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Dota 2 Beta Thread: [Brewmaster]

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I played a solo matchmakimg today, teamed up with a player who had 600 wins and everyone on our team idolalized him. I dont know if it was because of him, but everyone on our team was being ultra nice, calling mias like no other, admitting mistakes, it almost felt like another game.
Dick Rider syndrome, lots of people will try to get acknowledged by someone famous when they are in a game with them, aside from that, generally the better you get at the game the more inclined you are to realise how your mistakes impact the game, making you rage less, at other people. I tend to only get upset when someone makes an absolutely idiotic mistake that only someone sub 100 games should make.

Seems like there are a lot of new guys; I just got my beta key last week.
Didn't know you played DOTA, how's the burgh.
I like this idea... though if you enter matchmaking, will it look for a team of five at the level of the one good player?
It's honestly hit or miss, sometimes it'll match you against people at your level, and other times it'll just find 5 solo players or 3/2, 4/1 configurations to get your game going, and it seems to be completely random as to when it'll stop looking for a group of 5 in favor of a quicker match. Sometimes it'll take someone good and just throw them together with medium skilled players. It's hard to see consistency with the system unless it's early afternoon / late at night when the pool of players is smaller, or when you do modes such as CM where the pool is much lower then AP.
 
I'm on vacation right now, but when I'm back definitely.

Does anyone have a list of links related to the new player stuff? I only have the Playdota learn guide, and some of the Purge Stuff

I've subscribed to Purge's youtube channel at this point (I highly recommend new players to watch as much stuff on his channel as possible). Most of his videos are highly informative.
 
Ursa core build:
Treads
Hyperstone
Hyperstone
Hyperstone
Hyperstone
Basher
 
That was fun. I kept asking why my NS friend was afking in the lane for no reason getting beat on, though. That was annoying
 
the more i play ursa the more i realize how fucking awful sanjays build is

I only ever get to make Powertreads, Vlads & Heart as then the game is already won but them 3 items are my core build, defending on the situation I have gone Manta/AC/Armlet/Butterfly after the core was done.

I really want to try out Daedalus with Manta one time.

What build did you go, the standard blink one?
 
I only ever get to make Powertreads, Vlads & Heart as then the game is already won but them 3 items are my core build, defending on the situation I have gone Manta/AC/Armlet/Butterfly after the core was done.

I really want to try out Daedalus with Manta one time.

What build did you go, the standard blink one?

I've been using force staff with great success.
 
Hide inside friendly hero/creep, wait for them to be next to an enemy who thinks they are alone (or in a teamfight think it's 5vs4) *bam* out comes lifestealer with explosion damage and suddenly it's 2 vs 1 or 5 vs 5.

Surprise factor plus damage.
1. Get level 3 necrobook
2. infest the creep that also damages when it dies
3. Prophet
 
1. Get level 3 necrobook
2. infest the creep that also damages when it dies
3. Prophet

the last will damage affects the source of the fatal damage, not whatever is in the aoe. And that's only if the fatal damage is hostile, aka not a deny/dark ritual/infest. So this doesn't do shit.
 
So here's for a DotA2-Gaf related story :

Yesterday, as I was playing Mass Effect 3 on PC, I was also on the Mumble channel. I was playing multiplayer.

For a good 20 minutes, I was hearing a kid asks "yo can anyone help me, guesong, guesong, can you help me", but I didn't have my mic so I'm like "what, why does 1.09 wants my help"

So I type in Mumble, "how can I help?", and 1.09 never answers.

And then I finally figured it was not 1.09 using the kid voice-transmutator that was speaking, but a real kid in my multiplayer session.
 
Just got in the beta on Tuesday and I'm really liking it. I have absolutely ZERO experience with MOBAs though, so it's going to be a rough couple of days (weeks?) learning the ropes. I like the guides posted so far so I'll do some reading during downtime at work.

I've only played 3 or 4 games so far though but I really like Windrunner. Seems to me like she's a pretty good support character throughout the game but becomes somewhat decent at ganking once she's strong enough and the timing is right. It also helps because I'm an idiot and for any hero with close-combat specials, I have a tendency to rush in and get my ass kicked over and over, which I know is not benefitting anyone. Any suggestions for other heroes with similar playstyles?

I'll hop on the GAF channel after work and play a few games if anyone's willing to take a noob under their wing :\
 
Lost a game because our carry decided to afk at fountain halfway through for no reason when we were winning.

Enemy team takes forever to push, goes for mega creeps, then proceeds to call use terrible players and whatnot even after we told them Riki was afking.

Why do people feel the need for that?
 
Lost a game because our carry decided to afk at fountain halfway through for no reason when we were winning.

Enemy team takes forever to push, goes for mega creeps, then proceeds to call use terrible players and whatnot even after we told them Riki was afking.

Why do people feel the need for that?
It makes them feel better about their pathetic existence.
 
Lost a game because our carry decided to afk at fountain halfway through for no reason when we were winning.

Enemy team takes forever to push, goes for mega creeps, then proceeds to call use terrible players and whatnot even after we told them Riki was afking.

Why do people feel the need for that?

People have issues.

It's just as bad when you're winning and people on the other team start calling each other out and asking you to report their teammate.

When the other team calls GG after your team wins a teamfight, only to keep attacking you after they respawn, dying in the process and then telling you to "fucking end it assholes".

When you're down to enemies' tier 4 towers and the random MM partner playing the carry starts diving and doing stupid things with ursa, calling his teammates "pussies" when he dies and wasting 20 minutes chasing enemies instead of ending the game. "ROSHAN and mega then we take win". No, how about we just finish off the towers and end it? They've been waiting at fountain for 10 minutes.
 
When the other team calls GG after your team wins a teamfight, only to keep attacking you after they respawn, dying in the process and then telling you to "fucking end it assholes".

In all the pub games I've played and spectated so far, every time there's a call to end it, the losing team will always stall and try to get kills. I've never seen this happen any other way.
 
Milkman's response to the AM's "gg kunkaa too fed" was hilarious. "Not Fed, Earned". I couldn't stop laughing each time their Pudge hook caught someone I swapped into us.
 
When you're down to enemies' tier 4 towers and the random MM partner playing the carry starts diving and doing stupid things with ursa, calling his teammates "pussies" when he dies and wasting 20 minutes chasing enemies instead of ending the game. "ROSHAN and mega then we take win". No, how about we just finish off the towers and end it? They've been waiting at fountain for 10 minutes.

Yeah, I've noticed this. Which is weird, since I don't think I've ever won with mega creeps. Granted, that's usually because once my team wins a fight we aren't co-ordinated enough to push the other lanes and generally keep running down middle even once it's destroyed. But when we win a big fight with a chance to push the ancient, I always call my team down instead of going for the outer towers or Roshan.

(Though, it seems really hard to pull people back once they start assaulting the base...)
 
My god. I went 19-3 as Queen of Pain and all of my deaths came in the ending 10 minutes of the game. My team STILL lost. Had Tiny, Drow, Razor, Me and Dark Seer.

Even though I ganked like a madman. Their skeleton king got farmed and I have NO idea what the Razor/Drow on my team did the whole game. I had Scythe, Linken's, Shiva's, Aghs and even a god damn Eye of Skadi.

2v1'ed AA and Riki bot lane at one point while the other 4 pushed top lane and got dominated 3v4 (they didn't kill a single person cause they felt like focusing fucking BKB SK all the time instead of paper towel Lion or Veno).

I even tried to tell them who to target ... I hate pub games.
 
Lost a game because our carry decided to afk at fountain halfway through for no reason when we were winning.

Enemy team takes forever to push, goes for mega creeps, then proceeds to call use terrible players and whatnot even after we told them Riki was afking.

Why do people feel the need for that?

Just mute the whole enemy team at the first sign of douchebaggery. It's not like you'll lose out on important information if you mute them.
 
So after quite a few games as support (Tidehunter and Lich), I feel I'm ready to take the next step. I don't think I'm quite ready to carry yet but I'd like to branch out of being support. What hero would you guys recommend? I'm thinking either Venomancer, Death Prophet or Storm Spirit..
 
Next step above Tide/Lich I would say is Venomancer, Shadow Shaman or Sand King would be good. Can push lanes, defend pushes, can gank, good team fight abilities, needs a few small farm items but not that of a semi-carry/carry. Shadow Shaman and to a lesser degree Sand King you can think about filling the solo mid role if your team doesn't have someone who can.
 
Next step above Tide/Lich I would say is Venomancer, Shadow Shaman or Sand King would be good. Can push lanes, defend pushes, can gank, good team fight abilities, needs a few small farm items but not that of a semi-carry/carry. Shadow Shaman and to a lesser degree Sand King you can think about filling the solo mid role if your team doesn't have someone who can.

Cool, I'll give those guys a shot...I thought Shadow Shaman would've been a bit tougher for some reason but I'll give him a shot. Any reason Death Prophet isn't in this tier? I've seen quite a few pubbers around my level really mix it up well with her.
 
So after quite a few games as support (Tidehunter and Lich), I feel I'm ready to take the next step. I don't think I'm quite ready to carry yet but I'd like to branch out of being support. What hero would you guys recommend? I'm thinking either Venomancer, Death Prophet or Storm Spirit..

I don't know how difficult he is to play, but I had an Enigma on my team that basically won us the game due to two incredibly nice black holes.

10/10 would queue with that guy again. Plus Enigma can jungle. Though if you do jungle, please be considerate to the poor carry on top and help with a gank from time to time.
 
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