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Dota 2 Beta Thread 3: Gunnar Optiks Required [Faster Loading]
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Lactose_Intolerant
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Pai Pai Master
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On a related note, the other day I was playing Crystal Maiden and had a Drow Ranger coming with me to get some wards up at the runes, and the enemy Bane had picked up an invis. He appeared out of nowhere, slept the Drow and ulted me. It was actually really frightening and it gave me a good few seconds to really appreciate how awesome Bane and his spell effects look.
Then we died and I didn't get the ward up. 
Complex Shadow
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Bane has quickly become one of my favorite characters due to how well he can control an encounter. I love nightmaring people.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
It took me a while to realize Bane is some weird nightmare horse hybrid.
Complex Shadow
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the only thing is you need people on your team that know what nightmare does, or they go "ooh i ama poke it" in a team fight, they might as well slap a sleeping bear.
YES! SOONER THAN EXPECTED! NO LONGER SHALL WE SEE OVERPOWERED CENTAUR!
sorijealut
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If only he thought that way about the halloween update..
dragonflys545
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He's still overpower as fuck... Just bring back the passive
Na his new Ult is way better. I think they just need to decrease his base strength gain a bit.
Complex Shadow
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Can I just say that I love that icefrog has so much freedom to do whatever he wants. For better or worse.
Pai Pai Master
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It can get annoying when stuff like that happens, but I'm totally happy that Icefrog is willing to risk a week or two of having a hero be pretty unbalanced if it means making some really cool changes in the long run. As frustrating as Stampede has been since it was introduced, I still think it's an awesome concept for Centaur and way better than his old ult, just in terms of something neat for the character and something to make him a more viable pro pick.
Technosteve
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why is dota down
Interfectum
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IT BEGINS?!?
SteveWinwood
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They really want treant to rock socks.
Prophet Steve
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Just had a game with randoms, using my Lifestealer with a Weaver gives some pretty great ganking potential.
Pudge + Lifestealer = Amazing ganking.
Bounty Hunter and Shadow Shaman on the other team: Heheh, this Pudge is stupid enough to try to hook one of us and 1v2 us, let's murder him.
Lifestealer pops out: SURPRISE!
I had a game once with Stuntman where this was pretty much exactly what we did. I was solo safe lane while Stuntman jungled with Lifestealer. Templar Assassin went mid. As soon as Stuntman hit 6 I would get back so he could hide in me and we could kill anyone. This strategy worked so well all game. There was even a point late game where Stuntman hid in me, TA melded off to the side, and I would solo push mid, trying to attract some attention to myself, then if someone showed up they would be overpowered 3v1.
http://www.dota2wiki.com/images/a/a5/Bane_blink_03.mp3
Still the best line, I wish it was actually used.
Going MoM Void isn't TERRIBLE per se, but they could do a lot better getting a Battlefury. I feel like they only put MoM on the recommended items for him just because they want to shoehorn him in to being more useful earlier in game, when Void is really a farm-dependent late-game hero.
Riverfield
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The cooldown and AoE on stampede were certainly needed, but I really want the effect to not activate while still. Beyond it not making sense because that's not how stampedes work, I think it's silly to be able to stun a pudge dismembering your ally (though this is slightly alleviated by AoE decrease), or to stun a hero that walks up to attack your stunned ally. But maybe this will also be less of an issue because of how much weaker it is lvl 1.
Yeah void when he use his sphere and I just see one of them losing health I feel like crying to be honest.
This guy went mask of madness then desolator... couldn't kill one with that setup. So I asked him for bf and then they got mad at me. Lolololol But it was true, his sphere was doing nothing for us and his farming unnecesary slowed down
Wait...MoM AND Desolator?! Someone needs to learn about UAMs/Orbs...
Probably just used MOM for the bonus attack speed.
Probably, but I would think that would not be worth it given the major drawback of MoM: 30% extra damage taken while activated. You kind of need that lifesteal to stay alive when using a dangerous item like that.
But doesn't Lifesteal take precedence over Desolator no matter what?
In that case it would just make Desolator a +60 damage item.
That's what chronosphere is for.
It's whatever item you pick up first, if you drop the MoM and pick it up after your Deso is in your bag, the -armor orb takes priority.
Oh, playdota must be outdated then.
Johnlenham
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God this game makes me want to reach through the screen and strangle people, Im pretty shit but good god some people are so stupid its infuriating.
I know the feeling, I was mid in a game just now, and our portugese/brazilian/spanish or whatever morpling and warlock kept stealing the courier, I was Drow on mid and had a wraith band/power threads and a tp in there and couldn't get it until like 15 minutes. God I was so mad. Kept trying to use it, which made me lose last hits, because they kept fucking with it. So frustrating.
And now I remember I forgot to report them..
Oh and the Warlock used his ulti on a QoP that was alone.. (and missed the stun part too, so she just blinked away anyway)
Johnlenham
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ofcourse I then proceed to random wisp and get decimated. Ill stick to dragon knight, magic ogre and alchemist. safe that way.
Why would they put files into the game that wouldn't be used until next year?
CarbonatedFalcon
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Well at this point yeah, but I wonder how long it'll last.
MoonLightWave
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Man, so many russians in the european matchmaking.
I'm dressing up as Wisp.
I'm playing with a friend who's new and it put us in a really mixed pool of players, 1 bloodseeker on the enemy team.. well this was his first game. And 2 other people on the enemy team had 200/220 wins, and the last 2 had like 80 wins. My team had me with like 250, my friend with 300 and the new friend with like 5 wins. It's so mixed..
But anyway the warlock had like 50 wins I think, but still.. how do you.. I don't even.
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