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Dota 2 |OT3| #BetterThenEllenPudge
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SteveWinwood
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Stop playing bro.
Take a break.
Blew 2500 ingots in YotB after some practice and came out with 500 Jade tokens. Should've probably been less lazy when the beast came around the first time and the sploits were in full effect, didn't feel like a great trade at all.
Now sitting on 1909 tokens, hoping I can squeak my way to 3000 before my favor runs out, cash in on a Bloom Bounty, and be done with the event.
Now sitting on 1909 tokens, hoping I can squeak my way to 3000 before my favor runs out, cash in on a Bloom Bounty, and be done with the event.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/509134335
First game as TB. Broke record for Tower Damage previously held by Furion IIRC.
This hero is stupid good.
Manually
First game as TB. Broke record for Tower Damage previously held by Furion IIRC.
This hero is stupid good.
Manually
Sgt.Pepper
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I opened a bounty and got a fucking Redhoof. Should have sold it for ez steam bucks.
I know that feeljust lost a 70min game
Well I played one more and got ripped as Sven, now I'm taking a break.
Dreams-Visions
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eh. it's like finally winning $100 on the blackjack table bringing your net loss to $2000 when you should have gotten up and left an hour ago when you were up in money. You can sleep better knowing you didn't end the night a loser, but you're still fucking pissed.
Welp, after a few days and much exploiting, I think I can say year beast is pretty much the same as every other seasonal game mode thus far--boring, repetitive, and is only played to grind items.
Valve really needs to take a look at what made some of the warcraft 3 mods fun and successful (angel arena, all the TD's, footmen frenzy, WoW arena, and the billion others out there). I suppose we'll get all of these through custom maps eventually, but the seasonal game modes have been a real let down from a gameplay perspective IMO.
Valve really needs to take a look at what made some of the warcraft 3 mods fun and successful (angel arena, all the TD's, footmen frenzy, WoW arena, and the billion others out there). I suppose we'll get all of these through custom maps eventually, but the seasonal game modes have been a real let down from a gameplay perspective IMO.
Yup. Stop wasting resources on this crap and release more heroes.
MurkyZebra2417
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Yes, it was standard build ~ a year ago. But I think it fell off in the newer patches.
And always remember to transfer the Midas to LD before using for that extra XP
Nirvana
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I think if they put a bit more effort into how heroes interact with whatever thing they are fighting that season, the modes would be better in general. Wraith night was kind of fun, because they had a limited hero pool, with some interesting changes to their abilities in the mode and it was harder to exploit because they thought it through. Diretide and the beast thing give you all of the heroes without any thought of how they interact, thus you get exploits, patches, farming for hats and it's just boring.
Next time they should have a limited hero pool of heroes that have specific uses against whatever the creature is. You could have Batrider who can lasso it, or heroes with minus armour or slows, or stuns that work etc. Make it specific, so you can plan a team comp that works and try to defeat it that way. Then, when the best strat is figured out, just add more heroes to the pool, possibly nerf some stuff etc. and change it all up again so people can work towards it. Also, preferably don't make it just boring tank heroes that seem to work in all of these modes, I would love to see Invoker be useful for once and other nukers.
Maybe make the thing earn you battlepoints at double xp and some item giveaways on top of it that aren't impossible to earn, but require some teamwork. Don't make people feel like they are wasting their time by having some Baby Roshan that needs an exploit to get, just give us some decent couriers and mounts etc. that can be earned if you put the work in.
Anyway, long post is long, just my feelings on it.
Valve can't win. Put out seasonal mode, people bitch that it isn't fun. Skip releasing the mode, people bitch that there is no seasonal mode. Make items hard to get, get bitched at that it takes forever to farm. Make items more accessible, get bitched about destroying the value of the market. Everyone is too loud.
MurkyZebra2417
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It is like that for every game nowadays, the MOBA community is just the loudest.
And Valve aren't going to outdo the custom mods and maps short of dedicating a team of dozens of people to it. More efficient in the long run to get the tools working and let the community do its thing.
The ancient Persians used to shut up their enemies with a honey glaze. And then they tied them to a raft in some god-forsaken pond, and set the bees on them.
Marauder Shields
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Did people bitch about Frostivus? I thought that was a cool mode.
They won the Oppression Olympics. Forever.
Xisiqomelir
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OK DOTA-GAF I now have 2.5 in flamesalts after like barely any games. Is there a way to legit nail 5M?
Pureauthor
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Lifestealer Open Wounds
Troll for DPS
Warlock for Fatal Bonds
Necrolyte to Scythe Tail/Horn when they get low enough
5th can either be Riki for a safety buffer (he can revive people without the YB noticing) or someone with -Armor for more DPS.
i guess the favor things come from the offerings?
i got Auspicious Helm of the Silent Guardian for silencer and Auspicious Speed Demon which is some legendary courier or w/e
and i have a ton of these crimson parcel things and i dont even know what they do except give me flamesalt shits and i dont know what those do either
i dont pay attention
i got Auspicious Helm of the Silent Guardian for silencer and Auspicious Speed Demon which is some legendary courier or w/e
and i have a ton of these crimson parcel things and i dont even know what they do except give me flamesalt shits and i dont know what those do either
i dont pay attention
Ulti kills tail/horn at under 50% I think?
Prophet Steve
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Yeah, with Aghanim it is even better.
Prophet Steve
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I think I'll spend time today to see if I can get the courier, maybe the 1% one since it probably gets harder the on the next times it appears.
EDIT: Whoops double post, forgot to refresh the thread.
EDIT: Whoops double post, forgot to refresh the thread.
Pureauthor
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20 million isn't any better than 10 million though. The next tier is 50 million
Nah. Just blink, stun, ult, right click. You want the element of surprise. Most people are gonna get scared after losing all their armor and back away instantly, you might try to blink in and come up a bit short. Play it safe.
As someone who plays a ton of Slardar, I would say armlet on - blink - stun - ult - bash away
His ult cast animation is pretty fast, so if you're blinking on a squishy support or someone with no stun/escape you can ult and then crush, because then crush does more damage that way(seeing as its physical)
That's just a lame copout, people are excited for new content, not shitty game modes. People bitch that it isn't fun, because well, IT JUST ISN'T FUN lol. The whole diretide fiasco was just a result of pent up emotion from week after week with no patch and no word from Valve. All that impatience just exploded behind Diretide chant. If they released the spirits patch around Halloween without diretide I guarantee you nobody would have bitched.
Anyhow, Valve needs to stop wasting resources on these awful game modes (I'm pretty sure 6.80 + phoenix + terrorblade + new map + ability draft + offerings + new sets would have been more than enough, I really don't think people care much about the whole beast thing) or actually make a legitimately fun, replayable game mode.
IHeartTSwift
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blink crush ulti. Unless you are chasing or are in a good enough position to ult first id just go with blink crush ulti
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