2010-01-05, 21:30:52
I agree. There are large differences between the 10-15 bounties of regular mode and the 25-35 bounties of HB.
The fact that many good players complain about losing their "grip" or their competitive edge because the other team can get gold is pathetic.
--> Both teams have access to gold, therefore it is "balanced" BUT your windows of opportunity to have hunter for 10-15 mins before anyone else to rack up 10 kills diminishes, AS IT SHOULD.
This will make me reference the 5-min noob gold once again. I disagree completely with that concept 100% because it gives out free gold. It diminishes the edge that players can get. The game's balance needs to shift more to laning rather than CP hugging like douchebags. There should be a reward to laning but right now because of the noob gold there isn't any good reason to AT ALL, aside from tower kills.
Steps to take:
1) Remove the 5-minute noob gold. (REWARD LANING, if you kill shit you earn the gold, no fucking bullshit free gold).
2) Increase the creep bounty of normal mode, but not as much as HB.
3) Slightly buff normal bounty's TANK kill gold, but nowhere near HB's.
Simple risk and reward concepts that need to be introduced to allow laning and ganking to be at an equal level so that players who can't rely on their team can pull through if they do as well with them as without in team battles. This will also help negate the "hunter affect" because the hunter would be forced to actually kill shit or lose out on gold. In other words: they truly would have to be good. And these concepts would open a new window into the games overall strategy.
But then again I don't care if I play HB or not and I don't expect anyone to listen to what I have to say anyway. Make a test mode with my specs, call it HB. Problem solved, don't defile normal mode in any way. It's a contradiction to "edit" HB as they claim but it will shut alot of whiners up and I'd be happy to test it out, as would the rest of bnet. Too many changes? Call it something else "experimental mode".
The fact that many good players complain about losing their "grip" or their competitive edge because the other team can get gold is pathetic.
--> Both teams have access to gold, therefore it is "balanced" BUT your windows of opportunity to have hunter for 10-15 mins before anyone else to rack up 10 kills diminishes, AS IT SHOULD.
This will make me reference the 5-min noob gold once again. I disagree completely with that concept 100% because it gives out free gold. It diminishes the edge that players can get. The game's balance needs to shift more to laning rather than CP hugging like douchebags. There should be a reward to laning but right now because of the noob gold there isn't any good reason to AT ALL, aside from tower kills.
Steps to take:
1) Remove the 5-minute noob gold. (REWARD LANING, if you kill shit you earn the gold, no fucking bullshit free gold).
2) Increase the creep bounty of normal mode, but not as much as HB.
3) Slightly buff normal bounty's TANK kill gold, but nowhere near HB's.
Simple risk and reward concepts that need to be introduced to allow laning and ganking to be at an equal level so that players who can't rely on their team can pull through if they do as well with them as without in team battles. This will also help negate the "hunter affect" because the hunter would be forced to actually kill shit or lose out on gold. In other words: they truly would have to be good. And these concepts would open a new window into the games overall strategy.
But then again I don't care if I play HB or not and I don't expect anyone to listen to what I have to say anyway. Make a test mode with my specs, call it HB. Problem solved, don't defile normal mode in any way. It's a contradiction to "edit" HB as they claim but it will shut alot of whiners up and I'd be happy to test it out, as would the rest of bnet. Too many changes? Call it something else "experimental mode".