DotA2 - Original Thread

First battle first won
YAY

That's a... custom build? I made for Warlock.

Wow you built up some pretty pricy items. An excellent start I'd say. As for future references, The scepter was definitely a very useful item on Warlock. The other items, yeah custom build would work until the higher leveled plays. Ring of Aquila isn't really needed. A Sage's Mask is better for cheap MP regen.

Wow you built up some pretty pricy items. An excellent start I'd say. As for future references, The scepter was definitely a very useful item on Warlock. The other items, yeah custom build would work until the higher leveled plays. Ring of Aquila isn't really needed. A Sage's Mask is better for cheap MP regen.

Yup, just tried out replacing the armor with the orb.
Way better damage.
quadruple the demons quadruple the fun!

Korean doto= confusing doto. Is Shadow Blade useful o N'aix? I don't get how that item benefits him.
Also, first limited match went awful... randomed (shouldn't have) Razor and despite doing decent in lane got destroyed later on by Sven that was fed badly by a DK with no stun and a Drow with just stats and aura. After 5 mins of advice he finally caved and leveled silence, it wasn't the same with frost arrow because "he didn't want to loose lifesteal"... Sometimes understanding mechanics isn't good enough.
On the bright side, played against Reaves... I think he's one of the only dota2 "celebrities" I'll ever get to play against

Shadow blade isn't BAD on N'aix, generally speaking there are better items if you're playing him as a carry to fight with your team.
But if you build shadow blade into orchid or something similar with lock-down you can become a quite excellent ganker.
But buying shadow blade on a n'aix that wants to fight with his team is a bit of a waste, the armlet would do far more for you. Or S&Y.

Unless you're pinoy, pinoy doto is the most confusing doto in the world.
"Lothars goes with everything" comes from pinoy doto afterall.
(Lothars edge was the name of shadow blade in dota1 but was changed due to copyright)

Edit: Note i didn't see the game so i can't comment too much on the item and how useful it was.

Oh neat, yellow and flash(Starcraft broodwar legends) have been spotted at the event:

 Spoiler

Shadow blade isn't BAD on N'aix, generally speaking there are better items if you're playing him as a carry to fight with your team.
But if you build shadow blade into orchid or something similar with lock-down you can become a quite excellent ganker.
But buying shadow blade on a n'aix that wants to fight with his team is a bit of a waste, the armlet would do far more for you. Or S&Y.

Unless you're pinoy, pinoy doto is the most confusing doto in the world.
"Lothars goes with everything" comes from pinoy doto afterall.
(Lothars edge was the name of shadow blade in dota1 but was changed due to copyright)

Edit: Note i didn't see the game so i can't comment too much on the item and how useful it was.

Oh neat, yellow and flash(Starcraft broodwar legends) have been spotted at the event:

 Spoiler

He still had Armlet and iirc he built Drums too. Then he built the Shadow Blade. Also, Puck with no Blink dagger but Force Staff.
It confuses me badly because it isn't common, it's nothing near similar to eastern or western stuff, or even pubs... Perhaps if I knew more about alternative builds I wouldn't be so confused.
Also, BTS2 caster is hilarious.

I played two limited hero matches, they actually went pretty well. People communicated and stuff, and I felt like I was playing at my usual skill level.

Finally got my headset so the next we go on skype to play I'll be able to talk with you guys

Hey I want some of that too.
I still need more lessons with most of the heroes overall.

Voice chat makes playing together so much easier.

The only Korean DotA game that interested me the most was FXO's against DCRUX where they had a complete stomp on DCRUX both games. 1-24 first game and 18-0 for second one.

As for my limited hero games, two so far, both games I played Dragon Knight and went for the Shadow Blade build. First game went decent seemingly we had Juggernaut and Drow Ranger for back up carries and we won most fights. However second game was with my friends and it wasn't as great. I was ksed way too much by my friend who played Zeus and a Warlock although he did good. Then there were my other two friends on the Windrunner and Juggernaut. My overall thoughts on the game would have to be that if your relying on a DK as hard carry don't ks him even if your a Zeus, which proved to be useless in the late game stage against a Sven, Skeleton King, and Death Prophet.

OH man that game we had despite being a 5-stack. Things couldn't have gone worse, me and Chew unfortunately feeding Juggs, him stealing our ancients stack, me not building enough survivability so I wouldn't be dying first each team fight. Didn't help the other team actually knew how to counterward, I felt it was stacked group vs stacked group.

Counterwarding happens all the time when Pisakrapp and I play. Probably doesn't help that you guys are relatively new and we play in Very High matchmaking. I think I just need to stick to a 4/5 role like when I was playing SK if we play again, I'm good at map control and setting up ganks but I'm a pretty mediocre carry unless I'm playing Tiny.

Well I couldn't stop feeling useless in all the matches.
And most of the heroes I feel comfortable are not in the limited pool, sorry about that.

Thanks for the invite, guys!

Holy cow, LGD vs Na'Vi, these games man.
I'm predicting Na'Vi vs Alliance final in TI3

Maybe this will be useless, maybe someone else is doing it already.
But I have my twitch.tv channel up and runnin'.
Tested several games already and I can run smoothly at 480p, not the best but still something.

250k+ viewers in the LGD vs Na'vi game.
That's pretty neat for an ONLINE FINALS(LAN almost always attracts more viewers)

Also:
BIG NEWS FELLAS:


I wonder if beta testers will get something neat. Been nearly 2 years now. (Well 1 year and like 9 months for me.)

Yep and my extra keys disappeared. However I'm worried about the DotA 2 servers now since I remember crashing a few times for my games.

http://www.dota2.com/thebetaisover/

http://www.dota2.com/thebetaisover/

Looks like we're getting Bloodstone medals.
https://twitter.com/Cyborgmatt/status/35...8215798786