HoN Hero Spotlight: Ravenor!

[Viole]

​The souls of the damned suffer eternal torments in the hells ruled over by the Daemon Lords. The administration of such torments are left in the hands of the cruelest and most sadistic of all the condemned. These irredeemable souls take such delight in the torture of others that they are imbued with the purest essences of anger, cruelty, and hate. These beings earn a title that strikes fear into both the living, and the dead; they are the reapers of souls, the crushers of dreams, the bastions of terror, and the delivers of the damned.

They are Ravenors, and their Lord is known by that title alone.

Get ready for Ravenor this Friday! He's a great hero who can initiate if needed, however, his prowess lies within his carrying abilities!

Ravenor (http://youtu.be/TTLvqTNpQw4)


http://i.imgur.com/d9qRn.jpg

[Reldnahc]

cool

[SmashNess]

Oh boy gotta buy more gold, damn

[Evitoz]

Cool

[TheHolyFonz]

Awesome.

:damp2:

[Ledenial]

Amazing hero! Even prime avatar is great!

[Shraft]

Easiest spotlight in months.

[Skyve]

Looks good :)

[BubblleBee]

The video is where?

[Skyve]

Click the name colored in "orange" (default color for links on the forums).

[Dead_MAX]

Oh boy gotta buy more gold, damn

S2 likes you.

[JooThi]

Looks like a great hero to play! I'd advice S2 games to change the visual effect of his second skill, Ball Lightning, though. That visual effect doesn't look great in my opinion.

[TardsVsZombi]

Is the alt avatar the pig or the bird?

[Nospheratu]

First page... will be back soon with comments :D

I'm back... Spotlight & hero are ok, but since you're putting them out so quickly (every 2 weeks), they're losing both novelty and originality, so i'd suggest to take a good look at the suggestion polls you posted in game. Ravenor's spells seem interesting and i like the visual look of his "Electrical Feedback" spell, but otherwise it seems that he's just a purplish muscular guy with a mask... I know you want to make more money fast, but if you'll keep making bland-looking heroes every two weeks, each one in a different color (Ellonia blue, Riftwaker purple, Bramble green, Ravenor pink etc.), you'll lose more than you'll gain imho. My personal suggestion: work on the next hero a bit more and bring him out later, if you can afford it.

Btw - Viole or whoever voiced the spotlight: while i like your work, the Ravenor spotlight sounded a little bit "forced" to me in comparison with the earlier spotlights, where you sounded more "natural"... i don't know if it's just me or anyone else noticed it, so i just figured i'd mention it.

[Ledenial]

Is the alt avatar the pig or the bird?
The "bird".

[TardsVsZombi]

The "bird".
nice, i go buy it.

[Nigmos]

Did anyone see the Alt in the video? Cuz I sure didn't :/

[Bangatron]

First page... will be back soon with comments :D

I'm back... Spotlight & hero are ok, but since you're putting them out so quickly (every 2 weeks), they're losing both novelty and originality, so i'd suggest to take a good look at the suggestion polls you posted in game. Ravenor's spells seem interesting and i like the visual look of his "Electrical Feedback" spell, but otherwise it seems that he's just a purplish muscular guy with a mask... I know you want to make more money fast, but if you'll keep making bland-looking heroes every two weeks, each one in a different color (Ellonia blue, Riftwaker purple, Bramble green, Ravenor pink etc.), you'll lose more than you'll gain imho. My personal suggestion: work on the next hero a bit more and bring him out later, if you can afford it.

Btw - Viole or whoever voiced the spotlight: while i like your work, the Ravenor spotlight sounded a little bit "forced" to me in comparison with the earlier spotlights, where you sounded more "natural"... i don't know if it's just me or anyone else noticed it, so i just figured i'd mention it.

They arn't just making heroes the week before they release them.

I will agree tho the line at the end about getting his awesome ALT seemed really forced :( but the alt does look pretty wicked.

I also think your voice suits the spotlight videos really well :)

[JD`z]

Btw - Viole or whoever voiced the spotlight: while i like your work, the Ravenor spotlight sounded a little bit "forced" to me in comparison with the earlier spotlights, where you sounded more "natural"... i don't know if it's just me or anyone else noticed it, so i just figured i'd mention it.

yeah i noticed it as well >.<
and i also didnt see the avatar ..
seems like a cool hero and all but pls S2 dont keep on vomiting a new hero every fortnight :/

[Bangatron]

I enjoy the new hero every fortnight. Gives me a reason to spend money and support the game i enjoy. Its fun to have such new content on a regular basis.

[Shiro_Chan]

damn it!
still though, good looking hero. will definitively pick him up

[Ledenial]

First page... will be back soon with comments :D

I'm back... Spotlight & hero are ok, but since you're putting them out so quickly (every 2 weeks), they're losing both novelty and originality, so i'd suggest to take a good look at the suggestion polls you posted in game. Ravenor's spells seem interesting and i like the visual look of his "Electrical Feedback" spell, but otherwise it seems that he's just a purplish muscular guy with a mask... I know you want to make more money fast, but if you'll keep making bland-looking heroes every two weeks, each one in a different color (Ellonia blue, Riftwaker purple, Bramble green, Ravenor pink etc.), you'll lose more than you'll gain imho. My personal suggestion: work on the next hero a bit more and bring him out later, if you can afford it.

Btw - Viole or whoever voiced the spotlight: while i like your work, the Ravenor spotlight sounded a little bit "forced" to me in comparison with the earlier spotlights, where you sounded more "natural"... i don't know if it's just me or anyone else noticed it, so i just figured i'd mention it.
Are you serious? He's like, the only prime>alt avatar hero there ever was imho.

[ktz0r]

Kinda off-topic, but will we get another hero next week? Cause Bramble release date is settled to 15/06.

[RaViJ]

Did anyone see the Alt in the video? Cuz I sure didn't :/

I wasn't able to include it since it wasn't ready while we were making it. :(

[dadoo]

How can i have the river of the spotlights??

[Rikomi]

I don't know what's more embarrassing; this generic hero or a skill called ball lightning.

[TurboHydra]

How can i have the river of the spotlights??
Scene_drawskybox true
Scene_skyboxmaterial /world/sky/legion/legion.material

in the console(ctrl f8) during a game.

[Epidemilk]

Okay kids, this time the stun and blink are part of the same ability, are you happy now?

[Sk0ld]

Had so much trouble hearing stuff through the new "sexymodeon" voice. I really liked the old giggley style better. Aside from that Ravenor looks interesting.

[Alumando]

new favorite midwars hero, stun, blink, turn your stuff on, massive magic damage, codex + spellshards gggggggggggggggggg

[NudeNue]

digging this hero

[Death_Rattle]

I wasn't able to include it since it wasn't ready while we were making it. :(

Will you post a video with the alt?

[Kohun]

the ending is really important you cant just make one epic ending avenger style then not do another epic/funny ending next video, you have to choose to either incorperate it into all of the videos or none of them

on the hero looks like a beefy caster, just like midas. time will tell what role he falls into.

[RaViJ]

Will you post a video with the alt? It's not all that ready still actually. It will be up for all to see when the patch comes. :)

[SmashNess]

I enjoy the new hero every fortnight. Gives me a reason to spend money and support the game i enjoy. Its fun to have such new content on a regular basis.

Yea i've never bought EA heroes before Riftwalker. But those last 3 new heroes (Ravenor being the last) are so awesome i had to support the game with coins.

[Dominare]

So he's being billed as a carry, but his steroids deals bonus magic damage, meaning any time he's fighting an enemy carry with shrunken head active, its doing nothing for him, and since its triggered on hit, he can't kill supports with void talisman up either since they have 100% evasion and it won't proc. I think he'll still have a decent presence during teamfights, but carrying, I doubt it.

Can't win 'em all though, Bramble is still really good fun.

[Skyve]

since they have 100% evasion and it won't proc

Not evasion. Physical damage immunity. They will die to anyone carrying a Harkon's Blade too.

[Fairy_]

Oh boy gotta buy more gold, damn


hahah agreed

[Imakuni]

You know what... I miss Ms Pudding's voice... and that last spotligh just reinforced that

about the hero, he looks awsome himself, though it's skill sounded stupid. I fell like it's a weak hero that relies on 3rd skill AND enemies focusing him to do any crap. Also. it brough nothing new to the game.

I mean, they just got Maliken's first and added a stun on the end, much like they did with balpha-bramble. Only difference is that they learned to balance something and added a hero-hit condition to port; not that it's hard to achieve that, but at least they put a disadvantage (unlike a bramble's copied skill that had no weakens).

For second skill.... Tb that relies on auto attack to use his lightinings. Really.

3rd skill... why does it feels like an Armadadon, a Legionnaire, a Charged Hammer? Oh yeah, because you attack him and screw yourself up. So let's do it the other way around: you DON'T attack him, and this skill is useless.

Ultimate: have you ever taken a look at the hero-drafts section? There's a thread giving some rules to hero skills, and one of then is: "Avoid forced sinergy. Forced synergy is when one skill adds direct buffs to another without providing standalone benefits, or providing very little standalone benefits.". It may be just me, but this skill provides no benefits on it's own, relies totally on other skills to work.

Aside for those, another Movespeed boosting hero. Another blink hero (for initiation, not for escaping). = another high mobility hero. Yeah... repetition 10, creativity 0. Bye guys, going to the drafts section to post a REAL NEW hero... AN UNIQUE HERO, as OP or weak as it will seem.

[YagamiLight`]

Looks fun!

[Atrim3ntus]

I don't know what's more embarrassing; this generic hero or a skill called ball lightning.

I don't see you suggesting anything more "original." Don't troll please

[Imakuni]

^ I'm not suprised you're from Brazil

You know, I found it nice when they threw the likes of Parasite and Salforis in: heroes that could boost their movespeed for a small ammount of time. Monkey King, as well, gave a very high mobility hero, with his ult enhancing movespeed. Gemini: a very decent boost in movespeed while in ultimate form, which even allowed for a non-boots build; that was completely new in HoN. Then came Blitz: a new hero based upon movespeed; another new adiddition to HoN.

And so it started. It came Draconis: a hero that activated a skill to a boost in Movespeed for some seconds; ok, that's fine. Then came Gunblade: his shield gave a good chunk of movespeed... hmm, we're getting kinda saturatted here. Then came RiftWalker: another mobility hero with her built in PK+area stun in one skill; oh well, guess thats good, at least it isn't movespeed based. Then Bramble: ANOTHER skill that bases on mobility, and not only to him, his allies as well; a mix-all-heroes in one... okay, NOW it got oversaturated. However, came Ravenor.... like Bramble, a mix of other things already in game... and wait! a movespeed skill.

While Ravenor is a weak hero im my opinion, that's not my main point. My point is, s2 isn't creating anything new in the game, they are just going over and over the same things, adding one thing here, other there... nothing really new, just different.

Also, no surprise you are a girl XD. We're even now.

[shmoo]

I want a new jungle hero. So no matter what, I will jungle with this Hero.

Complains to S2. Thanks.

[`Kry]

People calling this hero "generic"

OH LOOK ANOTHER STUN Q_Q

it's a mediocre stun at best, mostly so they don't all jump on you/react instantly when you port into your ball, allowing you to activate your abilities while they are in that (from what i can gather) 1.5 second stun.

but continue with your "OMG ANOTHER STUNNER S2 HERO GG GAME BREAKING OP'NESS"

This hero has original mechanics and playstyle, if you can't look past a mediocre stun then please stop yourself from posting in the forums.

[Jeroz]

Guess the ulti for Midas and blacksmith are forced synergy then.

[_Exodus_]

can you please just include enable skybox as a permanent graphics option in the menu?

[IPeonPeons]

I agree with the previous posters, the voice for this spotlight was as though she was reading it out of a textbook infront of a highschool class. Not personal and it sounded like SHE was bored and it was such a chore.

[Ceriss]

the spotlight sounds like the voice actress was forced to do the recording even if she wanted to go to sleep

[Jeroz]

Viole said that the narrator was sick, hence the change in the tone. Though I would prefer some other people to do it if that's the case so that the quality and the level of energy remains high.

[IPeonPeons]

Narrator was sick for Bramble's spotlight too, she needs a better immune system, or get someone else to do it. Hell, I'd gladly sub in for a week and get the energy in!

[Bangatron]

I would be willing to do a few. Would be pretty fun.

[J0y]

clear the community and stop create stupid heroes!

[Sherwood]

I'm curious if items that deal magic damage with work with his ultimate (Charged Hammer, Mock, FFP etc).

He seems to be a ganker that changes into a tanky-initiator. A Legionnaire<->Gauntlet lovechild. Potentially he might have a personality disorder. Harkons Blade seems V sick for him but will offer 0 survivability. Perhaps his Ultimate will let him get away without much damage items and focus on survival (CD mentality).

He fits the role of 'tank initiator' well as we assume he doesn't need a PK and will cause people the choice to ignore or nuke him. Nuke means you kill your team, ignore means he gains stacks. Barbed armour/charged hammer seems insane for him too.

Perhaps build HotBL (Shaman's) then barbed/charged hammer. Harkon's Blade as a Luxuary or if you have a stronger initiator.

[Augmenter]

How did this hero pass SBT phase...
Strength Hero with initiation and insane damage potential.
If you don't focus him he rips your team apart, if you do he still does damage and takes rather long to kill.
Should change him to INT imo, strength main attribute is just way too strong

[Dominare]

Not evasion. Physical damage immunity.

You can go test this yourself in practice mode if you don't believe me. Pick someone like shadowblade, activate the ranged form that deals bonus magic damage, and have him attack someone with void talisman active. They will not take any of the bonus magic damage, and you will see the 'Miss!' popups over shadowblade's head.

Harkon's blade is a special case because it changes the attack type itself - this hero will not benefit from that effect any more than shadowblade, vindicator, etc do. If the attack doesn't land, the proc doesn't go off.

[shmoo]

Yeah, there are spells which touch you physical and do magic damage, with void they dont hit u, so you wont receive any damage. There was some months ago a thread in mechanics as someone avoided SWs q with void.

[Jeroz]

How did this hero pass SBT phase...
Strength Hero with initiation and insane damage potential.
If you don't focus him he rips your team apart, if you do he still does damage and takes rather long to kill.
Should change him to INT imo, strength main attribute is just way too strong

:devo::gaun::mali::glad:?

[Bangatron]

I'm in the process of dubbing this spotlight, i should have it done in a few days (work comes first :S) will post later to re-energize ravenor.

[IPeonPeons]

I'm in the process of dubbing this spotlight, i should have it done in a few days (work comes first :S) will post later to re-energize ravenor.

Oh that's actually a good idea! I'll try it out when I get a moment too.

[Bangatron]

i found the best way was just converting the clip into mp3, then use audacity to remove the vocals so you keep the music and sfx of the vid.

[IPeonPeons]

i found the best way was just converting the clip into mp3, then use audacity to remove the vocals so you keep the music and sfx of the vid.

I was just gonna go with muting the whole thing and only voicing over the voice parts. I guess I could be efforted to keep the rest of it though...

[Bangatron]

I was thinking that but those background effects do give it that extra oomph

[Sujiro]

Scene_drawskybox true
Scene_skyboxmaterial /world/sky/legion/legion.material

in the console(ctrl f8) during a game.


That won't work with OpenGL... also don't work in Mid Wars (both OpenGL and Direct X9)... any fixes for this? :(

[siraloP]

wondering if anyone has commented on the name of this hero.... other than that looks amazing!

[Alumando]

How many hours are there left till release?

[Bangatron]

8-10?

[Valeman2]

Buy Gold

[Merc`]

Okay kids, this time the stun and blink are part of the same ability, are you happy now?

"Ball Lightning" is a pretty awesome ability. The mechanic is new and happens to be a skill shot....... I don't get why E-nerds like you run your mouth so much. You don't know the first thing about game design let alone balance in a game like HoN. You just like to complain and run your mouth for nothing, nobody listens to you........start getting that in your thick head

[Epidemilk]

"Ball Lightning" is a pretty awesome ability. The mechanic is new and happens to be a skill shot....... I don't get why E-nerds like you run your mouth so much. You don't know the first thing about game design let alone balance in a game like HoN. You just like to complain and run your mouth for nothing, nobody listens to you........start getting that in your thick head

That comment was directed to the kind of people you're talking about, actually, I like the ability....why don't you redirect your ****ing attitude to the people who actually ARE complaining? Pretty funny too that you think a half-liner like that is "running my mouth" compared to your completely unwarranted *****fit

[NinjeeChop]

This hero is the most op hero right now. Can one shot just about any hero with <800hp at lv6. It's like impossible to dodge his initiating stun too, if its aimed properly.

I feel like quitting HoN and changing to DotA2

[botZlLLA]

was just wondering if this hero is connected to this idea http://dream.heroesofnewerth.com/hero/botZlLLA/Aberration :)

[ProdigalSunn]

I will delete my hon because new hero is so op. It's not fun to play anymore. Two ****ing hits and I was dead. And we both were lvl 4. Every ****ing time you play a new hero, there comes a similar situation. GL HF GG :mad:

[R2L3372]

I will delete my hon because new hero is so op. It's not fun to play anymore. Two ****ing hits and I was dead. And we both were lvl 4. Every ****ing time you play a new hero, there comes a similar situation. GL HF GG :mad:


AHH!! lvl 4! Wait a minute! Isn't there a hero called pebbles and monkey king? I'm sure there's a few more in there too...

Btw he cant kill you at lvl 4 with 2 hits. I just played him in practice mode. GG

[Bangatron]

Upload videos of him 2 shotting people at lvl 4..... also invest in vestments, they will help.

[Keris]

I will delete my hon because new hero is so op. It's not fun to play anymore. Two ****ing hits and I was dead. And we both were lvl 4. Every ****ing time you play a new hero, there comes a similar situation. GL HF GG :mad:

Getting so many hit by creep make u got killed by ravenor w skill?? too bad that skill doesn't do that much damage.

[Bangatron]

Uploading my spotlight dub for ravenor now, will post when done if anyone cares to watch it.

[Bangatron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ZX6B0ByI0&amp;feature=youtu.be

[NinjaPT]

Not bad. Maybe you should post this in the Fan Media section too.

[Wakawl]

Alright, although Im hoping the next hero is Gambler.

[Nospheratu]

I just wanted to add that i retract my first statement about the blandness of the color scheme, since i've taken a look at all other heroes and some of the older ones also have a very similar thing going, so my 1st comment is pretty much baseless in hindsight.