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[inkls]

Firefly no longer goes over trees or cliffs.

that would destroy his survivability in the offlane.

 

[Monochromaticx]

I'm curious, what would it take to make Batrider unpickable?

Ever since a few years ago (pre-TI2 I think), when he was buffed, he has never been not a common pick in the competitive scene. Since then, he has been consistently nerfed almost every single patch, and we are talking over the course of almost 8 patches (I think?). Is it even possible to make this hero unpickable short of removing Lasso?

firefly damage only effects heroes.

 

[Vade]

that would destroy his survivability in the offlane.

Question was can you make him unviable without touching lasso, you just proved the point.

 

[NBtoaster]

Weird thing about bat is the 6.80 buff. 6.79 Bat was like a 10% pick/ban rate (a healthy amount really) but Icefrog couldn't risk him dropping out of the meta completely.

6.82
Flaming Lasso cooldown increased from 90/70/50 to 90/75/60
Sticky Napalm can be dispelled.
6.81b
Sticky Napalm bonus damage is now halved against non-hero units.
6.81
Flaming Lasso mana cost increased from 150 to 225.
6.80
Attack animation time improved from 0.5 to 0.3.
6.79
Base damage reduced from 48-52 to 38-42.
Vision reduced from 1400 to 1200.
Flaming Lasso cast range reduced from 175 to 100.
6.78c
Flamebreak cooldown increased from 11 seconds to 14.
6.78
Vision decreased from 1800/800 to 1400/800.
Flamebreak manacost increased from 80/100/120/140 to 140.
6.77
Batrider can no longer attack while using Flaming Lasso.
6.76
Strength gain decreased from 2.7 to 2.4.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

Goddamn I wasn't around back then(I think) but how fucking OP was Batrider in 6.75?

 

[Demoli]

Goddamn I wasn't around back then(I think) but how fucking OP was Batrider in 6.75?

I believe he only went 100% P/B a few patches after the nerf.

Whoo G RANK

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

I believe he only went 100% P/B a few patches after the nerf.

Whoo G RANK

Yeah I think TI3 was played with 6.78c? I distinctly remember those huge nerfs being part of the post TI3 patch.

 

[Emerson]

firefly damage only effects heroes.

Even this would not make him never picked. It would be an unbelievable nerf and he'd have to be played differently, but he'd still have value as long as you found him farm elsewhere.

 

[bbd23]

I'm curious, what would it take to make Batrider unpickable?

Batrider removed for pressing ceremonial reasons.

Spoiler

make flaming lasso blocked by bkb?

 

[Anbokr]

I'm curious, what would it take to make Batrider unpickable?

batrider now has 2 base str

 

[J Jizzle]

Came back to dota after 6 months break and I'm on a 9 match losing streak. Dat steep climb to be at least competitive again

 

[Night_Hand]

I'm curious, what would it take to make Batrider unpickable?

Ever since a few years ago (pre-TI2 I think), when he was buffed, he has never been not a common pick in the competitive scene. Since then, he has been consistently nerfed almost every single patch, and we are talking over the course of almost 8 patches (I think?). Is it even possible to make this hero unpickable short of removing Lasso?

The hero is fundamentally so strong he cannot be nerfed. Same with wisp and same with doom. The skillset of these heroes is so unique because they do things no other heroes can do. You really can't nerf these heroes without changing them.

 

[Sigismundo]

Do we count dropping out of the metagame as being nerfed? All three of Bat/Io/Doom have disappeared from the meta at some point.

 

[Divvy]

Have this if anyone wants to trade:

Impending Transgressions (Doom)

 

[Dreams-Visions]

nice Doom set. speaking of, any word when the set with the candles is being added?

 

[SilentRacoon]

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1251714488

Feels so good when you face a team that goes for carry picks in this mode, they tried doing tri-lane, didn't helped them one bit.

 

[Drkirby]

nice Doom set. speaking of, any word when the set with the candles is being added?

When Hell freezes over.

 

[shira]

First community submitted Arcana

 

[Manus]

nice Doom set. speaking of, any word when the set with the candles is being added?

It's gotta be soon right? With the goat horns in all I'd think it'd be part of the new bloom sets.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

EU servers fucked?

 

[manfestival]

When Hell freezes over.

BAZINGOOLO

 

[SecretMoblin]

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1251714488

Feels so good when you face a team that goes for carry picks in this mode, they tried doing tri-lane, didn't helped them one bit.

supports and initiators are the stars in YB

 

[shira]

http://redd.it/2wd6jq

The active abilities can now be used independent of the Year Beast being alive.

Added on-hover tooltips for the active abilities in the Year Beast panel.

Added two new active abilities: Tower Flak Cannon, and Glyph
// Tower Flak Cannon - 250 Ability Points | For 10 seconds, friendly towers will attack all enemy units within 1000 range each time they attack; 60 second cooldown.
// Glyph - 250 Ability Points | Your buildings become invulnerable for the next 5 seconds; 360 second cooldown.

Global Chakra cooldown reduced from 120 seconds to 90 seconds.

Hand of God cooldown reduced from 240 seconds to 160 seconds.

 

[Hylian7]

http://store.steampowered.com/news/15855/

Patch up!

Year Beast Brawl:
-The active abilities can now be used independent of the Year Beast being alive.
-Added on-hover tooltips for the active abilities in the Year Beast panel.
-Added two new active abilities: Tower Flak Cannon, and Glyph
--Tower Flak Cannon - 250 Ability Points
For 10 seconds, friendly towers will attack all enemy units within 1000 range each time they attack.
60 second cooldown.
--Glyph - 250 Ability Points
Your buildings become invulnerable for the next 5 seconds.
360 second cooldown.
-Global Chakra cooldown reduced from 120 seconds to 90 seconds.
-Hand of God cooldown reduced from 240 seconds to 160 seconds.


Pathing
- Alt-Right Click move commands now stop on a collision.
- Added an experimental feature, dota_player_auto_repeat_right_mouse which will quickly repeat right clicks so long as the button is held.
- Fixed some pathfinding cases.

General
-Couriers no longer morph when they move
-Fixed rendering of Crystal Maiden Arcana on OSX and Linux

Edit: God dammit Shira

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

http://store.steampowered.com/news/15855/

Patch up!


Edit: God dammit Shira

- Added an experimental feature, dota_player_auto_repeat_right_mouse which will quickly repeat right clicks so long as the button is held.

Interesting, not sure how useful it'll be.

 

[xanavi]

Interesting, not sure how useful it'll be.

That looks like a feature just to make pathfinding debugging easier.

 

[Acinixys]

OMGGGGGGGGGGG

All items that you own multiple copies of now have a new description tag that tells you how many you have in your armory. This also means you can search for "Number Owned" and it'll show all the items you own multiple copies of

Armory revamp when?

 

[twobear]

year beast, anyone?

 

[inkls]

so when's the next chest supposed to come out? Today? Tomorrow?

 

[shira]

so when's the next chest supposed to come out? Today? Tomorrow?

"late" this week and later

 

[Kard8p3]

ok offlane zeus is retarded

 

[Cyborgmatt]

We Diablo boys.

http://a.pomf.se/yefwtn.webm

"late" this week and later

It's not really late because Chinese New Year has just started today.

 

[Tieske]

Glad about the whole pathfinding initiative, was about time something happened


also that new broodmama set is atrocious

 

[shira]

We Diablo boys.

http://a.pomf.se/yefwtn.webm

It's not really late because Chinese New Year has just started today.

dose lights!

Valve's own words late this week and next

 

[Kard8p3]

broodmother set isnt that great....

but it does have custom ability icons...

what to do.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

ok offlane zeus is retarded

is that good retarded or bad retarded.

 

[Jadax]

volvo fix your effin servers bro!

2 games in a row we have no start because someone fails to connect, 3rd time no game at all.

 

[Acinixys]

We Diablo boys.

http://a.pomf.se/yefwtn.webm

It's not really late because Chinese New Year has just started today.

Hold on

Does this mean you can hold RMB so your hero follows the cursor?

Oh my god

 

[Haly]

I'm still going to click a billion times to maximize that APM.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

is that good retarded or bad retarded.

good as in "holy fuck zeus can hit us with a 85 nuke that jumps around with 1.75 secs cooldown and gaining levels faster than us"

 

[Divvy]

Year beast is pretty easy

 

[Kard8p3]

is that good retarded or bad retarded.

good retarded.

 

[rezuth]

Year beast is pretty easy

Won against all the undying I've seen so far in Year Beast.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1252025206

 

[Cyborgmatt]

With a bit of coordination and nukes you can kill half of their team at level one in Year Beast now with Thunder God's Wrath being available from the start.

 

[FlutterPuffs]

offlane zeus has been fun for months now.

Please don't ruin this for me by spreading the meta.

 

[Shinypogs]

Yearbeast is now taunting me. Gives me mythical sets for Chen and LD knowing my ability to micro with them is zero

Have any of the pros been playing interesting games of yearbeast brawl? I remember they did some crazy stuff during the diretides and wraith night and it's interesting to see how they try and break the modes.

 

[shira]

Con un poco de coordinación y las armas nucleares puede matar a la mitad de su equipo a nivel de uno de cada Año Bestia ahora con la Ira de Dios Trueno estar disponible desde el principio.

"poco de coordinación"

si si

Have any of the pros

Gotta have a $2000+ Roshan in there to entice pros.

 

[Visualante2]

Now everyone is picking Zeus the mode has become way less fun to me.

 

[52club]

I got this as a drop, I'm open to a trade:

http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Vestige_of_the_Arsenal_Magus

Looking for Axe, Riki, Necro, Wraith King, Sniper set, or a courier.

 

[Madn]

Bladesrunner (Juggernaut)
Dragon's Ascension (Dragon Knight)
Ghastly Matriarch (Death Prophet)
Steam Chopper (Timbersaw)
Arms of Burning Turmoil Mythical (Chaos Knight)
The Bonehunter Set (Bloodseeker)
Bindings of Frost (Morphling)
Shards of the Falling Comet (Morphling)
Embers of Endless Havoc (Chaos Knight)

I don't play any of these, will gift like for like

I would like to trade your death prophet set for my Eldritch Ice Lich Set