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Heroes of Newerth |OT| Free-To-Play [PC /Mac /Linux]
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Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Nome said:
Thanks dude!
FromTheFuture
Member
Sweet, thanks a ton, Nome! You should come around and play with GAF again!
PuppetYuber
Banned
Nome said:
thanks Nome <3 if you want I can carry u in Borderland again
Does anyone have any tips for Geomancer (those who got him anyways)? I feel like he's too squishy for laning and both times I've played I just get shit on from the very beginning, even with say, a VJ lane partner. I know he's supposed to be a ganker but if I'm in an aggressive side-line I get very little farm. Am I supposed to go mid with him? take the pull lane instead? His third skill is cool for damage until they get boots then it's useless for harassing.
Even if I get the ol' stun + slow I just get nuked to hell once they come out of it since I'm right on top of them. I've just about given up on him and I've only played 2 games.
Even if I get the ol' stun + slow I just get nuked to hell once they come out of it since I'm right on top of them. I've just about given up on him and I've only played 2 games.
Assuming your HoN account is also "Anilusion", yeah, just gave you 15.Anilusion said:
TBH, I don't play too much HoN outside of work. It's that feeling you know, working with something every day for 10 hours, by the time you get home you just want to take a break and mess around with something else. I'm also finding it very disheartening going to our official forums, lol. I can see why people are upset though. I'm upset too at all the problems we've been having lately. The good part is that a big part of the so-called "HoN 3.0" will be to fix and optimize a lot of problems people have.
Dreavus said:Does anyone have any tips for Geomancer (those who got him anyways)? I feel like he's too squishy for laning and both times I've played I just get shit on from the very beginning, even with say, a VJ lane partner. I know he's supposed to be a ganker but if I'm in an aggressive side-line I get very little farm. Am I supposed to go mid with him? take the pull lane instead? His third skill is cool for damage until they get boots then it's useless for harassing.
Even if I get the ol' stun + slow I just get nuked to hell once they come out of it since I'm right on top of them. I've just about given up on him and I've only played 2 games.
As I've read somewhere on the HoN Forums today...
"No one in their right mind would take Geomancer over Magmus, given the choice."
And so far I'm inclined to agree. They are similar, but Magmus can take a little more harassment early game, can hide himself for a long while if need be, and his ultimate is easier to work with. He can do everything Geo can, but better.
I'm no expert, but I believe Geomancer really, really needs to be ranged. He does not benefit from being melee at all ; it's even a hindrance.
Guesong said:
That's the thing. It's like you can stun with dig (for a measly 1.5 seconds) and throw a slow, and then you're fucked since you're in melee range with your paper health and nothing to escape with. I can see situations where he's ganking a lane like a champ... dig -- slow as they try and run, etc. but I haven't been able to get to that point.
Nome said:
I think way too many people in the HON community dump on it without seeing what you guys have worked on for so long and what you've accomplished. I think I'm one of the few that doesn't speak out, but I've loved HON for the past 2 years and still do. I think some of the technical issues have put people on edge lately, as the community attitude tends to focus on the negatives in general... but I'm sure you guys will get back on track.
FWIW, I read your blog and follow your twitter feed and enjoy what you do. More so as a gamer, the fact that I paid $30 for a game that I've gotten 500+ hours out of and 2 years of enjoyment is unlike anything else I've ever played in my life. So thanks for making that happen.
There have been times when I get DC'd from a game and I am unable to reconnect even though I am doing it within the allotted 5 min time (300 secs).
Then after a while my leaver level is updated with the game's stats (it continued without me). This happened to me twice 2 days ago and it caused my leaver level to go to a point where I can't join MMRs anymore. And this happened right before the new patch went up.
Is there anything that can be done about it or am I boned?
Then after a while my leaver level is updated with the game's stats (it continued without me). This happened to me twice 2 days ago and it caused my leaver level to go to a point where I can't join MMRs anymore. And this happened right before the new patch went up.
Is there anything that can be done about it or am I boned?
Yes and that usually does work but it didn't that time that's why I brought it up. Usually I know why I DC'd but this was totally anomaly.Vect said:
And right after the DCs the game wouldn't even let me log in for like a few hours until the patch got up.
Oh well... to the pits for me (Pub games) until I get the leaver level down.
Dreavus said:
A good solution, I think, would be to give Geomancer some kind of Rock Shield buff that gives him additional armor for 5-6 seconds (or for X numbers of attack) when he emerges out of Dig (and when he himself is located in the Earth's Pulse AoE). That way he'd be way more durable.
PillowKnight
Member
Power went out and now I can't log in. S2 (.
Edit: wanted to keep 1v1 but i'm gonna have to lol instead. Anyone wanna carry me?
(.Edit: wanted to keep 1v1 but i'm gonna have to lol instead. Anyone wanna carry me?
Awesome thing to do during the downtime is read Nome's Blog!, Always a good read, always.
Freakinchair
Member
Guesong said:
I think Geomancer is fine currently. Maybe just make it so he's invisible in the sandstorm or being in the sandstorm reduces his cooldown on burrow.
It's just really important to build geomancer to be tanky and to have a team that's willing to follow up with you on ganks.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Aren't your pub and MM stats separate? If you're a leaver you can't MM to lower it.
I'd imagine a lot of people on the HoN forums ( I'm guilty of it too at times ) have an extremely myopic view of HoN as a game as well as a propensity to complain about anything and everything, for example, complain about heroes coming out too slowly, then complain that heroes coming out every 2 weeks, release overpowered. However on the other hand, I'm not sure if S2 has a PR manager, if they do, they need to get a better one. Lots of the angst and hatred could've been alleviated with simple messages from the company on the forums, example when Coin-Gate occurred, a forum post stating that the current monetisation setup for the shop was un maintainable over a longer period of time because of the amount of content they want to release. I don't think I've ever seen a companies name be used as a verb to describe when bad things happen "S2'd".PasteyMF said:
Imagine if instead of advertising for the BeatIT tourney they threw out a message apologising for the MM downtime.
Sorry Gdeciever your response supported my argument too well
To be honest at our level of play, how you play the game, as in your execution / effectiveness throughout the match, matters a lot more then what heroes you end up picking, although I think the explosion time on Geomancer's ult could be reduced but making it so that the enemy team can't see it before it explodes would be stupidly good. At the moment his ultimate feels a bit like Bombardier's ultimate before they reduced the delay on it, extremely hard to hit but extremely rewarding? When me and BZM played against a TDL / Geomancer team, he had nearly 100% hit rate on his ults because we weren't able to gauge which direction it was leading towards.Guesong said:
I'd still be upset if someone picked Geo over Magmus though
PillowKnight
Member
This is cool. Almost started writing a reply to his "The Next Generation MOBA ."Sebulon3k said:
Lone_Prodigy
Member
People complain about everything. With the Internet it's become even easier to complain.
But I agree some better PR would help. From the DDOS attacks to the shop to F2P conversion to Duke Nukum announcer pack to Lucksmith, just let people know instead of trying to sweep things under the rug. Information disseminates so fast nowadays that you have to pre-empt these things before things turn ugly.
But I agree some better PR would help. From the DDOS attacks to the shop to F2P conversion to Duke Nukum announcer pack to Lucksmith, just let people know instead of trying to sweep things under the rug. Information disseminates so fast nowadays that you have to pre-empt these things before things turn ugly.
