Hmm …. Personally ive been to domnet once or twice in my life. Thing is though I don’t know if you remember Kane and Punisher from the days war 3 (not DOTA) was famous. Well yeh their my brothers. From domnet I know a few people: A$$A$$IN, Darkcurse, Znuts, Avak, Kippi, Testament, Mooncrest and of course THE ONE AND ONLY APPLE PIE …. And the list goes on! Haha I remember seeing apple playing a hunter called xterm during WOTLK he told me he was fucking around on a friend account…. But yeh, I was too young to go to domnet during the days war 3 was famous so I skipped out on most of the fun times and well also the fact that it’s a long trip from where I live.
I started off playing HON and was rlly into it till my brother told me it was shitty and I should rlly try LOL. That’s how personally I got into it.
As for LOL and HON as I said it’s a matter of preference. However, I do not know how long ago u stopped playing LOL. But what you have to understand the items, features, gameplay, heroes and the lot will increase with time as it already has. The thing is LOL was a new concept so for them to develop and grow bigger they need more testing and time than HON … which is mainly a DOTA Clone with few additions so not much to work on when compared to LOL.
Now as you said indeed the summoner spells and masteries are intresting. But with these 2 and runes … it allows for more diversity and teamwork then HON. For example … your teams summonor spells help in team fights…. 2 people take exhaust to make their carries useless for 2 seconds… another one takes rally … and so on and blah blah…. One guy takes fortify so they cant backdoor/push and all..
Runes and masteries kinda make you feel that OK no 2 guys with the same hero are the same….
However atm the grinding to lv 30 is retarded and it might be taken out…. Which gives adv to others and shit…. Its still under discussion
As for denying which is a huge debate… from what ive read the top player in HoN averages 3 denies per game … which is pretty little if you ask me… denying always felt like a chore in DOTA….
Other things… personally I believe the hero design is great… they’ve done some spectacular jobs … also really in LOL I find the roll of tanks more valid and important then HON.
Also when considered your HUB/UI its way better and the mapping showing hero portriats and such is way clearer.
As for items… true their were few theve added up recently… Items are intresting to say the least and I really like the idea of how they fixed some useless retarded shit in DOTA where like for example
Perseverance: 100 % mana regen and health regen … which is kinda dumb since Str heroes have rlly slow mana regen so doesn’t rlly regen then that much
Where as in LOL they put items that give a certain amount of regen/5 seconds … giving a fixed amount
LOL games are faster paced… not much farming … ganking and team fights can start at lv 1 … unlike dota in which you know whose won in 20 minutes but the game drags on to 60 minutes the game will actually finish in 20 minutes in LOL.
But as I said at high end play LOL has more teamwork due to all these compositions and possibilities and coordination required when 2 solid teams are put against each other
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Another thing about HON … major pro DOTA team will not migrate to HON simply due to the fact that they have to relearn the mechanics and all over again. For example if your player the same hero in both games their attack animations and mechanics along with spell animations and mechanics are different. I remember during the days I used to play, thunderbringer had flawless casting and attack animation making him OP … he could hold 5 people at a tower with ease!
As I said … since we live in Lebanon … we rlly do suffer when it comes to online play and seeing that HON will be LAN giving it a huge advantage over LOL for people like us.
However, if you want more info or to discuss this more and are really interested … heres a link to what some educated people say. As you know most forums are worth wasting your time since you have a lot of tards trolling and saying random shit with 0 backup.
This link here is for LOL it gets good around page 45 so do start reading from there….
http://forums.sirlin.net/showthread.php?t=2410
They also have a HON topic in the forum if you do wanna read that too.
P.S: IM sorry to hear that domnet is closing... i do hope everything works out and wish you the best luck with that issue!
