I played this too. It’s fun, although I’m terrible at MOBAs.
I would invite all of y’all that I could, but I don’t feel comfortable putting my steam name out there on lemmy for privacy reasons. Sorry =(
How intense is the item/upgrade shop? Like, is it gonna take me months to master or are most upgrades fairly straightforward?
It’s not too daunting. It has the same guide system as dota so you can just pick a build someone else made and follow it to learn them. It also has a lot of voice lines to help with reacting to item effects, like the item with an active that makes you invulnerable to bullets makes heroes say a “I can’t shoot them” or “don’t waste your ammo” voice line.
The upgrades do seem pretty straightforward as far as wording, but I didn’t fully understand how some of the “spirit” ones worked, so I might look it up elsewhere before I play again. I just bought the “recommended” items, but I also kept getting demolished, so maybe I need to branch out.