Heroes of Newerth - Basics

Heroes of Newerth is a RTSRPG created by S2 Games in the mold of the popular Warcraft 3 Map "Defense of the Ancients". In this game teams of up to 5 battle it out online with each player being able to pick from a pool of 60 unique hero character's all with there own identity and skills.

Imagine a RTS game like Red Alert where the bases are allready pre-built and basic foot-soldiers ("creeps") leave the base in predictable fashion (creating three "lanes") to meet up and clash at certain spots in the middle of the map, next to fortified towers. Your job as a hero is to assist the creeps to push forward and destroy the enemy team's towers and eventually to destroy the enemy team's base.

As unit's die in this constant clash in the middle of the map the hero character's gain experience and levels which can be spent on improving or gaining skills, and as they get more powerful they can start to have a much bigger impact on the battle. If you land a killing blow on a hero or a creep then you gain gold, which can be used to buy Items from the shop that further increase your stats or give you unique abilities such as invisibility.

Heroes of Newerth is currently in its beta stage and as such Heroes and Items are still evolving and changing very often so it is very difficult to keep track of the changing strategy's and item builds that are used. It is essential to min/max and make sure that your hero is built correctly and hopefully this blog can help to educate you on how to build your favourite heroes.