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HON Update: Version 2.5.8 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:16:00 +0000

Version 2.5.8

- Free Hero Pool will be updated on Friday the 27th. The list is as follows:
* Valkyrie
* Sand Wraith
* Shadowblade
* Master of Arms
* Soulstealer
* Defiler
* Pollywog Priest
* Thunderbringer
* Plague Rider
* Hellbringer
* Armadon
* Drunken Master
* Keeper Of the Forest
* Pebbles
* Accursed

- In celebration of the Lunar New Year we will be adding special limited edition Pharaoh Alt Avatar - Golden Emperor!
* He will only be available from 12:00 AM EST 1/27/2012 through 8:00 02/03/2012!
- Also in celebration of the Year of the Dragon you will find a new Year of the Dragon Icon available for purchase!

- Fixed an issue causing some users in large clans to suffer periodic hitches.
- Creeps sounds tweaked and generally lowered in volume
- host_timescale gets reset when disconnecting from a practice game
- You can no longer spectate or mentor someone who is already spectating or mentoring

Kongor
- Gold received for getting the last hit on Kongor normalized from 300-400 to 350

Towers
- Gold received for getting the last hit on Towers normalized from 452-470,502-520,552-570,602-620 to 460,510,560,610

Structure Gold (Meatball/Huts)
- Gold received for getting the last hit on a Structure normalized from 102-120 to 110

Items

Abyssal Skull
- Minor tooltip fix

Charged Hammer
- Fixed a wonky effect

Couriers
- Fixed death animation so it sinks in the ground correctly

Daemonic Breastplate
- Scaled the effects under player's feet better

Energizer
- Recipe cost reduced from 700 to 600

Genjuro
- Slow no longer goes through Magic Immunity

Helm of the Black Legion
- Now charge based. 20 charges max, loses 5 per Hero, Tower, or Boss attack and 1 per creep attack
- Gains a charge every 400 MS
- Won't block unless there are enough charges

Nullstone
- Fixed a wonky effect

Ring of Sorcery
- Increased manacost from 25 to 40

Savage Mace
- No longer stacks with itself

Shieldbreaker
- Increased recipe cost from 900 to 1000
- Removed Deflection pierce

Sol's Bulwark
- Armor auras lowered from +/- 5 to +/- 4

Stormspirit
- Now lasts 2 seconds, after landing the target is Perplexed (Can't use items) for another 0.5 second

Heroes

Aluna
- Base Attack cooldown lowered from 1700 to 1550
- Increased starting Intelligence from 21 to 22

Arachna
- Increased starting Strength from 17 to 18
- Increased starting Agility from 22 to 23

Corrupted Disciple
- Corrupted Conduit Mana cost from 20/30/40/50 to 50

Defiler
- Starting Agility from 14 to 16
- Base Armor from 0.96 to 1.74 (After Agility)
- Grave Silence radius from 200/275/350/350 to 250/300/350/350
- Fixed interaction of Unholy Expulsion with Geometer's Bane

Devourer
- Devour unbinds the target on impact (prevents Valkyrie's Courageous Leap cancels for instance)

Electrician
- Can no longer use Energy Shield with less than 5 mana
- Energy Absorption no longer has the first target mechanic (you no longer get 5 charges for 1 hero or 3 for a creep on first hit)

Engineer
- Spider Mines trigger(chasing) radius from 200 to 250

Flux
- Can now target allies with Magnetic Surge
- Magnetic Surge is now Physical
- Can now change between the Push or Pull without a hitch if you are running

Forsaken Archer
- Fixed interaction between Geometer's Bane & Call of the Damned

Gauntlet
- Death sound touched up

Gemini
- Fixed Twin Fangs playing through fog
- Fire and Ice now gain 80/90/100% of stats from Gemini
- The wolves from Fire and Ice now have their movespeed set to Gemini's
- Fixed a rare anomaly where Gemini would go in a random direction when recombining from split form
- Fixed Gemini's split form Fire Fang & Ice Fang so they get stunned properly while bound to the projectile
- Removed invulnerability from Fire Fang and Ice Fang while bound to the projectile
- Fixed Fire and Ice assist mechanic to function properly

Geomancer
- Dig no longer usable while Immobilized
- Can use Items while in Dig
- Crystal Field decreased time till explosion from 3 to 3/2.75/2.5

Hammerstorm
- Increased Movespeed from 295 to 300
- Increased Intelligence gain from 1.3 to 1.6 per level

Jeraziah
- Protective Charm and Sol's Blessing no longer gives assists

Kraken
- Strength gain lowered from 3.0 to 2.8 per level
- Release the Kraken damage per second lowered from 40/50/70 to 40/50/60

Lord Salforis
- Cast Time of Life Tap removed

Magebane
- Starting Strength from 18 to 16
- Flash cast range from 1000/1075/1150/1150 to 850/950/1050/1150

Magmus
- Lava Surge no longer usable while Immobilized

Martyr
- Sacrificial Lamb reworked. Now gives allies increased movespeed and attack speed based on how low Martyr is
* 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8 Movespeed per 1% missing and 0.2/0.4/0.6/0.8 attack speed per 1% missing. Radius of 500

Midas
- Lion’s Pride and Golden Salvo cooldowns swapped
* Lion’s Pride is now 18 starting and Golden Salvo is 13
- Lion’s Pride heal reduced from 75/120/165/210 to 30/60/90/120

Monarch
- Starting Armor reduced from 2.1 to 1.1
- Starting Movespeed from 300 to 295
- Crippling Pollen reduced cast range from 600 to 550
* This is listed as 500 in the in-game client. It should be 550.
- Fixed the last second of Crippling Pollen so that the slow doesn't go through magic immunity

Moon Queen
- Increased attack range from 330 to 350
- Lunar Glow increased from 6/13/20/27 to 7/14/21/28

Pandamonium
- Face Smash unbinds the target on impact (prevents Valkyrie's Courageous Leap cancels for instance)

Pharaoh
- Made his Wall of Mummies suck in enemy player-controlled non-hero units

Predator
- Venomous Leap cooldown from 20/17/14/11 to 16/14/12/10

Puppet Master
- Base Damage from 40-51 to 46-55

Revenant
- Essence Shroud cooldown from 30 to 25
- Essence Shroud duration from 10/15/20/25 to 12/15/18/21

Soul Reaper
- Increased starting armor from 1.10 to 1.75
- Judgment manacost reduced from 125/145/165/185 to 120/140/160/180
- Withering Presence radius increased from 700/800/900/1000 to 800/900/1000/1100

Succubus
- Smitten reworked. Now decreases all damage dealt from the target by 10/20/30/40%, 15 second duration
- Succubus' Hold unbinds the target on use (prevents Valkyrie's Courageous Leap cancels for instance)

Tremble
- Starting Armor reduced from 4.92 to 3.92
- Terrorform manacost from 110 to 150/140/130/120

Zephyr
- Cyclones heal reduced from 30 to 25
- Fixed interaction between Geometer's Bane & Cyclones
- Typhoon no longer gives an extra tornado (from 7/9/11 to 6/8/10)
- Typhoon no longer gives Zephyr a tornado unless he stays in it's radius

== Bugfixes ==

Aluna: Fixed Deja Vu's 3rd activation from playing through fog
Arachna: Scripting optimized
Artesia: Made her Arcane Missile slow transferable via Parasite
Balphagore: Optimized Corpse Conversion corpse detection slightly
Behemoth: Fixed Fissure so you can't tab to the invisible gadgets
Bombardier: Scripting optimized
Bubbles: Shell Surf now spawns 50 units closer to him so it hits units right in front of him
Bubbles: Fixed Kelp Field from playing in fog
Chipper: Rockets Barrage touch changed from Physical to Magic
Chipper: Scripting optimized
Corrupted Disciple: Scripting optimized
The Dark Lady: Touched up a few animations
Devourer: Made Devour give assists properly if it did no damage
Drunken Master: Scripting optimized
Empath: Fixed As One from playing in fog
Engineer: Scripting optimized
Gravekeeper: Minor fix to Illusions
Kraken: Fixed a bug where the target's corpse stands up after death if they died while bound to Tsunami Charge
Lord Salforis: Fixed Life Tap playing through fog
Martyr: Fixed up the Alt Avatar's sounds when casting abilities
Master of Arms: Shrunk blue attack projectile effects slightly on towers
Parasite: Fixed up some weird interactions when he is inside a creep
Parasite: Fixed him so he is correctly disarmed when inside a creep
Pyromancer: Burning! now capped at 127 charges
Rhapsody: Fixed up her model and the weird animations going on
Scout: Fixed Detonate ability (for both Scout & Electric Eyes) so they can be used while stunned as well
Shadowblade: Soul's Sight bonus damage no longer propogates to Illusions
Succubus: Made Succubus' Hold give assists properly if it did no damage
Torturer: Minor fix to Torment's interaction when multiple items used on him at once
Wretched Hag: Animation smoothing on Wretched Hottie
Zephyr: Scripting optimized

HON Update: Version 2.5.6 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:56:00 +0000

Version 2.5.6

- The current Free Heroes were changed. The current available list is as follows:
* Corrupted Disciple
* Moon Queen
* Hammerstorm
* Predator
* Night Hound
* Kraken
* Balphagore
* Behemoth
* Witch Slayer
* Chipper
* Slither
* Bombardier
* Demented Shaman
* Empath
* Voodoo Jester

- Groups with less than 1150 MMR should have an easier time finding a match now
- If a matchmaking game ends prematurely (whether due to an early remake or a player fails to connect) any groups who were in the match should now be able to re-queue and leave off at their previous wait time
* A message will be broadcast notifying the group when they have been re-placed into the queue
- Made a few changes to how point gain/losses are adjusted for team mates if there is a leaver on the team, it's now a bit more lenient in terms of what conditions must be true in order for the team with the disconnected player(s) to receive an adjustment
- Made some adjustments to match fidelity slider, selecting "Fairer Matches" should now do a bit better job at finding other groups close to the skill range of the group that selected this option
- The UI should now remember the match fidelity slider setting selected when creating a group and entering the queue
- Greatly improved how the game client re-connects to game servers
* Players should no longer have to type "Reconnect" on the console or re-login manually as the client will automatically try to reconnect to the game server. Players can still reconnect by re-logging or typing reconnect, but they will no longer have to do this, they can simply wait for the reconnect dialogue to display

- Gold gained from creeps and neutrals now normalizes over time
* An example: Two heroes farm a lane for 20 minutes getting equal creep kills. Before, their gold values would have differed greatly. Now, they will have nearly equal amounts of gold.

- Added a new Amun-Ra Alt Avatar: Phoenix Ra

HON: Artesia Guide 2

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:12:00 +0000

Introduction:

Artesia is a long ranged magical DPS hero Your focus should be to stay in the back of a fight and support your team through Arcane Missile. Be aware that Essence Projection has a global cast ranged and can be used to support the team even if Artesia isn't around.

Guide:

Focus on getting to level 6 as fast as possible. Soloing is normally the best option but Artesia is not a strong solo hero and you may end up suffering more in the long run by soloing.

Artesia can soak up a lot of mana quickly so look to grab items that can increase her total mana pool. Picking up Shrunken Head can make it easier to use Dance of Death. This should allow you get off your full arsenal of spells.

Item Build for Artesia:

Skill Build for Artesia:

HON: Artesia

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:59:00 +0000

Primary Attribute
Intelligence
Str 19
Agi 16
Int 26

Detailed Attributes
Movement Speed 300
Str per Level 1.8
Agi per Level 1
Int per Level 3

Defense Information
Armor 1
Dmg. Reduction 6%
Magic Armor 5.5
Magic Dmg. Reduction 25%

Base Attack
Attack Type Ranged
Damage 41 - 46
Range 525
Attacks/Sec 0.68

SKILLS

Arcane Missile
Action - Target Position
Type - Organic Enemy Units
Type: Magic
Range: 99,999
Radius: 150
Cast Time: 0.5 Seconds
Mana Cost: 90 / 95 / 100 / 105
Cooldown: 5.0 / 4.0 / 3.0 / 2.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7

Dance of Death
Channel up to 3 seconds to heal yourself for {30,40,50,60} Health + {10,15,20,25}% of your Intelligence per second.
While performing the Dance of Death, you will generate and fire Arcane Bolts every {.7,.6,.5,.4} seconds.
Each second channeled will also add a charge to Arcane Missile, reducing its cooldown by 75% as long as charges remain.
Action - Self Position
Type - Enemy Units
Channeling Time: 0.0 Seconds
Mana Cost: 100 / 110 / 120 / 130
Cooldown: 25.0 / 22.0 / 18.0 / 16.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7

Arcane Bolts
On spellcast, release 2 Arcane Bolts that seek out random enemy heroes within 700 distance and deal {25,40,55,70} Magic Damage each.
An Arcane Bolt is released every 0.8 seconds.
Action - Passive
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7

Essence Projection
Action - Target Position
Type: Magic
Range: 99,999
Cast Time: 0.5 Seconds
Mana Cost: 200 / 300 / 400
Cooldown: 90.0 Seconds
Required Level: 6 / 11 / 16

HON: Shadowblade Guide 2

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:48:00 +0000

Introduction:

Shadowblade is a very versatile hero that may be built effectively in many different ways.

This guide is for a specific build of Shadowblade which starts off with more ganking and staying power in lane and transitions into an intelligence based carry late game.

Guide:

Maxing Gargantuan's Blast first gives very solid survivability and allows you to engage into a battle with less fear of taking damage. It is important to put one point into Feint's Siphon and Soul's Sight for the movement, clearvision, and ranged attack which are necessary when ganking.

When you get your first level of Essence Shift, you should use it on a strength hero to give you even more survivability and allow your steamboots to be on strength and give you damage.

As the game progresses and you finish your Harkon's Blade, you should use Essence Shift on an intelligence hero to grant Soul's Sight a bigger boost in damage. After you create your Harkon's Blade, depending on your game situation either a Kuldra's Sheepstick or Null Stone are good choices.

Remember to not be afraid to switch your build to strength if you are finding that you need more survivability, or agility if you would rather carry with a different build.

Item Build for Shadowblade:

Skill Build for Shadowblade:

HON: Shadowblade

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:35:00 +0000

Primary Attribute
Agility
Str 19
Agi 19
Int 19

Detailed Attributes
Movement Speed 310
Str per Level 2.1
Agi per Level 2.1
Int per Level 2.1

Defense Information
Armor 3.66
Dmg. Reduction 18%
Magic Armor 5.5
Magic Dmg. Reduction 25%

Base Attack
Attack Type Melee
Damage 51 - 54
Range 128
Attacks/Sec 0.70

SKILLS

Gargantuan's Blast
Summons the Gargantuan to wield the sword.
Action - Self Position
Type - Enemy Units
Radius: 300
Cast Time: 0.1 Seconds
Mana Cost: 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 10.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
Activation
Activate to deal in an area around you 60 / 110 / 160 / 210 Magic Damage and apply a 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% Movement Speed Slow for 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 / 4 seconds.
Gargantuan form lasts 11 seconds or until another form is summoned.
Gargantuan form grants: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 Armor, 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 Magic Armor, and 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 Strength.

Feint's Siphon
Summons Feint to wield the sword.
Action - Target Entity
Type - All Units
Type: Magic
Range: 600
Cast Time: 0.5 Seconds
Mana Cost: 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 10.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
Activation
Target a unit to leap at him from 600 units away. Upon contact with an enemy, Feint deals 60 / 110 / 160 / 210 Magic Damage, and drains 10 / 20 / 30 / 40% of enemy's damage applying damage drained to yourself for 5 seconds.
Feint form lasts 11 seconds or until another form is summoned.
Feint form grants: 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 Movement Speed and 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 Agility.

Soul's Sight
Summons Soul to wield the sword.
Action - Self Position
Type - Enemy Units
Type: Magic
Cast Time: 0.3 Seconds
Mana Cost: 45 / 50 / 55 / 60
Cooldown: 10.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7

Essence Shift
Copies a part of target's primary stat.
Action - Target Entity
Type - All Heroes
Type: SuperiorMagic
Range: 600
Cast Time: 0.7 Seconds
Mana Cost: 60
Cooldown: 60.0 Seconds
Required Level: 6 / 11 / 16
Activation
Target a hero to gain 20 / 30 / 40% of their primary attribute. Your primary stat then changes to the one that you gained.
Maximum of 40 of a stat may be gained.

HON Update: Version 2.5.4 and 2.5.5 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:25:00 +0000

Version 2.5.5

- Minor fix to Artesia's Essence Projection

Version 2.5.4

- The current Free Heroes were changed. The current available list is as follows:
* Soulstealer
* Silhouette
* Tremble
* Andromeda
* Blacksmith
* Pollywog Priest
* Nymphora
* Vindicator
* Defiler
* Gladiator
* Devourer
* Pestilence
* Magmus
* Pebbles
* Rampage

- Added a new Early Access Hero: Artesia
* Added a new Limited Edition Alt Avatar: Arcannis

- Added a new Wildsoul Alt Avatar: Arctic Wildsoul
- Christmas Music has been removed
- Monarch is now pickable in Tournament Mode
- Minor tweaks to Dumpster and Fist of Sol Taunts

HON Update: Version 2.5.3 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:25:00 +0000

Version 2.5.3

- Create a Guide
* You can now create your own hero guides in the game client in the Herodex

- Added content for the store for Christmas. This content will become available over the coming days. Stay tuned to the MotD for more information as these become available!

- Dominatrix Torturer is now available.
- Sol's Fist Taunt size increased from 1.1 to 1.85

- Monarch
* Noxious Cloud increased manacost from 100 to 100/115/130/145
* Noxious Cloud no longer gives vision

HON Update: Version 2.5.2.1 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:28:00 +0000

Version 2.5.2.1

- The current Free Heroes were changed. The current available list is as follows:
* Valkyrie
* Monkey King
* Gemini
* Chronos
* Swiftblade
* Zephyr
* Engineer
* Fayde

* Parasite
* Thunderbringer
* Wretched Hag
* Martyr
* Puppet Master
* Plague Rider

* Pharaoh

- Added a new Taunt: Fist of Sol

- Added a new Keeper of the Forest Alt Avatar: Mother Nature Keeper

- Health Bars for heroes now have Health Pips and glow when you hover over them
* Each small section is 200 Health and each large section is 1000 Health

- New options for colorblind players
* Health Pips or Colorblind options can be turned on and off in the Mod Options section

- /dnd will now ignore mentor/player spectate requests
- You can no longer player spectate or mentor in a Tournament Rules game
- Fixed player count with player spectators/mentors

- For mentors/player spectators, we no longer do:
* PSR checks
* Leaver check
* Verified check
* Private server check

- Hellflower: Can no longer tab to the invisible gadget

- Aluna: Recalibrated Déja Vu timer mechanics to be more accurate with the channel bar in the majority of cases
- Amun-Ra: Fixed Ra's Path of Destruction projectile from going more than 600 range if he gets teleported within the same frame he reaches its cast point
- Cthulhuphant: Fixed his Trample projectile from still going after he dies
- Fayde: Added a check so her Illusions will interact properly with deleted units
- Fayde: Added a death check so if multiple Burning Shadows illusions are present on a unit when the target dies, then the excess illusions attacking that unit all die
- Fayde: Burning Shadows sight gadgets are unable to be tabbed to. Illusions are still selectable via tabbing
- Fayde: Fixed Burning Shadows so Barbed Armor properly returns the damage done to Fayde
- Gemini: Extremely minor tweak to alt avatar animation when walking
- Gemini: Made some effects not play through fog
- Gemini: Fixed teleporting to the wrong place when dying
* Fixes a bug where Gemini drops items that drop on death (ie, Bound Eye) at the killer's feet instead of the pet's feet
- Gladiator: Fixed his invisible gadgets so they can't be tabbed to
- Kraken: Fixed so he stops displacing the target with his Tsunami Charge if he gets unbound from his projectile
- Magebane: Optimized Mana Combustion
- Midas: Updated Elemental Warp's tooltip
- Tundra: Fixed units so they play their idle animation when the stun of Avalanche wears off

HON Update: Matchmaking Rework

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:42:00 +0000

Since the release of matchmaking last year we have seen more of our community choose to play games utilizing the matchmaking system than we could have ever hoped for. You have all made matchmaking a success and it is only fitting that we continually try to improve upon our system to get it to where it needs to be. Although during the past year we have made many improvements to our system, the community has raised questions and asked for changes to be made in order to create a better matchmaking experience. In light of these requests we have taken some of the most pressing issues related to matchmaking and will be addressing them in a patch this week on December 9th, 2011. Along with many other features we've been working hard on, this patch will also include a complete matchmaking re-work. This re-work includes changes across all areas of matchmaking:

- The "Average Wait Time" displayed when waiting for a match should now be much more accurate.

- Group leaders can now select whether they prefer to have a shorter queue time or a fairer match when queueing for matchmaking, this option can be changed without leaving the matchmaking queue.

- Introduced a "Provisional Ranking Period" for new players that will facilitate adjusting them to their true skill level (whether higher or lower) much faster than before.

- Players with team members who have been terminated should lose less points for a loss, and gain more points for a win.

- Made numerous changes to the way MMR is calculated such as how many points players gain or lose each match, how match predictions are calculated between two potential teams when searching for a matchup, and many other changes to the backend calculations that should make the MMR progression much more accurate in predicting and placing a player at their true MMR rating.

- Optimizations to the matchmaking algorithm that should reduce queue times across the board.

- The game lobby and hero select screens now show match gain/loss values with more precision as it is now possible to gain/lose fractional amounts of MMR.

- All players will have their Normal and Casual MMR compressed towards 1500. Take for example a player with Normal MMR of 1700, and Casual MMR of 1600. After the compression their Normal MMR would become become (1700 + 1500) / 2 = 1600) while their Casual MMR would become (1600 + 1500) / 2 = 1550)

HON Update: Version 2.3.5 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:37:00 +0000

Version 2.3.5

The huge 2.5 patch is on its way! We will be patching the game with 2.5 tonight, so enjoy your time with Shadowblade as you prepare for 2.5 to go live later tonight!

- Added a new Early Access Hero: Shadowblade
- Added a new Limited Edition Alt Avatar: Corporeal Shadowblade

- Added a new Martyr Alt Avatar: Sister Martyr

HON Updates: Version 2.3.0 to Version 2.3.2 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:35:00 +0000

Version 2.3.2

- Congratulations to all of the participants in DreamHack Winter!
- Good Luck to the players and teams participating in the upcoming NASL Finals!
* Due to these competitive events, we are keeping the game in a stable state
* We will not be adding new in-game content or changing any balance until they are completed

- RAP 2.1 changes
* Raised coin deposit amount to 25 silver coins, up from 15
* New tooltips to help explain what is and isn't griefing
* In addition, we have added Cooldown Timer on submitting reports after the match has taken place

- Added a new Chronos Alt Avatar: Father Time Chronos
* Voiced by the most epic Old Man ever
* Will be available to purchase on the 2nd

- We would like to give credit to Vivi_Chester for his original concept of Steampunk Corrupted Disciple
* You can check out his original concept art at http://javivi-chester.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4b9vzl

Version 2.3.1

- Fixed Flux's Magnetic Surge
- You now join stream chat channels when going to them in HoN TV, not just when going to them via notification
- Stream chat channels are no longer single user in size

Version 2.3.0

The DreamHack Patch

- Good luck to all of the players and teams participating at DreamHack Winter!
- These notes include the changes from 2.2.9

- The current Free Heroes were changed on Friday, Nov 18. The current available list is as follows:
* NOTE: This week's rotation was hand picked by MsPudding
* Chronos
* Forsaken Archer
* Soulstealer
* Wildsoul
* Fayde

* Nymphora
* Bubbles
* Pollywog Priest
* Empath
* Doctor Repulsor
* Parasite
* Chipper

* Drunken Master
* Legionnaire
* Pharaoh

- HoN TV is now Live!
* You can open HoN TV from the bottom right corner of the new Message of the Day screen or the icon in the upper left corner
* HoN TV lets you watch video in the client seamlessly. You can watch while in the Matchmaking queue, for example!
* HoNCast Live Stream, HoNCast Video Archives, S2Games YouTube Channel, and some User Streams are all available to watch at any time
* AngryTestie and h4nn1 are the initial two people you can watch from the ingame client. More will be added as time goes on!
* Make sure to use HoN TV to tune into DreamHack Winter this week!
* HoN TV currently only supports Windows. We will be adding support for other operating systems in the future

- Report-A-Player interface redone
* Results of the report are now more transparent
* Players now required to deposit a few silver coins to submit a RAP report to improve the quality and validity of reports being submitted
* If the reported players gets punished you receive your deposit back
* If the player is found innocent you will not receive your deposit back
* More information can be found on the forums

- The Test++ mod has been added for practice mode
* This replaces the normal "Test" menu
* Credit to Quzzap for maintaining the mod

- New Message of the Day screen
* Now includes a button to HoN TV and a Competitive Section

- Newerth is no longer Haunted

- Interface rendering improvements in DirectX
- Minor optimizations to all interface rendering
- "Hell", "damn", and "bastard" have been removed from the filter list
- Fixed the UITriggerList console command
- The water near Kongor has been fixed
- The teleporters on Grimm's Crossing now properly unbind and disjoint you
- Various Tooltip fixes
- The Chatserver has been updated for HoN TV
* You must patch up to 2.3.0 to connect to it again

- Added a new Announcer: BreakyCPK Pack
* Make every game a shoutcasted game!
* Will be available to purchase on the 29th

Heroes

- Added a new Early Access Hero: Lord Salforis
* Based on the Dream hero Necromancer created by Passthechips
* Named after the Name-A-Hero contest winner Salforis
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Dreadknight Salforis

- Added a new Nymphora Alt Avatar: Spriticus
* Voiced by the great Jesse Cox of OMFG (One Moderately Funny Gamer)
* His YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/OMFGcata

- Added a new Zephyr Alt Avatar: Turkey Zephyr
* Will be available to purchase on the 22nd

- Added a new Corrupted Disciple Alt Avatar: Steampunk Disciple
* Voiced by the magical TotalBiscuit
* His YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut
* Will be available to purchase on the 25th

- Monarch is no longer Early Access, but cannot be used in Tournament Mode yet
- Mandromeda now has better effects for his first ability
- Dreadknight Salforis now plays the proper custom sounds when using the Alt Avatar

Bugfixes

Engineer
- Brought back "Keg Away!" cast sound

Forsaken Archer
- Fixed Piercing Arrows so that they deal the proper damage if the illusion dies
* Before the fix, they dealt 0 damage if they were in flight after the illusion died

Gauntlet
- Fixed his Grapple so it unbinds targets if it touches a valid unit
- Fixed his ultimate from hitting units behind him

Gemini
- Fixed the wolves' attackrange to properly be 128
- Fixed typo in his first ability

Gladiator
- Now can't tab to gadgets from Pitfall and Call to Arms
- Brought back Chariot sound without it being played to enemies

Midas
- Fixed a bug with him being unselectable

Rampage
- Fixed his alt avatar Stampede projectiles so they don't pierce through invulnerability anymore

Revenant
- Fixed a bug where dispelling the visual state did not dispel the damage from Mortification
- Fixed a bug where the dark-ghost transparent effects attached to the target did not disappear when the visual state gets dispelled

Scout
- Fixed Detonate so that the level progression tooltips displays properly

HON Updates: Version 2.2.9 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:45:00 +0000

Version 2.2.9

- The current Free Heroes have changed. The current available list is as follows:
* NOTE: This week's rotation was hand picked by Ms Pudding

* Chronos
* Fayde
* Forsaken Archer
* Soulstealer
* Wildsoul

* Parasite
* Nymphora
* Chipper
* Doctor Repulsor
* Bubbles
* Pollywog Priest
* Empath

* Drunken Master
* Legionnaire
* Pharaoh

- Added a new Early Access Hero: Lord Salforis
* Based on the Dream hero Necromancer created by Passthechips
* Named after the Name-A-Hero contest winner Salforis

- Added a new Limited Edition Alt Avatar: Dreadknight Salforis

- Added a new Nymphora Alt Avatar: Spriticus
* Voiced by the great Jesse Cox of OMFG (One Moderately Funny Gamer)
* His Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/OMFGcata

HON: Monkey King Gameplay

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:20:00 +0000

HON: Gemini

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:06:00 +0000

Primary Attribute
Agility
Str 19
Agi 22
Int 17

Detailed Attributes
Movement Speed 300
Str per Level 2.1
Agi per Level 3
Int per Level 1.9

Defense Information
Armor 4.08
Dmg. Reduction 20%
Magic Armor 5.5
Magic Dmg. Reduction 25%

Base Attack
Attack Type Melee
Damage 46 - 51
Range 128
Attacks/Sec. 0.72

SKILLS

Twin Breath
Gemini spews out a cone of flame and frost, pelting nearby fools with elemental fury
Action - Target Dual Position
Type - Enemy Units
Type: Magic
Range: 400
Cast Time: 0.7 Seconds
Mana Cost: 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 14.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
Activation
Unleashes a swirling cone of flame and frost which deals 60 / 120 / 180 / 240 Magic Damage, 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 Magic Damage per second for 3 seconds, and a 15 / 20 / 25 / 30% Movement Speed Slow for 3 seconds.

Twin Fangs

Gemini splits his fire and ice essences, allowing each to streak forth before explosively recombining
Action - Target Position
Type - Enemy Units
Type: Magic
Range: 800
Cast Time: 0.8 Seconds
Mana Cost: 100
Cooldown: 14.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
Activation
Causes Gemini to split into two forms that travel side by side for 800 units in target direction. Units each form touch suffer 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 Magic Damage, and the forms recombine at the end, stunning enemies in a 200 radius for 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 seconds.

Twin Strike
When Gemini strikes, his whirling dance of fire and ice whips out at the target, effectively striking again.
Action - Passive
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
On Attack
Makes Gemini's attacks deal a bonus attack for 10 / 15 / 20 / 25% of normal Damage to the target.

Fire and Ice
Gemini reveals that he is truly a combination of two elemental entities, Fire and Ice, and reverts to his basic state of two forms.
Action - Target Self
Cast Time: 1.0 Seconds
Cooldown: 60.0 Seconds
Required Level: 6 / 11 / 16
Activation
Splits Gemini into two forms, Fire and Ice.

Fire and Ice each have abilities, 370 / 400 / 430 Movement Speed, 5.5 / 7.5 / 9.5 Magic Armor, and have Attributes equal to those of Gemini.

If either Fire or Ice dies, Gemini will perish, and the two may recombine into Gemini.

Fire and Ice emerge at the same Health and Mana percentages that Gemini is at, and recombine to give Gemini Health and Mana percentages equal to the higher of the two.

Gemini's Auras will emit from Fire.

HON Updates: Version 2.2.8 Release

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:57:00 +0000

Version 2.2.8
- The current Free Heroes have changed. The current available list is:
* Moon Queen
* Dampeer
* Nomad

* Aluna
* Defiler
* Thunderbringer
* Revenant
* Plague Rider
* Pyromancer

* Kraken
* Electrician
* Deadwood
* Behemoth
* Flux
* Jeraziah

- Added a new Alt Avatar: Flaming Deadwood
- Fixed the attack projectile for Mandromeda
- Cthulhuphant is no longer a "New" hero and will be usable in Tournament Mode

HON: Monkey King

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:49:00 +0000

Primary Attribute
Agility
STR 19
AGI 20
INT 18

Detailed Attributes
Movement Speed: 305
STR per Level: 2
AGI per Level: 3
INT per Level: 2

Defense Attribute
Armor: 5.9
Dmg. Reduction: 26%
Magic Armor: 5.5 Dmg.
Magic Reduction: 25%

Attack Type: Melee
Damage: 47-53
Range: 128
Attacks/Sec.: 0.71

Skills

Illusive Dash (Q) – Quickly moves forward at 300 range, hitting foes for a certain amount of damage plus his base damage. If he hits at least one enemy, a second dash is performed “for free”. Cuts through trees but is blocked by cliffs and buildings.

Heavenly Vault (W) – Jumps over a unit, dealing damage to it, slowing it and slightly pushing it in the opposite direction. The Monkey King also deals damage in a small area upon landing. If you successfully perform Heavenly Vault on a target, you get to use it once more for free, dealing even more damage to it. You can also use it to jump over buildings. Since the building cannot be pushed back, the Monkey King leaps even further forward.

Wan Jin Slam (E) – Hits the earth in front of him with his staff, stunning and damaging enemies in the area. The earth then erupts dealing another burst of damage. The erupting area can be used to perform Heavenly Vault on and jump over it.

Flying Nimbus (R) – Activating this skill summons a cloud, which the Monkey King mounts to get additional movement speed. He can attack while on the cloud as long as he doesn’t take damage. In addition, the ultimate passively lowers the cooldonw on his spells. In fact, the cooldown on a spell gets lower for every next spell he casts.

Skill Build

All of his skills are active and specially designed to be combined in nice chains. I would recommend having at least one point on each at the start. Heavenly Vault is the highest burst damage ability in the game if performed correctly and probably should be max’ed first. The Illusive Dash seems perfect for initiations during the laning phase and setting up early kills, so you may want to add some points to it. Before you get the ultimate at level 6, think about if you really need it so early.

Item Build

The main restriction for the Monkey King to dominate the lane early on would be his mana pool. To be able to perform his combos he would need something to keep his mana up. A Bottle or a Blood Chalice would serve to this purpose. Later, he will need to add to his survivability and at the same time to increase his damage output. Consider Shrinken Head, Null-Stone, Frostburn, Abusuve Skull.

HON Updates: From Version 2.2.0 Up To 2.2.1.2

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:29:00 +0000

Version 2.2.1.2

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- Fixed the game crashing when you hit the Disconnect button

Version 2.2.1.1

-----------
- Fixed Replays

Version 2.2.1

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- Fixed the Forsaken Archer bugs

Version 2.2.0

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- The current Free Heroes have changed. The current available list is:
* Magebane
* Dark Lady
* Moon Queen
* Night Hound
* Wildsoul
* Dampeer
* Armadon
* Electrician
* Geomancer
* Parasite
* Gauntlet
* Slither
* Demented Shaman
* Vindicator
* Glacius

- Fixed problems caused by using child interfaces in overlays
- Fixed two different server crashes
- Fixed consecutive bonuses not falling off
- Post-Game Chat Channels will no longer display the option to add the channel to the auto-join channel list
- News has new countdown timer system
- Fixed a bug where some of the midbar icons would be grayed out after playing a Matchmaking game

- You can no longer bottle or touch a rune that's been deleted
* This fixes double bottling a rune if you get it on the same frame as someone else
- Hellbourne ranged creep sounds updated
- Possibly fixed rune pickups not being announced occasionally
- Shop item cooldowns are now only updated once per second
- Don't send game data to players that haven't loaded the world yet. This fixes crashes when reconnecting
- You can no longer call kick votes on yourself
- Kick votes on an AFK player will now be AFK kick votes
- Fix crash when checking item ownership if an item had no owner
- Fixed logic used to determine killer of a hero when a non-hero gets the last hit

- New last hit detection method
* Damage done in one frame is now applied in a random order. The damage that ends up killing the unit is now credited for the kill

- Old last hit detection method:
* Damage is done at once. If the unit died, use a weighted random system to determine which damage source gets credit for the kill

Two scenarios for this:
- 50 HP creep takes 20 damage from player A and 60 damage from player B
* Old method: Player A has 25% chance of getting the kill, player B has 75% chance
* New method: Player B always gets the kill

- 50 HP creep takes 60 damage from player A and 440 damage from player B
* Old method: Player A has 12% chance of getting the kill, player B has 88% chance of getting the kill
* New method: Both players have a 50% chance of getting the kill

Kongor
- Kongor instantly kills Illusions he attacks
- Kongor now stops getting stronger at the 1 hour mark, increased from 45 minutes
* This means Kongor at the 60 minute mark has 120 charges of his growth buff, up from the old cap of 90 at 45 minutes
- Kongor Armor from the growth buff doubled from .05 to .1 Armor per charge
- Scaling damage for the stomp does twice as much damage to non-Heroes & the stomp damage increases by 1 damage per charge of his growth buff
* Starting damage of the stomp is 70 Magic Damage against Heroes
- Kongor can no longer have his Armor reduced by any ability or item
* Abilities like Pestilence's Swarm still can be cast on him and give vision, but do not reduce his Armor

== Items ==

Observatory
- Health Potions can now be bought here
- Mana Potions can now be bought here

Frostwolf's Skull
- Ranged Heroes now apply a 20% Movespeed Slow
* Melee Heroes still apply a 30% Movespeed Slow
- Stats changed from 25 Strength, 25 Agility, 25 Intelligence to 30 Strength, 15 Agility, 15 Intelligence

Tablet of Command
- Manacost increased from 25 to 50
- Cooldown increased from 16 to 20 seconds

Sol's Bulwark
- Recipe cost increased from 700 to 900

Daemonic Breastplate
- Recipe cost decreased from 1100 to 900

Runed Cleaver
- Damage increased from 55 to 60
- Cooldown to kill a tree lowered from 15 to 5 seconds

== Heroes ==

- Added a new Alt Avatar: Magus Bane

All Melee Heroes
- Base health regeneration increased from 0.25 to 1.25 health per second

Arachna
- Harden Carapace duration changed from 3 to 2/3/4/5 seconds

Armadon
- Spine Burst bonus Physical Damage per stack lowered from 30 to 25
- Restless passively increases the bonus Physical Damage of Spine Burst by 5 per level
- Back angles and Side angles increased by 5% each (so 20% more area covered)

Behemoth
- Fissure duration changed from 8 to 5/6/7/8 seconds
- Enrage cooldown lowered from 7 to 7/6/5/4 seconds

Chronos
- Time Leap manacost lowered from 135 to 120
- Chronofield now gives vision and reveals in and around the area

Cthulhuphant
- Mortifying Presence can now be toggled
- Fixed his Trample projectile so it gets killed properly if he isn't bound to it

Devourer
- Cadaver Armor Strength gain radius increased from 400 to 1150 units

Fayde
- Reflection's Clearvision radius changed from 1200 to 800/1000/1200
- Burning Shadows stun duration from 1/1.5/2/2.5 to 1.6/1.9/2.2/2.5 seconds

Flint
- Flare Movespeed slow from 14/20/26/32% to 14/18/22/26%

Forsaken Archer
- Piercing Arrows now leaves behind an Illusion that channels for you
* Can still be interrupted by stunning the illusion
- Piercing Arrows Magic Damage per arrow reduced from 75/150/225 to 75/125/175

Geomancer
- Crystal Field Magic Damage from 250/350/450 to 300/450/600

Hammerstorm
- Mighty Swing area from 175 to 175/200/225/250
- Mighty Swing splash from 12.5/25/37.5/50% to 15/30/45/60%

Hellbringer
- Death Boil*s first tick now starts at 5 damage instead of 10
* Final Magic Damage lowered from 150/210/280/360 to 125/180/245/320

Kraken
- Starting Armor reduced from 3.1 to 2.1
- Splash Physical Damage reduced from 30/50/70/90 to 20/40/60/80 on both inner and outer radius

Night Hound
- Base Intelligence increased from 14 to 16

Nomad
- Fixed Mirage Strike not playing the sound for the enemy

Plague Rider
- Movespeed reduced from 320 to 315
- Cursed shield Armor lowered from 3/6/9/12 to 2/4/6/8
- Cursed Shield no longer applies a Movespeed Slow, just Attackspeed
- Cursed Shield now applies to all attacks, not just Melee

Pollywog
- Electric Jolt manacost changed from 95/105/135/160 to 100/120/140/160

Revenant
- When the duration ends on Defile it will now remove 1 charge instead of expiring
* Attacking removes the charge that has the least time left

Rhapsody
- Effects for the Dance Floor now only play on Heroes
- Dance Floor now does half damage/heal to creeps

Sand Wraith
- Mirage duration from 5/6/7 to 4/4.5/5 seconds
- Mirage cooldown from 120 to 120/100/80 seconds
- Desert's Curse manacost from 130/140/150/160 to 120
- Desert's Curse Movespeed Slow/Speed from 5/9/14/18% to 8/12/16/20%

Scout
- Base Damage adjusted from 45-59 to 50-54
- Vanish cooldown from 24/18/12/6 to 15/12/9/6
- Electric Eyes no longer give experience to enemies who kill them
* They still give gold
- The Detonate ability on Electric Eyes moved from Q to E

Silhouette
- Can no longer grapple to a tree or swap to illusion while immobilized
- Relentless Salvo cooldown from 9/7/5/3 to 10/8/6/4 seconds
- Shadow cooldown changed from 120/105/90 to 120/110/100 seconds

Succubus
- Succubus' Hold now reveals and gives clearvision around the target (300 AoE) with 1 second linger after the channel ends

Swiftblade
- Finally allowed Swiftblade to use Portal Key while Swift Slashing!

Tempest
- Elemental manacost from 170 to 180
- Glacial Blasts manacost from 110/130/150/160 to 100/120/140/160

Torturer
- Chain Reaction AoE from 225 to 150/175/200/225

Tremble
- Terror Mounds no longer lose the bonus to Health Regen and Movespeed when an enemy Hero is inside one
* They still disable the invisibility when an enemy Hero is inside

Warbeast
- Warbeast now copies his existing Howl buff to the Wolves when they are summoned

Wild Soul
- Booboo can no longer use Return if he has taken damage from an enemy Hero in the last 3 seconds

== Bugfixes ==

- Fixed entity typos in the following abilities. There should be no functional change other than tooltip or minor effects that were not showing up:
* Devourer's strength growth from kills
* Balphagore's Demonic Pathogen
* Balphagore's Regurgitate
* Fayde's Burning Shadows
* Revenant's Mortification
* Pebbles' Chuck
* Silhouette's Shadow
* Aluna's Emerald Red
* Bombardier's Boom Dust
* Maliken's Hellbourne Zeal
* Puppet Master's Whiplash
* Tundra Coeurl's Slow
* Kongor's growth
* Antlore Healer's Heal
* Transmutanstein and Zorgath's growth

Armadon
- Added charges as a visual indicator for how close Armordillo will be to proccing a Spine Burst
* The charges are representing a percentage, from 0 to 100

Balphagore
- Fixed his minions being deniable at 50% HP like other minions

Chipper
- Offset the Rocket Barrage projectile so it won't hit units behind him

Empath
- Fixed Illusory Veil not aggroing creeps properly

Gauntlet
- Fixed Grapple exploit that was hilarious and teleported both Gauntlet and the hooked target back to the well

Master of Arms
- Swapped the blue/red weapon switch gun sounds so it makes more sense

Monkey King
- Fixed a small displacement issue where Vault displaced him even when invulnerable

Nomad
- Fixed an issue where Nomad was attacking at a closer range than 128 with his True Strike ability
- Fixed his ZING! sound so it plays if he uses True Strike at point-blank range
- Added buildingwalking to him when invisible so that Nomad & his illusion won't get stuck on buildings

Parasite
- Fixed Parasite Leech giving him Movespeed even when it's disjointed
* If it is disjointed now, Parasite will not get any buff
- Made the Infest ability on the creep castable even when the creep is stunned or silenced
- Made Infest order disjoint the infested target when it lands
* This ensures that allies who are attacking a creep you infest will not continue to attack it

HON Updates: Version 2.0.22 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:01:00 +0000

Version 2.0.22

*April Fools!
- Some Announcer sounds and hero voices have been... touched up...

* Alchemist Bones have been reverted to the older cooldown version
- This is a temporary fix while we get new code to fix a significant bug

New Alternate Avatars for 3 HoN Heroes:
* Added a new Alternate Avatar designed by FnaticMSI: MSIvy Slither
* Added a new Alternate Avatar: Mountain Tundra
* Added a new Alternate Avatar: Quadropod Tremble

HON Update : Version 2.0.20 To Version 2.0.21 Updates

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:40:00 +0000

Version 2.0.21

* Fixed Puppetmaster's Voodoo Puppet deleting heroes
* Tremble can no longer teleport to an enemy's mounds

Version 2.0.20

- Power-ups will no longer spawn at 0:00 game-time

- Buying Back is now limited to 2 per player
* They never 'restock', so you can buy back only twice during any single game
* The game tells you when you buy back how many you have remaining

- Fixed the bounty for Barracks so that the killer gets the bounty as well
* Was bugged and everyone on the team except the killer got bounty
- Fixed a crash with the Match Stats screen

Items

- Alchemist Bones are now limited to 1 per player and are bind on pickup
* While a player already has one, they can't assemble another
* Alchemist Bones is muted when unowned (dropped by a terminated player)

- Tablet of Command now takes a Major Totem instead of an Apprentice's Robe
* Stat gain changed from +16 Intelligence to +4 Strength, +4 Agility, +14 Intelligence

Heroes

- Added a new Hellbourne Agility Hero: Tremble

Andromeda
- Fixed a bug with Void Rip that caused you and her target to move slightly closer to each other

Chipper
- Fixed Rocket Barrage so you do not gain a free rocket when you level them from 2 to 3

Chronos
- Fixed his Curse of Ages Tool-tip
- Fixed Curse of Ages bugging out when you miss the bashing attack

Deadwood
- Fixed interactions between Willowmaker and Unbreakable

Demented Shaman
- Fixed an issue with Unbreakable when you have healing-reducing effects on you

Devourer
- Stopped him from standing up and being silly after he dies while hooking someone

Doctor Repulsor
- Corrected some efficiency issues with his abilities

Kraken
- Tsunami Charge cleaned up
- Fixed Tsunami Charge so that if he's still charging and dies, his corpse won't stand there
- Fixed a bug where Accursed's Fire Shield can shield Kraken and he can do actions while charging

Legionnaire
- Updated the Taunt so that it will function properly in duplicate hero mode

Pandamonium
- Fixed Flick from triggering stuff like Corrupted Disciple's Static Discharge twice

Pharaoh
- Wall of Mummies grab radius increased by 5
* This is a fix to the cornercase of someone being caught inside of the mummies but not grabbed
- Made his Tormented Soul un-selectable so you cant tab to them

Pollywog Priest
- Fixed his alt avatar not playing the cast sound on his Tongue Tied

Puppet Master
- Fixed a very small bug that didn't give Whiplash a timer when Puppet Master died with 1 charge on it
- Fixed Voodoo Puppet to give bloodlusts and assists correctly

Rampage
- Stampede magic immunity now take place when charges are 4 instead of 5

Soul Reaper
- Fixed a majority of cases of his aura getting around Unbreakable

Soulstealer
- Removed the channeling bar from his ultimate for now, we will fix it and re-add it later

HON: Tremble

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:35:00 +0000

Primary Attribute
Agility
Str 17
Agi 18
Int 18

Detailed Attributes
Movement Speed 310
Str per Level 2.5
Agi per Level 2.2
Int per Level 2

Defense Information
Armor 4.92
Dmg. Reduction 23%
Magic Armor 5.5
Magic Dmg. Reduction 25%

Base Attack
Attack Type Melee
Damage 49-54
Range 128
Attacks/Sec 0.69

SKILLS

Dark Swarm
Tremble summons a massive swarm of bugs from beneath the earth to act as his personal shield, deflecting ranged attackers and suffocating nearby enemies.
Action - Target Self
Type - Enemy Units
Type: Magic
Radius: 300
Mana Cost: 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 12.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
Activation
Summons a swarm of bugs for 5 seconds. Enemies within the swarm take 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 Magic Damage per second, while enemies outside the swarm deal 8 / 16 / 24 / 32% less damage to Tremble.

Terrorform
Create and tunnel through Terror Mounds. Terror Mounds grant Invisibility with a 2 second Fade Time, {15,20,25,30}% Move Speed, and {2,4,6,8} Health Regeneration. Also gain the ability to Terror Port every {120,100,80,60} seconds between Mounds. Maximum of {3,5,7,9} Terror Mounds.
Action - Target Position
Type - Self
Type: Magic
Range: 600
Radius: 400
Mana Cost: 110
Cooldown: 60.0 / 50.0 / 40.0 / 30.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7

Impalers
Passively adds attack damage and the Impalers effect on attack.
Action - Passive
5 / 10 / 15 / 20 Damage
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
On Attack
Applies Impalers to target for 2 seconds.
Impalers grant 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 bonus Magic Damage and 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 HP heal on inflict.
Impalers
10 / 20 / 30 / 40% Movement Slow

Hive Mind
Permanently summon Shudder to aid you in battle.
Action - No Target
Cast Time: 1.0 Seconds
Mana Cost: 140
Cooldown: 90.0 / 75.0 / 60.0 Seconds
Required Level: 6 / 11 / 16
Activation
Summon Shudder at your location. If Shudder is already summoned, kills the previous Shudder and resummons it.
Shudder has 50 / 75 / 100 Attack Damage, 800 / 1100 / 1400 HP, 350 / 375 / 400 Movement Speed, and 1 / 1.5 / 2 second Ensnare. His Razor Carapace grants 10 / 20 / 30 Deflection and {-2,-4,-6} Armor on attack.
He has access to the same level of Terror Form and Impalers as Tremble.

Skill Build and Game Play Strategy soon...

HON Update : Version 2.0.6.2 Up To Version 2.0.8.1 Are Up Now

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:55:00 +0000

Version 2.0.8.1

- Fixed building attack and building destroyed announcer messages

Version 2.0.8

- Units in the fog of war will no longer block pathing
* This means that if you are clicking to move through a juke spot and an enemy is in the fog, blocking that path, your hero will still attempt to follow that path until you see the enemy hero, rather than run around the long way
* This includes stuff like fissure or other movement blocking gadgets

- New Kraken alternate avatar: Crustacean Kraken
- Added new account icons
- Moved the concede and pause options slightly
- Added a confirmation box when you call a concede vote
- Removed snow from Caldavar

- Players can now right click the "Auto-Connect" checkbox to remove all chat rooms from their auto join list
* Doing so will also leave each auto join channel they are currently in
- Fixed the UI acting like spectators could vote on remaking
- Fixed spectators being able to vote on kick votes
- Each team now has a 5 second cooldown between any vote call
- Any global votes fail immediately if enough people vote NO
- Players will now automatically be placed in a group channel when they do team matchmaking
- When a player joins a group the group channel will automatically have channel focus
- Fixed the editor deleting the /resources/ folder inside of a map archive when you save
- Fixed a crash after playing 2+ games in a row
- Fixed a crash within the hero compendium

Geometer's Bane
- Recipe cost increased from 500 to 1200
- Now "Order Disjoints" when used
* This means someone who queues up a spell or attack on the user has that order canceled when it is used

Bombardier
- Boom dust ranged decreased from 600 to 500
- Boom dust damage scaling from 40/60/80/100 to 25/50/75/100

Dampeer
- Terrorize cooldown increased from 8s to 10s
- Vampiric Flight cooldown increased from 20/16/12/8 to 22/18/14/10

Thunderbringer
- Lightning Rod area of effect reduced from 1000 to 800

Slither
- Vision on wards reduced from 1400 to 300

Voodoo Jester
- Base damage decreased from 51-61 to 46-56

Zephyr
- Gust now has a 0.1 second ministun

Version 2.0.7

- Fixed AFK kick vote
- Kick votes now have the proper cooldown
- Fixed the yellow 'time left' bar over all other units appearing

Version 2.0.6.3

- Fixed a minor exploit with the RAP form

Version 2.0.6.2

- Fixed Reconnection issues
* Reconnection was not always working, this fix should get it off the failboat

HON Update: Game Version 2.0.6.1 Is Up Now

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:28:00 +0000

Version 2.0.6.1

* Fixed Helga Hammerstorm icon

Version 2.0.6

- Added a new Alt Avatar for Gladiator: Adventure Gladiator
- Added a new Alt Avatar for Hammerstorm: Helga Hammerstorm

- Based on player feedback and data from the last month of matches significant improvements to the MM algorithm have been made which should result in matches being much more balanced
- Groups waiting more than a few minutes in the queue should now find themselves being placed into a fair match much sooner than previously
* This also includes groups with very high or very low MMR that were having to wait much longer than the average queue times

- Added more icons and another bundle
- Vote kick has been re-added to the game
* A kick vote against someone can only be called once every 3 minutes
- Concede now only requires 4/5 "Yes" votes after 30 minutes instead of normal 5/5
- Fixed a bunch of console errors
- Fixed an issue on the hero selection screen for the Hellbourne team
* Part of the UI was overlapping the hero selected circle and causing issues
- Can now click store item icons to view bundle/avatar/announcer preview windows
- Add Romanian language to system bar language selection combobox
- Tweak to progression interface to display 4-digit cumulative stats
- Added a "Back" button [back to player stats] for match stats panel when clicking to view another player's stats for a particular match
- Fixed the AFK kick vote to indicate that it is team only

- Items in the shop now show their total cost by default
* To see just the recipe cost, hold down control with the shop open
- Wards now have a 'Timer' bar above them that shows how much time is left at a glance
- Fixed a bug where Striders could get charges while on cooldown
- Re-recorded Gladiator's voice

HON Game: Game Version 2.0.5 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:32:00 +0000

Version 2.0.5

- Added new Alt Avatar for Arachna
- Added new Flags, Icons, and Bundles
- Fixed up Chipper recommended items
- "Ownage" now only plays on the fifth team kill streak, not all kills five or greater

- Fixed weather effects stopping when joining a new game
- Fied Alt Avatars being selected during hero loading
- Fixed a crash when someone selected an invalid Alt Avatar
- The Wards stat is now Wards Places instead of Wards Bought
- Players attempting to join matchmaking groups that are already queued for a match will now be stopped from doing so with an appropriate message and popup
- The chat server should now throttle repeated matchmaking invites sent from players trying to spam invites

Disjointing improvements:
- All orders can now be disjointed (e.g. right clicking to attack a hero that then blinks will cancel your attack order)
- Attacks will now get canceled mid-attack if the target disjoints
- Spells will now get canceled mid-cast if the target disjoints
- Channeled spells will now get canceled if the target disjoints

Striders
- Now begins to lose charges when you are within 900 units of a visible enemy hero
* The max number of charges is lowered by 1 for every 100 units closer you are to an enemy hero

Dampeer
- Fixed some abilities playing through fog
- No longer invulnerable when charging at someone

Legionnaire
- Fixed the no damage charge bug

Keeper of the Forest
- Stealth is now removed when the attack completes, not when it starts

HON Update: Game Versions 2.0.3 up to 2.0.4

noreply@blogger.com (Ang Palibhasa) — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:37:00 +0000

Version 2.0.4

* Added a new Hero, Dampeer
* Added a new Alt Avatar for Dampeer in the store: Vacation Dampeer!
* Added a new Alt Avatar for Flint Beastwood in the store: Captain Flint!

* Added new account icons to the Store
* Added more flags upon request to the store
* Added new Icons for the minimap

* Added a new "Terror" overhead icon for When you are feared
* Improved feedback in Matchmaking for leavers
- This now tells you how many games you need to play to be a non-leaver
* Romanian string table update
* Fixed crash if you used the mousewheel over a playerlist in a chat channel without clicking, and then hit Up
* Fixed a drawSelectedPath crash
* Fixed any attempts to auto-follow into matchmaking games
* Fix to prevent alt avatars from being selected during hero loading
* Fixed Neutrals aggro and added a ZZz effect over their heads when they are asleep

* Added Spellshards as recommended items to some heroes
* Fixed Geometer's Bane to correctly remove the "Attack this hero!" indicator when used

* Fixed Maliken's weird textures with sword mode on
* Fixed Legionnaire's Charge so it doesn't cancel when you use it on someone on the edge of fog
* Fixed Rampage's Charge so it doesn't cancel when you use it on someone on the edge of fog
* Fixed Night Hound's Pounce so it always does the bonus damage
* Fixed up the weird interactions with Pharaoh mummy and other heroes. You could get pushed and pulled from weird angles and this fixes that
- Also makes the circle around him of mummies slightly more circular
* Fixed Bubbles and Gladiator's abilities with timers so they reset to 0 correctly if you use the ability early
* Fixed Soul Reaper's Judgment, it was hitting siege units before

Version 2.0.3

* Added more Winter/Christmas stuff, including a new courier and three free new Alt Avatars in the store!

* Maliken, Keeper of the Forest, and Deadwood now have alt avatars in the store that cost 0 coins. Merry Christmas!
* Fixed some matchmaking bugs
* Fixed some UI bugs with the minimap and RAP
- This should fix the FPS issues players have been having
* Added some new icons and country flags that were missing
* Fixed gold report's GPM calculations (this the popup you get when you hover over your gold)
* Fixed Ophelia's targeting with Judgment
* Fixed Nymphora and her ultimate on Grimm's
* Fixed a few spots on Caldavar you could get perma stuck
* Fixed Pollywog's alt shooting lightning from the wrong hand