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Dota 2 Beta Thread: [Brewmaster]
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Blink is always good and has short cooldown. Dagger only works if there is a barrier to go through and in a team fight many times Haunts is just worthless as an escape, since everyone is there. Spectre's escape are much more situational.
Dont forget drum and medallion.
Didn't think people like this existed in betas, but my team has a guy feeding the opponent. Dude is basically afk at our top tower and runs in the enemy as they come, done it now 3 times and someone is also running our courier there. Another player started afking in base. Great.
edit: And now we have an animal courier inside our flying courier.
edit: And now we have an animal courier inside our flying courier.
The_Player
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[QUOTE="random dota2 player" ]DNINA EBANAYA
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Oh, ruskies. Offensive language, offensive language everywhere.
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Oh, ruskies. Offensive language, offensive language everywhere.
Nice. Will there be a flying mini-Pudge?
Jet powered farts.
Woo-Fu
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I think you mean fart-powered jets.
I found this interesting: list of voice actors and the heroes they worked on.
GLAdOS is Broodmother.
Also, Puck is officially a girl.
GLAdOS is Broodmother.
Also, Puck is officially a girl.
So after a few weeks playing in the beta I've narrowed down some of my favorite heroes and would like to start working on improving with them.
Here's the list of my top favorites. Morphling, Faceless Void, Windrunner, Puck and Enigma. I don't have any problem playing support characters and in Pubs I'll fill whatever role is lacking on our team. I've probably spent as much time in practice matches as I have in random Pubs with a bunch of characters but, I would like to learn to play a carry more effectively since that is the role I have found most enjoyable. Does anyone have any tips on farming? Specifically with Morphling, I have a really hard time keeping up in terms of gold and xp.
Random side note. Out of the 30 something matches I've played I have actually only run into 1 really big douche. I was worried after my experience with HoN that things might be even worse but so far so good. *knock on wood*
Here's the list of my top favorites. Morphling, Faceless Void, Windrunner, Puck and Enigma. I don't have any problem playing support characters and in Pubs I'll fill whatever role is lacking on our team. I've probably spent as much time in practice matches as I have in random Pubs with a bunch of characters but, I would like to learn to play a carry more effectively since that is the role I have found most enjoyable. Does anyone have any tips on farming? Specifically with Morphling, I have a really hard time keeping up in terms of gold and xp.
Random side note. Out of the 30 something matches I've played I have actually only run into 1 really big douche. I was worried after my experience with HoN that things might be even worse but so far so good. *knock on wood*
Chibiterasu -> Amaterasu courier models plz. Mini pudge lolol
close to the edge
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I'm not sure where exactly your issue with farming is, but if it's the actual last-hitting, there's not much to do except practice. Try to memorize the time it takes for your animation and the shot to land on the creep. It's a little different for every hero, for example, with Zeus, you can see a small lightning flash shortly before he actually fires the shot, things like that can help you with aligning your shots with the creeps' HP. Of course, a quelling blade can help with farming as well, just because you do more damage and the timing window becomes bigger.
The_Player
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Chrono Helix
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I'm really liking Invoker's lines, especially the incantations. Hope he gets a good voice.
I haven't had enough experience with Drum and Medallion (both added after I quit DOTA years ago) to say anything about them.
drums for the nice extra ms/as and stats and good on ck
medallion to kill a target faster aka lycan taking down rosh faster
alt q, alt w, alt e
alt a, alt s, alt d
Oh man, this didn't even cross my mind. I was doing some absolutely bonkers garbage with my keyboard.
Thanks.
I bought a Razer Naga when I was still really big into WoW, and even though it's marketed as an MMO mouse, it's proved to be so useful in other games as well. In Dota, I have all my items bound to the thumb buttons.
I have mine as 1,2,3 for the top and z,x,c for the bottom
GhostRidah
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Yea its a great mouse, just hope you get a working one, every mouse I get from Razer breaks within a month (no I don't pound on it)
Seems you can spectate people not on your friends list by doing the following:
It requires their Steam profile to be public, however.
1. Launch your game, make sure the console is enabled.
2. Shift-tab or Alt-tab and go to their Steam profile.
3. Click "Join game in progress"
Your console will print out something like this:
Connecting to public(146.66.152.146:27019) ...
74.950: Sending UDP connect to public IP 146.66.152.146:27019
Disconnect: You must be in a lobby to connect.
4. Copy and paste the ip and port, and change the port accordingly:
270xx=280yy, where yy=xx+5
For example, port 27019 tranlates into 28024
5. Type into console: connect iport
For example: connect 146.66.152.146:28024
From the dev forums.
It requires their Steam profile to be public, however.
1. Launch your game, make sure the console is enabled.
2. Shift-tab or Alt-tab and go to their Steam profile.
3. Click "Join game in progress"
Your console will print out something like this:
Connecting to public(146.66.152.146:27019) ...
74.950: Sending UDP connect to public IP 146.66.152.146:27019
Disconnect: You must be in a lobby to connect.
4. Copy and paste the ip and port, and change the port accordingly:
270xx=280yy, where yy=xx+5
For example, port 27019 tranlates into 28024
5. Type into console: connect ip
ortFor example: connect 146.66.152.146:28024
From the dev forums.
close to the edge
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Number keys? (1-6) They are directly above QWER. Extra mouse buttons (if you have any) are also pretty neat for that. Alt+Q, Alt-W etc. are used for turning orb effect-type attacks on or off (Drow's Frost Arrows etc.) which I always like having.
The description on one of her moves clearly states that Puck is a "she". I don't know why there'd be confusion with it but a lot of people seem to think Puck is a guy.I found this interesting: list of voice actors and the heroes they worked on.
GLAdOS is Broodmother.
Also, Puck is officially a girl.
Might be because he was a guy in DotA
Puck was a male in DotA, and the name "Puck" historically implies a male figure.
By this logic, Bart Simpson is officially a girl.
Because Puck was a male elf in Berserk.
jim-jam bongs
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream)
Cultured GAF shakes its collective head at this thread.
Cultured GAF shakes its collective head at this thread.
Puck says "A mid summer's nightmare" when she dies. ;_;
They go out of their way in the "Lore" section to refer to Puck as "it," genderless. The she in the ultimate text must be an oversight.
I found this interesting: list of voice actors and the heroes they worked on.
GLAdOS is Broodmother.
Also, Puck is officially a girl.
They have had the VA listed on the wiki for quite a while. I dont think we know who voiced DP though.
Play omni, heal people, shield the carry, win the game.
Miss one heal, never hear the end of it.
Edit: Wasn't puck named after
a character in Shakespeare's play Midsummer night's dream?
They do the same for morphling. Yet they refer to it as a him in his skill tabs, cause no one likes calling a character it over he or she. So yes I guess its an oversight, if by oversight you mean mentioned on three of Puck's skill tabs.
Played my first match vs live people last night and ended up winning. Picked Dazzle, bought the courier and wards, and took the top lane with Tidehunter. The other team seemed kind of disorganized, so we started off against a tri-lane on top, but we were soon able to isolate a couple heros and pick them off.
After that we regrouped for some big team fights where I was able to hit a few well-timed heals and shallow graves so our teams came through with very few deaths. Picked up Arcane Boots and a Mekansm, and with the help of a very strong Broodmother on our team we were able to push straight through to their ancient. Felt good, thanks for the advice!
After that we regrouped for some big team fights where I was able to hit a few well-timed heals and shallow graves so our teams came through with very few deaths. Picked up Arcane Boots and a Mekansm, and with the help of a very strong Broodmother on our team we were able to push straight through to their ancient. Felt good, thanks for the advice!
*I have no expectations that this win will be any indication of future success. I know I suck.
It's mentioned in Phase Shift and nowhere else.
jim-jam bongs
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I have to assume given his propensity for gender-games that somewhere or other William Shakespeare is chortling with delight at this thread.
Look again. Its mentioned in the flavor text multiple times ont he skill tabs.
theinfinityissue
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ugh, gave this a shot but I guess it's just not for me. Haven't managed to get any kills yet as any one of three different characters. Had to turn voice chat off almost immediately so I didn't have to listen to sweaty agitated men frequently from other countries screaming indignantly like their lives were riding on this game. It sucks tho, I wish I could give my beta invite to someone who actually knew what the fuck was going on or at least found this enjoyable.
If you want to spice things up with something else than Omni, try Dazzle. He's definitely an easy hero to use, you immediately get a spell that makes you(or whoever you cast it on) unable to die for 5 seconds + heals. It's a support hero.
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