Totally agree with jttm and Fenelia. Watching twitch streams and asking questions will help you learn the game better. I'll be streaming tonight at around 6:30pm EST. Drop by and request that I play Catherine and I'd love to! A quick tip to add to what's above: Use scout traps for map awareness and make sure to have boots to be everywhere all the time. A great catherine player will be involved in over 75% of your team's points :)

My ping has gotten a lot better since the update. What device do you use?

I would go for whoever you like to play more, or will play more often. As long as you're able to play your role well and be a team player, both are great :)

BlueBadger has a great guide explaining different damage and game calculations: http://www.vaingloryfire.com/vainglory/guide/complete-guide-to-vainglorys-hidden-stats-and-calculations-by-an-engineer-4311#Critical%20Hits The link will go straight to the Crit section :)

@SexyMonkeyKing You don't like Cyrstal Shank SAW? Pretty awesome if played right :P

In game and on this site they both say 1.5%. If it was 15%, that would be amazingly OP! Here's why: For this example, let's assume you just picked up a shatterglass. With Bloodsong maxed you get 475 base damage with 30% CP bonus comes to 509.5 damage. Each stack gives 20 bonus damage, at 20 stacks that's 400 before CP bonus. With shatterglass you get 34.5 bonus CP damage, all in total it comes to 944 damage. That's pretty impressive. If you do the same math but with 15% bonus CP...

You are on the right track. Crystal power increases ability damage while Weapon power increases basic attack damage. For defending, shield blocks crystal and armor blocks weapon. skaarf is about the only hero that only works well with one damage type (crystal), because he is a mage and meant to be played that way. Otherwise, just find which playstyle you like better and use it. Take a look at the hero guides and if one hero is mainly being built one way, it's most likely the more...

If you're having technical difficulties you should try to get those smoothed out before entering a match. Being down an ally for most or all of a match degrades the expereince for other players who stay the whole match.

For a support build on adagio. I think clockwork is awesome. You are right, though, the burst heal will not work until the hot is done, but that's why you're playing support - to heal others. Just keep track of who still has the hot on them and who doesn't so you can more effectively use gift of fire. And if you need to still support them, use that warhorn to get them out of the situation :)

The bonus health scaling is for any additional health ardan has. So if he has a crucible, vanguard gains an additional 350 health to the barrier (which is why almost everyone plays him with a Crucible). It does not take his base stats into consideration. @HuntressBianca ardan's gauntlet really isn't a threat if you have a reflex block to get in or out of it. Even with all 3 opponents and minions attacking your turret, they shouldn't be able to take it down in the time gauntlet is up. Just...