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Dota 2 Beta Thread: [Brewmaster]

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Vindi is still balls in HoN, I'm not looking forward to playing with shitty Silencers.
 
Yey for Silencer, Vindi was one of my favorite heroes in HoN :o) I was hoping for Silencer and Invoker (they really need to start ramping up the amount of heroes per week) but I guess we'll get Invoker next week then.
Vindi is still balls in HoN, I'm not looking forward to playing with shitty Silencers.
I think he can be pretty useful, requires good use of his ult however.
 
Well his sole purpose is to stand around and frustrate Lina/Lion/Storm/Enig/Es/etc.

It's not really a very interactive role.
 
Interesting picks here, including some we don't see picked too often: Omniknight (though he's a popular ban), Necrolyte, Batrider.

Dragon Knight seems to be getting a fair bit of popularity. Probably will only increase with the 6.73 changes? (dat ranged stun)

He was already a top pick in China. The West is just behind the times.
 
Well his sole purpose is to stand around and frustrate Lina/Lion/Storm/Enig/Es/etc.

It's not really a very interactive role.

He fucks up just about every strength caster, can remove all of doombringers farm, and can be a strong carry if he gets a lot of kills. He's also a good counter to omniknight dictating a teamfight.
 
I don't know.

On a completely unrelated note, why do random pubs want to go lifestealer jungle so much, it's like the predator horror in HoN all over again :( I've had people claiming they should jungle over an enchantress... And one player who randomed Chen ended up laning since our Naix wanted to go jungle. Of course he proceeded to do absolutely nothing all game and get mediocre cs from the slow ass jungle farm. What is this. The fact you can SURVIVE in the jungle does not make necessarily it a worthwhile choice for you -_-
 
I think it's because jungling is really safe and they're afraid to man up without 30 minutes of afk farm ezez.
 
I don't know.

On a completely unrelated note, why do random pubs want to go lifestealer jungle so much, it's like the predator horror in HoN all over again :( I've had people claiming they should jungle over an enchantress... And one player who randomed Chen ended up laning since our Naix wanted to go jungle. Of course he proceeded to do absolutely nothing all game and get mediocre cs from the slow ass jungle farm. What is this. The fact you can SURVIVE in the jungle does not make necessarily it a worthwhile choice for you -_-

In the old Dota, it was to free up another lane to solo and you could draw your own creeps to help you jungle too. Dont know if thats possible in Dota 2.
 
Erm, this isn't quite accurate. If you play Sand King, you can evade the stun on Mirana's arrow with a quick Sandstorm (but will still take the damage). You can similarly evade Sven's stun, but I can't recall if that does damage or not.

Sven's stun's does not damage, I think Mirana's arrow is the only one I know that does the damage.


If you go invisible while a projectile is in the air, it will "miss".

This only applies to single targeted spells with travel time and ranged attacks, I believe, similar to manta and blink disjointing.

Although it's a pretty important part of high level play there isn't a comprehensive guide for it that I can find, very weird.

Zeus's ulti will do no damage if Riki is invisible same goes for Bounty Hunter or while using the Invisible Sword.
 
Sven's stun's does not damage, I think Mirana's arrow is the only one I know that does the damage.


Almost every stun does damage. I am hard-pressed to name stuns that don't do at least some damage, much less not huge amounts of nuke damage usually associated with stuns.

Sven's stun does lots of damage.

Rubick's is the only one I can name without damage.

Unless you mean damage while invisible. In which case, woops.

In that case, invoker Cyclone does damage to invis units, sven's stun completely misses invis units. as does vs stun.
 
Fuck this game, I have no idea what Im doing.

Don't give up so easily! Maybe some GAFfers can teach you in a practice game what is going on. How much do you know about the game?

This game is supposed to have a steep learning curve, don't worry, you'll eventually get the hang of it.
 
Here's my problem with the genre:

I can play any other team game, play bad, and I won't ruin the game for my entire team. This game is the complete opposite of that, and usually the rest of my team is incredibly adamant about reminding me for 30+ minutes about how much I'm ruining their game. By that point, I've pretty much stopped learning anything about the game and I'm ready to disconnect.

Playing with 4 good players is better, because I can still play like shit and not completely ruin it for them. The problem then is when I play with better players on my team, I get matched with better players (This is how it works for HoN and LoL, not sure if this is how it works in DOTA2 yet) who usually stomp all over me.

I don't mind learning curves in games at all, but there's much more than the learning curve that is working against new players in this genre.

lol casual misogyny is no big deal. Just use mute...in a team game...where you need voice chat.
This raises another problem for people who say just ignore the assholes: It's still a team game with required coordination. Ignore your teammates and then you're part of the problem.
 
YES!!!! SPIRITBREAKER, I CAN NOW PLAY MORE THAN 10 GAMES OF DOTA 2 YEEEEEEESSSSSS! And archie...
you owe me 30 wards bro
 
So we are going to have mindless eff wit Rampage players playing now. Just charge in and don't give a fuck to your surroundings.
 
How can you look up your Skill Bracket? Do you just look up what games of yours shows up in Skill level?

16 of my games show up in High Skill, 112 in Medium , 8 show up in Low, for 136 games.

Oh, where did you find this? I want to see. I'm a stat whore
 
Just use the recent list in replays. Look up your name and select "High," "Medium," or "Low" skill bracket and see how many games pop up.
 
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