BlisterBrown
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How does the damage dealing part of Dazzle's Shadow Wave work? I just finished a game with a couple gaffers and got two kills early game totally by accident with it.
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Deals physical damage in a small AoE (melee range I think) around every unit that was hit by Shadow Wave.
So chances are, you healed your team in the middle of a fight, and there was one or two unlucky heroes who were between all the healing targets.
close to the edge
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It does AoE damage around the healed targets (heroes and/or creeps)
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So are we getting an update tonight or something or am I mistaken?
Update is every Thursday, unless the THursday is a holiday, and it's around 9:30 EST.
BlisterBrown
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Ah, makes sense now. I think I'll try harassing some melee with it next game like mentioned earlier, seeing how it feels pretty spamable even early on.
n0b is right in that it shouldn't be spammed unless it's really worth it, which is up to you to judge. I wouldn't suggest it unless you're confident you can get them with 3-4 hits.
Just got in today. I really love the look of the game. The spell effects, animations, the champs - all of it is great.
Been addicted to LoL for a while now, but I'm getting my ass kicked here. Not surprised, been out of Dota for many years.
Played Doombringer my first game, got crushed, but my friend tells me that was a bad choice for beginners. Going to play with Dragonknight in a few bot matches and see how that goes.
Been addicted to LoL for a while now, but I'm getting my ass kicked here. Not surprised, been out of Dota for many years.
Played Doombringer my first game, got crushed, but my friend tells me that was a bad choice for beginners. Going to play with Dragonknight in a few bot matches and see how that goes.
close to the edge
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Keep in mind that the bots are really mean. They will pull off some combos that basically instagib you if you don't position 100% correctly (or have a BKB) which lower-level teams almost never do. Most of the time they'll just throw everything at you at once and not really care about chaining stuns etc. I actually do better against real players than against the bots, most of the time.
Dun worry, we k. Just a clash of style, we've come to a mutual understanding of mutual incomprehensibility.
Lactose_Intolerant
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What is up with Beastmaster and being bugged, first the Animation on Wild Axes bug, and now the infinite Spin on Wild Axes.
Told you no one likes that mode, except MrMr.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Oh wow, I've used it a few times on Warlock but I thought all their abilities were automatic.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
It's Dazzle, not Dazzler, ick.
GhostRidah
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This is not surprising, they probably had 4-5 days break, its the holidays, expect the same towards the end of this month.
Oh, really? Interesting. Just finished a game against bots with Dragonknight and did a lot better with him than Droom Bringer. Seems pretty funny. And I love his ult.
Lactose_Intolerant
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update finally going live now, downloading
Absolutely destroyed my computer. Not joking, it crashed it.
Hm, how do you get that fps/ping display? If I open up the console and use "net_graph 1" I get it, but it goes away if I close the console. Are you just dragging the console off screen?
BrLvgThrChmstry
Banned
Been watching matches mostly since receiving an invite; very new to DOTA... very intimidating game. I want to learn how to play with Drow Ranger -- so I've been mostly watching matches with Drow players.
I'm new to DotA myself but play LoL at a high level. If you are completely new to this genre, I would not recommend a squishy hard carry like Drow Ranger. Even though she's simple in terms of her abilities, this means that you have to excel at last hitting, awareness, positioning, and micro (orb-walking) to do well.
Its was so weird. Made my comp do things I didn't know it could do
BrLvgThrChmstry
Banned
Cool, gotcha'... guess I'll hold out on that. I've seen a few other recommendations for beginners, do you have any?
Awesome, I will give them all a spin tonight. See what I like or meshes well.
What's wrong with alchemist now?
SteveWinwood
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No cd on some of his stuff.
I just watched a game with IceFrog trying to figure out the alchemist bug while playing him and the other team kept accusing him of hax. I laughed.
that's hilarious. I'm assuming they're going to do a quick fix for that probably then.
Can people stop doing this? Less buttons =/= easier. Any carry is going to require good farm to be useful and viper/sniper/riki on new players is just inviting free kills on a new player because of how squishy they are. And bloodseeker is only good against people who have never seen him before.
I spammed missiles
One of the better features they added was adding, and being able to add, item aliases so you can find Black King Bar just by searching for bkb. You can edit the file (dota2/dota/scripts/npc/items.tvt) to include the HoN names if you wanted, just add
"ItemAliases" "name; name"
to an entry.
Also didn't notice this until someone posted on Reddit:
"ItemAliases" "name; name"
to an entry.
Also didn't notice this until someone posted on Reddit:
One of the better features they added was adding, and being able to add, item aliases so you can find Black King Bar just by searching for bkb. You can edit the file (dota2/dota/scripts/npc/items.tvt) to include the HoN names if you wanted, just add
"ItemAliases" "name; name"
to an entry.
Also didn't notice this until someone posted on Reddit:
I've been using quickbuy but I didnt know about the Sticky buy.
I will definitely be using that on wards or on TPs.
Also, I should think Ill be adding the HoN names to the list too.
TyrantGuardian
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Ohhhhhh shit, Sticky buying TP scrolls is genius! Had no idea about that, thought that pin was just some random gibberish related to Quick Buy.
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