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What? GAF are on a purge vod? I'll get the popcorn and be back in a hour.

Edit: Oh shit wes!
Edit II: Bad mouthing begins at 9:22
Edit III: Blitz is SUPER MAD at Loki.
 
Haha I remember that game. About the third time I ever played spirit breaker and I was so so bad. Kunkka destroyed me. In the previous game I had played well with a hero I knew rather well so wanted to try something new. Really didn't work out.

I think that was Archie's first game on TA too and he was mid. I remember him saying how much he was enjoying this hero he hadn't played before!

Didn't know until now that Purge was in that game.
 
I think I'm almost done with my Dota 2 beginner guide. It's not meant to be comprehensive, but instead focus on typical issues and hang ups new players have. I tried to think back to when I first started playing and wanted to address the problems I had that guides didn't really talk about. I have it laid out in steps and then go into detail from there in the order of what you do when you play (step one: heroes, step 2: items, step 3: where to go at the beginning, step 4: what to do in lane, step 5: what to do when laning ends etc.). Then I focus on miscellaneous stuff like hotkey recommendations, typical do's and don'ts, a mini-dictionary of common lingo, how to deal with invisible heroes, annoying heroes to face as a beginner and how to deal with them, and annoying spells to look out for and how to deal with them. I think I might add a general FAQ section as well. Any tips or important information I should mention that you wish you knew when you were a beginner?
 
Forkball said:
I think I'm almost done with my Dota 2 beginner guide. It's not meant to be comprehensive, but instead focus on typical issues and hang ups new players have. I tried to think back to when I first started playing and wanted to address the problems I had that guides didn't really talk about. I have it laid out in steps and then go into detail from there in the order of what you do when you play (step one: heroes, step 2: items, step 3: where to go at the beginning, step 4: what to do in lane, step 5: what to do when laning ends etc.). Then I focus on miscellaneous stuff like hotkey recommendations, typical do's and don'ts, a mini-dictionary of common lingo, how to deal with invisible heroes, annoying heroes to face as a beginner and how to deal with them, and annoying spells to look out for and how to deal with them. I think I might add a general FAQ section as well. Any tips or important information I should mention that you wish you knew when you were a beginner?
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I'm thinking about writing a slark guide for my first guide. Its a more pubstomp type build.

Basically the core is armlet, treads, wand. Extension is basher, situational is bkb, orb of venom, medallion and urn., luxuries are daedalus or manta.

I know people usually associate armlet with strength heroes but its seriously good on slark. It fixes his low hp problem and he can use it frequently because of his ult's regen. It gives as and damage as well, which are welcome on slark.
 
I tried to play meepo in a private game last night while we were teaching a friend how to play and it did not go well. I envy people who can play him well.
 
Forkball said:
I think I'm almost done with my Dota 2 beginner guide. It's not meant to be comprehensive, but instead focus on typical issues and hang ups new players have. I tried to think back to when I first started playing and wanted to address the problems I had that guides didn't really talk about. I have it laid out in steps and then go into detail from there in the order of what you do when you play (step one: heroes, step 2: items, step 3: where to go at the beginning, step 4: what to do in lane, step 5: what to do when laning ends etc.). Then I focus on miscellaneous stuff like hotkey recommendations, typical do's and don'ts, a mini-dictionary of common lingo, how to deal with invisible heroes, annoying heroes to face as a beginner and how to deal with them, and annoying spells to look out for and how to deal with them. I think I might add a general FAQ section as well. Any tips or important information I should mention that you wish you knew when you were a beginner?
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I've only just started playing so it would be reeeally useful for me :P

What to do when playing against 2 players in your lane as a melee?
 
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All we had to do was stick together. All we had to do was stick together and push all at once. All we had to do was not have two of our players wander off and get ganked 5v1.
 
Had my first real Omni game this morning, man he is a beast. I feel like he totally controls team fights.

I remember the question coming up a while ago but I can't find it. Does Omni get assists from healing? Assuming the enemy is out of range to take the heal aoe damage.
 
Lactose_Intolerant said:
Empire vs Na'Vi starting right now.

http://www.twitch.tv/onemoregametv2
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Not full nav lineup T_T

Forkball said:
I think I'm almost done with my Dota 2 beginner guide. It's not meant to be comprehensive, but instead focus on typical issues and hang ups new players have. I tried to think back to when I first started playing and wanted to address the problems I had that guides didn't really talk about. I have it laid out in steps and then go into detail from there in the order of what you do when you play (step one: heroes, step 2: items, step 3: where to go at the beginning, step 4: what to do in lane, step 5: what to do when laning ends etc.). Then I focus on miscellaneous stuff like hotkey recommendations, typical do's and don'ts, a mini-dictionary of common lingo, how to deal with invisible heroes, annoying heroes to face as a beginner and how to deal with them, and annoying spells to look out for and how to deal with them. I think I might add a general FAQ section as well. Any tips or important information I should mention that you wish you knew when you were a beginner?
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Can you add "common" russian and brazillian phrases
 
Aesthet1c said:
Had my first real Omni game this morning, man he is a beast. I feel like he totally controls team fights.

I remember the question coming up a while ago but I can't find it. Does Omni get assists from healing? Assuming the enemy is out of range to take the heal aoe damage.
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No, he doesn't. Needs to do damage.
 
Aesthet1c said:
Had my first real Omni game this morning, man he is a beast. I feel like he totally controls team fights.

I remember the question coming up a while ago but I can't find it. Does Omni get assists from healing? Assuming the enemy is out of range to take the heal aoe damage.
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If you get an assist you're either within 1000 distance of the dying hero or you did some damage to the hero before it died. The game doesn't care if you healed someone or not.
 
Apparently the Storm Spirit on their team did something stupid early game and ended up in a 1 v 4 and the BH said it was a stupid move and this set SS off for the rest of the match.

Whoever that foreign dude is that Purge plays with a lot is damn good in every game I've seen him in. He's like a Dota scientist.
 
So, when everyone of the enemy team is dead it's a good time to push right? I mean when they're all dead they can't do a thing and you go for their towers or barracks or whatever, right? Because we had a game yesterday where we killed the complete opposing team and everyone from my team ran back to base to do shopping.
 
Nymerio said:
So, when everyone of the enemy team is dead it's a good time to push right? I mean when they're all dead they can't do a thing and you go for their towers or barracks or whatever, right? Because we had a game yesterday where we killed the complete opposing team and everyone from my team ran back to base to do shopping.
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Depends, if you survive the fight and everybody has 10% hp and no mana it's still hard. Most people want to play it safe and go back and buy up and push later. Normally you should push or do rosh though yes.
 
No no, like one of us died the rest made it out pretty much unscratched. I was pissed, because we ended up loosing this game and I think we could definitely have made it if they didn't all run back to base. Especially since I was playing support with Keeper of Light and managed to get two towers on my own.
 
Nymerio said:
No no, like one of us died the rest made it out pretty much unscratched. I was pissed, because we ended up loosing this game and I think we could definitely have made it if they didn't all run back to base. Especially since I was playing support with Keeper of Light and managed to get two towers on my own.
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Be one of those annoying ping jerks.
 
Ah ok, I generally try not to be a jerk at all, as it seems the game has enough of those already. Don't know if I pinged but I defintely wrote "push now" or something to that effect in chat. I don't even care that much, I'm only level 2 and that's not even the most stupid thing I've seen. But sometimes it just feels like some players just turn off their brain while playing.
 
JustinBB7 said:
Depends, if you survive the fight and everybody has 10% hp and no mana it's still hard. Most people want to play it safe and go back and buy up and push later. Normally you should push or do rosh though yes.
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At the very least you can force buybacks if you're going to do this. A lot of pub games are lost because teams with the advantage won't press it.
 
Is there a community consensus on Spirit Breaker? I'm relatively green - about 50 hours in - and love upgrading his movement speed and using him from middle to rush into my teammates corners. We're focusing on medium and hard bots so we can get solid enough to play other people, so I don't want to main a guy with obvious weaknesses I don't know about.
 
Purple_Tentacle said:
Is there a community consensus on Spirit Breaker? I'm relatively green - about 50 hours in - and love upgrading his movement speed and using him from middle to rush into my teammates corners. We're focusing on medium and hard bots so we can get solid enough to play other people, so I don't want to main a guy with obvious weaknesses I don't know about.
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Get bash first (and level it up asap) though simply the damage scales much better than the movement speed bonus
 
Purple_Tentacle said:
Is there a community consensus on Spirit Breaker? I'm relatively green - about 50 hours in - and love upgrading his movement speed and using him from middle to rush into my teammates corners. We're focusing on medium and hard bots so we can get solid enough to play other people, so I don't want to main a guy with obvious weaknesses I don't know about.
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Observer Wards and Charge!

He pretty much lives and dies if you can get that stun % up.
 
Purple_Tentacle said:
Is there a community consensus on Spirit Breaker? I'm relatively green - about 50 hours in - and love upgrading his movement speed and using him from middle to rush into my teammates corners. We're focusing on medium and hard bots so we can get solid enough to play other people, so I don't want to main a guy with obvious weaknesses I don't know about.
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He breaks spirits.
 
Had a rough first game as Lifestealer. Jungled til level 6. Ganked with Riki top lane scourge side, but mid and bot completely lost their lanes and were underfarmed. Myself and Riki pushed top lane and took down two towers pretty early, but on our way back they took our two mid towers. Teammates blamed us for them not being able to defend. From then on, it was pretty much a sit back and defend game because of our lack of CC.

I feel like I need to stop picking first on my team and wait for everyone else to pick to round the team out.

https://dotabuff.com/matches/103632766

And are you allowed to say it was your first game with a hero if you played with them in DotA 1?
 
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