Dominion is LiveFollow

For those of you still playing League of Legends, Dominion went live today.

And it's actually pretty dang fun.

Anyone here even play any more? It might be worth checking out again.

What is Dominion, an expansion or a hero?

(It's actually a really fun and popular card game)

I think it's best described as King of the Hill mode. Except there's 5 separate hills spread across a map.

The way it works is that each side's Nexus has a set amount of hit points. By controlling more capture points than the opponent, the opponent's Nexus begins to lose hit points. The team whose Nexus hits 0 first loses.

They've also made quite a few changes from regular DotA, as well. Namely, far less creeps (but they're a lot more powerful), turrets being an actual threat even in endgame, the passive gold generation is dramatically increased, and everyone takes more damage/heals for less.

Their goal was to make a new game mode that doesn't take nearly as long to play a round as DotA does. And it's pretty much worked so far. It's a lot of fun.

One thing in particular I like is that a lot of under-used characters that are just underwhelming in regular DotA have made a comeback in the new mode, usually because their abilities are just better suited for the new map or something.

It's a lot of fun, and worth checking out. Especially since it's free. The only downside is that most of the community needs to be set on fire.

Edited, Sep 26th 2011 6:43pm by IDrownFish

You also have more incentive to get better K/D ratios, which is good for people who don't play as kamikazes.

And there are significant buff systems in place.

I play Lol fairly regularly, username being Allegorical.

Played my first dominion and won, but I was fairly clueless about what occurred outside of capturing points and ganking.

Oh god, pantheon is so good here.

Having played a lot of LoL I can honestly say I don't have the slightest clue who you mean.

I think you're thinking of Cho'gath. At the moment he's fairly good, but he's never been overpowered. He's less likely to get 30 kills and 0 deaths than he is to get 30 assists and 0 deaths. He itemizes well for tankiness making him one of the hardest peopel to kill and has aoe disables, but he doesn't do much damage.

I'm a little late to this party. But idiggory, add me! Party Escort is my summoner name!