According to Heroes of Newerth Facebook page, we are in for a new hero! If you see anything let us know so we can get the info up.

Where to start with Heroes of Newerth?

Some of you may be wondering when you play Heroes of Newerth for the first time, “What are some good ‘easy’ characters I can start out with?” Well look no further. Here I will go over my top three easiest characters to learn with. They are in no particular order.

1. Arachna — Arachna is a pretty straight forward and simple character to play. She has one skill that boosts all ranged damage of you and nearby allies. Another one that temporary slows an enemy upon a hit. Her third skill gets rid of most debuffs and increases armor. Her ultimate is a spiderling that you can cast and forget about. It will slow her enemies down every hit and does a lot of damage. Arachna is easy because her skills do not require a lot of thought in their usage. Her ultimate can be casted and then she can focus elsewhere. It doesn’t take much skill to use her effectively and she is easily mastered after several attempts at playing her. Some item suggestions are Assassin’s Shroud, Elder Parasite, Wingbow, Frostburn. As long as she can stay in the back and keep hitting her opponents she will bring people down quick.

2. Moon Queen — Moon queen has a lot of powerful and very useful skills. Only two of her abilities are toggled by the user, the other two are passive. Her ultimate doesnt require any targeting as it hits random anyone in the area. Her other skill is a stun that is both powerful, has a long range, and is very effective. One of her passive abilities allows her attacks to bounce from target to target. Her other ability is an aura that increases ranged damage of allies. Just like Arachna, Moon Queen requires little thought in how to use her skills effectively. She only has to target her stun and pop her ultimate. The rest takes care of itself. Some items to get are Elder Parasite, Frostburn, Shield Breaker, Geometer’s Bane. Keep her back a safe distance and she will surely dish out the damage with her auto attack. If you want to most effectively use her ultimate, get her in the thick of things and she will end lives in a heartbeat.

3. Magebane — Magebane like Moon Queen, has only two abilities that you must actually actively use. One skill is his teleport ability. That is pretty self explanatory. His ultimate ability does damage to an enemy based on how much mana that person is missing. His aura increases his runspeed. And he has a mana drain ability which does damage based on the mana drained from the target. He has a high survival rate and is very good at chasing down people trying to make a quick getaway. He is also great on casters who have large mana pools. Once they have depleted their mana, Magebane can do massive amounts of damage. He is a pretty simple character to use.

Hopefully this will help those newbies out there. Of course the best way to get better is to experiment with as many characters as you can and find the right fit for you. Now go out there and kill things!

Happy Hunting! -EM

Introduction to Heroes of Newerth Ophelia

I know many people may be wondering, "Who the heck is Ophelia? I have rarely seen her played and I don't know one thing about her!" Well, here is the low-down on the fantastic support character.

Skills:

Nature's Wrath - Ophelia unleashes the powers of nature on a target enemy unit, slowing it. When the effects expire, the target unit will take additional damage equal to a percentage of the damage taken while the effect was active.

Ophelia's Judgment - Ophelia judges a target unit, dealing variable damage to it if it's an enemy, or teleporting it to safety if it's an ally. Instantly teleports units that Ophelia controls

Command - Ophelia takes command of a non-boss NPC's mind, gaining control of it. Units under Ophelia's command gain increased Health, Health regeneration, and Mana regeneration.

Ophelia's Touch - Ophelia's love for living creatures allows her to conjure up powerful healing magic, healing all allied heroes on the map and fully regenerating units under her command.

The skills are pretty self explanatory. Nature's Wrath slows a target and all damage done to that target is increased. This is great at the beginning of a fight or for preventing someone from getting away. Ophelia's Judgment causes damage to an enemy character or sends an allied character back to the spawn, great for saving your allied heroes lives. Command takes control of a non-boss enemy NPC and gives them a boost to life. And Ophelia's Touch heals all controlled NPCs and all allies. This is great for preventing deaths of allies and allowing them to keep in their lane to keep pushing a tower.

Items:

Ophelia is dependent on her mana-regen ability and her life pool. She can be very squishy and she uses mana like it is going out of style. Also her ultimate has a long cool-down which can be reduced by the Staff of the Masters. My suggestion is to get some Talisman of Exile, Nome's Wisdom, Plated Greaves, Astrolabe, and Staff of the Masters. This item combination will make you the perfect support character. You will be granting both life and mana regen. You can heal your allies twice, once with your ultimate and once with Astrolabe. You give your allies a good boost to armor. And then if you have the money go for Whispering Helm, this will allow you to get one more creep.

Creeps:

My perfect trio for creeps is Wolfman Commander (+30% base damage aura) Minotaur Champion (+15 Attack Speed Aura) and Vagabond Leader (+3 Health Regen Aura). This will not only significantly increase your own damage and survivability, but when you get in those fights it will greatly help your allies as well. The damage aura's paired with that of Andromeda, or Moonqueen, or Arachna will make your team incredibly powerful.

Have fun and good luck


-EM

There has been many outstanding designs which made choosing only 2 winners a difficult job.

I apologize for the delay in announcing the winners. Here they are:

1.

By Berra_la

2.

By TurboShadow

Some other designs we really liked:

and few more from Dewatempur, Bl3zzy, XTR

Again it was tough decision to make, we basically had to choose 2 winners from all the sigs mentioned above.

Don't worry if you didn't win, we will be hosting more HoN related events in the near future.

Sig Design Competition is now closed.

The winner will be announced and notified within 3 days :)

We now have a facebook page at

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heroes-of-Newerth-Armory-HoNArmorycom/166583856422

HonArmory.com is hosting a forum signature design competition, prizes will be awarded to the most creative/stylish signature!

Specification -

• The signature must be generated through the sig generator system at http://www.honarmory.com/hon-sig-creator-signature-generator
• There are no other limitations, everything else is up to your creative use of the system and your artisitic skills

How to enter -

Reply to the forum post at http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?p=476020 with the following information

Link to Signature Image: ie. http://www.honarmory.com/sig/xxx.png
Your HoN username:
Your email addrses:

If you would like to make a private entry, email your application to admin@honarmory.com

Only ONE entry can be submitted by each individual.

Winners -

Two winners will be decided by the Hon Armory management team. Winners will be announced on the website and contacted after the competition ends.
The first place winner will be able to choose which prize he/she wants, then the remaining prize goes to the second winner.

Prize 1 - Free pre-purchased account which is eligible for custom name change.
Prize 2 - Your choice of any item from ebay under US$15.

Duration -

Starts 24 Octoboer 2009, ends 9 Novemeber 2009 11:00 PM PST

After few days of down time, I'm glad to announce that Hon Armory is back with full functions!

We are now on a dedicated server, thank you if you have donated

We will still require on-going support from the community to keep the website going :)

We have just secured a new server, the signature service should be back up within 1~2 days!

The sig generator service is temporarily disabled due to overloading the server.

We need you help to move this website to a new server.

The monthly cost would be around $50, if you really like our service, please contribute by donating so we can purchase new hosting and transfer the website ASAP.

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