manfestival
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Is this true? If true, does that mean that market prices are inflated at the moment cause of the diretide?
cause then, if thats the case then I just may wait things out before hopping onto the community market
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Is this true? If true, does that mean that market prices are inflated at the moment cause of the diretide?
cause then, if thats the case then I just may wait things out before hopping onto the community market
shira
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Ahh good to hear it was a positive experience minus a few dumbasses. I guess Burdening was trying to spin the loss
Depends what you want. Certain things jumped and dove.
IE pink colored couriers dropped big time
scythe of vyse dropped big time
ethereal flame shit couriers jumped big time
owlion dropped heavily as sellers unloaded them
generic items and sets are all pretty cheap now though
luckbox $50, shadowblade $50, hook $160
manfestival
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honestly there are two things I actually want and they are both couriers. I want blotto and stick as well as moroks mechanical mediary. Other things I want but they are neither here nor there and wouldnt mind bartering some more to get them on the cheap
I dont even know if I have anything of value. Here is my profile
http://steamcommunity.com/id/beamspammer/inventory/#570
shira
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If you just want the plain versions they are so cheap on the market
http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/570/Blotto and Stick $3.50
http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/570/Morok's Mechanical Mediary $1.22
It's the fancy ones that are stupid expensive
I H8 Memes
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I guess it's just me but I prefer the layout of the creep camp on Direside more. On radiant you have access to those 3 close camps next to bot lane, but overall its far easier to farm a cycle of the whole jungle on dire side. If I'm playing a farm heavy hard carry I always prefer dire.
Besides the benefits already stated by others, radiant jungle is also a little bit safer so maybe thats why some teams refer it. You can be sure that if any spot is warded it's going to be Rosh pit which means the other team has to smoke up if they want to get into radiant jungle.
Besides the benefits already stated by others, radiant jungle is also a little bit safer so maybe thats why some teams refer it. You can be sure that if any spot is warded it's going to be Rosh pit which means the other team has to smoke up if they want to get into radiant jungle.
Genius idea to make Valve money: create a catalogue option in the inventory where you could flip through pages for heroes/wards/couriers and see all the items and item sets available, with the items you own in color and the other ones greyed out with links to the store/marketplace to buy them
I have 4 of the same pl spear. Now I can get rid of 3 and get a new item!!!
Also, I have 8 Sven swords, but one of them is super cool, so I've been crafting away the other 7.
manfestival
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I managed to get 3 rares from crafting common items
balladofwindfishes
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My HeroClix (and most importantly, my Tide Blink Dagger) are waiting for me when I get home from work in 4 hours 
Can't wait to have Tide and Lich on my desk while the rest sit on some shelf!
Can't wait to have Tide and Lich on my desk while the rest sit on some shelf!
As mentioned, dupes, but also I imagine their hope is that it will get some of the zillions of nearly useless axe/morph/omni/wd rares out of circulation. They're basically just being passed around as wagers now.
shira
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So jelly- Post pics. I wanna know if they fix the animation on the eel?My HeroClix (and most importantly, my Tide Blink Dagger) are waiting for me when I get home from work in 4 hours
Can't wait to have Tide and Lich on my desk while the rest sit on some shelf!
SteveWinwood
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get over it tobi
Pureauthor
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Summation:
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I think he just charged to much, plus tobi only casts like 25% of all Starladder games and gives most of them the cold shoulder.
SteveWinwood
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Tobi had such a head start a few years ago.
Then the site redesign never came and he got lapped hard by GD Studio and BTS in terms of quality and presentation.
Then the site redesign never came and he got lapped hard by GD Studio and BTS in terms of quality and presentation.
shira
Member
BTS is moving so I doubt they will be casting most of the games anyways. Most likely sheever and stand-ins
He's got his foot in Korea. Thats an untapped market if they get gud
And they love him over at Volvo re:TI2
Wok
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Valve is building a metacritic-system:
http://store.steampowered.com/reviews/
A side-effect of the "give diretide" downvoting on metacritic?
http://store.steampowered.com/reviews/
A side-effect of the "give diretide" downvoting on metacritic?
Technosteve
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I am going to play blinks and feed terribly
Steam has apparently cut me off from adding additional wallet funds for marketplace purchases. My spending pattern might be flagging me as "marketplace daytrader". Might be for my own good.
The dialog I get says I need to contact support to resolve it. Put in a ticket yesterday, guess those take a while. My credit card seems to be cool though, confirmed my ridiculous transactions with them. Using a different payment method doesn't help, appears to be account-based.
The dialog I get says I need to contact support to resolve it. Put in a ticket yesterday, guess those take a while. My credit card seems to be cool though, confirmed my ridiculous transactions with them. Using a different payment method doesn't help, appears to be account-based.
Head of Vengarl
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Can anyone give me a link to the VODs of the mid-tier GAF tournament? I missed all of it.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Seemingly Diretide wins/losses count in-client. :/ That tanks my in-game ratio a bit.
Can be filtered out via Dotabuff, but still.
Can be filtered out via Dotabuff, but still.
Cyborgmatt
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Holy shit, what a crazy weekend.
Enjoyed your Sing Sing interview. Happy to see unique content from a new outlet.
Lactose_Intolerant
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Yeah, it was nice to see GabeN's brother doing interviews.
balladofwindfishes
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Head of Vengarl
Banned
What's up with her face?? Something seems... off. Like she's made of plastic or something. Is that one of those Asian sex dolls? If so then holy shit those are getting pretty lifelike.
shira
Member
Can anyone give me a link to the VODs of the mid-tier GAF tournament? I missed all of it.
home site
http://www.twitch.tv/procarbine/profile/pastBroadcasts
http://www.twitch.tv/kapura/profile/pastBroadcasts
http://www.twitch.tv/jwongismyhero/profile/pastBroadcasts
http://www.twitch.tv/eternalenvyy/profile/pastBroadcasts
She's korean; she's had extensive plastic surgery.
I'm almost 100% positive the boobs are fake
Dreams-Visions
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they're pushed up, not fake.
and yea, she could have used some power on the face so she wouldn't appear so glossy.
I was thinking about trying out DOTA, but I've never played a MOBA. I've done the tutorial stuff, read/watched a few guides linked in the OP and played a few games against bots. should I just jump into finding a match, or am I going to be put in with players who know what they're doing? Also do you have to learn a bunch of heroes or can you just stick with one or two. Any other advice for a new player would be welcome. Thanks.
shira
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They do things a little differently in Korea
Depends how much of a masochist you are. If you want to win/enjoy dota I would read the OP ASAP, [edit]oh good!
then find 4 other people to play with.
Obviously read OP is a given.
Start with easy heroes, Lich, Tide, Venomancer, Bounty Hunter, Jakiro, Sven, Meepo(TBH I do consider this guy an easy hero).
Once you put a LOT of time into the game then should try to master someone like Puck, Nature's Prophet, Night Stalker, Lone Druid.
Don't learn Chen for a while lol.
Make sure to use the recommended builds when starting out, to get to those click on the book in the upper left hand corner, then the arrow, just find whatever one is highest rated, should be OK to use, unless it is AriStar(or are these decent? I just tend to stay away) or DMX(this one is legit bad).
Definitely make friends fast, this is the best way to improve your game.
Don't be afraid to ask, better to ask and get an answer then to be too shy to ask and get flamed for being a newb.
Prepare to put a LOT of time into DOTA. I've got 1116 hours and I'm still trash.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
edit: Oh yeah, don't go battlefury on Bounty Hunter pls.
time 4 dota
Just jump in dude. Worst that can happen is you lose and people yell at you. Just starting out you're going to get paired up with noobs too though, so they probably won't yell too much.
cuevas. PhD.
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Here is something about the guide system in the game (coming from someone who had never played a moba before and is still learning a lot about the game):
It doesn't teach you shit. When I first started playing last year I was looking up builds on playdota and learning about the characters and why go a certain skill/item build might suit different situations. Now it's just "oh thats what the highest rated one says so I do it".
Don't get me wrong, it works really well for when you are trying to just learn the mechanics but when you really want to learn how a character works it doesn't help with that at all. RIght now I am trying to get myself to stop using the guides because I feel they are hurting me overall.
I'm one of the few that actually likes Tobi's casting I guess but this is true. When I had a Starladder ticket it was like 80% Sheever and 20% Tobi casted games.
RukusProvider
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Tobi was good but now I find him a bit grating.
LD and Merlini are my favorite combo followed by lumi. Wish James casted more for his humor. Godz isn't my thing.
LD and Merlini are my favorite combo followed by lumi. Wish James casted more for his humor. Godz isn't my thing.
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