Heroes of Newerth Gaming - HoN Gamer

HoN Hero Spotlight: Gravekeeper

2012-01-17T05:45:00.001-08:00

Hero Teaser: Gravekeeper

2012-01-13T14:48:00.000-08:00

Gravekeeper is a ranged intelligence hero who calls upon the dead to aid him in battle! Gravekeeper is effective at skirting around the edges of the battlefield harassing his enemies with the dead themselves. The more death around him, the more potential Gravekeeper has to unleash unparalleled havoc!

Abilities Teaser:

Corpse Toss

Corpse Explosion

Defiling Touch

Zombie Apocalypse

Look forward to seeing Gravekeeper's Defiling Touch in the hero spotlight coming soon!

New Dark Lady Alt

2012-01-13T06:41:00.000-08:00

The new upcoming Dark Lady alternate avatar:

Shop Screen Display

Full Screen with Price

2.5.6 Patch Notes - Phoenix Ra

2012-01-13T06:34:00.000-08:00

Version 2.5.6
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- 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

Phoenix Ra Screenshot:

Concept Art:

Balance in the Works!

2012-01-12T23:25:00.001-08:00

Many of you don't know that a HUGE balance patch is in the works but there is! There have been countless messages to go over in general discussion, balance forums, competitor forums, tournaments, IMs, and emails which have all been extremely helpful in creating the upcoming patch. Going through all of these sources takes considerable time (and we try to give attention to every source!) to get a good basis of what needs to change, what could change, and what should not change. Even after making this list we want more then theory crafting, we put our changes into extensive testing to make sure we are making proper balance decisions.

For your patience here's a sneak peak of some balance changes expected to come:

Gemini
- Fire and Ice will require both dogs to channel
There have been many complaints of how hard it is to kill Gemini and we agree! This change alone should help remedy much of that. Other areas to be looked at are movespeed and stats transfer.

Midas
- Lion's Pride will have healing reduced
Midas is a hero that many people, including us, would say needs a nerf and most agree that the heal is the biggest problem.

Zephyr
- Reducing the amount zephyr can heal
Zephyr's survivability is a little too high, as evidenced both by our observations of competitive play and community feedback.

Monarch
- Reducing the cast range on Crippling Pollen from 550 to 500
Crippling Pollen started with a higher cast range when compared similar spells. Although only higher by 50 it becomes much easier to snag those heroes trying to attack from 600 range. This slight touch on the spell seems to put it back into place.

Ring of Sorcery
- Slightly increasing the manacost to activate
Typically purchased selfishly this items focus is meant to be a team item (like astrolabe and energizer). Increasing the mana cost will make it less effective for the individual to use.

HotBL
- Expect changes to come! A big thanks to everyone who contributed on the balance forums for this one!
Too effective at all points in the game we're hoping to release a new concept to this item that will keep it's current effectiveness in helping carries farm during the mid game but not make it impossible for other heroes to kill a hero with an early HotBL.

Our expected release date is Jan 27th. Many thanks to all our testers and everyone else who has helped contribute.

2.5.4 Patch Notes - Artesia

2012-01-06T05:13:00.000-08:00

Heroes Of Newerth Patch 2.5.4 Changelog

------------
- The current Free Heroes were changed. The current available list is as follows:
* Soulstealer
* Silhouette
* Defiler
* Tremble
* Andromeda

* Blacksmith
* Pollywog Priest
* Nymphora
* Vindicator

* 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

NEW Artic Wildsoul Alt Avatar :

UPDATE: There is a new Bubbles Alt Avatar not mentioned in the patch notes, maybe S2 accidentally leaked it. Anyway the alt avatar is apparently Captain America Bubbles.

BardUI++v1.32 - Bard User Interface Mod Collection

2012-01-05T14:46:00.000-08:00

BardUI++v1.32 (Compatible with HoN v2.*)

DOWNLOAD BARD UI HERE

Features:
SelfUI

Disable BardUI++ SelfUI to show the default SelfUI panel or set it to Hidden to hide both.
The purple bar is your current experience. When you click that it will close, click it again to open it (will be saved between matches).
The extra button when the panel is opened is the Fast Share button (aka Monkey Button), clicking this will share the courier with your whole team, click again to un-share with your whole team.
The Fast Share button will always be on the SelfUI if SelfUI is enabled (highest priority). If you hide the SelfUI it will be shown on the UnitUI portrait.
Movable and scalable.

open

closed

TeamUI

Clicking on the panel will select your ally, clicking on the panel while targeting an item or skill works. As well as dropping an item on the panel, this gives the item to your ally.
Clicking on the skills will close the skills, click again to open them (will be saved between matches).
Clicking on the small handout on the right side of the panel will open the Side Panel. The tooltips should provide enough information of what these do. The Add Friend button is hidden when somebody is already your friend.
Each panel is individually movable.

Open

Closed

Side Panel

Clock (Match Stats)

K = Kills, D = Deaths, A = Assists
Creep = Creep Kills / Creep Denies
Match Time & Time of Day
Kills: L = Legion total, H = Hellbourne total
Rune: Time left before the rune spawns.
Enabling the Day / Night Timer will replace it with the default Rune Timer.
Disable BardUI++ Clock to show the default Clock Panel
Movable

Clock with Hellbourne's Base HP bar + label

Clock with Day / Night Bar & Timer enabled

Scoreboard

'Menu' button opens the Game Menu (F10). Shift + Right click this button to go directly to BardUI++ options.
All buttons have tooltips which should provide enough information of what they do.
The green column states the amount of kills for that player (the header for this column shows the total amount of kills)
The red column states the amount of deaths for that player (the header for this column shows the total amount of deaths)
The orange column states the amount of assist for that player (the header for this column shows the amount of towers left for that team)
Shift+Click on Hero Icon on your own team = Vote Kick that player.
Shift+Click on Player Name on anybody = Quick Ban that player. This will let you write a reason why you are banning this player.
Shift+Right Click on Player Name on anybody = Auto Quick Ban that player.
Toggle Scoreboard hotkey switches between Large & Small
Option to add extra information (Level, Hero, KDA, time of ban, and MatchID) to the reason.
Option to send a message to everybody saying that you just banned a player.
Option to also ignore the same player that you banned (prevents chat messages in game to be seen from this player).
Disable BardUI++ Scoreboard to show the default scoreboard.

Large

Minimap

Disable BardUI++ Minimap to show the default minimap.
Disable the "Team Colors" button will get rid of the green/red circle in the top right corner (this button toggles the hero model colors between team based (green/red) and player based.
Movable and scalable.

Minimap with a tiny border. (building icons are not shown on the minimap because this screenshot was taking during a replay)

UnitUI

Disable BardUI++ UnitUI to show the default UnitUI
Clicking on your level (bottom left of the portrait) will toggle the Ability Queue System (default hotkey is L)
The yellow border around your gold means that you're able to shop (if its not yellow, the items you buy will go into your stash).
Ctrl+Right-Click to swap an item to your stash (only when near the base shop).
Ctrl+Shift+Right-Click to sell an item (can be done from anywhere).
You can also buyback by shift + left clicking your gold (the tooltip shows the buyback amount).
You can target skills and items on your portrait.
Most of the options speak for itself
Options that affects your inventory also affects your Stash.
When disabling the 3D portrait it will only show the unit's icon.
The Fast Share button will automatically be toggled on if you hide the SelfUI (and the death timer and buyback button will also show up on your UnitUI). When you disable the UnitUI there will be an movable Fast Share button.
The pH and mH values are Physical Effective HP and Magical Effective HP. These values are calculated from your current HP and your physical and magical armor values.
The UnitUI and your Inventory are individually movable. Stats will always be aligned left of your UnitUI.

Ability Queue System
The first number is the amount of free skill points you have, if this is higher then 0 it will have an orange border and a glowing effect.
The other buttons are LevelUp buttons for your stats and the rest of your skills.

The panel will automatically hide if you have no free skill points, so to queue abilities you need to toggle it.
This can be done by either clicking on your level at bottom left of the portrait or using the default hotkey which is L.
When you toggle the Ability Queue System and you have no free skill points to spend, clicking on the LevelUp buttons will queue you abilities.
Right clicking an ability will add a persistent skill block (this is indicated by an orange border) which will stay there until the skill has been maxed.
Clicking a skill block in the queue above the LevelUp buttons will remove it from the queue.

See one of the screenshots for an example, in this example you will max your ultimate first, then your first, then your second, then your third skill and as last your stats, this way you have all your abilities and stats queued up with only 5 skill blocks. This is possible because if a persistent skill block cannot be leveled up when you get another skill point, it will look at the next one until one is found that can be leveled up.

Stats open and Ability Queue System open

Stats closed, but Ability Queue System open

Stats open, but Ability Queue System closed and skills & HP/MP bars swapped (and the HP/MP values have the new text outline)

Command Panel

Disable the BardUI++ Command Panel to show the default Command Panel
Movable

Commands enabled

Move/Attack/Stop/Hold Commands disabled, taunt disabled

TargetUI

Disable BardUI++ TargetUI to show the default TargetUI
When using the option 'keep the TargetUI open after you lost sight of your target' will show a green or red border around your target's name. Green means you have vision of it and will be updated. Red means you have lost sight of your target and will not be updated anymore. When disabled the border will have the default color.
Setting up a hotkey is not required but then you can't clear/hide the TargetUI once you have selected something. When setting up a hotkey that other mods use as well will likely break their functionality.
Green portrait border = ally, Red portrait border = enemy, White portrait border = neutral. When selecting a hero it will have it's player color.
Most of the other options speak for itself
Movable

TargetUI when selecting an ally creep

TargetUI when selecting an enemy building

TargetUI when selecting a hero The red border means that the window isn't updating anymore because you have lost sight of this unit.

MultiSelectUI

Disable BardUI++ MultiSelect UI to show the default MultiSelect UI
White border = neutral
Yellow border = ally
Red border = enemy
Green border = controllable unit (except for neutrals its still white)
Yellow glow + yellow border = currently active controllable unit
Use tab to cycle through your selection
Right click or Shift + Click an icon to deselect that unit
Click an icon to control that unit
Movable

MultiSelectUI

Stash

Disable BardUI++ Stash to show the default Stash
Inherits the same options you use for your inventory (configured at UnitUI settings)
Click an auto combined item to disassemble it.
Ctrl+Right-Click to swap the item to your inventory (only when near the base shop).
Ctrl+Shift+Right-Click to sell an item (can be done from anywhere).
Movable

Stash

Chat

Disable BardUI++ Chat to show the default Chat
Movable and re-sizable

Chat History (Z)

TeamChat (Enter)

AllChat (Shift+Enter)

Attack Modifiers New in v1.30!

Disable BardUI++ Attack Modifiers to show the default Attack Modifiers
To select an Attack Modifier you can click on its icons, or by using one of the cycling hotkeys (default , and .)
When mousing over an icon it will show what it does in a tooltip, this can disabled in the options.
Padding is the amount of pixels the Attack Modifiers are apart from each other
The Orientation defines in what way the Attack Modifiers are aligned.
Movable and scalable.

Attack Modifiers

Attack Modifiers showing a tooltip and with a padding of 1 pixel

Vertical Attack Modifiers

Respawn, Rune and Custom Announcers

Disable Respawn Announcer to not display the local message.
Disable Rune Announcer to not display the local message.
Disable "Announce seconds before the rune is spawned" to display the message at spawn time, instead of x seconds before. Same for Custom Announcer.

Respawn Announcer

Rune Announcer

Custom Announcer

Miss Buttons

Button padding is the amount of pixels the buttons are apart from each other
The Orientation defines in what way the buttons are aligned.
'Button x label' is the text that's visible on the button
'Button x left' is the text that will be send to team chat when clicked with the left mouse button.
'Button x right' is the text that will be send to team chat when clicked with the right mouse button.
A total of 10 buttons are configurable.
Both left & right click functions can be bound to a hotkey.
Disabling a button will hide it from the group.
Movable and scalable.

Miss Buttons (default)

My Custom Miss Buttons

Buff Bars

Green = Buff (dispellable)
Blue = Buff or Debuff but not dispellable
Red = Debuff (dispellable)
Has time + Bright color = Normal Buff or Debuff
No time + Dull color = Aura

Bar padding is the amount of pixels the buttons are apart from each other
Buff bar stacking direction sets in what way the bars stack on top of each other. Upwards means they start at the bottom and end at the top. Vice versa for Downwards.
Disable Buff Bars to hide them.
Movable and re-sizable.

BuffBars

VoIP Sliders

Bar padding is the amount of pixels the buttons are apart from each other
Disable VoIP Sliders to hide them
Movable and re-sizable.

VoIP Sliders

Miscellaneous

You can disable health and mana bar gloss on SelfUI, TeamUI, UnitUI and TargetUI.
You can choose between an outline or a shadow on health and mana text values on SelfUI, TeamUI, UnitUI and TargetUI.
You can enable health and mana bar draining effect on SelfUI, TeamUI, UnitUI and TargetUI.
Disable BardUI++ tooltips to hide them.
Disable Original KillBoard to hide it.
Original KillBoard is movable

Show Original KillBoard

Show BardUI++ tooltips

Stumps! Modification

2012-01-04T05:52:00.000-08:00

Stumps mod is a Heroes of Newerth modification that allows you to juke easier by replacing trees with Stumps, avoiding annoying miss clicks. The tree replacement is only a visible to yourself, the original trees are still there for other players. You are the only one that sees Stumps instead of them.

Download Link:

Heroes of Newerth Stumps

Stumps mod is in HoN mod file format

You will also need HonModMan to use this mod

If you don't have the Heroes of Newerth Modification Manager you can download it from the link below:

Hon Modman 1.3.6

Artesia - Hero Teaser and Hero Spotlight

2012-01-03T02:39:00.000-08:00

Spotlight: Artesia

Hero Teaser: Artesia

Artesia is a ranged intelligence hero with a very unique play style! She specializes in long range magic damage, so long range in fact that she has a global presence! Artesia is most effective casting from the back lines in a team fight and chasing enemies down, however if played right, Artesia can be lethal even in close quartered combat.

Artesia Abilities Teaser:

Arcane Missile

Dance of Death

Arcane Bolts

Essence Projection

First Look: Artesia

2011-12-31T00:57:00.000-08:00

Here is your first look at the first hero of 2012, Artesia!

We wish everyone a Happy New Year and look forward to bringing you Artesia and much, much more in 2012!

Smart Attack Modifier Cycling Mod

2011-12-26T14:05:00.000-08:00

SAMCv1.00 (Smart Attack Modifier Cycling)

Download here (Compatible with HoN v2.*)

Features:
Stacking Attack Modifiers just became useful.
It will keep any Lifesteal Attack Modifier up as long as possible.
Cycling speed is based on your attack speed and the lowest debuff from any other attack modifier.
There's also an option to disable automatic cycling and bind a hotkey to do the same.

Missed attacks and status effects on you or your target (and thus AM's not being applied)
or switching targets are not accounted for while cycling through all your Attack Modifiers.

Supported Lifesteal Attack Modifiers:

Hungry Spirit
Elder Parasite
Whispering Helm
Symbol of Rage

Supported Attack Modifiers from skills:
Slither's Toxicity 7000ms
Gauntlet's Enfeeble 4000ms
Accursed's Sear 2000ms

Supported Attack Modifiers from items:
Shieldbreaker Broken Armor 5000ms
Frostwolf Skull's Frostwolf's Skull 3000ms
Frostburn Chilled 2000ms (it doesn't stack 3 times yet! so its not really supported, avoid stacking this for now)
Icebrand Chilled 1500ms (it doesn't stack 5 times yet! so its not really supported, avoid stacking this for now)

Excluded Attack Modifiers:
Beardulons' Bear Root (chance on hit, and is a pet)
Harkon's Blade (manual toggle, overrides all AM's)

Example 1:

When you have an attack speed of 0.5 seconds (2 attacks per second).
And you have the Whispering Helm item along with the Shieldbreaker item.
You will attack 9 times (4.5 seconds) with Lifesteal and only attack once with Shieldbreaker (0.5 seconds).
This is because the debuff from Shieldbreaker is 5 seconds.

Example 2:

When you have an attack speed of 0.75 seconds (3/4th attacks per second).
And you have the Symbol of Rage item along with the Shieldbreaker item, and the Frostwolf's Skull item.
You will attack 2 times (1.5 seconds) with Lifesteal, one time with Shieldbreaker (0.75 seconds) and one time with Frostwolf's Skull (0.75 seconds).
This is because the lowest debuff is from Frostworlf's Skull which is only 3 seconds.

Heroes of Newerth Instant Hero Pick Mod

2011-12-26T04:16:00.000-08:00

Hon Instant Hero Picker Mod

This is an instant-pick mod, which wont ever needed to be updated.

Hero picker Features:

Pick any hero instantly in All Pick, no matter if MM or Public
No more waiting for updates after a new hero gets implemented,
- the program automatically adds the button for the new hero by itself
Updates only will be of cosmetic nature and change/improve the layout
Includes Auto-Random
Includes Auto-Ready
Can be set to None (no auto pick)
Supports F2P ownership and EA-Heroes
Offers alternative picking method
Shows if something is selected with different color on the statusbar
Quickly Deactivate the program by right-clicking the statusbar-button in the main menu
Update-able
.honmod Format

Screenshots:

Free 2 Play Heroes of Newerth Users Support NEW IN 1.5

Statusbar-Button Screenshot Selected/Unselected, and mouse over preview:

DOWNLOAD HON INSTANT HERO PICKER HERE:

Click me to Download

Requires Hon Modman, If you dont have the Modification Manager you can Download it below:

Download

Happy HoNidays! Tons of awesome stuff available now!

2011-12-24T02:37:00.000-08:00

It's a very special time of year and that calls for some very special stuff from us here at S2 Games. The list below contains some special thank you's from the team to our players PLUS a few special offers that simply can't be missed!

To start, everything in the store will be 25% off Gold and Silver coins until December 27th at midnight! Huzzah! (Excludes sub-accounts, stat resets, and nickname changes)
Legacy players get another exclusive benefit! There's a FREE symbol in the store waiting for players with Legacy accounts but only until December 27th at midnight. Thanks again for your support!
Jollywood and Christmas Keeper are available once more until December 27th at midnight and they are FREE! Go pick them up and show your Christmas spirit before they're gone!
Ho ho ho! Santa Midas is now available for purchase in the store. Go pick him up and enjoy throwing presents and reindeer at your foes! Yes, we're serious. Thank community member Veldt for this amazing alt avatar! Only available until December 30th!
There's a new symbol called Silver Lord. You can only buy it with silver coins so it's great way to show your friends how awesome you are at HoN! It'll be available from now on in the store!
Need some more coins for all the awesome stuff? It's time for a double silver coin week! From now until December 31st at midnight, players will earn double coins from Matchmaking games. Let's get it on!
We also have a very special offer for all of our free-to-play players. From right now until December 27th at midnight EST, we're offering a package deal with EVERY hero in the game for only $10. Don't miss this amazing offer! (Excludes EA heroes)
CLICK HERE FOR THIS AMAZING DEAL!

Don't forget! Player Santa is still up and running until January 2nd! Whenever you buy an item with gold coins, you're able to gift a copy of that item to a friend for free! Get in that giving mood! (Excludes sub-accounts, stat resets, and nickname changes)

Bloodhunter - New avatar and Dumpster Taunt

2011-12-23T14:49:00.000-08:00

We have 2 leaks today from the next patch quite possibly. First one is the new Dumpster Taunt, you can watch the video below.

And the second is the new blood hunter alt avatar leak. Below is his in-game shop model, his concept art and a video.

Update:

Another leaked avatar; here is the Santa Midas avatar:

Version 2.5.3 - Dominatrix Torturer

2011-12-23T14:20:00.000-08:00

Version 2.5.3
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- 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

Last Hit Assist 1.6.3

2011-12-23T05:09:00.000-08:00

Last Hit Assist 1.6.3 adds a little tick to the creep hp bars indicating a best guess of the active hero's damage.

For creeps without mana, it shows the % of the bar that would be done by listed minimum damage, assuming max hp of 550 + 10 * (# of creep upgrades so far) and armor of 2, the stats on a melee creep without any rax pushed down. For creeps with mana, the assumed max hp is 300 + 10 * (# of creep upgrades) and armor is 0, the stats on a ranged creep without any rax pushed down.

This is rough; it will be wrong if the creeps have modified armor, if you are about to proc an ability modifying your attack damage like Whiplash, or if anything else would modify damage done. It does, however, properly account for effect of the Logger's Hatchet on both ranged and melee heroes.

Download: Heroes of Newerth Last hit assist mod

Hon ModMan1.3.6 is required to run Last hit Assist mod

HoN Range indicator Mods

2011-12-20T08:48:00.000-08:00

Cast Range Indicators
SCREENSHOTS

AoE Range Indicators
SCREENSHOTS

Target Range Indicators
SCREENSHOTS

Tower Range Indicators
SCREENSHOTS

Reveal Range Indicators

SCREENSHOTS

Other Range Indicators
Corrupted Disciple's Electric Tide
Fayde's Cull
Gladiator's Flagellation
Keeper of the Forest's Root
Predator's Terror
Soulstealer's Demon Hands AOE mod
Thunderbringer's Lightning Rod
Wretched Hag's Sonar Scream

Download all of the above mention mods here!!!

Mods wont work without Hon Modification Manager, you can download the latest version from the link below:

Hon modman 1.3.6 Download

HoN Modification Manager 1.3.6 - Latest version

2011-12-20T05:13:00.000-08:00

Hon Modman 1.3.6

What is this?

This is a program designed to remove mod incompatibilities and the need to update mods every new patch. It is also capable of maintaining a list of installed mods which can be enabled/disabled individually and offers an automatic update feature for mods.

What is the downside?

Compatible mods need to come in a format different from the simple resources*.s2z scheme, which is usually a little more work for modders to create. (There are however facilities implemented allowing simple conversion from .honmod to .s2z)
Incompatibilities with ".s2z mods" will persist as well (unless they are converted to the new format).

What does it look like?

Like this: (shown are three example mods)

(click to view full size)

How does it work?

When choosing "Apply Mods" from the program menu the enabled mods are applied to the original files from resources0.s2z and compiled into a single s2z mod named "resources999.s2z".

Download

Click Me!

Installation & Usage

To install the program download the zip file linked above containing the program. You can place it anywhere you wish. The program will try to detect the location of your Heroes of Newerth install automatically; if it can't it'll ask you for the folder (usually something like "C:\Program Files\Heroes of Newerth").

To install mods (*.honmod files) put them into the mods directory (see below for locations) or drag them onto the program window. Any mod files in that directory that are compatible will automatically show up in the program.
To use installed mods you need to enable them first (e.g. by double-clicking on them), then select "Apply Mods" from the "File" menu. You'll need "Apply Mods" each and every time the game was patched or you have installed/uninstalled/updated any mods. The program will remind you of this.

The default locations for the mods directory are:
C:\Program Files\Heroes of Newerth\game\mods

Check the mods section on the right side for mods that go with modman

Version 2.5.2.1 - Fist of Sol and Mother Nature

2011-12-17T05:53:00.000-08:00

Version 2.5.2.1
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- 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

* Pharoah

- 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

Deadwood Guide

2011-12-14T14:38:00.000-08:00

A guide to improve your gameplay as

Deadwood v2.1.8

Table of Contents

Basics

Introduction
Lore
Basic Stats
Advanced Stats
Hero Role
Skills

Description & In-Depth Analysis
Skill Build
Items

Initial Items
Core Items
Luxury Items
Items to Avoid
Gameplay

Laning
Ganking
Team Clashes
Good Teammates
Enemies to Avoid

Introduction

This guide is intended for the casual 5v5 games on Forest of Caldavar and Normal Mode. Do not expect to follow these guidelines and be successful in any other conditions.

Deadwood is just another hardcore ganker, who's also able to initiate and deal decent auto-attack DPS. He is a hero that is best played solo in the middle lane, as he needs to gain levels as early as possible. Given the right circumstances, he has the ability to totally dominate the early- and mid game, and should thus capitalize on this as much as possible in order to be viable at the later stages of the game. He's is a hero that excels at quickly bringing down single targets, and catching the enemy off guard, even when they got good map control through wards by using the woods to his advantage. In the hands of a good player, he can be an extremely important asset to a team that's capable of causing unstoppable havoc on the opposing team's carry while your own carry farms your team's way to victory.

Lore

Born of the cruelly tainted lands of Newerth, Deadwood is the undead husk of the first Keeper of the Forest. All around him, living things wilt, and he has little hesitation to destroy trees or use them as weapons. Despite seeking the destruction of Newerth, he still commands the incredible strength and natural powers of a forest guardian, thus combining the cruelty of the Hellbourne with the powers that once belonged only to the Beast Horde.

Nothing here will make you a better Deadwood player, but it'll give you a good feel of Deadwood's theme and background. We can immediately draw a conclusion that Deadwood was the very first of a line of Keeper of the Forests. For some unknown reason he's now joined the Hellbourne forces. Claimed by dark magic? Betrayed to the point where his lust for revenge made him switch sides?. It'll remain a mystery for now, but it seems like Deadwood's mind was twisted from a will to look over and guard the forest, into a desire of completely destroying it. As the first forest guardian, Deadwood is very likely to be one of the oldest characters on Newerth - chances are he's even older than ol' Bubbles. His powers and abilities still remains from his time as a guardian of the forest, despite no longer being one.

Basic Stats

Let's look at Deadwoods base stats and gains,

Damage: 56 - 61
Attack Range: 128 (Melee)
Attack Speed: 0.68
Armor: 2.74
Move Speed: 300

Strength: 25 (+2.7)
Agility: 16 (+2)
Intelligence: 16 (+1.5)
What really should catch your mind at first here is Deadwood's high base damage. It's a good way above average, and combined with Uproot, last hitting should be extremely easy for you. However, Deadwood is a melee hero, so you run the risk of being harassed by auto-attacks or hit by spells every time you're going for a creep kill. Your high base HP combined with average movement speed comes to the rescue though. Starting with 625HP, you're not gonna be that easy to take down at an early gank, and your staying power in a lane is really great. Deadwood's stat gains are nothing more than average. You do have a decent chunk of strength gain, however. At lv25 you'll be quite tough with over 2.2kHP, and that's with no items. Your agility gain is not bad for a strength hero, and will supply you with decent natural armor. Deadwood's intelligence gain is not the best, and you'll need to boost your mana needs through items in the early phases of the game. You'll have an easier time at late game, but you'll still want to keep those items as long as possible to supply your mana.

Advanced Stats

Cast point/backswing: Rotten Grasp 0.15/0.85; Uproot 0/1.0; Oakbolt 0.3/0.3; Clearcutting 0/0; Willowmaker 0.4/0.6
Damage point/backswing: 0.4/0.3
Sight range day/night: 1800/1200
Missile speed: Instant
Turn rate: 0.54
You got fairly good numbers to work with here. Deadwood's damage point is good. Not the best, but good. As already mentioned, your last hitting will be easy as pie with your base damage plus your boost from Uproot. Note that the damage point/cast point and the backswing together make up your whole animation while attacking, and that your backswing is the part of the animation after the blow is landed/projectile sent/etc. In other words, it is completely cosmetic and should be canceled whenever possible (also referred to as animation canceling) by issuing another command, preferably a move or hold command.

Take a look at your cast points. Your cast point on Rotten Grasp is only 0.15 seconds. That's pretty fast! However, you do have a backswing of a grand 0.85 seconds. That's pretty slow... Cancel it to speed up your chase or escape. It also gives the enemy a much smaller time window to notice that you have casted it. They do hear the sound when it's cast however, so any player that's not half asleep will know that you've casted it. With 0/1 seconds on Uproot, you can literally grab your tree as you run by, not stopping at all. Oakbolt's cast point is just average, cancel the backswing for faster chasing. Clearcutting is instant nothing more to say there. Willowmaker has 0.6 seconds of backswing which is almost as long and superfluous as Rotten Grasp's and Uproot's; you do want to cancel this one too in order to get those extra last hits in. I can't stress this enough folks, cancel your backswings!

Another good point on Deadwood is his sight range at night. 1200 is 400 more than average (800), which means that you can have sight on a lot of enemy heroes while they can't see you at night. Abuse this at your best, ganking is always better at night time. Keep in mind, the day and night-cycles shift every other 7.5 minutes.

Deadwood's turn rate is average, at 0.54 (or 540 degrees / sec). Now, for the sake of argument, let's say you're being chased at low HP, and you want to throw an Oakbolt at the chaser to slow it down. Deadwood will actually have to stop and turn until the target is within his 180 frontal degree arc before he'll cast. This will take some time, and combined with the 0.3/0.3 cast time on Oakbolt, it might just be a better idea to keep running depending on how many you're being chased by. In a 1on1 situation you'll most of the time have the benefit from Oakbolt's snare, but if two guys or more are chasing you you'll allow the other enemy hero to gain ground on you, maybe enough to cast it's own stun/snare that will be the death of you. It's highly situational, so please do keep this information in mind.

Hero Role

We all know the four main groups of roles in Heroes of Newerth: Initiator, Support, Ganker and Carry. If you wanna be good at this game, it is crucial that you understand your role on your team. You don't win games by building and playing Glacius as a carry hero. Maybe in noob stomps, but not in pro play. Glacius was simply not designed to be played as a carry hero. With that in mind, it's time to learn Deadwood's role.

The most important factor to look at when it comes to hero roles are their skills. All 4 of Deadwood's skills are active. They revolve around (1) surprising the enemy, (2) trapping the enemy in place, (3) slowing down the enemy, and most importantly; (4) dealing burst damage. This screams GANKER all the way, and Deadwood shouldn't be picked for anything else. Deadwood is also a great initiator, being able to bring key opponents down in a matter of seconds. Although Deadwood dish out enough DPS through auto-attacks to be called a soft-carry, there are far better picks for carrying, but he can certainly help the team dish out some extra, raw auto-attack DPS in teamfights later on. Now, what's a ganker's job on a team? Your job as Deadwood is to run around the map, setting up kills (remember, carries get priority on last hits!), and just as important; constantly be on the opposing carries' arses all the time. A good ganker makes sure his own carry farms well while the enemy carry doesn't get any farm at all. At later stages of the game you'll be unloading all of your skills at the start of the fight, then whiffing the enemy down with your auto-attacks.

Skill Description & In-Depth Analysis

It's time to take a look at what this guy can do with his awesome skills and how to best utilize them,

Rotten Grasp

Calling upon the deep corruption underground, Deadwood can root anyone standing in the target area after a short delay.

Action: Target Position
Type: Magic
Range: 1,300
Radius: 200
Cast Time: 1.0 Seconds
Mana Cost: 120
Cooldown: 13.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
Activation
After a 2 second delay, applies Rotten Grasp to all enemies in the radius or who walk into the radius. Effect lasts 1 / 1.7 / 2.3 / 3 seconds.
The effect during the delay is stealthed.

Rotten Grasp Effect
-1 / -2 / -3 / -4 Armor
Immobilized
100 Magic damage per second

Rotten Grasp is easily the single most skill-reliant ability that Deadwood possesses. In short, this skill has mainly three uses: Trapping and/or chasing opponents, as well as escaping ganks. Think of it as a weak, limited AoE-version of Keeper of the Forest's Root. First, let's take a quick glance at how far the range of this skill is,

Including the radius of the AoE, you end up with a max range of 1500 units. That is pretty far, which makes this skill so great at surprise ganking and initiation. Assuming you're not revealed by wards or anything, you can approach safe from the Fog of War, and cast this without the enemy noticing before it is too late.
Before we talk about how to use it, let's go over some mechanics and how the skill works:

When the skill is cast, it will take affect after a 2 second delay. The enemy can not see the visuals of this skill before it goes off under any circumstances. No form for true sight will reveal it. It's only a cosmetic visual for you and your allies.

Deadwood performs an animation to cast this skill, and a short sound-clip is played. If the enemy has sight on you, they will both see and hear you cast the spell, effectively giving them a heads-up.

Any enemy initially getting caught in it's AoE will have the debuff applied for it's full duration. Any enemy walking in it after it's gone off will also have the debuff applied, only for the remaining duration.

Enemies take 100 Magic damage per second, this is your only source of Magic damage.

Enemies receive reduced armor. This synergizes greatly with you ultimate and auto-attacks.

The skill issues an Immobilized state to the enemy, disabling any ability classified as a travel ability for it's duration. This includes

Elemental Warp

Stagger

Illusive Dash

Heavenly Vault

Vampiric Flight

Wave Form

Ludicrous Speed

Flash

Flash of Darkness

Tsunami Charge

Time Leap

Flurry

Cannonball

Courageous Leap

Charging Strikes

teleport-to-sword on Sword Throw

teleport-to-shell on Shell Surf

These abilities will be disabled as long as the heroes are affected by Rotten Grasp. Use this knowledge to easily get heroes that has an annoying escape mechanism like Magebane.

Psuedo-blink abilities like Night Hound's Pounce and Silhouette's Sky Dance are not classified as travel abilities and will still work. They may use their skills to move out from the affected area, however they will still have the debuff applied to them and be immobilized for it's remaining duration.

You can get rid of the debuff though items like Geometer's Bane, but if you end up in the AoE again it will be re-applied immediately, as the mechanics of the skill constantly applies the debuff in the affected area. Magic Immunity from spells or Shrunken Head completely ignores Rotten Grasp and will debuff it.

It does not reveal invisible units. This means invisible units remain invisible, while heroes like Night Hound and Scout can become invisible while they're stuck in it. They still take full effect from the skill, however.

How to Rotten Grasp: Rotten Grasp is your main way of setting up kills, as it allows you to get in melee range of your ultimate. Your goal is to trap your target(s) in the area, walk up to them and finish them off. Easier said than done? Sure is. Because of the 2 second delay, it is easily dodged by simply running away from the area before it goes off. If an enemy is moving (which they will be most of the time), you have to predict their movements, and aim the skill accordingly.

This skill is easiest to land if you're in the Fog of War without the enemy knowing, but let's say you're laning against someone. Sure if you're mid you can sometimes use the hill to cast safe from the fog. However, when the enemy DO have sight on you, they will try to dodge it, which is why you have to be the better player and predict where they will be heading. In this case, a good way to hit would be to: (1) Always keep moving around. Make random turns and just move back and forth changing to circles and so forth. Be unpredictable. (2) Cancel the backswing animation immediately, (3) then proceed to either (3a) keep walking in the same pattern you did before you casted it, assuming the enemy did not notice that you casted it, or (3b) if the enemy is competent, it will notice, so hope for the best and start walking against it to force it to either walk into you or your Grasp. Also note that while the enemy may know the direction of the cast by looking at you, they won't know at what range you casted it - behind, on top, or in front of them. It really boils down to a game of prediction. It takes practice and you'll have to study each individual opponent's movement patterns.

When ganking, make a teammate throw a stun/snare on the opponent for a guaranteed hit. Always try to make sure the outer ring of the AoE just covers the target, and place it in the direction the target is most likely to run. If you don't have the support of your teammates or they don't have a stun/snare, just study the way your target(s) move. If they mostly walk around in circles or keep to the same pattern, you can almost hit with 100% certainty. If a creep is about to die, you can set up a Grasp for that melee guy (ranged even) who's certain to walk up for the last hit. Remember, just keep trying and you'll master it in no time.

For chasing, you simply cast it ahead of the enemy, preferably at a choke point, forcing the enemy to walk into you (and your comrades) or get stuck in your Grasp.

Rotten Grasp can also be used defensively, and yes it's quite straight forward. Be it to save yourself or an ally, just cast it so that it'll hit the chasers or block a choke point for the escape.

Uproot

Deadwood can turn any tree into a weapon by simply tearing it out of the ground.

Action: Target Entity
Type: Physical
Range: 100
Cast Time: 1.0 Seconds
Mana Cost: 30
Cooldown: 15.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
Activation
Picks up the target tree, getting +15 / 30 / 45 / 60 damage for 5 attacks.

Uproot Effect
15 / 30 / 45 / 60 Damage

This skill does what it says. You get 5 charges/hits with added bonus damage, and the subskill Oakbolt. Every time you hit something, you lose a charge, which means you lose the tree after 5 hits. The skill is mainly used to boost your last hitting while laning, and just raw DPS when attacking enemies.

Oakbolt

While holding a tree, he can throw it at an enemy, mini-stunning and snaring them.

Action: Target Unit
Type: Physical
Range: 650
Cast Time: 0.6 Seconds
Mana Cost: N/A
Cooldown: N/A
Activation
Throws your tree at the target enemy, stunning them for 0.1 seconds, dealing 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 Physical damage, and applies Son of a Birch for 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3 seconds.

Son of a
B*tch
Birch
75% Movement Slow, decreasing over 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3 seconds.

In short, Oakbolt has two main uses: Chasing and interupting channeling spells. Look at this image to get a feel of its range:

When cast, removes all charges of Uproot.

If cast on units (enemies), performs a mini-stun, which in itself is extremely useful to stop channeling spells or Homecoming Stones.

It also deals Physical damage and applies a 75% snare. You normally deal more damage with auto-attacks (boosted by Uproot) so don't even use it when you're on 1 charge left, unless your opponent is running from you in case you want a slow. If you're opponent is low enough to die from one or two auto-attack after you can use it to kill it faster.

Your opponent will basically be crawling when initially hit, which makes it easier to follow up with a successful Rotten Grasp.

If you're on your way to a lane to gank, it's a good idea to make sure you pick up a tree early, so that Uproot will be off cooldown when you arrive, allowing you to use Oakbolt and immediately pick up a new tree.

You can use Oakbolt to snag last hits, or harass your lane opponent. However, try to do this only on your last charge of Uproot. By continuously spamming Oakbolt on your opponent, they will either keep backing off, denying them last hits, or just take it and ignore it, which gives you an excellent opportunity to surprise them with a quick, animation canceled Rotten Grasp.

Being Physical damage, you can throw this on Magic Immune units! They will take the damage, but neither the mini-stun nor the slow will take effect.

Clearcutting

Deadwood, not known for his love of nature, can gain the ability to destroy trees he walks through. Empowered by the destruction he has caused, Deadwood gains movement speed, attack speed, and slow resistance when destroying trees.

Action: Target Self
Cast Time: 0 Seconds
Mana Cost: 50
Cooldown: 25.0 Seconds
Required Level: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7
Activation
Applies Clearcutting to self for 12 / 14 / 16 / 18 seconds. Any tree run through and killed grants one charge. Maximum of 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 charges.

Clearcutting Effect
+3% Movement Speed per charge
+15 Attack Speed per charge
Treewalking
+25% Slow Resistance per charge

Clearcutting is the skill I tend to use the least. However it does have alot of uses to it, it is also Deadwood's only ability that "technically" scales. You want to use this skill to surprise the enemy, escape ganks and boost your DPS through increased attackspeed.

When activated, you gain treewalking, which is extremely useful. Your treewalking is also different from normal treewalking because it destroys any tree you walk through.

While destoying trees is pretty badass, it does leave a trail that other heroes - allies or enemies - can follow.

With 4 charges, not only do you get +60 Attack Speed and more Movement Speed, but you're also immune to slows with 100% Movement Slow Resistance (does not apply to AS)! You can basically laugh at Zephyr as you walk through his ultimate at full speed or escape Slither/Armadon's otherwise annoying slows.

How to Clearcutting: While you'll most of the time use this skill only for escapes or the speed boosts, it can be used as a ganking tool. Let's say you're Hellbourne, and the enemy is pushing the top lane. You can walk deep into the forest at some point and hide, safe from enemy sight. From here you can prepare yourself for a successful Rotten Grasp, because it's not an angle most people will be expecting a gank from, letting you catch them off guard. Run or or preferably blink in with Portal Key and quickly take down a key opponent if you're able to, while your team follows up immediately after. You can gank during the laning phase like this too, but it's not recommended as most of the time you can just approach like a normal ganker. Alternatively you can use this skill to run straight through any tree you were hiding behind before you casted that Rotten Grasp, instead of walking around it.

Don't hesitate using this skill for pure DPS whenever you're entering teamfights or whatever. Simply build up charges for the AS-boost.

Using this skill as an escape mechanism is great. Whenever you see the enemy coming to gank you just activate the skill and juke the sh*t outta them! Simply run into the forest if it's thick - or straight through to safety if there's just a few trees around. While they may be able to follow your tracks, you will constantly be under the Fog of War. You also get a 12% speed boost with 4 charges to help your escape. With Portal Key, you can easily avoid damage this way for 3 seconds in order to blink away. Any slows or snares will be a waste on you if you're close to trees to build up your charges.

Willowmaker

An ageless and powerful force, Deadwood uses his stump arm to punch an enemy, dealing massive damage and lowering the targets strength.

Action: Target Entity
Type: Physical
Range: 150
Cast Time: 1.0 Seconds
Mana Cost: 100 / 150 / 200
Cooldown: 85.0 / 75.0 / 65.0 Seconds
Required Level: 6 / 11 / 16
Activation
Deals 350 / 650 / 950 Physical damage, applies Willowmaker and stuns the target for 1.5 seconds.

Willowmaker Effect
Lowers total strength by 20% for 5 seconds.

If Deadwood's right arm is this awesome, why doesn't he always use it? This is Deadwood's signature move, his very own verion of Falcon Punch; Deadwood Punch! Notoriously known to one-shot people, Willowmaker is mainly used to deal burst Physical damage. Look at the skill in mid-cast; would you want to get hit by that?

Let's get the facts straight:

It's the Physical version of Pyromancer and Witch Slayer's ultimates - only better!

It deals Physical damage, which is why it's so superior to Magical nukes early game, as most heroes will have <5.5 Physical armor. However it scales worse into late game.

It stuns for 1.5 seconds, which is always handy for some extra time to finish people off. But the real deal behind this is that it goes through Magic Immunity. Yep you heard it, Deadwood is one of the few guys who's able to stun Magic Immune units.

This makes him great at stopping carries because he can stun through their Shrunken Head. You can also stop Magic Immune channelers this way.

Since it's Physical, any reduction in Physical armor will boost it. Rotten Grasp, Sol's Blessing and Shieldbreaker are some ways to increase the power of this skill.

Criticals and anything that could normally proc on auto-attacks won't. Attack modifiers are not applied (with the exception of Frostwolf Skull), and neither is your auto-attack damage. This means, in order to use this with a Shieldbreaker, you'll have to hit your target before you use Willowmaker on them.

The skill is blocked by Nullstone, so make sure you trigger its cooldown by throwing an Oakbolt at your target before you use it.

It lowers the targets strength by 20% on use. This means that the target's max HP is actually reduced for 5 seconds. It is applied before the damage, and goes through Magic Immunity. It will only reduce health gained from raw strength, however. This means that HP gained from say a Beastheart will be unaffected.

To give an example, let's imagine a target with 0 Physical armor, thus taking full damage, and 1100 HP, spread out at 150 base / 950 strength:

How to Willowmaker: There is no rocket science into using this skill. Point - click - kill. Or so many people seem to think. I've been accused several times for "picking a cheap, R-click-hero", which may be true - Willowmaker will definitely one-shot the squishiest targets during the early stages of the game. However, people seem to forget that you have to be in melee range to use the skill. Any decent player won't just let you run up to them and hit them, which means you'll need the aid of an ally - in which case most people are dead anyways - or hit them with a successful Rotten Grasp. This is why mastering Rotten Grasp is so essential in becoming a successful Deadwood player.

So, when do you use this skill? Use it whenever it's off its low cooldown, because it'll snag you a kill most of the times. Using Rotten Grasp first when you go for a kill will not only let you get up in melee-range, but it'll also reduce the target's Physical armor which boost your damage as it's Physical. In teamfights, don't waste this skill on weak heroes like Glacius (especially not if he just unloaded his whole arsenal) for cheap kills. Save it for the most dangerous opponent like the carry, or a key disabler.

Don't fret using Willowmaker if you find yourself in a tight situation, a 1.5 second stun can be the difference between getting killed or making an escape.

Skill Build

I've seen many different ways of building Deadwood, but honestly, I can't see any other skill build for this hero than the following one:

1 Uproot
2 Rotten Grasp
3 Uproot / Rotten Grasp
4 Rotten Grasp
5 Rotten Grasp
6 Willowmaker
7 Rotten Grasp
8 Uproot / Clearcutting
9 Uproot
10 Clearcutting/Uproot
11 Willowmaker
12 Clearcutting
13 Clearcutting
14 Clearcutting
15 Stats
16 Willowmaker
17-25 Stats
Rotten Grasp is maxed first for obvious reasons. It's your main way of initiating ganks and to get in melee range of Willowmaker. You want to max Uproot next for more DPS (and farming) and the slow duration in Oakbolt. Get Rotten Grasp at level 3 if you wanna go really offensive and think you can kill your opponent that early. In rare cases where you're getting ganked a lot by the enemy, one level of Clearcutting at level 8 is all you need for treewalking. Deadwood Pun... erm Willowmaker is skilled whenever possible because it's awesome, without further ado. The bonuses of more Clearcutting charges are too great to be left for stats, so it'll be maxed at level 14.

Initial Items

Your initial items are mainly aimed at giving you better survivability and staying power in a lane, as well as better last hitting power.

Deadwood, with his high base damage and Uproot, shouldn't have any problem getting last hits, which is why I like to get two Crushing Claws on him rather than a Logger's Hatchet. Feel free to get one instead of the Claws however if you're not that comfortable with your last-hitting skills, or if you suspect facing other heroes with high base damage like Pebbles or Blood Hunter.

The two Minor Totems will be used for your Power Supply, but I wouldn't bother upgrading your Claws into Bracers unless you really feel you need them.

Core Items

Your core items should always be finished before buying anything else. Deadwood needs items that boost his mana, and items that make him mobile.

Portal Key: This item is a must on Deadwood. It allows you to instantly port next to a hero to finish them off Deadwood Punch-style. If a target is hard to hit with a Rotten Grasp, you can alternatively just blink right next to them, punch them in the face with Willowmaker, and set up a guaranteed Rotten Grasp while they are stunned, but do note that Willowmaker won't benefit from the armor reduction you get by setting up Rotten Grasp first. Portal Key will usually be the last item you get for your core build, but if you find yourself having the gold at some point, you should definitely buy it.

Power Supply: One of the best items in the game for it's price, I feel this item is mandatory on every single hero. Clutch health and mana on demand, there's no reason not to get it.

Bottle: This item is what will let you keep roaming/ganking and spamming your skills without having to return to the base. Using the Tablets to refill it, your mana problems should be solved. Assuming you're laning mid, this should be one of the first items you get.

Blood Chalice: This item is a popular alternative source for mana, especially for strength heroes. However, Bottle will in most cases be superior if you're a roaming mid, which I hope you'll be as Deadwood. Bottle also regenerates whatever damage you took during your gank, allowing you to go straight to the next. However, feel free to pick up Blood Chalice together with a Shaman's Headdress/Helm of the Black Legion over the Bottle if you're facing a team heavy on either Physical- or Magic damage where survivability is needed. You should swap one Crushing Claw for a Mark of the Novice in your initial items for the build up in this case.

Ghost Marchers: These supply you with both great mobility and damage (for 1500 gold, +24 damage is a bargain in itself).

Striders: Get these if you somehow are having a hard time farming and need to go ganking as soon as possible.

Steam Boots: Very situational. You should only go for these boots if you're the team's best candidate for carrying (auto-attack DPS). Deadwood is able to carry to a certain extent, so get these if you wanna focus on a DPS-build. If your team has a real carry, however (which you should), get Ghost Marchers.

Homecoming Stones: Being able to port to help an ally in dare need, to stop a tower from getting destroyed by the enemy, or to quickly get to a lane to gank, you should always try to carry at least one Homecoming Stone at all times once the game starts to get on. There is no reason not to. Don't be the guy who never showed up in time to participate in a clash and end up losing a tower.

Luxury Items

Luxury items are items you should aim for after you've finished your core. Always ask yourself: What does my team need the most? Listed are some possible alternatives:

I was about to put this item with your core. Sol's Bulwark has great synergy with your ultimate and is too good to pass on in any game now really. It offers almost as much armor reduction as a level 3 Shieldbreaker for less the price, and you don't even have to land an auto-attack first to get the effect because it's an aura. Deadwood is one of the best candidates to hold Bulwark in -armor mode on a team, but don't get it if someone on your team already as it (set to -armor). Nonetheless it should be your first priority luxury item if you're doing well.

If you're dominating, getting a quick Shieldbreaker is always a good idea. The item buffs your whole team's DPS on a single target. Additionally, it increases the power of your ultimate. Do note that you'll have to hit once to apply the debuff to the enemy before using Willowmaker to make the effect take place.

A more team-oriented approach, Daemonic Breastplate is a natural upgrade from your Sol's Bulwark as the game goes on. Assuming you have someone else to DPS, it's generally always better to get this over Shieldbreaker, as it boosts both you and your allies' survivability and DPS.

Shrunken Head is a great pickup as your first or second luxury item if your team lacks good initiation depending on the situation. It allows you to blink in with Portal Key and bring down key targets uninterrupted. Even if your team has a main initiator, Shrunken Head is always a good item on Deadwood if you're facing a cast-heavy team.

Although it has no synergy with your abilities, Behemoth's Heart is an awesome item to pick up if you find yourself with a lot of gold in your pocket at some point. It boosts your survivability and makes you able to initiate and take the hits without going down.

Deadwood being a hero that naturally can accumulate a lot of farm, Sheepstick and/or Hellflower lets your team initiate and disable even better. Sheepstick is great at disabling powerful, key opponents on the opposing team, while Hellflower can boost your burst even more, or disable spell-reliant opponents. Both items solve your mana problems for good.

Not the first item you want to get, in rare cases Riftshards can be a good follow-up from Shieldbreaker etc. if you're gonna be the team's main source of DPS.

*If you need to free up space, you can get rid of Bottle and Power Supply. Keep your boots and Portal Key as part of your end game items.

Items to Avoid

Despite popular belief, these items are generally a bad pick-up on Deadwood. Do not get these!

A popular item among lower tiers, Runed Axe is attractive to newbies because it boosts your DPS, HP regen and solves your mana problems! Well, getting a Bottle and a Power Supply solves your mana and HP regen as well, for a much cheaper price! You don't need the cleave at all because you're supposed to gank, not farm, and there are better, cheaper items for DPS (which isn't your main role anyways).

Assasin's Shroud gives you invisibility, more burst and DPS all in one! What a great item! Well it's not. Once again there are way cheaper items for DPS than this one, and sure the invisibility allows you to sneak of on your opponents and punch them in the face, but it's also countable by True Sight. Know what item also allows you to get close to your target, that isn't countable by True Sight and provides way more precise positioning? Portal Key. Get it.

While walking up to a lone guy farming neutrals while stealthed from Assasin's Shroud, then literally OHKOing (well technically two hit KOing) them might be fun in noob stomps, Codex is a bad item. It's also expensive. It's Magic damage, while most of yours is Physical. Investing the money in say a Shieldbreaker syngergizes way more with the rest of your skills and play style. Codex is also one of those items that quickly loses it's effectiveness as the game goes on. Oh and did I mention Codex is a bad item - period?

Laning

Deadwood should always try to get the middle lane. I wouldn't pick him if your team already has a guy who's a common mid laner. You need to take advantage of your early-mid game potential, and it's crucial that you get your ultimate at lv6 ASAP. Not only are you able to last hit better versus most mid heroes, but you're just that kind of hero that totally dominate if you're going up 1on1. While Deadwood works in a side-lane, it's not where you really want him to be. Hence, the following will be based on going middle.

So, the first thing you wanna do is to head towards the Tablet spawns. Go top spawn if you're Legion, bottom if you're Hellbourne. Follow the paths from your tower and stop at the inclines. This way you'll get sight of the spawns and be completely safe. Haste and Invisibility can be used for an early gank, Illusions and Damage will boost your last hitting powers for their duration. When the game officially starts and the creeps spawn, hurry and get back to your lane and try to block the creep wave as much as you can. Do this by walking in front of the lead creep all the way down. This will get the creeps closer to you which allows for easier last hitting. The following image shows the ideal spot for the creeps to clash in the middle lane:

Here, you'll have what's called a higher level ground advantage. First off, you'll be hidden from the opponent in the Fog of War. Second, if the opponent in a ranged character, it'll have a 25% miss chance when attacking uphill. So, try and get the creeps to this position, while getting in your last hits and denies. Once you hit level 4 or 5, you're actually more than able to kill your opponent. If it's a squishy target, a successful Rotten Grasp and some auto-attacks (Oakbolt when Grasp is over) can bring a target down surprisingly quickly due to the armor reduction. I've gotten kills before I hit lv6 several times, even at lv4. Once you hit lv6 you can go gank immediately if your mates really need it. If not, then I suggest you kill your opponent with a Grasp + Willowmaker combo. You'll be able to dominate this lane easily from now on, which (eventually) forces the opponent out of it. Now's a great time to start ganking.

Ganking

This is it. Your time has come to bring chaos on the other team. Let's start by looking at your possible ganking routes:

▪ Red routes are Legion
▪ Green routes are Hellbourne
▪ Blue routes are for both teams

I've added common Ward spot during early game. The three spots in the bottom right corner are popular Hellbourne spots, while the two top left ones are popular Legion spots. Depending on how the opposing team have warded, you might have to approach more cautiously to avoid being spotted. The ward closest to the bottom lane (the rightmost one) is an amazing defensive Ward for the Hellbourne team; you won't be able to gank this lane without a Tablet of Haste or -Invisibility. I've pointed out a route at top lane, showing how you'll be ganking with Clearcutting. Just port to the tower (to the second one if the enemy got sight on the outer one), and walk unseen up into the woods.

Whenever you gank, you want to use this order: (1) Rotten Grasp, (2) blink in with Portal Key if you have it, (3) hit once to apply Shieldbreaker if you have it, (4) use Willowmaker, (5) hit with auto-attacks and Oakbolt. This combo should kill most heroes. If you wish, you can blink in with Portal Key first (assuming you have it by then), then use Willowmaker and follow up with a Rotten Grasp. However your ultimate won't benefit from the armor reduction from Grasp this way, so only do it if you're sure you can kill the target. Be sure to check to enemy forest for an easy kill.

When the laning phase is over, you can gank lone heroes busy farming with the help of some teammates, but be careful when you do so! It's not as safe to gank at this point because the enemies will stick more together and be ready to back each other up.

Team Clashes

In team fights, your initial goal will be to bring down key targets (hard-carries or disablers like Tempest are excellent targets) as quickly as possible, preferably before they get to do anything. Squishy disablers probably won't survive your burst and auto-attacks, while carries with Shrunken Head will still be stunned for 1.5 seconds no matter what, which should be enough time to bring them down with the support of your allies. Getting the fight to a 4on5 before it even stats is a huge advantage. When pushing or being pushed, remember you can run into the woods and hide along most parts of the top lane. Blinking in from here (ideally with a Shrunken Head activated) is almost certain to catch the enemy off guard. It can be gamebreaking if you manage to land your stun on a hard-carry like The Dark Lady or Chronos before they get to activate their Shrunken Heads or throw off their spells. This way you'll be able to follow up with more disables besides from your ultimate.

Good Teammates

Basically, any hero that can reduce Physical armor is great to couple up with Deadwood. This also goes for anyone with a stun or slow, because they'll easily set up your Rotten Grasp. To name a few:

Demented Shaman is an awesome hero. He has a it all, a slow/stun and Physical armor reduction. If he throws his ultimate a little while before the team fight beings, yours will equal disaster for the enemy.
Andromeda is like your best hero to gank with. A reliable stun and instant armor reduction (unlike DSham) is a godsend to you.
Pestilence, need I say more? Not only does he stun, but his Swarm will let you one-shot ALOT of heroes.
Glacius is the coolest guy to have with you. His aura will allow you to spam your skills way more (missed Rotten Grasps during laning phase aren't that penalized anymore), and he has two awesome skills that'll let you set up a Rotten Grasp without failure.

Enemies to Avoid

Basically you don't want to face enemies that are capable of increasing their own team's Physical armor. Silences also stop your effectiveness.

Demented Shaman is good to have on your team, but he can be a real PAIN when on the opposing team. His Storm Cloud will render your Willowmaker burst close to useless (you'll still stun).
Plague Rider is a common babysitter, and he's really good at it. He's also a ward b*tch which is bad news for you. Most importantly, he's able to give any ally +12 bonus Physical armor. Do not want!
Scout has an awesome agility gain, which gives him high natural armor. That doesn't go hand-in-hand with your ultimate. He can also go invisible, even when he's hit by Rotten Grasp, so you'll have to gank him with True Sight or an allied stun. However, most annoyingly, he has a silence that'll make sure you can't hit him or his allies with Willowmaker because you have to be in melee range (this also goes for Night Hound). Scout also has free wards which is bad for any ganker.
Keeper of the Forest is probably what you used to look like... A good time ago. He has a HUGE armor buff that will severely reduce the efficiency of most of your abilities.
Hammerstorm and other strength carries won't go down that easily, and they'll beat you up if you fail to. This guy even boosts his whole team's armor through Galvanize - not good!
Void Talisman punishes Deadwood greatly. This item is one of the only counters to your ultimate, but it's a useless pick-up on carries so you'll only expect supporters to get them. Too bad they're your favorite prey.

Pyromancer Guide

2011-12-13T08:27:00.000-08:00

Pyromancer

Table of Contents

Introduction
- Stats
- Pros and Cons
Skills
- Skill Build
- Calculations
Items
- Starting Items
- Pre-Core & Core
- Luxury Items
- Situational Items
- Items to Avoid in General
Gameplay
- Laning
- Farming, Ganking & Pushing
- Teamfights
- Friends & Foes
- Tips & Tricks

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Introduction
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Pyromancer is an extremely strong solo laner. His long range combined with having two nukes, one of which is a stun make him really hard to deal with. He is probably the best hero for getting kills without the help of allies just from the burst he has.

With the attack speed he gets from his passive, Pyromancer with no real items can output quite a bit of physical damage, which means that while anti-magic items like Shaman's Headress etc. are good against him, they aren't hard counter, which means Pyromancer can go late game against them, no problemo!
The DoT component from his passive is extremely good at killing towers and at killing Kongor.

Stats

Base Damage - 43-49
Attack Range - 600 (Ranged)
Movement Speed - 295
Armor - 1.14
Magic Armor - 5.5
Strength - 18 (1.5)
Agility - 16 (1.5)
Intelligence - 24 (3.2) Main Attribute
Cast point/backswing: 0.4/0.9
Damage point/backswing: 0.45/0.75
Missile speed: 900
Turn Rate: 0.45

Pros and Cons

+ One of the Best Solo Heroes in the Game
+ Extremely Good for Pubstomping
+ Team Independant
+ Good Farming Skills
+ High Magical and Physical Damage Output
+ Fun to Play
+ Can Fit About Any Role
- Unrealiable Stun
- Squishy and Often Focused
- Highly Level Dependant
- Not Very Mobile Without Portal Key
- Crappy Base Strength and Gain

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Skills
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Phoenix Wave

Pyromancer sends forth a phoenix that damages enemies in a line.

Activation (Q)
Target Dual - Enemy Units
Type: Magic
Cast Point: 0.5s
Cast Backswing: 0.9s
Cast Time: 1.4s
Range: 700
Mana Cost: 90/105/125/140
Cooldown: 9 seconds
Deals 100/170/240/310 Magic Damage to each target in a line.

Contents may be hot!

Your more realiable nuke. Simple an AoE Magic Damage nuke which deals the "average strong" damage. A thing to note especially later in the game is that it takes half a second for the projectile to travel, so you might need to predict the enemies a little bit.

To prove that my ranges are correct:

radiusstart="70"
radiusend="275"
speed="1200"

lifetime="500"

Radius end is 275. Lifetime is 500 = 0.5s, speed is 1200. This affector spawns 80 units in front of Pyromancer.
Radius start is 70, so it is possible for Pyromancer to miss a unit if its hitbox is <10 units from Pyromancer's front.

The affector travels 1200*0.5 = 600 units.

80 + 600 + 275 = 955 max effective range

Dragonfire

Pyromancer conjures a mighty elemental fire dragon at a target location, damaging and stunning enemies in an area.

Activation (W)
Target Position - Enemy Units and Trees
Type: Magic
Cast Point: 0.45s
Cast Backswing: 0.95s
Cast Time: 1.4s
Impact Delay: 0.5s
Range: 600
Radius: 200
Mana Cost: 90/100/110/125
Cooldown: 10 seconds
Deals 90/150/210/280 Magic Damage and stuns each target in the radius for 1.6 seconds.

Mana Cost? Check.
Cooldown? Check.
The ability to summon a dragon?
Priceless.

Your less reliable nuke, but with a stun added to it. The stun is decent, although the cast time & delay are quite long, so it is easy to dodge, and the stun lasts only 1.6 seconds, which is a bit under average. Make sure you hit this skill in 1v1 situation; Save it till you are sure it will hit.
Easiest stuns to hit are followup; Get a team mate to stun them.
After followups are surprising stuns; FoW, PK, Invis etc..
After that, you just have to predict them. Often people will be predictable when going for CS and when chasing your allies, so try to capitalize on that. Blindly running up to an opponent and trying to stun them may work against weaker opponents, but can lead to bad situations against good players.

Fervor

Learning to control the fire within, Pyromancer increases his cast, attack, and Movement speed after casting while at the same time catching anything he hits with spells or attacks on fire for a short time.

Passive Bonuses
+10/20/30/40 Cast Speed
On any spell damage or attack damage done, applies Burning! to the target for 3 seconds.

On Ability Activation
Applies Fervor to self for 6 seconds and adds one charge, maximum of 3 charges.

Fervor Effects
+2/3/4/5% Movement Speed per charge
+20/30/40/50 Attack Speed per charge

Burning! Effect
1/2/3/4 Magic Damage per second per charge

Burn, baby, burn!

This skill is what makes pure capable to play so aggressive. The fact that you win "hit-trades" is pretty huge, as well as granting you some cast speed so you can more quickly use your nukes, especially your stun. Great for killing towers and Kongor.
Another thing to note is that while an enemy is affected by the dot, even if it is level one, it will disable their regen for the time being; They can't use Bottle or other items like that, leading to an huge advantage.

Blazing Strike

Using power granted from Sol, Pyromancer hurls a blazing hot fireball at a target enemy, dealing massive damage.

This ability can be boosted by Staff of the Master.
Staff Effect: Increases damage from 450/675/950 to 650/875/1150.

Activation (R)
Target Unit - Enemy Units
Type: Magic
Cast Point: 0.1s
Cast Backswing: 0.9s
Cast Time: 1.0s
Projectile Speed: 2000
Range: 600
Mana Cost: 280/420/680
Cooldown: 150/90/55 seconds
Deals 450/675/950 Magic Damage to target.

It's kinda like pitching a baseball. Of fire.

Simple skill which deals high amounts of damage on a single target, pretty self-explanatory.
The skill can't be disjointed, but that doesn't mean that it can't be dodged. If the projectile hits the location where the target is, but he appears to be invulnerable, the damage is canceled. This includes Bubbles' Take Cover, Madman's Barrel Roll, Magmus' Lava Surge, and couple more, such as Succubus' Mesmerize (if activated while the projectile is in the air), which are however unreliable in most cases.

Skill Build

Dragonfire
Fervor / Phoenix Wave
Phoenix Wave
Phoenix Wave / Fervor / Dragonfire*
Phoenix Wave
Blazing Strike
Phoenix Wave
Dragonfire / Fervor
Dragonfire / Fervor
Dragonfire / Fervor
Blazing Strike
Fervor / Dragonfire
Fervor / Dragonfire
Fervor / Dragonfire
Attribute Boost
Blazing Strike

Dragonfire is your most powerful spell at level one, so that's the first one you're getting.
The early point in Fervor for extra harassment power and tower damage is usually better than having one extra level on Dragonfire so you want to have that. Skipping it is acceptable, but I highly suggest taking one level in Fervor.
Phoenix Wave is more reliable for last hitting or harassing than Dragonfire, so it is leveled as the main nuke.
The choice between maxing Fervor or maxing Dragonfire is quite simple; Early burst is more important than more points in Fervor, unless you need the Fervor for pushing and/or Kongor.
Blazing Strike is taken on chance for damage improvement
*While playing on a sidelane, or a trilane, unless you are planning to go for early push, you should skip the Fervor and get a bit more burst.

Calculations

Considering you go with the build I suggest you to go for.
To your total magic damage, feel free to add the amount of hits you expect to get out. If you can't think of the amount, generally 3-4 hits / 7-8 hits with Sheepstick, add or take few. Fervor might deal 50 - 100 extra damage, possibly 150 if you have Sheepstick.
PORTAL KEY INCREASES THE MANA COSTS BY 75!

Level Mana Cost Unreduced Damage No Extra Reduction Mystic Vestments Shaman's Headdress

1 90 90 68 55 47

2 90 90 68 55 47

3 180 190 143 116 98

4 195 260 196 160 135

5 215 330 249 202 171

6 495 780 587 478 404

7 510 850 640 521 440

8 520 910 685 557 471

9 530 970 730 594 502

10 545 1040 783 637 539

11 685 1265 952 775 655

16 945 1540 1158 944 798

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Items
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Starting Items

If you are playing as a trilane support (remember, never play Pyromancer as a sidelane support, only trilane), You will have to buy either Winged Courier or Wards. Also, if your team is bad and doesn't support, then you will have to do that as well.

Wards of Sight are 100 gold each

Crushing Claws

Passive Bonus
+3 Strength
Value 150

Mark of the Novice

Passive Bonus
+3 Intelligence
Value 150

Runes of the Blight

Activation
Consumes target tree, healing self for 115 HP over 16 seconds
Value 90

Health Potion

Activation
Heals target for 400 HP over 10 seconds, Dispels on damage
Value 100

Minor Totem

Passive Bonuses
+1 Strength
+1 Agility
+1 Intelligence
Value 53

Pre-Core & Core

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Bottle is the first item you will buy. It solves both your health and mana problems, and makes rune-whoring much more effective. If you are not soloing middle, then you might skip it.

Marchers are an obvious choice for any hero - But Chalice or Marchers, which one first? The rule of thumb is; If the Marchers help you get runes (enemy doesn't have any blinking skill) then get them first. Otherwise Chalice first. And by the time you buy these, get the Ward of Sight if you wish to have a lane ward.

Blood Chalice is awesome on Pyromancer. It allows him to play extremely aggressive, as well as farm with his spells. It also has strong synergy with Bottle, as you will mostly only use mana, not health.

Steamboots are the best boot choice. They have great synergy with Bottle and Blood Chalice, and provide you some extra needed health, as well as more attack speed for DPS purposes.

Post Haste is basically the only other viable option. They provide you with EXCELLENT mobility, for the cost of no hp, no extra dps, and loss of extra 1000+ gold. Generally I don't suggest these on Pyromancer, because I find Steamboots suit me better. They are decent choice though, so feel free!

Ghost Marchers are mediocre. The added movespeed is not necessary on Pyromancer, as you will be getting a Portal Key anyways. Steamboots are much better for farming, and keep you alive. Sure Ghost Marchers give damage, but Steamboots give attack speed.

Striders are the last choice. Pyromancer is not a ganker who should be roaming all around the map, he should focus on farming and only countergank, or gank if he gets a Haste or so. If you have so poor farm that you can't afford Steamboots, simply go drop couple neutral camps, get your Steamboots, and start farming quickly.

Power Supply is a great item. The mana/health for the price is way too good to skip for most of the games. But it is not necessary for your strategy, and you run out of inventory slots soon if you pick it up. However, it is so cheap, yet so useful, that you should in most cases get them.
Portal Key is your first major purchase. This item is a must have on Pyromancer, it has so much synergy. Not only does it help you hit your stun, PK is nice synergy with high burst damage, which Pyro definitely has. Basically this means you can instant-kill people and get out, or surprise them by blinking in and bursting them down quickly.

Glowstone can be taken after Portal Key to boost your HP and mana in case you are going for SotM or Frostwolf's Skull later on. 1200 Gold for what it gives is quite huge at this point of the game.

Bottle of Tears (3/3)

Must be refilled at the Well or by picking up rune
Bottle is only filled 2/3 when taken to the Well by a courier
Activation
Uses one charge, and restores 135 HP and 70 Mana over 3 seconds, Dispels on damage
Value 600

Blood Chalice

Passive Bonuses
+3 Strength
+3 Intelligence
Activation
Cooldown 35 seconds
Removes 150 HP, grants 100 Mana
If you are on 700 range of a dying enemy hero in 15 seconds after activation, you are granted back the initial life cost of 150
Requires
Crushing Claws 150
Mark of the Novice 150
Scarab 325
Total cost 625

Steamboots

Passive Bonuses
+25 Attack Speed
+10 Strength/Agility/Intelligence
Requires
Marchers 500
Gloves of Swift 500
Bolstering Armband/Fleetfeet/Apprentice's Robe 450
Total Cost 1450

Post Haste

Passive Bonus
105 Movement Speed
Activation
Mana Cost 75
Cooldown 60
Target ally non-hero unit/structure. After 3 seconds of channeling, teleports to the target, and applies 200 movement speed buff for 5 seconds.
Shares cooldown with Homecoming Stone
Requires
Marchers 500
Recipe 2200
Total Cost 2700

Power Supply

Passive Bonuses
+3 Strength
+3 Agility
+3 Intelligence
Activation
Restores 10 Health and 15 Mana per charge.
Aura
Radius 1200
Aura Effects
1 charge every time an enemy hero on the radius casts a spell. Maximum of 15 charges.
Requires
Minor Totem 53
Minor Totem 53
Mana Battery 200
Recipe 240
Total Cost 546

Portal Key

Activation
Target Position
Range 1200
Mana Cost 75
Cooldown 14 seconds
Teleports self to target position. Cooldown of 3 seconds is applied to Portal Key if damaged by a player controlled unit.
Value 2150

Luxury Items

After your core items are finished, just look at the game and see what you need. Generally, if you have a real carry, and you are not having terrible farm, Sheepstick is the first choice to go for.

The item is just too strong to skip on Pyromancer. Pretty self-explanatory.

Hellflower should generally be built if the person you bought Sheepstick for farmed a Nullstone, or your team needs more disable, on top of adding vast amounts to your damage. Provides you with basically infinity mana on top of that. If you ONLY want to proc the Nullstone off, consider getting Tablet of Command or Stormspirit.

Frostwolf's Skull provides you with huge amounts of extra stats, especially HP. On top of that, it is a great counter to opposing Shrunken Heads, Swiftblades and Predators.

Shrunken Head is a great pickup if you need to be reckless, the enemies have lots of magical nukes / disables. It doesn't help if the enemies are initiating on you (well, unless they don't stun you, which never happens). It allows you to blink in with Portal Key and bring down key targets uninterrupted. Even if your team has a main initiator, Shrunken Head is always a good item on Pyromancer if you're facing a cast-heavy team.

Savage Mace adds huge amount of DPS to your attacks. If you are dominating, and / or your team has no real carry, feel free to get this item. The true strike is great against opposing Wingbows, and also mitigates the annoying uphill miss which may cause low hp escapes. To explain you how this item is good on Pyromancer; Fervor gives you attack speed, Savage gives you damage. Figure the rest yourself.

In general, if you need more of defensive items, get Frostwolf's Skull, not Savage Mace. On the other hand, if you need offensive items, you might not want to get a Frostwolf's Skull.

Sheepstick

Passive Bonuses
+10 Strength
+10 Agility
+35 Intelligence
+200% Mana Regen
Activation
Target Enemy Unit
Type: Magic
Range: 800
Mana Cost: 100
Cooldown: 35 seconds
Applies Transfigured to target for 3.5 seconds
Transfigured EffectsSilenced
Perplexed
Disarmed
Movement Speed set to 100
Requires
Acolyte's Staff 2700
Manatube 875
Blessed Orb 2100
Total Cost 5675

Hellflower

Passive Bonuses
+20 Intelligence
+51 Damage
+30 Attack Speed
+225% Mana Regeneration
Activation
Target Enemy Unit
Type: Magic
Range: 900
Mana Cost: 100
Cooldown: 25 seconds
Applies Hellflower to target for 5 seconds.
Hellflower Effects
+20% Damage taken
Silenced
Perplexed
Leaves a visible trail behind afflicted target
Requires
Arcana 1575
Arcana 1575
Arcana 1575
Total Cost 4725

Frostwolf's Skull

Passive Bonuses
+30 Strength
+15 Agility
+15 Intelligence
+200 Max Health
+150 Max Mana
+10 Damage
On Attack Impact
Applies Freeze to target for 3 seconds when attacking or casting a single target spell
Freeze Effects
20% Movement Slow
20% Attack Slow
Requires
Glowstone 1200
Icebrand 2200
Blessed Orb 2100
Recipe 700
Total Cost 6200

Shrunken Head

Passive Bonuses
+10 Strength
+24 Damage
Activation
No Target
Cooldown 80 seconds
Applies Shrunken Head to self for 10 seconds and dispels debuffs from self.
After each time Shrunken Head is used, the duration of Shrunken Head is reduced by 1second and Shrunken Head's cooldown is reduced by 5 seconds. The duration of Shrunken Head will not go below 5 seconds, nor will the cooldown go below 55 seconds.
Shrunken Head cannot be removed or dispelled
Shrunken Head Effect
Magic Immunity
Requires
Mighty Blade 1000
Warhammer 1600
Recipe 1300
Total Cost 3900

Savage Mace

Passive Bonuses
+88 Damage
+15 Attack Speed
True Strike (you can't miss your attacks)
On Attack Impact
35% chance to deal 100 Physical Damage to target and stun for 0.1 seconds.
Does not propagate to illusions.
Requires
Slayer 2200
Warhammer 1600
Warhammer 1600
Total Cost 5400

Situational Items

Nullstone is taken to counter strong single target spells. So this is the reason why would you get in on Pyromancer. Keep in mind, that if the spells are magical, you are usually better off with Shrunken Head.

These items are great, if you are enjoying bad farm or are forced to play more supportive. They have easy buildup, cheap cost, and also solve your mana problems. They can both be used to proc an enemy Nullstone on top of that.
Tablet of Command can be used multiple ways; You can use it to yourself to escape or initiate, or on an ally to do the same. While using it on an enemy, stunning him on the spot he lands to is quite easy.
Stormspirit can be multiple ways as well; Save an ally / yourself by dodging a skill with it. Or, use it on an opponent to make him easy target for your stun when he lands, or to escape his wrath. Keep in mind, with Stormspirit + PK, if you don't take damage in 0.5 seconds, use Stormspirit and you can PK away after.

Nullstone

Passive Bonuses
+15 Strength
+15 Agility
+15 Intelligence
+10 Damage
+6 Health Regeneration
+200% Mana Regeneration
When not in cooldown, negates a single targeted spell.
Cooldown 20 seconds
Requires
Blessed Orb 2100
Sustainer 1750
Recipe 1000
Total Cost 4850

Tablet of Command

Passive Bonuses
+14 Intelligence
+4 Strength
+4 Agility
+10 Damage
Activation
Target Hero
Range: 800
Mana Cost: 50
Cooldown: 20 seconds
Pushes the target hero 500 units in the direction it is facing
Requires
Major Totem 540
Neophyte's Book 1000
Recipe 500
Total Cost 2040

Stormspirit

Passive Bonuses
+10 Intelligence
+150% Mana Regeneration
+25 Movement Speed
Activation
Target Hero
Range: 600
Mana Cost: 75
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Applies Cyclone to target hero for 2.5 seconds.
Cyclone Effects
Invulnerable
Stunned
Requires
Neophyte's Book 1000
Manatube 875
Scarab 325
Recipe 600
Total Cost 2800

Items to Avoid in GeneralThe following 3 items are bad pickups for any game.

Assasin's Shroud is not even comparable to Portal Key. Sure the invisibility might provide a decent escape mechanism, but the enemies WILL buy revelation and counter it. It is also much more expensive than Portal Key.

Sacrificial Stone is in general a bad item for basically any hero. As for Pyromancer, the mana from it is completely wasted. Need HP? Get Shrunken Head or Frostwolf's Skull. Sac. Stone is just inferior compared to other possible items.

Codex, while does increase your burst, also leaves you with no hp, and upgrading the Codex takes 7000 gold away from you. That could easily go for Hellflower AND a Blessed Orb.

The following 7 items are extremely situational

Spellshards make you deal much more magic damage, for the cost of no HP. But in some games, it actually works. If you are sure that you will stay alive without extra health items, then you may get them.

Staff of the Master is the same as above, except it trades off some damage for some health, which is IMO preferable.

Behemoth's Heart is not necessarily bad on Pyromancer, just that the other items mentioned are better. But if you really want extra HP, and don't want to / already have Frostwolf's Skull, feel free to get it.

Shieldbreaker and Daemonic Breastplate are one thing. If you are dominant, and your team has no real carry, you might need to get true DPS items and carry the game. The minus armor, as well as the attack speed/damage from these items make you hit like a beast.

Frostfield Plate is a quite mediocre item for Pyromancer. It should only be taken if you really, really, REALLY need the armor, and the enemies need to be slowed. i.e. the enemies have Deadwood + Madman + Maliken, or something similiar.

Harkon's Blade. Sure, it skyrockets your damage output when the enemy physical armor increases. But, considering the opposing Shrunken Heads, they do make it much less effective. It does cost quite high amounts of mana to use the effect (believe it or not), and you may run out of mana very quickly. If your team is in need of more DPS over an extra disable from Hellflower or so, then you can think of getting this item. Savage against Wingbows though!
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Gameplay
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Laning

Pyromancer should generally be played solo middle. But in pubs, especially SD, AR or BD, Pyromancer is forced to lane with someone. But he should not support in terms of buying Wards / Courier etc.. at least too much, as he needs to get farmed in order to be useful.
If you go to a sidelane, you wan't to lane with another stunner so you can combo your stuns for easy kills.

But as Pyromancer is generally played middle, I am going to explain you how to. First of all, every time there is no creep to last hit, try to harass the enemy; Pyromancer has capablity to play extremely aggressive, and if you are not harassing, you are not taking advantage of that, thats why you harass.
Another thing to remember when playing middle lane is to look at the enemy's items. Count how much his items cost. If he buys gold with near 600 gold, he won't be getting a quick bottle. If he won't be getting his Bottle swiftly, play extremely aggressive and don't let him have his bottle.

"Fake" your stun, ie. Cancel the animation a lot. If you click the stun, but notice the enemy dodging it, quickly press the Stop button (S by default) to cancel it. Hitting your stun is the most important part of your hero. In 1v1 situations, you don't have to stun right away. Stun when the enemy can't dodge it.

A good way to trick your opponent is to play passive for a short time, and then if the enemy gets too cocky and tries to play aggressive because he thinks "He is forced to play passive because im in the upperhand", simply turn the tide around, drop your skills and autoattack him to death.

Every time a rune spawns, use your nuke to push the lane quickly, so that you don't lose creeps when going for the rune. This is basically how the middle lane is won.

Keep up the aggressive play, whore runes, and call for a gank if it is necessary.

At level 6, basically if you hit your stun, you will kill anybody. But if you miss your stun, they might be able to kill you. So only stun if you are sure it will hit.

Having a Ward on the opposing hill is extremely powerful, you can see incoming tp-ganks and they can't set up anything from fog, and you can also harass uphill. In higher level games people buy counterward to counterward it, so be aware.

When you are getting ganked mid, you want your allies to help as much as possible by teleporting.

Sidelane

In general, if Pyromancer is on a sidelane (2-1-2), he should be taking the farm. As for your lane partners, you want to have initiating stunners who make it easy for you to land stun, and finish them off.

Pyromancer can either take farm, or can support a trilane. This is because he is capable to farm quickly after to maintain some important items, such as the PK.

The previously mentioned tips apply here, except for the ones which mention rune-whoring / hill advantage. Aggressive play and cancelling your stun is the key to win a sidelane.
Oh, one thing; Don't use your stun right away when an ally has used his, use it after his stun has ended / is ending to get the full potential out of it.

Farming, Ganking & Pushing

This goes for almost all the time when you solo middle - don't blindly gank side lanes because they are asking for it/need it. Nothing is worse than wasting a full minute to walk to a side lane so the enemies can just run away because of a ward or otherwise escape while your middle opponent freefarms. Ganks should come when they have a high chance of success (AKA, you just got a haste rune or it's really a countergank).

With that said, you aren't ganking the whole game, you are mostly farming at least before you get your Portal Key;
Use your nukes to slay creep waves instantly once you hit level 9/10, and use the extra time to do the same to neutrals (try to stack them before killing them as this takes advantage of your nukes' AoE) and to grab runes.

If you happen to get an invis / haste, or the enemies are playing over-aggressive, capitalize on that; Get pickoff, or preferably, gank multiple heroes at the same time (with the help of allies) and then proceed to push the tower on that lane, or even better, push 2 or 3 lanes at the same time, if possible.

Teamfights

Don't expose yourself in teamfights. Your hero is extremely fragile (unless you have lots of defensive items) and has extremely high damage output, so the worst thing that can happen is for you to get focused.
What you want to do, is jump on the enemy initiator, or the enemy carry and drop him down as soon as possible. To help this at this quest, you need to surprise them with your Portal Key, and preferably have a Sheepstick.

Friends & Foes

You best allies are heroes with stuns, such as Behemoth, Hammerstorm, Magmus or Blacksmith; They let you use your stun easily, and help you burst down the enemies.

Your worst enemies are heroes who can burst you down, or mitigate your burst damage, as examples of the first one, Pebbles, Kraken, Gauntlet or Witch Slayer, and for the later one, Predator, Swiftblade, Chipper, Accursed, or heroes with Shrunken Head.

Vindicator?
Vindicator does counter Pyromancer, but Pyromancer also counters Vindicator later in the game. Now you are thinking "WTF?!", but let me explain. Pyromancer's typical luxuries are Shrunken Head, Hellflower and Sheepstick. Vindicator is shut down by disabling him, or by dispelling his silences with Shrunken. He will **** you up early to mid game however.

When to pick Pyromancer?
- Enemies have a melee mid / short range hero / squishy solo hero
- Enemies have squishy targets
- Allies have good initiation and / or followup with stuns

When not to pick Pyromancer?
- Enemies have a stronger mid hero (see: Chipper, Pollywog/Soulstealer are tricky opponents as well)
- Your team already has strong solo hero
- You have no initiating stuns
- Enemies have lots of tanky heroes (especially their carry, see: Maliken, Pestilence)

Tips & TricksTell your team about things you see, In case they aren't paying attention and don't see themselves

If you are killing Kongor (and in some cases tower), Time your spells so that the Fervor attack speed buff never disappears, i.e. cast stun, after 5-5.5 seconds cast Wave, after 5-5.5 seconds cast Stun etc...

Sheepstick is instant cast while your stun has a nonzero cast time, so lead with sheepstick against opponents who are likely to stop your stun (bubbles/swiftblade/predator/people with shrunken head)

Cycle your Steamboots; About to cast spell / need more damage? Intelligence. About to regen hp / mana? Agility. About to cast Chalice? Strength. Generally keep them on Strength

Abuse Fog of War. Nothing is as easy as hitting your skills from fog, and then PK'ing out.

Practice stunning a lot. And I mean, a lot. Especially the PK --> Stun. It is EXTREMELY important to practice stunning.

Cancel the backswing in your spells by clicking another command right after you use a spell (don't wait for the animation to end after the spell is out)

If the enemy goes to fog, try to predict him and use your stun + wave. If you have an attack, or your ally's attack, or tower's attack even, following the opponent, it will show the direction he runs to even in fog.

You don't need to land the stun in the middle, catchingthem on the edge is just fine. Also, if you try to land on the edge when juking, it is very likely that they will run into the center of the stun by themselves, while if you try to hit it in the middle, they will dodge it regardless of what direction they go for.

When pushing towers, you can use your skills just to gain attack speed. Keep some mana for at least a stun with you however.

When being pursued by a melee hero, and you are running away, Dragonfire (stun) over yourself. A melee hero rushing in for the kill will be hit almost every time and you'll have a better chance of escaping.

If you are in a sidelane in the early laning phase, using Dragonfire (again, your stun) to destroy some trees, while keeping a tree barrier to harass with. Warding close to the tower can give helpful vision.

Pyromancer can easily stack 2 neutral camps at once by using Dragonfire or Phoenix Wave, but also stack the Hellbourne Ancient Camp from the river by using a skill on the camp.

Version 2.5.0

2011-12-10T12:09:00.001-08:00

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Version 2.5.0
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*** With today's patch we want to clarify some confusion regarding why the highly anticipated version 3.0 of HoN appears to be missing in action. With the quality of the game at stake during the later stages of development for 3.0, we realized that all the features we had originally planned for 3.0 wouldn't actually be ready for release until well into next year.

Rather than compromising our standards of quality and releasing a lackluster version 3.0 or delaying the patch into oblivion, we decided that we needed to stop holding back all this great content and bring version 2.5 to life. We hold ourselves to a higher standard come hell or high water and we know that the HoN community will support our decision.

There are a plethora of great things coming out today in version 2.5 that we stand behind in bringing the best gaming experience possible and we thank you for your patience and commitment. Without further ado, we hope you enjoy 2.5. Game HoN!

*** These notes includes the notes from 2.3.5 earlier today

- The current Free Heroes were changed. The current available list is as follows:
* Blood Hunter
* Nomad
* Moon Queen
* Night Hound

* Torturer
* Pollywog Priest
* Vindicator
* Rhapsody
* Empath

* Gladiator
* Cthulhuphant
* Accursed
* Keeper of the Forest
* Deadwood
* Gauntlet

== General ==

- Matchmaking Rework
* 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
* The minimum MMR has been increased from 750 to 1000
* See the forums for more information!

- Player Speculating
* Can now join a friend's game in progress and watch from their point of view
* No delay, your camera is locked to the view of the specific person you are watching
* You must be approved by the person you are trying to watch before you can join and they can kick you out at any time
* Currently, a player may only have 1 Player Spectator or Mentor and a limit of 4 on a server at any one time

- Mentoring
* Join the game of another player and Mentor them to help them improve!
* Your camera is locked to their camera, the same as Player Speculating
* You still have to ask permission from the player to join their game and can be removed at any time
* The Mentor has additional special functions available:
* Holding Right Mouse Button will show your mouse to your Pupil (You can already see theirs)
* CTRL+Enter will message your Pupil or Mentor
* Holding X will let you have voice chat with only your Mentor or Pupil
* You can also ping your Pupil's Minimap screen as a Mentor
* Bindings can be changed
* Currently, a player may only have 1 Player Spectator or Mentor and a limit of 4 on a server at any one time

- Referral System has been updated
* All of the people you have referred can now be seen in-game
* Introducing the Referral Promotion - If you Refer a friend, and help that friend reach level 3, both of you will receive the Exclusive Professor Repulsor Alt Avatar

- Forest of Caldavar changed
* Every tree on the map has been replaced with new, more awesome trees
* An ancient large statue was discovered near the Legion Observatory
* Life has begun to flourish, and you should hear more Ambient sounds as you enjoy the world

- New recruits have joined the fight!
* The Lane Creeps, including Mega Creeps, have been completely redone with new models, animations, and sounds

- Water shaders have been significantly improved
* The River now flows down the map and there is realtime reflection from the water

- Added a new option: Rim Lighting
* Can be turned on in the options to draw a larger contrast on the edge of units

- RAP
* Reduced infractions required for temporary suspension from 3 to 2

- The Chatserver has been updated for HoN 2.5
* You will have to log out and patch before you can reconnect

- Tower attack volume has been adjusted
- Hero Spotlights will now automatically pop up the first time you enter the game after a new one is posted

== Items ==

- Items in the shops have been moved around a bit to ensure that each shop is priced lowest to highest
* Keybinds might have changed! Keep that in mind

- New Item: Grave Locket
* Amulet of Exile (485)
* Recipe (250)
* Total: 735
* 7 Intelligence
* 4 Agility
* 4 Strength
* Passive
* When you get a kill or assist, the Locket becomes charged
* When charged, gains +3 to all stats and reduces respawn time by 10 seconds
* If the wielder dies, the charge will be removed

- New Item: Genjuro
* Assassin's Shroud (3300)
* Dancing Blade (3000)
* Total: 6300
* Auto-Assembles
* 25 Agility
* 45 Damage
* 20 Attack Speed
* Active
* 75 Manacost
* On use, consumes a charge and grants stealth for 9 seconds
* Attacking out of stealth deals an additional 125 damage and inflicts 55% movespeed slow for 3 seconds
* Gain a charge every 14 seconds, up to 2 charges

- Homecoming Stone
* Tooltip fixed slightly

- Mana Battery
* Now transfers its charges to Power Supply when you upgrade it

- Runes of the Blight
* Sounds redone

- Void Talisman
* Removed the 'use' animation, fixes animation bugs with channels and while moving

== Heroes ==

- Added a new Early Access Hero: Shadowblade
* Added a new Limited Edition Alt Avatar: Corporeal Shadowblade
* The Early Access bundle now includes a Limited Edition Symbol!

- Gemini is now available in the general hero pool

- Added a new Doctor Repulsor Alt Avatar: Professor Repulsor
* Voiced by the dwarfy Simon of the Yogscast
* YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/BlueXephos
* Cannot be purchased in the Goblin Store
* Available only through the Referral System

- Added a new Martyr Alt Avatar: Sister Martyr

- Added a new Chronos Alt Avatar: Grandfather Chronos
* Reward for reaching the purchase goal of Father Time Chronos
* Will be added to your account for free if you bought Father Time Chronos

- Fallen Valkyrie's animations were redone

== Bugfixes ==

- Cthulhuphant: Fixed Obliterate so that it really doesn't hit stuff behind him if positioned at very specific points
- Cthulhuphant: Fixed Trample so it doesn't hit behind him in the initial cast position
- Dampeer: Fixed Consume so that the heal you get accounts for Spellshards
- Gemini: Fixed an issue with Twin Strike that made him do less attack DPS than intended
- Gemini: Fixed some effects playing through fog
- Gemini: Updated some skewed portraits
- Jeraziah: Animation Smoothing
- Lord Salforis: Animation Smoothing
- Myrmidon: Attacks in Forced Evolution form now go through Void Talisman
- Moraxus: Animation Smoothing
- Pandamonium: Animation Smoothing
- Pandamonium: When Face Smash channel starts, Pandamonium does 1 autoattack right off the bat instead of waiting 1 second for the first hit
- Plague Rider: Animation Smoothing
- Plague Rider: Fixed Staff of the Master tooltip issue and an interaction with deleted characters

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.5 preview

2011-12-09T11:27:00.001-08:00

HoN Hero Spotlight: Shadowblade

2011-12-07T02:17:00.001-08:00

DreamHack Winter 2011 VOD List

2011-11-30T06:36:00.001-08:00

After a very exciting weekend with the DreamHack Winter 2011 BEAT IT Tournament, the videos for the event are now starting to be available for in case you missed any of the great action.

We do apologize for the poor quality of videos for the first day of the event as our setup was not cooperating with us. Also, the third place match was recorded but not streamed, so as a result there will be no links for it until it is uploaded along with the other games to the Honcast VODs.

*We are still in the process of getting the raw files uploaded to honcast, so for now we have highlighted and linked to the justin.tv files of each of the games we casted which may include them being in parts (not including the third place match yet)

Day 1

Group Stage - Team EZ vs Fallen Kingdom
Group Stage - Fnatic.MSI vs Frenetic Array part 1
Group Stage - Fnatic.MSI vs Frenetic Array part 2
Group Stage - Team EZ vs Druidz Omega part 1
Group Stage - Team EZ vs Druidz Omega part 2
Group Stage - Frenetic Array vs Trademark eSports part 1
Group Stage - Frenetic Array vs Trademark eSports part 2
Group Stage - Team EZ vs LION eSportsklubb

Day 2

Group Stage - Fallen Kingdom vs LION eSportsklubb
Group Stage - Druidz Omega vs Team Wahlin
Group Stage - JaGa vs Infused eSports
Group Stage - HoNPortal.org vs Frenetic Array
Group Stage - JaGa vs Trademark eSports
Group Stage - Team EZ vs Reason Gaming part 1
Group Stage - Team EZ vs Reason Gaming part 2
Group Stage - Fallen Kingdom vs Team Wahlin part 1
Group Stage - Fallen Kingdom vs Team Wahlin part 2
Tie-Breaker - Team EZ vs Team Wahlin
Tie-Breaker - Team EZ vs Reason Gaming
Quarter-Finals - Fnatic.MSI vs Team EZ game 1
Quarter-Finals - Fnatic.MSI vs Team EZ game 2
Quarter-Finals - Fnatic.MSI vs Team EZ game 3
Quarter-Fianls - Trademark eSports vs Fallen Kingdom game 3 (only third game casted)

Day 3

Semi-Finals #1 - game 1
Semi-Finals #1 - game 2
Semi-Finals #1 - game 3
Semi-Finals #2 - game 3 (only third game casted)

Grand Finals (Starts at 42:30 on part 2)

Player / Team Interviews

[EZ]Chu
[fray]Slickz
[tdM]Swindlemelonzz
[LION]Era
[MSI]NoVa_
Fnatic.MSI
Day 1 Recap

Level	Mana Cost	Unreduced Damage	No Extra Reduction	Mystic Vestments	Shaman's Headdress
1	90	90	68	55	47
2	90	90	68	55	47
3	180	190	143	116	98
4	195	260	196	160	135
5	215	330	249	202	171
6	495	780	587	478	404
7	510	850	640	521	440
8	520	910	685	557	471
9	530	970	730	594	502
10	545	1040	783	637	539
11	685	1265	952	775	655
16	945	1540	1158	944	798