shira
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It legit feels like we have professional caster adding some flair and pizzazz to our league
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#sweetradiovoice
#flamethrowerxtreme
I have come up with a new horrible strat. Helm of Dominator Lich! Lich Dominate's a creep, and then Sacrifices it! Huge mana recovery, and even more XP. Plus you could likely use the creep to help clear the camp before consuming it.
Is leafeater your alt account on reddit?
shira
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manfestival
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clearly a non diretide/frostivus person, therefore your words have no value.
Please don't tell me you're one of thoes people that actually wants Greeviling back...
Wraith Night was legit though, best holiday game mode.
manfestival
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no man, THAT diretide sucked. I just want something rather than a new map
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ GIFF DIRETIDE VOLVO
I get that its way too late now but it seems like volvo is sitting TI profits like lawd yaass
I'm not sure what exactly you want. If they brought Diretide back for the third time you would say they are being lazy recycling their old idea. Haunted Colosseum is new and interesting, and we can still play it after the "Halloween" season.
Monochromaticx
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One Punch Man anime is dope.
manfestival
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to be completely honest.... its about the hats bro
I got jadehoof last year and sold it for 15 dollars
fuck
to be completely honest.... its about the hats bro
I got jadehoof last year and sold it for 15 dollars
There's always going to be methods for hats. Game modes are for fun, not for profitability. Valve isn't going to make game modes to meet your profit margins.
manfestival
Member
I am aware of this. I don't actually expect them to act on my behalf and on my non directly voiced concerns. The only reason they did the last diretide was cause of the freaking legion of fans that begged for it. Frostivus is CANCELLED again(just a hunch). The new game mode is cool though. I actually enjoy it
A game mode that has a direct teamwork => hats relationship. That's what Diretide, Wraith Night, and both Year Beast events had. Haunted Colosseum is not a bad mode per se, but it does not have that teamwork reward.
That's just another complaint about hats though. The game mode is still fun, and maybe the reward is winning the the game and having fun, as well as a change of pace from regular Dota still using Dota heroes. It just seems like a silly thing to complain about, especially when there's other ways to obtain hats (albeit, not marketable immediately) right now such as the Compendium Coins, and things like that.
Let me pose this question, if Greeviling was somehow as hat-profitable as Diretide was, would you have played it more? Greeviling just felt like a clowny slippery game of who can steal kills the best and who got the best greevils. You have Nature's Attendants and Venomous Gale while your enemies have something like Meat Hook and Black Hole because they made fancy Seraphic greevils.
I enjoyed the sort of "meta" game of Diretide of figuring out more efficient ways to kill Rosh, like all the diagrams we saw people drawing with abusing cleave damage, things like that. Wraith Night was just fun in general, tons of strategies worked. Year Beast fight (the boss battle one from the first New Bloom) was similar to Diretide, although I felt it wasn't as fun since it was more about how much ingots you brought in before the match. This year's Year Beast Brawl I got sick of pretty quickly as it felt pretty pay to win. I like the idea of having something ridiculous in a game of Dota like that, but not in a pay to win manner like that. You got that Refresher Aura and Zeus and you basically won the game.
Haunted Colosseum is a good idea, just being a straight up brawler mixed with TF2-style control points and an interesting map. I like the idea and really hope we see more environment hazard custom games like this one.
rhophiehalul78
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Haunted Colosseum is fun. It's fast paced and everyone is cooperable in the few games I played it. Killing opponents with the pendulum is quite satisfying.
tsunami643
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Much love. Maybe some day soon I'll be able to apply this experience to a bigger audience.
Captain Fish
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The fun part of Diretide, which was only the fun the first time since people were all trying to game rosh in the second one, was the faster paced, teamfight focused first couple phases. Haunted Colosseum recreates that pretty well, but I think the colour design is horrid, and the lack of matchmaking makes it a pain. Also the golems are super overkill as a balance mechanic.
If NPR started casting Dota matches, this is how I imagine they would be. I love it.
StrongArmSteady
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Bob Ross.
But the other ways of getting hats do not foster teamwork in the same way.
It's demonstrably the case that merely "winning the game" is not sufficient justification to play together as a team. But equally, it's my experience that "winning hats" does provide that motive.
Unfortunately, I was not in the beta at the time of the Greeviling.
I think the HC mode is OK, but it is no more team-oriented than regular Dota.
Wraith Night and the first Year Beast were way better at fostering teamwork for hats than diretide ever was. Year Beast was always bad, but at least everyone went in with the expectation that they needed to help the team. At the end of diretide matches, you were just as likely to get people who were mad they lost the first phase and would refuse to cooperate for that reason.
call_kotaku
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if reddit is complaining about drop rates then it means there's nothing more pressing to complain about and there's no petty community drama that week
it's a sign of a healthy DOTA 2 community
Gentle Rodriguez
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Why isn't the game paying me to play it
Technosteve
Banned
Thats a new level of shitcrafting
Captain Fish
Member
You should win stuff for watching!
Fixed.
Thats what happens when Scepter is the number #1 pickup for Pub Doom and people pick him for the damage.
SecretMoblin
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nerf base dmg, spell dmg, and armor, increase int gain, reduce healing and speed bonus of scorched earth and allow it to affect allies in its radius, ms +5, support doom is coming (bike)
I had a brief but memorable stint as a token support gyro before he suddenly became supposedly OP
oracle and earth fearit need to be in cm already I'm tired of the bullshit, I want to see them in games
I had a brief but memorable stint as a token support gyro before he suddenly became supposedly OP
oracle and earth fearit need to be in cm already I'm tired of the bullshit, I want to see them in games
I know I'm late on replying to this, but yes you are correct, hook does damage through BKB
What I was saying was they before the BKB rework it didn't, it only pulled and if I remember correctly the ministun didn't either. It was like being hooked by a teammate.
Night_Hand
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nyx is so dumpster. He can't contest vs a trilane, isn't great against most mids, and is such a mediocre safelane support. And he can't roam.
What do you do with a nyx assassin
What do you do with a nyx assassin
misses bull
Banned
You pick bounty hunter
6.85 - Reduced Rocket Barrage damage per rocket from 8/13/18/23 to 7/12/17/22.
Insane nerf.
SecretMoblin
Member
^ and that was after it had already been nerfed zzzzzz
and lbr he was never actually that gross, whiners won that battle yet again
buff gyro
also: disruptor
and: techies
and lbr he was never actually that gross, whiners won that battle yet again
buff gyro
also: disruptor
and: techies
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