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DOTA 2 |OT8| DOTA Asian Championship (1/27-2/9)
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I once heard a theory to explain this sort of behavior as a filtering mechanism on the scammers part, getting rid of people that they are unlikely to get money out of. Since scams target an absolutely massive amount of people but have only finite time to scam, if they make the first step in them incredibly obvious then the people who still get tricked in that first step are worth paying attention to as they have a good chance of getting money out of them.
The_Hitcher89
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http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1050146348
I love Axe when I get good farm. Helps that it was a low-level pub game, but still. Even had room to accidentally put a level into stats early on
We should have finished the game much earlier than we did, took a huge gamble letting Tiny level up to that point. 1 lost teamfight and we'd have been done for probably.
We should have taken Rosh at some point as well, big oversight
I love Axe when I get good farm. Helps that it was a low-level pub game, but still. Even had room to accidentally put a level into stats early on
We should have finished the game much earlier than we did, took a huge gamble letting Tiny level up to that point. 1 lost teamfight and we'd have been done for probably.
We should have taken Rosh at some point as well, big oversight
I think Chen is fine, the hard part for me is finding team members who understand that I have two nets and a stun ready to gank with that back out when we should dominate
SteveWinwood
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get dem ancients son
manfestival
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just played as sand king. team was losing hard till one teamfight before I got blink where I got an ult off that wiped 3 of them almost a 4th and it was the first team fight we won and last one we lost
fluffydelusions
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Do you still get the chance to get loot after games? I've gone a few games now and didn't see anyone get anything.
They changed the drop rates so you rarely get drops now.
fluffydelusions
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that sucks =\
When they do drop they come as full sets though, so it's not all bad.
Matt I love what you did with the XMG CD prize pool page. Well done.
But you get full sets
shira
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fluffydelusions
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Ya just saw that in the post up there. Not too bad I suppose.
I've yet to see a set drop. I just need to play more I guess.
Technosteve
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Don't play chen unless you can multitask multiple things at once, you can be the most effective in the first 10 minutes of the game where your creeps have more health then a hero.
balladofwindfishes
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In the almost month the system has been in place I have yet to see even one drop for ANYONE in any game I've been in
This system sucks. Don't try to suger coat it. It's awful. The system may as well not even exist. The rate is so absurdly low it doesn't make up for dropping sets at all.
I do miss getting 5 alch bracers in a row
tiltnkirby
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That was the only thing left in the pool.
Yes
shira
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balladofwindfishes
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And I miss getting items at all... I'm not sure your point considering I went from 5 alch bracers which is something to absolutely nothing.
wow I lost the equivalent of 0.15$ kreygasm. My point is while its not perfect and I think they should tweak it to drop more often, its a much better system than the previous one.
shira
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balladofwindfishes
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It's not even a system. It doesn't exist for me. It's not better
pretty much
Okay so I tried to play 2 pub games before.
First game we had a drow who sat in fountain after buying 3 salves and 3 clarities. She disconnected. After reconnecting she complained that the shop wouldn't let her buy anything. She disconnected again then reconnected and bought boots on the courier. I picked up the boots from the courier but then they became bound to me but unsellable (?) They were invisible in my inventory to everyone else but if I put them on the ground they were pingable, they also couldn't be denied or anything. Drow disconnected a third time and still was unable to buy any items, we then noticed that when she used a salve it was instantly restored in her inventory. She literally had infinite amounts of salves and clarities. I tried to drop the boots from before but they kept spawning in my inventory after a couple of seconds. The courier also had a boots of speed (also bound to me) stuck in it that was invisible to everyone but me but I could drop them on the ground.
Anyway we won the match because Drow had literally endless salves and would just salve everything non-stop the whole match.
Second game there was a sniper bottom, turns out that if a player disconnects during a match they are taken over by a bot. This was no ordinary bot though, it was invincible. No joke you could not deal any damage to it what-so-ever. It was also immune to any magic/composite/pure damages. Luckily it would stay in the offlane and just attack creep, it wouldn't attack the tower or move it would just pace back and forth killing any creep (or heroes) that got too close. The player never reconnected and the bot stayed there the whole game just being invincible and pacing around.
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ DOTO PLS Y U DO DIS??? ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
EDIT: I thought they removed drops? I've played about 12 ranked and 3 pubs since the patch and not a single drop did I see from the end of the game.
First game we had a drow who sat in fountain after buying 3 salves and 3 clarities. She disconnected. After reconnecting she complained that the shop wouldn't let her buy anything. She disconnected again then reconnected and bought boots on the courier. I picked up the boots from the courier but then they became bound to me but unsellable (?) They were invisible in my inventory to everyone else but if I put them on the ground they were pingable, they also couldn't be denied or anything. Drow disconnected a third time and still was unable to buy any items, we then noticed that when she used a salve it was instantly restored in her inventory. She literally had infinite amounts of salves and clarities. I tried to drop the boots from before but they kept spawning in my inventory after a couple of seconds. The courier also had a boots of speed (also bound to me) stuck in it that was invisible to everyone but me but I could drop them on the ground.
Anyway we won the match because Drow had literally endless salves and would just salve everything non-stop the whole match.
Second game there was a sniper bottom, turns out that if a player disconnects during a match they are taken over by a bot. This was no ordinary bot though, it was invincible. No joke you could not deal any damage to it what-so-ever. It was also immune to any magic/composite/pure damages. Luckily it would stay in the offlane and just attack creep, it wouldn't attack the tower or move it would just pace back and forth killing any creep (or heroes) that got too close. The player never reconnected and the bot stayed there the whole game just being invincible and pacing around.
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ DOTO PLS Y U DO DIS??? ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
EDIT: I thought they removed drops? I've played about 12 ranked and 3 pubs since the patch and not a single drop did I see from the end of the game.
i just now realized why you use a picture of omniknight when you post the patch update
im slow
edit: omg somebody even just said it upthread
im even slower
NormalFish
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You broke it, man.
Me neither man. Haven't gotten anything from the PA event either despite having some nice games. Oh well, I mostly like how my heroes look anyways.
NormalFish
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Such a shit hero. Seems every other CM match has someone who thinks ck is amazing. I don't get it.
SteveWinwood
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so apparently armlet kunkka is a thing now
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not a fan of the PA arcana
Sigismundo
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It could work. Cheap source of burst damage (although less than Shadow Blade I guess)
Dreams-Visions
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I think Chen is fine, the hard part for me is finding team members who understand that I have two nets and a stun ready to gank with that back out when we should dominate
Chen is not fine.
The pushing meta got shit on and his new Aghs ult isn't strong enough to justify buying the item. Teams can't win because of Chen; they win in spite of Chen. Being able to enchant Ancients was a good start, but I think Chen-enchanted Ancients need some sort of stats/damage/movespeed buff of some kind. Maybe even passive auto-attack abilities like attack speed slows or maim or auras. They're just pathetic atm and so is he.
SteveWinwood
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my idea for chen was like your ult (or your enchant or something who cares) just adds health, attack damage, and attack speed to a creep (you single target it repeatedly) and it can just keep going forever
so in early game you run around the same way with a stun or a net or whatever
but in mid game you now have had the same creeps that are actually fearsome with +100 health * however many times you cast it (10 or something) and youre not a useless pile of shit come 20 minutes
the downside of this is obviously if the other team destroys your creep youre back to shit until you build another one up so thats bad (you could scale it with the ult so by level 3 actually does some major buff up so your downtime is less)
but just imagine a dark troll summoner with like 2500 health and hits for 200 damage you just have another hero running around itd be awesome
you could bounce it between two and have some decent ones or just focus and have one awesome guy
and if the creep really balls out of control all game itd be super awesome raid boss
so in early game you run around the same way with a stun or a net or whatever
but in mid game you now have had the same creeps that are actually fearsome with +100 health * however many times you cast it (10 or something) and youre not a useless pile of shit come 20 minutes
the downside of this is obviously if the other team destroys your creep youre back to shit until you build another one up so thats bad (you could scale it with the ult so by level 3 actually does some major buff up so your downtime is less)
but just imagine a dark troll summoner with like 2500 health and hits for 200 damage you just have another hero running around itd be awesome
you could bounce it between two and have some decent ones or just focus and have one awesome guy
and if the creep really balls out of control all game itd be super awesome raid boss
Chen wasn't even popular during the pushing meta. He was more popular during TI3, and the meta around that tournament was largely farmfests. I think something as simple as a movespeed increase on converted creeps would bring him back.
shira
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http://www.welovefine.com/500-dota-2#/inst&id_lang=1&l=category&mfc=4-415&c=500&o=n&p=1
- clinkz op
- midas op
- enchantress op
- hotd op
Heavy's Sandvich
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Aghs upgrade for Chen: He can send an enemy home.
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