You actually get more exp from pushing down buildings or clearing waves than for kills, so stopping the other side from keeping up with you is the biggest appeal of landing a double/triple/etc. Kills actually matter a lot less in and of themselves than in league, and more for the opening to push or pressure with map objectives. The game is very objective-based, with 'jungle' creeps and map objectives being large swing-factors compared to hero deaths. Seven maps, currently, with an eighth one in the works. This also gives them the freedom to do a couple very eccentric heroes/champions: there's one who is designed to never even leave the base personally. it also makes feeding harder unless you get an entire team of feeders, because the weaker players aren't automatically grossly behind a soon vastly superior lane opponent. Overall, it has more of a group dynamic as a result, and supports have more freedom to scale up since the usual feast or famine dynamic isn't present.

EXP is shared and characters level up as a team, so the entire team scales together. No individual EXP, meaning no super carry dynamic. Some heroes, despite this, have passives or skills that do scale on last-hits, but it isn't a general mechanic. EXP is awarded as long as you're in the lane when minions die. No last-hitting, since no items means no gold. level 10 lets you pick 1 of 2 different ultimate abilities for R, while level 20 has big-ticket talents, including ones that boost whichever ult you picked to a higher level. Characters start with their Q/W/E skills by default, and unlock 1 of 4-5 'talents' at certain levels, up to 20. Was a little surprised there wasn't a thread for it, as near as i can tell! i got a beta key a few weeks ago and it's basically been devouring my moba time.Įssentially it's blizzard throwing their hat into the ring with Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft heroes (plus the lost vikings for some reason) and makes a number of changes to the genre staples which have been pretty interesting to me. Was curious if anyone here has been playing it, since it's in closed beta and due to go open beta mid next month.

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