Some advice for new and newish players joining DoTa2

[to0kenZA]

HoN constantly evolves, and get new content on a weekly, bi weekly basis. DOTA2 on the other hand, will always be DotA with minor tweaks. If you want something new and interesting, with smooth netcode, have cast ranges enabled by default, with lots of mod capabilities that allows the user to customize their game; HoN is the better option. Metagame constantly changes and is dynamic, doesn't give you much time to adapt.
Although Midwars is great for just playing casually and killing stuff.

If you hate change, well DOTA2 does a pretty good job at staying the same as it's DotA counterpart where new content is half a year affair. You can come back to it from a long absence and jump right in.

Pretty much sums it up for me

Dafuq is a hard support? Sven can handle suicide lane pretty easy as long as you have the jungle warded and a support to help you. Also since you are the carry in the lane you should buy the wards and not the support.

Hmm, I'll make sure not to choose you as my support when I play carry :P

PS. Support heroes are there to support. Buy wards, health potions, mana potions for the carry. When I play dazzle for instance, I buy everything for the carry. I once played a Dazzle bought absolutely no items that game except for boots. I was perma running and TP'ing around planting sentry and observer wards everywhere, TP'ing back to the team to heal etc. After winning almost all the teamfights and taking the raxxes, I had in excess of 6000 gold which I only then used to buy items. That was about 35 mins into the game. You don't really need lots of items when playing support. The main goal is to do just that, support.

If you expect the carry to buy wards in the beginning of the game, that's just nonsensical. I'd rather have the carry get his treads or whichever first than asking him to buy wards.