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Phoenix4ever
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posted August 22, 2020 08:21 PM
Edited by Phoenix4ever at 20:22, 22 Aug 2020.

The Logistics, Boots of Speed and Equestrian's Gloves were great and necessary nerfs.
I would put Logistics at 7/13/20 though. (Or 6.67/13.33/20.00)

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VMaiko
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posted August 22, 2020 09:14 PM
Edited by VMaiko at 21:16, 22 Aug 2020.

Phoenix4ever said:
The Logistics, Boots of Speed and Equestrian's Gloves were great and necessary nerfs.
I would put Logistics at 7/13/20 though. (Or 6.67/13.33/20.00)


It was a rude nerf, especially if you plan to play on G maps. Kyrre became completely useless in HotA because of it. (Gunnar and Dessa too).
I'm not surprised there are people out there wanting to edit HotA, because understandably, HotA Crew is doing everything wrong.

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Phoenix4ever
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posted August 22, 2020 09:27 PM

Don't you see how completely unbalanced it was?, Logistics specialists were the best heroes in the game, they might still be.
Intellligence specialists could also get pretty insane.

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bloodsucker
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posted August 22, 2020 09:48 PM
Edited by bloodsucker at 21:50, 22 Aug 2020.

OP skill specialists have a place in custom maps, nerf them is nerfing the trickery required to win those maps and the fun one can have doing it. On the other hand, HotA was quick on reducing the power of the only really good magic skill out of the schools scope but u will never see them nerfing Offense and Armorer, cause those are the skills prefered by their target consumers, the MP guys.
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Phoenix4ever
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posted August 22, 2020 09:58 PM
Edited by Phoenix4ever at 21:59, 22 Aug 2020.

I don't think they will ever nerf Offense or Armorer either, but those are the bread and butter of Stronghold and Fortress, which are imo both mediocre towns.
It's not like Logistics and Intelligence suddenly became bad skills, you would be a fool not to still pick Logistics for the main hero and Intelligence can still be considered. (Intelligence could perhaps have been 20/40/60 though.)

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Hourglass
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posted August 22, 2020 10:55 PM
Edited by Hourglass at 23:01, 22 Aug 2020.

weilan said:

I still haven't experienced the potency of Interference, so I don't know how good that is, somehow feels too specific. I'd pick Mephala for the Armorer, but first I should play one long game with Giselle just to see how good it actually is.


Mephala is better in general for sure, and to some extend your expectation of Interference being "spesific" is kinda right, as it only works against other heroes, just like the old Resistance.

However, despite it being spesific, it's still secondary skill related speciality, so it's better in the late game than a creature spesialist for example. Ivor is one the better creature specialists, but I find it hard to keep relatively impactful Grand elf stack alive (they tend to die because all the sieging) so I would totally prefer Giselle over Ivor as a late game oriented main hero.

VMaiko said:

It was a rude nerf, especially if you plan to play on G maps. Kyrre became completely useless in HotA because of it. (Gunnar and Dessa too).
I'm not surprised there are people out there wanting to edit HotA, because understandably, HotA Crew is doing everything wrong.


Ehm, no.

Kyrre is not and never will be "completely useless" no matter how you slice it.  Still one the best heroes in the game. Gunnar is still likely a top 10 hero in the game. Logistics was rightfully asked for years to be nerfed, as there's simply no world where one shouldn't have picked it. Now there are atleast situations where picking it up isn't necessary. I don't really understand why an RPG would offer a player a choice between A and B, if going for A is always the superior choice.

Also, note that people who have succesfully edited Hota have usually done even more changes to the original game. Look no further than Phoenix, for example.

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weilan
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posted August 23, 2020 11:10 AM

Hourglass said:
weilan said:

I still haven't experienced the potency of Interference, so I don't know how good that is, somehow feels too specific. I'd pick Mephala for the Armorer, but first I should play one long game with Giselle just to see how good it actually is.


Mephala is better in general for sure, and to some extend your expectation of Interference being "spesific" is kinda right, as it only works against other heroes, just like the old Resistance.

However, despite it being spesific, it's still secondary skill related speciality, so it's better in the late game than a creature spesialist for example. Ivor is one the better creature specialists, but I find it hard to keep relatively impactful Grand elf stack alive (they tend to die because all the sieging) so I would totally prefer Giselle over Ivor as a late game oriented main hero.



I used to like Ivor a lot about 10 years ago, but I learned the hard way that his bonus becomes useless when everyone tries to take out his Elves.

Then Mephala became my favorite hero for Rampart and I've stuck with her for a long time. What bothers me about some other heroes in all towns, is that some of them feel really useless, like Gem or Mephala and a few others.

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phoenix4ever
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posted August 23, 2020 12:33 PM

I think you meant Gem and Melodia in that sentence, cause yeah they are useless.

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evildustructor
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posted August 30, 2020 11:28 PM

gunnar totally useless lol hes still top 10 heroes in the game idk what u are on about the logs nerf was good imo, its still a top secondary skill u deem it worth picking 213123 times more than most other skills

ofc kyrre gets worse than ivor now due to ranger being a pretty meh class and u usually prefer the starting elves but still kyrres totally fine, rampart generally has terrible choices overall i mean u can probably win a game starting malcom and it will come in handy just because of magic arrow

coronius aeris and elleshar are totally viable as well imo even jenova is viable for the gold and rng secondary skill luck, coronius for spell distribution, aeris for easy scouting and elleshar for mage games

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Rimgrabber
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posted August 31, 2020 06:35 AM

I think that generally, Offense and Armorer specialists are better than logistics specialists simply because logistics doesn't actually help you in the final battle. Sure it's great to be able to be everywhere all the time, but in the end the advantage you get from having for troops and artifacts is pretty much offset by your opponent's troops dealing 70% more damage in every single attack or by having a bonus bigger than mass shield on them at all times.

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evildustructor
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posted September 01, 2020 01:32 AM

the amount of map control you gain with logistics actually helps out the final battle alot considering you get a lot more efficient movement to army gathering rate and how much you can reach between towns/portals/dds/how much you can gather with wings or fly etc, dont underestimate logs

and to be fair, most games dont feature a level 100000 crag or tazar, most games end far earlier!! and yeah theyre ofc better with equal army and stats but without logs neither the army nor the stats will be equal

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Rimgrabber
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posted September 01, 2020 01:41 AM

Yeah but I'm saying that most of the time the offense/armorer boosts will do more for you than the extra artifacts and creatures.

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evildustructor
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posted September 01, 2020 01:47 AM
Edited by evildustructor at 02:09, 01 Sep 2020.

well yeah if we min max everything then ofc tazar will win in the end , but i mean how many games ever come to total min maxing? usually you rush or get rushed and the artifacts and army are never really matched between the players imo which is where logistics shines to make u control the map much more efficiently which is what i meant!

just 2 stay on topic, best starting rampart hero in hota is obv ivor, in sod kyrre

in mirrors probably jenova aeris or coronius (whatever works really imo all rampart heroes are kinda bad) and for anarchy games ryland

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Rimgrabber
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posted September 01, 2020 03:17 AM

Mephala is much better than Ivor

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SllemsIahs
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posted September 01, 2020 05:56 AM

Hourglass said:
IMO Giselle is somewhat a wild card hero. In MP she can be a really good, if you're up against a hero that is planning to win by using magic. Sometimes that happens, sometimes the other player only has lvl 1 spells to cast or no mana to cast, and ofc in that kind of scenario there would be more preferable heroes than Giselle.

In SP I like her a lot, as the speciality will likely get atleast some value, and as she starts with only one skill, you have bit more room of choosing what skills you're willing to have.


How effective is hi level interference, aka Giselle + artifacts, vs a hi level warlock's Armageddon? Is Giselle the ideal anti-Armag in HOTA?

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evildustructor
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posted September 01, 2020 04:11 PM
Edited by evildustructor at 16:15, 01 Sep 2020.

Rimgrabber said:
Mephala is much better than Ivor


well yeah meph has a really good speciality and good starting skills, but people usually start ivor because of the extra 2-4 elves to get going quicker and both are rangers so they are meh-tier mains really, ivor got some other fancy tricks like taking pickets easier etc, and in SoD kyrre is generally more useful

but yeah some people do start meph despite all this but people still would probably choose most good barbs or overlords over meph

giselle is rly strong late game!! ofc she provides no utility for farming so thats kinda bad, but you can almost invalidate enemy power with the inf arties and high level giselle haha, saw a game earlier where giselle reduced opponents jeddites power to 2 lol. she's really good for the final battle especially against a mage main, but yeah doesn't provide much for the general farming and gameplay up until fb. she's often banned in mirror templates just because of this particular advantage she provides !! thorgrim is more a meme choice and doesn't provide much, i mean its fun to do thorgrim dwarf armageddon strats but its not good considering the risks but hes just "alright" as the other rampy heroes, the strength in rampart is not in the heroes but in the centaurs&elves and early game possibilities (like taking hives with dwarves and dendroids if u play creature bank templates)

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Hourglass
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posted September 01, 2020 08:17 PM

SllemsIahs said:

How effective is hi level interference, aka Giselle + artifacts, vs a hi level warlock's Armageddon? Is Giselle the ideal anti-Armag in HOTA?


Well, most probably the best hero one could have in such a fight. Combining high level Giselle with artifacts, and the arma is likely doing next to no dmg at all. Ofc, it can be hard to reach such a point, but in general high amounts of interference is more accessiable than the old resistance.

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adipe
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posted January 02, 2021 05:11 PM
Edited by adipe at 17:25, 02 Jan 2021.

VMaiko said:
With Kyrre I always finished the whole game with her alone in impossible against 7 XL, but everything changed until HotA Crew nerfied logistics in HotA, and from that moment I stopped playing HotA because they made the game too crappy with so many balances.


the game is crappy because it is now balanced?...

you mean you were having fun playing an unbalanced game?

on-topic:

Kyrre could be the best starting hero for Rampart if not Ivor. the good thing about Ivor is that he cannot have the bad luck of missing the offense skill (more important than archery) - which is quite useful with centaurs early on and should be raised to expert as quickly as possible because usually you get to have a larger force of upgraded centaurs that should keep the elves from taking damage. centaurs wait, elves wait, guards defending mines approach, elves attack from a shorter distance, upgraded centaurs finish off so you have no losses and get to snowball in the first week(s). there's also a bit more speed for the elves with Ivor so that you can (out)match fast guards like wolf raiders if you rush without spells in the first days. the bonus to the elves attack and defense later on is not that great overall as you eventually build an army that no longer relies on elves.

it depends on whether you need to cover large distances on a really big map after the lumber and ore mines are taken. but if for example those basic mines are defended by strong guards so that you would have heavy losses because of the lack of the offense skill (Ivor has both offense and archery) then your snowballing would not be that great despite the logistics of Kyrre which is not likely to get the offense skill too early and there's also the risk of not getting it at all and being stuck with whatever else (slots full).

Ivor is a safe choice for small maps but if you expect the game would last for 3-5 months because of size and guards and treasures etc. then Kyrre would be better - not so much because of his bonus to logistics for sake of reaching the opponent's towns but first and foremost in reaching as many places of power-ups to the primary skills.

so this means that depending on the type of map you could choose one of these two so that if the map is large and you find that you need to build a very large army to pass very strong guards or fight utopias etc. before engaging your opponent then HOPEFULLY you would later (from the 2nd week maybe) develop something else like Mephala or Tazar or Hack instead of Kyrre (or Ivor) which was useful with the elves in getting the mines and nearby towns (sources of income) which would have been difficult to get otherwise.

it all depends on how many bonuses the map has to offer to your primary skills AND if a hero that has no logistics specialty could get to be developed better than the starting one. it all depends on your luck - your much wanted hero could be trapped (and having bad skills taken) in a prison - or could have been taken by your opponents in the meantime. you may have bad luck in having to choose more than one of two crap secondary skills on your starting hero so it's very useful to buy another hero and keep him ready to be later develop if need be.

all this being said... i really like Mephala on large maps, especially if more than one town of Rampart is/are found and therefore you invest in gold dragons. but i would also take Hack if Mephala is not yet available. Hack usually gets to choose from two skills that are not too much needed (as soon as he levels up to level 2) but he would be a good buy if you find places to learn secondary skills for free before he earns XP and levels up.

usually i take Kyrre or Ivor as a starting hero - meaning that almost every time the choice is between these two before the game starts - depending on the type of map. so either stick with the starting hero as being a main one late game or not.
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adipe
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posted January 02, 2021 05:50 PM

Phoenix4ever said:
Don't you see how completely unbalanced it was?, Logistics specialists were the best heroes in the game, they might still be.
Intellligence specialists could also get pretty insane.


i think the nerf to logistics is not too much and Kyrre is still a good pick for a starting hero. Ivor could be safer because of offense on top of archery. picking one of these two as a start you risk not being able to later get Mephala.

if Alkin is later available and you are missing on Mephala (and you miss others too)... take Alkin.

i'd say Alkin is better for Rampart than Ivor later on... after you lose most of the elves or just because of getting to have a much larger force of melee attackers - even if you have no losses before fighting your opponent. but it's great to have a powerful start with either Ivor/Kyrre before you switch to whatever would be better later on (from what's available), depending on circumstances such as the abundance of places to level up more than one hero.

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posted February 14, 2021 02:24 PM

Huh guys,
What about Jenova? She is OP for me!

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