Seems like they take your base score from regular mm and then hover around +- 100mmr over then calibration games. After that you win lose 25 mmr increments
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Seems like they take your base score from regular mm and then hover around +- 100mmr over then calibration games. After that you win lose 25 mmr increments
manfestival
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I have a friend on dota with like every set it seems. He bought the arcana set. His profile has a bunch of authentic and autographed crap. He told me he spend 200 on just this sale alone...
With this I can't argue.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
You should do it, this way people will have a medium to come in and say how terrible and inclusive of a community we are. It's way to much trouble to come here and look at all the discussion and lack of shit talking and try to say it.
Schweinehund
Member
Who is ready for terrorblade tonight?
Everyone but valve.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Dota network has been down a LOT this past week, what gives:\
also a recent bug with either dota or skype seems to be that notifications on skype will prevent me from clicking on the shop icon until I tab out and back in again...
Dota constantly reinforces how much I despise matchmaking systems
just give me a server browser, I've never not been able to find a server in cs or bf1942 or quake 3
also a recent bug with either dota or skype seems to be that notifications on skype will prevent me from clicking on the shop icon until I tab out and back in again...
Dota constantly reinforces how much I despise matchmaking systems
just give me a server browser, I've never not been able to find a server in cs or bf1942 or quake 3
When is it not down?
My usual Dota process is something like this:
Boot up Dota->Find Match button has disappeared->Friends still have theirs->Close and reopen Dota->Match button MAY be there, if not, rinse and repeat til it's back->It's back! Try to queue up->10 mins later nothing->Go make food->Still nothing->"Connecting to Dota2 Network"
And then I give up. Thanks for opening the game up Valve..
UnblessedSoul
Member
Man was on a good run with clockwork and the servers die
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Valve need to nerf me.
Just isn't fair at the minute.
Just isn't fair at the minute.
play with your feet, alternative is to play with a blindfold
Play Zeus
But you can only jungle for the 1st 25 mins of the game
Also
This is why solo queuing is bullshit
First time this has happened, the whole serach button disappearing thing.
SteveWinwood
Member
navi disband
Honestly i've found that there are many more grievers in ranked compared to old normal queue. At least a couple of games today where people intentionally fed couriers and died themselves because "god you're terrible i hope you lose, this is what you deserve etc...".
If this is what the trench look like i'm scared. I'll never get out of here.
If this is what the trench look like i'm scared. I'll never get out of here.
manfestival
Member
ez rares
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
For fucks sake. Is there a aredota2serversdown site?
This is especially true if you're a support-oriented player.
Emerson
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I dunno, there are some pretty bad individual performances represented on there.
I wont deny that. I know that i had quite a few shit performances. But sometimes no matter now hard you try your team lets you down
I had a game today where a Bloodseeker who went mid fed 7 kills to their Ember in the first 5 minute and then preceded to 1v5 their entire team
You guys know, Nintendo are a bunch of jerks. They show Kirby racing against Mario with Kirby Air Ride Music Playing. Maybe it would be some All Star Nintendo Racing game, Kirby Air Ride 2, Or heck, even just Kirby in Mario Kart 8?
Nope, just smash brothers character from Mario. Jerks.
Nope, just smash brothers character from Mario. Jerks.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Lich, CM, Veno, Venge, Lina if you can land the stun, same with Lion
With reference to the below poster: You should probably stay away from Ogre for learning the role, being ranged makes things far easier. Jakiro has such bad animations that he may as well be melee and isn't a very effective hero on his own anymore, better to use things that are more self sufficient at first.
manfestival
Member
lich and ogre magi seem to be pretty simple for learning the basics.
jakiro is good too. in fact the OP has some good suggestions for support.
I feel dumb now because I've read the OP before.
Thanks for the suggestions anyways.
What the others said, but also shadow shaman. He can also split-push with his ult so thats another +
Haven't lost with him yet.
Shorty11857
Member
Lich, CM and Jakiro would be my standards if I want to win
dont play shadow shaman u'll end up killing urself
I love Veno as a ranged support, and assuming you get some levels you can be really affective in team fights or ganks. You can snowball pretty easily with the assists you can rack up as well.
As far as playing ranked, I think there are more trolls than ever. It makes sense though because if you want to ruin some one's day you do it when they have the most on the line. The same thing used to occur when I played lol.
As far as playing ranked, I think there are more trolls than ever. It makes sense though because if you want to ruin some one's day you do it when they have the most on the line. The same thing used to occur when I played lol.
SteveWinwood
Member
Find out what a support excels in and focus on it throughout a game. Really just pay attention to it and you'll learn a lot that way.
Like pay close attention to where your creep equilibrium ends up in lane when you play lich and you'll be able to transfer some of that into other games where it still matters a lot.
Ancient Apparition will teach you a lot about map awareness. Warlock and Tidehunter, teamfights and positioning. Lion, Crystal Maiden, Earthshaker, Vengeful Spirit will teach you a lot about stuns and disables and when you might be able to get a kill and when not (which is an important skill to recognize and you'd be amazed how bad some people are at it). It goes on and on, but in the beginning I think focusing on one thing at a time in a game really helps preventing you from being overwhelmed and eventually makes you a very well rounded player.
Green Biker Dude
Banned
the easiest support is kotl, just give people mana and let them use their targeted spells. in middle of fight you ult and use blinding light. no one expects you to hit the horses and if someone else misses their nukes it's not your fault. also it's easy to farm creep waves if you need to
balladofwindfishes
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haha and just NEVER use recall
EVER
EVEREVEREVEVEVER because you WILL GET HARASSED BY YOUR TEAM even if you save their life.
Or in my recent case be harassed for not using it despite being level 5 :/
EVER
EVEREVEREVEVEVER because you WILL GET HARASSED BY YOUR TEAM even if you save their life.
Or in my recent case be harassed for not using it despite being level 5 :/
Played ranked CD yesterday, captain was asking us what to pick and this guy starts to shit on him for not picking what he wanted and picking captain without knowing what he wants to pick, then he picked dusa and didn't notice the time ran out and the last 2 picks were random. Our cap had a DC, this guy starts talking shit "Lets hope he doesn't come back and we can all just leave" "another useless game"
I try to calm him and say lets just try and stuff, he tells me to shut up and that I'm a loser or go kill myself.. something along those lines
We ended up winning 31-7 at 34 minutes
Why weren't you 6 nob cant lane stop takin my denies
No, he's just an extremely squishy hero with bad farming skills, who really depend on good ulti placements in fights and pushes, and with short range CC spells + channelled cc which will get you instakilled in fights.
It's one of the hardest supports to play right.
guess i've just been lucky so far then, thanks for the tip
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Go mid, wreck shit, push lots, gg.
No shit. I had to go mid once, ether shock does a surprising amount of damage. Was against a TA and I was pleasently surprised by how that went.
Dreams-Visions
Member
what.
Q entire waves, laugh straight to the bank. Nothing hard about SS at all. Of course you can't be an idiot looking to shackle people in a way that puts you in a bad position. But that's no different than using the LC ult.
Yeah you can somewhat farm with lightning, but he's no veno or CM. His laning skills are also pretty bad, unless you put it in mid i guess? I'm not the biggest rastha player, but i think he's just too squishy as a mid with his MS, str and armor.
You can do that if you're playing core so you have some mana regen and you're not just soaking up farm and then running to the base, playing a good support Shadow Shaman is far harder than playing him core or playing other supports.
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