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Dota 2 |OT5| TECHIES!!!
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NAZI VALVE
For $5.89 you can have 360 slots. If you wanted 360 slots yesterday you would have had to pay $9.11!
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
After a week of terrible games in pubs there's nothing like a match where you end up even in kills but still stomp. Decimating purely through laning decisions and map control is so satisfying.
Technosteve
Banned
How many games will i lose until i win game with SF ;_;
TharpDaddy
Member
Couple of Dota questions!
1) How can i determine which lane to go to? When i played Warlock i had someone tell me to go mid, but in my other matches i just kinda winged it.
2) Is there a hotkey to instantly snap camera focus back to my hero? In league and dawngate it's spacebar. I couldn't seem to find which option it'd be in the keybindings. I kept getting disoriented in fights because i'd accidentally switch to my warlock's pet or my spiderling and then try to get back to my hero and end up running around uselessly.
1) How can i determine which lane to go to? When i played Warlock i had someone tell me to go mid, but in my other matches i just kinda winged it.
2) Is there a hotkey to instantly snap camera focus back to my hero? In league and dawngate it's spacebar. I couldn't seem to find which option it'd be in the keybindings. I kept getting disoriented in fights because i'd accidentally switch to my warlock's pet or my spiderling and then try to get back to my hero and end up running around uselessly.
You should ask. It comes down to team composition and where everyone else is going. Here is a quick run down from the perspective of Radiant:
Top AKA Short Lane AKA Suicide Lane: Support, semi carry
Mid: Ganker/initiator/Farmer
Bottom AKA Long Lane AKA Safe Lane: Support, hard carry
As Warlock, you have two different roles. You can be Support. Or you can be Initiator (with your Golem). In the game where you went mid, you were playing Initiator.
Another useful nomenclature is "1-5 roles", which rank heroes based on their farm priority, with 1 being the highest and who gets most farm, and 5 being the lowest/ward bitch. Using that, laning is typically:
Top: 3, 4
Mid: 2
Bottom: 1, 5
When a jungle is present:
Top: 4
Mid: 2/3
Bottom: 1, 5
Jungle: 2/3
In a defensive trilane:
Top: 3
Mid: 2
Bottom: 1, 4, 5
In an offensive trilane:
Top: 1/2, 4, 5
Mid: 1/2
Bottom: 3
There's a binding under Unit Actions called Select Hero. Double tapping whatever you bind that too will center the camera over your hero. Generally, double tapping some sort of unit selection snaps your camera to it.
evilpigking
Member
All I got from offerings was 27 pts =// Then again all I put were chests and last year's trading cards.
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
Does the custom tp effect you get from the compendium last forever?
My attempt at UnIvErSe.
http://a.pomf.se/dxvpuq.webm
http://a.pomf.se/dxvpuq.webm
shira
Member
It's the bottom of the ninth with the 2 outs, 2 strikes and a blind batter against in-his-prime Nolan Ryan, but . . .
That Mirana seems kinda toxic.
Everyone in that game deserves to be banned.
even you?
Yes, for my performance next game as a 0-11 Rubick.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I watched Dendi play Tinker today, it was ridiculous watching him just hop about the map and then back to the fountain every few seconds. He didn't seem to be having fun either, he's very vocal about preferring to fight/kill people.
It was possibly educational though. At one point in an earlier game he was talking about how he died because the sand king on his team opted to channel his ult from the trees instead of stunning the enemies chasing Dendi. SK ulti did kill an enemy hero in return though though it was Dendi's DK dying vs a return kill on a rubick I think. Dendi was saying to the chat that sometimes players get too focused on ulting when a stun/ disables actually the correct move in certain situations. To be fair to the SK I can't tell if he was just frustrated he died or if he genuinely felt a burrowstrike to save him was better than epicenter at that moment
Green Biker Dude
Banned
they took my offering and i didn't get anything in return. what the fuck
i only had commons in there iirc but that's some bullshit
edit: oh the reward is points this time. w/e
i only had commons in there iirc but that's some bullshit
edit: oh the reward is points this time. w/e
I used one and it gives 4 extra pages
Like, how the hell am I gonna fill 18 pages with shit?
SteveWinwood
Member
the points are automatically applied to your compendium
congrats you got 25 points
Nirvana
Member
I didn't get any items at all for my offering...was that supposed to happen?
Only 2? psssh
http://a.pomf.se/givpsx.webm
edit: I can't connect to the Zephyr game in Dota TV. Anyone else having this issue?
I submit to your DS mastery.
SteveWinwood
Member
Zephyr double kill into comeback
What was the outcome!? My client doesn't like me.
SteveWinwood
Member
arrow cant win yet because all of zephyr is so under leveled they respawn in 10 seconds
shira
Member
Dream is dead
Somebody on reddit will have the most likely scenario next week. Just follow that for maximum pointage.
Somebody on reddit will have the most likely scenario next week. Just follow that for maximum pointage.
Wow. The strats from Zephyr. I like it.
Stay a low enough level that they can't team wipe you.
#nextlevel
shira
Member
There is a butterfly wk smashing mineski.
CharpyImpact
Member
Are the Offering rewards still coming in? I gave a page of stuff including some decent items and only got 34 points....
SteveWinwood
Member
sea got all their strats from the na scene
1500 mmr bracket
hey! that's offensive
You get evasion and attack speed, man. That's so legit.
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