Version 2.5.15 - Gunblade the Hell Ranger

Version 2.5.15
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- Free Hero Pool has been updated. The list is as follows:
* Valkyrie
* Sand Wraith
* Shadowblade
* Master of Arms
* Soulstealer

* Defiler
* Pollywog Priest
* Thunderbringer
* Vindicator
* Hellbringer

* Accursed
* Armadon
* Drunken Master
* Keeper of the Forest
* Pebbles

- Added new Early Access Hero: Gunblade
- Added new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Warmonger Gunblade

- Added new Taunt: Chiprel Taunt

- Changes to Forests of Caldavar:
* The rightmost Hellbourne creep camp can no longer be pulled into the lane
* The cliffs between the second and third Legion Towers are now blocked correctly

- Ward of Revelation now displays the area of revelation while placing

- Gladius Beardicus' Call To Arms now has more visual feedback and impact
- Hydraxis auto-attack animations and effects have been updated with alternating projectiles
- Classic Pollywog Priest animation sounds are now old school Classic Pollywog Priest sounds
- Queen Bee Monarch's textures have been optimized for low resolution settings
- Damage from Pe-King Duck's Vault has been moderated

- Fixed Mandromeda's portrait
- Fixed Conquest Maliken's Possession to make the armor linger correctly
- Fixed Logger Legionnaire's spin after 11 charges to show the correct model
- Fixed Amun-Ra's Ashes to Ashes to add charges when taking damage from invulnerable units
- Fixed Predator's Terror to give allied heroes in range an attack speed buff

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Hon Madness 2012 - Vote for new alt avatars

Well ladies and gentlemen, it's March and that means a few things: St. Patrick's Day, erratic shifts in temperature and, of course, madness.

And this year, that madness reaches Newerth as we're proud to announce...

HoN Madness 2012!


This new event takes 64 different heroes and pits them against one another with the champion getting a new alt avatar made in their honor!

Each hero is assigned to one of four different regions and the community will vote on who moves on from each matchup. Every two days, we'll focus on a different part of the bracket until we find our winner! Voting will take place here on the forums where you can discuss your choices! As for what determines the winner, use your own judgement!

Voting begins today so get to it!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE BRACKETS

HoN Hero Spotlight: Gunblade

2.5.14 Patch Notes

Version 2.5.14

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- Free Hero Pool has been updated. The list is as follows:
* Gemini
* Swiftblade
* Wildsoul

* Puppetmaster
* Aluna
* Soul Reaper
* Artesia
* Gravekeeper
* Bubbles
* Nymphora
* Plague Rider

* Pandamonium
* Salforis
* Midas
* Jereziah


- Added new Monkey King Alt Avatar: PeKing Duck

- 100 Heroes Symbol updated
- Famine Sand Wraith model has been updated
- Flaming Deadwood's effects have been significantly updated

- Interface updated with improved optimizations, better back-end structure, and many many bug fixes

- Increased Helm of the Black Legion's time to get a charge from 400ms to 500ms
- Armor buffs from Shield of the Five and Plated Greaves no longer stack

== Heroes ==

Amun-Ra
- Ashes to Ashes no longer gains charges except from hero damage

Andromeda
- Comet manacost lowered from 110/120/130/140 to 105/115/125/135
- Voip Rip cooldown decreased from 70/60/50 to 65/55/45
- Increased starting Strength from 16 to 17
- Increased starting Intelligence from 15 to 16

Artesia
- Reduced starting Strength from 19 to 18
- Reduced starting Agility from 16 to 15
- Fixed the Arcane Missiles launched from her Essence Projection so they home in correctly

Defiler
- Fixed Unholy Expulsion spirits so they are no longer invisible when using Phantom Defiler

Flux
- Fixed his Release so it will no longer play effects through fog

Geomancer
- Fixed a rare bug where the targeting circle for Crystal Field wouldn't show up for some people if you had Staff of the Master

Gravekeeper
- Unstable Zombie explosion damage from Zombie Apocolypse increased from 50 to 55/70/85

Kinesis
- Can no longer lift gadgets
- Can no longer throw stuff at Kongor

Nomad
- Mirage Strike's Mirage Strike bonus damage reduced from 60/100/140/180 to 40/60/80/100
- Mirage Strike's True Strike bonus damage increased from 60/100/140/180 to 80/120/160/200
- SandStorm Movespeed Slow increased from 5/10/15/20% to 7/14/21/28%

Predator
- Fixed Terror so Kongor and neutrals will no longer get the Buff from attacking someone with the Debuff

Shadowblade
- Gargantuan Blast damage increased from 60/110/160/210 to 60/120/180/240
- Feint's Siphon damage increased from 60/110/160/210 to 60/120/180/240

Soulstealer
- Increased starting Strength from 15 to 16
- Increased starting Intelligence from 18 to 19

Thunderbringer
- Chain Lightning cast range increased from 700 to 750
- Blast of Lightning damage rescaled from 100/175/275/350 to 110/190/270/350
- Lightning Rod damage increased from 3/5/7/9% to 4/6/8/10%

Vindicator
- Sage's Lore Removed
- New Ability: Brain Drain
* The Vindicator unleashes forgotten lore from within The Book, damaging enemies and absorbing some Intelligence
* Target a position to deal 50/100/150/200 Magic Damage. For each enemy hero hit, the Vindicator steals 3 Intelligence for 25/30/35/40 seconds
- Glyph of Silence Reworked
* Inscribed into the binding of The Book, the Glyph of Silence lashes out at nearby enemies that attack Vindicator while granting greatly increased Attack Speed
* Passively grants 10/20/30/40 Attack Speed. Enemies that attack you are Silenced for .5/1/1.5/2 seconds

2.5.13 Patch Notes - Kinesis

Version 2.5.13
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- To celebrate the 100th hero, all the Free Hero Pool has 98 non-EA heroes unlocked.
* After the weekend, the Free Hero Pool will be:
* Monkey King
* Emerald Warden
* Nomad
* Blood Hunter
* Forsaken Archer
* Andromeda

* Defiler
* Myrmidon
* Torturer
* Martyr
* Monarch

* Rampage
* Legionnaire
* Pestilence
* Magmus

- Added new Early Access Hero: Kinesis
- Added new Limited Edition Early Access Alt Avatar: Zeta Kinesis

- Added new Voodoo Jester Alt Avatar: Voodoo Raptor
* Created by community member Strider
* Voodoo Raptor will be given out to everyone who plays a game on March 2nd if S2 loses 15 games during the S2 vs. The Community event and then made purchasable next week

- Berzerker is no longer Early Access and is now available to all Legacy players

- Grave Locket: Correctly gets a charge if you kill someone with a pet

- Draconis: Fixed passive effects from playing while sheeped
- Drunken Master: Drunk charges gained from a kill now correctly buff Stagger
- Fayde: Fixed her Alt Avatar getting Clearvision correctly
- Gemini: Fire split form movespeed tooltip fixed
- Geomancer: Fixed his Alt Avatar to show up in the store correctly for Free players
- Lord Salforis: Fixed passive effects from playing while sheeped
- Parasite: Can no longer use Infest while inside of a unit. This correctly fixes a bug where you cannot see the cooldown and the cooldown reset incorrectly sometimes