You were wrong. You should only heavens wrath creeps waves that no one on your team could possibly attack, and if you are both attacking creeps its totally worthless and a waist of a wrath.

Dont steal experience from teammates. The only instance i think its fine, is if your teammates attacking another demigod and killing the creeps around him can tip the scale of engagement in his favor.

If you're both standing on the creeps then you split exp the same way you would have if you'd just killed them normally, so that shouldn't have been an issue other than it's a waste of a fairly long cooldown.

Most of the time people start a game by nuking both creep waves and depriving the rest of exp it's a bad sign though.

It's one of those unwritten rules, but his baby rage quit was dumb, however......you are stealing XP away from your team mates by using it, therefore preventing them from leveling.

As reg, you should be using it on top of your snipe (400 + 250 is half most peoples starting health), and when the team mate is locked in a 1-1 (but wait until their are creeps too)

;o)

Yeah, I hate it when I'm killing towers, and creeps hit on me. Amber Alert!

You would have both gotten xp, but only you got gold.  You also wasted a powerful item on killing weak creeps that your teammate could have easily killed.  It is about the equivalent to Hammer Slamming creeps early on (Later on, it can be necessary).

That said, There really isn't any excuse for him quitting.  A mistake by a teammate, that isn't on the 'you just whiped the team' that early is just not enough to justify a rage quit of any calibre. It'd be like ragequitting when your sedna player doesn't buy monks right away.

I love to use Heaven's Wrath when I play reg (imo the only dg who should ever really get it anyway).  But.. I don't use it every cd.  I used to use it in the other lane while i was killing creeps in my lane for double xp.. but ya.. ur teammates dont liek that

Times to use Heaven's Wrath as Reg:

1.  Extra dmg on snipe.  I've gotten so many fcking kills from wrath on top of snipe that otherwise wouldn't have been kills.

- Can't do this if you wasted it on creeps for no reason.  Good reason to save it.

2.  If you're solo in a lane and attacking a tower with a fresh creep wave all attacking you.  No xp stolen from anyone, and

minimizes your dmg while allowing you to continue doing more important work - killing the tower.

3.  If a lane is abandoned due to you or teammate shopping or capping mid.  Great time to use it

4.  To see someone in the fog so you can snipe them.  Another thing that has gotten me several kills.  "Shit snipe was on cd

and now I can't see them" sucks.  Use wrath where you think they are to catch a glimpse and you have a split second to

target them for snipe.  AWESOME

5.  To get an assist on a kill.  Let's say you can't snipe the guy before he's going to die, or it's already on cd... great time to

wrath just to get a piece of the action and get that assist gold.  Try not to steal the kill though as you could miss getting

an assist at all (plus people don't really like kill stealers but who fckin cares? You're reg.. you snipe.. and you steal kills

)

This.  Gold is pretty damn precious at the beginning of the game.

If there are 2 lanes with a dg in each and reg decides to kill the creeps on my side where I can't get experience for them and spare the ones on his for he can farm, I get a little pissed.  If we are together and reg uses heaven's wrath on us for creep management, I start to wonder about his skill level.  It's not that big a deal though.  If I'm a reg and I've chosen heaven's wrath, I'd typically save it for a kill or some additional damage with snipe and the occassional farming if there are no useful targets available. 

Heaven's wrath is not a noob only item, just be considerate of your teammates so they can level up. 

i only have a 49% win ratio, but personally i've never thought much about using HW on creeps, especially where their paths cross, but nonetheless, it is by far not just a noobish item.  It doesn't help in endgame, but it makes a HUGE difference in early-mid, which then often determines endgame.  a 10lv reg will beat a 7-8lv UB ( depending on the builds and players, but u get the idea).

this has been very interesting.

btw, i think mard's hammer (+40 atk & +%atk spd) is another great item for reg, who has exceptionally low dps.

I must admit I get pretty annoyed when a team mate uses HW when im using BoTS and relying on minions to recharge my mana.

Ahh sounds like he was being a pussy, nothing more, nothing less. 

AFAIK, it's still so that as long as a hero gets the last hit, he gets the gold, no matter if anyone else did the required damage to get gold previously.

Thanks for the replies folks.  I guess when I play in a "pro" game, I'll make sure not to H.W. creep.

However, I still don't think I was wrong in the 2nd use of my H.W. in this scenario.  No enemy players in snipe range, I was killing a tower, the teamate was right next to me, and I killed creep that was hitting both of us.  Maybe could I have used H.W. on to get a kill within the next 45 seconds?  Perhaps... but the ability for me to put another 1-1.5k dmg on the tower was worth it imo.

Either, thanks for the thoughts and helping to shed some insight.