Sure,but they sucked pretty hard to say the least. And we won and that is good enough for me
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Dota 2 Beta Thread V: Real Talk Strikes Back [Tutorials]
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Sure,but they sucked pretty hard to say the least. And we won and that is good enough for me
shira
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SteveWinwood
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It was sarcasm.Sure,but they sucked pretty hard to say the least. And we won and that is good enough for me
ignore the black history month, this is pretty much how i feel about the ddosing
could someone tell me what's the story about this pic?
SteveWinwood
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tobi is racist
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Head of Vengarl
Banned
Anyone else having problems with the hero builds? I keep getting errors when I try to check my builds out.
Also, fun match with Gaffers today:
http://dotabuff.com/matches/188373223
I was the resident noob but I had a great time. Sorry I didn't steal very many (good) spells... was only my 2nd time using Rubick. I really wanted that RP but never got it.
Also, fun match with Gaffers today:
http://dotabuff.com/matches/188373223
I was the resident noob but I had a great time. Sorry I didn't steal very many (good) spells... was only my 2nd time using Rubick. I really wanted that RP but never got it.
Schweinehund
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commend 4x4 plz
why do you even give a shit
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
What exactly do commends do? If I see someone with way too many, they are obviously telling people to commend them all the time.
SteveWinwood
Member
i blame my team
Yeah, that was bad 12 ways to sunday.
Yeah, that was bad 12 ways to sunday.
shira
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Well I understand reports being limited, but commends. . . .
Nothing. It's not even e-peen, it's just hey - this dude is a helpful person - his ingame homepage should reflect that.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Tried Pugna today. He seems pretty effective with his AOE and decrepify. I didn't really use the ward that much but I managed to get 1 or 2 kills with it. I found the fact that his ult has no cooldown with the scepter to be quite useful.
There were times when I was stunned out of it and then resumed draining as soon as I was able.
However, it doesn't seem to be strong enough to stand up to a farmed carry's damage output which makes sense.
His decrepify also is somewhat problematic as it prevents physical damage dealers from being able to harm the target. I ended up denying my teammates their damage a few times because I forgot this.
I think his most important aspect lies in his Nether Ward and the fact that you can deal a lot of damage to heroes like Skywrath mage with it.
I probably won't pick him that much from now on since I think there are other heroes effective at doing what he does with his first, second and last abilities.
There were times when I was stunned out of it and then resumed draining as soon as I was able.
However, it doesn't seem to be strong enough to stand up to a farmed carry's damage output which makes sense.
His decrepify also is somewhat problematic as it prevents physical damage dealers from being able to harm the target. I ended up denying my teammates their damage a few times because I forgot this.
I think his most important aspect lies in his Nether Ward and the fact that you can deal a lot of damage to heroes like Skywrath mage with it.
I probably won't pick him that much from now on since I think there are other heroes effective at doing what he does with his first, second and last abilities.
Sigismundo
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Who counters Pugna so I know not to instalock him when someone picks Skywrath (and to instalock Nyx instead)?
shira
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Anyone who does damage or stuns.
Nyx, for starters. Pugna has very high base Int, and the highest Int growth in the game. Mana Burn wrecks his shit.
shira
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The ult with ags is broken. If you can solo mid and rush the ags - its a joke.
What? Those models are some of my favourites, quite distinctive and fit the characters. For worst, look to the likes of Sniper and... Sniper.
SteveWinwood
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AA looks amazing watutalkinbout
His autoattack particle is also kickass.
Be honest: step up or step down from the wc3 dwarven sniper.
Schweinehund
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i still want brown haired omni
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Just like everything on GAF, there's someone to hate on anything.
Lactose_Intolerant
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The hands do look bad compared to the rest of the model.
I meant more like taking Rosh and trying to break base with aegis, force a teamfight. Those failed ganks sooo much time.
Mad at myself for letting this game drag on, should have ended 15 minutes earlier. Forced to fight early because Viper too busy split pushing (role reversal?), totally spaced out on microing bear, had to rely on 2 aegis to take 2 sets of rax for the win: http://dotabuff.com/matches/188546740
Skywrath just happily nuking me from afar, ugh.
Interesting build on the Anti-Mage.
that1dude24
Member
i'm sorry to all involved for my wondrous sand king ults
turbosnail
Banned
I still can't get over how ugly slardar is!
Schweinehund
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Think I just played my best mirana comeback game.
A true Mirana player earns gold by farming kills. It was not luck but skill.
A true Mirana player earns gold by farming kills. It was not luck but skill.
But are you powersliding with leap? It's all about the swag with Mirana.
Sgt.Pepper
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If I cast repel on any hero channeling, does it stop them?
It was well thought, since Lifestealer can easily out farm him without spending at least 15 mins just getting a battlefury. Plus the bash and mini-bash help against the magic immunity.
It was well thought, since Lifestealer can easily out farm him without spending at least 15 mins just getting a battlefury. Plus the bash and mini-bash help against the magic immunity.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
DP
shira
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How do those guys get 360 leap spins? I can do them if I have a haste rune, but wtf.
Resubmission
Nature's Outcast by Coridium
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=103088197
A different take on NP, bubble wand. . . Bubbbles!~
TheThunder
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+1 on Pugna looking bad.
He's probably one of the worst hero designs in the pool, dude looks like a generic, off brand Lego piece.
He's probably one of the worst hero designs in the pool, dude looks like a generic, off brand Lego piece.
I was actually thinking this to myself yesterday... just his head/face mostly
I think he just needs an updated model. He's been here since at least International 2011 (and if I remember correctly, he was picked in the very first game of the tournament) and has yet to get a new model. He looks outdated, especially against some of the other heroes that have been in that long and had model updates (Vengeful Spirit, etc.).
A few more heroes that could use model updates: Axe (doubtful because he has cosmetics), Puck, Clockwerk, and Tinker off the top of my head. The designs of these heroes (including Pugna) are all fine in my opinion, they just need better models. Also Nature's Prophet could use a new model too. Something about his face just doesn't look right in his portrait.
For some obvious differences of old vs. new models, look up the old models for Vengeful Spirit, Earthshaker, Enchantress, Pudge, Dragon Knight, Slardar, Beastmaster, Anti-Mage, Riki, Lion, Windrunner, and Broodmother. The difference on most of those will be like night and day.
On that note, remember when people complained that they changed the colors of Witch Doctor, and later Lion?
CarbonatedFalcon
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Oh man. So this game had a tri-lane on our side that was dominating pretty hard, and I was doing decently mid as WR (randomed) vs. OD. Then all of a sudden he gets 3 triple kills (due to ult) within ~5 minutes of each other and spirals out of control from there. Our hardest "carry" was Juggernaut, who died about twice as much as he killed, even though he had a good amount of assists/
By the end the OD has such huge mana pool that the last fight he one shots us all with his ult by using it on Jugg or someone with a shitty mana pool.
The game before a mid Lich dove my tower to kill the bottle I was crowing (which was pretty big, didn't realize exactly what happened and couldn't confirm until I checked the replay just now), but gave up first blood in the process. Kind of a dick move on his part.
By the end the OD has such huge mana pool that the last fight he one shots us all with his ult by using it on Jugg or someone with a shitty mana pool.
The game before a mid Lich dove my tower to kill the bottle I was crowing (which was pretty big, didn't realize exactly what happened and couldn't confirm until I checked the replay just now), but gave up first blood in the process. Kind of a dick move on his part.
For betting on Tomorrows matches, Going to take a bit of a risk and bet that EG can actually beat Navi, especially with Navi's attitude of not caring about smaller tournaments.
I want to say Liquid is a sure win for their match with Empire, but the new line up does leave me doubtful. Oh well, just a bunch of Executioners Belts on the line, no big deal if I lose.
I want to say Liquid is a sure win for their match with Empire, but the new line up does leave me doubtful. Oh well, just a bunch of Executioners Belts on the line, no big deal if I lose.
Dr_Boris_Goltz
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Have they started optimizing the game for lower end systems yet?
My rig isn't the worst, but DOTA ran terribly on it.
My rig isn't the worst, but DOTA ran terribly on it.
CarbonatedFalcon
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They really need to do something about the menu particle memory leak. I've been on the International theme for awhile now and it still happens - you have the game running more than an hour or two and everything slows down when you come back to the menu. And the computer I'm playing on has more than ample RAM.
You don't seem to understand how ODs ult really works.
The damage ODs Ult does is dependent on his Int, not his mana (His Q is based on Mana Pool). Also, it does different amounts of damage to each person, it isn't based off of one person's int. At max level, it does the difference in int x 10 in damage. So if OD has 100 int, and you had 50 int, it would do 500 damage. If you have more int then OD, it does no damage. Also, if you are close to OD's Int but not over it, it will also burn the bulk of your mana pool.
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