Not really, still only 50% mana regen. If you really want the armor reduction its not bad, but its not going to fix any mana issues.
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Dota 2 |OT7| What the fuck have they done
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Not really, still only 50% mana regen. If you really want the armor reduction its not bad, but its not going to fix any mana issues.
shira
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Double bottle. It's the only way
well with SR it's 100 percent plus the active. I wonder if thats enough because I usually don't feel like I'm good on mana till i get euls
A Sentient Keyboard
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It's weird people struggle so much with mana on techies considering he has the strongest mana regen skill in the game, his E. Keepo.
SteveWinwood
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check your local listings. Target had it in stock but gamestop didnt
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/886424131
;_;
We almost had it. Almost. How do you deal with bkb as storm spirit?
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We almost had it. Almost. How do you deal with bkb as storm spirit?
i got 6.82 gold, anyone that has silver willing to trade their huskar evolution stone for my tuskar buffs?
Zip your ass away and wait for it to run out.
Because it's pretty difficult to land + land mine is godlike + people love to an hero + does LITERALLYNODAMAGE.jpeg = last pick all day eeryday
if your tuskarr doesn't have wonder guard I want nothing to do with you
Stun first over Q is cray cray. Q helps you farm, helps you kill. Its amazing. Because of your low mana pool you need to minimize how many Qs you put at once to kill, so maxing it makes sense.
Stun over suicide is debatable. Should only be one if you have a setup for stun. If you do, its probably the best stun in the game. If you don't, its crap, since it needs someone to stand on it for fucking eternity to activate. Maxing suicide second makes sure you're killing somebody when you suicide
lol\
Are you going Arcane or Tranquil ? I definitly advise Arcane over Tranquil boots.
But yeah even with SR, Arcane you only really begin to feel ok mana wise once you also have eul. Anyway, your are still better off rushing sage mask + void stone for the eul than going medaillon IMHO.
JawesomeJaw
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I dropped a Witch Doctor ult with aghs on a five man chrono and got my first rampage in Dota.
Feels pretty good and pretty bad.
Feels pretty good and pretty bad.
Wok
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It is funny that you wrote this, because this is exactly what I was thinking. Sometimes you get a losing streak for no obvious reason:
Then you finally get your MMR back when this happens:
For a given MMR bracket, there is just too much skill variability.
MMR should be hero-specific, the problem being you get matched up with other players before you choose which hero you are going to play, so hero-specific MMR cannot be implemented.
Well, I remember how terrible human beings sometimes play this game. I haven't encountered a person like this in hundreds of games though.
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/886701981
So, I was the Mirana, and that guy was WK. The lanes were Doom (played by my friend) and myself in the safe lane, mid Invoker, and Pugna bot. The WK decided to go to mid for a level 1 first blood without any runes or anything. It didn't go well, and he decides to come top. That's where it got really bad.
He complained that he can't farm because the lanes are "screwed up". I told him he could dual lane bottom with Pugna as support wk, do a tri-lane with the two stuns, or even dual lane with Doom going jungle (My friend even rotated to the jungle and told him he'll stay in the jungle). He decided to whine and starts aggressively swearing at me, and decided the best choice of action is to do jungle.
Now, I had to recall my friend back into the lane since I wasn't playing a core Mirana. The WK already put his first skill point into the stun due to the attempted mid kill, and he was obviously having a bad time. I've never seen jungle WK even work anyways. Waaay too inefficient.
He kept complaining about the lanes, and then he'd get himself killed by the Bloodseeker twice because he was low on health. I told him, "Hey, you know he can see you when you're low on health right?", and he keeps swearing at me and says that he's aware of it. The third time he died was so silly. I was warding the bot rune and the new rune spawned top. I told that to the team, and even though he was below half health (and we also had full vision of Bloodseeker middle), he went for it. Surprise, he died.
I just typed, "why", and the FIRST thing he says is that I'm muted.
His complaints went down significantly now, but he didn't play all that well. He would be either too scared to initiate or just yolo in.
I made a lot of mistakes too, but hell, I was the solo support buying everything. I made space by rotating and shooting arrows at people in other lanes. I landed most of the arrows that I intended to hit with. I put in so much effort. My only teamfight contributions were landing arrows and a few right clicks, yet everytime I died to just Techies, the entire team would lose the fight badly. I figured out that by that point, we weren't going to win.
This game is too hard.
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/886701981
So, I was the Mirana, and that guy was WK. The lanes were Doom (played by my friend) and myself in the safe lane, mid Invoker, and Pugna bot. The WK decided to go to mid for a level 1 first blood without any runes or anything. It didn't go well, and he decides to come top. That's where it got really bad.
He complained that he can't farm because the lanes are "screwed up". I told him he could dual lane bottom with Pugna as support wk, do a tri-lane with the two stuns, or even dual lane with Doom going jungle (My friend even rotated to the jungle and told him he'll stay in the jungle). He decided to whine and starts aggressively swearing at me, and decided the best choice of action is to do jungle.
Now, I had to recall my friend back into the lane since I wasn't playing a core Mirana. The WK already put his first skill point into the stun due to the attempted mid kill, and he was obviously having a bad time. I've never seen jungle WK even work anyways. Waaay too inefficient.
He kept complaining about the lanes, and then he'd get himself killed by the Bloodseeker twice because he was low on health. I told him, "Hey, you know he can see you when you're low on health right?", and he keeps swearing at me and says that he's aware of it. The third time he died was so silly. I was warding the bot rune and the new rune spawned top. I told that to the team, and even though he was below half health (and we also had full vision of Bloodseeker middle), he went for it. Surprise, he died.
I just typed, "why", and the FIRST thing he says is that I'm muted.
His complaints went down significantly now, but he didn't play all that well. He would be either too scared to initiate or just yolo in.
I made a lot of mistakes too, but hell, I was the solo support buying everything. I made space by rotating and shooting arrows at people in other lanes. I landed most of the arrows that I intended to hit with. I put in so much effort. My only teamfight contributions were landing arrows and a few right clicks, yet everytime I died to just Techies, the entire team would lose the fight badly. I figured out that by that point, we weren't going to win.
This game is too hard.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
Just going to put this out there, but a Travel Boots/Eye of Skadi/Butterfly and three Rapier Medusa build is legit.
Cyborgmatt
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This Nulls + Blademail Furion build is arse.
Sigismundo
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You're gonna need to pick a better word to describe it than 'arse'. Arses can be nice.
yeah, that can be hard when theres a PA, Medusa, LC banging on your rax and taking down your team which is much less mobile.
Also anyone got tips for item progression on storm?
I usually go orchid > treads > bloodstone/linken's > bkb (opt.) > Sheep
What other ways can I build him?
You can try fitting a shivas in there. And I go for treads before Orchid.
The timing window for orchid is what? 16 min? So to make sure I get it ill usually go for it first.
And yeah I didn't include shiva because I haven't been able to build it so far.
Sigismundo
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I ended up having to play farming carry Juggernaut (so yes, I went Bfury > Deso > Bfly) and I completely forgot that Jugg got his BAT buffed. It actually feels pretty good playing him as primarily a right-clicker.
Sigismundo
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Normally I would do the Phase > Drums > Aghs build but I was somehow the main carry.
U would've still fukt up.
Everyone knows jugg needs attack speed items.
Shoul've gone MoM with Blink or Maelstrom with Blink. Then Mael could become a Mjolnir and u still hit hard and fast (even during omnislash).
Sigismundo
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I admit I probably should've gone Mael > Mjol but we won so eh.
Forced 50 will save you, don't you worry.
So after 9 game loss streak, one that wasn't a complete stomp and 4 that had griefers I finally seem to be winning a game. I only had to stop queueing ranked to get people that aren't actively playing against my own team.
On a sidenote why does Techies mines not activate Borrowed Time?
On a sidenote why does Techies mines not activate Borrowed Time?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Because fuck you Abbadon
okay abbadon isn't that bad but one of my most fun games ever was as PA just making this abbadon miserable all game because my crit went through his ult
Sentenza
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Tales From The Trench Episode 5.
Nightmare fuel.
I have to say this guy is a hilarious and quite capable caster. His commentary is brilliant at times.
Nightmare fuel.
I have to say this guy is a hilarious and quite capable caster. His commentary is brilliant at times.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
I still think Techies is a loser hero, but it can be really good at defending pushes after losing a teamfight. It doesn't compensate for the general lack of contribution but it can be massive nuisance.
Well credit to that Techies player because I had been walking on mines all game without any problems but as soon as I walked on highground at their racks I instantly died.
Imp the Dimp
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Puck is a known high MMR smurfer. Ruined the vid for me honestly.
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