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DOTA 2 |OT6| Plz vote for Keeper of the Light Arcana
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I've done the best in Ranked by just playing Vengeful Spirit. She's so versatile as a support/semi-carry that I can build her to cover whatever deficiencies the team has
call_kotaku
Member
played my first game as elder titan because I repicked in all random (I didn't want to pugna).
This hero is easy
edit: steam is all blue now what's going on
This hero is easy
edit: steam is all blue now what's going on
The one thing I hate most while playing ET is when teammates attack the targets after the stomp. I usually try and get my ult up after but people just wake all the enemies up. Still I really do enjoy playing Titan.
Gully State
Member
I can't play venge worth shit in solo queue. Just end up under leveled because I roam too much without securing kills
Now add Veil for ultimate winning
balladofwindfishes
Member
I don't really get why they put hats into the test client...
I always get that after refresher. Id like to see him in the competitive scene more. I know bkb makes him useless but you can still manage to get it off usefully.
JawesomeJaw
Member
Put them in now and it is one less thing to update for parity when then roll out Techies/Pit Lord/Oracle/6.82 in a few weeks.
The following are my "tryhard" heroes for ranked, caps'd the big ones.
Support:
DISRUPTOR
SHADOW DEMON
ABADDON
Skywrath
Shadow Shaman
Earthshaker
Offlane:
LONE DRUID
FURION
BIRSTLEBACK
Tide
Brewmaster
Clockwork
Dark Seer
Doom
Mid
STORM SPIRIT
BREWMASTER
MORPHLING
BAT
Magnus
Ember spirit
Tiny
Carry:
LONE DRUID
MORPHLING
Tiny
Ember
Void
Skeleton King
Lycan
Weaver
Essentially, I either get a ton of lockdown or push potential. Raw damage isn't ideal and it feels lackluster. Drafting pushing power means you can easily split push at a moment's notice and force a reaaction from the enemy team or they'd lose a tower or racks. Even though people say Furion is ideal for this, Lone Druid is easily the most suited for the job, simply because there are only a handful of heroes that can force a Sylla out of lane with a single TP, since he can turn on them and most likely get a kill.
Skeleton King, Abaddon and Morphling are heroes who heavily punish over aggression are are great in most if not all lineups.
I almost never draft something early game exclusive. It's a fucking waste unless you're in a 5 man queue. Game is gonna go late anyways. Drafting a CM or a Lina or Leshrac is usually aweful, same thing with huskar carry or tusk. In supports I either Value extended pick off potential (Disruptor and SD), heroes that can save other heroes (SD or Abba) or initation/push heroes (Shaker, SS).
I almost never play mid but if I do I go either an initiator or another carry. Brew and Storma re my favourite since they are strong laners, and Morphling punishes lack of support rotations and is not made of paper like SF is. It's also stronger in the mid game due to E-Blade esentially eliminating 1 support/3 from their line up.
Stuff like Pudge or Tusk or WD are useless, literally pick any other hero if you're ranking. Bloodseeker is increadibly underrated, "LEL TP" disappears as soon as he brings a friend.
Support:
DISRUPTOR
SHADOW DEMON
ABADDON
Skywrath
Shadow Shaman
Earthshaker
Offlane:
LONE DRUID
FURION
BIRSTLEBACK
Tide
Brewmaster
Clockwork
Dark Seer
Doom
Mid
STORM SPIRIT
BREWMASTER
MORPHLING
BAT
Magnus
Ember spirit
Tiny
Carry:
LONE DRUID
MORPHLING
Tiny
Ember
Void
Skeleton King
Lycan
Weaver
Essentially, I either get a ton of lockdown or push potential. Raw damage isn't ideal and it feels lackluster. Drafting pushing power means you can easily split push at a moment's notice and force a reaaction from the enemy team or they'd lose a tower or racks. Even though people say Furion is ideal for this, Lone Druid is easily the most suited for the job, simply because there are only a handful of heroes that can force a Sylla out of lane with a single TP, since he can turn on them and most likely get a kill.
Skeleton King, Abaddon and Morphling are heroes who heavily punish over aggression are are great in most if not all lineups.
I almost never draft something early game exclusive. It's a fucking waste unless you're in a 5 man queue. Game is gonna go late anyways. Drafting a CM or a Lina or Leshrac is usually aweful, same thing with huskar carry or tusk. In supports I either Value extended pick off potential (Disruptor and SD), heroes that can save other heroes (SD or Abba) or initation/push heroes (Shaker, SS).
I almost never play mid but if I do I go either an initiator or another carry. Brew and Storma re my favourite since they are strong laners, and Morphling punishes lack of support rotations and is not made of paper like SF is. It's also stronger in the mid game due to E-Blade esentially eliminating 1 support/3 from their line up.
Stuff like Pudge or Tusk or WD are useless, literally pick any other hero if you're ranking. Bloodseeker is increadibly underrated, "LEL TP" disappears as soon as he brings a friend.
Tryharding in AR, for shame.
Oh btw Steve you can friend me now AR rules, 3 awesome heroes.
Glass Shark
Banned
I've had great luck with AA while trying to climb the ranks. He makes a huge impact in teamfights if you know how to play him right. I'm 8-1 with him this week.
Seems like it, it is for me anyway.
Ok so just got calibrated for solo ranked and i'm at 2.5 k >.>
any tips on what heroes i should be playing to win games more often because i find often that we lose because when i support the carry isn't very good or when I carry support's aren't very good, there are games where I don't play good as well.
any tips on what heroes i should be playing to win games more often because i find often that we lose because when i support the carry isn't very good or when I carry support's aren't very good, there are games where I don't play good as well.
Void seems to be the fotm.
So the test update was a mistake? or they just want to keep test updated and make sure it doesnt break anything at the same time
balladofwindfishes
Member
Old chests that required keys are expired and can no longer be opened.
Buttercup and her helmet are effectively immortals.
Also mastery gems are just kinetic gems now, which is what they always should have been, the distinction was stupid.
Buttercup and her helmet are effectively immortals.
Also mastery gems are just kinetic gems now, which is what they always should have been, the distinction was stupid.
According to Reddit: "Treasure Keys can now be redeemed for a free unlocked Treasure of your choice."
This something that they normally do? Why would they do that in the first place?
Dreams-Visions
Member
techies in the test client?
Augh yeah folks
I think it's in development atm - Anuxi tweeted this recently. http://gfycat.com/BlondSpicyKarakul
It'll be Era branded too.
Anuxi (i think) said it was rejected because you couldn't tell which way the hero was facing very easily
So shes redesigning it
afaik
I could be talking complete shit
balladofwindfishes
Member
Why has steam been stopping at 80-90% download and never even picking up any download.
It happens every time I have to patch a game, consistently. The last 10-20% can take 20 minutes to download.
It happens every time I have to patch a game, consistently. The last 10-20% can take 20 minutes to download.
Shorty11857
Member
Wow key prices have really shot up, if you have any left over now looks like a good time to sell
SteveWinwood
Member
"Mastery and Kinetic gem functionality has been merged and the term Mastery Gem removed. What were previously called mastery gems are now kinetic gems. Kinetic gems can change animations, change abilities, add or modify particle FX, change ability icons, and modify other features of the item they are attached to."
I'm glad they're making the gems easier to follow. I liked the ideas but the execution was sometimes lacking and it made it kind of confusing.
I'm glad they're making the gems easier to follow. I liked the ideas but the execution was sometimes lacking and it made it kind of confusing.
balladofwindfishes
Member
there was no reason they had to be two different gems from the beginning. It also led to stupid stuff like CM's immortal only adding the animation because technically it was kinetic and not mastery.
Hopefully they go back and adjust some older kinetics that lose their particles
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
This happened to me, then I went beta. Are you still on standard Steam?
balladofwindfishes
Member
I was, but the beta was making all my games run really poorly and was causing serious crashes of the steam overlay I never had before the beta.
Impossible since steam JUST updated everyone to that new blue shit
SteveWinwood
Member
GoldandBlue
Member
Cute little tail
I like the new client and stuff. The blue tray icon is gross though
Hey no one said there are new chests!
Only cool new set is that sick Batrider one
Rest are so vanilla and boring. 0/10 give frog Witch Doctor set pls
balladofwindfishes
Member
Dota 2 takes a noticeable longer amount of time to boot and steam overlay lags my game like crazy, which it's never done before.
It needed more time to bake.
SteveWinwood
Member
well i had that problem for like 2 years and this fixed it soooo
balladofwindfishes
Member
You can use keys to open previously limited perfect world chests 
Man, that's weird. For me the boot times for games have improved significantly and the overlay no longer makes some of my games go nuts.