Schweinehund
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Dota 2 |OT| To Hell and Back and Back to Hell
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same person.
Except you can't balance around pub play because pub play is impossible to predict. Pubbers, essentially, aren't playing the game properly. They'll do whatever they want with little regard towards strategy or team play.
Take, for example, Spirit Breaker. Here's a hero that thrives on early ganking and aggression. People complain that he's overpowered because they refuse to ward, respond to ganks and carry tp scrolls. So if we reduce the aggressiveness of these early gankers then we push pub play towards longer, farming oriented games.
Which leads us to the other favourite complaint from pubbers. Phantom Lancer is, to many, a blight on the game. But he's a hero that requires lots of space and time to farm up and be unstoppable. Heroes like Spirit Breaker by their own design will put the needed pressure on the Phantom Lancer to make him irrelevant.
And that isn't even addressing the fact that most pubs won't buy things like mek, wards, dust, gems and other simple counters to invisibility or other issues. Pubs will run horrible team compositions that have no real chance of winning then complain about one or two heroes on the other team as if they were the reason they lost. There's no rhyme or reason to a regular game and trying to balance around that will just lead to knee jerk nerfs that completely ruin the viability of heroes for no other reason than a bunch of players can't parse the actual culprits for their losses.
So... yeah. I think even pubstompers should see buffs if they are, overall, weaker heroes compared to the rest of the cast. Especially since most pubstompers seem to only do well because of a lack of complexity in their hero design than any actual real imbalance.
balladofwindfishes
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Apparently all Premier League tickets are removed from the shop.
Which means the items and sets that came with the tickets are effectively retired until they fix this payment issue. New immortals incoming?
Which means the items and sets that came with the tickets are effectively retired until they fix this payment issue. New immortals incoming?
If you manage to time your ulti and be effective during nighttime he can be really good.
it's ok i mix u up with the other 90% of this thread anyway
shira
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wth procarbine, 1.09, and anbokr are the same person
You mean extending the night?
It was so much fun extending the duration of the rape train.
And when day time came and they thought they were safe. BAM. Ulti
How much was the ticket before it got pulled?
Schweinehund
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so long as i don't get mixed up with boken and duesy.
From what I understand TPL withheld the payment that belonged to the person who created the set? Damn if it's like that good on Valve to ban TPL, such a dick move. Shame for the set creator though, his set doesn't get released AND he doesn't get his money...
balladofwindfishes
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It's too bad for them really. Maybe they'll toss the sets onto the store, no TPL involved at all, and sell them as regular items, putting the tournament nonsense behind them and at least making a little bit of deserved money.
This will also probably lead to every tournament item being accepted on the workshop, so Valve can directly pay the contributor for the item, rather than going through the tournament company.
I'm sure Valve will figure something out. They're not ones to leave contributors without payments.
This will also probably lead to every tournament item being accepted on the workshop, so Valve can directly pay the contributor for the item, rather than going through the tournament company.
I'm sure Valve will figure something out. They're not ones to leave contributors without payments.
How would you play viper solo outside of mid?
I'm surprised at the opinions on Drow, I'm a complete noob and only play limited pick but she's one of the first to get picked every game and I always do well with her.
Edit: why is the match making so slow in this game btw, is it because I have a turd rating or something? I have to wait pretty much exactly 5 mins every time.
Edit: why is the match making so slow in this game btw, is it because I have a turd rating or something? I have to wait pretty much exactly 5 mins every time.
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shira
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LOL you don't think dondon can erase the TPL symbol and valve will not fasttrack that into the store?
Depends on the time of the day I guess.. In usa west I need like 4-6 mins at times like this. At night I need 2-3 mins tops
Also, on Drow. She is really really squishy, and her recent nerf makes her really bad against heroes that can close the distance fast. Considering that most heroes that gank are good at closing the distance or disabling at a long enough range, her dmg output will be shit in no time. If she does get disabled, she will die pretty fast cause: No escape mechanism, not enough hp to surviv. not a single skill that allows her to live longer.
Gankers like Night Stalker, Spirit Breaker, Nyx Assasin, Queen of Pain, Clock, Pudge will kill her in seconds, supports like Lion and Lina can combo her to death by themselves and even carries like Phantom Assasin. Riki, AntiMage can get their way with her early. However, if left alone for enough time, like any other carry she will be strong, but unlike other carries, she needs to invest gold to counter her weaknesses and even then it may not be enough.
SteveWinwood
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Yep she's a pubstomper, but when people actually know how to handle her and don't let her roll, some like to call her an oversized ranged creep.
labor day no patch
like 1.09 or anbokr(same person) said his cast points are awful. I wouldn't mind seeing his night vision increased as well. Maybe make it so his E can be activated for 1800 aoe flying vision or something. It's just really annoying to not be able to cast rupture because of its garbage cast point and then lose vision. I don't like his proposed reworks but I think those are old, rupture is pretty unique and should stay.
where has anuxi been I haven't seen her post anything for awhile. nvm looks its only been 5 days, this is stalker territory. I just miss the pretty sets.
EZB? Is that you?
Ask Trixi!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Hl8JrZGb4M
For a little while teams were actually banning the Viper against Fnatic. I'm guessing they found out how to deal with it in scrims because they stopped picking it.
I Better do that before people start calling for boycotts on TPL.
Also, I think the first buff disruptor need is the silence of his ult to go though BKB. That, or apply the "Doom" debuff so people just can't use items under its effect.
TPL somehow gets worse. Bravo.
Proof positive that you will never escape Dunning-Kruger syndrome, even at the highest levels of play.
Drow reigns supreme in low level games, but once people get more experienced her dominance disappears pretty quickly like Riki, Sniper, ect. She's also pretty easy to play so that helps her popularity.
I'm still at the level where she's picked within seconds almost every game. It's fun to rain on a Drow picker's parade.
balladofwindfishes
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More so than a model update, he needs a new portrait. I think a new portrait with better lighting and a better angle will make him good as new. His portrait is pretty bad, a relic of old portrait ideas. New portraits are a lot better, much more dynamic, interesting lighting, and better poses. Prophet's makes him seem almost washed out and pretty rigid, even if his in-game model is very bright and interesting.
Axe needs his model smoothed out and done better. His muscles are just strange looking, especially his shoulders. This could probably be pretty easily done without messing up any cosmetic
http://dotabuff.com/matches/288224017
Was watching Dread's stream a few days ago and his Sniper was beastly. Of course he had some great support to back him up but his positioning was always so good. Sniper > PL
Chen is so good! I don't know why it took so long to appreciate this hero. Nukes, slows, split push, free fountain trips, big heals, minions, early ganks and good farming. What is not to like?
Side note: Apparently you can send Spirit Breaker to your well if you teleport a teammate back while SB is ulting.
Side note: Apparently you can send Spirit Breaker to your well if you teleport a teammate back while SB is ulting.
Phantom Lancer
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Its hilarious but two out of the three games I've ever played Chen (several months apart no less) due to various laning weirdness I ended up taking him solo mid, maxing Penitence and Test of Faith first, and kicking ass. It wouldn't work in any kind of pro strat of course but it was a blast.
shira
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I only seen casters and tourney admins use it
I got the small one from dota2wh to try it out some time, equipped it and ended up accidentally pressing the action button at the beginning of a random match (the guy who got the item turned out to be the worst rager of the game).
Other than that I haven't even seen casters or streamers use them.
I'm pretty sure you need to predict it and he has to be stupid enough to ult the guy getting sent back. I don't think you can do it on reaction.
Allowing stand ins at all that aren't from a pre submitted and approved roster is the most baffling thing about dota tournaments to me. In any other game I know of, the normal course of dota affairs would be considered cheating and grounds for being banned from the tournament organization.
shira
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WTF is this shit, free farm PA. What tier are you now man?
Technosteve
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i want to be in that tier
This site is pretty cool. I have a lot in High, need to bridge the gap to consistent Very High.
Shorty11857
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http://pubstats.me/38955478/
#brag
apparently i have 70% winrate for 60+minute games... interesting
edit: winrate thing might be bugged
#brag
apparently i have 70% winrate for 60+minute games... interesting
edit: winrate thing might be bugged
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