I played only few MOBA’s - League of Legends, DotA2, Heroes of the Storm and one free to play MOBA through steam, but it wasn’t very good.
Dota2 is too hard for me, I started with playing LoL, but the community in this game is… toxic? I dunno, just couldn’t enjoy the game if played solo.
The Heroes if the Storm is fine, but sometimes I think it’s too easy. And none of my friends is playing that, so again - solo queue.
How about you? Do you play some MOBA different than this three? Or maybe you’re looking for some more players to make great team?
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Smite very rarely for funsies, otherwise DotA or LoL.
Sadly after the change to Source 2 performance in DotA dropped too much for me so I’m stuck with League for now.
Heroes is pretty much terrible design to me - I play it only with 3-4 other friends to help them do dailies. It also uses the SC 2 engine and networking while having way worse performance.
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I must admit that I never really tried any MOBA. I played Guardians of Middle-Earth once and just didn’t understand the mechanics, so I ditched that game.
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I’ve put quite a few hours into SMITE, but haven’t played in awhile. I prefer that style of MOBA over the DOTA and League.
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Atm I still play a good amount of heroes. It’s much easier to have casual games with friends and I love playing with Blizzard IP. I may be a bit (huge amount) of a Blizz fanboy. I totally agree about it being less complex and I respect DOTA over league in that sense as well. I miss WC3 custom games 
I wish SC2 could deliver like it did.
Another pretty fun MOBA is Strife. It’s definitely a more simplistic MOBA but it’s a lot of fun and has some unique mechanics. The game is also insanely beautiful and has a cool personality.
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Dawngate was by far. It’s a game that I personally felt was doing just about everything right and wasn’t just my favorite MOBA, it was one of my favorite games ever and it still, over a year later, makes me sad that it was cancelled. LoL is a distant second, and after that I really don’t care too much for any of the others dozen or so MOBA’s I’ve tried.
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Dawngate had a lot of potential, really a shame it died
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HOTS by far
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Dawngate was by far my favorite, and I were very sad when it got canceled.
I have played several games of Dota 2, but I don’t want to play it alone, so I don’t play it often.
League of Legends is by far the one I have spend the most time on, but I don’t really like it that much anymore. I liked it more back around season two.
Smite I played a good chuck of during the beta, but never stuck around play it after the official release.
And then there is Heroes of the Storm, which never really grabbed me. It just feels too simple compared to the others.
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*high fives @frst * 
I’m a former WC3 custom player too. I used to play a LOT of Dota, but as the game was getting more and more complex, I started losing interest in it. I also solo-queued most of the time and it was really frustrating to be stuck in up to 1 hour long games at times, where you knew you’re going to lose from 10th minute. Later when Dota 2 came out, I stopped playing it after a while.
LoL was never my cup of tea, I didn’t like the characters, I felt the whole “backstory” of LoL was weird. Also after a while, I hit the same issues I left in Dota 2 + some really toxic community at that time.
Heroes of the Storm was like a blessing. I’m also a fan and long time player of Blizzard games (Diablo, Warcraft and some Starcraft:BW), I was familiar with the setting and many characters were already well-known to me. In my opinion, HotS is really much easier to pick up, but it is surprisingly hard to master due to the wide variety of talents, different team combinations and the interaction between them. Games usually last only around 20 minutes, but the fastest can be only 7 minutes long, which is much more friendly than your average Dota match. I can only say that I don’t miss the items at all 
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I find it rather interesting how my history with the genre is nearly identical to yours until a divergence point a little before HotS came out - about the time I managed to gather a group of friends for regular DotA 2 games and really get into it.
After that HotS and LoL felt paler and never really grabbed me as much. Personally HotS to me is a strange case - it has potential but is kind of actually lost and unrealized. It’s really not that complicated of a game and the top builds are quite obvious and prevalent for a lot of characters - Evident in Blizzard’s way of balancing too as they mostly just nerf the build of the month and occasionally rework figured out heroes - like they did with Nova. I’m really unhappy with their design for the game so far. Honestly without the map variation that game would have very little going for it. But that is an opinion - and the advantages of faster games and not having to deal with the game’s community are there - just not something I can appreciate or actually want out of my MOBAs.
Anyhow, I’m still impressed how much of a divisive yet stagnant genre it is. Like the RTS of yore - the formula is very slowly iterated over but we’ve yet to really see a huge departure or evolution from the old Aeon of Strife that solidified into the first WC3 DotA maps. And just like RTS it feels like it’s on a time limit. Unless something big happens - I don’t see it surviving another 5 years in it’s current form, despite my love for it.
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I don’t usually play many moba’s and when I do, it’s usually just against bots. But, I’m enjoying Paragon at the moment. Very rad if your into shooter style moba’s.
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CANCER? What’s your favorite?
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@frst I must admit that I never actually played the original DotA. 
No one ever tried to show me this and I’m not good with classic RTS, the mods not mentioned. Even SC2 never got me into it in PvP - I played only few real RTS and it was always campaign versus AI. I wanted to try SC2 campaign to learn how to play SC2 PVP but I was told that units in the matches are different than in campaign, so.
@MoonGuard Well, right now I have pretty strong team to play LoL. The thing is - I had break over a year or two - I think that last time I played regularly the new character was Rengar, so… There is a lot of changes and it’s hard to come back. I manage now with bots, but have no idea how to build champions PvP. And to be honest about two hours to play three or four games is a lot of time.
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@mazabin A service like championify could be pretty helpful for your first games so you don’t really have to consider builds while adjusting back to the game. Otherwise I’ve been in the same boat both with LoL and DotA, breaks, switching over, etc. There’s always a month or so of adjustment until the game “clicks” again, nothing to be done about it except gather some friends and just try to make it painless.
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It’s never too late to try it. Setting up is not that hard, you only need Warcraft 3 with the expansion patched to latest patch, then you download a DotA map file from http://www.getdota.com/ and you can play. There’s also an AI map, and if you want to play with people, but you don’t have an official battle.net account, you can also play using different free services such as WC3arena or eurobattle.net.
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I liked winning in League, but couldn’t stand losing. If we dominated, it was so fun, but it we were losing at any point in the game, the team often became toxic and winning felt more like “I’m glad this is over.”
I love Heroes of the storm because its simplicity. I’ve been playing a few months now and it’s pretty easy to get a couple of friends to play and talk about other things on voice chat while playing. Idk how Blizzard did it, but I probably only see toxic players 1/10 games compared to League in ~7/10 games.
If I’m looking for a challenge, I prefer League because it rewards doing well a lot more than Heroes.
If I’m looking to have fun with friends, I prefer Heroes because even if we lose, I still have lots of fun.
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Never really liked anything other than league very much personally, and while I do have something like 1.2k hours on it I pretty much only play with at least one friend, otherwise you have to go in trying to be super positive which is a lot of effort for me and you’ll probably still have to mute a bunch of people.
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I was using mobafire.com for builds, but I must admit, that championify looks great. I’ll check this out, and maybe playing lol with this will be a little bit better. 
Thanks a lot for that.
@PsojedI good to know, that playing original is still possible. Thanks for that, I think I’ll try that.
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Does Duck Game count? 
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