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DOTA 2 |OT6| Plz vote for Keeper of the Light Arcana
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shira
Member
I guess it was deleted, but there was a back an forth last night something along the lines of
Envy: First to try some bullshit anime CD
Arteezy: Too bad i'm first when it counts
Envy: That's why we can't be on the same team
Which teams are GAF teams?
Team guidos, trasher, and freakinchair fraud squid i believe. Only team trasher is scheduled to play in the coming week because of reasons. Think they play in an hour or so.
It is also not too late to signup for anyone that still wants to join, this is just the bo1 phase where signups are still open.
Do you know if we can sign up with 4 players? We're not 100% on who our 5th player is going to be yet.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
While we are talking about Bounty Hunter, Vlads or Drums?
I'd probably wait for a 5th, you still have about a week to signup I believe. Though if you absolutely can't find a 5th in the next couple days and want to be safe, just sign up as 4 and put TBD in the 5th slot.
We play at 3 EST...hoping we have 5!
We'll play in your place
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ZeroXcuses
Banned
Oh I guess I should introduce myself.
I been playing DotA since 2003, but I wouldn't say I actually "got gud" at the game until like 2009-2010-ish. I played the game for almost an entire decade with a handful of heroes even though I understood how all the heroes in the game worked. I was one of the original forum moderators for DotACash (with this very screen name for awhile) when it launched, and it was there where I really learned the meta.
Lots of pros like Aui_2000, Universe, TidesofTime, etc. played on our servers, but I wasn't good enough to be considered to hang (I am also not Asian...if I were, it would have helped me join the cliques). I HAVE however, played with/talk to some guys who could have gone pro but decided to...you know, live normal lives. One of them is a mentor of mine of sorts and he was good friends with Aui. Even told me how when it came to forming a serious team 2-3 years ago that they told him he had to decide between DotA or real life.
But that's about other ppl. If you care, I have 2k games played on DotA 2 with a 48% w/l. I'm a 3800-3900 MMR guy who thinks he should be in 4k but I don't care for the heroes that I should play to get there (like slark..eff that hero; and currently Void) because I find more satisfaction in beating "meta" heroes than playing with them (Krob and Necrolyte are exceptions as I have been playing with them even when they were considered bad). I considered playing CD/CM mode, but that means risking some captain picking a team revolving around their carry. No ty. I'll just be content at 3800 and play non-ranked. Stress-free DotA.
My party MMR is like 3400 or so. Dat 400-500 pt swing between solo and team? Well, I find it amusing, because a lot of my friends have like ~4k MMR party MMR but are like 3300 solo.
I'm most comfortable playing a 2-3. Playing a 4-5 is generally unfun for me, but I'll do it especially because most ppl I know are pubstar carries who fail at support.
Right now, my favorite hero is Lina, played as a semicarry (because I think she makes for a really really bad support). Phase boots, urn or bottle (depending on if she's mid) blink dagger, Agh with a naked void stone somewhere in between for the mana regen. I get euls for heroes who get blink to set up her stuns better.
I'm always looking for more ppl to play with. My DotaCash connections give me friends as high as 5k MMR and as low as 2700. I'll pretty much play with anyone as long as you A) don't rage and B) are not spamming on the mic, especially with profanity because my wife has recently taken interest in the game after it has caused problems in our marriage and I have overcome some addictions. But she's also very modest and does not want to hear/see explicit stuff. So if you're looking for someone who you know won't eff up your game by randoming a hero when you're trying hard, or demanding to play solo Pudge against OD, send me a PM.
I been playing DotA since 2003, but I wouldn't say I actually "got gud" at the game until like 2009-2010-ish. I played the game for almost an entire decade with a handful of heroes even though I understood how all the heroes in the game worked. I was one of the original forum moderators for DotACash (with this very screen name for awhile) when it launched, and it was there where I really learned the meta.
Lots of pros like Aui_2000, Universe, TidesofTime, etc. played on our servers, but I wasn't good enough to be considered to hang (I am also not Asian...if I were, it would have helped me join the cliques). I HAVE however, played with/talk to some guys who could have gone pro but decided to...you know, live normal lives. One of them is a mentor of mine of sorts and he was good friends with Aui. Even told me how when it came to forming a serious team 2-3 years ago that they told him he had to decide between DotA or real life.
But that's about other ppl. If you care, I have 2k games played on DotA 2 with a 48% w/l. I'm a 3800-3900 MMR guy who thinks he should be in 4k but I don't care for the heroes that I should play to get there (like slark..eff that hero; and currently Void) because I find more satisfaction in beating "meta" heroes than playing with them (Krob and Necrolyte are exceptions as I have been playing with them even when they were considered bad). I considered playing CD/CM mode, but that means risking some captain picking a team revolving around their carry. No ty. I'll just be content at 3800 and play non-ranked. Stress-free DotA.
My party MMR is like 3400 or so. Dat 400-500 pt swing between solo and team? Well, I find it amusing, because a lot of my friends have like ~4k MMR party MMR but are like 3300 solo.
I'm most comfortable playing a 2-3. Playing a 4-5 is generally unfun for me, but I'll do it especially because most ppl I know are pubstar carries who fail at support.
Right now, my favorite hero is Lina, played as a semicarry (because I think she makes for a really really bad support). Phase boots, urn or bottle (depending on if she's mid) blink dagger, Agh with a naked void stone somewhere in between for the mana regen. I get euls for heroes who get blink to set up her stuns better.
I'm always looking for more ppl to play with. My DotaCash connections give me friends as high as 5k MMR and as low as 2700. I'll pretty much play with anyone as long as you A) don't rage and B) are not spamming on the mic, especially with profanity because my wife has recently taken interest in the game after it has caused problems in our marriage and I have overcome some addictions. But she's also very modest and does not want to hear/see explicit stuff. So if you're looking for someone who you know won't eff up your game by randoming a hero when you're trying hard, or demanding to play solo Pudge against OD, send me a PM.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Welcome!
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Hey people, head on over to http://www.twitch.tv/anbokr to watch us cast Team Trasher in their big debut in the GiantBomb tournament, playing against the admins.
I cant hear you guys in game, only in twitch
How has this GB thing already started, I thought teams were still signing up.
Welcome! About a year ago I played a couple of Dota 1 matches on DotaCash servers on my stream for fun. I did horribly as I was not used to WC3 at all, but it was interesting. There sure is a huuuge skill gap between Dota 1 and 2 pubs.
shoutout to Nilay's Earthshock Ursa, doing 4k total hero damage
With 54 kills to our team, racking up 4k hero damage is...
ZeroXcuses
Banned
IDK, the problem with DotA 1 games is that people stacked a lot. I mean, A LOT. You could be competent and your teammates not be derp and still get wrecked because the other team was basically running a scrim strat against pubs. Also, MH was a lot more prevalent than hardcore DotA fans would like to believe.
Sounds good. Just added you on my phone.
feel free to add me as well, im 3.3k party mmr , yarden24
I don't know man, think pretty much everyone and their mother knew how prevalent map hacks were lol. I personally quit dota 1 even long before HoN came out just because of map hacks. Hell, a bunch of my irl friends map hacked. I think at some point though, blizzard finally turned on their detection software for custom games, so a bunch of people got banned.
ZeroXcuses
Banned
Done.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Okay I'm sick of every game being Void + AoE now
See Void pick Doom. EZ
my man
cuevas. PhD.
Member
Me too! Mmr 1.3 at eznark on steam
pray you don't get chrono'd and buy a euls or ethereal if your hero doesn't buy an orchid
Doom is the answer to all the current fotm heroes. Tinker, Sky, void, brew, lc, phoenix. I won more games with doom then ever before.
or play sd, omniknight or earthshaker.
Acti
Member
I know what you're felling mate. This "meta" game completely fuckin sucks! See Void pick Doom.
Definitely, there was that and bug exploiting/other hacking going on too. I remember a time I played Techies and as soon as I spawned one time I got instantly hooked to the place I died (on the OPPOSITE) side of the map by the enemy Pudge, old Dota 2 Chen style.
Another Mapo game! I feel like the entire enemy team picked to be able to single out and pick off one of my Mapos. It worked for a while but I still fucked them!
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/839325949
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/839325949
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Its not even necessarily carry void. I got fucked last game by a Void + Leshrac
ftfy
Seriously im seeing more Tinkers than Pudges
Its weird
I alway go solo mid Legion and destroy him though
66.6% winrate how spooky indeed
I'm loving Doom because he counters all the heroes I don't like dealing with. A Faceless Void made it past our first bans (we were greedy and wanted Neroh Faceless x me Doom combo), but he didn't make it much farther than that.
A Sentient Keyboard
Member
Added!
Also razor/dp if they get their ults off dont give a fuck if they get doom'd
SK I'll grant you, maybe LD, but getting it on Lycan pre-ult is devastating. There's plenty of heroes you can obviously say, "Well after they've already used all their useful abilities Doom doesn't matter", but of course that is the case.