Glossary - HoN Terms

[Pyrate]

Heroes of Newerth Glossary

This thread has been moved to the FAQ section. This is now the discussion thread. To see the Glossary, go here.

[Pyrate]

If i want to say anything it will be here, because I have nothing to say at this time, its just going to be this message.


Changelog

27/09/09 - Completed first stage, Main Game, Heroes and Items
28/09/09 - Redid formatting, turned Main gameplay into seperate sections, changed colour of terms, heroes etc etc to orange so they stand out. Added Hero Roles
29/09/09 - Added more items from crazysheep, changed predator as recd. Found an old list of some terminology, added ones not on this list. Added Orb Walking as it was asked. Added other recs
2/10/09 - Alphabetial order for heroes
10/10/09 - Added some suggestions (not all, some ive never heard of before after 450 games) that make the cut, specifically Nomes
12/10/09 - Added Unit Walking as it was asked, also included Terrain Walking, added new hero - Sand Wraith and Item Nomes Wisdom
24/10/09 - Added things with accordance to patch
3/11/09 - got around to adding Mr. Disciple
11/11/09 - added couple of things, alphabetised items
12/11/09 - added status effects
30/11/09 - added stuff introduced in patches, with terms i call them, if i see others ill add them
21/12/09 - added stuff from patches (Deadwood, Frostburn)
15/01/10 - Formatting changed to match other Stickies in Training Grounds, while doing that fixed a lot of errors in grammar, fixed different formatting between sections (different spacing with -'s etc etc)

[[KsIL]Slic3r]

nice tnx

[[TitB]Brudish]

Hmm, wonder what the HoN definition of noob is. Seems to be different each game

[crazysheep]

I'll drop the HoN - DotA items list for you here. It's most likely going to be in order of most common usage.

Helm of Black Legion - HotBL, Vanguard, Vg
Iron Buckler - Stout Shield, Stout
Elder Parasite - MoM, Mask of Madness
Alchemist Bones - Alch bone, Hand of Midas, Midas
Codex - Dagon
Puzzlebox - Necrobook
Shieldbreaker - Desolator, Deso
Hack n Slash - HnS, Sange and Yasha, SnY
Brutalizer - Basher
Riftshards - Crystalys, crit sword
Nullfire Blade - Nullfire, Diffusal Blade, Diffusal, Diff, purge stick
Totem of Kuldra - Kuldra, Guinsoo's Scythe, Guinsoo, sheepstick
Stormspirit - Storm, Euls, cyclone stick
Whispering Helm - Helm of Dominator, HotD
Hungry Spirit - Mask of Death
Minor Totem - Ironwood Branch, branches, GG branches
Shaman's Headdress - Headdress, Hood of Defiance, Hood, HoD
Shrunken Head - Black King Bar, BKB
Assassins' Shroud - Shroud, Lothar's Edge, Lothar, invi axe
Mock of Brilliance - Mock, Radiance, Rad
Doom Bringer - Doom, Divine Rapier, Divine, Rapier, DR
Runed Axe - Battlefury, BF
Wingbow - Butterfly, butter
Savage Mace - Mace, MKB
Frostfield Plate - Frost plate, Frostfield, Shiva's Guard, Shiva
Frostwolf Skull - Eye of Skadi, Skadi
Daemonic Breastplate - Assault Cuirass, Assault, Cuirass
Behemoth's Heart - Heart, HoT

[[TL]ChillyWally]

I recommend adding TDL for The Dark Lady

[Pyrate]

thanks for the additions

[KnightDavion]

Why isnt this stickied??

Succubus - commonly called atropos in HoN
Hag - commonly called Akasha in HoN

[[BETA]Happyfish]

Items
Astrolabe-Mekasnm,Meka
Mana Battery-Magic stick/Wand
Charged Hammer-Mjollnir,Mjol
WarpedCleft-Hyperstone HS
Geomaters Bane-Manta Style,Manta
Abyssal Skull-Vladmir's Offering,Vlads

Heros
Pred-Niax,Lifestealer
Sand Wraith(Coming soon)-Mercurial,Merc

[Voidi]

Maybe you should add Metagame to the list. Nice work so far, certainly helpful for many players.

[Reonhato]

STICKY

[[BDSM]Puchi]

This should be premium tbh, nice work.

one change that i think is very needed here is to remove naix, lifestealer from
predator and just ad pred, i for one have never seen predator beeing called Naix.
i dont know what u call him across the pond but in EU we call him pred ;D

[crazysheep]

thanks for the additions

No worries.

This should be premium tbh, nice work.

one change that i think is very needed here is to remove naix, lifestealer from
predator and just ad pred, i for one have never seen predator beeing called Naix.
i dont know what u call him across the pond but in EU we call him pred ;D

I agree with you, Predator isn't called N'aix in HoN, we just call him Pred.

More items I remember:
Mana Potions: Clarities, Mana pots
Healing Potions: Flasks, pots
Axe of the Malphai: Reaver
Barbed Armour: Blademail
Barrier Idol: Pipe
Blessed Orb: Ultimate Orb
Bound Eye: Eye, Gem
Flayer: Buriza, Burize
Hellflower: Orchid
Homecoming Stone: TP scrolls, TPs
Null Stone: Linken's Sphere, Linken's
Portal Key: Portal, Blink Dagger, Blink, Dagger
Marchers: Boots
Enhanced Marchers: Phase Boots, Phase
Steamboots: Power Treads, Treads, PTs
Post Haste: Boots of Travel, Travels
Restoration Stone: Refresher
Sacrificial Stone: Bloodstone
Staff of the Master: Aghanim's Scepter, Aghanim, Aghas, Scepter
Sustainer: Perseverance, Perse
Tablet of Command: Force Staff

is anyone able to tell me what 'orb-walking' means?

[[BDSM]Puchi]

is anyone able to tell me what 'orb-walking' means?

It means using a attack modifier like arachnas webed shot like this,
web shot,
walk closer,
webshot
walk
etc. etc.

[Sketch88]

i suggest a mod move this to the new training section, this is helpful stuff and i don't think it belongs in strat, go ahead and delete this post if you move it please

[[scrm]vursed]

lb = light blue

dg = dark green

[[AoS]Extreme_Cake]

'Rice' and 'Ricer' are missing.

[[330s]RUSty_]

For shrine add "Throne"
Edit: Also I always refer to succubus as "Succy" as do many people I play with.

[Reonhato]

you know what would be cool.....alphabetical order