shira
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Against a good tri-lane 1 lane creep/wave is good, hopefully you can snag a few jungle creeps.
5-6 hours until you figure out if Ellen Pudge has you ignorelisted or not.
Dota 2 Beta Thread V: Real Talk Strikes Back [Tutorials]
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Against a good tri-lane 1 lane creep/wave is good, hopefully you can snag a few jungle creeps.
5-6 hours until you figure out if Ellen Pudge has you ignorelisted or not.
Keylime
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I could see it working if the hero popping the Vanguard would take all damage as pure damage and couldn't be healed while Vanguard was active.
That should increase the risk/reward ratio to something more palatable.
That should increase the risk/reward ratio to something more palatable.
What about this?
Vangod
Cost to build: 6 Vanguards, no recipe
+2000 HP
+50 HP Regen
Passive: 500 Damage Block, 80% Chance
Active: Guardian Angel Ultra
Cost: 500 Mana
Range: Global
Affects: Allies
Duration: 30 Seconds
Cooldown: 360 Seconds
Grants magic immunity to all allies.
Vanguard stacking now viable
Already is
http://dotabuff.com/matches/196931195
http://dotabuff.com/matches/192721424
http://dotabuff.com/matches/194974052
Not enough slots to have more
2 stout shields early game is awesome though, cause you have 2 chances to block the damage(If 1 doesnt proc the other might). Saved me so many times
I think your item design sense is questionable, Milk.
However it does bring up an interesting possibility.
Vanguard
Cost: Vitality Booster + Stout Shield + Ring of Health
+250 HP
+6 HP regeneration
Passive: Damage Block
Gives a chance to block damage, depending on the type of hero you are.
Chance to Block: 70%
Damage Blocked (melee wielder): 40
Damage Blocked (ranged wielder): 20
Vanguard 2
Cost: Vitality Booster + Vanguard
+500 HP
+7 HP regeneration
Passive: Damage Block 2
Gives a chance to block damage, depending on the type of hero you are.
Chance to Block: 70%
Damage Blocked (melee wielder): 50
Damage Blocked (ranged wielder): 30
Vanguard 3
Cost: Vitality Booster + Vanguard 2
+750 HP
+8 HP regeneration
Passive: Damage Block 3
Gives a chance to block damage, depending on the type of hero you are.
Chance to Block: 70%
Damage Blocked (melee wielder): 60
Damage Blocked (ranged wielder): 40
However it does bring up an interesting possibility.
Vanguard
Cost: Vitality Booster + Stout Shield + Ring of Health
+250 HP
+6 HP regeneration
Passive: Damage Block
Gives a chance to block damage, depending on the type of hero you are.
Chance to Block: 70%
Damage Blocked (melee wielder): 40
Damage Blocked (ranged wielder): 20
Vanguard 2
Cost: Vitality Booster + Vanguard
+500 HP
+7 HP regeneration
Passive: Damage Block 2
Gives a chance to block damage, depending on the type of hero you are.
Chance to Block: 70%
Damage Blocked (melee wielder): 50
Damage Blocked (ranged wielder): 30
Vanguard 3
Cost: Vitality Booster + Vanguard 2
+750 HP
+8 HP regeneration
Passive: Damage Block 3
Gives a chance to block damage, depending on the type of hero you are.
Chance to Block: 70%
Damage Blocked (melee wielder): 60
Damage Blocked (ranged wielder): 40
If I could disassemble it, I'd instantly buy into the Sanjay School of Vanguard Thought
poppedcollar69
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Just increase Vanguard damage block by 10, done.
Keylime
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How about...
Activate Delay: 2 seconds
Active: Fully block the next one attack of any damage type
Active Duration: 5 seconds
CD: 30 seconds
Wouldn't let you use it to reactively block things like Laguna Blade, but would if you could anticipate some big ability coming.
Would be really unfair to some abilities over others.
The only person i have ever blocked on any forum is that guy on GAF who spams anime .gifs in every thread :/
Twitch is so busted lately. 240p and lag out the ass
Wiseblade?
Pureauthor
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In pub or comp play?
comp.
thank you <3
In Pro games, Gyrocopter is still the most picked carry, since he has the ability to instagib an enemy team with a Divine Rapier late games. Life Stealer is still pretty popular, but is getting picked up less now after the last patch. Luna gets picked up a bunch, since she can normally win games before Gyro kills everyone. Batrider is picked a lot, Rubick and Shadow Demon are still popular supports (Though I think Shadow Demon is going to be picked less now that his Shadow Poison doesn't give as much vision). Treant is really popular, his living armor does a ton of work early game. Nyx is still picked as a support, Weaver, Dragon Knight, and Spectra get picked pretty often.
Pureauthor
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Treant, Wisp, Batrider are the kings and the last two are almost always first banned.
In terms of carries... actually it's pretty damn diverse right now in terms of picks but Lifestealer and Gyro remain the most popular, I suppose.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Steam Workshop Lets Item Creators Compensate Toolmakers, Communities, And Mentors
Anuxi can now donate portions of her Valve earnings to NeoGAF, LLC, a subsidiary of Dave is OK Industries.
Seriously though, if reddit is included on that list - NeoGAF should be.
Neogaf actually isn't on the list. Now, if Anuxi wants, she can give the money to Reddit though.
Might as well put the money towards something though, since it doesn't come out of your share. (Also, I'm not sure if its new, but Valve now outlines how much of a cut you get on the workshop)
A-Ag-Aguirre chan desu nya~
How's Invoker and Elder Titan doing? Never played the latter, but I've been meaning to.
Pureauthor
Member
Elder Titan isn't in CM yet.
Invoker is never picked because he cannot do shit at all early game now and this is a Hero that relies on getting a good start.
Invoker has fallen out hard ever since his base damage got reduced in 6.75 along with Force Staff no longer giving the +10 Damage/AS, in addition to the game shifting towards early game aggression. He will get picked up every now and then, but is a pretty uncommon pick.
Elder Titan isn't in Captain Mode yet, I don't think Valve is going to put any more heroes in the CM pool until TI3 is over.
Some heroes that are starting to gain traction are Outworld Devourer and Clinkz.
Elder Titan is not in CM, Invoker is lost at sea. You might think you're seeing him in some zenith game, but it's actually a mirage.
edit: holy shit i was beaten
Here's a good list for May:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I6sDPRv_kidxwSdHW-xK6Kat0gpzgwESxyFRaM8az4c/pub
That combines both Eastern and Western matches, which have different metagames. (Wisp is favored more in the West, Shadow Demon is favored more in the East, etc.) Things have changed a bit this month, since there was a major patch three weeks ago. It'll be interesting to see what a similar list for June looks like. Magnus picks in particular have fallen sharply.
Amumu
Wow, a muted guy in my team actually left a comment on my profile to tell me i'm just a killstealer after a game.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/229335446 (he's silencer, i'm puck)
http://dotabuff.com/matches/229335446 (he's silencer, i'm puck)
ban cait plz
Schweinehund
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They're both viable in pubs. ET is more favorable for magic heavy teams (and against agility carries), Invoker is still Invoker. I haven't really had much success with ET as an initiator, I think he's a better counter initiator, laying down the stomp in the middle of a fight and then going for his ult. Trying to lead in with him is hopeless unless you have a terrain advantage with his spirit, like hiding the spirit in trees or on higher ground.
DivineRage002
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After looking a cyborgmatt's blog, I found something interesting.
That fantasy team thing rates players with points depending on their role. I.E. 0.3 points for kill on a carry, etc.
What if they are using this to test a new matchmaking method? Rate players individually based on how they did in the game, and not on who won.
I ran the numbers on some of my older games and it seems to make sense. Though supports seem to get the short end of the stick by a large margin.
I could see them tweaking the numbers in the coming weeks and implementing it in the game after TI3.
Btw I was Chuck on the Mumble channel yesterday, but apparently I was having mic problems.
That fantasy team thing rates players with points depending on their role. I.E. 0.3 points for kill on a carry, etc.
What if they are using this to test a new matchmaking method? Rate players individually based on how they did in the game, and not on who won.
I ran the numbers on some of my older games and it seems to make sense. Though supports seem to get the short end of the stick by a large margin.
I could see them tweaking the numbers in the coming weeks and implementing it in the game after TI3.
Btw I was Chuck on the Mumble channel yesterday, but apparently I was having mic problems.
2 drums on Lesh?
Linkins Silencer?
This is some trenchy shit man
Africa here
Massive lag issues with Twitch
I think they have to much traffic and not enough servers.
Shorty11857
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Is anyone else (in Europe) having massive issues with twitch the last few weeks? Constantly buffering
I'm pretty sure that's been the case for a long time. Anyone who has made a smurf and stomped a few games knows they get shot up to their typical bracket preeetttyy quickly.
Silencer was trash, never used global silence when we needed it. I don't think Leshrac had those drums until the end of the game. But yeah, it was pretty trenchy: the game started with 4 people trying to gank me mid in the most idiotic way.
I still see Lifestealer in every pro game I watch, he's still OP as fuck just his slow isn't a 1 point wonder anymore.
Just had a game where our carry Luna refused to do anything but farm for 60 minutes. So long as she wasn't six-slotted with a Divine Rapier to boot, she ran from every fight.
So we adapted and simply started following Luna instead! If she wouldn't come to the fight, the fight would come to her.
We ended up winning, but dear lord what a pain. Good thing she was chat muted.
Speaking of muting and low priority queue, I was in a match the other day and the system told me "This is a low-priority pool match and you will receive no points!" (for some reason...no idea how I ended up in such a match), but when the match was over I still got points. What's up with that? Does it only penalize those who truely are in LPP? But I always thought no one could join LPP matches except for them. Weird.
So we adapted and simply started following Luna instead! If she wouldn't come to the fight, the fight would come to her.
We ended up winning, but dear lord what a pain. Good thing she was chat muted.
Speaking of muting and low priority queue, I was in a match the other day and the system told me "This is a low-priority pool match and you will receive no points!" (for some reason...no idea how I ended up in such a match), but when the match was over I still got points. What's up with that? Does it only penalize those who truely are in LPP? But I always thought no one could join LPP matches except for them. Weird.
If youre partied up with someone in LPQ you will join a LP game, but still get points
Sgt.Pepper
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What about Kunkka and Chaos Knight? I see those two often enough.
Although CK never seems to be the main carry nor Kunkka for that matter.
Although CK never seems to be the main carry nor Kunkka for that matter.
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