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

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TommyT

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Cool thanks, I'll watch some YouTube videos of her games and tuck in :)

She's my second favorite hero! Pair her up with Nature's Prophet's Sprout to guarantee shackles! Such a fun hero. Also, landing a Shackle Shot and having someone say "NO WAY!" in all chat after some crazy angle ended up with two people together is very satisfying.
 

Glix

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What? If Necro has a default role, it's almost certainly carry and not support. What a weird assumption. (Then again, I seem to recall having a game where I told a Warlock to go support instead of our Necro and the whole stack he was with laughed at me like I was some kind of idiot. Maybe the common perception of Necro is support?)

People assume Necro is a support because one of his abilities can heal a little.
 

Clawww

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She's my second favorite hero! Pair her up with Nature's Prophet's Sprout to guarantee shackles! Such a fun hero. Also, landing a Shackle Shot and having someone say "NO WAY!" in all chat after some crazy angle ended up with two people together is very satisfying.

yeah getting off nice shackleshots will definitely command salt/respect from the enemy team
 

TommyT

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wtf are these cards for?

xp8CYgx.jpg
 

Demoli

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Damn, no matter how hard I lose, Pugna is so much fun to play. He can punish another mid so hard for leaving the lane. He bacomes a ridiculous pushing machine.

My favourite quirk with him is grab a casual void stone after Phase, I can get my entire mana pool up due to his amazing mana regen, love it.
 

Enco

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"This link makes you eligible for tournament item drops while watching Twitch streams as long you own the ticket for that tournament."


Valve stop
Valve is the master of making money out of everything.

It's ok though because they're not called EA.
 

The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
"This link makes you eligible for tournament item drops while watching Twitch streams as long you own the ticket for that tournament."


Valve stop

This is actually good for me then, it means I can still have a chance at drops even when I'm out and only have my laptop.
 

Calidor

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so, who is ready for a 5-man stack to troll, rape and stomp in limited hero mode? :D

JK, but it's going to happen

btw EL Gato is 12 bucks YUCK
 

Phandy

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Just had a game where an anti-mage on the other team got a battlefury in 12 minutes, with a farmed Troll as well, and 2 of our carries were getting shut down...

... AM precedes to die 5 times in a row and the whole team just threw it all so hard. 26 minute GG.

What is this, I don't even.
 

Soule

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"This link makes you eligible for tournament item drops while watching Twitch streams as long you own the ticket for that tournament."


Valve stop

Valve is the master of making money out of everything.

It's ok though because they're not called EA.

I don't understand why this is getting a negative reaction? Sarcasm? I thought it was awesome unless there's something I've overlooked.
 

Sibylus

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There's an argument to be made that you need to be even better at getting last hits as a support player because your opportunities to find them are so fleeting. There are usually a handful of things you could otherwise be doing. If you sit in lane for a minute and miss half your last hits you're wasting valuable time.
Definitely would agree with this. You have to make every last hit count, could be the difference between getting wards out and still getting some survivability items and having to brown boot whilst warding for a while.
 

Quesa

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Played the tutorial and during the video they show you with the heroes battling it out juggernaut had no sword. He was beating everyone at rock-paper-scissors pretty hard though.
 

Des0lar

will learn eventually
Nothing better than owning a game with Slark that gets you commended, after you played a game where you firstpicked OD in random draft, and then the whole team proceeds to pick carries. And when you call them out on it, they tell me that I picked a carry as well. WELL NO SHIT DID I PICK OD FIRST IN RANDOM DRAFT. I don't want that hero to go to the enemies.

Well, you can guess we didn't win that match, even though I had the most clutch saves ever. Saved my teammates maybe 2-3 times with well times banished and meks. But you can't carry a whole team against CK+Wisp. Especially when they won't listen to you, that roaming alone is a free kill for their side.
 

BraXzy

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Wait what are tournament drops? I've seen them but I've never looked into how you get them..

Also, what do people do once a tower has fallen? It seems so difficult to push into enemy territory because you suddenly get ganked or the enemy team make a defense, and then you can't farm creeps. I hate when laning falls apart really early on and people just start wandering about and it's kinda chaotic.
 

Aselith

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Just owned deez noobs in my tutorial game 39-5 ggwp rekt! Dunno why they all had bot in their name though. Must have been an esports champions lol. Resfresher done 65 minutes easy farm easy life
 
Wait what are tournament drops? I've seen them but I've never looked into how you get them..

Also, what do people do once a tower has fallen? It seems so difficult to push into enemy territory because you suddenly get ganked or the enemy team make a defense, and then you can't farm creeps. I hate when laning falls apart really early on and people just start wandering about and it's kinda chaotic.

If towers are falling then the laning phase is over. It's now the roaming/ganking/teamfight phase. Win a teamfight and push another tower. Lose a teamfight and defend a tower.
 
Razor with boots of travel, drums and yasha is a lot of fun, you have near the movement speed cap and can make racecar noises as you chase people down with your damage link on them.
Valve is the master of making money out of everything.

It's ok though because they're not called EA.

If EA made dota 2 all the heroes would be behind a paywall, the paywall heroes would be more powerful than the f2p ones, you'd be able to buy stats and perks and new heroes would release in the form of DLC only and every time you left a match the dota 2 client would shut down so you could look for a new match on some shitty website that then has to reboot the client into a needlessly long extra loading screen.
 

Procarbine

Forever Platinum
so, who is ready for a 5-man stack to troll, rape and stomp in limited hero mode? :D

JK, but it's going to happen

btw EL Gato is 12 bucks YUCK

Dunno if you can party for it to count, we just tried to queue snipe each other and it was an awful, awful game. Ended up 2 on one side 1 on the other. I forgot what the trench was like, I don't know how you guys play solo.

I mean, it was hilarious at first, but by minute 60 it was awful.
 
So what is the quickest people have completed the middle lane practice part of tutorial?
I'm generally just rushing necrobooks to finish as quickly as possible, anyone got any other suggestions?
*Edit: Also has anyone had the bug where health and mana bars disappear in game?
 

Dreavus

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What? If Necro has a default role, it's almost certainly carry and not support. What a weird assumption. (Then again, I seem to recall having a game where I told a Warlock to go support instead of our Necro and the whole stack he was with laughed at me like I was some kind of idiot. Maybe the common perception of Necro is support?)

This bizarre line of thinking has persisted in pubs even across games for some reason. Even in HoN, where there's a hero port of Necro, he's always considered "support" in people's minds. Which is weird because his skill takes a fuck ton of mana (and is on such a low cooldown), no stun outside of ulti, needs last hits to make use of his passive, and he needs to stick around in a fight to deal damage with his aura.

I think people just see "oh, he has a heal" and automatically assume that means supporting.
 

Cru Jones

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Huh, so I disconnected on the score screen and then when I tried to reconnect it was unable to find the session since it was over. Had to leave the game, and my victory, and my items... and the level up I was going to get, and I probably got an abandonment too.

That's a bummer
 

Dahbomb

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What do you get for completing the Tutorial 100%?

Also it takes forever to find a match in limited heroes pool. I guess it's easier to find a match if you are new to the game.
 
Posted in the trading card thread (if you want to see what cards from other games I have look there), but I'm looking for:

-Bounty Hunter
-Phantom Lancer
-Razor
-Tusk

Have a spare Riki that I'll 1:1 as well. Otherwise you can look at my inventory and will trade duplicates.
 

Bleeether

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I'm asking myself why the hell did i wait 8 months to redeem my Dota invite and try the game out. This game is awesome and I'm hooked on it!

Anyone here want to team up and mentor me? I could use some help learning tactics and what not.
 
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