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GGs with Mithrandir, Tobe and others. 3-0 with that one last second hit for the win.

(Mithrandir here) Lol yeah we had it down by the end.

I'll be on in 5 or 6 hours again for late night greevil madness!

The buffs from unusual essences are pretty significant, i was noticing that my greevil is much better at combat than most (+2 unusuals on a divine one with bash skill)
 
Just played my first game, it's lots of fun, but that might have been because we were winning...

I imagine it could be very frustrating to lose, but then that's Dota in general.
 
The new mode requires less time than Diretide did, so I like it more already.
Less wasted time, and it would be even lesser if they managed to make the downtime between camp spawns shorter.
There is also the whole thing about finding which hero skills stay into greevil form which can be fun as well.
 
i got a
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as my third drop =D
 
You might find that a forum is made to discuss things, so maybe people should be free to discuss it either way?

I don't see discussion either way. You're saying "It's bad" and he's saying "then don't play it". This reply makes no sense.

It's a pretty fun mode IMO but it kinda comes down to what skills your team's greevils have. If you don't have several stunners then you're in trouble.
 
I don't see discussion either way. You're saying "It's bad" and he's saying "then don't play it". This reply makes no sense.

It's a pretty fun mode IMO but it kinda comes down to what skills your team's greevils have. If you don't have several stunners then you're in trouble.
I haven't even said it's bad so you may want to take a better look at who you are replying to.

Other than that, if you don't see how "you don't like something, then don't play/buy/watch/listen to it" is often used to stunt discussion (even if it's limited to stating an opinion) that is not entirely positive, we must have different experiences.
 
I haven't even said it's bad so you may want to take a better look at who you are replying to.

Other than that, if you don't see how "you don't like something, then don't play/buy/watch/listen to it" is often used to stunt discussion (even if it's limited to stating an opinion) that is not entirely positive, we must have different experiences.

You are right, it stunts it almost as much as comments like:

Good for you that you like it.
 
holy shit that game mode is fun. But on our last match, it somehow booted us to proper dota and we had a team fit for greevils and no carries T_______T

I think it booted us when it reset the matchmaking when someone canceled the ready message. So if you ready message chancels when you queue for greevilng, beware!
 
You are right, it stunts it almost as much as comments like:
I don't see how that stunts discussion.
He expressed an opinion while talking to me, so I replied that it's good that he likes it.
I stated my opinion on the mode already previously so I didn't feel the need to restate it.
 
It really is dependent on how strong your greevil is and what abilities it has. My red one has decrepify and laguna blade which is nice, since they combo together, but the other one is time lock, which doesn't work with the other two.

And greevils with the echo slam are pretty OP since there tends to be a lot of clumped up fights around greevil camps.
 
It really is dependent on how strong your greevil is and what abilities it has. My red one has decrepify and laguna blade which is nice, since they combo together, but the other one is time lock, which doesn't work with the other two.

And greevils with the echo slam are pretty OP since there tends to be a lot of clumped up fights around greevil camps.

Time lock has been clutch for me; stop the opponent from transforming and annoyingly get back to full health (or whatever they were at pre-transformation). And yeah, echo slam is great...when they're non greevil :(
 
It really is dependent on how strong your greevil is and what abilities it has. My red one has decrepify and laguna blade which is nice, since they combo together, but the other one is time lock, which doesn't work with the other two.

And greevils with the echo slam are pretty OP since there tends to be a lot of clumped up fights around greevil camps.
Having a Naked Greevil instead of a Seraphic is gigantic and sometimes a team gets an item combo that really works well and the other gets bad stuff so they end up not being able to win even if they dominate early on.
 
I miss Diretide :/

Funny the holiday about candy has better items than the holiday about gifts.
I personally found Diretide matches to be too long, with the first part (the pre "boss fight" stuff) of it being potentially incredibly boring and the second one being just a matter of dodging the same thing over and over again every 15 seconds or so.

Even the promise of items couldn't keep me interested for too long.
 
I'm not a big fan of my greevil, but I haven't played it yet. Still, Nature's Attendants and Phantom Strike? Really? At least Venge's stun is pretty good.
 
I'm PRETTY SURE you can give other people the items that drop from presents. I dropped a Maelstrom that I got and someone else picked it up so I'm assuming they were able to use it. Also I ended up getting Blink/Headress/Phase Boots/Refresher on DS, sooo the item spread seems pretty good to me.

I don't know, I tried to give my starting item of Power Treads to anther player, and it didn't work.
 
My buddy just sent me this over Steam chat
You get RANDOM abilities for your greevil
If someone on the enemy team pick up a present, a RANDOM item will be delivered to a RANDOM teammate
If you win, you get a RANDOM item
If you lose, you get a RANDOM shitty item
If you managed to get a lot of items on a RANDOM game, you can make another greevil, who will receive more RANDOM skills
Players nightmare
Nail on the head why I don't like this versus Dtide.
 
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