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Dota 2 |OT7| What the fuck have they done
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shira
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its going to be a bunch of chests probably, is it even legit?
Emerson
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That was my question.
Would make a way cooler treant cosmetic
Technosteve
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Cya next month. Time to have my first proper holiday in years at this beautiful place.
Floridian Retirement Home?
neurosisxeno
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Sooooooo... did they just flat out release Techies without a single balance change? That's kinda... shiesty...
SteveWinwood
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Technosteve
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Maybe the meta will change with out a patch change maybe the chinese figured out the counter to 5 man death ball Z
neurosisxeno
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Figured since they had a chance to waitch TI4 and time to reflect on it we'd see a big Balance+Content release all at once. Interested to see what they do to shake things up.
Emerson
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On a tangential note it's interesting that for so long it was almost accepted knowledge that part of the reason Techies was so long in coming was that Icefrog was unhappy with the hero and wanted to redesign it, and it wouldn't come to Dota 2 until after that was done. Obviously none of that came true.
Accepted knowledge? I don't think so. I personally don't know anyone who thought Icefrog was unhappy with Techies and was going to remake him.
yes
no reason to get hyped though
edit: ill elaborate for the sake of it. It's exactly what it says on the text (A treasure (proposal)). I'm honestly not sure where you found that image though lol. Oroboros has a pet project chest involving a dozen people or so. I don't really want to say more because I think he wants it to be a surprise. but he's revealing it tomorrow so we'll all see soon enough I guess. I only have two items in there.
Emerson
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I dunno, it's definitely something I saw many people saying over the past year or two.
SteveWinwood
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you keep using the plural form "they"
a lot of people say a lot of things
wagamama right now has played a lot of him
his vods are behind his sub paywall though
but you can watch them in client
and he streams a lot
So far I'd just say wagamama
call_kotaku
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Best way to break a losing streak is to play a single draft game where the other team apparently had no idea how Nyx works.
Perks of the trench, I guess
Perks of the trench, I guess
SteveWinwood
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kthx
edit: hmmm
he played for like 24 hours straight so the end was a shitshow
manfestival
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I was out of town all weekend but what happened that caused EG to blaze through WEC?
they just used vici-style deathball for most of their matches (they beat na'vi in 9 minutes and C9 in 13).
also they used a neat drafting trick where they picked naga and then ran it as a support.
also universe's void is really good
To be fair there was some assholes in some games, like one where there was a warlock stream sniping to know where his mines were.
Glass Shark
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This is apparently the "best" Techies player right now, slightly edging out waga: http://www.dotabuff.com/players/86846354
I don't think you were ever in-sync with dota in the first place if you think you can simply stop playing.
Does anyone have advice for using the first BKB charge? I usually play hard carry (3K ranked,) and even after 1050 games, whenever I buy a bkb, I always wait way too long to use the 10 second charge, its always up on a pedestal. After that I always use it when I need to, to save my life, or to help win a team fight with void or whatever, but I've lost my fair share of teamfights due to not triggering a fresh bkb.
See you in two weeks
manfestival
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interesting all around. super happy to see that c9 cant win still
aw yeah, I'm going to binge on that shit so hard. I'm bounchfx on ps4 if any dota-gaf wants to play next week
i have a 12% winrate with alchemist after 13 games -_-
neurosisxeno
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While Icefrog does make the final call (as far as I can tell) I imagine he doesn't handle every single task singlehandedly. DotA 2 is developed by a team, and I imagine they have a decent amount of input.
Long story short, it's an old grudge between them from the DotA 1 days of SL. Basically Waga posted on Reddit in a topic about SL giving a team a forgeit loss in the Finals for their division, recanting his personal experience with v1lat.
The basics of it were that when Waga was in college he was playing DotA 1 and his team qualified for the LAN finals. It would have cost them about $1,000 (not sure what currency it actually was so I'll put dollars for ease) for their whole team to make it, which they couldn't afford. He spoke personally to v1lat and v1lat said if they could cover the cost SL would re-imburse them half. So they borrowed and spent all of their money to get everything booked. Then whenever Waga tried contacting v1lat he kept evading and saying he was busy, that they would handle it later. It went on for several days and eventually v1lat just ignored him entirely. They never ended up getting reimbursed.
38% with alchemist out of 78 games, boom. Like 30 of them were prior to 6.79 though. I fucking hate modern alchemist. +700 health and the 7 second countdown stun made the character a whole hell of a lot better than he is now.
6.79 Alch was my favorite, you had easier to hit stun, high night vision, the the fast regening HP. I personally feel the high HP regen is far better then a raw HP boost.
Also, Mirana and PA are both tied for what I feel is my worst win rate. am 1-6 with both of them.
Also, Mirana and PA are both tied for what I feel is my worst win rate. am 1-6 with both of them.
shira
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I'm better than RTZ and I'm only 50% on Pudge. Couldn't land a hook if my life depended on it. I go shadowblade, max stats and rot.
I'll take the team of supports any day. You can actually go and win the game with a bunch of early game heroes. Playing with a team full of carries basically consists of hoping the other team is too dumb to just group up and kill all your towers; then you're sitting in your base at 18 minutes with no outer towers and no where to farm.
If the pro meta of the last couple months has taught me anything it's that you don't need true carries to win a game of dota.
SteveWinwood
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zeus is just freelo with a techies in every game
I understand that, I'm just saying if your team loses it in the first 10 minutes, you have no "Well I guess there's lategame" to rely on.
Yeah, being 5 carries sucks, but at the very least you have the slim option of "just survive til lategame" and maybe you can come back. You fuck it up first 10 minutes with 5 non-carries, then you've lost.
I think the difference is that the outcome of the game is at least in your hands with the carry-less team. That's more fun to me than being the guy not farming in a Medusa/PA dual lane hoping the game somehow goes on for another 50 minutes.
I'd rather not have the deal sealed in 10 minutes. The rest of the match just feels like a waste of time and makes you wish for a concede button after that.
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