Dota 2 Beta Thread V: Real Talk Strikes Back [Tutorials]

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Lion's scepter gives you 175 more damage and costs 25 less mana at level 3. I think every scepter upgrade listed so far has been better than that. At least you could see some situational uses for the others, I can't see any situation where I'd spend 4200 gold for Lion's upgrade.
 
Lion's scepter gives you 175 more damage and costs 25 less mana at level 3. I think every scepter upgrade listed so far has been better than that. At least you could see some situational uses for the others, I can't see any situation where I'd spend 4200 gold for Lion's upgrade.

ogre magi's upgrade lets you waste a ton of mana for "burst" damage purposes when an eblade does the job but better and conserves like 300 mana.
 
ogre magi's upgrade lets you waste a ton of mana for "burst" damage purposes when an eblade does the job but better and conserves like 300 mana.

Not saying that scepter on ogre is great, but Lion's has to be worse. At least on ogre you get more than 175 damage for your money.
 
ogre magi's upgrade lets you waste a ton of mana for "burst" damage purposes when an eblade does the job but better and conserves like 300 mana.

Easier to assemble/cheaper. And you can multi-cast the extra spell.

Situational either way, but I wouldn't go Ethereal Blade unless my team was balling. Same deal as with an Ethereal on Nyx.
 
Which site? I find that the Giant Bomb DOTA group is generally pretty friendly but they're magnitudes behind GAF when it comes to skill level..

Magnitudes is an understatement. And it was only one guy, but yes overall very friendly.

Still not what I really wanted out of my time I had this afternoon.
 
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Ever since someone told me that Refresher was better on Warlock then Aghanims I've never looked back. For just about 1000g more you get twice the explosion damage and double the stun length, plus the Golems aren't nerfed. The extra mana is basically a non-issue: by the time I get a Refresher using Ult-Refresh-Ult usually still leaves me with 2-300 mana left.

Yeah, I much prefer Refresher Warlock over Scepter Warlock. The only reason I'd consider the Scepter is for the additional health; Scepters really do provide a substantial health boost. Warlock has great built-in strength gain for a support, though.
 
Going to a game 3.

My heart. My rares. Can't handle.

Why would you pick up DK over any other common carry though?

Eastern teams often run him as mid. You don't really pick him as a pure 1. He's typically going to be seen with probably a Lone Druid or Juggernaut as part of a pushing core. The reason being he does okay in mid (about as good as a Magnus with bottle crow), the ranged stun in dragon form is good, and of course green dragon poison for bringing down towers.
 
I thought 2.6 million was realistic watching how well it was going back then. I don't care about voting for the next hero to be added that much.
It was a front-loaded thing as far as sales go. Unless they find a brand new way to incentivize the Compenduim such that people who don't buy items will suddenly agree to drop $10 now...it'll never get there. I'd say 80% of the people who were going to buy one already have. Maybe they'll add yet more incentives. Maybe they'll reduce the price for those buying more than one to $4. Maybe something else. Idunno. They can add new pages to the Compenduim at will. But those sales numbers will plateau very, very soon if nothing changes, as I expected. Especially after the window for making predictions closed up.
 
All Pick

Well the heroes everyone has been greyed out over for the past minute and a half look decent, I'll cement my Bane pick

Okay guys, twenty seconds, pick guys

Guys

Guys why are you spinning to random heroes now?

Sniper? Eh, alrght

Riki...

Drow

DROW

YOU WAITED TILL FIVE SECONDS AND TOOK DROW WITH A SNIPER ALREADY ON THE TEAM

Jesus christ I need to stop playing All Pick
 
All Pick

Well the heroes everyone has been greyed out over for the past minute and a half look decent, I'll cement my Bane pick

Okay guys, twenty seconds, pick guys

Guys

Guys why are you spinning to random heroes now?

Sniper? Eh, alrght

Riki...

Drow

DROW

YOU WAITED TILL FIVE SECONDS AND TOOK DROW WITH A SNIPER ALREADY ON THE TEAM

Jesus christ I need to stop playing All Pick

It sounds as if we have played the same game. Did you play Bloodseeker?

Edit: No, in fact, in my game, people had chosen in the first few seconds.
 
We have played the same game. Do you play Bloodseeker?

There needs to be a guard against this. Like, if after the initial sixty seconds you don't pick it randoms for you. But it only randoms among the really useful supports, so you can't fuck things up too badly.
 
#deadgame

GAMEPLAY
- Fixed illusions being able to upgrade to flying courier.

UI
- Added a spectator popup when Heroes acquire high end items.
- Added a broadcaster menu (opened by clicking on the dota logo in the top right) that allows broadcasters to send generic stats, queries, and poll results to spectators.
- The Spectator Smooth Drag setting is now preserved across runs.
- Added notifications of item purchases in some cases.

PERFORMANCE
- Fixed a crash when starting replays on 32-bit versions of Windows.
- Fixed a crash when changing window or screen resolution.
- Fixed a crash when using alt-tab while running full screen.

WORKSHOP
- Added Itsy spider courier.

AUDIO
- Update Drums on Endurance cast sound.
- Add secondary underscore for startup UI.
 
Can I get a mod that turns it into a bear courier instead?

Also - apparently there's some sort of "player card" item, with the same icons that pennants have.

Full-fledged fantasy Dota for TI3? Shit's gonna get wild.
 
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