I'm in the beta for HoN.
It really is an exact clone of DOTA, but they've made a ton of little refinements to improve the game. My favourite change is that there's only one vendor now (plus the secret shop), so you don't have to remember which guy sells a particular item. Another nice improvement is that you can click on a completed item from the vendor, and it will open a sub-menu showing the different pieces it takes to make the item, allowing you to buy them directly from there.
The player community is just as awful as DOTA's, though. Even if you join a game set for "Noobs only" people will still yell and be mean to someone who's learning how to play and dying a lot.
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