[Megathread] DotA 2

[Lysah]

Get BKB if you need it, this goes for any hero in any game. Being able to ignore spells is absurdly powerful, it just depends on who you're against.

[Deleted]

Come on, Valve.

[Coffer]

Come on, Valve.

>US servers

[Deleted]

Come on, Valve.

Low priority, maybe?
Has anyone reported you...a lot?

[Lysah]

It would say in the s/s if it was low priority.

[llDemonll]

picture looks photoshopped. the 5 and 4 don't line up properly

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picture looks photoshopped. the 5 and 4 don't line up properly

How, exactly?

[Valedus]

Fair enough, Lysah. I'll give it a try next time I play him. Might flat out pick him tonight, but I've always liked Lothar's more than blink unless its a hero like Sand King or Tide (travel time must be instant, and cheaper item).

[Lysah]

Lane top with brood/visage against rhasta/ursa/furion. Both of us are 0-3 by level 4, about to just flat out rage quit for the first time in 950 games.

Stick in there for whatever reason, suddenly beyond godlike and destroying rax. Still not entirely sure what happened, but Ursa did some stupid tower dive suicides and rhasta wasted his early game gold advantage on blink. Exhibit A for why blink is a horribad item. 2150g and what did he get out of it? I attack him under web and he can't use it to get away. He still only has 700 health so three auto attacks + spawn spiders and he's dead. He can't use it to initiate because he's rhasta and just gets stomped on because, as previously stated, he has 700 health.

Rubick also somehow lost to a drunk slardar mid, I think, it took him 25 minutes to finish force staff somehow.

[Deleted]

I quit playing on the EU servers completely when I play with 4 randoms, it's just THAT much more enjoyable when playing on USE and people actually communicate. The only downside is the effin latency that can be upwards to 150ms. However seeing actual ENGLISH being spoken it's manageable.

[Kurdiern]

Lane top with brood/visage against rhasta/ursa/furion. Both of us are 0-3 by level 4, about to just flat out rage quit for the first time in 950 games.

Stick in there for whatever reason, suddenly beyond godlike and destroying rax. Still not entirely sure what happened, but Ursa did some stupid tower dive suicides and rhasta wasted his early game gold advantage on blink. Exhibit A for why blink is a horribad item. 2150g and what did he get out of it? I attack him under web and he can't use it to get away. He still only has 700 health so three auto attacks + spawn spiders and he's dead. He can't use it to initiate because he's rhasta and just gets stomped on because, as previously stated, he has 700 health.

Rubick also somehow lost to a drunk slardar mid, I think, it took him 25 minutes to finish force staff somehow.

Think that's less of a "Blink is a bad item" and more of a "Player is stupid" example.

[PizzaSHARK]

As for AA, atos > euls
Cyclone and your cold feet does zero damage. Atos accomplishes the same thing but they still lose 400 health in the process and are attackable the entire time. Atos also gives you health.

Cold Feet's damage is pretty negligible - 300 damage over 4 sec before MR comes into play. Haven't paid enough attention to find out if W reduces MR to 18.75% (which would be 25 * 0.75) or 0% (which would be 25 - 25), but even if it reduces it to 0, it's still only 300 damage. I'm pretty sure your team will do a lot more damage than 300 to them while they're stunned for 3.5 sec

Main problem with Atos is that it's pretty expensive if you aren't getting a good amount of assists or opportunities to get some farm. It's only like 600 more than Eul's, but Eul's is also only about 600 more than Force Staff

Think that's less of a "Blink is a bad item" and more of a "Player is stupid" example.

Dendi goes blink first all the time, but... well, he's Dendi.





Only had time for two games yesterday and both of them were complete curbstomps. It's nice to be on the winning team for once but... ugh, wtb even games :-/

[Lysah]

Big problem I have with eul's AA is that the cyclone prevents you from doing anything to them while they're in the air. For the same reason it gives your team time to catch up if you get caught and use it on yourself, it gives their team time to catch up if you get a pick on them.

[PizzaSHARK]

Big problem I have with eul's AA is that the cyclone prevents you from doing anything to them while they're in the air. For the same reason it gives your team time to catch up if you get caught and use it on yourself, it gives their team time to catch up if you get a pick on them.

Yeah, that's true, but saying you shouldn't get Eul's for that reason is a bit like saying you shouldn't get Astral Imprisonment on OD because you could imprison someone and give their team time to catch up.

The assumption is that you only use the cyclone to secure a CF proc when you can't get it any other way, like if you're solo or with someone that doesn't have a disable to chain with CF. If you're ganking as a team and you didn't do something retarded like pick 4 hard carries, you should always have another disable of some kind to ensure the CF procs.

[Coffer]

Assuming this is true (5:38), the order in which the final few heroes will be implemented in Dota 2 is as follows:

Meepo - Magnataur - Medusa - Centaur - Troll Warlord - Slark - Skywrath Mage - Tuskarr - Goblin Shredder - Bristleback - Pit Lord - Ember Spirit - Terrorblade - Chieftain - Phoenix - Techies - Legion Commander - Abaddon

I'm not terribly pleased. Abaddon was one of my favorite heroes, and he's dead last. Even Techies will be implemented before him. That's a slap in the face if I ever saw (or felt) one.

[hailey]

Eul's is awesome for the move speed and regen on a lot of utility/support heroes. The biggest reason we don't see much of it in comp play is there are just far more important items for low farm heroes to get, like mek, force staff, pipe. It fits really well into pub play though, way better than people realize. It's a more selfish item than force staff though imo (on people who actually use force staff correctly)

[Lysah]

BB TC LC LOA Phoenix all showing up last on the list. Why does Valve hate strength heroes so much ._.

[Kuntantee]

TI2 starts tomorrow. It's gonna be awesome!

[Finear]

with mufc's problems in getting their full roster to seattle unable to be resolved in time, valve have abruptly announced a last-minute change to the plans for the international line-up. Mousesports and world elite - the two standby teams who are both already in seattle - will fight each other to replace mufc as the final team in the full competition.

!!
Go mouz

[Siggi]

Can't wait, 2 more hours!!