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MotherFuckingT-REX posted:racist against trolls
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:06 |
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randomcommoner posted:Dude I'm sick and tired of trolls speaking amongst themselves on their language and not trying to communicate with the rest of the team, they should just ip ban by regions so I don't have to queue with a bunch of incultured trolls not born on my glorious nation. Spectres Go Home
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:07 |
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randomcommoner posted:Dude I'm sick and tired of trolls speaking amongst themselves on their language and not trying to communicate with the rest of the team, they should just ip ban by regions so I don't have to queue with a bunch of incultured trolls not born on my glorious country. And don't get me started on Shadow Fiend. 
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:08 |
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Skyl3lazer posted:This is cool but that loving rock that blocks the +armor stat still seems to be there for dire.
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:08 |
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Azzents posted:I hope Valve doesn't follow S2's example and just add voice filers over all the future characters. Troll Warlord sounds like rear end. They really need some new voice actors. Maybe they are planning to change them later.
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Internet Kraken posted:What about Brewmaster? Red pandas are more closely related to raccoons and weasels than to giant pandas 
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Silentman0 posted:Between that and the panda courier that popped up in Cyborgmatt's stream, I guess they gave up on that whole "no pandas! because china" thing. That's not really a big deal anymore. Just look at Mists of Pandaria.
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Azzents posted:I hope Valve doesn't follow S2's example and just add voice filers over all the future characters. Troll Warlord sounds like rear end. Characters always sound different in game btw. Pugna sounds like butt on the wiki but he comes off way better in a real match.
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:13 |
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Team Fuzzy now possible with Xin, Brewmaster, Tusk, Lone Druid with his ult running and Ursa. Phantom Lancer, Magnus or Spirit Breaker could go in there too I suppose.
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Silentman0 posted:Between that and the panda courier that popped up in Cyborgmatt's stream, I guess they gave up on that whole "no pandas! because china" thing. The whole 'pandas can't be shown getting hurt because Chinese law' is an urban legend.
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Has anyone tried the least played queue yet? It took forever for me to not get in so I gave up.
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:14 |
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Am I the only person who is disappointed that Omni Knight didn't get his rumored re-color? I thought the red and gold getup was neat.
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Requested_Username posted:That's not really a big deal anymore. Just look at Mists of Pandaria.
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Economy Clown Car posted:Am I the only person who is disappointed that Omni Knight didn't get his rumored re-color? I thought the red and gold getup was neat. you're the only one, his current look is boss as hell
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:18 |
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They learned not to gently caress with hero colors when they changed Silencer and jinxed the Lakers.
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:25 |
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Nothing like being called a friend of the family by a 20 year old web designer from phoenix arizona! :dota: Does anyone know if blocking communication on Steam has any affect on matchmaking? Is there some way not to be paired with someone ever again? Un-l337-Pork fucked around with this message at Jan 23, 2013 around 23:34 |
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Wait valve removed all the awful reddit U MAD FOREVER ALONE memes?
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:38 |
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CampingCarl posted:I don't blame the rock, I blame Valve for putting 2 numbers on different lines when you only need to see 1. It should only show the total armor and show base + buffs on mouseover. Attributes and damage should work the same way. Didn't they change move speed to do this at some point? Separation of damage into "white damage" and "green damage" is somewhat important for judging a lot of game mechanics. I agree with armor and movespeed, however.
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I'm getting pretty frustrated with this game. Coming off of Starcraft, I started playing dota hoping it would be a more relaxing/fun (but still competitive) game, but I'm as frustrated with dota now as I got to be with starcraft. My winrate is sitting at around 46% after ~150 games played. Logically, I'm the common factor in all of these games, so it's probably something I'm doing wrong. But I'm not sure what! Many times my mistakes seem minimal compared to my teammates'... At this point I just feel like picking zeus and going mid every game, as I've had very good success with that before. Now that I've got that off my chest, here are some specific questions so that this post isn't entirely bitching: - When doing a support/hard-carry pair in the safe lane, what are some general strategies for ensuring good farm and zoning out the opponent? This is a question for both the carry and the support. In a recent game, I was PL with a witch doctor support in the safe lane against Sven and Nyx. I often couldn't get any last hits, as if I attempted to do so I would get hit with two stuns and severely hurt or killed. - Follow up: when playing support in the safe lane, is it good/standard practice to stack and pull every possible time? If I'm doing this and letting the carry get last hits, I often feel like I have no gold and no xp, and after buying wards/tp's I can't begin to afford stuff like Mek. - If I'm playing a carry, what is some good advice on when to continue farming lane, or when to join in for a teamfight? In the aforementioned game as PL, if I continued farming and ignored my team, they would be wiped out 4v5. If anyone feels like checking out my recent games as PL, they are 106522750 and 106501753. I really like how PL works but I'm 0-4 with him so far.
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Liquid Penguins posted:Wait valve removed all the awful reddit U MAD FOREVER ALONE memes? They were never getting in in the first place.
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:48 |
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Liquid Penguins posted:Wait valve removed all the awful reddit U MAD FOREVER ALONE memes? There are still some along the lines of "u got troled!" and some of his losing lines are 4th wall breaking like "If I had a decent team, this never would have happened." but they're not as offensive as they were.
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I've been playing Dazzle and have been doing pretty good early to mid game, keeping my team up and group fights. Once late game hits though I feel that his is kinda of lacking in heals. Once we get into late game I'm focused down really quick and then my team who has been relying on my support just shits the bed. Am I playing him wrong or should I be right in assuming that my team should be winning the game before the 50 min mark. Any tips? I usually get a soul ring, arcane boots, and mek. Sometimes if I farmed a lot of gold Ill get boots of travel and bounce around the map.
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:52 |
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If they kept in "Trolololol" as a line Valve would lose all the goodwill they just won with today's patch.
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| # ? Jan 23, 2013 23:53 |
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This game needs decent taunts.
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It may say Pwn every time I kill a guy but Trolololol is crossing the line.
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Shadow Wave isn't going to do poo poo late game, really. It is all about the Shallow Graves and your Ultimate at that point really. Mek/Necrobook is pretty standard fair on him, and makes him a tanky team buffer with decent auto attack early/mid. 50min + you are pretty much just going to have to sit back and let your carries do their thing and try and keep them alive, and maybe sheep.
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MotherFuckingT-REX posted:Separation of damage into "white damage" and "green damage" is somewhat important for judging a lot of game mechanics. I agree with armor and movespeed, however.
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Requested_Username posted:If they kept in "Trolololol" as a line Valve would lose all the goodwill they just won with today's patch. http://www.dota2wiki.com/images/9/94/Riki_kill_15.mp3
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Meat Recital posted:It may say Pwn every time I kill a guy but Trolololol is crossing the line. Just because it's not the current hot topic to complain about doesn't mean people like it.
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quote:thepineapple I had around a 46% win rate when I started playing Dota at about the 150 games mark. I'd say that is not unreasonable. Now at 500 games I have between a 51.5-52% win rate after dragging myself up. You are worrying a lot about the dynamics of the laning phase, which I would say at your level of expertise is focusing on the wrong things, as this is more of an issue when teams are very highly matched in skill level and are eking out advantages in lane. There are lanes you will face that will be absolute nightmares and will shut you down hard. There are many ways to deal with this. You might have to endure a painful laning phase and hope that your midgame teamfight is superior. If your team can win a couple of teamfights that will give your carry room to breathe and farm unmolested. You can abandon the lane sometimes and let them take the tower, you can rotate your support to another lane and let the carry just sponge experience and a last hit here or there, you can rotate another support to your lane and see if that helps, you can have mid gank the hell out of your lane... As you can see there are many strategies to dealing with a bad lane. The example you gave of Nyx and Sven is a painful stun lane - you will need a counter stun to help you survive. At the same time, these are both melee heroes, meaning a ranged support should be harassing endlessly to keep them weak and unable to initiate. As a support, you should be pulling when your lane does not need you. You can gain gold and exp from the pulls if your carry does not want it. However, you also need to be supporting your lane and if they are struggling, you should help them. As a carry, you will develop a game sense to when you should be in fights. It depends on your farm and who you are. Oftentimes I will fight after finishing an item.
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If I abandon in the test client will that abandon follow me to the normal dota client?
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ThePineapple posted:- When doing a support/hard-carry pair in the safe lane, what are some general strategies for ensuring good farm and zoning out the opponent? This is a question for both the carry and the support. In a recent game, I was PL with a witch doctor support in the safe lane against Sven and Nyx. I often couldn't get any last hits, as if I attempted to do so I would get hit with two stuns and severely hurt or killed. If the enemy has a lot of cc only go near the creep wave to last hit and stay back otherwise. Against that particular lane it shouldn't be as difficult as some other double stun lanes. Sven can only stun like twice before he's out of mana and Nyx stun doesn't hurt that much. Plus their cooldowns are long enough that you should be able to regen up a little bit before they're ready to stun again. If it's really that bad you might have to use Spirit Lance to get last hits. When you're the support you should stack when you can afford to leave your carry alone. If you're Dazzle/PA against Sand King/Lina don't leave her alone halfway up the lane to go stack because she might need a Grave. In general you should pull only when your lane is pushing hard into their tower. If you pull every single time you have a double or triple stack the enemy creep wave will go under your tower and it can be hard for carries to tank the wave and get last hits. For that last point, are you getting every last hit on the neutrals? If not then keep practising until you can. If you are getting every last hit and still want more gold just look for gank opportunities with Smoke of Deceit or pause to get last hits in an empty lane while you're going to ward or something. The last point really depends on how the game is going. In PL's case he doesn't contribute much in particular to a fight unless his illusions are survivable and he has enough stats that they actually hurt. If he's not farmed he'll just throw a nuke and feed a kill in two seconds. If your team is getting pushed hard and the enemy is knocking on your tier 3 towers while you're still trying to farm a Radiance then it's probably time to fight. Get something easy like a Diffusal+Vitality Booster and join the fight. Ahhpple fucked around with this message at Jan 24, 2013 around 00:04 |
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Liquid Penguins posted:Wait valve removed all the awful reddit U MAD FOREVER ALONE memes? Unfortunately yes. People just couldn't accept that it was a joke.
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PotatoManJack posted:Relatively new to DotA2 and so far am really enjoying it. So far, I have only been playing in bot games for the reasons stated in the OP and wanting to be sure I know what's going on before starting to play matches against other people. I've gotten to the point where I'll generally be in the top 1-2 on my bot team, which says nothing except that I'm as good as other bad players who play against bots. It also avoids things like Carry Venomancer. Carados fucked around with this message at Jan 24, 2013 around 00:06 |
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CampingCarl posted:What game mechanics only use white or green damage as opposed to the total? I know vlads aura and dd rune only use white(base + attribute) and illusions don't can't get green damage, but I can't think of anything you would need to know at a glance. You would still be able to check what each was by mouseover or just show both. It is mainly the interactions of all sorts of auras, or the odd spell, like Troll Warlord's transform. They can make your white damage fluctuation pretty wildly (like +/- 100% or more). Not to mention it is kinda nice to see how much your illusions are doing on-the-fly, and mousing over would make microing them a tinsy bit harder. It is an opinion if they should be combined or not, I just happen to prefer it isn't.  quote:Unfortunately yes. People just couldn't accept that it was a joke. It was a pretty lovely joke.
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I am going to play so much Troll Warlord.  He's a ranged carry, he's a melee carry, he's got bash, he's got infinite attack speed, he's amazing. The only way he could be improved is if I could justify Divine Rapier as a core item like I can with Sven or Kunkka. Thank god they got rid of the stupid meme lines. The references and elbow nudging is fine, the "I'm a troll that means I spout internet lines" is not.
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Can I play ARDM yet? SC?
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Item Drop Death Match mode plz
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Yes but no one likes Riki.
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Liquid Penguins posted:Wait valve removed all the awful reddit U MAD FOREVER ALONE memes? I'm so relieved that I have no idea what you are talking about
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