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Dota 2 |OT| To Hell and Back and Back to Hell
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SteveWinwood
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Technosteve
Banned
give me a list of heroes to play tonight, i think i'm done doing all randoming. I'm back to playing tidehunter for 50 games.
bs, abaddon, sniper
Pureauthor
Member
Slark, Weaver, Medusa.
Technosteve
Banned
Meepo is a joke character no one plays meepo willingly
ok I think this one is a good idea. no numbers cause I dont know, also ignore the skill names
Silver Surfer
Q - Danger Surf
gives you flying, damages all units you pass over, can't be stunned during this
W - Speed Buildup (passive)
gives extra speed for every enemy hero you passed over on Danger Surf (Q), aghs update: give speed for every ally hero or enemy units
E - Water Walker (passive)
gives extra speed and damage if you're on the river
R (ult) - Danger Slam
sends a wave out in front of you that damages and stuns anyone in front of it. damage and stun duration are based on Speed Buildup count and resets or halves your Speed Buildup
so the idea is that you're very mobile, you use your Q to damage enemies kinda like weaver by passing on them, this gives you more speed. so does moving on the river which means you can gank or escape much easier, use all that speed for big ult damage and stun
Silver Surfer
Q - Danger Surf
gives you flying, damages all units you pass over, can't be stunned during this
W - Speed Buildup (passive)
gives extra speed for every enemy hero you passed over on Danger Surf (Q), aghs update: give speed for every ally hero or enemy units
E - Water Walker (passive)
gives extra speed and damage if you're on the river
R (ult) - Danger Slam
sends a wave out in front of you that damages and stuns anyone in front of it. damage and stun duration are based on Speed Buildup count and resets or halves your Speed Buildup
so the idea is that you're very mobile, you use your Q to damage enemies kinda like weaver by passing on them, this gives you more speed. so does moving on the river which means you can gank or escape much easier, use all that speed for big ult damage and stun
shira
Member
Can this team beat alliance or navi?
No
I think a lot of it has to do with the thread being moved to Community as well.. I keep forgetting it's even here
FlutterPuffs
Member
rhophiehalul78
Member
is this his combo?
hold Q (3seconds) , hold W (3 seconds), hold E (5 seconds), hold R (5 seconds), hold R again until enemy base is destroyed
shira
Member
Unless navi and alliance are stupid enough to stay in china for months to give them a taste of their playstyle - no fucking way anything changes. Same boring strats, same 4 protect 1, same farm all game mentality I'm expecting.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Just had a pub game where somehow teamwork was great and wards were actually put down regularly, but when we killed Roshan the entire team refused to pick up the Aegis. I kept pinging it until I just got it myself(AS VENGE). 3 of them were speaking Chinese or something so was there maybe something I missed? I didn't see the point of leaving it on the ground.
Needless to say I immediately lost the aegis in the next teamfight, for some reason the enemy team kept focusing on me even though Venge's teamfighting ability is meh.
EDIT: Obviously, I was supporting, which is why I thought it was weird they just left it there.
Needless to say I immediately lost the aegis in the next teamfight, for some reason the enemy team kept focusing on me even though Venge's teamfighting ability is meh.
EDIT: Obviously, I was supporting, which is why I thought it was weird they just left it there.
Things I have come to accept after 43 hours:
1. I am bad at this game and improvement is slow.
2. No amount of guides will help me figure out where the second ward goes at the start and I will thus panic and throw it down anywhere
3. Memorizing the map is going to take a while.
4. I will never have a tp scroll when I need it.
4a. If I do by chance have a scroll, I will arrive just as the fight ends/ everyone else dies.
5. The courier is always in use when I want it.
6. I will forget what I'm supposed to buy at least once per game.
6a. I will do something useful and then die shortly afterwards because I'm standing in the middle of the river staring at the shop page as I remind myself which objects I need to build thing x or y and which shop they are in.
7. Sometimes running away is the best option.
8. I am having way more fun with this game than I ever expected.
In more pleasant news
Casting surge on Ursa and watching him tear across the map/ through enemies is more fun than it probably should be.
1. I am bad at this game and improvement is slow.
2. No amount of guides will help me figure out where the second ward goes at the start and I will thus panic and throw it down anywhere
3. Memorizing the map is going to take a while.
4. I will never have a tp scroll when I need it.
4a. If I do by chance have a scroll, I will arrive just as the fight ends/ everyone else dies.
5. The courier is always in use when I want it.
6. I will forget what I'm supposed to buy at least once per game.
6a. I will do something useful and then die shortly afterwards because I'm standing in the middle of the river staring at the shop page as I remind myself which objects I need to build thing x or y and which shop they are in.
7. Sometimes running away is the best option.
8. I am having way more fun with this game than I ever expected.
In more pleasant news
Casting surge on Ursa and watching him tear across the map/ through enemies is more fun than it probably should be.
FlutterPuffs
Member
The playstyle evolves when there's more tournaments and games to play, which was my point. The only way they can catch up to the west (hell, Fnatic could prove to be a title contender next year) is by playing more, we both know isn't possible with the way china is right now.
Captain Fish
Member
Damn, new roster has me hype.
Gully State
Member
Things I have come to accept after 43 hours:
1. I am bad at this game and improvement is slow.
2. No amount of guides will help me figure out where the second ward goes at the start and I will thus panic and throw it down anywhere
3. Memorizing the map is going to take a while.
4. I will never have a tp scroll when I need it.
4a. If I do by chance have a scroll, I will arrive just as the fight ends/ everyone else dies.
5. The courier is always in use when I want it.
6. I will forget what I'm supposed to buy at least once per game.
6a. I will do something useful and then die shortly afterwards because I'm standing in the middle of the river staring at the shop page as I remind myself which objects I need to build thing x or y and which shop they are in.
7. Sometimes running away is the best option.
8. I am having way more fun with this game than I ever expected.
In more pleasant news
Casting surge on Ursa and watching him tear across the map/ through enemies is more fun than it probably should be.
It takes about 100 hours at least to stop sucking..
JakkuFurosu
Member
normal
protect your carry from gank spots....if dire under top tierr 1 in woods....radiant above tier 1 in woods but this can be handled with 1 ward next to medium camp to cover gank/rune. or for spawn blocking, theres a few good vids that explain the basics....Like everything else time and youll get used to it2. No amount of guides will help me figure out where the second ward goes at the start and I will thus panic and throw it down anywhere
its square
this comes with time as wellalways have a tp usually i have 2
with time youll be able to figure out if your tp will help or if its too late
if you in solo mm be happy theres even a courier
time
you shouldnt be just standing in river anyhoo....just hide for a sec to shop till you get used to it
yes
it only gets more addicting
Things I have come to accept after 43 hours:
1. I am bad at this game and improvement is slow.
2. No amount of guides will help me figure out where the second ward goes at the start and I will thus panic and throw it down anywhere
3. Memorizing the map is going to take a while.
4. I will never have a tp scroll when I need it.
4a. If I do by chance have a scroll, I will arrive just as the fight ends/ everyone else dies.
5. The courier is always in use when I want it.
6. I will forget what I'm supposed to buy at least once per game.
6a. I will do something useful and then die shortly afterwards because I'm standing in the middle of the river staring at the shop page as I remind myself which objects I need to build thing x or y and which shop they are in.
7. Sometimes running away is the best option.
8. I am having way more fun with this game than I ever expected.
In more pleasant news
Casting surge on Ursa and watching him tear across the map/ through enemies is more fun than it probably should be.
The quick buy feature is good for this. Queue up the items you want to buy when you have the time and once you have enough gold to buy an item from the list you get a little alert.
The joys of people constantly using the courier to bring themselves things like ones Blade of Attack.
Had a Wand and Null Talisman on the courier for like five minutes thanks to this and no one wanting to upgrade it.
Yeah, I'm not too sure Mushi/ice3/Lanm are willing to play 4 protect 1.
Any recommendations for places to find casual teams? I remember seeing a noob guild on reddit, but can't find it at the moment.
Looking for some people to play with - have 200 hours bot matches(do not laugh) and a pretty good grasp on the basics - I just fear solo queue. Steam is ZethGaf.
Also, anyone feel like linking me a decent sub-$100 headset I can grab on amazon? I looked into mod mic, but they seem to be back-ordered and I'm in need of something now.
Looking for some people to play with - have 200 hours bot matches(do not laugh) and a pretty good grasp on the basics - I just fear solo queue. Steam is ZethGaf.
Also, anyone feel like linking me a decent sub-$100 headset I can grab on amazon? I looked into mod mic, but they seem to be back-ordered and I'm in need of something now.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Things I have come to accept after 43 hours:
1. I am bad at this game and improvement is slow.
2. No amount of guides will help me figure out where the second ward goes at the start and I will thus panic and throw it down anywhere
3. Memorizing the map is going to take a while.
4. I will never have a tp scroll when I need it.
4a. If I do by chance have a scroll, I will arrive just as the fight ends/ everyone else dies.
5. The courier is always in use when I want it.
6. I will forget what I'm supposed to buy at least once per game.
6a. I will do something useful and then die shortly afterwards because I'm standing in the middle of the river staring at the shop page as I remind myself which objects I need to build thing x or y and which shop they are in.
7. Sometimes running away is the best option.
8. I am having way more fun with this game than I ever expected.
In more pleasant news
Casting surge on Ursa and watching him tear across the map/ through enemies is more fun than it probably should be.
Welcome.
dota's hard guys but its also smart it knows what kind of mm pool u should be in its just time until u accept it and then u can start improving but until then u will always be the dunning-krugers so just relax guys ull be good one day just keep practicing and keep a positive attitude in all ur games
Captain Fish
Member
dota's hard guys but its also smart it knows what kind of mm pool u should be in its just time until u accept it and then u can start improving but until then u will always be the dunning-krugers so just relax guys ull be good one day just keep practicing and keep a positive attitude in all ur games
lol
balladofwindfishes
Member
It's not that hard, plus you get to be a condescending ass when people rage at you because of how positive you are.
"Oh, someone's a party pooper"
"Well that wasn't very nice
""Why are you being so mean
""We can still win this guys, we scale better late game!"
Honestly stuff like that gets people more angry than if you just ignore them or reply back with your own rage hehehe
Nah they need to get rid of the two Asian guys, get two better ones, one could be Chuan and another. Has to now be the galácticos of Dota Teams.
dota's hard guys but its also smart it knows what kind of mm pool u should be in its just time until u accept it and then u can start improving but until then u will always be the dunning-krugers so just relax guys ull be good one day just keep practicing and keep a positive attitude in all ur games
It's true. I started a smurf account some time back and now it's pretty much locked into Very High after only 100 games.
I would like to see someone playing an hard support doing that. I mean you're obviously still gonna stomp your first few games especially if you pick something like Leshrac or Lina but as soon as you get a little higher carrying your teammates with a support it's not gonna be as easy as with SF or Storm.
What a scary ass team. I hope they're able to gel together as a team though. As much as I like this line up, it doesn't mean much if the players don't have good chemistry. Can't wait to see what kind of results they can pull off with such an all-star line up.
Damn, new roster has me hype.
Woah woah! This is gonna be good!
Lionheart1337
Member
Am I the only one who sees iceiceice and Mushi? They were the among more wacky players I recall from ti3. I'd be surprised if we saw the same type of play and strategies.
I think the funny part is that I can't get through half the post before losing comprehension.
Technosteve
Banned
TA kinda fun level 1-8 then she kinda falls out in a team fight. Do i max psi blade range first with shield or not?
You're tellin me! Haha, here's hoping for tonight.
No, you get one point in each spell at level 3 (or 4). Then you max the refraction and then if you're having trouble landing your meld you can get a second point in psi blades but you really need to max meld early, it does a ton of damage.
balladofwindfishes
Member
still another 1-2 hours before normal patch time.
Will most likely be a main client patch, so no new hero. Some tournament ticket will be added tonight (and matches start tomorrow or something and the guy wants the ticket in the store so he can pay for the prizepool).
So unless it's a double update I guess it won't be anything big.
So unless it's a double update I guess it won't be anything big.
balladofwindfishes
Member
we've had test client patches on Thursday into a Friday main release. iirc we've even had a hero on a Thursday test patch.
Post release, post TI3 schedules are going to be different than before, Valve has stated as much.
Post release, post TI3 schedules are going to be different than before, Valve has stated as much.
PillowKnight
Member
Bit of a missed opportunity here, his E could be take form of enemy/allied hero and their primary attribute.
I've got one:
Q- Command Minion: permanently take control of an allied creep, creeps gain the 'gather wood' ability which allows them to attack trees to gather wood at a rate of one wood every 20 seconds.
CD: 20 seconds.
Mana cost : 100/75/40/0
Minions gain attack speed per level at some magic number.
Sub ability: wood stockpile, accumulates wood counters. Whenever wood is added to the stockpile hero gains 40/20/20/10 exp.
W- Minion Vitality: minions gain extra health and durability.
Minions gain health equal to 10/15/20/25% of hero's health pool.
Minions gain magic resist equal to 25/50/75/100% of hero's magic resistance.
Minions gain attack equal to 1/10 of the amount of wood stockpiled.
At level 4 Minions gain hero's orb and aura effects.
E- Tower blueprints: allows the constructions of towers.
Tower level is equal to skill level.
Costs 500/750/1000/2000 wood and 1200/1800/2200/3000 gold per level for t1/t2/t3/t4 towers respectively.
Constructed towers act exactly like regular towers.
Towers give a flat 500 gold bounty at all levels.
Tower build time is 30/40/50/60 seconds, minions can be sacrificed by right clicking the tower structure to reduce build time by 4s per minion.
R- Barracks blueprints: Allows the construction of barracks. Toggle sub ability to swap between melee/range barracks.
Summons regular creeps every 30 seconds at lv 1. Mega creeps every 50 seconds at level 2. Mega mega creeps every 60 seconds at level 3.
Costs 4000g at all levels and 1500/3000/4500 wood.
Build time : 90/120/300 seconds.
after 1000 hours in CSGO and seeing its major flaws still remain a year later while Valve smothers DOTA 2 with love and embrace....I made the decision to finally learn this game.
I have a ton of Starcraft 2 time, so that should help. The tuturials are what finally made me want to take on all the learning Im going to have to do, and so far they are incredibly welcoming and friendly.
im excited to be part of the dota community.
I have a ton of Starcraft 2 time, so that should help. The tuturials are what finally made me want to take on all the learning Im going to have to do, and so far they are incredibly welcoming and friendly.
im excited to be part of the dota community.
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