Excuse me for my manners, but you, sir, are a complete moron. DotA is an unbelievably slow, boring and simple warcraft 3 map, which requires no experience whatsoever at all, since your result depends on the hero you will choose, not on your "skill"
Sure, if you like high-pace, DotA can be slow. I compared to DotA when I played Demigod, and Demigod is just a tenfold slower at least. I'm not saying DotA is high-paced, I'm saying Demigod is slower than DotA, and DotA is just high enough pace for me.
If DotA is boring, you're not meeting any resistance, I'm guessing you play dota-league, dotarank, or public BNet - perhaps channel allstars. Alternatively you don't like RPG integrated in RTS.
DotA requires experience. Saying anything else is rather ignorant. If it requires no experience, no skill, how come anyone who has experience can beat an unexperienced player with any hero, almost any disadvantage? DotA matches are skill show off, you need a good variety of skills, and experience with all the heroes to understand the game, and thereby succeed.
You result depends solely on your teams cooperation and skillevel. Picking the 'imba heroes' - commonly addressed by the public as Rikimaru, Sniper, Troll Warlord, Necromancer, Krobelus, Axe .. and so on - will not ensure a victory, especially if you can't play.
It is a simple concept, popular concept, with lots of details and depth that requires experience to unveil.
the hero using Akama's model
the +30 agility and dmg item
that item with 1% max hp regen
the teleporting boots
the life stealing item with +atk speed
Translated:
Bounty Hunter - Gondar
Butterfly
Heart of Tarrasque
Boots of Travel
Mask of Madness
That about correct? How would you get those items? Sure it's possible, but you need something early as well. Assuming you buy either Boots of Speed, Mask of Death, Quarterstaff, Vitality Booster first (only Boots of Speed available right away) - unless you buy other items to survive early - you wouldn't stand much chance to get anything more if you're up against someone not a complete newbie.
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Back on topic;
I've got a beta key now, so I've tried HoN, and even though it's pretty much a copy of DotA, I like it a lot. I haven't got around to evaluating balance yet, but graphics, interface and gameplay is great. It pretty much solves all the problems DotA has as a mod, and not a full game, in addition to adding more content - and that's pretty much the goal as far as I know.
I expected it to be good, I discovered that it's better than I expected. A big plus is that it performs very, very well (I'd say it runs smoother than WarCraftIII) on low-end/old computers. I've tested it on my brothers computer (as I'm not home) which has a single-core 2.4GHz cpu, 7600GT gpu and merely 1GB RAM. No lag on high (not maxed out, default settings, have not tried maxing it as it looks great enough as this, and it doesn't lag, so I'm happy) settings and decent resolution.
A definite buy for me, but I'm not sure I'll abandon DotA until I see how the community evolves, and what more features they add before release.
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