I recognize it's very early to criticize, and I haven't made completely made up my mind about the new map. My two cents:

1) With no jungle around Vilemaw, there's no mystery/excitement surrounding him. In the old TT, you'd see one or two people disappear in the top jungle and you'd worry..."Are they doing Dragon? Are they just jungling?" And you'd have to go check, and be terrified you'd get jumped on. I loved that.

2) With so many jungle entrances to the lane, any sort of laning phase is difficult. It is a non-stop champ killing fest similar to both Dominion and bad kung-fu movies. I think I'd like to see just one less entrance on each side...to keep that mixture of feeling safe sometimes and unsafe others...as opposed to being constantly vulnerable if you aren't near your towers.

Thoughts?

I agree.

Agreed.

yea.. I do agree too.. Also there is no chance of a good gank in top jungle, because it is completely void of any bushes or hiding spot near the buff monster.

The one thing i hate about the new map is the alters, theyre too much of a distraction from pushing lanes.

This is not an alter poo-pooing thread.

People who played TT: Hate new map
People who didn't play TT: Love the new map
Solution: Make two separate maps!

I just don't understand the brush right next to the towers. I mean it's so easy for them to tower dive you when all they do is take a few steps to go back into the brush and lose the aggro.