A great evil approaches... a new hero will rule Newerth this Friday!

[xanderK]

With spear and wrath, the Dark Lord comes to Newerth next Friday!

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2033/dreadknightshrunkenforf.jpg

All bow to Lord Salforis, the newest addition to Heroes of Newerth. It’s generally hard to have sympathy for the devil, but Salforis is an easy world-destroying villain to like! He's inspired by a community-made Dream hero and named after a lucky contest winner. On November 18th, don't forget to thank your fellow community members for your bountiful soul harvest.

(And Salforis himself. He has this thing about sacrifice and homage. You know how lords of darkness are.)

However, as you know, the Dark Lord has many forms. Which form will he manifest in next Friday? You'll have to wait for next week's hero spotlight to see!

[ManDown]

not first

[Strider]

Hes green, alright.

[VeNg`nce]

Hmm. He seems too evil to be supporting people.

[Tr1cky]

so this friday's patch = nothing . cool

[FunkstaG]

looks like the design team were stoned

[Smashe]

Can't wait to see!

[The_Karcher]

not going to lie, looks reaaaaaaaaaaaallly cartoony

[neliHooker]

no more heroes?: i see what you did here. Cool !*-*

[Mateui]

More mounted heroes. <3

[Lolo]

can`t w8 to see it

[idriveaHoNda]

Reminds me of the Headless Horseman from WoW.
+1

[AVX]

Hes green, alright.

Needs more purple.

[MistuhBig]

wtb exciting patch on friday

[Hubaris]

Name a hero contest? Wasn't that like 2 years ago?

[CHUCKFLASH]

YEAAA

[MrTorture]

I think you mean he's coming in 6 weeks O_o.

[Galneryus]

"You'll have to wait for next week's hero spotlight to see!"

FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU

[Flupke]

And now im curious what THIS friday's patch will bring!

[Galneryus]

"You'll have to wait for next week's hero spotlight to see!"

FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU

EDIT: FAIL CONNECTION!

[Demacish]

Kinda lame name imo

[toofast]

Cool. Look forward to playing this in 6 weeks.

[dep]

I love me some reskinned sr models and mounted dark templars

[Girly]

Is he coming next week, or in six weeks?

[Tirqus]

The alt avatar for this hero should be a JEDI :D

[QQloy]

i want female version NAOW

[NigeriaNDoGG]

Chaos knight from dota? I think so

[Mur`gul]

looks awesome so far, excited :D

[Jayt]

coming to newerth next year.
Yay!

[Soul_Hook]

Looks like chaos knight. High probability it's not him.

[CptTryhard]

I got a really strong "Chaos Knight" felling from that hero...

[_Kman]

Looks like chaos knight

[N3k0]

Reminds me of World of Warcraft

[Synchronize]

yo balance patch. no more new heroes.

[WalzY]

Chaos knight port? Also, from the rushed nature of the thread, I'm thinking this was a panic-post due to the earlier accidental post of the thread which was deleted after 1 minute?

[Udaba]

He is gonna be free ?
I dont think so :/

[theNeptunes]

dumb

[Snowyowl]

Awesome, he's wielding the green imba-lance!

[Storfarfar]

Please don't let the alt avatar be a re-color.
That **** sucks.

Chaos Knight? NOPE, just S2.

No but really, it's not Chaos Knight, has everyone forgotten that no more heroes from DotA will ever be ported?

[Reldnahc]

Yes Lord Salforis, I will do as you please.

[Manoa]

nice can't wait to see him

[WallyTheDeer]

looks like the bad guy robot from Real Steel

[That0neGuy]

OH hai EA, what's your name?

[_Itachi_]

Yeah they finally port lycan .... wait a moment he's not lycan :D

[hannskii]

dreadlord

called it

[GOD5]

****kkkkkkk >.<

[Blaod]

Why would u stop porting heroes and start thinking of putting new items ffs?
Also he looks like chaos knight
alt avatar of that jedi plz
:mali::mali::mali::mali::mali::mali::mali: CUZ HE USED TO HAS TURKISH ACCENT
MALIKEN:I M READY FOR BATTLE(NOW)
MALIKEN:I M READY FOR BUTTHOLE(USED TO BE) DAMN OLD TIMES WAS AWSUM!

[McGuigan]

"derp we will start to focus on what we already have" really nice work S2, i believe in you!

[Emwyo]

Sounds cool... but another EA hero... so just need to wait years to play him

[Traff_Law]

And he will be again like Gemini and monarch Early Acess Hero. Come that wont be funny anymore. I mean i have legacy account but iam feeling myself like the whole bunch of non legacy account users ((((

[klamer]

Chaos Knight aka nessaj port ! tnx GOD !

[Mentok]

Looks cool.

To everyone else: QQ moar?

[DemKy]

I think you mean he's coming in 6 weeks O_o.
6+1=7

[bLaCkDiViNe]

wat's coming this friday?

[Sokku]

Its chaos knight

[Salforis]

Dude! he looks freaking sweet, I can't wait!

[CrimsonAdder]

Lol next friday. It's been ages since we had a new hero pronto to play.

[SpiderPunk]

He has four legs!!!!!

[yEnvy]

looks like maliken abit

[velo]

nyan cat port?

[Machmellow]

Ohh its another poorly made hero from S2... Excellent as if we don't have enough of those already...

[Dacaj]

Definitely looking forward to trying that hero out, he's coming just in time for new years wohoo

[chapt3rfive]

Nessaj The Chaos Knight!!

[SeriousCat]

wat's coming this friday?

A pile of nothing.

[LionEyes]

Looks graet.
ty s2!

[IsmaelVera]

That's a fcking lightsaber!
Aww yea!
:balp:

[SeriousCat]

I hope he isn't as useless as Gemini.

[DoctorZ]

you mean he is comming near the end of december ? dont tell lies here

[Tafelpoot]

I reckon he looks like Chaos Knight.

[colinc123]

Oh good, another broken ass op hero. How about you have a massive balance rework of all the heroes that still need fixing from the last 6 heroes. Stop making more, fix the problem, S2 is like a factory of malfunctioning parts that ignores the problem.

[NegDouce]

:mali::mali::mali::mali::mali::mali::mali: CUZ HE USED TO HAS TURKISH ACCENT
MALIKEN:I M READY FOR BATTLE(NOW)
MALIKEN:I M READY FOR BUTTHOLE(USED TO BE) DAMN OLD TIMES WAS AWSUM!

Damnit i knew there was something different about the way he said battle. I dont play mali too often but I played him recently and I was like "Hmm... doesnt really sound like butthole to me anymore..."

[steeluniqu3]

Moraxus got a lance?

[Cytoplasm]

Looks like Malikan :mali: mounts on Rampage's :ramp: Unicorn and wearing Accused's :accu: helmet

[Velroth]

Can't wait to see how he plays.

[Testingrani]

Excited

[ChillyWater]

More mounted heroes. <3


He has four legs!!!!!

MOAR MOUNTS :tund:

[Pustik]

it just hit me as to why they prolonged the release of new heroes so there is more time for heroes to be in ea ----> people will be anxious to buy it knowing that the hero will not be out for another 6 weeks, gotta admit they had me fooled for a long time.

[bLaCkDiViNe]

A pile of nothing.

No way :( not even some little balance tweaks etc?

[_Vermyllyon_]

cool!

[lolb0t]

so...i didnt play all week expecting 3.0....and gotta wait another week now

[Drixol]

omfg plz be Chaos Knight

[triplej]

What Dream hero is he based off of?

[Cord]

He's based on necromancer.

Anyway, he seems to be riding porygon, so that's pretty cool.

[TheLasac]

Rampages evil twin brother?

[Khemia]

Rampage's long lost brother.

[Sancti]

I see what you did there, Soulreapers recoloured alt avatar lol!

[havenx]

im with Driz, he reminds me of Chaos Knight from Dota, so wouldn't surprise me if it's him

[Sandy_Cheeks]

I like his horse.

[iPodTouch]

However, as you know, the Dark Lord has many forms. Which form will he manifest in next Friday? You'll have to wait for next week's hero spotlight to see!
is this the same dark lord Soul Stealer keeps talking about? :souls:

so we getting lego heroes now

[Epidemilk]

Reminds me of the Headless Horseman from WoW.
+1

More of a general WoW look than that guy specifically. However...

IT IS OVER, YOUR SEARCH IS DONE..
LET FATE CHOOSE NOW THE RIGHTEOUS ONE!
AHAHAHAHHAAHAHA

[daggius]

tits

[LoveIsDead]

Pugna Remake.... just saying.

High dmg Nuke,
Life transfer,
Decrepify,
Debuff that turns healing into damage.

it's on dream, necromancer look it up.

[Pogona]

it just hit me as to why they prolonged the release of new heroes so there is more time for heroes to be in ea ----> people will be anxious to buy it knowing that the hero will not be out for another 6 weeks, gotta admit they had me fooled for a long time.

Yes, it is just you. The community asked for this. S2 was releasing heroes "too fast" they said. Now the other side of the issue will begin to ceaselessly complain, S2 won't listen to them (like seriously, would you?) and they'll start making rage threads about greedy S2 keeping heroes on EA for too long.

The cycle of bullshit continues.

[ggrimm]

Notice -> "inspired", so expect totally different hero from the dream version. Prolly some tank or semicarry


Im all for the tank tho, even if dream one is a support, to hell with the supports, lol

[DeadAbyss]

I want too see Rampage vs this new guy.. IN A RACE

[Red``]

http://spaceghetto.org/images/dowant.gif

[Excyis]

Needs more green.
CRYSTAL GREEN.
Ya feel me?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23788876/Reactions/greeeeen.jpg

[DeathCult]

I get a feeling that this hero is similar to Nessaj.....

[DreadLocks]

Cool.

[B2K4Ever]

i really would like to change the green to yellow .

[FTP]

everyone is like "what a bad patch, hero is fail" im like "hero is epic, buying ea and all alt avatars with him" <3

[RainOfChaos]

wtb 3.0 :S

[P3BBL3S]

attumen the huntsman??

[DreadLocks]

However, as you know, the Dark Lord has many forms. Which form will he manifest in next Friday? You'll have to wait for next week's hero spotlight to see!

What is that supposed to mean?

[THE_GooD_GuY]

i hope if hes a tank :D

[FRiddle]

CHAOS KNIGHT!!!
Hahahahahahha

[Ceriss]

What is that supposed to mean?

there is two chances:
1) they mean alt avatar
2) they mean that he will somehow change forms (for example like wildsoul)

[Paranoyak]

When u say next friday you mean next friday + 2 month for early access ? if it is we dont give a sht.

[ChaosXan]

What the hell is with you people saying it's a Nessaj port? It's a god damn community hero from DREAM, it's been stated several times.

Just look at the top rated heroes on DREAM and find Necromancer, that's the hero.

[Zakarul]

Mecha Maliken?

[EEs]

Next patch is 3.0

[ChillyWater]

I'm keen.... Though probably EA D:

Edit: I don't know why people are so mad... It's probably just concept art..

[DareDreaming]

Yeee another s2 herooo yeeeeeeeee yeeeeeeeee moar op shits yeee yeee

[mexykanu]

Inb4 early access

[Mistraith]

C'mon wtf man this week no hero? You kidding me?

[canufeelit]

well, maybe not this friday... we'll wait!

[rippmania]

EA hero. See ya in 6 weeks.

[Volko]

Woot I will be able to play this hero in 6 weeks. What about a balance patch NOW ?

Something I don't need to pay to have and will convince me you're not failers ?

[Jeroz]

Woot I will be able to play this hero in 6 weeks. What about a balance patch NOW ?


Did you check the patch last week? S2 stated that they won't do gigantic balance often, and the last patch is kind of a good compromise

[Snooplol]

CHAOS KNIGHT!!! EA HERO great just great mm down .... great... chat unavaible great...

[koroalinn]

Reminds me of nessaj. PLS DONT:))

[HawkeyeBR]

Bad concept art is bad.

[Redfiercare]

Never thought I'd get to see my Tauren Warrior in T6 riding Baron Strat's mount again...

Edit: With a popped collar and lightsaber.

[Ledenial]

People here talking "no heroes this friday", u want new heroes every friday now? Like u're pro with all 100 u already have?

[SoulCreeper]

cool hero :D it looks like an evil rampage or something xD

[Sage]

good to see he got his name. i hope thats the only hero he ever plays.

[Overrmind]

He's based on necromancer.

Anyway, he seems to be riding porygon, so that's pretty cool.

Well according to this (propably just concept art - HOPE SO) it is STR hero and obviously a Tank, or semi-carry, maybe a Carry. What the .... has that anything to do with Necromancer - nuking INT Support hero? Recent INT heroes were Monarch - whose dmg potential is equal to 0 (nearly) and Geomancer who is meele (oh my god why meele intel? BS is enough) and he is mainly a disabler. No more love for support heroes who can acctually kill someone? i mean this was exelent concept i was really looking forward and wanted to buy his EA instantly - new INT with Nuking abilities (like pyrro for Ex.) and they made THIS? i hope im just mistaken by his look becouse if i were author of necromancer and someone turned my support ranged idea in meele tank i would be really disapointed and mad.

[gozniC]

Yay Dreadknight

[IsmaelVera]

Lightsaber.
:balp:

[Mediocre]

Nessaj?

[n00bface492]

Omg this hero is so op pls nerf s2

[Demonic150]

Just like Nome said <3

[DarkStylaZz]

I hope this **** doesnt come as EA

[Thug]

he looks sick.

[Taiya]

dumb

[Cord]

Well according to this (propably just concept art - HOPE SO) it is STR hero and obviously a Tank, or semi-carry, maybe a Carry. What the .... has that anything to do with Necromancer - nuking INT Support hero? Recent INT heroes were Monarch - whose dmg potential is equal to 0 (nearly) and Geomancer who is meele (oh my god why meele intel? BS is enough) and he is mainly a disabler. No more love for support heroes who can acctually kill someone? i mean this was exelent concept i was really looking forward and wanted to buy his EA instantly - new INT with Nuking abilities (like pyrro for Ex.) and they made THIS? i hope im just mistaken by his look becouse if i were author of necromancer and someone turned my support ranged idea in meele tank i would be really disapointed and mad.

From S2 a couple weeks ago:
"There’s still one more announcement we have left in honor of Player Appreciation Month. Coming very soon there will be a new hero in Newerth. His name is Lord Salforis and he is based off of the HoN Dream character Necromancer by Passthechips. We have named him after the winner of our “name-a-hero” contest."

http://dream.heroesofnewerth.com/hero/Passthechips/Necromancer

So...who said he's a melee/STR hero? Maybe he throws that green **** at people. They did say it's a spear, not a sword.

[Gotmyhairdid]

From S2 a couple weeks ago:
"There’s still one more announcement we have left in honor of Player Appreciation Month. Coming very soon there will be a new hero in Newerth. His name is Lord Salforis and he is based off of the HoN Dream character Necromancer by Passthechips. We have named him after the winner of our “name-a-hero” contest."

http://dream.heroesofnewerth.com/hero/Passthechips/Necromancer

So...who said he's a melee/STR hero? Maybe he throws that green **** at people. They did say it's a spear, not a sword.

Wow, he's so creative - he stole two of the skills from Pugna , and another from that other hero who's name I forget, the one with the nuke that hurts the other hero then after a delay they begin healing it.

This guy is learning from $2. Well, no wonder he won.

[Lazy`]

Needs more purple.
http://imgur.com/a/50Ak8

[Tezlacoil]

Chaos knight with light saber zomg

[Cord]

The ultimate sounds pretty evil, lol.

gg ra, lego, defiler, and hellbringer if they get that **** cast on them.

[KevinCorp]

robotic chaos knight

[Crystallizer]

Available for you play within 7 weeks :) EA so fun <3

[Overrmind]

From S2 a couple weeks ago:
"There’s still one more announcement we have left in honor of Player Appreciation Month. Coming very soon there will be a new hero in Newerth. His name is Lord Salforis and he is based off of the HoN Dream character Necromancer by Passthechips. We have named him after the winner of our “name-a-hero” contest."

http://dream.heroesofnewerth.com/hero/Passthechips/Necromancer

So...who said he's a melee/STR hero? Maybe he throws that green **** at people. They did say it's a spear, not a sword.


First thing : its only my personal feeling which i got from that picture and from what experience we all have with S2. It is BASED on Necromancer they could have done practically anything with it even changing it to Meele STR.

I know he may throw that spear to enemies but still he looks STR to me according to picture... i REALLY hope that iam wrong :-)

[Cord]

First thing : its only my personal feeling which i got from that picture and from what experience we all have with S2. It is BASED on Necromancer they could have done practically anything with it even changing it to Meele STR.

I know he may throw that spear to enemies but still he looks STR to me according to picture... i REALLY hope that iam wrong :-)

I mean, he could be STR, but still a hardcore caster like Midas. Who knows, really? He could even be an agi caster/healer. That'd be kind of interesting. I don't think there's an agi hero who actually has a heal atm.

[Mackodlak]

Why not this friday? Oh, yeah, 18.11. is when monarch gets released to general public and there is a slot in Easrly Acces (AKA pay for power)

[D34ThTr4P]

Ridiculously op EA Hero incoming! (With Alt Avatar!)

[Etdashou]

Does anyone have the dream link for this heroes.

[Lucian01]

Looks terrible. You even glued a lightsaber to his arm.

[alexanderxRO]

3.0 next patch? :o yay i hope so .........

[Crackmonkey]

a mounted jedi?

[Mackodlak]

I don't rly care much for this game no more...

Only thing they do is pump in more Early Access heroes, new EXPENSIVE alt avatars (I mean c'mon, 900 silver for avatars that used to be 250-500 silver) and that policy that avatar costs 300g whether it is premium or not? What kind of a message it sends to general population? Sure, you can collect silver for a few weeks for normal alt avatar, or 2 months for premium one, but both of them are just like 5$ each away from you, and that's like 2 days of lunch money.

You rly wanna become moneysuckers, don't you?

Is this how you wanna be remembered? "Ya, I remember HoN, it was that game that was awsome, but then they went Free2Play, started importing 5 new things every week you need real money for cause collecting the silver 4 it with those ridiculous prices was impossible! Also verified not working, and even if it was it was 2 easy for noobs to become verified and trash every game they played from there on - I quit a few months after that"

If that's what you want to become with you then go and just do what you're doing now.

Player apretiation month? Sure, for paying customers only - should've been called money apretiation month.

So ya, release another EA hero that is awsome untill, right be4 releasing it to general pool, you nerf it to hell so only ppl that payed for it can enjoy it's overpowered awsomnes. Then release another one, then another... Along the way release 10 more alt avatars that are 300g and 5k silver and then see what happens with ppl that actually payed for this game during beta and helped you when you neaded it the most.

[Feroc1ty]

I really hope it's chaos knight, because it's the perfect model for him.

[DreadLocks]

3.0 next patch? :o yay i hope so .........

Possible.

I do believe that the the official 3.0 trailer/announcement is coming this weekend at DHW.

[creath]

Possible.

I do believe that the the official 3.0 trailer/announcement is coming this weekend at DHW.

DHW?

[Anchovies]

I don't think 3.0 will come till after the big tournaments i.e. after DHW and NASL.

[Dissmaster]

http://images1.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Emperor-Zurg-Toy-Story-2-disney-villains-1038366_1024_576.jpg

[Deoin]

His head looks somewhat like :plag: and he wields a light sabre.

Darth Plagueis alt avatar inc?^^

[DreadLocks]

DHW?

Dreamhack Winter, which starts on the 24th.

In the most recent HoN newsletter (Oct. 31), they say there will be a revealing of epic proportions that will change HoN forever.

So, just keep a look out next week, during the event :)

[EnjoiDank]

everything seems normal except the laser sword taken from a zealot

[Lethe]

tbh I think the third and fourth skills will see some serious reworks.

skill 3 is a concept that doesn't work well in HoN if it's channelling. And if it's not it's basically the same as Empath's essence link.

skill 4 is extremely niche and offers very little utility, especially since it's single target.

[murrph]

Inb4 Rampage alt avatar 3000 silver.

[Klonopind]

how will his ult work with Chronos' rewind ability?

[T0x]

how will his ult work with Chronos' rewind ability?
It'll rape him I believe...

In other news, where's the spotlight vid?

[Vitae]

Wow... If it is based on necromancer this hero will be VERY situational. tbh I can't see this hero being useful in more than like 5% of the games.

I hope all the skills have been reworked, heavily.

[Losix]

Finally ported Abbadon!!!

[_DesuDesu_]

In other news, where's the spotlight vid?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miT7_RMN4XE&feature=player_embedded

there.

[Overrmind]

From S2 a couple weeks ago:
"There’s still one more announcement we have left in honor of Player Appreciation Month. Coming very soon there will be a new hero in Newerth. His name is Lord Salforis and he is based off of the HoN Dream character Necromancer by Passthechips. We have named him after the winner of our “name-a-hero” contest."

http://dream.heroesofnewerth.com/hero/Passthechips/Necromancer

So...who said he's a melee/STR hero? Maybe he throws that green **** at people. They did say it's a spear, not a sword.


HA i was right when i said they are turning awesome great INT support into STR Meele.... such disapointment... on the other Hand you were right it is a caster...sort of....semi...maybe... In general he dmg you just by standing near you and with his 1st skill... his other dmg is still meele auto.attack... how bad.... His whole skill-tree would perfectly work on INT caster so where is the point in releasing him as STR meele?? I just cant get it... no EA insta-buy.... such a shame

BTW model is really good, EA Alt not so good... :-(

[PiggySmallz]

Finally ported Abbadon!!!

Yeeeaaaa...although Accursed is the actual ported Abbadon, and has been in Heroes of Newerth since the open beta. Can't really see how you have missed that.

And seriously, im getting quiet sick of S2 and their inability to focus on the actual gameplay firsthand, and stop mass producing new heroes, which results in half-assed work. The third spell - "The presence of the dark lord". Shadow Fiend from dota :souls: his third ability with the exact same name. Come on S2, it's like you're not even trying anymore...

[Nubl0]

So despite his 3rd move being totally different, it's half assed because it shares the same name? Whut...

[Rucksack]

another op hero gj!

[TheHultek]

Yes, good tactic - add more broken heroes so people forget about the previous ones. ****ing retarded.

[Urofect]

What was with the "Goodbye Pudding" at the end of the vid...............

[Tigershark66]

Anyone got ideas for item build yet?
This is mine:
Ghost Marchers
2 Bracers
Helm of Dominator
Mick of Brilliance
Symbol of Rage
Heart

[ZodiakBraver]

What was with the "Goodbye Pudding" at the end of the vid...............
yeah... is she leaving S2?..

[cYa_]

Is this hero free to play or do we need to buy it for gold coins?
Would nice to have a hero that does not cost a huge amount of gold...

Hope the new Trees and Healtbars includes in the patch!

[Jeffk1]

Nevermore's -armor passive was called exactly that(Nevermore is the classic DotA version of Soulstealah) : presence of the Dark Lord. lol. y duznt s2 make new models isntead of recoloring old ones, I mean srsly that other game we compete with duz it every 2 weeks along with balancing, You'd think that it'd be as easy as it looks.

[Klaw11]

were does one post the answer if they ask a question bout the new hero ?

[NightFury11]

Helo is this the place where you post if you want to answer to a question about the new hero?

[FlawlessVic]

Finally Abbadon ported

[ChillyWater]

Finally Abbadon ported

Oh dear. :accu:

[GrannyHunter]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/181/813/1726009-shut_up_and_take_my_money_super.jpg?1317708806

[Menoy]

menoy yah boi

[Menoy]

My first time here...how u play honwars leagues????

[SCOUTMIDKTHX]

My first time here...how u play honwars leagues????
how about searching for honwars?
I'll even make it easy for you:

www.honwars.com

Dont be a :arma: