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Dota 2 |OT3| #BetterThenEllenPudge

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Did they move all the games back a day for the Dotacinema tournament? Thought the next game was today (a game every 2 days).
 
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Anteo

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Shergal said:
Never posted here so hello.

I've been playing Dota for 6 years, but I only started with Dota 2 yesterday. Yes, yesterday. I've played 5 games so far, stomped 3, lost 1 close game and got stomped once.

This shit is just a clusterfuck, I'm so lost in teamfights. The two games I lost were against an ET and I just couldn't tell his spirit was stomping in time. Oh, and Silence effects are hard to tell apart too in the midst of everything when Silencer ults, I can't even BKB fast enough.

It's weird, because even when I played WC3 Dota I still watched Dota 2 games since I like following the comp scene. And while watching it never seemed too hard to understand what's going on, but playing the game itself is a whole different beast. It seems like I was too accustomed to the WC3 graphics. After 6 years of playing I can sort of subconsciously seize the danger at every point in the game, but a lot of this (esp. in teamfights) is due to being so familiar with the animations I can instantly identify what's going to happen before it does.

Did anyone else here go through something similar? How many games until I'm familiarized enough with the Dota 2 feel? At least there seems to be no hinder to my laning compared to WC3, I dunno if I'd have won 3 games if I couldn't even lane well.
Oh and SF is so awkward to control, the Fire Lord in WC3 was the smoothest model in Dota by far and now I feel like he isn't half as good anymore. My favourite hero is dead ;_;
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That was pretty much my experience. I really had a hard time for the first few matches, you get used to it to the point where og dota looks weird but still playable.
 
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FACE

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This talk about Dota 1 made me wonder if there's any way of playing the version of Dota where Invoker had 27 spells.
 
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Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
FACE said:
This talk about Dota 1 made me wonder if there's any way of playing the version of Dota where Invoker had 27 spells.
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The mod file is probably out there somewhere.
 
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So one of the main things that seperates mid and high teir players are item choices correct?

I just went sniper offlane. We ended up losing the game but I finished up 7-6, with everyone else on my team having 10+ deaths. I was flamed at the end soooo much for having a force staff on sniper, despite the enemy team having a PA and Ursa. Apparently I didn't do enough damage for their taste. It's just odd when you look around items for most all the players at my level.. its damage... always damage. I had a drow build 2 butterflies in a game vs a shadow shaman and earth shaker the other night... never getting a BKB. People never build BKB's unless it's absolutely core like on Luna, or another carry type. People never build survivability on a hero unless they are axe or bristleback. They are all so worried about damage output that they forget that you can't do any damage if you're dead.
 
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Hazaro

relies on auto-aim
Forced 50 is reallllll

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Marauder Shields

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Question regarding TB, does it make a difference as to what order you Conjure Image-Metamorphosis? Like is there a difference in terms of what order you perform the skills in regards to your illusion?
 
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Thacker said:
So one of the main things that seperates mid and high teir players are item choices correct?

I just went sniper offlane. We ended up losing the game but I finished up 7-6, with everyone else on my team having 10+ deaths. I was flamed at the end soooo much for having a force staff on sniper, despite the enemy team having a PA and Ursa. Apparently I didn't do enough damage for their taste. It's just odd when you look around items for most all the players at my level.. its damage... always damage. I had a drow build 2 butterflies in a game vs a shadow shaman and earth shaker the other night... never getting a BKB. People never build BKB's unless it's absolutely core like on Luna, or another carry type. People never build survivability on a hero unless they are axe or bristleback. They are all so worried about damage output that they forget that you can't do any damage if you're dead.
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I am the trench's incarnate avatar and I see sharp item buys / strategies occasionally.

In general though I think poor itemization is a delineating characteristic.

SteveWinwood said:
oh im makin it
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Over/under on how long until it's locked for being toxic?

Marauder Shields said:
Question regarding TB, does it make a difference as to what order you Conjure Image-Metamorphosis? Like is there a difference in terms of what order you perform the skills in regards to your illusion?
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Metamorphosis, then Conjure Image will give you SICK ILLUSION DEMONS.

Conjure Image, then Metamorphosis will just give you a sick demon and some scrubby melee illusions.
 
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Gattsby said:
Are you asking if images carry over TB's state? If yes, then yes.
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Karakand said:
Metamorphosis, then Conjure Image will give you SICK ILLUSION DEMONS.

Conjure Image, then Metamorphosis will just give you a sick demon and some scrubby melee illusions.
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Ah cool ty. So I'm assuming it's always better to Meta then Conjure Image. Haven't played the hero alot so I just wanna see how to best utilise it.
 
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LiQuid!

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Lotto said:
That has to be a joke at this point. That's like purposefully sabotaging their own game. Then again they decided to run with the secret unicorn level in Diablo 3.. sigh

I miss you Blizzard North ;-;
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You guys are acting like that dumb shit doesn't already exist in LoL. They just don't have the engine to fully realize it in-game.

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manfestival said:
this gif is totally hilarious. karthus got wrecked by global ults. I gotta say, that it takes some great coordination to get something like that down.
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He doesn't move. All it takes is someone to say go and the experience to know travel times on the globals.
 
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Granadier

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manfestival said:
this gif is totally hilarious. karthus got wrecked by global ults. I gotta say, that it takes some great coordination to get something like that down.
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I feel it highlights more of how weak LoL spells are.
Takes four ults to drop a single caster.
 
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