Thats why I said situational, not core.
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Dota 2 Beta Thread: [Brewmaster]
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Thats why I said situational, not core.
yeah just get a sheep.
droppedbear
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Just played my first game against other people and actually won it. Went 10/5/24 as lion but had horrible CS/denying (really need to work on it) but was trying to help the team out with wards, courier, etc.
Oh well, was lots of fun but I am sooo bad at last hitting that it's not really funny. Oh well, back to practice against bots again.
Oh well, was lots of fun but I am sooo bad at last hitting that it's not really funny. Oh well, back to practice against bots again.
Nice to see Swag's build helping out new players.
Spent hours playing some inhouses (and one MM game) with some Bungie guys, EazyB, and Trasher. Played as Earthshaker the first two times (1-1, did well the first and awfully the second), Omniknight (won and did well by my team), and then I randomed Clockwerk in our MM game.
Our entire team hit random, and we wound up with no carries. The enemy team basically picked 4. We did draw Prophet, which would turn out to be vital. The enemy team picked Broodmother, so it was often a battle of who could push the hardest. For my part, happening upon Clock worked out. First timer, I latched no more than 20% of the hookshots I attempted, but his skills turned out to be useful against the lineup we were facing. The rockets were handy in a pinch to deflate a BM push (spiderlings are so fragile against them, saved our mid rax on one occasion while helping teammates dismantle the enemy's bottom), and my cogs were useful for deflecting and delaying N'aix when he flew into Rage and had his sights set on a teammate's backside. Prophet backdoored like a maniac, and we each did our darndest to get our ults off and win teamfights (Earthshaker, VS, and Lina in particular).
Bar none, the longest, strangest, and funniest game of Dota I've yet played. There was so much action and the game constantly hung in the balance. We at long last finished off their Ancient, ourselves down full barracks in the top and middle lanes, our bottom barracks naked, and our own Ancient exposed. I can't imagine being on the other end of this. I couldn't imagine winning this.
"Big plays!" - Replay (id: 1626092)
Our entire team hit random, and we wound up with no carries. The enemy team basically picked 4. We did draw Prophet, which would turn out to be vital. The enemy team picked Broodmother, so it was often a battle of who could push the hardest. For my part, happening upon Clock worked out. First timer, I latched no more than 20% of the hookshots I attempted, but his skills turned out to be useful against the lineup we were facing. The rockets were handy in a pinch to deflate a BM push (spiderlings are so fragile against them, saved our mid rax on one occasion while helping teammates dismantle the enemy's bottom), and my cogs were useful for deflecting and delaying N'aix when he flew into Rage and had his sights set on a teammate's backside. Prophet backdoored like a maniac, and we each did our darndest to get our ults off and win teamfights (Earthshaker, VS, and Lina in particular).
Bar none, the longest, strangest, and funniest game of Dota I've yet played. There was so much action and the game constantly hung in the balance. We at long last finished off their Ancient, ourselves down full barracks in the top and middle lanes, our bottom barracks naked, and our own Ancient exposed. I can't imagine being on the other end of this. I couldn't imagine winning this.
"Big plays!" - Replay (id: 1626092)
Carries =/= win especially since most carries tend to lack stun and other spells that only support, gankers, or initiators can provide.
One thing newcomers to DotA need to learn is that support, gank, or initiator, carry, are simple guidelines to assist hero selection when indecisive. They are in no way absolutes that must be adhered to for success.
Uhh. :|
But not at 90mins with god like items. You just roll in like America did in Iraq, brute force. I'm guessing they just got messed around with Nature's Prophet backdooring constantly etc.
The other team should have just all gone mid and taken the tree, ignore kills and focus to take out mid structure's, with that crazy dps it will only take seconds.
This will force a initiation by the other team on your team as they can't just let you take structure's for free, which results in a free initiation for your team and just sweep up.
I mean they have sniper and with his range...you don't even need to tank towers.
Well I wear my noob on my sleeve then!
Right click the item; the items will be broken up on the ground.
Speaking of which, is it normal when you drop an item and it becomes immaterial and can't be picked up for a while?
MILKMAN CAN YOU EXPLAIN THIS LINA FOR ME
SWIFT WITH THE BIG PLAY LINA. Actually Swift loves Lina and does really well with her. He was probably just tired of playing a support Lina since he plays her so much. I would trust Swift with Lina over any other Lina player.
Can't get it to work, when I right click an item I get a dropdown menu with "view in shop" and "sell".
It should be in that drop down menu. What items are you trying to dissemble? Maybe it's bugged.
Spent hours playing some inhouses (and one MM game) with some Bungie guys, EazyB, and Trasher. Played as Earthshaker the first two times (1-1, did well the first and awfully the second), Omniknight (won and did well by my team), and then I randomed Clockwerk in our MM game.
Our entire team hit random, and we wound up with no carries. The enemy team basically picked 4. We did draw Prophet, which would turn out to be vital. The enemy team picked Broodmother, so it was often a battle of who could push the hardest. For my part, happening upon Clock worked out. First timer, I latched no more than 20% of the hookshots I attempted, but his skills turned out to be useful against the lineup we were facing. The rockets were handy in a pinch to deflate a BM push (spiderlings are so fragile against them, saved our mid rax on one occasion while helping teammates dismantle the enemy's bottom), and my cogs were useful for deflecting and delaying N'aix when he flew into Rage and had his sights set on a teammate's backside. Prophet backdoored like a maniac, and we each did our darndest to get our ults off and win teamfights (Earthshaker, VS, and Lina in particular).
Bar none, the longest, strangest, and funniest game of Dota I've yet played. There was so much action and the game constantly hung in the balance. We at long last finished off their Ancient, ourselves down full barracks in the top and middle lanes, our bottom barracks naked, and our own Ancient exposed. I can't imagine being on the other end of this. I couldn't imagine winning this.
"Big plays!" - Replay (id: 1626092)
I fucking suck at this game. I am a goddamn disgrace, aside from the whole "still in my first week of playing DOTA2 and haven't played HoN or LoL or DOTA1 in four years" part. We'll play again this week Botolf
Restart Steam, worked for me the other day.
Every time I get that I have to restart Steam.
Basically, I think it came down to our team (by utter necessity) sticking together virtually all the time and having to steal whatever advantage we could (especially with Prophet's built-in backdoor capability).
We pushed down lanes and towers whenever possible (made easier with Prophet), so we held a tower and rax advantage for most of the game. Their Lifestealer and Broodmother would at times wander or push alone, which naturally gave the 5 of us opportunities to jump in and beat down the admittedly tanky and scary solo hero. They sat on the sidelines for quite a long time when this happened (their team eventually began saving buyback money en masse, and we made it habit as well), which let us continually push as 5. We were desperate the entire game, their desperation only matched it late. Even when they stormed mid to finally kill that set of barracks (on a previous push we had left it to wipe out their bottom, rockets cleared up the spiderlings left to take it, our team was in minor disbelief that the mid was still up, we only realized when we got back :lol), what remained of our team refused to engage, we held behind the ancient and stalled the push as best we could.
Flinging things at walls until they stuck, that's basically the essence of the victory. Well worth a watch!
S'all good, had a blast with you fellows. Definitely in for more games, even random ones where I have to play (and fail at) first-time heroes
best comic ever
Also I forgot to tell you guys that I had a Dota dream with Kagete in it last night. It was like first person though, I was actually Lion (not just playing him, ACTUALLY him) running away from Kagete who was Clockwerk (basically Clockwerk with Kagete's voice). We were in the Dire jungle and the jungle extended about 5 maps wide. Eventually I got lost, but I could hear him screaming at me through the trees. And then I woke up. It was terrifying.
Also I forgot to tell you guys that I had a Dota dream with Kagete in it last night. It was like first person though, I was actually Lion (not just playing him, ACTUALLY him) running away from Kagete who was Clockwerk (basically Clockwerk with Kagete's voice). We were in the Dire jungle and the jungle extended about 5 maps wide. Eventually I got lost, but I could hear him screaming at me through the trees. And then I woke up. It was terrifying.
Give Lich a go.
All I took from this is that your having dreams about Kagete.
close to the edge
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Dazzle is a pretty good solo, hard to kill and can farm with Healing Wave easily. Also Poison Touch gives him some ganking ability.
close to the edge
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Yeah, I was surprised. I would have preferred laning with Slardar (mate) but it turned out fine. I laned against the BS who was pretty terrible, so that doesn't really say much but it was pretty fun.
jealous?
Nah my dreams are filled with K Pop idols, shoutout to OrangeCaramel!
LOL JK, I have boring dreams about my friends 
Laning against BS is a pain, had to do it with Zeus once, so hard to keep his HP down cause of Feast, especially on a hero that can't out deny him
issOh hells yes!
Lactose_Intolerant
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It's cause my item builds are the best item builds.
Also Trasher redeemed? Confirmed the Ursa release
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