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Vox – Release date and early access

Vox_early_access
Source: www.vainglorygame.com

The Vainglory devs have announced that Vox will be available for purchase with ICE already this Wednesday (1st of April). If you want to spend Glory to get Vox you’ll have to wait until Saturday (4th of April) in order to be able to get him.

Importance of getting Vox using ICE

We all love Vainglory and I personally really like the way Super Evil Megacorp treats the community. Not a lot of devs listen to the players and interact with the community as much as SEMC. Remember also that the game is free to download and free to play. For now, the only income source for the devs is based on players purchasing ICE. We don’t want SEMC to be forced to “sell themselves to” (sign with) some bad large publishers that only care about money and don’t give a rat’s ass about the users. Continue reading Vox – Release date and early access

Vainglory Update reveal (27th of Match 2015)

SEMC has reveal some details about the coming update. I will try to summarize and review some of the news below.

Vox

Vox
New hero – Vox

The biggest reveal is about the new hero, Vox, a sniper with a short range but high mobility and interesting cool abilities. Read more about Vox in this dedicated post.

Spectator mode

Spectator_mode
Spectator mode

The other biggest (at least for streamers 🙂 ) news about the upcoming update is Spectator mode. This has already been revealed during the PAX East event. This update will let players add 2 spectators (one on each team )to parties for private matches. Spectator mode is a great news for streamers like me, guild and mostly for leagues. Until now people have been competing by playing 2vs2 matches with special rules (lane only, 4 kill or 2 turrets = win) while having the 3rd player in each team act as a spectator. Continue reading Vainglory Update reveal (27th of Match 2015)

Vainglory update – new hero Vox

The new Vainglory hero has been revealed on the Friday (27th of March) official Vainglory stream.

For the ones not up to date with the lore, Vox is Ardan’s son and Celeste brother. Their mother name is Julia.

It has been confirmed that Vox is sniper. He has a short range, possibly the shortest in the game, but he compensates for it with his abilities a dash/leap and the second one that makes his basic attacks bounce between targets.

Abilities

Here is a short presentation of Vox with information from the official stream:

  • Heroic perk – “Julia’s song” gives Vox a damage block while he uses his basic attacks. It also allows his basic attacks to bounce between enemies affect by “Resonance”. More about resonance under ability B
  • Ability A – “Sonic zoom” let’s Vox dash into the chosen direction (zoom into fight 🙂 ) and immediately after deals 2 consecutive basic attacks. The attacks will prioritise enemy heroes if they are in range. If no heroes are in range, the attacks will hit the nearest enemy. These attacks will not get Kraken agro, that is they will not hit the Kraken if the Krake isn’t already under attack.
  • Ability B – “Pulse” is like a sonar ping that affects the enemies in different ways:
    – it applies Resonance on all the affected enemies. Vox basic attacks will bounce on the enemies affected by Resonance.

    Vox Pulse ability

    – it also reveals the position of enemy units. While it is not revealing if it is a hero, which hero or if it is an enemy or neutral minion (in other words it doesn’t give vision), the ability is marking the position of affected enemies even though they are in the fog of war. It is not clear yet if Pulse will reveal Taka’s position while he is in the box.

    Vox Pulse reveals enemies’ positions

     

    – it also slows enemies and the slow effect is more powerful near Vox and it gets less powerful away from the hero.

  • Ultimate – “Wait for it“. Yes! This is the actual name of his ulti. Vox’s ulti is directional much like Celeste’s and it is composed of 2 parts:
    – first there is a bolt (called “Sonic Wave”) the travels in the indicated direction and applies resonance on all the enemies in it’s path.

    Vox Ulti part 1

    – the second part is a wide shock wave that explodes along the path and deals Crystal Damage (to the enemies affected by Resonance? – this is a bit unclear atm).

    Vox Ulti part 2

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