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New Champion! Congratulations to Team IG for winning The International Dota 2 Championships

2012-09-02T23:08:00.000-07:00

Invictus Gaming is the New Dota 2 Champion! Congrats and keep it up guys! Navi performed an amazing game. IG just patiently nibbled the throne from them.

Who will win The International Dota 2 Championships?

2012-09-01T16:45:00.000-07:00

I'm currently watching the winners bracket. IG vs NAVI! I'm not sure how this will turn out. What is your bet?

How to make money in diablo 3

2012-08-31T09:20:00.001-07:00

I think it's my first time to write about Diablo3.

To gamers who play HoN but don't know Diablo, you're missing a lot. I actually stopped playing Heroes of Newerth so that I'll have more time playing Diablo 3. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

Diablo III is an action role-playing video game by Blizzard Entertainment, the third installment in the Diablo franchise. The game, which features elements of the hack and slash, and dungeon crawl genres, was released in North America, Latin America, Europe, South Korea, and Taiwan on May 15, 2012, and in Russia on June 7, 2012.[3] Before its release, the game broke several presale records and became the most pre-ordered PC game of all time on Amazon.com.[7][8][9][10] Diablo III subsequently set the new all-time record for fastest-selling PC game by selling over 3.5 million copies in the first 24 hours of its release.

Just to let you guys know, my brother bought the game and we shared accounts. I had a hard time finishing the inferno level because of the prices of the weapons cost a fortune! Just imagine fighting the bosses and their minions. It's really hard. And I'm playing as a very squishy wizard!

Anyway, I want to thank this Chinese guy, he was able to help me harvest more gold and not only that, sell gold online. I know it sounds crazy but you can actually make a living by farming gold and selling it online in Diablo 3 just like in World of Warcraft.

Check out this page for more information.

Playing Mid Wars - the good, the bad, and..of course the evil

2012-07-27T16:51:00.000-07:00

Hah!

Have you been hooked to this latest craze in Heroes of Newerth? If not, you're missing a lot. I've been playing mid wars for quite some time now and I just want to say that it's awesome. Why?

Here are some reasons:

New Features:

There are teleporters that allows players to travel to the action half the time using teleporting relics in Grim's Crossing.
Zorgath and Transmutanstein are the new bosses in this map. If you get these bosses, you will get amazing buffs - Token of sight and a double damage + invi!

The Good!

It's a risk free way to play Hon.
You will love the action.
No gold loss!
Fast Death timers!
You will be better in playing in clashes in the normal game.

The Bad and Evil!

Most players don't know the meta game.
The noobs who always die feed so much.
There are lots of imbalanced heroes for this game mode.

Anyway, despite of these

Some ticks and tricks!

Always try to get some AOE for early game.
Go for capacity to fight. But stat items for more mana/health early. Remember, you can go home fast anyway. It's much better than buying consumables.
If you're a carry, make sure you have massive damage.

That's all for now folks. Let me know what's your favorite hero!

What is your favorite background wallpaper in your desktop?

2012-07-27T16:18:00.000-07:00

I just noticed that this blog is number one in Google when you search for the query 'hon wallpapers'. Well obviously, no really cares much about HoN now and the keyword is not that competitive. Haha! But it still feels great to see my blog in the number one spot! I haven't updated this blog for quite some time so it really surprised me.

Anyway, this post is just to ask everyone what is your favorite background wallpaper in your desktop? I prefer HD backgrounds with dark colors. What is yours?

Anyway, just to share a couple of sites, I find these site OK in terms of wall papers. Check them out:
http://www.desktopnexus.com/
http://www.wallpaperhere.com/

Be unconventional. Defeat noobs using Ring of Sorcery | Panda and Hammer Storm Discussion

2012-03-06T03:28:00.000-08:00

What kind of Sorcery is this? LOL ARE YOU DAMN SERIOUS NOOB! WHAT A BUILD NOOB! - these are some of the reactions when I use this build.

Well to be honest, I'm no longer playing in a very competitive manner but I'm a bit challenged to raise my MMR. I started to play public games again without mates. It was fun. My new favorite item is Ring of Sorcery.

It's a noob build but it was effective when I played Panda and Hammer Storm. Here are some of the reasons why:

Goodbye mana problems! The main problem with Panda and Hammer is that both of these heroes don't have much mana. Buying Ring of Sorcery eliminates that because it will greatly improve your mana pool. Hammer can now use his stun 2x-3x in a clash while panda can do most of his combos without fret.
More Experience for you! Because you can buy health potions in the secret shop and you have unlimited mana, you won't go to the fountain most of the time. You will gain more xp when you stay at the lane but just make sure that you have wards. :)
Gank more. Unlimited mana means continuous ganking. If your team have three support heroes, you can supply them with mana and you can roam and kill anyone you can encounter.
Farm more. You can stack creeps and use your spells on them without thinking that you won't have mana for stunning if you will gank later. You can also use your spells in creeps at the lanes for faster pushing.
Ring of Sorcery vs Blood Chalice. Well, you may say that why go for the ring where you can save when you buy blood chalice. The answer gentle men is that chalice gets a portion of your life. The main objective here is to gain more xp while not being prone at being ganked. You will think twice to use chalice because it drains health for mana, therefore, you still won't spam your spells etc. A hammer or a Panda with half health early game would be normally around less than 800 health and can be killed by 2 heroes easily.

Cons:

We can say that ring of sorcery is a luxury item to begin with. Since Hammer and Panda are both semi tanky heroes, you can't tank that early because your item is for your mana. But through teamwork, it can win you a public game.

Again, this is effective against noobs but not for pros unless you played it very well. What do you think? Let me know if you used this unconventional build for other heroes.

Cheers!

Kinesis joins Newerth - HoN Hero Spotlight

2012-03-05T03:28:00.002-08:00

It's great to see new intelligence heroes being introduced. Kinesis has lots of AOE power. I'm excited to see the actual stats of this hero. He has a tournament potential!

I'm thinking that this hero would be so squishy but needs a lot of mana to become effective. Therefore you need to make a perfect balance between being tanky and having lots of mana.

Anyway, here's the basic hero spotlight! Enjoy!

The Prophet teaches that energy flows through all things, we must only harness it for ourselves. The mages invoke incantations, the priests call upon gods wicked and just, but for the truly powerful, the power is harnessed from within. These are the Disciples of the Way and among them there is one known for his mastery over all -- Kinesis. Let the Hellbourne beware the power of his mind.
Kinesis relies heavily on the manipulation of the nearby units so that he may lift and launch smaller objects as projectiles. Being a ranged, intellect hero, his mind is a powerful asset, and also allows him to absorb much of the incoming damage by being offensive. Early game items such as Power Supply, Grave Locket, and a Bottle are great for keeping him powered up and buff with stats. Steamboots fit well, providing additional health, or a clutch swap to int for the bonus mana to launch one last assault. Nullstone is an extremely effective item, further boosting his defensive prowess and providing much-needed mana regeneration. As he fights with his mind, and not fists, most attack modifiers will pale in comparison to helpful gear like Frostfield Plate, or Kuldra's Sheepstick. Inherent defense works by providing a shield for all damage attempted, and not actually done, so Spellshards won't further increase his tanking capacity, nor reduce the cooldown on his Telekinetic Lift charges, but it still may prove a valuable tool for offensive damage. Stormspirit fits in nicely, adding another disable, high mana regeneration, and allowing Kinesis to set up properly. In the end, Kinesis may wish to build for stats, defense, and mana regeneration over attack damage. When fully geared up, Kinesis can become hard to kill while also being very powerful in attacking.

Draconis Lane Phase Annihilation

2012-02-24T05:20:00.000-08:00

I was browsing in Youtube and I've seen this video about Draconis who did an Annihilation while in the laning phase. Well, this guy did a good job in doing it. But perhaps we don't know the MMR of everyone here. And maybe because not everyone is not yet used to the damage of his spells. The range of the 1st skill is also annoying.

Again this kind of thing happens once in a while. I personally hate people posting stuff like this in youtube without saying more details like what's the mmr level etc.
If I remember it correctly, (I'm playing in 1700 MMR), I was playing Flux against Draconis at Mid. I can't really own that reptile because his skills' damage is a pain. I'm not even sure how we won but yeah, I just continued farming at mid, controlled the rune and ganked when there's a chance.

Google Panda InfoGraphic

2012-02-23T04:53:00.000-08:00

This infographic says it all. Just take a look at it and it's one of the best ways on how to explain the Panda update by Google. Thanks to www.singlegrain.com for this infographic.

So as you can see, the bottom line now is all about quality links and relevancy. Which is actually hard!

A better way to play Scout | Scout HoN Hero guide

2012-02-22T02:40:00.000-08:00

Scout is one of the favorite Heroes of noobs in HoN. Why? Because it's one of those famous right click heroes. But the question is are you playing it right? Some would say scout is a heavy weight early game. It's true! But, before you say something else, I would like to point out some good points that you might want to understand.

Some reasons why scout is still useful early game?

Early Wards / Free ward / Early Dewards - If you want to be useful in early game, pick your 2nd skill first - which is called Electric Eye. Choosing this at the start of the game would help your team mates gain map control and rune control. Some mid heroes would certainly own with the help of these runes. For example, Deadwood or Pebbles or Fayde would own mid if they have vision in the runes. (Actually most heroes would own mid if they have the rune.) It's that simple. In a way, you helped mid, and you also help the side lanes because they're not prone of being ganked early. You also helped your support heroes because in a sense they saved 200 gold because they didn't buy 2 of those wards. And lastly, you can deward the enemies ward because your electric eye can see those wards. In a way, if you're successful in dewarding you stole 100 from the enemies' support hero and gained 50 gold!
Silence Kills - Most people ignore this but do you know that a level 4 Electric Eye has a 6 second silence? 6 Seconds is long enough to kill a squishy caster like Pyromancer, Witch Slayer, Myrmidon etc.
Maximizing the use of Invisibility - Though you have a small burst damage at early levels, don't underestimate the power of invisibility. This can happen anywhere. Usually at early game, sometimes one normal attack is needed to kill someone. So fucking gank early!

Maybe you're beginning to get the point right? I'm playing a ganking scout early game. It's very useful. The skill build at early game would be:

Electric Eye
Vanish
Vanish
Electric Eye
Vanish
Marksman Shot
Vanish
Electric Eye
Electric Eye
Disarm
Marksman Shot
Disarm
Disarm
Disarm
Stats
Marksman Shot
Stats
Stats
Stats
Stats
Stats
Stats
Stats
Stats
Stats

Explanation:

This skill build in my humble opinion is the most helpful build for a scout. Do you know what a scout does in real life? Do that and you will be successful. Roam and kill.

Early electric eye would be useful for warding the runes. Maxing Electric eye and Vanish would give you your early game burst damage. You can gank mid early if you're level 4. Abuse the use of silence. You get XP and assists which equates to gold. And since you're moving around, you're unpredictable. You're like a shadow. Eventually, since you've invested your early game at helping your team mates, you can farm by mid game. :)

Early items would be:

1 Hatchet, 1 Health Potion, 3 runes of blight

Explanation:

Hatchet is very good for farming. Notice that I'm just maximizing all the money for consumables. Why? I want to get as much xp as I can get as well as to farm as much as I can.

Suggested Items:

Many people asked me what's the best boots for scout? There's no definite build for him but for me, Ghost marchers work most of the time. Early game, you gain +24 damage, not fantastic, but good enough. And it's nice coz you have a sudden movement burst + unit walking. Very ideal when you have more melee in your team.

If you're having fun in ganking, then try to get an early Sustainer then transform it to Runed Cleaver if you want maximum damage. If there are too many single targeted powerful spells like the punch of Deadwood or the ultis of Pyromacer or Witchslayer, then get Null Stone.

If there are simply too many disables, then don't get null stone. Get Shrunken head instead.

For damage items, it still depends. I personally love Shield breaker as my primary damage item. It can easily rip off support heroes that are really annoying. Strength heroes can also be weakened by this item.

Getting Brutalizer would be useful if the carry of the opposing team is a great hitter like MageBane/Madman. You got disarm + Bash, so you would totally win 1v1. Unless he has more powerful items.

Runed Cleaver + Geometer's Bane would be excellent for push towers. It's also useful to nullify some ultis like KOTF's Root or Bloodhunters Rupture.

Savage Mace for me is one of the best damage items that you can get. Mini stun + bonus damage + True strike. What can you ask for?

As for lifesteal, sometimes just ask your team mate to make an abyssal skull for you. If they don't have much cash, then go buy one. :)

Nullfire blade by the way is also nice especially if your team doesn't have much disable. But if you're rich enough then go buy a Sheepstick! :)

So that's about it. Happy playing! Hope this guide will help you to become a useful Scout. PM me if you have other suggestions for the play style.

Team TrollCasting giving away Legacy Keys

2012-02-21T01:39:00.000-08:00

Damn! I was 30 seconds late and everything was used up! This is how people are crazy about getting those Legacy Accounts!

Team TrollCasting has been very generous in giving away free Heroes of Newerth Legacy Keys! They said they're doing it to reciprocate the support that we're giving them in their Facebook page. And I quote:

"Remember guys.. every 50 likes we will give away a bonus 20 keys.. so 3200, 3250 and 3300 likes.. GET US THERE!!!"

This is what they said. So I guess we just have to wait for the next release. Here's what their Facebook Page looks like a few minutes a go:

And to those who were wondering what's the importance of getting a Legacy account, well, the first thing that goes to my head is that you got access to all of the old heroes and that's about it!

So there. If you're tired of using the heroes that were 'free' to use in the game, then go and like Team Trollcasting's Facebook page and wait for them to release another set of keys.

Cheers!

Draconis: New hero in HoN | HoN Hero Spotlight

2012-02-16T23:30:00.000-08:00

After Berzerker, another gimmicky hero is being introduced to Newerth - Draconis. Everyone thought that Berzerker was so IMBA/OP. Well, to be honest, yes and no. The bottom line is you can shut him down at early game. He doesn't have AOE spells to farm fast at the early game.

Draconis on the other hand seems to have a potential in quick farming. Very promising. His spells are also deadly. I'm assuming this hero would have mana problems at early levels. His ulti is very item dependent so you need to farm fast in order to own.

I would like to try this hero myself. I might play it like nomad or something. A bit tanky with damage..

Here's the video and enjoy!

The fiery dragon, Draconis, has awoken. As searing flames lick the charred scales accenting his face, a roar is let loose - the World Tree must be defended! Even Pyromancer would be scared of all the fire brought forth. As a ranged agility hero, Draconis can lay waste to his enemies with attacks, and should focus on doing damage and increasing his attack speed.

Draconis would benefit the most from Steamboots, as the attack speed and defensive capabilities are the most fitting. Ghost Marchers can be nice for the damage, but Blazing Flight already grants a great movespeed boost along with unit walking, so they're redundant. Frostburn has proven to be a great item for the bonus damage, health, and snare needed to keep the barrage of Cataclysmic Assault going longer. Since most of Draconis' spells are low mana cost, a chalice provides all the mana needed, if you opt to go for a heavy Q build for ganking. Since Cataclysmic Assult propegates attack modifiers, items such as Savage Mace and Frostwolf Skull synergize nicely for huge damage and a giant slow. Charged Hammer will only proc on the main attack, however, with the increased attack speed boost and AoE damage, it's still a viable alternative to Savage Mace. Wingbow can be used as a tech item for the defensive stats it grants through evasion and armor, but Shrunken Head is the ultimate defensive item to allow full use of Cataclysmic Assault and maximum damage.

SEO Outsourcing and Careers in the Philippines

2012-02-16T10:07:00.000-08:00

I decided to revive this old blog of mine just to test my SEO skills. This blog was supposed to help noobs in Heroes of Newerth but then, HoN decided to integrate tutorials in the game so I guess this site isn't much of use for gamers like me. But yes enough of the rant.

I was browsing through Craigslist and Jobstreet yesterday. To my surprise, there are a lot of SEO postings everywhere! The company I've been working for started in 2008 and I guess there were only a few back offices in the Philippines who do real SEO. Now, I guess there's a lot of companies doing it. It sounds great!

I've read a few articles way back when Google Panda was released and most of them says that SEO will be dead. At first I was scared because I thought I would eventually lose my job. But apparently, based from what I've observed, a lot more companies are needing SEO help and would like to join the battle in the online arena.

The Philippines is indeed one of the best locations to outsource SEO services. There may be a lot of reasons why companies want their back offices here. First and foremost, the operating costs here are much lower - office space, electricity, internet, man power etc. Second would be language. Most of us Filipinos have English as our second language and we're very adaptive in accents. This is the same reason why the call center industry flourished in our country. Lastly, we Filipinos are very industrious and reliable. Once we set a target, we'll never miss it.

I'm just happy that SEO has grown for the last few years and I'm looking forward to see more and more online action soon. To all Filipinos doing SEO, cheers to all of you! :)

Blizzard DOTA Trailer

2011-10-21T23:30:00.000-07:00

I haven't blogged for a bit. Anyway, here's something new - Blizzard DOTA. What do you guys think? I do hope EA would do the same thing but create some sort of 1st person view. LOL Here's the video:

Heroes of Newerth Hero Spotlight: Cthulhuphant

2011-09-30T04:19:00.000-07:00

This hero was release last week in HoN.Garena. The first time I was able to play with this hero was totally amazing. This hero was our enemy and we're having a hard time because of his advantage early game which proved useful until the end game. He's so rich so I think his shield is so Imba.
Here's the hero spotlight from HoN:

The Cthulhuphant is a tanky strength beast that can charge into a battle almost fearlessly, wreaking havoc on nearby enemies with his crippling passive slow and large area effect damage. At early levels he's able to kill difficult neutral creep camps with use of "Hook 'em", and gain an early level advantage that he can gank frequently with, using "Trample" for the burst damage and stun. If playing him in the lane, he can charge into creep waves and send projectiles flying to stun enemy heroes from a far distance--giving allies an opportunity to follow up with additional disables and damage output.

Cthulhuphant's greatest weakness is keeping up with his foes and dealing lethal damage. After using Trample, he has no other disables aside from his passive aura and may find himself falling short of killing an enemy. However, even with no survivability items early on, he can withstand a great deal of damage. For this reason, ghost marchers are an important pickup to help boost his attack damage and allow him to keep up with his prey.

12 dota 2 beta keys to be given away - PlayDota launches its photo contest!

2011-09-21T00:26:00.000-07:00

I know everyone is going crazy to get involved in the Beta phase of DotA2. Well, here's everyone's chance to get a key! PlayDota - the official DotA website just launched its photo contest and guess what? The winners will be given a beta key. There will be only 6 winners in this contest.

Here are the details of the contest:

WIN-YOUR-OWN-DOTA2-BETA-KEY

PlayDotA U-Photo Submission

In this contest, you are required to take a photograph of yourself holding a sign that reads "Dota 2" and your "PlayDotA.com Username" in any creative fashion (interesting, wild, weird, funny, strange, conceptual or any other adjective you see fit) you can.

The primary target is to ensure that your photo reflects your love for DotA and give us an idea what it means to you.

Rules and Regulations:
All images should be above 600x400 px in size. Images smaller than the mentioned size will not be considered. You are allowed to submit only one entry. Multiple ID submissions will lead to a disqualification. You are allowed edit your submission until 48 hours from the time of your submission. No edit is allowed after the deadline is hit. Do not heavily edit your images digitally. You are allowed to do some basic fixes like contrast, brightness and etc but anything which has been manipulated far from original will be disqualified.

Contest Dates:
Begins: 12:00 AM GMT -8, September 21, 2011
Ends: 11:59 PM GMT -8, September 27, 2011
Submissions after the deadline will not be considered under any condition.
Submission Thread: dota-2-beta-key-u-photo-contest-submission-thread

Prizes:
12 Dota 2 Keys are up for grabs in this first contest. 6 winners will be chosen by the PlayDotA Staff and each winner will be rewarded with 2 beta keys that they can share with their friends.
So what are you waiting for? Get started on the planning.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q) How many photos may I enter?
A) Only one entry per member.

Q) How much photo editing may I use?
A) The only photo editing allowed will be minimalistic such as lighting. Any major changes will not be allowed. If you are unsure then do not edit the submission.

Q) Can other people be in my submission photo?
A) Yes you may have as many as you like. However you need to be in there and you need to be holding the sign displaying "DotA 2" and your "PlayDotA username".

Q) Do I have to be literally holding a sign?
A) If you can think of a creative other way to include the 2 requirements it will most likely be accepted.

Q) Where do I send/attach/upload the photo
A) Please use the dedicated photo submission thread that you can post an entry and can attach your photo to. No other posts must be made in that thread.

Q) Will you accept private photo submissions?
A) No. All photo submissions must be made in the dedicated photo entrant thread. We do it publicly to allow member critique and discussion. All discussion is to be kept in the original announcement thread.

Q) Am I allowed to post a gif or photo series?
A) No, this is a still frame photo competition, not a movie or story competition.

Q) Can staff enter?
A) Staff may enter but they cannot win.

Q) How will winner be decided?
A) There will be multiple staff members choosing the winners to give a well rounded assessment.

Q) But what about us die hard fans who have supported the game forever?
A) There are other ways to get a beta key coming very shortly. This is just the first.

Q) Are the PlayDotA staff just trolling us?
A) Maybe the best troll post ever! Or you could actually win a beta key.

Q) I submitted my photo in the correct thread but its not showing up!
A) You are more than likely a member with very few posts. As a safeguard against spam bots all new posts of these members need to be approved. Your entry will not be affected and your post will be approved within a short time.

So what are you guys waiting for? Submit your photos now. Here are some photos submitted by some DotA fans:

sources: http://www.playdota.com/forums/540954/win-your-own-dota-2-beta-key/
sources: http://www.playdota.com/forums/541248/dota-2-beta-key-u-photo-contest-submission-thread/

Geomancer and Midas released in HoN.Garena

2011-09-14T02:34:00.000-07:00

I was happy yesterday because finally, the new heroes were released in HoN Garena - Geomancer and Midas that is. I've played with some players with those heroes but apparently they don't know how to use them yet so they lost big time! lol

Redesigns in DotA2 Heroes

2011-09-14T00:37:00.000-07:00

I loved the way valve responded to the voice of the gaming community. To be honest, I'm not a fan of the artwork of Valve in DotA2. HoN and LoL hired various artist to come up with unique hero models. As for valve, their heroes almost look the same but it's a good thing they always want to improve on their graphics. These screenshots were from a DotA2 blog showing the new looks of the heroes.

Ancient Apparition

Antimage has new blades and made some changes with his face

Axe was introduced

Chen

Clockwork

Crystal Maiden with more colors

Dark Seer

Dazzle

Beast Master with more details

Doombringer with big ass horns and armor

Drow Ranger curves emphasized. More sexy look!

a more detailed EarthShaker

ES ultimate is more scary

Enigma

minor change in void - elbow bands!

Lina has new clothes. Sexy!

Mirana's tiger was slightly ammended

Morphling new model

Necrolyte

Night Stalker/Balanar with new pants!

Shadow Fiend looks more scary and intimidating. Added small wings and more detail in the eyes.

Puck

Pudge has a new hairstyle and added chains as well

Pugna

Razor

SandKing with more details

Shadow Shaman

Sniper oops wait, look at the inclusion of a shop keeper from the trailer >.<

Slardar with more details

Sniper

Spectre

Storm Spirit is a bit bigger now

Sven looking good

Leviathan

Tinker

Tiny

Vengeful Spirit

Venomancer

Viper has new wings

Weaver looks much stronger/sturdier

Windrunner has a new bow

Witch Doctor

Zeus with new clothes

So that's about it. What do you guys think about the changes? Are they good? Well, I believe valve cannot please everybody so if there's something that you want to say, just go for it. Communication will always be the key. It's not about them, it's about us gamers. >.<

Team Philippines (Mineski) reaped medals at TheGamesXpo Singapore!

2011-09-12T06:33:00.000-07:00

Mineski Infinity

I know this news is kinda late but when I heard about it, I was really happy. E-sports is not that famous in the Philippines and we've been considered as an underdog for many years. However, this year, our neighboring countries might view our e-sports teams as a threat because team Philippines won in three divisions - HoN, DotA and Starcraft 2. The other participating nations by the way are Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and India. That's 7 nations competing.

For Dota, here are the results:

1st - Mineski Infinity PowerColor (S$3000)
2nd - Orange eSports (S$2000)
3rd - MUFC (S$1000)

Caviar "Enderr" Acampado

For StarCraft II (SC2)

1st - eXo.Mski.Enderr (S$600)
2nd - NEO.RedArchon (S$400)
3rd - pRo.Cobo (S$200)

I've posted the results in HoN in my previous post.

Congrats to everyone!

Duskbin (Philippines) - the new WCG 2011 Heroes of Newerth Champion

2011-09-12T02:17:00.000-07:00

After days of HoN action, we finally have a winner. Congratulations to Duskbin for winning HON WCG in Singapore! They are actually the 1st WCG Singapore Heroes of Newerth Champions.

Here are the Final results:
1st: Duskbin Esports (Philippines)
2nd: Xtreme ChaotiX SG (Singapore)
3rd: MuFC (Malaysia)

Duskbin roster for the event:

Marc 'zekaykay' Parasdas
Kevin 'Ismification' Herrera
Marvin 'Lutan' Tan
Cath 'cd' Diaz
Jojo 'Dragon' Uy

DuskBin heads to Singapore for WCG Singapore

2011-09-10T05:30:00.000-07:00

DuskBin.HoN will be going to Singapore to join WCG for HoN. The prizes are not as big as the prizes compared to the recent DotA2 tournament.

Prizes:

Champion: $2000 SGD +WCG Trophy + WCG Medal
1st Runner Up: $1000 SGD + WCG Medal
2nd Runner Up: $500 SGD + WCG Medal
3rd Runner Up: $300 SGD
5th to 8th Place: $100 SGD per team

Malaysia WCG Singapore 2011 Finals will be taking place at Orange Internet Cafe at Kuala Lumpur this Saturday, 20th August 2011, from 0900 hrs onwards.

Here's a live stream. If it's not working, you can go to this url: http://www.twitch.tv/ghontv
Watch live video from GHoNTV on www.twitch.tv

You can also check the HoN Garena website for live updates and the stream as well.

http://hon.garena.com/news-article/179-day-2-wcg-singapore-2011-live-updates

The streams are brought to you by Team TrollCasting. You might want to check out their facebook page for some updates - http://www.facebook.com/trollcasting

Enjoy guys!

New upcoming Hero - Midas

2011-09-09T07:05:00.000-07:00

Midas is a new hero coming out this Friday in Heroes of Newerth. He is a ranged strength hero. The video basically covers everything. It would seem that you need to level all of the skills as all of them are important but you might need to prioritize the 2 aoe skills first. This hero has a strong potential as he could be a hitter who has useful spells. Not to mention a stun when he successfully hits two of his spells.

Need help? Check out Prodex

2011-08-27T01:28:00.000-07:00

Click the image to view the site

Nigma and Cawk did a very good job in creating a very useful website - prodex. It's graphically beautiful. It's flash based but is very fast to load.

It doesn't have too much information though to become a pro but it's a good start for newbies. I'm highly recommending for you guys to check out this project.

The site has a basic grasp of the heroes, item builds and their roles. What I love the most there is the warding guide. It's really really helpful.

Flux - a potential in tournaments?

2011-08-26T02:04:00.000-07:00

I'm seeing a very big potential of Flux in Tournaments. There are a lot of heroes that could prove a good synergy with his ulti. Some examples that I can think of:

Flux + Kraken + Bombardier

Flux + Plague Rider

Flux + Tempest

Flux + Pyromancer + Pebbles

Flux + Engineer

Flux + Bubbles + Hellbringer

There are a lot of options. What do you guys think?

Geomancer Hero Spotlight

2011-08-26T01:16:00.001-07:00

After months of waiting, the second community created hero, the Geomancer, is finally here! Designed by community members Phopis and Chibbi, the Geomancer is a mobile, subterranean hero with strong team-fighting and ganking abilities.