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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.5.8

2012-01-25T18:26:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.5.8 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.5.8 Patch Notes

HoN - Pharoah

- In celebration of the Lunar New Year we will be adding special limited edition Pharaoh Alt Avatar - Golden Emperor!
- Also in celebration of the Year of the Dragon you will find a new Year of the Dragon Icon available for purchase!

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

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

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

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

== HoN 2.5.8 Items ==

Abyssal Skull
- Minor tooltip fix

Charged Hammer
- Fixed a wonky effect

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

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

Energizer
- Recipe cost reduced from 700 to 600

Genjuro
- Slow no longer goes through Magic Immunity

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

Nullstone
- Fixed a wonky effect

Ring of Sorcery
- Increased manacost from 25 to 40

Savage Mace
- No longer stacks with itself

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

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

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

== Heroes of Newerth 2.5.8 ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gauntlet
- Death sound touched up

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

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

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

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

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

Lord Salforis
- Cast Time of Life Tap removed

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

Magmus
- Lava Surge no longer usable while Immobilized

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== HoN 2.5.8 Bugfixes ==

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

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.5.7

2012-01-20T07:42:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.5.7 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.5.7 Patch Notes

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- Significant optimizations have been made to the UI. Most of these are aimed at memory usage and memory management, improving performance, and stability.

* These changes reflect dramatic improvements to the core framework of the game client, resulting in a streamlined end-user experience and reducing the hardware requirements necessary to Get It HoN!
* Memory usage has been dramatically reduced to help alleviate hardware limitations for players both new and old
* All Mods should be disabled once the game has been patched, as they will not reflect optimizations made to the client and will need to be updated

- Fixed a reconnection overwrite issue that caused players disconnected from a game to lose the ability to reconnect to the server if logged into another account
- Fixed MMR reward issues where players were given more MMR than they should have been when a teammate disconnects from the game
- Fixed time waited calculations to reflect when a group is placed back into queue
- Increased the size of Fist of Sol Taunt and added splatter effects based on community feedback
- Increased the size of Dumpster Taunt and added a new effect - Dumpstered!

- Added new Early Access Hero: Gravekeeper
- Added new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Shinigami Gravekeeper

- Added new Fayde Alt Avatar: Gypsy Fayde

Amun-Ra
- Phoenix Ra's Path of Destruction animation has been modified to boost visual feedback of the skill

Gemini
- Fire and Ice is now interrupted if either dog gets stunned or silenced while channeling
* Gemini is undergoing extensive balance changes which will be revealed and implemented as the hero undergoes substantial testing in the coming weeks

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.5.6

2012-01-15T16:18:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.5.6 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.5.6 Patch Notes

Amun Ra - Phoenix!

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

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

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

HoN 2.5.5 Changelog (1 line only)

- Minor fix to Artesia's Essence Projection

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.5.4

2012-01-07T03:22:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.5.4 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.5.4 Patch Notes

- 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

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.5.2.1

2011-12-17T17:01:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.5.2.1 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.5.2.1 Patch Notes

- 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

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.5.1

2011-12-17T16:55:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.5.1 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.5.1
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- The shop hotkeys have been reverted to before 2.5.1
- Fixed Replays

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.5

2011-12-10T19:05:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.5 Changelog

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Version 2.5.0 Patch Notes
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HoN 3.0 has been delayed till next year.

== General HoN 2.5 Changes ==

- 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 Spectating
* 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 Spectating
* 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 now 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

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.3.5

2011-12-09T20:36:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.3.5 Changelog

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HoN 2.5 patch is on its way!

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

- Added a new Martyr Alt Avatar: Sister Martyr

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.3.4

2011-12-06T17:25:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.3.4 Changelog

I am Chronos, mistress of time!

Heroes of Newerth 2.3.4 Patch Notes:
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- Fixed a minor issue with an upcoming Alt Avatar

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.3.3

2011-12-06T17:22:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.3.2 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.3.3 Patch

- Fixed Flux's Magnetic Surge (Again)
- Fixed Mandromeda's Attack Projectile

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.3.2

2011-12-01T08:25:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.3.2 Changelog

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

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

- Added a new Chronos Alt Avatar: Father Time Chronos
* Voiced by the most epic Old Man ever

- Cedits to Vivi_Chester for the Steampunk Corrupted Disciple concept.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.3.1

2011-12-01T08:21:00.000-08:00

Heroes of Newerth 2.3.1 Patch
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- Fixed Flux's Magnetic Surge
- You now join stream chat channels when going to them in HoN TV, not just when going to them via notification
- Stream chat channels are no longer single user in size

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.3.0

2011-11-22T00:34:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.3.0 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.3.0
The DreamHack Patch - HoN DreamHack Winter 2011

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

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

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

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

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

- Newerth is no longer Haunted

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

- Added a new Announcer: BreakyCPK Pack
* Make every game a shoutcasted game!

== HoN 2.3.0 Heroes ==
- Added a new Early Access Hero: Lord Salforis
* Based on the Dream hero Necromancer created by Passthechips
* Named after the Name-A-Hero contest winner Salforis
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Dreadknight Salforis

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

- Added a new Zephyr Alt Avatar: Turkey Zephyr

- Added a new Corrupted Disciple Alt Avatar: Steampunk Disciple
* Voiced by the magical TotalBiscuit
* His YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut

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

== Bugfixes ==

Engineer
- Brought back "Keg Away!" cast sound

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

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

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

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

Midas
- Fixed a bug with him being unselectable

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

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

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

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.2.9

2011-11-19T18:21:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.2.9 Changelog

Darth Vader is Lord Salforis

- Added a new Early Access Hero: Lord Salforis
* Based on the Dream hero Necromancer created by Passthechips
* Named after the Name-A-Hero contest winner Salforis
- Added a new Limited Edition Alt Avatar: Dreadknight Salforis
- Added a new Nymphora Alt Avatar: Spriticus
* Voiced by the great Jesse Cox of OMFG (One Moderately Funny Gamer)

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TotalBiscuit Voicing a HoN Hero

2011-11-17T15:45:00.000-08:00

YouTube star Total Biscuit will be doing a voiceover for a HoN hero.

Totalbiscuit - HoN character voiceacting

TotalBiscuit is known for his Starcraft casting catering to the masses.
He is also an avid Dota genre player.

He has worked with S2 before. (Savage series - pre- Heroes of Newerth)

Heroes of Newerth on Steam Groups

2011-11-12T15:56:00.001-08:00

HoN Steam Group For Players in the Dota genre

Heroes of Newerth is a game that belongs to the Dota genre.

You can now join your fellow HoN players via Steam groups and arrange inhouse Steam-only users matches.

The Dota Project is a non-profit organization that promotes Defense of the Ancients and stand-alone games in the Dota genre like Heroes of Newerth.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.2.8

2011-11-11T08:32:00.000-08:00

HoN 2.2.8 Changelog

Firewood... literally.

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

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Heroes of Newerth Wallpaper by Warchamp

2011-11-07T05:34:00.001-08:00

Alternate HoN Heroes Wallpaper by Warchamp

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.2.7

2011-11-05T07:43:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.2.7 Changelog

Battle Realms Ronin

- Added a new Alt Avatar: Demented Witch
- Added some new sound effects for Ronin Swiftblade

Nullfire
- Cooldown from 12/20 seconds to 20 seconds

Amun Ra
- Reduced starting Armor from 1.12 to 1.02
- Reduced starting Strength from 22 to 21

Drunken Master
- Starting Armor reduced from 3.38 to 2.88

Electrician
- Starting Agility from 15 to 13

Engineer
- Intelligence growth from 1.8 to 2.1

Geomancer
- Earth’s Grasp radius increased from 170 to 180

Master of Arms
- Acid Bomb now deals 75% damage to non heroes

Monkey King
- Starting Armor reduced by 1 (5.90 -> 4.90)
- Heavenly Vault combo reworked
* Damage rescaled so that each additional application will deal half of the previous
* Landing affector time increased by 200ms, size increased by 50 AoE to accomodate for this change
* Maximum damage of Vault combo is now 250+125+63 at level 4

Nymphora
- Teleport cooldown increased from 60 to 90/75/60

Parasite
- Starting Strength reduced from 23 to 21

Pollywog Priest
- Voodoo Wards cooldown increased from 100 to 120/110/100

Tundra
- Shiver day sight range from 500/500/1600/1600 to 700/700/1200/1200
- Shiver night sight range from 500/500/1200/1200 to 500/500/1000/1000
- Call of Winter manacost increased from 25 to 50

Wretched Hag
- Removed the Flash of Darkness minimum range requirement

Zephyr
- Strength growth from 2.5 to 2.2

== Bugfixes for HoN 2.2.7 ==

- Fixed up tooltips across the board that were out of date, inaccurate, or had other issues
- Fixed some water tiles in Caldavar that didn't match up
- Fixed a bunch of hero select sounds (Newer ones like Martyr, MoA, Monarch, Rev, etc)

Aluna
- Fixed the slow from Deja Vu so it's interaction with Slow Immunity works correctly

Chipper
- Fixed Rocket Barrage hitting units behind Chipper

Corrupted Disciple
- Fixed Corrupted Conduit fully charging even when a unit was deleted
* Examples of deleted units are like Gemini's pets when you recombine, Forsaken Archer's Piercing Arrows illusion, or someone being terminated from the game

Cthulhuphant
- Fixed his Trample from still going after Cthulhuphant dies

Drunken Master
- Fixed so you cannot disjoint him while he is rotating around someone

Gemini
- Fixed his pick sound (Seriously, for real this time!~)

Geomancer
- Fixed Earth's Grasp radius to be correct

Master of Arms
- Fixed his Physical DOT so it does not proc Nomad's Edge Counter

Nomad
- Fixed interaction between Mirage Strike illusion and deleted units

Parasite
- Fixed an exploit where if Parasite attempts to use Blood Chalice inside a creep, he can gain mana without losing any Health

Plague Rider
- Fixed Plague Carrier from vanishing when used on deleted units

Revenant
- Fixed a small bug with Defile for the charge-maximizing timer check

Sand Wraith
- Optimized Desert's Curse
- Fixed so that the illusion dies properly if the target the illusion was attacking gets deleted
- Readjusted values on Mirage so it matches the new illusion lifetimes (4/4.5/5 seconds)

Silhouette
- Fixed her being able to disjoint her own rotating projectiles in weird ways

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.2.6

2011-11-05T07:39:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.2.6 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.2.6
-----------
- Fixed some missing icons
- Fixed Devourer and Vindicator gaining too many stats from Gemini
- Fixed Gemini pick sound
- Fixed Gemini's split form getting double area gold from a hero death
- Fixed Harkon's Blade dealing 0 damage on a magic-immune target while the toggle was active

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Announcement: S2 Games is not in the Dota 2 Beta

2011-11-03T19:07:00.000-07:00

There has been a screenshot flying around where S2 Games employees are shown playing in the Dota 2 Beta. These are not the real accounts of the people behind Heroes of Newerth.

Ms Pudding: That's not me!

For those interested in the Dota 2 beta, you will have to answer the Dota 2 survey to get keys.

Ronin Swiftblade HoN Voice

2011-11-02T05:10:00.000-07:00

Listen to Ronin Swiftblade's Voice
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Flux in Dota 2

2011-11-01T20:20:00.000-07:00

Valve seems to be studying Heroes of Newerth extensively.

Introducing Dota 2's Flux:

p.s. It's actually Devourer with invisible hooks.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.2.5

2011-10-28T09:34:00.000-07:00

When the wolf comes, winter is coming...

I am not a Lycan port

HoN 2.2.5 Changelog
- Fixed a small cliff bug in Caldavar (Could put a ward inside of a cliff)
- Fixed Puppet Master's Voodoo Puppet from lasting forever when its intended target gets deleted
- Rhapsody sounds redone for Death Metal Alt Avatar

- Added a new Alt Avatar: Cleopatra Pharaoh
- Added a new Hero: Gemini
- Added a new Limited Edition Alt Avatar: Panthera Gemini

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.2.4

2011-10-21T19:27:00.000-07:00

Before HoN 3.0 comes, there will be patches like these.

Ronin - Samurai X

HoN 2.2.4 Changelog

- The same rune can no longer spawn twice in a row!
- Fixed items being delivered from the courier backwards
- Fixed up some voices and sounds to not be as loud or jarring

== Items of Newerth in 2.2.4 ==

- Revelation Wards: Starts off 0 of 6 in the shop with a 90 second cooldown
- Wards of Sight: Starts off 2 of 4 with a cooldown of 2 mins 30 seconds

== Heroes of Newerth in 2.2.4 ==

- Added a new Alt Avatar: Ronin Swiftblade
- Gladius Beardicus (Kunkka) has some new effects added

Andromeda
- Starting base damage from 38-52 to 40-50

Balphagore
- Regurgitate given a linger time of 0.5 seconds on the damage portion (the slow part already had it)
- Lowered damage on Regurgitate from 40/65/90/115 to 30/55/80/105 (the total amount of damage becomes roughly the same total damage because of the linger)
- Demonic Pathogen manacost from 115/125/135/145 to 105/110/115/120
- Corpse Conversation requires 3/6/9/12 corpses now where 3 gives you 2 minions

Defiler
- Damage range from 39-51 to 41-49

Glacius
- Double-Activating Ice Imprisonment will cast on yourself now
- Increased radius on each instance of Glacial Downpour from 190 to 350
- Decreased damage from 105/170/250 to 60/100/140 (170/250/310 to 100/140/180 when using Staff of the Master)
* Basically gives the ultimate less randomness

Madman
- Berserk is no longer purgable or transferable

Moraxus
- More Axes mana cost from 30 to 25
- Matraxe health gain from 20 to 20/25/30

Ophelia
- Ophelia’s Judgment teleport from 5.7/4.7/3.7/2.7 to 6/5/4/3
- Command movespeed buff from 0/15/30/45 to 0/10/20/30

PuppetMaster
- Starting base damage from 39-53 to 41-51
- Whiplash no longer gives passive base damage increase
- Fixed Voodoo Puppet to only do bonus damage to the target (It was also doing bonus damage to the puppet)
- Voodoo Puppet no longer has magic armor

Warbeast
- Summon Hellhounds damage increased from 18/29/37/46 to 20/29/38/47
- Summon Hellhounds armor increased from 0 to 2

== Bugfixes ==

- Night Hound's stealth is no longer scripted badly
- Drunken Master Lunge and Kraken Torrent now check for being stunned in a more efficient way

Barbed Armor
- Made its activation not break channeling

Dust of Revelation
- Set frontqueue, inheritmovement and noninterrupting to true
* This means you will no longer 'hitch' or pause when using it

Mock of Brilliance
- Made the toggle not break channeling

Andromeda
- Fixed Aurora hitting a bit behind her

Arachna
- Fixed Spiderling so it dies properly when the target that it's supposed to hit gets deleted

Blood Hunter
- Fixed a bug where attacks/spells/items targeting yourself and/or allied heroes will put the Feast state on them

Bubbles
- Fixed Bubbles' Shell Surf hitting units behind him
- Optimized his Kelp Field's scripting in the distance check
- Fixed small typo in his Song of the Sea

Forsaken Archer
- Fixed interactions with Magebane's Mana Rift

Hammerstorm
- Fixed a bug where Hammerstorm's projectile stunned at the target's new position if they disjointed on the same frame that the projectile impacts

Midas
- Fixed Lion's Pride effects playing through fog

Monarch
- Fixed an effect playing through fog

Monkey King
- Fixed his Illusive Dash's state expiration so it won't displace Monkey King with the second dash if Monkey King is invulnerable at the time the state expires

Revenant
- Fixed Defile so it doesn't consume any charges if you hit a building

Silhouette
- Fixed a super-rare bug where she and her illusion got double the Death Lotus kunai if she respawned on the same frame the skill went off cooldown

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Dota 2 vs HoN - Unit Response Delay

2011-10-20T03:03:00.000-07:00

HoN vs Dota 2: Unit Response Delay

Dota 2, a game running on the Source engine shows delayed response times in contrast to Heroes of Newerth.

Video made by SunsFan:

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Note: This is the Dota 2 beta version and is clearly a work in progress.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.2.3

2011-10-14T05:30:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.2.3 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.2.3 Patch Notes

HoN's very own Kunkka!

- When night to day or day to night transitions occur in game, the game will now play a sound to indicate the transition
* A rooster crows for the night to day transition, and a wolf howls for the day to night transition

- Teleporting states in grimms now persist after death (So if you click it and die your body will go over as the effects show)
- Fixed courier upgrading not counting for GPM calculations
- UI script environment stack overflow is no longer a fatal error
- Updated the Herodex to not be broken
- Fixed Geomancer and Cthulhuphant icons
- Fixed up Logger's Hatchet sounds

- Added a Gold Collection Alt Avatar: Gladius Beardicus

- The original gold coin prices for the entire store have been adjusted and lowered

== HoN 2.2.3 Heroes and Items ==

Portal Key
- Removed minimum range of 200

Amun-Ra
- Fixed his Path of Destruction so that the meteor heals himself if he is magic immune

Empath
- Now doesn't teleport to (0,0) if the target she's inside gets deleted instead of killed/dying regularly
- Prevents silly things like Vindicator's aura from silencing her if she pops out of a hero

Monarch
- Moved to Legion

Monkey King
- Fixed his Illusive Dash's state expiration so it won't displace Monkey King with the second dash if Monkey King is invulnerable at the time the state expires.
- Also optimized the stun-check tag

Night Hound
- Made his ultimate toggle-able so the player can creep pull and neutral without any tedious spam-clicking

Nomad
- Fixed an issue where Mirage Strike was checking for the wrong target for invulnerability
- Fixed Mirage Strike so that the illusion dies after 0.5s (via the death state) when the proxy_entity dies (the thing that the illusion is attacking) rather than lingering for ~3 seconds standing still & doing nothing.
- Fixed True Strike and Mirage Strike so they don't play through fog

Parasite
- Fixed an onframe-infest bug so the Infested target dies properly if the Infest projectile impacts on the same frame as Parasite's death

Plague Rider
- Added a visual AoE indicator to Contagion upon hovering the cast cursor over the target

Sand Wraith
- Optimized Desert's Curse
- Fixed a small issue so that the illusion dies properly if the target the illusion was attacking gets deleted
- Readjusted values on Mirage so they match the new illusion lifetimes (4/4.5/5 seconds)

== HoN 2.2.3 Tooltip fixes==

- (Bombardier) Sticky bomb deals magic damage
- (Bombardier) Bombard deals magic damage
- (Electrician) Cleansing shock deals true damage to summons
- (Fayde) Burning Shadows deals magic damage
- (Ra) Ashes to Ashes deals magic damage
- (Puzzlebox Mauler) Last Stand deals true damage

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Heroes of Newerth 3.0 is coming!

2011-10-12T16:32:00.000-07:00

HoN 3.0 is coming!

From Maliken:
HoN 3.0 is currently under development I won't speak to the feature set or time tables, but there is enough there for us to warrant calling it 3.0

From Idejder:
A lot will change, a lot will be reworked, redone, and who knows where it will end up.

What to expect in HoN 3.0:
- New heroes
- Fountains reskinned
- Reskinned creeps
- New trees
- Revamped Matchmaking system
- And many more

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Chu Interview after winning Devastation HoN

2011-10-10T03:23:00.001-07:00

Interview with Chu

Former DotA and LoL player, current HoN player, and future Dota 2 player.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.2.2.1

2011-10-07T06:19:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.2.2.1 Changelog

I'm not an alien.

Heroes of Newerth 2.2.2.1 Patch Notes

- As a part of Player Appreciation Month the "Unlock Account Icon" product has been removed permanently
* All accounts now have it unlocked by default
* Anyone who has paid to have it unlocked in the past will be refunded Silver Coins!

- Courier now will deliver your items first, and then shared items
- Expanded Lua support
- Added error checking when modifying a parent widget's child list while it's iterating over its children

- Added a new Early Access Hero: Monarch
* Monarch will be an Early Access hero for 6 weeks
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Queen Monarch
- Added a new Alt Avatar: Infernal Behemoth

- Fixed an Armadon bug with the scaling of the quills
- Fixed a Forsaken Archer bug so Devourer and Vindicator no longer get stats from her illusion

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HoN Hero Video Spotlight: Monarch

2011-10-06T04:55:00.000-07:00

Monarch - HoN hero Spotlight Video

Butterfly!

I like butterflies.

How to Play Monarch in HoN?
Monarch is a support heroes in the game that has decent survivability for a ranged intelligence hero. Use Chrysalis to shield herself or allies from harm when approached in battle, making it a core spell to level if playing as a pure support.

If you prefer a more offensive style, Monarch should level Blinding Pollen and Noxious Cloud to max immediately.

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Monarch is going to rule HoN

2011-09-30T15:59:00.001-07:00

Monarch is ruling the Heroes of Newerth

A new intelligence royalty is coming to rule the lands of Newerth.

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New HoN Payment Options

2011-09-30T15:35:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth Payment Options

Want to buy HoN stuff?
You can now purchase Heroes of Newerth gold coins via the following methods:

- CashPayment.com
- Rixty
- Paysafecard
- Wallie-cards
- Paypal
- Zeevex

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.2.0

2011-09-30T05:21:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.2.0 Changelog

Magus Bane

Heroes of Newerth 2.2.0 Patch Notes
- Fixed problems caused by using child interfaces in overlays
- Fixed two different server crashes
- Fixed consecutive bonuses not falling off
- Post-Game Chat Channels will no longer display the option to add the channel to the auto-join channel list
- News has new countdown timer system
- Fixed a bug where some of the midbar icons would be grayed out after playing a Matchmaking game

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

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

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

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

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

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

== HoN 2.2.0 Item Changes ==

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

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

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

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

Daemonic Breastplate
- Recipe cost decreased from 1100 to 900

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

== HoN 2.2.0 Hero Changes ==

- Added a new Alt Avatar: Magus Bane

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Night Hound
- Base Intelligence increased from 14 to 16

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== Bugfixes ==

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

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

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

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

Empath
- Fixed Illusory Veil not aggroing creeps properly

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

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

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

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

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

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.10

2011-09-23T09:11:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.10 Changelog

Rampage!

Heroes of Newerth 2.1.10 Patch Notes

- Added a new Strength hero: Cthulhuphant
* This hero is not Early Access limited
- Added a Limited Edition Alt Avatar: King Cthulhuphant
* Will only be available for two weeks! You can see it in the Early Access section of the HoN Store.
- Added a new Premium Alt Avatar: Mr. Chipper
- Added Cthulhuphant Hero Symbol

- Some UI tweaks to fix some warning spam
- Fixed two server crashes
- Rampage's Horned Strike now pops up a number when you hit someone showing the damage done
- Fixed a bug with Kongor's Pit that made Defiler's spirits miss him when he was in the front half of the lair

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HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Cthulhuphant

2011-09-21T22:00:00.000-07:00

Cthulhuphant - HoN hero Spotlight Video

Behold the Cthulhuphant - the new big boy in Heroes of Newerth.

From CAD Comics (Control Alt Delete)

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Cthulhuphant HoN Skills

2011-09-16T17:03:00.000-07:00

Cthulhuphant Heroes of Newerth Abilities

Cthulhuphant's hero skills have been revealed.
This hero was an idea from CAD (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) Comics.

4 Hero Skills (Cthulhuphant):
1st Skill: Trample (Q)
Cthulhuphant is a melee tanky initiator, and this ability gets him into the thick of it. He charges forward in a direction, dealing damage and stunning any enemy heroes he connects with. If there are any creeps in his path, they are blasted away like projectiles, also dealing damage and stunning enemy heroes they hit.

2nd Skill: Hook 'Em (W)
With Hook 'Em, Cthulhuphant uses his mighty tusks to skewer and immediately kill an enemy non-hero unit. The corpse creates a shield which blocks a large portion of damage coming at Cthulhuphant from the front. Strength of the shield is proportional to the target's max health.

Passive: Mortifying Presence (E)
This is a passive aura of fear and madness. Nearby enemy heroes have their attack and movement speeds slowed. When Cthulhuphant kills an enemy unit, the effect doubles for ten seconds. If he kills an enemy hero, the effect triples for ten seconds!

Ultimate: Obliterate (R)
Cthulhuphant draws on all of his awesomeness to fire raw, brutal energy blasts from his many trunks. Obliterate causes five pulses of devastating area of effect damage in front of Cthulhuphant.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.9

2011-09-16T07:10:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.9 Changelog
This is a small patch fix.

Cthulhuphant will be added within the month.

Where's my Axe?

Heroes of Newerth 2.1.8 Patch Notes
- The Friends List limit has been increased from 100 to 250
- Login and Server stability increased significantly
- Added more Log information for servers and failed connections
- Fixed a server crash

- New Alt Avatar: Logger Legionnaire

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Maliken Speaks About HoN's Technical Issues

2011-09-12T16:57:00.000-07:00

HoN Server Problems Again? Let Maliken Speak.

Maliken (Marc DeForest) speaks about why HoN is down.

Maliken speaks:

It is quite apparent that our current systems are incapable of handling what is being thrown at it. This issue was not present prior to being DDoSed. However, all that did, is bring to the surface issues which would have faced us as HoN grew. These are issues we thought we had solved even after those attacks.

We are fevorishly working to solve these problems. We continue to make minor adjustments to keep as much uptime as possible. However, these efforts are not impacting things to the degree at which we need (again, clearly evident in performance). This situation is taken as seriously as it possibly can and we are pursuing multiple avenues to correct things.

I am sure the situation appears dire and I can fully understand the frustrations and lack of confidence. I can't say anything to alleviate those thoughts. Right now, it is up to us to get this right and let continued, uninterrupted stability be the only acceptable response!

Maliken speaks some more and takes the blame:

I'm taking FULL blame for this.

Also, we have had issues prior to DDoS, these are issues that had not shown themselves in months of months of operation and are issues we thought did not exist any longer. The attacks simply showed us the issues did still exist, we simply had higher thresholds before they would show themselves. It was the DDoS that pointed that out.

It is SOLEY on us that those issues could exist in the first place and that those issues continue to exist. We will get this solved, we have no choice. I am in the same boat as everyone else in wanting them and expecting them to be handled sooner than later.

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Cthulhuphant is rushing to HoN

2011-09-10T06:48:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth Hero Sneak Peek: Cthulhuphant

From CAD Comic's idea, comes forth an evolution of the elephant - Cthulhuphant.

The dreaded Cthulhuphant

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.8

2011-09-09T21:39:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.8 Changelog

King Midas!

Heroes of Newerth 2.1.8 Patch Notes
- Cost of displaying taunt should be correct now
- Store tweaks to how the heroes are listed in the HoN Store
- Added a Server Status announcement to the MOTD
- Moved some of the video options around in the options menu so they are actually usable
- Fixed Monkey King, Master of Arms, and Geomancer icons being blank in the player stats panel
- Fixed a possible crash when destroying items

- If a neutral creep gets the last hit on a hero, they now always get credit
- Hellbourne / Legion will now only get kill credit if no enemy hero has done damage to the target in the last 20 seconds
* It will award the kill to the last person to do damage to the target if the Hellbourne or Legion get the killing blow

Blood Chalice
- Fixed it giving 150 HP per additional enemy hero killed on the same frame if you kill more than 1 enemy hero on the same frame

== Heroes ==

- New hero: Midas
- New Early Acces Limited Edition Alt Avatar: Lord Midas
- New Alt Avatar: Dark Jeraziah

Removed selectable gadgets from:
* Balphagore's Regurgitate corpse gadget
* Bombardier's Sticky Bomb invis gadget
* Parasite's Infest gadget
* Revenant's Mortification gadget

Bombardier
- Starting int reduced from 25 to 22
- Sticky Bomb cooldown from 14 to 20/18/16/14
- Optimized Sticky Bomb

Bubbles
- Take Cover increased from 0.25/1/1.75/2.5 to 0.5/1.00/1.75/2.5

Dampeer
- Fixed crucial bug where his Consume was not healing with the proper numbers

Geomancer
- Fixed his Dig not triggering Vindicator's Glyph of Silence
- Fixed the explosions from Earth's Grasp to be where they should be now

Magmus
- Fixed an incredibly weird bug where Volcanic Touch effect would play in fog if Magmus was on the Legion team

Master of Arms
- Acid Bomb reduced damage from 20/40/60/80 to 15/30/45/60 damage a second
- Fixed Acid Bomb so it damages magic-immune units and doesn't affect physical-immune units

Monkey King
- Fixed a Heavenly Vault displacement bug where if Monkey King gets unbound mid-Vault and quickly changes direction, then the enemy gets displaced about 90 degrees away from the original intended direction
- Fixed Heavenly Vault so it won't unbind invulnerable units (ie, Geomancer in Dig)

Moon Queen
- Moon Finale cooldown from 160 to 160/140/120

HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Midas

2011-09-07T16:44:00.000-07:00

Midas - HoN hero Spotlight Video

The legendary golden king is now in Newerth!

An early placeholder for Midas of Heroes of Newerth

With a touch of gold!

How To Play Midas:
Since Midas is a ranged strength caster, Midas can do a whole lot of builds.

Semi-carry build
Get some early mana regeneration items, followed by standard attack boosting items that give him survivability, such as frostwolf skull and (Manta) geometer's bane, will set him up to do significant damage with his normal attacks, and make full use of his disables. With enough health points, he can warp into groups of enemy heroes, stunning them and shutting them down with a very strong attack damage.

Support Build
Max out salvo and lion's pride as soon as possible and add a single point in warp for the emergency mobility to grant you maximum range harassment without committing to jumping too far into enemy territory in order to deal damage.

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Heroes of Newerth at NASL 2nd Season

2011-09-06T16:29:00.000-07:00

HoN at NASL

Heroes of Newerth (HoN), a popular game in the Dota genre created by independent game developer S2 Games, will be added to the professional eSports League North American Star League (NASL) starting October 5, 2011 for NASL Season 2.

American based Starcraft 2 league adds HoN

North American Star League is a small American league that mainly caters to the Starcraft 2 crowd.

Marc DeForest, S2 Games CEO and co-founder:

"HoN is a very competitive game by nature, and there is no better way to up the ante within the eSports community then by joining the North American Star League. The selected teams are compiled of some of the top players in the world and we can't wait to see what they do when pitted against each other."

Eight random Heroes of Newerth teams have been invited to compete for the 1st HoN NASL season. HoN teams will face off in 5 v 5 matches for 1,000 US Dollars per match.

Russell Pfister, North American Star League CEO:

"We are excited to strengthen our broadcast reach to include a title as compelling as Heroes of Newerth, and to be working with S2 Games, an organization as committed as we are to foster the growth of eSports,"

HoN, a free-to-play game is one of the most popular games in the Dota genre. It is available on Mac, Linux and PC.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.7

2011-09-02T05:34:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.7 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.1.7 Patch Notes
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- When purchasing Heroes, you can now bundle the available Alt Avatars for that hero and receive a discount on buying them all together
* In order to bundle, you must check the box in the Purchase Confirmation Screen after clicking to Purchase the hero
- Tagged a lot of gagets as un-selectable
* Many abilities in the game would create gadgets for only a few seconds and you could tab to them while they were alive. We fixed this for the vast majority of instances

- Added a new Alt Avatar: Mist Runner Scout
- Added a new Premium Alt Courier: Nyan Cat Courier

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Devastation 2011 adds Heroes of Newerth

2011-09-02T03:32:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth becomes 1st Dota genre game at Devastation

HoN at Devastation 2011

Heroes of Newerth Devastation 2011 Tournament
- Five Player versus Five Player (5v5)
- PC

Game Settings

* Game Mode: Banning Pick
* Team Captain rolls for the side or pick order, the higher roll chooses first
* Players may not look at an opposing Player’s Monitor or projected screen
* Players must set their status to DND
* Only DEVASTATION Staff members may connect to the server as an observer, any player that invites someone to observe a Match will be disqualified

HoN Non-Finals Match Settings
Players must win one out of one Games to win the match (1/1)

HoN Finals Match Settings (Winners Finals, Losers Finals, Finals/Grand Finals)
Players must win two out of three Games to win the match (2/3)

Maps Used
Forests of Caldavar

Special Rules
All Players must submit their mouse, keyboard, and headset driver requirements to operations@devastationevent.com by 11:59 PM PST on Monday, September 26th; no drivers, that have not been previously submitted, will be installed onsite at the event.

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HoN Hero Video: Geomancer

2011-08-31T02:53:00.000-07:00

Geomancer - HoN hero Spotlight Video

No!
This is not Meepo from Dota!

Geomancer - Not a Meepo port

Midas is coming to HoN

2011-08-30T16:40:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth Hero Sneak Peek: Midas

The Golden King - Midas is coming to the golden lands of Newerth.

The question is... Where does he get all that gold?

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Alternative Skin: Female Scout

2011-08-30T16:09:00.000-07:00

Sneak Peek on an Upcoming Skin: Female Scout

Girl Scouts rejoice!

Scout 'em and route 'em.

Scout will be getting a new alternate avatar - the female Scout.

Nyan Cat Courier in Heroes of Newerth

2011-08-30T16:05:00.000-07:00

HoN Alternate Courier: Nyan Cat

You think HoN isn't cute enough?

Let S2 Games fix that for you.

The Nyan Cat alternate courier will be flying into the lands of Newerth in the next patch.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.6

2011-08-26T06:07:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.6 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.1.6 Patch Notes
- Matchmaking groups are now persistent
* After a match or when a game fails to be made you will still be in the same group you were in before for easy requeueing
- Made some adjustments to the matchmaking algorithm that should match up groups with other groups much closer to their MMR value than before
- Groups of 5 solo players will no longer be matched against a full group of 5 under any circumstances
- Made several improvements to decrease the chances of players failing to load into a matchmaking games, especially for matchmaking groups with multiple players on one IP address that are behind overly strict routers/firewalls (causing grey circles)
- Adjusted how the PSR/MMR calculations work slightly and put a low end cap of 750 PSR/MMR
* Any players who are below this value will have their PSR/MMR adjusted up to 750 after the patch

- Over the weekend we plan to turn on and test a new feature we've been working on: match stat re-submissions
* If at any time a game server is unable to submit match stats properly at the end of the game, it will let players in game know that the match submission failed, and attempt to re-submit the stats from that match at a later time (normally within 15-30 minutes)
* To those that have experienced frustration due to matches not being recorded in the past, we apologize. Moving forward we are taking serious action to mitigate this sort of occurrence from happening and want to thank everybody for their patience with us

- When receiving an incoming whisper coming from ClanWhisper or BuddyWhisper the game client will no longer add the sender to the /reply history
* This is to stop players from having a conversation, getting a clan or buddy whisper, typing /r and then realizing they sent the message to a person they didn't intend to
- Fixed a crash with an unexpected format for JPEG custom account icons

- Fixed projectiles stopping mid-air if the touch active schemes were invalid
- Buildings in the bases now have 0 death time so they don't block movement after death
- Current Health and Mana Regen are now shown on the right side of the bars
- Touched up all of the Taunt voice responses in the game to be more clear and able to be heard well

- Wards
* Attacks will always hit wards now, no more uphill miss chance against them
* Now have 4 max health, each hit takes off 1 health

- Added a New EA Hero: Geomancer
* Based off the Intelligence Community Contest Winner
- Added a new Early Access Limited Edition Alt Avatar: Centipedalisk
- Added a new Alt Avatar: Sub Zero Accursed
- Added a new Taunt: Heavy Metal Taunt
- Monkey King fixed so auto leveling his abilities through a Guide will work properly

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Megapede is digging to HoN

2011-08-22T21:22:00.000-07:00

Megapede (Geomancer) HoN Hero Sneak Peek

The Heroes of Newerth community created hero, the Geomancer (Megapede), will now be om HoN!

Designed by:
Phopis and Chibbi

About Megapede:
Megapede is a mobile, subterranean hero with strong team-fighting and ganking abilities.

Diglett dig!

Megapede Skill Set:
Dig - quickly tunnel through the ground, charging through the earth and bursting out at the desired location to disrupt nearby enemies.

His control of the earth also affords him the ability to create pits of quicksand at will – the more his enemies struggle, the further they sink into the sand.

Earth's Grasp - call down an inverted artillery strike of sorts, creating a trailing path of earthy explosions that can tear apart immobile opponents.

Crystal Field - encase enemies in amethyst shards after a short delay.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.5

2011-08-22T08:51:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.5 Changelog

Ra!!!

Heroes of Newerth 2.1.5 Patch Notes
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- Fixed Shieldbreaker applying the debuff on Spell Damage
- Fixed Frost Rider slow from Cursed Shield working correctly
- This was missing from the 2.1.4 Patch Notes:
* Amun-Ra's Path of Destruction is now a ground target ability instead of a facing ability. Still goes 600 units, just in the direction you target

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.4

2011-08-19T09:03:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.4 Changelog

Lich is my brother / sister.

Heroes of Newerth 2.1.4 Patch Notes
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- Fixed a duplicate bug with Guides
- Ingame levelup effects now delayed slightly
- Added spectator chat ignore checkbox in the Spec UI
- Updated minimalist options for spec UI

- Healing radius of the Wells increased to better match the actual water
- Tree of Life and Sacrifical Shrine now have truesight

== NPCs ==
- Fixed sound bug with the bad range(warlocks) NPCS death sound not playing.
- Added death sounds to the good range (archers).
- Kongor
* Fixed the faction, non-player-controlled units giving the team 0 gold when they land the killing blow from Kongor.
* Now if a non-player controlled unit lands the killing blow on Kongor, then it gives 230 gold to the team (before it was giving 0)

== Items ==

- Re-ordered components for all recipe items so the most expensive items come first. This makes right clicking on an item in the store more useful and less dumb

- All teams now start with a basic Ground Courier by default
- Bottle is no longer refilled when held by a Courier
- Shieldbreaker: Increased damage by 10 per level from 30/45/60 to 40/55/70 and ignore's the target's Deflection when you attack them
* Deflection is the damage blocked by items like Helm of the Black Legion and Iron Shield
- Alchemist Bones' timer is now paused while the hero is dead

== Heroes ==

- Added a new Alt Avatar: Frost Rider

Arachna
- Movespeed from 290 to 295

Dark Lady
- Dark Blades cooldown from 22/18/14/10 to 16/14/12/10
- Charging Strikes cooldown from 21/17/13/9 to 15/13/11/9

Drunken Master
- Drink rescaled to channel for 2 seconds, gaining 2/4/6/8 charges per second. Upon enemy death in 500 AoE, he gains 2/4/6/8 charges
- Stagger deals 50% more damage to creeps

Gauntlet
- Infernal Instability now gives 50% mana back if you do not attack anything.

Keeper of the Forest
- Treant Dogs are now limited to 2/3/4/5 max. If you summon more than the max the oldest ones will automatically die
- Treant Dogs can no longer attack Towers if they are more than 800 units away from the Keeper
- Fixed scripting to be better

Magebane
- Master of Mantra aura increased from 600 to 800

Monkey King
- Starting Stength increased by 2
- Flying Nimbus activation removed. Is now a full passive with a 5 second cooldown that will automatically trigger when not taking damage

== Bugfixes ==

Andromeda
- Fixed Aurora affector speed & lifetime so it matches the visuals

Dampeer
- Fixed his Bloodthirst aura so it stacks with Harkon's Blade, Webbed Shot and Master's Incantation

Defiler
- Fixed a bug where she can super deny allies & herself

Demented Shaman
- Fixed scripting so Unbreakable is more robust against odd frame situations (healing 2 times in 1 frame, etc.)

Doctor Repulsor
- Fixed Opposite Charges so it plays the link
- Optimized Magnetic Contraption a bit
- Fixed Portal Key exploit

Drunken Master
- Fixed the double-activate bug on Lunge where it can deal 2x the push and 2x the damage
- Fixed Lunge bug where it was teleporting Drunken Master to (0,0)
- Fixed Lunge bug when you play animations after dead (again)
- Fixed Lunge's push affecting invulnerable units
- Fixed Untouchable's "HIC!" sound not playing at the correct times on levels 1 & 2

Emerald Warden
- Fixed a small visual bug where the large vine model was lingering too long at lower levels of Overgrowth
- Fixed Gawain using Diving Strikes when he's dead
- Fixed a super-duper rare bug where he gets glitched after respawn when Gawain attempts to use Forest's Touch on the same frame he dies

Empath
- Now doesn't follow her last queued action after she gets out of someone
- Fixed a visual bug where the wall visual was expiring 1 second before the real wall expired
- Fixed Essence Link so it does DOT damage now

Engineer
- Passing through the Energy Field will now automatically break channelling if it hits you
- Made Spider Mines have 0 cast time

Legionnaire
- Made Whirling Blade proc on fountain attacks
- Fixed a small animation bug where he would still be in charging animation if the skill cancels via the distance check

Magmus
- Fixed an issue with Eruption's idle animation and the effects

Moraxus
- Made More Axes blockable via Arcane Shield and Untouchable

Myrmidon
- Weed field now breaks Succubus' Mesmerize
- Fixed a bug where Carp would stun you if you were rooted or immobilized and had a movement order queued up

Parasite
- Fixed him teleporting to the target's location if the target dies before the Infest projectile impacts
- Fixed the Parasite- Gauntlet ult bug

Pharaoh
- Fixed a small spawn location bug with his Wrath of the Pharaoh if he turns 90 degrees; it now spawns in the correct position relative to Pharaoh & the target

Rhapsody
- Fixed a bug where the DoT from Disco Inferno wasn't being applied if an enemy was stunned inside

Sand Wraith
- Fixed his passive AOE triggering Nomad's ultimate and canceling Succubus' Mesmerize

Slither
- Fixed a small issue with Poison Spray target cursor not highlighting the correct targets

Wretched Hag
- Fixed an extremely rare bug with Bat Blast's cone visual

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HoN Double MatchMaking Coins Weekend

2011-08-16T01:41:00.000-07:00

HoN Double Coins HoN Weekend

Dota 2 is coming out and we're sending Heroes of Newerth out in style! This uber weekend is a 2X Matchmaking Coin Weekend.

You read that right. Double the coins. Double the fun!

Coins! Coins! Coins!

So round up all your friends and prepare for a weekend jam packed with HoN!
There has never been a better time to get your friends to try the best Free-to-Play game in the Dota genre - Heroes of Newerth.

Start playing your way to all of those golden items you've been dying to get and have fun with your good friends while doing it!

Double coin event schedule:
Friday, August 19 at 10 AM EDT (-4 GMT) - Monday, August 22 at 10 AM EDT (-4 GMT).

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.3

2011-08-13T02:38:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.3 Changelog

I am not just a master, I am Le Master of Arms!

Heroes of Newerth 2.1.3 Patch Notes
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Master of Arms
- Fixed some minor icon stuff
- Fixed swapping between weapons giving charges to Mana Battery/Power Supply
- Fixed some minor tooltip and icon discrepancies

Rhapsody
- Fixed some minor missing icons and tooltips
- Fixed a bug where you could tab to the dance floor
- Fixed aura effects
- Fixed aura not affecting SuperiorMagic
- Fixed Attack Projectile

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.2

2011-08-12T07:38:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.2 Changelog

Monkey King - the first official Early Access hero in the Dota genre

Heroes of Newerth 2.1.2 Patch Notes
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- Purchasing Early Access to a hero now unlocks a Limited Edition Alt Avatar for that hero for free
* This Limited Edition Alt Avatar is only available while the hero is Early Access
* You can see what the Alt Avatar looks like in the Early Access part of the Hon Store
* All prior purchases of Monkey King will be given the new Alt Avatar automatically

- Hero picking screen expanded
* OMG HOW DID WE DO THAT? MAGIC!

- UI fixes to the HoN Store and game lobby
- Fixed some spec UI cornercase bugs
- New option that lets you switch between OpenGL and DirectX in options

== HoN 2.1.2 Item Changes ==

- Abyssal Skull, Nome's Wisdom, and Refreshing Ornament can now be toggled between all and only heroes

== HoN 2.1.2 Hero Changes ==

- New Intelligence Hero: Rhapsody
- New Early Access Agility Hero: Master of Arms

- Added a new Premium Alt Avatar: Overseer Hellbringer
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Commander of Arms
- Added a new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Jade Warrior

Drunken Master
- Fixed him playing animations while dead

Martyr
- Can now cast Hand in Hand on Magic Immune units

Monkey King
- Fixes to him hitting people who are Physical Immune

Parasite
- Tweak to Infest so it checks better for when he dies
- Fixed Infest giving gold and exp from allied units in cornercase situations

Tempest
- Tweaked Elemental visuals

HoN Hero Video: Rhapsody

2011-08-10T21:12:00.000-07:00

Rhapsody - HoN hero Spotlight Video

Do you like to sing?
Do you like music?
Sing songs of parody with HoN's new music sensation, Rhapsody

Music is my savior!

Rhapsody's HoN Hero Spotlight: (courtesy of Record Label Executive Producer, MsPudding)

Hit her on the dance floor with the flow!

How to Play Rhapsody in HoN?
Rhapsody likes very tight team fights and is known to alternate push and pull in offense and on the defense of team structures with her passive "spellvamp" aura and the use of the imaginary dance floor, Disco Inferno. In order to take abuse her early game abilities, it is advisable to max out her Staccato and Disco Inferno abilities to take advantage of the full stun-locking duration and damage output.

Rhapsody likes to drink from the Blood Chalice, but in order to maximize her mid- and late-game ultimate potential, it is advisable to get survivability boosting stuff such as giving a good Shrunken Head or Helm of the Black Legion. A Nome's wisdom is also a good way to boost the effects of her passive aura.

Dance with Rhapsody now!

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Pandamonium Plushy is now available

2011-08-10T15:44:00.000-07:00

Pandamonium toy is now for sale

The Pandamonium plushie has been demanded by the HoN playerbase for a long time. And now, the furry creature is yours for the taking. Purchase your very own Pandamonium doll and sleep with it like S2 Lulu does.

I am Pandamonium and this is my bamboo stick!

I can climb trees like a ninja!

And meditate in the rivers of Newerth like a monk.

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HoN Tour is Coming

2011-08-10T04:10:00.000-07:00

S2 has something Massive coming up

HoN Tour - Coming Soon

We'll tell you when the time is right:
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HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Master of Arms

2011-08-08T20:55:00.000-07:00

Master of Arms - HoN hero Spotlight Video

Another master enters the war of Newerth.
This time, it is the Master of Arms.

Prepare to be gunned down - Le Master of Arms

Master of Arms' HoN Champion Spotlight: (courtesy of MsPudding)

Flint Beastwood and Witch Slayer, please welcome the new gunslinger of Newerth.

How to Play Master of Arms in HoN:
HoN's Master of Arms excels with a variety of different skill and item builds. For early burst damage, you can choose to either max your 1st or 2nd spells first depending on your preference. Though you should always put at least one point into charged shot for the stun. If you prefer to play him more passively and farm up for the late game, you may max his weapon enhancement first, and use the damage bonuses on the electrical gun to last hit with ease.

Which spell you choose to max first will provide you with different early game strengths. With maxed first skill, you gain a longer disable for gank-oriented play, and with maxed 2nd skill, you get early pushing power.

Master of Arms can pack some serious late game damage with use of his mag gun and chance-on-hit bonus damage items such as savage mace, and charged hammer. As an agility hero, he still lacks survivability though, so it's important to also pick up health-boosting items such as shrunken head, and strength steamboots.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.1

2011-08-05T06:38:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.1 Changelog

Oh no! Dota 2 is coming!

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.1.1 Patch Notes

- A few UI fixes for weird behavior in the HoN Store
- Shader fix for macs
- Parasite no longer gets gold or exp from killing an allied creep with Infest

Monkey King
- Illusive Dash: accomodated for Slam cancelling correctly
- Various Vault fixes and optimizations
* Fixed teleporting units back to their original position
* Fixed AoE impact effect to play properly at the point of damage instead of the Monkey King's position
* Fixed AoE impact sound playing multiple times

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.1.0

2011-07-29T08:52:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.1.0 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth has gone free to play and is following the trend of the free to play model for Dota genre games.

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.1.0 Patch Notes
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- Heroes of Newerth is now Free to Play!

== Account Type Explanation ==

- Basic: The standard, free account new players will receive upon sign up.
* Access to the weekly 15 free heroes
* Matchmaking restricted to All Pick
* Can purchase access to additional Heroes through the in-game store

- Verified: Basic accounts that have been upgraded through a show of commitment to their account, by either purchasing Goblin Coins or surpassing a certain threshold of play time
* Access to everything a basic player has, plus the ability to participate in Verified Only Matchmaking, to guarantee separation from Basic players if desired
* Can choose to play all matchmaking modes, however the use of Tokens or Passes are required (some tokens are awarded once a Basic account upgrades to Verified)

- Legacy: anyone with a paid HoN account before the F2P switch has automatically been upgraded to a "Legacy" account
* Access to Verified Only matchmaking
* Can continue to play all game modes without the need for Tokens or Passes
* Will continue to enjoy free access to the general hero pool

== HoN Store ==

- NEW ANNOUNCER: British Gentleman Announcer
- Alt Avatars are now in a big list and can be sorted by Hero Name, Price Low to High, Price High to Low, or Avatar Name
- Previews for Alt Avatars changed to be much larger and more detailed
- Alt Avatars are no longer in the vault, if you own them there is a checkbox next to them in the list

- Early Access
* New heroes may be released as part of the Early Access Program
* Early Access is a new system that allows Legacy players to purchase the ability to play these heroes prior to being available for FREE in the general hero pool
* Early Access Heroes are disabled in Tournament Mode
* For Basic/Verified ("Free to Play" accounts), purchasing a hero that is in the Early Access period will unlock access to that hero for all time

== General HoN Changes ==

- Matchmaking
* Improved matchmaking algorithms to result in slightly faster match times, with potentially more well-balanced teams
* Significantly improved matchmaking algorithms for how they pertain to 3v3 solo matching. Queue times for Grimm's Crossing should be significantly faster for solo players.

- Social Bonus for Matchmaking added
* Social Bonus is a replacement for Quick Victory
* If you play with 1-2 friends (total of 2-3 people in the party), you get 1 additional coin
* If you play with 3-4 friends (total of 4-5 people in the party), you get 2 additional coins

- Compendium removed, replaced with the Herodex
* Now contains detailed information about Heroes, including usage stats and Guides

- General Interface Changes
* A lot of the Interface has changed and been updated for ease of use
* Midbar redesigned to be more clear and catchy to both new and veterans
* Status Bar has players online moved from right to left side and now displays your current coins, tokens, and passes
* Friends List is now limited to 100 max and shows how many you have online

- Tutorial Fixes
* Fixed music warning spam in console (slightly improves performance)
* Fixed an issue that was preventing the confirmation button on the "you have died" message from allowing the player to continue

- Randoming in All Pick no longer gives bonus Gold
- A few small updates for stat submissions
- Group chat channels will no longer show the "Auto-Connect" checkbox and accompanying tooltip next to it
* Clicking the "X" in a group chat channel will now remove you from that group
- Fixed a few typos in the Matchmaking window
- All Random is no longer a checkbox. It is now a Game Mode similar to All Pick, Random Draft, or Banning Pick
- Practice mode can now only be All Pick
- Can now spawn Alt Avatars in Practice mode if you own them
- Added new tooltips for when players hover over the voice chat button in the game lobby.
- If a player is ignored then the player who has ignored them will no longer receive messages about them when the ignored player silences them from a channel or bans/unbans them from a channel
* This also fixes people spamming you with clan invites while under the effects of /dnd

- Editor now has the Water Tool added!

== General Gameplay Changes ==

- When attacking from the fog, the amount of time you are revealed to the enemy has been lowered from 3 seconds to 1.25 seconds
- All neutral creeps abilities have had their cast times lowered from 500ms cast time to 250ms
- Removed a rock in the west Legion large neutral camp that blocked movement
- Removed the statue on top of the hill to the west of the Legion Ancient Camp
- Water on Caldavar replaced with dynamic better water
- Added new tooltips to the in game buttons for sharing units with allies, enabling/disabling no-help, and toggling voice chat.
- Fix to Homecoming Stone and Dr Repulsor's Electric Frenzy
- Fix to Homecoming Stone and Steamboots causing a visual Max HP/MP desync
- Teleport (like BooBoo) will now clear fog vision reveal
* This should fix the infamous Booboo Cross-map Creep Pull
- You can no longer swap an item in your stash with an item on the courier if you do not own the second item

- New Selection System
* Heroes and units are highlighted with outlines instead of circles
* White is your selection, Green are allies, Red are enemies
* By Default, your hero is NOT highlighted. This option can be enabled in the options menu by selecting "Self Hero Outline"
* Can switch between circles and outlines in the options menu

- Hero Guides Fixes
* Plugged some cases where guides wouldn't work
* Should better handle the case where two timeouts occur before the guide is opened (fixes no guide bug)
* Featured guides prompted because of a timeout in the second part of the retrieval should now show items and abilities every time (fixes text only bug)
* Should recheck the hero every time the guide is opened, in case the ui hasnt loaded when the hero spawn trigger fires (fixes wrong hero bug)

- Spectator Interface reworked
* Showmatch between MSI and OK using the new Interface: Click Here
* Now has three major adjustable pieces: Information Panel (Bottom Middle), Pushbars (Top Middle), Hero Panes (Top Left and Top Right)
* Spectators can now zoom out much farther
- Can now free look with the \ key while a Spectator
* Spectator Options menu is accessable in the bottom right of the Information Panel (Gear)
* Pushbars at the top now easily show which team has more Gold and Experience
* A hero taking damage sets off the Gank Alert at the top of the screen
* Any item bought that is more expensive than 700 gold pops up next to a hero portrait and plays a gold noise so you know they bought something and what it is easily. The value that triggers this event is adjustable in the Spectator Options.

* Keybindings for the spectator interface can now be shared with ingame ones, so Q W E R are abilities ingame but can be completely different in the spec UI! Some defaulted keybinds/functionality:
* TAB, when held, shows the Expanded Hero Panes, the current selected Information Tab, and Expanded Pushbars at the same time
* CAPS LOCK, when held, hides all elements (Hero Panes, Info Screen, Pushbars, Replay Controls) at the same time. This is the inverse of TAB functionality
* Left click a hero portrait, it selects the hero. Double left click, it centers on the hero. Right click, it locks the camera on the hero. Right click again to undo the lock.
* Left click any ability icon to turn on numbered cooldowns on top of the icon. Left click again to undo.
* Left click any Health bar to turn on Health bar numbers. Left click again to undo.
* Left click any Mana bar to turn on Mana bar numbers. Left click again to undo.
* Left click the colored large dot to the right of the hero abilities to cycle hero panes between hidden and shown. Right click to expand all hero portraits.
* Left click the shield of a team at the top to see the towers and barracks remaining. Right click to see Gold and Exp differences between teams. Left click on the numbers to cycle between different ways of seeing this
* 1 through 5 change which Tab at the bottom you are using. In order: Players, Stats, Gold per Minute, Experience per Minute, and Player Damage
* F1 cycles the visibility of the Hero Panes (None, Default, Expanded)
* F2 shows or hides the Information Panel
* F3 shows or hides the Pushbars
* F4 shows or hides the Replay Controls
* Q toggles between all elements Hidden and Shown. This is the same as hitting F1 through F4, except it only cycles the Hero Panes between None and Default
* E locks or unlocks the Camera on the selected unit
* X, C, and V snap the camera to the corresponding Gank Alert

- Replay Controls
* Based off the Small Replay mod by Duker
* Can now free look with the \ key
* All buttons are now bindable
* Now features a hold to fast forward key (Default F)
* Jump to PoV (R) temporarily changes your perspective to that of the unit you have selected until you release the key

== Neutral Creeps ==

- Wild Hunter (The Magic Immune ones)
* Now have the ability to stealth for 15 seconds with 50 bonus attack damage on attack out of stealth and 20% movement speed

- Ice Ogre armor
* Increase cooldown from 5 to 10 seconds
* Remove Melee Slow part
* Duration from 45 to 30 seconds

== Items ==

- Removed the Winged Courier recipe!
* The Upgrade ability on a Ground Courier will now take 200 gold from whoever uses the ability and upgrade the courier
* Can be done anywhere on the map

- Basic Ground Courier cooldown increased to 10 seconds
- Fixed Stormspirit to work with new channeling state for Homcoming Stones
- Nullfire Blade moved to Combative shop from Morph Attack
- Energizer manacost lowered by 50 and movespeed buff increased to 75

== Heroes ==

- New hero: Drunken Master
* Drunken Master Spotlight
* Drunken Master Sound Creation Blog

- New Early Access hero: Monkey King
* Monkey King Spotlight
* Monkey King Sound Creation Blog

- Added an Alt Avatar for Zephyr: Snow Zephyr
- Added an Alt Avatar for Drunken Master: Hillbilly Brawler

Amun-Ra
- Intelligence from 10+1.0 to 15+1.5
- Path of Destruction self damage reduced from 20% to 15%

Balphagore
- Charges gained from enemy spellcasts up from 60% to 75% of the enemy Manacosts

Corrupted Disciple
- Overload duration lowered from 20/25/30 to 20 seconds at all levels

Engineer
- Keg cooldown from 14 seconds to 12 seconds
- Already placed Spider Mines now level up with ability level up, cooldown on recharge from 30 seconds to 25 seconds
- Energy Field damage per second from 28/58/88 to 50/75/100
- Attack action time from 500 to 450, Damage from 37-50 to 40-47

Martyr
- Sacrificial Lamb now heals nearby allies for (40/60/80/100) + (20/30/40/50)% of health sacrificed
- Retribution now slows 15% base, +1% per 1% of health missing, still up to 50%

Myrmidon
- Weed Field manacost from 90/100/110/120 to 105/110/115/120
- Magic Carp manacost from 85/95/105/115 to 100/105/110/115

Parasite
- Leech damage from 80/130/180/230 to 80/140/200/260
- Draining Venom now also benefits creeps that Parasite inhabits
- Draining Venom now also applies from ability casts

Tremble
- Shudder auto-levels with ability level up
- Terrorport no longer costs mana
- Mounds now level properly (previously would give correct aura but incorrect gadget level)

Soul Reaper
- Attack action time from 530 to 450

== Bug Fixes ==

Aluna
- Fixed Power Throw's projectile hitting a bit behind her

Arachna
- Removed noninterrupting="true" from her Webbed Shot
* Fixes the fact she could attack while channeling LOL

Devourer
- Fixed Decay dealing damage to enemies while stealthed; it no longer does so.

Electrician
- Optimized Electric Shield & Energy Absorption

Emerald Warden
- Fixed illusions bugging Gawain when you level them up on the illusions
- Lowered her Overgrowth's trap impact interval from 500ms to 350ms
- Fixed Dryad Warden's projectile attack impact sound

Empath
- Fixed As One cooldown to the correct values

Flux
- Hid the Magnetic Surge and Discharge states
- Fixed it so the correct state icon is displayed for the proper Release state applied (purple for push, light-blue for pull)
- Fixed it so the correct colour of rings is displayed on the target for the proper Release state applied (purple for push, light-blue for pull)

Gladiator
- Fixed the vision from Pitfall; now it grants vision of the target area 1 frame before the enemies gets launched into the air.

Hammerstorm
- Set cast time of Galvanize to 1

Madman
- Fixed another super long Barrel Roll return bug.
- Fixed Stalk mod exploit

Magmus
- Steam Bath state changed from StatusBuff to StatusStealth
* Makes this consistent with all other stealth in the game
- Fixed Eruption's SotM-boosted as it was dealing one too few damage pulses

Nymphora
- Fixed Nymphora's Zeal's projectile hitting a bit behind her

Parasite
- Fixed couriers suddenly stopping when Parasite infests a creep
- Fixed an issue with him not leaping at people the whole way in long leaps

Revenant
- Fixed enemies seeing Mortification affector visuals in fog/invisibility when you cast it on them with level 2 or 3 of Manifestation
- Fixed a movement bug from hindering Revenant's spells when the targets are out of range

Sand Wraith
- Allowed Mirage to spawn illusions even if the target is invulnerable
* Prevents invulnerability skills from "canceling" Sand Wraith's ultimate
- Fixed the Mirage illusions so that they will properly stay to the target even if their target becomes invulnerable
- Fixed the Mirage illusions so that they die if their target dies

Scout
- Optimized his Vanish
- Fixed his Disarm so it works properly on non-heroes now

Tremble
- Fixed Shudder's Terrorport mana cost; it is now 0 as well.

Vindicator
- Fixed Vigilante Vindicator's Master's Incantation projectile; it has an impact sound now
- Removed noninterrupting="true" from his Master's Incantation
* Fixes the fact he could attack while channeling LOL

Monkey Courier
- Fixed a minor preview issue with Rat Courier - the preview scaling is now correct & consistent with the others

Sol's Bulwark
- Won't apply the armor or negative armor to invulnerable units anymore

Vulture Lord
- Fixed the slow from the Tornado lasting infinite time when Parasite swaps it onto someone

HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Drunken Master

2011-07-28T08:17:00.000-07:00

Drunken Master - HoN hero Spotlight Video

Drunken Master likes to drink.
He likes to drink so much that he carries a keg with him.

Gulp gulp gulp.

Smile Drunkard!

Watch Ms Pudding's Tutorial on the Chinese inspired Drunken Master:

Heroes of Newerth added to NASL

2011-07-26T04:15:00.000-07:00

HoN at the 2nd Season of NASL (North American Star League)

Heroes of Newerth will be a promotional title for the 2nd Season 2 of the North American Star League (NASL). HoN is one of the largest growing competitive gaming titles and is featured at major gaming events such as Dreamhack and the World Cyber Games.

Shashi Singh, eSports manager of HoN:
"We're excited to have Heroes of Newerth in the North American Star League for Season 2 and beyond. The goals that they have and the direction that they would like to go in is similar to the goals that we have and the direction we want to go in for HoN eSports as a whole, making this quite the perfect fit. This partnership is further evidence of the value that Heroes of Newerth has as an eSports title and will consistently showcase the very best that this scene has to offer."

Sean "Day[9]" Plott of Starcraft 2 fame.

HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Monkey King

2011-07-25T16:39:00.000-07:00

Monkey King - HoN hero Spotlight Video

With inspiration from legendary Chinese folklore, S2 Games has added Monkey King to the lands of Newerth.

HoN's Monkey King vs. LoL's Monkey King
Which Monkey King holds the rights to the Monkey Throne?

Watch Ms Pudding's Tutorial on the Chinese inspired Monkey King:

Fun Facts:
Monkey King is also the inspiration for the Japanese animation, Dragon Ball Z.

Learn more about Sun Wukong via Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.40

2011-07-22T07:32:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.40 Changelog

This is a small bug fixing patch with an improved tutorial with a Flint Beastwood alternative avatar based on Sniper from Dota 2.

I'm your shooter!

Heroes of Newerth 2.0.40 Patch Notes

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- Added a new Alt Avatar: Flint Boomstick

- The Tutorial should be much more functional
- Moraxus' Shield Bar should be fixed
- Tweaked tooltips for Revenant

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.0.40.2
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- Fixed the Alt Avatar in the Store

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.0.40.3
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- Old replays should now work correctly

Get the latest HoN Patch Updates via:
HoN Updates - Twitter
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Monkey King is jumping to HoN

2011-07-20T05:43:00.000-07:00

Monkey King is jumping to Heroes of Newerth

Inspired by Chinese legends of Sun Wu Kong, S2 Games have created the Monkey King to join in the ongoing legendary narrative of the heroes of Newerth.

The Monkey King - holding a staff weighing thousands of pounds.

HoN Monkey King fun fact:
Matt Mercer will be the voice of Monkey King in Heroes of Newerth.

HoN July 2011 Sale - 10 Dollar HoN Accounts

2011-07-16T02:53:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth 10 Dollar Sale - July 2011

In celebration of reaching over half a million HoN players, S2 Games has put Heroes of Newerth up for sale.

From the regular price of 30 US Dollars, the price has been temporarily lowered to 10 US Dollars.

Get HoN at a lower price!

This is a limited time bargain for fans of the Dota genre who want to try out an alternative to Defense of the Ancients.

The game runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
View the Heroes of Newerth System Requirements (credits: Neutral Creeps)

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.39

2011-07-15T15:19:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.39 Changelog

The Heroes of Newerth 2.0.39 version introduces a new HoN hero - Revenant.

Heroes of Newerth 2.0.39 Patch Notes

Bask in my presents!

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- Added new chat color, Royal Tanzanite
- Added new Alt Courier, Robot Courier
- Stat Resets and Sub Accounts can be bought in the Store with Gold Coins

- Fix to effects with 0 lifetime
- Fix for custom account icons being treated as modded files
- Fixed front queue tools not front queueing when double activating
- Fixed a buffer overflow when attempting to execute a very long console command
- Russian Stringtables updated

- Channel code change
* Item swaps between backpack slots no longer breaks channel
* Moving items to Stash interrupts properly
* Homecoming Stone tweaked slightly, now consumes the stone at the start of the channel

== HoN 2.0.39 Item Changes ==

- Added new item: Sol's Bulwark
* Components
* Ringmail (550)
* Ringmail (550)
* Sol's Bulwark Recipe (700)
* Total Cost: 1800
* Passive Effects
* +5 Armor
* Can be toggled between a +5 Armor Aura for Allies or a -5 Armor Aura for Enemies. 10 second cooldown

- Daemonic Breastplate
* Reworked Components
* Ringmail (550)
* Sol's Bulwark (1800)
* Warpcleft (2100)
* Daemonic Breastplate Recipe (1100)
* Total Cost: 5550

- Dust of Revelation
* Visual effect now plays if Empath uses it while inside someone.

== HoN 2.0.39 Hero Changes ==

- New hero: Revenant

Aluna
- Attack cooldown from 1450 to 1700

Dampeer
- Terrorize now applies a 50% movespeed slow to feared targets
- Consume cooldown lowered from 50/40/30s to 30s flat
* Killing a hero now gives 3 essences at all levels

Flux
- Fixed his Magnetic Surge push so that it applies the same state as the pull

Empath
- Essence Link cast range from 500 to 550 and break range from 750 to 800
- Essence Link casttime from 500 to 400 and castactiontime from 250 to 150
- Synergy numerical regen from .75/1.5/2.25/3 to 1/2/3/4
- As One cooldown from 100 to 100/80/60 seconds

Forsaken Archer
- Improved Split Fire so that you won't lose its setting when you die
- Piercing Arrows cooldown from 120 to 100/80/60 seconds

Parasite
- Fixed him from following his last-issued command after you Infest

Pyromancer
- Fixed the DoT from Fervor applying the proper level

Slither
- Fixed his projectile from Poison Spray hitting units directly behind him if they are too close

Amun-Ra
- Ashes to Ashes regeneration lowered from 2/4/6/8 to 1/2/3/4

Heroes of Newerth 2.0.39.1 Version
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- Fixing an auth error (Uploading a new installer now)

HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Revenant

2011-07-12T01:39:00.000-07:00

Revenant - HoN hero Spotlight Video

S2 Games has finally ported a new unit from the Savage universe - Revenant.
Love playing support while ganking at the same time? Then this hero of Newerth is for you.

Revenant is a unit from S2 Games' Savage 2

Watch Ms Pudding's Tutorial on the int HoN hero, Revenant.

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.38

2011-07-08T07:17:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.38 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.0.38 Patch Notes

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- Fixed hitting S or H while connecting to a server causing the game to never load
- Updated text when disconnecting from Matchmaking to be more clear
- Fixed players respawning attached to projectiles when Gore Taunted when "no respawn timers" is set
- Fixed custom account icons counting as modified files for the purposes of Tournament Rules
- Fixed exploit with Rampage and Blood Hunter reveal gadgets
- Fixes to Emerald Warden bugs with Nullstone and Magic Immunity
- Nullstone effects tweaked

- Added new Alt Avatar: Phantom Defiler

- Added new Alt Courier: Rat Courier

== HoN 2.0.38 Item Changes ==

- Alchemist's Bones cooldown/timer increased by 20 seconds

- Astrolabe
* Reworked Components
* Fortified Bracer (510)
* Refreshing Ornament (603)
* Astrolabe Recipe (600)
* Total Cost: 1713
* Effects
* +8 Strength, +5 Agility, +5 Intelligence
* +3 Health Regen aura
* On use: Heals nearby allies for 200 Health. 100 Mana cost, 45 second cd
* A hero/unit can still only be healed once every 25 seconds

- Energizer
* Components
* Soulscream Ring (460)
* Major Totem (540)
* Energizer Recipe (700)
* Total Cost: 1700
* Effects
* +7 Strength, +10 Agility, +7 Intelligence
* On use: Nearby allies gain 50 Movement Speed and Unitwalking for 5 seconds. 100 Mana cost, 45 second cd

- Ring of Sorcery
* Reworked Components
* Amulet of Exile (485)
* Pickled Brain (900)
* Auto combines
* Total Cost: 1385
* Effects
* +300 Mana, +3 Strength, +3 Agility, +6 Intelligence
* On use: Nearby allies gain 135 Mana. 25 Mana cost, 33 second cd

- Shieldbreaker
* Rework
* Warhammer (1600)
* Shieldbreaker Recipe (900)
* Total Cost: 2500 / 3400 / 4300
* Effects
* +30 / 45 / 60 Damage
* -2 / -4 / -6 Armor debuff on target

Be updated with the latest HoN Changelogs:
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Drunken Master is staggering to HoN

2011-07-06T17:23:00.000-07:00

Drunken Master HoN Hero Sneak Peek

S2 DivA has been working on a Drunken Master concept (DotA has Pandaren Brewmaster) for awhile and has come up with a creative use for a HoN hero's mana status.

Is there trouble brewing?

The final hero concept is not ready yet but these are the planned skills for Drunken Master - HoN's very own drunken brawler:

Drink
Lunge
Stagger
Numb to Pain

Parasite Guide - HoN Hero Guides

2011-07-05T19:39:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth Hero Guides: Parasite

Hero Name: Parasite
Affiliation: Hellbourne
Primary Attribute: Intelligence
Introduced: HoN 2.0.36

Give me a face hug!

Parasite is an INT hero on the Hellbourne Side.

Parasite's Background Story:
While the world above burned, within the deepest crevices of Newerth an abominable conglomeration of sentient gels, pathogens, and other lurkers of the deep simmered in a primoridial pool, slowly evolving and multiplying. From this cesspool emerged the Parasite, sickeningly intelligent and chaotically evil.

Parasite Skills Guide

Parasite Skill # 1: Leech

The Parasite steals essence from target enemy unit, dealing damage and stealing Movement Speed

Parasite Skill # 2: Infest

Takes control of target NPC unit, hiding yourself within. The Parasite can consume the target at any time, healing himself.

Parasite Skill # 3: Draining Venom

Any target the Parasite attacks takes extra damage from it and deals less damage to it.

Parasite Skill # 4: Facehug (Ultimate)

The Parasite can steal the strengths of enemies while passing his own weaknesses onto them.

What is your suggested Parasite Hero and Item Build?

Related:
Watch the HoN Video Spotlight on Parasite.
Learn more about Parasite's other victims in the Heroes of Newerth Hero Compendium.

Emerald Warden Guide - HoN Hero Guides

2011-07-05T19:16:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth Hero Guides: Emerald Warden

Hero Name: Emerald Warden
Affiliation: Legion
Primary Attribute: Agility
Introduced: HoN 2.0.37

I'm not a goat.

Emerald Warden is an AGI hero on the Legion Side.

Emerald Warden's Background Story:
From a lost scout's journal: This visage of a great horned beast, imposing in stature and ornately bejeweled, descends to us a representative of an unknown druidic sect of beasts. At his behest lesser creatures of the forest fall under command, and when his bow is raised a foe shall fall.

Emerald Warden Skills Guide

Emerald Warden Skill # 1: Silencing Shot

Fire a powerful arrow at a target, dealing damage and silencing it.

Emerald Warden Skill # 2: Hunter's Command

Summon two uncontrollable wolves that seek out the two nearest heroes in range, including those in fog, damaging and slowing them on collision.

Emerald Warden Skill # 3: Overgrowth

Grow an invisible Overgrowth at a target location, entangling enemies that trigger it.

Emerald Warden Skill # 4: Summon Gawain (Ultimate)

Permanently gain an uncontrollable familiar. Gawain gains Diving Strike at level 1, Forest's Touch at level 2, and Emerald Storm at level 3.

He has 600 Clearvision.

What is your suggested Emerald Warden Hero and Item Build?

Related:
Watch the HoN Video Spotlight on Emerald Warden.
Read all about the other Heroes of Newerth Guides on Heroes.

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.37

2011-06-30T23:37:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.37 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.0.37 Patch Notes

Want to see Blacksmith?

Too bad it's me... Goldsmith!

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- You are now able to view other chat channels in the time period between the lobby countdown and the game's start
- You can now hold shift to drag and drop shop items into the quickslots

- Pause functionality cleaned up on the backend
- Vast and unending interface memory reductions
- Fixed account switching not clearing clan / buddy list
- Fixed Frostwolf Skull projectiles with alt avatars

- Added Baby Taunt
- Added new Gold Collection Alt Avatar: Leprechaun Blacksmith

== HoN 2.0.37 Item Changes ==

Disassemble business
Charged Hammer no longer allowed
Geometer's Bane no longer allowed
Iron Shield allowed now
Wingbow allowed now

Barrier Idol
- Fixed its active buff so it will reduce SuperiorMagic damage as well

== HoN 2.0.37 Hero Changes ==

- Added a New Hero: Emerald Warden

Accursed
- Fixed Sear & Harkon's Blade so they will stack

Balphagore
- Fixed Demonic Pathogen spreading to nothing if you manually spread it when no valid targets are around.
- Added a timer when the Demonic Pathogen is in "pre-spread mode"

Blacksmith
- Fixed his Frenzy's multicast application from going through Magic Immunity

Blood Hunter
- Tweaked his silence so it's scripting is better

The Dark Lady
- Made Cover of Darkness application go through invulnerability

Deadwood
- Fixed Rotten Grasp from applying the immobilizing+damage over time if the target gets pushed out of the Rotten Grasp

Flux
- Tweaked Release slow scaling (again), thanks to Habile
- Tweaked Magnetic Surge so it won't have any collision problems at certain distances
- Tweaked Discharge so it won't have any collision problems at certain distances

Gauntlet
- Added Grapple double-tap functionality as a single button press to E
- Fixed Enfeeble & Harkon's Blade interaction so they now stack

Myrmidon
- Fixed buildings being turned blue while Forced Evolution was on.

Nomad
- Fixed a fog bug with his Mirage Strike

Pandamonium
- Fixed a bug where if you used Flurry and immediately queue up Cannonball, Pandamonium will appear to be "frozen"

Parasite
- Fixed role/description
- Fixed LODs
- Fixed Leech so it's not true damage
- Fixed Draining Venom so that his infested minion receives the attacking debuff application when that minion is an ally.
- Fixed Draining Venom so that it applies the correct state level now
- Fixed Parasite + Homecoming Stone bug when Parasite latches on the target on the same frame the unit teleports
- Fixed Parasite being both dead and alive at the same time with Infest

Puppet Master
- Fixed enemies of Puppet Master being able to teleport to Voodoo Master with Post Haste

Rampage
- Tweaked his Stampede when it completes

Silhouette
- Fixed her alt avatar not playing the proper cast sound when she uses Shadow to summon her illusion

Slither
- Fixed Toxicity & Harkon's Blade so they will stack

Tundra
- Made him not magically stand up if he dies during his Cold Shoulder

Zephyr
- Made Gust do damage to ancients
* Ancients are still immune to the push portion of Gust

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HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Emerald Warden

2011-06-30T16:31:00.000-07:00

Emerald Warden - HoN hero Spotlight Video

Emerald Warden is a nature lover and a commander of all things green.

To the window!

Watch how Emerald Warden loves pets!

Emerald Warden is guarding HoN

2011-06-29T07:01:00.000-07:00

The Emerald Warden will be guarding the other Heroes of Newerth

Emerald Warden with the pet bird.

Emerald Warden will be added in HoN 2.0.37.

HoN Status on Game Servers - June 21, 2011

2011-06-21T18:29:00.000-07:00

HoN Server Status Updates: June 21, 2011 (Tuesday)
Heroes of Newerth Server Status

HoN Server Status: Offline (as of 06-21-2011)

Reason why HoN Server is down:

During our scheduled maintenance period this morning we had a catastrophic hardware failure across a number of systems including some of our backup systems. We have the capacity and ability to recover from this failure. However, due to the extent of this failure we cannot provide an ETA on when service will be restored, we will continue to provide you updates as they are available to us.

For updates on HoN's game server condition, follow HoN updates via Twitter:
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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.36

2011-06-17T20:48:00.001-07:00

HoN 2.0.36 Changelog

HoN 2.0.36 introduces the Hellbourne hero, Parasite.

HoN 2.0.36 presents Parasite

Heroes of Newerth 2.0.36 Patch Notes
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- Added a new hero: Parasite
- Added a new Alt Avatar: Mutant Parasite

- You can no longer touch things (teleporters, items, etc.) while stunned
- Updated some User Interface files with fixes to speed and reliability
- Fixed a bug with stats not displaying for people in a Clan
- Fixed Neutral Creeps in Caldavar stacking 3 times instead of 2
- Fixed a bug with Alchemist Bones' timer when it was dropped on the ground
- Fixed Barrier Idol's and Chipper's ability to properly absorb Superior Magic damage
- Fixed a bug with Keeper of the Forest's invisibility
- Fixed a bug with Silhouette's timers
- Fixed a bug with Corrupted Disciple's drain that made it last forever

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HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Parasite

2011-06-16T16:32:00.000-07:00

Parasite - HoN hero Spotlight Video

Parasite is a hero who will be infesting Newerth in the HoN 2.0.36 patch.

Parasite - infesting the lands of Newerth

Watch MsPudding's Video Spotlight on how to play Parasite in HoN:

Parasite Tip of the Day:

Always start by infesting the most powerful creep in a neutral camp since you'll get both gold and experience for the unit you're inhabiting.

Bonus: Leprechaun Blacksmith Alt Avatar is coming!

Parasite is infesting HoN

2011-06-14T21:11:00.000-07:00

Parasite will be infesting the lands of the Heroes of Newerth

Parasite - Heroes of Newerth Infestor

Want to play the HoN mini-game: Grand Theft Catapult: Newerth?
Parasite will do it for you.

Parasite's Hero Attribute: Intelligence hero

Parasite's Affiliation: Hellbourne

Parasite's Role:
An excellent one vs one hero who can steal movement speed, hop in and out of creeps to confuse the enemy. This hero is also an efficient jungling hero that can gank every once in awhile.

Projected Release Date: June 17, 2011

Find out more about Parasite and all upcoming HoN heroes via:
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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.35

2011-06-10T18:11:00.001-07:00

Heroes of Newerth 2.0.34 and 2.0.35.1 Combined patches

Both HoN 2.0.34 and HoN 2.0.35 have been combined into one patch after the HoN 2.0.34 patch was leaked. S2 Games has reworked 2 classic DotA heroes: Keeper of the Forest and Blood Hunter and have removed DotA's iconic secret shop.

"Think of it as two HoN patches for the price of one!"
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- Added Custom Account Icons!
* Purchasable in the store. Upload an icon on the website at http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/icons to see it ingame
- Added Alt Couriers!
* Can now change the courier ingame into a different model
* Note: The "Goblin Farm" Bundle is not Gold Collection even though it has that label in the store. The Bundle deal is available for one week.
- Added Alt Taunt!
* Gore Taunt added
* You must purchase the original Taunt before you can purchase an Alt Taunt
- When downloading replays, the progress bar will now properly display a % sign
- Store UI significantly updated
- Updated some stringtables
- Fixed an issue with stat resets that incorrectly reset some fields

- All Melee heroes now all have 128 Attack Range
- Non-lethal damage can no longer get credit for kills (For real)
- Increased the movespeed of some of the Neutrals under 300 Movespeed to 300
- Leash time all Neutrals lowered from 7 seconds to 5.25 seconds

- Forests of Caldavar have been changed
* Kongor area widened to make it more 'even', including a new Legion ramp in the area
* Vision blockers of Kongor's lair removed

== Item Changes ==

In-game Shop changes
- Significant upgrades to the smoothness of the shop when changing panels quickly
* Funfact: If you close the guide using the red button on the left the shop will only be one single panel when you open it. Much smaller!!
- Fixed not having recommended items when playing the same hero twice in a row if you failed to retrieve a guide
- There is now a default guide for when your connection to the Database decides to use the Failboat
- Outpost no longer contains a Pickled Brain
- Added 5 "Quickslot" item spots in the upper left partof the shop
* Shift + left click an item in the shop then click one of the slots to save that item to a slot
* Right click an item in your inventory and click one of the slots to save that item to a slot
* You can always buy from the quickslots and which items are there persist between games
* Useful for items like Homecoming Stones, a specific type of boots you want, potions, etc.

- Secret Shop removed
* Items that were purchasable in this shop are now purchasable in the main base
* Secret Shop store category renamed to Legendary Shop
- At the old Secret Shop location, the building is now replaced with an Observatory
- Observatory contain 1 item: Wards of Sight
* Wards seen in the Observatory are shared with the ones in your main base in stock

- Nullfire level 1 back to a 12s cooldown
* Level 2 is still 20s
- Fix to giving Insanitarious to other players and it bugged out terribly (LOL)

== HoN 2.0.35 Hero Changes ==

- Added a new Premium Alt Avatar for Ra: King Ra
*King Ra was inspired by DotA's King Leoric.

Amun-Ra
- Optimized his abilities
- Fixed Ashes to Ashes so it does Magic DoT damage
- Fixed Ashes to Ashes retaining all charges when he dies; he no longer retains them after death
- Fixed Pyroclasmic Rebirth so it won't interact with Vindicator's Int Sap/Devourer's Str gain
- Removed the bad icon

Blood Hunter
- Rebalanced
- +15 Starting Movespeed (305 to 320)
- Blood Crazy duration nerfed from 6/9/12/15 to 6/7/8/9
- Blood Crazy damage to 20/s flat. Separated into a debuff and a buff, so that you can rid yourself of the negative element with a purge, or rid an enemy of the positive element with the purge
- Blood Sense now activates off allied heroes as well, but not self
- Hemorrhage changed to superior magic damage, damage values increased by 25%

Fayde
- Fixed the sound from Deep Shadows playing at ear-killing levels

Keeper of the Forest rework
- Starting STR reduced to 25 from 27
- STR/level reduced to 3 from 3.4
- Camouflage
* Renamed to Nature's Veil
* Now gives BOTH Camouflage and old Nature's Protection effects (invises near trees and gives the armor/regen buff)
* Duration for both buffs changed to 10/20/30/40 seconds
* Nature's Protection component now gives a flat 4 Health Regeneration and 6/8/10/12 Armor
* Mana cost to a flat 60
* Cooldown to a flat 5 seconds
* 500 cast range
- Tree Sight
* Removed, replaced with Animate Forest
- Animate Forest
* 130 Mana cost, 30 second cooldown, 700 cast range
* Casts on target tree.
* Target tree and 1/2/3/4 nearby trees (takes closest to target, max search range of 500) are converted to Treants
* Treants have 500 Health, 2 Armor, and 325 Movespeed
* These trees last for 45 seconds
* These treants serve as "trees" for Nature's Veil, keeping people invisible around them
* These treants serve as "trees" for Entmoot, giving KotF charges of Attack Speed/Movement Speed
- Nature's Protection removed
- New Ability: Entmoot, passive self-buff
* Keeper of the Forest gains 3/6/9/12 Attack Speed and Movement Speed per nearby tree, up to 5 charges.
* Radius of 375
- Root
* Duration lowered from 3/4/5 to 2/3/4 seconds
* Cooldown lowered from 160 to 120/110/100
* Damage per second increased from 85 to 100

Silhouette
- Base damage lowered by 3
- Tree Grapple mana cost from 95/105/115/125 to 120 flat
- Tree Grapple stun from Physical to Magical
- Relentless Salvo damage per stack from 6/9/12/15 to 3/6/9/12
- Shadow cooldown from 90/75/60 to 120/105/90 seconds
- Shadow duration from 30 to 15/25/35 seconds
- Shadow damage ratio from 33/66/100% to flat 66%

Note: The HoN 2.0.35.1 version is a texture fix for the taunts.

Download HoN 2.0.35
http://dl.heroesofnewerth.com/HoNClient-2.0.35.1.exe

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.34

2011-06-10T18:02:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.34 Changelog

Want the HoN 2.0.34 Patch Notes?

TOO BAD IT'S ME...

Actually, HoN 2.0.34 has been combined with HoN 2.0.35 after the leaked HoN patch notes.

You can find the changes to Newerth below:
HoN 2.0.34 plus HoN 2.0.35 Patch Notes Combined

Amun-Ra Guide - HoN Hero Guides

2011-06-04T05:58:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth Hero Guides: Amun Ra

Hero Name: Amun-Ra
Affiliation: Hellbourne
Primary Attribute: Strength
Introduced: HoN 2.0.33

Bask in my presents!

Amun-Ra is a STR hero on the Hellbourne Side.

AmunRa's Background Story:
The corrupted disciples of Sol harnessed the errant energies of the sun, and from that culmination of twisted nether emerged the ancient daemon god Amun-Ra, abomination of all that is light and holy. Fused together by black fire and fury, this immortal construct threatens to raze the lands with every burning step, defiling everything he touches with heretical fervor.

Amun-Ra Skills Guide

Amun-Ra Skill # 1: Path of Destruction

Costs 20 percent Max Health to cast. Creates a path of flames in front of Amun-ra culminating in a meteor. While on the path, you may walk through anything. Enemies struck by the meteor are damaged and stunned while you gain movement speed.

Amun-Ra Skill # 2: Ignite

Costs 12 percent of Max Health on impact. Amun-Ra lights himself on fire, exploding after 1.5 seconds, damaging and slowing nearby enemies.

Amun-Ra Skill # 3: Ashes to Ashes

Passive Health regeneration. Ra passively gains bonuses based on how much damage he's taken recently. Increases Attack Speed, Damage per second in a 350 AoE. One charge per 10 pre-mitigation damage.

Amun-Ra Skill # 4: Pyroclasmic Rebirth (Ultimate)

Requires 50 percent of Max Mana for activation. On death, Amun-Ra will be reborn with 50 percent Health, triggering Ignite as he spawns. He deals Extra Damage for 10 seconds after respawning.

What is your suggested Amun Ra Hero and Item Build?

Amun Ra Trivia:
Amun-Ra is heavily inspired by Egyptian mythology.

Related:
Watch the HoN Video Spotlight on Amun-Ra.
View the other Heroes of Newerth Hero Guides.

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.33

2011-06-03T04:49:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.33 Changelog

HoN 2.0.33 streamlines the gaming experience for players by lessening the effect of RNG (random generated numbers) with the introduction of constant damage by neutral and lane creeps.

Aah! Fresh Meat!

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.0.33 Patch Notes
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- Added a new Strength hero: Amun-Ra
- Added a new Alt Avatar: Oni Devourer
- Added a new Alt Avatar: Mermaidon

- Fixed attack projectiles not being invisible when you get Frostwolf Skull on an Alt Avatar
- Fixed a Practice Mode bug when you give yourself items
- Touched up Martyr Voice

- Neutral and lane creeps no longer have any random damage, they now do static amounts of damage

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.32

2011-06-02T02:04:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.32 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.0.32
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- Fixing the 0:00 Matchmaking interface
- Backend server improvements

HoN Server Status:
DDOS Attacks have been mitigated - a HoN patch will be released on June 3, 2011.

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.31

2011-06-02T01:57:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.31 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth Version 2.0.31
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- Fixed the authorization issue.

HoN Server Unavailable:

The Heroes of Newerth HoNiversary has been plagued by DDOS attacks

Get the latest Heroes of Newerth Server Updates via:
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HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Amun Ra

2011-06-01T18:40:00.000-07:00

Amun-Ra - HoN hero Spotlight Video

According to Egyptian mythology, Amunra was the god of creation and the wind.

In Newerth, Amun ra deals with ashes and reincarnation.

Watch the Heroes of Newerth Hero Spotlight: Amun Ra voiced by MsPudding.

Amun ra: "Bask in my presents!"

Valkyrie Guide - HoN Hero Guides

2011-05-22T03:05:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth Hero Guides: Valkyrie

Hero Name: Valkyrie
Affiliation: Legion
Primary Attribute: Agility
DotA counterpart: Mirana Moonfang - Priestess of the Moon

Valkyrie - Mirana's HoN port

Valkyrie is an AGI hero on the Legion Side.

Valkyrie's Background Story:
The ancient sagas of the heathen north have long told to the tale of the battle-women known as Valkyries. For centuries, their ranks have thinned as the old ways have died out and civilization stretched its smothering hand over the frozen wilds. But some Valkyries still remain, cold and swift as the north wind, wielding their lances with expertise to rival the most veteran Legion warriors.

Valkyrie Skills Guide

Valkyrie Skill # 1: Call of the Valkyrie

Valkyrie calls forth several Battle Maidens to damage nearby enemies.

Valkyrie Skill # 2: Javelin of Light

Valkyrie hurls a Javelin of Light toward a target location. The first enemy hit will be damaged and stunned. Stun duration depends on the distance the Javelin has traveled.

Valkyrie Skill # 3: Courageous Leap

Valkyrie leaps forward, charging to battle. Her courage inspires nearby allied heroes when she lands, granting increased Movement Speed and Attack Speed.

Valkyrie Skill # 4: Valkyrie's Prism (Ultimate)

Valkyrie bends light itself, shrouding all allied heroes on the map in stealth.

What is your suggested Valkyrie Hero and Item Build?

Valkyrie Trivia:
HoN's Valkyrie is a direct port of DotA's Priestess of the Moon (Mirana Moonfang).

Defense of the Ancients' POTM (Priestess of the Moon).

Related:
Watch the Heroes of Newerth Video Spotlight on Valkyrie.
See all the other HoN Hero Guides Available on HoN Updates.

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.30

2011-05-20T05:31:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.30 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth Patch Version 2.0.30 (Patch Notes)
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- 5 new icons

- Fixed recipes being able to combine using items from multiple players
- You can combine items properly using ownerless (i.e. dropped by a leaver) items now
- Fixed a crash during loading
- Touched up some of the Matchmaking UI
- Fixed Grimm's Crossing teleporters so that immobile gadgets can't use it to teleport
- Fixed lifesteal to not lifesteal on gadgets and chests. Also fixed lifesteal so it won't play a sound unless you validly lifesteal a unit. The following things are affected by this change:
* Dampeer's Bloodthirst
* Elder Parasite
* Hungry Spirit
* Symbol of Rage
* Whispering Helm

- Vulture Lord's Tornado now goes through trees and cliffs

== HoN 2.0.30 Item Changes ==

Astrolabe
- Aura radius to 900
- Activation radius increased from 450 to 600

Barrier Idol
- Radius from 500 to 600

Elder Parasite
- Damage taken reduced from 20% to 15%

Frostfield Plate
- Aura radius from 1000 to 900

Logger's Hatchet
- Reworked slightly
* Activates to throw an axe at target enemy creep or neutral
* 600 Range, 30s cooldown
* Deals your attack damage to target on impact
* Can still target a tree to kill it and only has a 15 second cooldown if targeting a tree
- Retains passive

Insanitarius
- Now has a short 500ms cooldown when toggled on

Nome's Wisdom
- Aura radius from 800 to 900

Nullfire Blade
- Upgraded version has infinite charges
- Cooldown increased from 12 to 20 seconds

Plated Greaves
- Radius from 450 to 600

Homecoming Stone
- Fixed a bug where you can infinitely disarm a tower with Post Haste

Puzzlebox
-Added visual timer on the item so you don't have to select the minions to see their lifetimes

Refreshing Ornament
- Aura radius to 900

Restoration Stone
- Mana cost reduced from 375 to 300

Runed Cleaver
- Now can be used to cut down trees

Shield of the Five
- Radius from 450 to 600

Stormspirit
- Made it unbind the target it's used on
* This stops it from causing derps or people flying all over the screen randomly
- Fixed Pebbles graphical bug

== HoN 2.0.30 Hero Additions and Changes ==

- New Intelligence Hero: Martyr
- New Gold Collection Alternate Avatar: Golden Pebbles
- Flux now sides with the Legion!

Accursed
- Sear is no longer an Attack modifier

Andromeda
- Mana cost of Comet from 95/110/125/140 to 110/120/130/140
- Aurora duration from 14/16/18/20 to 14 seconds
- Void Rip cooldown from 45/45/45 to 70/60/50

Arachna
- Mana cost of Harden Carapace from 90 to 50
- Harden Carapce Magic Armor from 5/10/18/35 to 8/16/24/32

Armadon
- Snot Storm armor reduction from 1/1/2/2 to 1/1.5/2/2.5

Balphagore
- Added a visual timer for Corpse Conversion minions

Behemoth
- Heavy Weight damage from 25/45/75/115 to 25/55/85/115
- Heavy Weight stun duration from 0.3/0.7/1.2/1.5 to 0.6/0.9/1.2/1.5
- Shockwave Magic damage for additional units from 35/45/65 to 35/45/55
- Shockwave Magic damage from corpses removed

Blood Hunter
- Fixed mod exploits with Blood Sense

Bubbles
- Take Cover duration reduced from 0.75/1.5/2.25/3 to .25/1/1.75/2.5

Chipper
- Focus Buffer from 150/300/450/600 to 125/250/375/500

Chronos
- Time Leap movespeed slow from 10/20/30/40% to 22/28/34/40%

Corrupted Disciple
- Script cleanup for Electric Tide

The Dark Lady
- Taint Soul mana cost from 35/45/55/65 to static 35

Empath
- Illusory Veil duration from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6

Engineer
- Changed Spider Mines to not trigger on siege units

Fayde
- Reworked
- Cull
* Now always manaburns
* Damage increased from 100/150/200/250 to 100/160/220/280
* Manaburn is now 7/14/21/28% on all targets hit, Fayde gains mana equal to half the mana burnt
- Burning Shadows
* Now always stuns
* Manacost lowered from 85/105/125/145 to 85/100/115/130
* Damage and stun are the same
- Scythe/Shadow Stance
* Removed
- New ability: Deep Shadows
* Target an area, summoning shadows there for 5 seconds
* Shadows slow enemies by 15/20/25/30% and increase Fayde's movespeed by 15/20/25/30% while they are inside of it
* Movespeed modifiers linger for 1 second
- Reflection
* Now has treewalking
* Now grants Fayde 1200 clearvision while stealthed by Reflection
* This sight lingers for 2 seconds after exiting stealth

Flux
- Optimized his Magnetic Surge and Discharge by removing superfluous checks & improved algorithms
- Tweaked Magnetic Surge & Discharge pushes to be more accurate
- Reduced the sound on his Polarity Swap modes by a factor of 4
- Made Discharge give assists
- Dampened Flux's & Steam Flux's walk and regular attack sounds
- Fixed tooltip on Release to show radius correctly
- Made Discharge unbind so it stops interacting with projectiles very (VERY) poorly

Forsaken Archer
- Call of the Damned Skeletons TP with FA
- Split Shot reworked to basically be ranged cleave
* Main target takes full, 2 additional targets take 14/21/28/35% damage

Gauntlet
- Infernal Instability grants 40 Movespeed at all levels instead of 10/20/30/40
- Grapple slightly increased touch radius to 80 from 75
- Enfeeble is no longer an Attack Modifier
- Capped the charges on Enfeeble to prevent rollover
- Fixed a bug with Gauntlet Blast where it was waking people up incorrectly

Hellbringer
- Life Void damage healed from 10/20/30/40% to 15/20/25/30%
- Added visual timer to Summon Malphas

Jeraziah
- Inner Light from True Damage to Magic Damage
- Inner Light radius from 250 to 300

Legionnaire
- Tower attacks may now proc Whirling Blade

Magmus
- Fixed Eruption to play the animation correctly

Moraxus
- Matraxe now has a small cooldown after activation on it
- Quake stun duration from 1/1.5/2.0/2.5 to 1.75/2.0/2.25/2.5
- Fixed his attack animation not playing while he has Arcane Shield up (before absorbing a spell)

Nomad
- Fixed his Mirage Strike illusion from spamming attack commands
- Fixed the Mirage Strike illusion playing the "ZING!" charge initial sound twice if the unit is invulnerable before the illusion gets a chance to attack

Nymphora
- Fixed Volatile Pod visual lasting for 1 second more than it should.

Pandamonium
- Cannonball stun duration from 0.75/1.25/1.75/2.25 to 1.5/1.75/2/2.25

Pharaoh
- Tormented Soul manacost increased from 50/50/50/50 to 50/55/60/65

Pollywog Priest
- Added visual timer to Voodoo Wards

Puppet Master
- Cleaned up scripting for Puppet Show
- Fixed the Puppet Show's target from spamming attack commands every frame since it messes with pathing
- Voodoo Puppet health from 450/700/950 to 500/750/1000
- Voodoo Puppet decreased damage amp from 160/180/210 to 140/160/180
- Voodoo Puppet overkill damage is still transferred to target, but not amplified

Rampage
- Fixed a mod exploit

Scout
- Vanish no longer loses 'Flurry' when Invisibility is manually disabled

Silhouette
- Fixed her Grapple from interacting badly with Bubbles's Take Cover

Slither
- Added a targetradius for the tooltip of Poison Spray
- Removed 10% movement slow from Toxicity
- Toxicity is no longer an attack modifer
- Toxicity's regen disable from 40/60/80/100% to 20/40/60/80%

Soulstealer
- Demon Hands manacost increased from 75 to 80

Succubus
- Mesmerize manacost reduced from 165 to 130/140/150/160

Thunderbringer
- Lightning Rod damage from 5/7/9/11% to 3/5/7/9%

Torturer
- Chain Reaction manacost increased from 100/125/140/165 to 120/135/150/165
- Impalement manacost increased from 95/120/135/155 to 115/130/145/160
- Agonizing bonds damage reduced from 80/145/205/265 to 80/140/200/260
- Agonizing Bonds targets lowered from 3/5/6/7 to 3/4/5/6
- Agonizing Bonds pull radius reduced from 650 to 600

Tundra
- Added a visual timer to Call of the Winter to check summon's lifetime
- Cold Shoulder is now always 600 range

Valkyrie
- Fixed a super duper rare long range Javelin of Light bug

War Beast
- Added visual timer for his Summon Hellhounds

Witchslayer
- Power Drain rescaled drain from 20/40/60/100 mana per second to 25/50/75/100

HoN Version 2.0.30.1
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- Fixed Fayde being able to use items while in stealth
- Fixed the missing Account Icons
- Fixed Steamboots being able to toggle
- Fixed the Matchmaking interface

HoN Patch Version 2.0.30.2
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- Trying to fix some authorization issues
- Removed the 40 Dollar Account offer

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Martyr Guide - HoN Hero Guides

2011-05-20T05:13:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth Hero Guides: Martyr

Hero Name: Martyr
Affiliation: Legion
Primary Attribute: Intelligence
Introduced: HoN 2.0.30

Martyr - He gives you wings!

Martyr is an INT hero on the Legion Side.

Martyr's Background Story:
Few clergy of Sol burn with such brilliance that they may ascend to the highest orders of priesthood. Even fewer dare gift their own souls to the Legion, braving an eternity in damnation so that others may prosper in turn. The few who do earn the forsaken title of the Martyr, wielding a battle-ready relic in one hand and carrying the Codex Solaris in the other. To certain death they march; and some say, with more fervor than those who march towards life.

Martyr Skills Guide

Martyr Skill # 1: Retribution

Target an enemy to deal 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 plus 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 times the percentage of Health you are missing in Magic Damage. Also applies a Movement Speed Slow equal to the percentage of Health you're missing, up to 50 percent.

Martyr Skill # 2: Guardian Angel

Target an allied hero to apply Guardian Angel for ^o8 seconds. While affected, ^o20 / 30 / 40 / 50 percent of the damage that the target takes is redirected to Martyr. Cannot take the Martyr below 10 percent Health.

If Martyr dies while Guardian Angel is active, he gains the same experience that the target does for 30 seconds.

Passively reduces the damage Martyr takes by .2 / .3 / .4 / .5 times the percentage of Health he is missing.

Martyr Skill # 3: Sacrificial Lamb

Activate to spend 20 percent of your current Health and heal nearby allies for 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 percent of that amount.

When Martyr dies, he applies 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 Attack Speed and 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 Movement Speed to allied heroes in a 700 radius for 10 seconds.

Martyr Skill # 4: Hand in Hand (Ultimate)

Target an allied hero to set channel for 1.5s and set your and target's Health percentages equal to the higher of the two.

What is your suggested Martyr Hero and Item Build?

Related:
Watch the Heroes of Newerth Video Spotlight on Martyr.
See who Martyr is defending in the HoN Hero Compendium.

HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Martyr

2011-05-19T05:56:00.000-07:00

Martyr - HoN hero Spotlight Video

Martyr is ready to sacrifice himself for the good of the team.
He loves to heal and acts like a Sacrificial Lamb. His name is Martyr.

MsPudding is proud to present this holy video spotlight on Martyr.

Martyr is protecting HoN

2011-05-16T21:23:00.000-07:00

Martyr on Heroes of Newerth

Newerth!

Sometimes, you need a hero who makes great sacrifices in order to further a belief, cause, or principle. In this case, victory in the ongoing Battle for Newerth.

Who shall give you wings when all is lost? Martyr.

Martyr is a support HoN hero.

Details:
Martyr
Primary attribute: Intelligence
Allegiance: Legion

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.29

2011-05-13T17:19:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.29 Changelog

Heroes of Newerth 2.0.29 is the HoN anniversary patch with huge changes in the item shop user interface.

Happy HoNiversary!

HoN 2.0.29 Patch Notes
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- Added a new Alt Avatar: Winston Charmadon
- Added a new Alt Avatar: Thor Thunderbringer

- Fixed Silhouette stacking neutrals when using a homecoming stone
- Fixed the Tutorial and removed the "Shop" section of it for now

New "Simple Tooltips"
* Shorter and more concise for easy reading
* Are now default
* Old Long Tooltips can be enabled in the options menu

New UI for the Hero Picking phase
* Now with a hero's role instead of their background story
* Includes the simple tooltips for easy picking

Redesigned the Ingame Shop!
- New Features of the Shop:
* Can switch between standard categories and a filter where you can see items by what they do
* Can switch between descriptions and item only view
* New recipe-tree when left-clicking an item
* Guide system added that lets dynamic guides lead a new or experienced player!
* Guides can auto-levelup abilities of the hero you are playing
* Guides change the recommended items of a hero based on the items picked for the guide
* Guides can be voted up or down and the highest % ones are listed at the top. You can tag one as favorite or default for this hero ingame!
* You can make and browse all guides for all heroes at http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/guides
* Recommended items are tagged with Stars
* Added a search feature in the upper left for all items
* Opacity can be changed

- More information about the overhauled HoN shop:
* This is designed to be much easier for newer players while still retaining all of the goodies that experienced players like
* Left click to "Select" an item, which will open the build-tree in the bottom half of the shop where you can see recipe trees
* You can left click any item to make it the focus of the tree, even ones in the tree itself
* Right click any item to buy it. Right click a recipe item to pop up a box to buy all remaining components. Or click the buy all remaining button in the lower section
* Ctrl-Right click to buy just the recipe of any item (normal behavior). Same with Hotkeys.
* Expanded tooltips in the upper right

HoN Version 2.0.29.1 Patch Notes
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- Fixed the tutorial breaking the ingame shop
- Fixed the trial accounts not seeing the upgrade button

Thor Thunderbringer - DotA Zeus Alternate Avatar

2011-05-13T17:04:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth Alternate Avatar: Thor Thunderbringer

As a response to the requests for alt avatars inspired by the Thor movie and DotA's Zeus - Lord of Olympus, S2 Bruce has released an art for the planned Thor Thunderbringer avatar.

This isn't Thor Hammerstorm - it is Thor Thunderbringer!

HoN's Thunderbringer is a direct port from DotA's Zeus.

The original Zeus of DotA:

And no, it isn't spelled as Zues!

Flux Guide - HoN Hero Guides

2011-05-06T21:16:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth Hero Guides: Flux

Hero Name: Flux
Affiliation: Legion
Primary Attribute: Strength
Introduced: HoN 2.0.28

Flux is a STR hero on the Legion Side.

Flux's Background Story:
The legionnaire spent years entrapped within the earth, tortured by his captors. Thrashed about by gravity itself, he became infused with its strength. Slowly he built himself a suit of the hardest metals known to man, tempering away for years as he honed its infernal machinery in secret. As he soldered the final plate onto himself, he emerged neither man nor machine, but a force of nature itself.

Flux Skills Guide

Flux Skill # 1: Release

Flux releases a charged wave slowing nearby enemies.

Flux Skill # 2: Magnetic Surge

Pushes or pulls target (depending on polarity). Deals Damage based on strength and your attack damage.

Flux Skill # 3: Polarity Swap

Flux changes his polarity (changing from pull to push and back again). Passively increases his attack range.

Flux Skill # 4: Discharge

Flux releases a magnetic discharge; globally pulling or pushing (depending on polarity) all enemy heroes.

What is your suggested Flux Hero and Item Build?

Silhouette Trivia:
Flux's back story is based on the 2008 film, IronMan.

Related:
Watch the Heroes of Newerth Video Spotlight on Flux.
Read about Flux's other allies in the ongoing Battle of Newerth.

HoN Hero Video: Spotlight on Flux

2011-05-06T20:58:00.000-07:00

Flux - HoN hero Spotlight Video

Flux has finally emerged from the depths of Newerth to become the 1st Ranged Strength hero of HoN.

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Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.28

2011-05-06T20:18:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.28 Changelog

My personality is quite magnetic.

HoN 2.0.28 Patch Notes:
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Tournament rules changes
- Pauses can last for 10 minutes
- Enemy team can't unpause for 90 seconds
- Only one vote is required to pause

- Alchemist's Bones now gain charges even when not on a hero
- Fixed a server crash
- Rolled back the last of the April Fools stuff (Vindicator ult and "lets get it on")
- Nullfire Blade blue effects now play on the illusion even if they take no mana
- Fixed the Legionnaire double-stuffed Charge bug

== HoN 2.0.28 Changes for Heroes ==

- Added new Strength hero: Flux
- Added new Alt Avatar: Vigilante Vindicator
- Added new Alt Avatar: Steam Flux
- Added 4 new account icons

Gauntlet
- Fixed people he knocks over standing up correctly

Silhouette
* Fixes illusion & Silhouette herself gains more blades if she levels up her Death Lotus while she has her illusion out
- Made her Death Lotus spin animation play on the illusion when she activates Death Lotus
- Made her Death Lotus kunai not respawn with her if the skill is still on cooldown when she actually respawns
- Made Death Lotus kunai vanish on illusion when the main Silhouette dies.
* Fixes an issue with illusion receiving more than 4 kunai at once
- Fixed illusion so it doesn't die if you have it out and you level Death Lotus from level 0 to level 1
- Related to the above point, fixed the illusion so it will properly gain a level of Death Lotus from level 0 to 1 if you learn it with the illusion out.
- Fixed upgrading Death Lotus when she's dead from level 0 to level 1 from giving an extra blade to the illusion if it is out.
- Made upgrading Death Lotus not spawn extra kunai on Silhouette and/or illusion if the skill is on cooldown while you upgrade it.
- Made upgrading Death Lotus while dead not alter the number of kunai on the illusion if the illusion is still alive when Silhouette is dead
- Fixed Shadow swap from killing her illusion if she has 0 points in Death Lotus
- Added a visual timer to Shadow so people can see how much time is left on the illusion without actually selecting the illusion

Flux is Flowing to HoN

2011-05-03T03:41:00.000-07:00

Flux on Heroes of Newerth

Turn on your flux capacitors!
The first true ranged strength hero of Newerth is coming!

The name's Flux! Don't mistake me for Juggernaut or IronMan!

Heroes of Newerth Patch 2.0.27

2011-04-29T07:59:00.000-07:00

HoN 2.0.27 Changelog

"Why have you forsaken me?"

HoN 2.0.27 Patch Notes:
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- AFK players are no longer included in vote counts
- Added 6 account icons created by community member Popo`
- Added some new data to the Watch User interface
- Fixed some annoyances with the Topbar and Notifications

Fixed the following to prevent mod exploits:
- Blood Chalice
- Sacrificial Stone
- Balphagore's Hell on Newerth

== HoN 2.0.27 Item Changes ==

Flying Courier
- Returned the visual effects when the Flying Courier used its Q and W

Health Potion
- Fixed so it won't affect siege units

Homecoming Stone
- Now disarms the tower you teleport into for 3 seconds (begins at the start of the channel)
- Adds an additional 3 seconds to the disarm for every additional teleport while it is still disarmed
* First disarms for 3s total, length of the channel
* Second disarms for 6s total, 3s seconds past channel
* Third disarms for 9s total, 6s seconds past channel, etc

Mana Potion
- Fixed so it won't affect siege units

Mock of Brilliance
- Fixed it showing the glow only when it is 'on' and not 'off'

== HoN 2.0.27 Hero Changes ==

- Added new Gold Collection Alt Avatar: Forsaken Strider (Available until Friday, May 6th)

Accursed
- Fix his attacks playing an impact sound correctly

:alun: Aluna
- Fixed Emerald Red from not getting max charges regenerated when she levels it

Engineer
- Fixed one of the mine states showing for 1 frame
- Turret now deals Magic damage

Fayde
- Tweaked Reflection's stealth attack so it uses the correct impact and works with attack items

Flint Beastwood
- Fixed Flare initial damage so it breaks things like Sleep and can stack between different Flints

Forsaken Archer
- Fixed an exploit where if you toggled Call of the Damned on the same frame as your projectile is killing a unit, then you would get 1 skeleton spawned while building up a charge at the same time

Glacius
- Fixed units animating correctly after the freeze ends

Gladiator
- Fixed interaction between Pitfall and Nomad's Edge Counter

Kraken
- Fixed Release the Kraken! interaction with Bubbles' Take Cover and Nomad's Edge Counter

Legionnaire
- Made Terrifying Charge shift-queuable with Taunt
- Made the Terrifying Charge axe-swing animation play
- Also fixed his Terrifying Charge animation to change properly when he kills a unit & no other valid targets are around
- Also recalibrated his attack point & backswing & BAT while in Terrifying Charge mode so his attack comes out smoothly

Magmus
- Fixed Steam Bath from triggering Nomad's Edge Counter

:noma: Nomad
- Fixed "No retreat!" playing X times when X units are hit
- Also fixed Edge Counter from not proccing if the enemy hero is dead and his attack is in mid-air/continuous

Puppet Master
- Fixed Voodoo Puppet not giving assists
- Fixed Voodoo Puppet + Boom Dust crashing the game when the puppet/hero are hugging each other and Boom Dust procs

Rampage
- Fixed The Chains That Bind from making units temporarily unclickable if they were launched into the air when this skill affects the

Download HoN 2.0.27 Patch via auto-update or:

http://dl.heroesofnewerth.com/HoNClient-2.0.27.exe

HoN Version 2.0.27.1
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- Fixed Homecoming Stone effects playing on Towers through fog