Hero Teaser: Bramble

[[BTTW]Dagger1]

I agree with changing the name. Snap doesn't sound impossing enough considering the background. Bramble is good for now unless someone can figure out a more appropriate name. Also i suggest leaving the gender ambigious. It'll be the first dual-gender character

[Mipi]

Marlboro incoming.

[[BTTW]Dagger1]

found this name while looking up plant names, seems appropriate. Hellebore

[[D0NG]jpdark420]

^ Must be a Legion hero if he helps destroy enemies of the Keeper...

[[RGTG]Green]

I remember in the GOOD old days when DoTA was around, Ice Frog really put a lot of thought into EACH hero to make sure that none of the skills overlapped. Each hero really had is own unique abilities and overall theme. If you look at the old heroes they REALLY did stand out from one another (with exception to Lion (witch hunter) and pyro (athena? I don't remember))... anyways...

S2 did an EXCELLENT job taking DoTA to the next level and ironing out the kinks that DoTA suffered... Fixed Pudge (made him non useless), merged some heroes like electrician (which was great). Came up with a new VERY original hero 'Puppet Master...' etc.

They kept up pace with Ice Frog in SOME hero designs (originality) with later heroes like: Panda. At their disposal they the ability to add new UI interactions with things like Engineers turret direction and zephyrs wind blow direction. Panda is another example, when you press a key he would swing his bo in whatever direction he was facing. These were great.

But, in my opinion they have cheapened the game as of late. I fully understand that they probably make a lot of money off all this store stuff that they sell, and I'm ALL about that. When HoN first came out I thought that $30 for like # of years (and counting) was THIEVERY!! I've supported them by buying gold coins because with this game they've done SO much right.

But it kinda feels like they are selling out now. They've become to big? I dunno. Not really sure their goal anymore. Every hero has inherited basically everything you can imagine. Everyone has AOE, stuns, slows, etc. It's just a spam fest now.

I buy each new hero that comes out to test and later think to myself (after reading all the confusing as hell spell tid bits) that this hero is boring and there's nothing new here. I can think of a million unique spells that have never been done before. I can think of a million new UI controls that S2 hasn't done yet. All this control and the only thing they came up with was the vector mouse clicks (zephyr, chipper).

TL;DR - I dunno who is in the creative think tank there at S2, but they aren't doing their job in terms of original hero development.

You are so wrong that I thought you were being sarcastic for the first half of it since s2 heroes are miles and miles ahead of icefrog heroes in terms of uniqueness.

[DreadLocks]

You are so wrong that I thought you were being sarcastic for the first half of it since s2 heroes are miles and miles ahead of icefrog heroes in terms of uniqueness.

DotA has some really creative hero designs. Invoker.

It also has some really boring hero designs. Drow Ranger.

The same can be said for S2, so I don't really see why people are arguing about this. I guess it's just the same old "My game is better than your game" syndrome.

[Pogona]

thank you based god

Did he f**k your b*tch?

[[BTTW]Dagger1]

Your point? Gemini and Artesia don't sound like Hellbourne names, and Predator and Berzerker definitely don't sound like legion names.

[ktz0r]

They fixed her history. :P

[[f13]zstarkey42]

At first that plant reminded me of this.

[Sherwood]

I agree with changing the name. Snap doesn't sound impossing enough considering the background. Bramble is good for now unless someone can figure out a more appropriate name. Also I suggest leaving the gender ambigious. It'll be the first dual-gender character

I like Briar. Sounds like a cross between Brian and some girly sounding name; sexual ambiguity.
I agree it should be an it and not male/female.
As far as I know, only trees have the capability of being Male/Female. As the hero looks like some monstrosity made out of vines, I'd say it's bigendered organism.


He's an interesting photograph of a flowering Venus Flytrap. No point to be made, I just thought it might be sweet.

[[TREX]Kweeny]

Q - I think it is like the throwing up from balphagore, without slow and a stun at the end
W - AoE slow and dmg around you/ally
E - bonus movespeed
R - Immobilize and a wall a la emp/behe

[Antimodus]

A shrubbery!

A what!!!?

NI!!

[Nitpicker]

It's almost the exact same design as a Marlboro in Final Fantasy 8. I bet it kinda waddles or glides over the ground like a snail. I will wait to see how this plays, but if I had to guess now I think it will play and feel slow. Just like, you know, a snail. But a really big snail

edit: the marlboro

[GekoR]

Sounds like a Dark Seer..?