shira
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I prefer the term advanced tactics.
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DOTA 2 |OT6| Plz vote for Keeper of the Light Arcana
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I prefer the term advanced tactics.
A Sentient Keyboard
Member
Earthshaker does!
DC hooks can be found on reddit for $140 each bro who you trying to hustle?Well regardless, i can always get more. I was just wondering if anyone wanted to get some cheaper then the market. It's a service i can provide for GAF. 195$ for dc hook doesn't sound bad eh?
If you can find me a DC hook for 140$, i will buy 10 of them right now.
Team Trasher sucks ass, they may as well.
I hope you aren't serious.
shira
Member
$140 might be pushing it, but yeah $150ish is the cash money equivalent, steambucks price be damned.
Visually speaking, the cogs should form a circle around him and not a square.
Where's the stevewinwoodstack vs travdood vod bro.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Well you might as well buy it now, she's almost guaranteed to get buffed in some way or another. Whether she'll finally be competitively viable is a completely different story though.
Lina and WR both need to become viable carries, we need more int carries.
Cogs interaction with creeps/heros is really wierd
Sometime you can run 10 units from it and be fine, but other times youll be walking AWAY from them and get pushed
balladofwindfishes
Member
My brother says this also works with Techies. Him and his friend are queuing for CM right now to draft Techies.
If you do it with Oracle you can't pick your hero and are forced to abandon!
Try to tell him right now to not do it in CM, you can draft Techies but you can't actually pick him ether last I heard.
I just can't pull the trigger on the arcana's. At $19.99 MAYBE but $35!??! Come on Valve!
The only lina as far as I am concerned.
shira
Member
Same with techies
I bought mine for 140 not too long ago. They were still 140 before ti4. Seems like they're selling for 160 each now. But the one thing ive learnt about DC hooks is that the real money price usually platues around the 140-150 mark, despite the vastly fluctuating steam market price. Regardless $160 is still a better deal than $195.
You don't have to search too much to find hooks for 160 on reddit. Heck a guy wanted 8 hooks 4 hours ago and was offered 8 for $160 each and i wondered if it was you (it wasnt).
Asking 75% of steam market price is fair and prerty much a standard for real money trades, but asking 75% of the steam market price of dc hook is disingenuous because of how inflated that price is. High prices for nexon or perfect world items are warranted because of lack of alternate places to get them. But the DC hook is widely available for cheaper on reddit, and if you make a thread and wait long enough, people will add you on steam to sell for $150 or lesser.
Otherwise as a trader I encourage what you are doing. I just don't want gaffers to overpay for hats if they have a choice
balladofwindfishes
Member
Alright, I told him. Actually his message was "We figured out how to play as Techies in CM!" so I figured they had already tried it...
I agree. Arcana's should be 20.
I honestly don't care much for her to be competitively viable. The more under the radar good she is the easier it will be for me to grab her in RD. People tend to underestimate the amount of damage Lina can do with a level advantage and a full mana pool.
shira
Member
They should be $25ish on the market as they should depreciate in value over time, but people use them as currency for gambling, so they are $38-39
Yup.
Some of these new sets with effects and custom icons make arcanas look bad. The EG earthshaker set is pretty much like the lina arcana only costing a third of an arcana price
If they were cheaper they'd depreciate in rarity as well. Everyone would have them and they'd be much less cool.
You sir are a gentlemen and a scholar. good lookin out.
I can see this point completely and there is truth to it. But 20 dollars seems high enough to keep them pretty rare but not so expensive as to seem insane. Though valve has probably done enough research into this to prove me totally wrong and you totally right.
I'm a bit biased because I actually bought one for Legion Commander when it came out
but I still stand by my point as it feels good stomping around with those rare ass swords/particles!Sure why not? Its just the GBCT. You'll never be able to surprise draft an earth spirirt again. It would be worth it just for the reactions. Do it in a game 2 after youre already up 1.
Dont be a wussbag. Do it!
A year ago I was buying hero sets for $5-$6 each. Now I can buy better looking sets for $1 each on the same day they come out.
Valve has figured out that its better to sell a ton more sets for a lot less profit than the other way round. They can do the same for the arcanas. They can take arcanas out of the drop list like they are doing for sets to compensate for the cheaper price.
Valve peaked with the legion arcana. From the description of Techies arcana it sounds like we're getting a lame 'director's cut of the hero' style arcana and not a significant hero modifier like the legion oneI'm a bit biased because I actually bought one for Legion Commander when it came out
Right but it's quite possible the formula works the other way for Arcanas. They are much more sought after than a set because they have a ton more mass appeal. How many people will say a certain set is crap compared to a super rare, lovingly-made-by-valve character skin? Maybe enough people buy the Arcana at their extravagant price tag to make it more profitable, or just profitable enough to keep them this rare/expensive.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Not necessary. There is value in creating exclusivity either by quantity or prohibitive pricing for a handful of items. There are about 2,000 other items you can choose from if low prices are your motivating factor.
Arcana items are priced just fine. And in fact, Valve probably should exert a bit better control over the tiers of quality and their subsequent pricing. There was a time that Legendary and Mythical meant they actually had some value. At the moment, they tend to mean little. Especially with the move towards these new chests.
If the willingness for people to pay $200 for a WR bow or $100 for a truly ugly PA weapon tell you anything, it's that there are a lot of people hungry for exclusive items. To have something that not everyone has.
balladofwindfishes
Member
We really don't need less items in the drop system.
Even Immortal items at this point are pretty easy to come by. Just compare this year's TI Immortal prices to last year's...
we say that everyday.
She's gonna get more attack range.
She will outrange Sniper by 7.00, and I mean Sniper ultimate.
balladofwindfishes
Member
If it's not today, the release is on a friday right before a holiday weekend and someone is coming in on their monday off to fix the inevitable serious bugs.
pls yes, lina + bloodseeker/bounty/slardar combo incoming
... or not?
The ti4 compendium immortals are the most common items in the game.
WR's cape is worth like 30 cents
Dreams-Visions
Member
tonight it is. because fuck coming into work on a holiday.
lols tuesday release