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Dota 2 |OT4| The saga of Vade and ReRixo: the Boat Anchors continues.
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Were you the slark in my game
There are spikes caused by major updates (diretide, wraith night, new bloom), but the regular daily peak is increasing. Techies update will probably cause a 750-800k spike.
time to retire gifs: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=797651
Imp the Dimp
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lol I randomed Zeus and fed a Pudge mid and managed to amount 0 kills in 45 mins.
^ I was looking at pretty much the same period, it's stable if anything
zeus can be hard against pudge if you are careless, need boots asap and vision on his cliff at all times.
zeus can be hard against pudge if you are careless, need boots asap and vision on his cliff at all times.
Imp the Dimp
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I'm 100% blaming myself for that feed it's just that getting behind on nukers like QoP and Zeus makes coming back with them so hard. Their nukes fall off if you aren't reasonably ahead, they have little to no utility (other than the Forcestaff I built) and there goes your match.
Hell, I was so far behind I didn't even manage to kill secure a single fucking kill.
Hell, I was so far behind I didn't even manage to kill secure a single fucking kill.
Some korean doto for you passionate esports fans. This is the first stage of the qualifiers for The Summit, MVP Hot6 vs Rave aka Eye of Tiger aka jeyo gaming is live right now, cast by GoDz & Lysander.
http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit
Winner plays the uber favorites birdgang later.
http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit
Winner plays the uber favorites birdgang later.
Heavy's Sandvich
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So, dota 2 numbers look stagnant then.
electroshockwave
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Random ideas: Swap the ring of regen in the force staff components for a sages mask, maybe increase the recipe cost to keep the same total price. It becomes a better mana item and that 3HP regen is so small I consider it worthless by the time I have the item anyway.
New sand king aghs upgrade. All enemies hit with epicenter get injected with caustic finale. The damage from the explosion would either be based on the current level of caustic or the number of pulses of Epi they're hit with. I'm not sure which would be better but I like that either one would scale with levels. This might be too disgusting to ever be possible but I like the idea of a team chain exploding like a creep wave does.
New sand king aghs upgrade. All enemies hit with epicenter get injected with caustic finale. The damage from the explosion would either be based on the current level of caustic or the number of pulses of Epi they're hit with. I'm not sure which would be better but I like that either one would scale with levels. This might be too disgusting to ever be possible but I like the idea of a team chain exploding like a creep wave does.
why you heff to be mad
jeyo loses again, oh well...
edit: Vici Gaming vs New Element on http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit2
shira
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Id rather it go to someone without the set or who actually plays dazzle, otherwise it might end up for sale : (
Today patch should give another good boost.
lol
I have been saying that for the past 4 week, I can only end up being right, even if it's in 4 more weeks.
But hey the longer we wait the more content it mean, right ?
Right ?
( if we have to take last year as an example as of what to expect this year, then where are the february and march new hero ? )
February had Tusk and March had Bristleback
Heavy's Sandvich
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Looking unlikely we get a new balance patch then.
Do we have any big tournaments before the International that will have the major players fighting amongst one another? I presume MLG would have been that but that was cancelled.
Do we have any big tournaments before the International that will have the major players fighting amongst one another? I presume MLG would have been that but that was cancelled.
I meant this year compared to last year. ^ ^"
The lack of content update during february/march compared to last year mean that they 'should' have more content ready by April, even early April.
Thought I actually doubt we will have a patch non-Easter related ( still crossing finger that they will take the opportunity to make an easter/Techies event ) and thus around the 20th of the month.
I'm guessing 6.81 will be released pretty soon after the qualifier if not released this week.
The Technomancer
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Schweinehund
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I can only hope to see techies soon, so people stop begging for his port and find out his pick pattern is akin to meepo.
Oracle looks like a much more interesting hero than techies.
Oracle looks like a much more interesting hero than techies.
You have to be good at micro to use his skill ?
I think you mean OP as fuck, can't wait for that new earth spirit, sure.
Imp the Dimp
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So who's gonna get nerfed?
My picks:
- Invoker
- Terrorblade (the slow gets a scaling)
- Ember
- Lycan (70% pro winrate lol)
- Naga (I'm so sure they're gonna reduce the duration of the illusions by like 5 seconds)
- Phoenix (perhaps? I feel he's super strong)
I can't think of anyone else I'd consider too strong. AA gets picked a lot but I don't see him being OP. Same with Doom.
My picks:
- Invoker
- Terrorblade (the slow gets a scaling)
- Ember
- Lycan (70% pro winrate lol)
- Naga (I'm so sure they're gonna reduce the duration of the illusions by like 5 seconds)
- Phoenix (perhaps? I feel he's super strong)
I can't think of anyone else I'd consider too strong. AA gets picked a lot but I don't see him being OP. Same with Doom.
I do not long for the Day oracle shows up in the Game. If people though ES was op, they're in for a rude awakening.
Edit:
I think the major heroes to be nerfed will Be Ember, Invoker, TB and Lycan, Lycan being the one hit the hardest. I don't think Phoenix will get hit with any major nerf, if nerfed at all. Dude completly falls off past 25 mins once the cores get bkbs. Against organised teams they'll also focus down the egg in an instant.
Edit:
I think the major heroes to be nerfed will Be Ember, Invoker, TB and Lycan, Lycan being the one hit the hardest. I don't think Phoenix will get hit with any major nerf, if nerfed at all. Dude completly falls off past 25 mins once the cores get bkbs. Against organised teams they'll also focus down the egg in an instant.
Arc Warden, give us Arc Warden. I have a feeling he could be considered OP too. What is interesting though is people in Dota 1 seem to run him as support. When I first saw him I thought he would be a super carry!
Honestly, Dota 1 is about as relevant as Titanfall to the balance of Dota 2. Those guys be wacko.
Wasn'it it around 400k concurrent before ti3? That's almost doubling the playerbase in less than a year.
SteveWinwood
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Pureauthor
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Ember is most probably not going to get nerfed, or if he is, it'll be a slap on the wrist token nerf. Dude doesn't warrant that right now.
SteveWinwood
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If only shallow grave healed you for double and made you invisible.
shira
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I've been trying to use gfycat as much as possible. I agree that multiple animated gifs are too annoying at times
And debuffed!
Thus the 2.0.
Holy shit! His heal is on a 3 second cooldown so you can just spam it during your ulti's duration.
Edit: Oh, nevermind. Unlike Warlock, his heal deals damage to allies.
If you want to get the most out of the heal you also must cast his magic resist thing on allies, otherwise you'd nuke them aswell.
Remember, if you want to heal, use magic resist on allies then the flames. If you want to damage enemies, cast flames then immidiatly purge to get rid of the healing.
This hero turs everyone into Slark and turns weaver and Slark into litierally unstopabble killing machines., ddue is beyond broken.
Yep, it's went from 300k to 700k in the past year.
http://steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&jstime=1&appid=570&from=1364770800000&to=End+Time
Guess I'll have to pick him then repick once he's released.
This is very true from my experience in Dota 2. I saw a Zeus Pudge offlane once. Sadly Dota 1 is all we have to go on about how people are playing these heroes though.
Don't forget the a wind one has an invis ability, I never see people use it.
SteveWinwood
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Anuxinamoon
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OKay then, how about people just Quote this and I'll random number generate the victor from the list. 
Quote to win DAZZURL Shadow flame set or something.
Quote to win DAZZURL Shadow flame set or something.