An Advanced guide to Geometers Bane by Euls
Geometers Bane
Components- Slash, Blessed Orb and a 500g Recipe.
Want DPS?
Geometer’s Bane – or if your still old school, the Manta. Well this is an item that is definitely one of the most underused damage items you can buy in HoN.
Back in the days of Dota, it use to be a primo item on the likes of a ranged carry, and you most often saw it being used on Mirana.
However, for HoN – this item not only makes many other dps items look silly, but it also plays a staple part of many carries builds and hardly any people realize it.
I wouldnt call this item underused. many agil carries get it
I use it on every agil i play
good on any agi hero that has some sort of passive stun or bonus damage or aura. Other then that, getting the thunder claw and this is a good combo as well
Geo is great with hound.
The illusions carry over the backstab ability (If it is leveled)
i agree with that.. hound with geometer.. 3 backstabs.. ouch!! it hurts
with cronos also.. it’s good to carry geometer
it’s a question as old as dota itself. why aren’t people getting “x-item” over H&S (old sange and yasha) or battlefury (runed axe).
answer is simple, if you’re unsure about the way you play (lack last hitting, taking long to farm, don’t know when to gank, how to gank, how to get kills without wasting your ulti on 1 dead target and so on) you’re more likely to get items with cheap components.
S&Y is a very expensive item but since most “low-skilled* (some hero’s it’s good on I know that) spend most of the game trying to get it they don’t see that they could have had a better item instead. Same goes for runed axe, people think they need passive mana/health regen rather than 3 consumables they will get sustainer on nearly every carry they play which ends up becoming runed axe.
Back to geomancers, while it is a good item, a lot of people I know rather get items taht give passive stats/bonuses’ than having to press 1 button or 1 shortcut on your keyboard (look just for fun around 1500 the correlation between APM and items). This plus the 2100g orb that doesn’t really do that much for them in their eyes they won’t get it usually.
An important thing to note about using geo with hound is the following:
• You must have backstab leveled for the illusions to carry it over.
• The illusions do 33% ATTACK DAMAGE
• Backstab is added to your ATTACK DAMAGE and is therefore reduced.
• Essentially your two illusions combined do only 66% of your agility as
backstab damage.
thank you Kahgar, you’re completely right. As I’m noobish I buy in the way you’re talking about. When i get geometer’s I end up almost always forgetting to use it, which makes it worthless. I’d rather go with a safer s&y, which is what I tend to buy for carries. When i get used to using active items more I’ll get it, but for now passive items are much better for me.
Its hard to believe you’d get this and forget >> I’ve used geo’s bane and it’s so awesome on carries who actually can use it. Especailly nighthound or maliken who can just do Alot of damage in a short time. Not to mention that chronos can perma stun with this. ALot of people would choose items over this, but they are sorely mistaken since the illusions makes a huge difference in fights.
well I’m sorry that I’m a bad player theowne, please forgive me…
Puppet and chronos are the two best heroes with geometers