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[Pureauthor]

Man, this gives me mixed feelings about Dota's special holiday game modes.

Everyone always asks for them, Valve delivers, and then everyone complains about them.

Maybe Valve really shouldn't have given Diretide.

People didn't complain about Wraith Night. Much.

Raid Bosses are dumb in a game like this.

 

[Schweinehund]

Updating now, can't recall how many ingots I have but I'd like to do an organized attempt if anyone wants to have me on a 5 man team.

 

[Manus]

So I got the inscribed Redhoof courier out of the Bloom Harvest chest, but it's only a common. Looks awesome though.

 

[xValentine]

The dream is dead people. Ursa and WK both nerfed out of the fight. The price on Bloom Bounty on the marketplace shot from $3 to $12 in the span of about 1 minute and they are still disappearing faster than you can F5 the page.

Ed: Make that $20. Jesus. I just witnessed a feeding frenzy in real time. At any time I could have pulled the trigger and bought some but I didn't. I feel like a fool for opening the one that I did get.

Someone is hoarding those bloom bounties.

Few minutes ago its 7pages. Now only 1.

 

[RS4-]

I can't even put my chests up for sale!

 

[TxdoHawk]

Updating now, can't recall how many ingots I have but I'd like to do an organized attempt if anyone wants to have me on a 5 man team.

You might want to wait a bit or practice, teams are probably looking for a new strategy as we speak.

 

[geetec]

wtf? it's £18 now...

 

[PillowKnight]

Someone is hoarding those bloom bounties.

Few minutes ago its 7pages. Now only 1.

Could also be a bug, I had one up for 3$ which wasn't listed for some reason. Speaking of which sold Scythe for 20$ not up to 50$ damn you steam market!

 

[LiQuid!]

Someone is hoarding those bloom bounties.

Few minutes ago its 7pages. Now only 1.

Yep. The best part is, even without cheesing the beast it's not THAT hard to farm enough jade tokens to buy one. I've spent about 10k jade tokens just opening chests in stuff in the last week just from playing normal games.

 

[manfestival]

So is the any info on the Year Beast Parts that are needed for crafting?

I just want my Wardfish so I can put this event behind me.

I want wardfish too

 

[Baha]

Not sure if Valve will bother fixing this but, if you slot an auspicious item with one of the untradeable gems you received from the chests everyone else got for lvls 1-10, the auspicious item will remain tradeable and even marketable.

 

[Quesa]

I tried listing my heaven-piercing pauldrons for 20 bucks even and it's not showing up on the market listings

 

[Dreams-Visions]

wtf is going on. more importantly, did i miss my opportunity to get an Onyx thing for cheap

edit: good, i didn't.

 

[Quesa]

wtf is going on. more importantly, did i miss my opportunity to get an Onyx thing for cheap

edit: good, i didn't.

missed my chance for cheap dagon tho

 

[Gav47]

I think Valve have paused listing to the market, no way someone hasn't gotten a Bloom bounty in the last hour and not wanted to sell it.

 

[Pureauthor]

I think Valve have paused listing to the market, no way someone hasn't gotten a Bloom bounty in the last hour and not wanted to sell it.

'Wow. Maybe we shouldn't have included the Genuine items in the loot list.'

 

[SteveWinwood]

'Wow. Maybe we shouldn't have included the Genuine items in the loot list.'

There weren't genuine items on the loot list!

 

[Pureauthor]

There weren't genuine items on the loot list!

Recipe items. Luckbox shit

Whatever.

 

[TGMIII]

So if you run out of ignots you can't fight the year beast?

 

[balladofwindfishes]

There are other heroes in the game lol. Probably other combos and broken shit too.

This was Alch, Dazzle, LC and 2 others I forget who died instantly from one shot. No ursa or wraith king or anything else.

 

[Pureauthor]

Watching the market is more interesting than playing this gamemode, I'll give you that.

 

[ToyMachine228]

So after these updates (nerfs), whats the best group for Year Beast?

 

[G.Newell]

Does Necrophos ulting the tail or horn at 50% still work?

 

[Quesa]

So after these updates (nerfs), whats the best group for Year Beast?

visage is apparently good for getting him into a locked state, but damage is still low.

 

[Jabo]

Got a Auspicious Battlefury on the first time 5 man stack 332 million right before the patch phew

 

[Cyborgmatt]

Man, this gives me mixed feelings about Dota's special holiday game modes.

Everyone always asks for them, Valve delivers, and then everyone complains about them.

Maybe Valve really shouldn't have given Diretide.

Sounds like my inbox right about now.

 

[Haly]

The best solution would be to simply give all participating players whatever special courier there is, rather than turn it into some kind of contest, because that immediately takes the "fun" out of it.

People just want an egalitarian experience.

 

[Drkirby]

Sounds like my inbox right about now.

Matt, how dare you make the mode so lousy we have to farm up forever no one can get that much there are tons of exploits why did you fix the exploits the bloom bounties have devalued the entire item exconmmy it takes to many tokens to get the blood bounty give horse tide this new holiday mode sucks why can we only play this holiday mode for 24 hours I have work this mode gets old so fast.


Am I right in guessing thats how your inbox sounds right now?

 

[Schweinehund]

You might want to wait a bit or practice, teams are probably looking for a new strategy as we speak.

I have 972 ingots (not sure how many matches that is good for), I'm up for practicing until we find a solid strat, and then executing.

 

[Cyborgmatt]

Post is done also I missed out on all the cheap non-Genuine Genuine items, sad face.

http://www.ongamers.com/articles/dota-2-5th-february-patch-content-analysis/1100-811/

 

[KingKong]

Man, this gives me mixed feelings about Dota's special holiday game modes.

Everyone always asks for them, Valve delivers, and then everyone complains about them.

Maybe Valve really shouldn't have given Diretide.

I think they're trying to do something that's an event, a way for people to get hats and a way for them to make money, but that doesn't really work because the events arent that fun and neither is grinding for hats that, thanks to the market, are dirt cheap now.

I dont think anyone would be complaining if they added, say, Pudge Wars, instead of this raid boss

e: RAD for example doesnt have a bunch of heroes with crazy interactions in it but no one complains because its still fun

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I'll take my $2 Form of the Onyx Grove now. thanks marketplace.

 

[Renoir]

Just had a game with some Gaffers.

If you played with Itsuno, just know you guys rocked it, havent had a good game in a loooooooong time.

so thank you.

 

[docbon]

Glad I grabbed the dagon pre-patch. Everything rose in price considerably p. quickly.

 

[Cyborgmatt]

If someone grabs the Heaven-Piercing Pauldrons for me if they go low whilst I'm sleeping I will pay you back.

 

[Hupsel]

TA is still awesome. Refraction works really well against anything.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

TA is still awesome. Refraction works really well against anything.

?

You mean except DOT.

 

[Strider]

saw the bloom bounty starting at a price of $29.99 earlier. Back down to $4.37 at the moment... crazy shifts.

 

[Hupsel]

?

You mean except DOT.

I mean for the yearly broken game mode beast thingy

 

[Hupsel]

Just had a game with some Gaffers.

If you played with Itsuno, just know you guys rocked it, havent had a good game in a loooooooong time.

so thank you.

Hey I played Luna! Other gaffer was our healer/support/lifeguard Omni haha!

Great game! Very cool since both sides played well. Dat sneaky Death prophet... Add later for more games Im privatebundy

 

[geetec]

Guys found another exploit. (Thanks to the guys over at FacePunch!)

Basically pick Visage and send the birds to the corner of the map.

Beast stands still, and you just keep attacking. Ez Jades.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

welp...who's up to queue.

 

[docbon]

ez jade ez life

patch eta 5 minutes

 

[geetec]

ez jade ez life

patch eta 5 minutes

make as many as you can now!!

So I was thinking, should I sell my Bloom Bountys now? maybe enough people will start selling it to a point where the price will go really low...
hmm...

 

[Quesa]

Congrats everyone

 

[geetec]

Congrats everyone

you mofos already knew! :O

 

[G.Newell]

Well i guess im leaving my guy auto attacking for 25 mins now

 

[Link0080]

So how do you do this Visage thing?

 

[G.Newell]

So how do you do this Visage thing?

Just send visages minions to the top left corner, he gets stuck so you can pound on him.

 

[BraXzy]

The question is now.. will every attempt be held against the 800 million+ attempts pre-patch or will they have reset the highscore count?