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Dota 2 Beta Thread 2: Real Talk Discouraged [Magnus, Teams, 6.75b, 150+ Shop Items]
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Luminous can go off on tangents but he is good at analysis and also has a lot of knowledge of the asian scene, which is pretty big when the west decides to use strategies that are common there. Most casters will be like wtf is this omg genius when Lumi will tell you how the strat will potentially go down cause he has seen it before. Also he does have an excitable side, unlike Purge.
So can anyone breakdown drums/jango for me? Is it amazing or just meh? I really can't figure out which.
On the one hand, it's a lot of raw stats for just over the cost of treads. That part is helpful for your squishy int and your mana starved str heroes. The base aura is a nice little boost to the team. But I guess I'm not seeing how the active will boost a team fight in your favor, compared to say, Mek. Not to mention the very small amount of charges.
I dunno, I feel like if they dropped the active ability and took away the recipe, or lowered the recipe cost, or just took away the charges and gave it a regular cooldown, it would seem more attractive.
Am I doing it wrong? Is my team losing out by not including a drum with our stable of Mek/pipe?
On the one hand, it's a lot of raw stats for just over the cost of treads. That part is helpful for your squishy int and your mana starved str heroes. The base aura is a nice little boost to the team. But I guess I'm not seeing how the active will boost a team fight in your favor, compared to say, Mek. Not to mention the very small amount of charges.
I dunno, I feel like if they dropped the active ability and took away the recipe, or lowered the recipe cost, or just took away the charges and gave it a regular cooldown, it would seem more attractive.
Am I doing it wrong? Is my team losing out by not including a drum with our stable of Mek/pipe?
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Guys I found the inspiration for lion in the funny pic thread
Dreams-Visions
Member
yep, I like the update.
also: Tiny is "The Easy Button". I like him, but I almost feel like cheating. Mana boots + AC + Scepter + Heart = lulz
also: Tiny is "The Easy Button". I like him, but I almost feel like cheating. Mana boots + AC + Scepter + Heart = lulz
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Fuck no.
*for $4.99
Eh I like this one much more than the current one.
Extortion
BrLvgThrChmstry
Banned
That goes for me as well. Same for Lion, love his new look.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
Her upperlip is messed up
I'm not getting raven at all.
Yes. That's how it was in the test client as well.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Bots honestly are harder to kill for me than real players at times. It's the hive mind like behaviour.
You don't know true terror until you've encountered a full stack of bots in your jungle who then blow you up instantly.
Bots are idiots that only function on individual algorithm, not a team-based one.
Get farmed enough and venture into their base 1v5 and they'll run around like headless chickens because each of them determines he's fucked individually.
FromTheFuture
Member
game is too grimdark
have fun being dead valve
have fun being dead valve
Technosteve
Banned
necronomicon doesn't have trusight anymore??
Is it an upgraded book? Thought that was only level 3.
Yeah she reminded me of Samara on first glance. I hope it's legit.
Technosteve
Banned
your right dang thought it was level 1 sigh
Technosteve
Banned
i don't like the new UI, i can't tell what is what. change sucks
The_Player
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Yep. And bots now call missing heroes.
Not a huge fan of Luminous. I don't really like when commentators get heavy with the criticism of players that are better than them. I don't mind a "X isn't playing as well as he usually does" or whatever, but Lumin has a large tendency to just say players suck.
Purge has a misplaced ego which usually only shows up on Reddit but is still pretty silly.
I have to throw my hat in with the Tobi/Synd combo.
The repick button should be your first item.
Just Lion.(well SD had his cape/cloak retextured) His painted portrait hasn't updated(Nor have other hero painted portraits like Dragon Knight). The VS image is "apparently" from an internal build.
Mjolnir. Always Mjolnir.
Arcane Boots, Forcestaff, Dagon, Aghanim's Scepter.
I could have sworn we were going with the Radiance.
Well, this happened:
Enemy Huskar and Zeus got fed up with the Smack Talk of their own Alchemist, so after the effectively won (Had Mega Creeps up), they decided to troll their own Alchemist, each sold everything and bought a DR, then walk into our base and suicided in front of our fountain. Riki picked up one, the since the BM was just AFK at the fountain, I grabbed the other, which surprised them. Riki needed me to explain to him a good 3 times that I simply can't give it to him, that the only way to change ownership is for me to die, the enemy to pick it up, then for us to kill him and him to pick it up.
So, since I had a DR, I decided "Welp, gotta be the carry now". First thing was sold Phase Boots for Power Treads. Then, I grabbed a mask of madness so I could have some attack speed, built a BKB so they wouldn't be able to pin me down, and grabbed a Hyperstone. Killed Roshan with the help of N0b and Baha, Riki wanted it so I let him have it, since he was who should of been the real carry.
So we just hold off the enemies, farm up, and in the end riki got caught out near the enemy base. We all come, big fight happens, Riki dies and his swords just sit there for a good 15 seconds. I eventually drop an item, pick one up, kill the other guy who picked one up, thus having 3 DR, a MoM, a BKB, and a Hyperstone. I think I'm going to make a video of the dumb final battle.
I am still shocked Zeus had Refresher up by 25 minutes.
Enemy Huskar and Zeus got fed up with the Smack Talk of their own Alchemist, so after the effectively won (Had Mega Creeps up), they decided to troll their own Alchemist, each sold everything and bought a DR, then walk into our base and suicided in front of our fountain. Riki picked up one, the since the BM was just AFK at the fountain, I grabbed the other, which surprised them. Riki needed me to explain to him a good 3 times that I simply can't give it to him, that the only way to change ownership is for me to die, the enemy to pick it up, then for us to kill him and him to pick it up.
So, since I had a DR, I decided "Welp, gotta be the carry now". First thing was sold Phase Boots for Power Treads. Then, I grabbed a mask of madness so I could have some attack speed, built a BKB so they wouldn't be able to pin me down, and grabbed a Hyperstone. Killed Roshan with the help of N0b and Baha, Riki wanted it so I let him have it, since he was who should of been the real carry.
So we just hold off the enemies, farm up, and in the end riki got caught out near the enemy base. We all come, big fight happens, Riki dies and his swords just sit there for a good 15 seconds. I eventually drop an item, pick one up, kill the other guy who picked one up, thus having 3 DR, a MoM, a BKB, and a Hyperstone. I think I'm going to make a video of the dumb final battle.
I am still shocked Zeus had Refresher up by 25 minutes.
No, you can die, drop it, and then riki can pick it up right away. Once an enemy picks it up it's in Free mode and, although the player can't drop it willingly, anyone can use it. Even allies.
Just tried it, looks like I was wrong. Maybe it was just bugged in the past, or the last time I saw it tried the enemy didn't pick it up yet.
Oh well, I had fun.
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