Loadstone Guide

December 28th, 2012 Keeper of the Forest

loadstone guideLoadstone is a melee hero. His primary attribute is strength. He is mostly suitable for the roles of ganker (early game) and initiator (late game).

Skills

Rocket drill (Q) – Launches anchoring drill, slowing and damaging enemies in a small area. Then allows launch towards drill, stunning and damaging enemies within range.
Headsmash (R) – Deals mixed damage to a target. Also applies recoil damage to Loadstone.
Loadstone Plates (E) – Passive ability which heals a percentage of incoming damage. It uses charges which accumulate over time.
Shatterstorm (R) – Ultimate ability. Gains damage reduction for 5 seconds, resulting in Loadstone’s armor shattering, dealing damage and slowing nearby enemies. All attacks made against the affected enemies will ignore any armor – both physical and magic. The same is valid for Loadstone himself.

Items

With Loadstone you will have to focus on increasing his survivability and add as much durability as possible. Being an initiator he will be an easy target. Get Helm of the Black Legion early so you can gank safely even close to towers. Portal Key will be a must to be able to initiate effectivly in teamfights and land your ultimate in the best way. Shrunken head will prevent you from being stunned or disabled once you use your portal key as well as it will keep you safe from any magic damage. For the physical damage get Sol’s Bulwark and upgrade it to Daemonic Breastplate. Behemot’s Heart is also a great choice for Loadstone, considering the fact he is a strength hero. Frostfield Plate could be a nice touch, too.

Play Style

During the laning phase, make use of his Rocket Drill ability to get kills on fragile targets. Slow it first, then stun it once the slow is over. With the help of your partner you should be able to control the lane. Gank the other lanes as often as you can – the slow and stun from Rocket Drill is very efficient and will give your team nice early kills. Once you get your portal key, look for opportunities to start a team fight, where you could use your ultimate at its full potential.

The Best Grinex Guide

November 21st, 2012 Keeper of the Forest

grinex hon guideGrinex is another melee agility hero designed to gank. If you are a fan of the hit and run tactics, this might be a right hero for you. He has invisibility, he has critical, he has movement speed buff and a stun – what else could anyone need?

Spells and Skill Build

Shadow Step – Grinex jumps into the darkness and leaps at an enemy thrusting them into a direction of your choice dealing damage and stunning them if they collide with an object.
Rift Stalk – Grinex moves through the shadows with swiftness granting invisibility and movement speed.
Nether Strike – Grinex’s abilities call upon his shades adding bonus damage to his next attack.
Illusory Assault – Grinex’s connection to the underworld allows him to summon his brethern to attack enemies and hide himself.

Grinex is at his best when he succeeds in effectively using all of his skills in succession. Rift Stalk is perfect for innitiation, allowing him to get close enough to the chosen victum. With a well placed shadow step, Grinex can damage and stun, leaving the enemy helpless and almost dead. Make sure to hit the target every time after casting a spell to make full use of the Nether Strike. With the ultimate ability Illusory Assault you can chase down a running enemy, or run away if things go wrong.

Item Build

Ghost marchers, Frostburn, Shrunken Head, Shieldbraker, Riftshards… Just don’t get codex.

Adventures and Battle Scenes in Digimon

November 19th, 2012 Keeper of the Forest

Digital Monsters or in short, Digimon, is one of the most successful media franchises in Japan that encompasses manga, anime, videos, video games, and digital toys. In these media adaptations, Digimons are creatures having various forms that live in a Digital World. Their world is a parallel universe originating from Earth’s different communication networks. And the whole anime story begins when Japanese children known as Tai, Sora, Mimi, Matt, Izzy, T.K., and Joe are thrust into the strange world during their summer camp on August 1, 1999.

 

In their adventure in the Digital World, they have learned that there are creatures known as Digimon that live in the fantasy land. The seven characters are able to have their own Digimon as their partners, and discover that they can help each other in evolving, specifically known as digivolve, into a better, powerful, and stronger form in order to defend themselves and defeat their opponents. Once they have developed a strong friendship bond with their Digimon, they already start looking for a way home.

 

Then, they gain knowledge regarding the fact that they are the DigiDestined, which simply means the chosen children who are compatible with Digimon. They are the chosen ones, who can help in saving the Digital World from being consumed by the rapidly increasing power of evil forces. Devimon is later revealed as the culprit in brainwashing other Digimon with the use of black gears. Devimon uses the Digimon under his control in order to attack the seven chosen children. But he was defeated by Angemon, which is the digievolution of T.K. and Patamon. Fortunately, even if Angemon died, he was reborn as a Digimon egg. After this battle, greater threat is revealed since Devimon is only one of the pawns of the approaching evil.

 

In the second arc, the seven DigiDestined go to the Server continent and gain the power of the crest that can help their Digital monsters to evolve further. Etemon is also interested with the crest so he prevented the chosen ones from obtaining them. But he failed when all the children are able to acquire the crests. Etemon and his dark network lost against Tai and MetalGreymon. After the battle, all of them slip into the real world and find out that evil Digimon from the Digital world have already begun passing through the dimensional gate going to Earth.

 

The story of Digimon progresses to the third and fourth arc. In the third arc, the main enemy is Myotismon, which decides to enter Earth in order to get the 8th DigiDestined. Kari partnered with Gatomon is the eighth chosen child, who is Tai’s little sister. And all of them were able to save their world by helping each other in defeating Myotismon. And on the last part, the DigiDestined faces the Dark Masters, which are elite Digimon with Apocalymon as the leader. When they are able to defeat all of them, the seven chosen children return to the real world while leaving their Digimon in the Digital World.

DotA2 Beta Keys Giveaway

November 4th, 2012 Keeper of the Forest

dota2-beta-key

Recently Valve decided to increase the beta testers and let everyone with an account invite two more pleyers to Defend the Ancients. I have noone to invite, so feel free to comment here and I will send you a beta key asap.

DotA2 is free and all you need to do is download it and register using your beta key. You will need to have STEAM – valve’s product for online gaming. Download STEAM, create account there, use it to download DotA2 trough STEAM, register your beta key and you’re ready to go.

Pearl Guide

November 3rd, 2012 Keeper of the Forest

Pearl

Pearl is another support intelligence hero, extremely useful in teamfights and providing great benefits to her teammates. Her anime-style avatar looks quite rediculous and far from HoN identity, but as a hero she is a nice, easy so learn and easy to play with. Those, who are keen supporters as well as those, who are new to HoN will surely find her appealing.

Pearl Skills and Skill Build

  • Asphyxiate - Surrounds an enemy in a bubble washing away their buffs causing them to suffocate, then explode afterwards
  • Whirlbubble - Unleashes a swirling bubble that pushes enemies away and explodes at the end.
  • Soothing Presence - Pearl calms the mind of nearby allies strengthening their resolve when together. Grants passive health regen to nearby allies.
  • Preservation - Pearl gathers all of her strength in desperation and summons a massive bubble to protect and heal allies that remain inside.

Remember that Pearl is a support hero. Keep that in mind when you build her skills. Which of them would help your lane partner most? The slow from Asphyxiate is very useful during the laning phase, whether you need to escape or to chase an enemy. Soothing presence will allow you and your teammate to remain on the lane. With the additional HP regeneration, you will be able to be more aggressive in creep kills and harasment. If you have this skill maximized by level 10 your team could push really hard together and keep their HP full with no problem. Especially if you have a good pusher like Slither or Balphagore.

Pearl Items and Item Build

There really isn’t anything unusual when it comes to chosing the best items for Pearl. Like in every support healer Astrolabe is a must. Tablet of Command, Nome’s Wisdom, Ring of Sorcery – the common stuff for support heroes. Pearl is likely to be main target before every team fight. All enemies will focus her. That is why increasing her survivability is a good idea. As luxury items concider getting Null Stone and Frostfield Plate. To use her full potential, Pearl must be always in the middle of the fight, close to her teammates. Perfect positioning is the key to a good Pearl. Portal Key might be a good choice as well.

Lightbrand

October 20th, 2012 Keeper of the Forest

S2 introduced a new item to Newerth. It is called Lightbrand. It is a compliment to the other 2 brands – Firebrand and Icebrand. Lightbrand is going to benefit the inteligence heroes the most with its +16 Intelligence points and +3 mana regeneration. It is made of Neophyte’s Book and Apprentices Robe, plus a recepy. The total cost of Lightbrand is 2200, just as much as Firebrand and Icebrand. Of course, it will also have an attack modifier. It will apply a DoT damage to the auto-attack of the hero, which serves the idea of this item – to help inteligence heroes and casters carry.

Lightbrand can be combined with Firebrand to make Searing Light. Searing light will combine the positive effects from both. You will have an intelligence hero, caster, with increased movement and attack spead, additional intelligence and agility, and a very nice mana regeneration bonus. If you need a survivability you can combine Lightbrand with Icebrand, instead of Firebrand. You will get Frozen Light. Frozen Light will increase the strenth and intelligence, the damage and the mana regeneration. The exclusive modifier is Searing.

Combining all the three brands will grant you with the ultimative item – Downbringer. +18 strength, +18 intelligence, +18 Agility, +15 damage, +16% movement speed, +25 Attack Speed, +6 mana regeneration. Sear remains as attack modifier. This will deffinitely allow you to carry with your favourite intelligence caster, make him quick and strong, with a reliable auto attack damage.

The option to separate all the brands still remains. Then you will be able to make your favourite Geometer’s Bane and Frostwolf Skull. The Lightbrand can then be upgraded into the Grimoire of Power, with a Blessed Orb and a recipe. With this Grimoire of Power will grant you 10 additional points to your agility and strength and +26 to your intelligence. It will also greatly increase your damage dealt, while the DoT damage effect from the Lightbrand remains.

I really hope this new item will bring hige difference to Heroes of Newerth and to the playstiles of almost all heroes.

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  • The official Lighbrand Video

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