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Meta was getting too varied and interesting so a handful of pros are colluding to shit it up again.
Manaless blink.
Sigismundo
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From what I can tell Frog has always nerfed popular heroes/items (while still letting them do their job) and buffed unpopular/"weak" heroes/items. He's a bit of a balance hipster.
Imp the Dimp
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Saved his life right now
Mek is pretty much viable on everyone as long as they have the mana to realistically cast it in a fight without hindering their job as a hero. SF fits the bill, and since he can farm it in 8 minutes, it's extremely powerful.
I'd never go Mek SF unless I know I have an AM on the safelane with a 12 minute Bfury+Midas tho. He did the same build the other day when Burning was on a Naga as well.
I'd never go Mek SF unless I know I have an AM on the safelane with a 12 minute Bfury+Midas tho. He did the same build the other day when Burning was on a Naga as well.
A Sentient Keyboard
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I'm curious, how much did blink cost before the change? 100 mana?
What does that have to do with anything?
Cellbomber
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Love using rubick against bat and stealing fire. You lay the same path as him during team fights and the other team doesn't even know to run. Your team will naturally run since they think it's his flames.
I've been on the tinker train since the start when I was able to tp onto couriers, fountain farm, sniper couriers and items and troll all game.
In Dota 1. Then map changes, harder to fountain snipe, less trees, etc etc.
Tinker was my most used hero in the first two years in 2 though; but that dropped dramatically. Maybe 100 games over that span, thirty since then.
Judging from reddit and others, this week's offering rewards were complete shit.
I may pick up TA
In Dota 1. Then map changes, harder to fountain snipe, less trees, etc etc.
Tinker was my most used hero in the first two years in 2 though; but that dropped dramatically. Maybe 100 games over that span, thirty since then.
Judging from reddit and others, this week's offering rewards were complete shit.
I may pick up TA
There was also the non-coincidental rise of the pubstar tinker which is for all intents and purposes almost identical to how he's played due to the way the hero functions.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh my god I am so over manaless blink. I thought it was cool at first but its part of what I think is warping the meta to an aggressive teamfight ambush strategy
Yeah, damn manaless blink for making Doto the best it has ever been.
This aint 6.78
Manaless blink is good on paper, but it just almost breaks few heroes, Tinker being the most obvious due to both the bug and frequency of blinks he does. I'd like to see icefrog expleriment with something like a movespeed debuff on blink.
Tinker is real easy, stop rearm from refreshing blink and leave my god damned manaless blink alone.
*raises hand* I can yolo like Xboct that counts for something right ?
We didn't expect you to be up for it, thats great then. Only one player needed now.
A Sentient Keyboard
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What's QC? I might be up for it, I'm an almost okayish support player sometimes.
Quebec, a province of canada
A Sentient Keyboard
Member
Oh, never mind then, I thought it was some gamemode.
Well I'll need to bargain scrim time with my wife but I'll do my best.
Edit : In any case PM me the details.
Cyborgmatt
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Rearming the blink cancel needs fixing IMO.
I think you shouldn't be able to refresh blink dagger.
This, before anything else.
Some of you guys react to perceived imbalance way too harshly. DOTA2 is an extremely subtle game, and the Tinker problem can be fixed with very minute adjustments without overhauling Blink Dagger, which is one of the most important mechanics in the game and is more or less defining 6.80, 6.81 and 6.81b.
Why do you hate Puck?
God, no, that would be far worse.
It would be almost unbuyable except on initiators like it used to be, without affecting Tinker one bit.
Please never do this. thank you in advance
Have a friend play CK, Sven, Tiny, or Legion Commander.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
So yeah, ARDM still has some hilarious bugs. In a game I just played my friend respawned...with control of two separate heroes. They both had the items he was carrying before.
As far as I know you're facing players outside of your hidden MMR during calibration. Those matches don't make much of a difference anyway so don't beat yourself up about it.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I honestly don't care about Tinker that much, manaless blink isn't that great for him IMO since if you're doing Tinker properly you don't have mana problems when you're out pushing anyway. I'm just annoyed of how much ambush dota I've been seeing lately. I never like it when one strategy feels like its consistently how my matches are playing out.
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