s mana upgrade capability
* Fixed some targetting issues on the World Tree (PGRu-Unexpect3D)
* Updated King Leoric’s story (235450)
* Fixed some performance issues with Freezing Field
* Added Hero ID data to the replay
* Fixed a bug when entering -di before the game mode is entered
* -sc mode now spawns same creeps in the same lane
* Revenants can no longer attack items
* Added a test mode command -trees to respawn all dead trees instantly
* Fixed a bug with Holy Persuation and Infest

Some Item Details:
——————-
This is not a full list of changes, see the above changelog for that. These are just some of the changes in more detail.

Blades of Attack:
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Blades of Attack 650 -> 500
Dagon recipe unchanged (so total cost is 150 less)
Crystalys recipe unchanged (so total cost is 150 less)
Armlet recipe is 150 more gold

Gloves of Haste:
=================
Gloves of haste 550->500
Midas recipe is unchanged (so total cost is 50 less)
Treads recipe is 50 more gold
Armlet recipe is 50 more gold

Chainmail:
============
Chainmail 620->550
Buckler/Mekansm recipes are unchanged (so total cost is 70 less)
Blademail recipes are unchanged (so total cost is 70 less)
Assault Cuirass recipes are unchanged (so total cost is 70 less)

Vanguard:
=========
Gives 50 more hitpoints

Kelen’s Dagger:
================
Only gets disabled from player based damage
Reduced cooldown from 30 to 15 seconds

Old BKB
=========
Ogre Axe (1000)
Broadsword (1200)
Recipe (1600)
18 Damage
10 Strength
85 seconds cooldown
9 seconds
Total: 3800

New BKB
=========
Ogre Axe(1000)
Mithril Hammer (1610)
Recipe (1300)
24 Damage
10 Strength
80/75/70/65/60/55 seconds cooldown
10/9/8/7/6/5 seconds
Total: 3910

Old TP Scroll:
===============
Only 1 person can target a specific building
Gave massive bonus armor
Gave bonus regardless of casting state
12 second shop cooldown

New TP Scroll:
===============
Any number of people can teleport at the same location at the same time.
You can choose the relative area around the structure that you want to TP
to.
Only allies see the exact position, your enemies see it on the building
only.
Does not give any bonus armor
If structure dies while you are tping, the tp does not force cancel
2 second shop cooldown
Available in Goblin Shops

Old Boots of Travel:
====================
+85 Movement Speed
Teleport:
4 Sec Casting Time
60 Cooldown
75 Manacost

New Boots of Travel:
====================
+90 Movement Speed
Teleport:
3 Sec Casting Time
60 Cooldown
75 Manacost

Old Lothar’s Edge:
==================
Blades of Alacrity (1000)
Blades of Alacrity (1000)
Claymore (1400)
Recipe (650)
+21 Damage
+21 Agility
Wind Walk (Active, 9 duration, 17 cd, 75 manacost, 20% ms bonus)
Total: 4050

New Lothar’s Edge:
===================
Mithril Hammer (1610)
Quarterstaff (900)
Scroll (1100)
+38 Damage
+10 Attack Speed
Wind Walk (Active, 9 duration, 20 cd, 75 manacost, 20% ms bonus)
Total: 3610

Old Maelstrom:
==============
Mithri Hammer (1610)
Boots of Elvenskin (450)
Recipe (1300)
Total: 3360

New Maelstrom:
==============
Claymore (1400)
Boots of Elvenskin (450)
Recipe (1400)
Total: 3250

Old Diffusal Blade:
====================
Blades of Alacrity (1000)
Robe of the Magi (450)
Recipe (1550)
+15 Agility
+6 Intelligence
18 Mana Burn
Total: 3000

New Diffusal Blade:
====================
Blades of Alacrity (1000)
Blades of Alacrity (1000)
Robe of the Magi (450)
Recipe (850)
+25 Agility
+6 Intelligence
20 Mana Burn
Total: 3300

Old Manta:
===========
Diffusal Blade (3000)
Vitality Booster (1100)
Recipe (1400)
+23 Agility
+6 Intelligence
+250 HP
36 Mana Burn
Total: 5500

New Manta:
===========
Diffusal Blade (3300)
Vitality Booster (1100)
Recipe (1400)
+30 Agility
+6 Intelligence
+250 HP
40 Mana Burn
Total: 5800

Old Sange:
==========
16 Strength
10% Maim (10% ms slow for 6 seconds)
10 Damage
Ogre Axe (1000)
Belt of Giant Strength (450)
Recipe (800)
Total: 2250

New Sange:
===========
16 Strength
15% Maim (20% ms slow for 4 seconds)
10 Damage
Ogre Axe (1000)
Belt of Giant Strength (450)
Recipe (800)
Total: 2250

Old Yasha:
==========
16 Agility
10% Attack Speed
10% Movement Speed
Blades of Alacrity (1000)
Boots of Elvenskin (450)
Recipe (800)
Total: 2250

New Yasha:
==========
16 Agility
15% Attack Speed
10% Movement Speed
Blades of Alacrity (1000)
Boots of Elvenskin (450)
Recipe (800)
Total: 2250

Old Sange and Yasha:
=====================
16 Strength
16 Agility
15% Maim (30% ms slow for 6 seconds)
15% Attack Speed
15 Damage
15% Movement Speed
Sange (2250)
Yasha (2250)
Recipe: 800
Total: 5300

New Sange and Yasha:
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16 Strength
16 Agility
15% Maim (30% ms slow, 15% as slow for 4 seconds)
15% Attack Speed
12 Damage
12% Movement Speed
Sange (2250)
Yasha (2250)
Recipe (500)
Total: 5000

MS bonus does not stack with Yasha

Old Sentry Wards:
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Vision: 200
Truesight: 1100
Cost: 200
Charges: 2
Lasts 6 minutes

New Sentry Wards:
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Vision: 200
Truesight: 700
Cost: 200
Charges: 2
Lasts 3 minutes

Old Observer Wards:
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Vision: 1600
Cost: 200
Charges: 2
Lasts 6 minutes
Max Stock: 3
Stock Cooldown: 6 minutes

New Observer Wards:
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Vision: 1600
Cost: 200
Charges: 2
Lasts 6 minutes
Max Stock: 2
Stock Cooldown: 6 minutes

Dust of Appearance:
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2 charge consumable. Does not stack in inventory.
Places a buff on nearby enemy units (1250 aoe). Only affects heroes (not
wards). While you have the dust of appearance buff, invisibility will have
no effect. This does not mean you are tracked, you aren’t visible to enemy
if you are fogged. It just prevents invisibility.
Lasts 12 seconds. 60 CD
190 Gold

Magic Stick:
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Cost: 210 Gold
Energy Charge (Does not stack)
When enemy or ally (not self) casts a spell around you (1400), you gain 1
charge. Maximum 12 charges. When you cast the item, you instantly regenerate
12 hp and 12 mana for each charge.
This does not trigger off of non-spells or attack orbs

Phase Boots:
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70 Movement Speed
+7 Armor
+16 Damage
Phase (Active, 5 duration 10 cd):
Gives no collision with units
10% movement increase
Casting spells or items dispells phase

Boots of Speed (500)
Blades of Attack (500)
Chainmail (610)
Total: 1610

Glyph of Fortification:
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Consumable Item – Instant cast, does not go to inventory.
Cost: None
Cooldown: 6 Minutes
Stock Max: 1

Gives Old TP Scroll style bonus armor to all allied buildings for 4 seconds.

Some Hero Details:
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This is not a full list of changes, see the above changelog for that. These
are just some of the changes in more detail.

++ Keeper of the Light

Illuminate:
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It now gives vision gradually as it grows in the area it is “illuminating”
rather than at the end.
Fixed Illuminate’s interaction with Cliffs and units very close to it

Mana Leak:
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In short, a mana rupture. The numbers are 0.035/0.04/0.045/0.050% of total
manapool drained per unit moved. So, if the target moves 700 units, at level
1 it loses 24.5% of total mana pool.. at level 4 it loses 35% of its total
mana pool. Duration of the buff is 5/6/7/8

If the target runs out of mana, the effect stops and the target is stunned
for 1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds.

Cast Range: 1200
Cooldown: 20 seconds
Manacost: 75

Chakra:
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Increased cast range(500->900), lowered cooldown a bit(19->19/18/17/16
seconds), rescaled manacost (40/80/100/120->40/55/70/85), removed the damage
bonus and minor health regen.

Spirit Form:
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Morphs into a new unit, same stats/items as kotl. Gives him extra abilities.
He has ALL his abilities in this new form.

Manacost: 100
Cooldown: 80/70/60 seconds
Duration: 40 seconds

Blinding Light:
-Targets a 650 aoe. Causes units in the targetted area become blinded,
causing them to miss 80% of attacks for some time. Knocks back units 250
distance over 0.4 seconds.
-Cast Range: 600
-Mancost: 50 Manacost
-Cooldown: 20 seconds
-Duration: 3/4/5 seconds

Recall:
-Teleports an allied hero to you after 5/4/3 seconds. If the unit takes
player based damage in this period, the effect ends.
-Mancost: 100
-Cooldown: 40

Illuminate:
-Causes illuminate to self charge when cast in spirit form. You can
discharge it by clicking on a temporary replacement icon that appears in
your ability card.

++ Enchantress

Untouchable:
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It now is a normal skill and scales 30/50/70/90% from 50/70/90%

Enchant:
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Creep control duration reduced from 120 to 80 seconds.

Impetus:
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This is now the ultimate. Bonus Damage 15%/20%/25%, Manacost is 55/60/65 and
Cooldown is 0 seconds on all levels. As an ultimate it now pierces magic
immmunity

++ Bounty Hunter

Track:
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The movement bonus is now given in an area around the tracked unit to all
allied units. The bonus bounty is given to bounty hunter as long as the
target dies while under the buff, the killer is not a factor. See tooltip
for more data. Costs 50 mana all levels.

++ Broodmother

Spinweb:
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Reduced vision
Cooldown from 90/75/60/45 to 90/70/50/30 seconds
Manacost from 140 to 50

Insatiable Hunger:
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Was 60/75/90 bonus damage with 40/60/80% lifesteal for 20 seconds
Now 60/80/100 bonus damage with 40/55/70% lifesteal for 12 seconds

++ Beast Master

Call Of The Wild:
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Greater Hawk:
No permanent invisibility. Has an active invisibility: duration 5 seconds 1
second fadetime, 30 cooldown
25 -> 200 hp
100 -> 40 bounty
280 -> 400 ms

Greater Quillbeast 700 -> 500 hp
Cooldown: 45/50/55/60 -> 40 seconds
Duration: 60/70/80/90 -> 60 seconds

Captains Mode:
————–

Blue and Pink are the team captains. A random side starts the process(you
can customize this, see below)

Ban Time: 40
Pick Time: 60
Extra Time: 45

You start by alternating 1/1/1 in the ban phase. Each captain removes up to
4 heroes. Running out of time does not result in a random hero ban.

After that you enter the 1/2/2/ pick phase. Each captain picks the heroes
his team will use.

If at any time you run out of time, you start to use up your extra time. If
you run out and you are in pick phase, you get a random hero.

Creeps spawn 90 seconds after the pick draft phase is over. Right after the
hero pick phase ends, the 5 heroes for your team are presented with a
checkmark on them (RD style) allowing players on your team to pick which one
they want to be.

The captain that starts this process is random. If you want to give the
starting to Sentinel, type -cm 1 or -cm 2 for Scourge after the game mode is
entered.

The picks, bans, timers, etc are all presented in a board for easy viewing
by team mates and observers.

6.55b:
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* Fixed a critical error bug with Roshan as well as lots of other misc issues

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
I’m not lovin’ you, way I wanted to
What I had to do, had to run from you
I’m in love with you, but the vibe is wrong
And that haunted me, all the way home
So ya never know, never never know
Never know enough, ’til it’s over love
‘Til we lose control, system overload
Screamin’ no no no, no no
I’m not lovin’ you, way I wanted to
See I wanna move, but can’t escape from you
So I keep it low, keep a secret code
So everybody else don’t have to know

Chorus:
So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down
Keepin ya love locked down, ya love locked down
Now keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down
Now keep ya love locked down, you lose…

Verse 2:
I’m not lovin’ you, way I wanted to
I can’t keep my cool, so I keep it true
I got somethin to lose, so I gotta move
I can’t keep myself, and still keep you too
So I keep in mind, when I’m on my own
Somewhere far from home, in the danger zone
How many times did I take ‘fore I finally got through
you lose, you lose
I’m not lovin you, way I wanted to
See I had to go, see I had to move
No more wastin’ time, you can’t wait for life
which is wastin’ time, where’s the finish line

Chorus:
So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down
Keepin ya love locked down, ya love locked down
Now keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down
Now keep ya love locked down, you lose…

Verse 3:
I’m not lovin you, way I wanted to
I bet no one new, I got no one new
I know I said I’m through, but got love for you
But I’m not lovin’ you, way I wanted to
Gotta keep it goin’, keep the lovin’ goin’
Keep it on a roll, only God knows
If I be with you, baby I’m confused
You choose, you choose
I’m not lovin’ you, way I wanted to
Where I want to go, I don’t need you
I’ve been down this road, too many times before
I’m not lovin’ you, the way I wanted to

Chorus:
So keep ya love locked down, ya love locked down
Keepin ya love locked down, ya love locked down
Now ya love locked down, ya love locked down
Now ya love locked down, you lose,…you lose,
…you lose,…you lose,…you lose