Board 8 > Dota 2 Topic 4 - "If light cannot escape me, what hope have you?"

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I love getting blink on Pudge. It's so much fun. Never had a chance to get blink on VS but man, VS with blink and a Scepter somehow would be incredibly annoying.

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Oh and I was talking about HoN. I don't even think there was a VS in HoN was there?

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This game.
Are you guys watching this game? Jesus tapdancing Christ.

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Throw me a link and I'll watch whatever game you're watching.

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http://www.joindota.com/en/live/tobiwan

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Is there any way to make the screen larger without making it full screen?

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That's some funny timing

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Brood and SA? Really?

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Yeah you kinda tuned in just as it was ending. Some of the teamfights like just minutes ago were BONKERS.

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Oh god Tobi's going to sing a song.
His singing voice is pants moisteningly great, if you haven't heard it before.

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Holy christ if he actually does Piano Man, my pants will melt.
Edit: Dammit Tobi, don't be a tease like that.

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*swoons*
Oh god his voice is so good.

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From: The Real Truth | #152
Oh and I was talking about HoN. I don't even think there was a VS in HoN was there?

Andromeda.

And apparently I missed the best game of the day? Crap. Let's see if I can catch a VOD...

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Just played a few games in wtf mode with some of my mates.
God damn, that's as fun as ever. XD

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http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/487752425937930579/E3CB2FD3F889DA1F84945C6454006951AA345DEF/
There was a ton of hilarious stuff in our wtf games, but this one definitely transferred the best to a screenshot.

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I'm assuming that was bot Zeus? Otherwise how could Radiant lose?

Also BKB >> Linkens, especially in -wtf!

And here's my fun wtf screenshot:
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/648750789781699179/5EE128CF6694033D65EB1B0B3DE088C5806C2D39/

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Yeah, it was a bot Zeus. We banned him, but ended up with a bot anyway.
He didn't do much except for when he FREAKED THE HELL OUT near the 16 minute mark and spammed his ult for like 20 seconds straight. Was pretty hilarious.
The Juggs isn't me, I was checking his items. I was Sven, and I had BKB. Was using it to wade through Clockwerk's missiles as I hunted him down.

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Hahah, I've played a few -wtf matches and I've never seen Zeus actually do that.

Also I guess Juggs has spin so he doesn't really need BKB that much anyway.

This is making me want to fire up a -wtf match, heh.

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I just discovered that casting Edict multiple times creates a new effect -- it doesn't just renew the duration.

That was only entirely ridiculous. I killed Rosh solo in about 5 seconds.

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that wtf game was my first dota match ever

turns out I picked a hero with a global ult, aww yeah

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He picked Prophet for his teleport and ended up with Press R and win.

It was fairly amusing.

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first bot game with ness, choose juggeraut and spin into 5 people constantly - whoops

second game, pick lich and ult into groups of 5 constantly - let ness act as lebranch(?) cleanup for victory, aww yeah

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Leshrac is who you're thinking of.

I've discovered he's quite a bit of fun to play! Though me and Dante were going way too suicidal at times. Our allied bots were just jungling and farming all game so we were pushing and getting 5 man ganked way more than I'd care to admit.

Juggernauts spinning feels a bit weird -- when you're moving click PAST the enemy. If you click on them you'll move until you're in attack range and then stop... which is not what you want. But yeah, Juggs is probably not the best hero to start with.

Too bad Dante's internet is spazzing out on him or maybe we could be playing more...

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Decided to play with a friend in some single drafts, he's good luck o.o

26/6/8 Bloodseeker (Won even though our Enchantress left at level 8)

20/3/something Juggernaut (First time so much fun)

5/6/20 Bounty Hunter (Got carried by a 26/1/15 Venomancer awwwww yeah)

This coming after a solo single draft where I got Anti-Mage, got forced to solo top against Juggernaut + Omniknight, went 3/3/2 with my team yelling at me to leave because apparently it's my fault for losing that lane when I get no help :(

Also, hate playing Anti-Mage.

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I'm gonna call it now: if Dante ever gets into Dota 2 seriously, he'll end up playing initiators.

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Void is garbage

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Void too good

edit: who cares if I go 3-10-16, the rest of my team is made for cleanup tbqh

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I've only ever seen like one good Void in a pub.
There was a REALLY bad one in a match I had last night with Bane, he'd pop like a water balloon whenever I gripped him.

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Void needs farm to do anything.

Until then he's pretty useless outside his ult, which is super. not bad base dmg tho.

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On a related note, holy christ Bane is WAY too much fun if you really get rolling with him.
I mean, the same is true of nearly every hero in DotA, but man did I have fun in that match.

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Single Draft adventures:

Got Slardar, couldn't find a guide on LearnDota, decided to go in blind. Did well early laning then it fell apart :(

Then got Shadow Shaman, about the same thing, except I found a guide and I also like him much more. Never ended up getting beyond basic boots because the game was going so poorly, just got Eul's and became a CCbot

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Slardar can be pretty versatile. He can take a semi-carry role or more of a initiator. Either way, R > W > Q > E. You can get one level of Bash early -- if you get lucky with it you can nab some early kills, but I usually just max Crush/Sprint instead.

Power Treads are the boots of choice. Give more health and faster attacks so you have a better chance of getting a bash. Armlet is really nice. I almost always pick it up on him. If you don't have a blink initiator already, get Blink Dagger. Blink + Crush is really good, and it makes Slardar even better at chasing/escaping. BKB is obviously a good choice as well.

I'm a fan of Halberd on Slardar. Great anti-carry item if theirs is getting a bit out of control. Desolator is probably the best item for raw damage -- ridiculous amount of armor shredding. You can go a Cuirass instead if the situation is appropriate. Usually your team will have more carries than it needs on it since you're playing solo, so I prefer a more durable Slardar rather than going for DPS items.

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question: is there a source where I can read up on all the items in the game?

I suppose I could start a custom game with only me and read up on everything, but eh

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oh hey the first post lists a place lol

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http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Items
This might be better so you don't get confused by the icons

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Okay so unless something disasterous happens for the 5th time or whatever in a row, the test server should update tonight!
My expectations are pretty damn low at this point so I'm calling Shadow Demon and nothing else. >_>

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And Shake is correct! =/

Also Dante's internet refuses to let him play Dota. It's quite sad.

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Well, at least Shadow Demon is pretty damn slick, so if we're only getting one hero, I'm glad it's him!
Let's hope the next two weeks are Lycan/Lone Druid and Lanaya/Mortred double packs! Anyway, I can't seem to get onto a test server to try SD out, so I guess I'll wait till tomorrow night! (Tales of Graces should keep me busy, anyway >_>)

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Also, best new line of the patch.
http://www.dota2wiki.com/images/9/9e/Shadow_demon_rival_03.mp3

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These little guys remind me of couriers:


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6/8/13

127/11

thankfully these easy bots did not seem to mind me feeding randomly as mid windrunner

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Bit of mining started on the latest patch. The biggest thing to come out of it so far is that not only will every hero have injured idle/run animations, they'll also have unique animations for attacking while injured! Add in the chase animations we learned about awhile ago, and this is an unfathomable amount of visual polish, god damn. >_>


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I think they should rename Shadow Shaman to Rhasta, and maybe Shadow Fiend/Demon to Nevermore/Eredar.

Having three Shadow X heroes (Shaman, Demon, Fiend) just seems silly -- especially when Demon and Fiend are so similar. Most people call SS Rhasta anyway.

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Hmm, Dota 2 confirmed to use TF2's crate system.

Also there's an item you can buy (presumably) to get you out of low priority queue. Interesting.

It's gonna be weird seeing everyone with cosmetic stuff for each hero. The add-on items probably won't look as good as the defaults, so it's a bit disappointing for me.

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From: Ness26 | #194
Hmm, Dota 2 confirmed to use TF2's crate system.

Also there's an item you can buy (presumably) to get you out of low priority queue. Interesting.

It's gonna be weird seeing everyone with cosmetic stuff for each hero. The add-on items probably won't look as good as the defaults, so it's a bit disappointing for me.

All of the ones so far look pretty good!
If they continue to stick to hero-specific stuff, it should be fine.

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I agree with giving them back Rhasta/Nevermore.

I always called Rhasta Rhasta. Nevermore though I just called SF <_<

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I'm almost done with the quarter, so I might be up for some games during the like, 2 weeks I have off.

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btw

Armlet is horrible on Slad. He's too frail to use it correctly. Don't get it on him.

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Let's hope the next two weeks are Lycan/Lone Druid and Lanaya/Mortred double packs!

Im going for the double pack that doesn't have terrible heroes/that has Animorphs <_<

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