DotA2 - Original Thread

[Malthe]

AND THE BIGGEST NEWS OF ALL, BASTION ANNOUNCER IS ADDED.

[Words]

AND THE BIGGEST NEWS OF ALL, BASTION ANNOUNCER IS ADDED.

Omg, I love his voice. I never tried the game, though... Might do, as another christmas gift for myself :3
I'm downloading stuff, but once it's over I'll try it just to hear him.

[Malthe]

Here is the entire announcer for people who want to check it out.

[FenixR]

Quick question, Dota 2 its free to play or what?

Whenever i check the store page in steam it says i already own it but i never bought it?

[Words]

Check page 15.
It's free to watch.
You need an invite to play the beta.
You can buy it or ask friends for one (some SPers have keys left, I think).
It's free to play with cosmetic shop!
Hope that answers your question.

[FenixR]

I see, thanks.

[Dusk]

I have a key. Message Otaia on Steam if interested.

I bought the Bastion announcer, loving it.

[Words]

Yeah, I bought it too.

Kid starts throwin' money at his screen

[FenixR]

Nah its ok, thanks though.

[Malthe]

Enjoying the new game mode, the blue greevils from last event are broken as pineapple though. As far as teamfights go they are by far the best.
Couple it with a magnus and it's borderline broken.
Reverse polarity -> Change to greevil -> Blackhole -> GG

Also lol @Words and your leshrac avatar :D
"A thousand of your kind have fallen before me" I love his voice actor.

Also yea the bastion announcer is seriously amazing, it reacts and acts according to what you say and do, just like in Bastion, it's so good.

And as stated, we have beta keys a plenty of anyone needs one.

Also, pineapple THESE POLYCOUNT ITEM SETS ARE TOO GOOD, DAMN YOU VALVE FOR ROBBING ME.

And, new blog is up from Cyborgmatt(extraction dude for DotA2): http://www.cyborgmatt.com/2012/12/dota-2-19th-december/

[DarkForgeJ]

- Juggernaut can no longer instantly kill greevils with his ultimate.


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[Words]

He's just too cool. His lore's awesome as well. It's just a shame that his skill delay is so hard to get used to.

[Malthe]

That's the curse of having the pretty much best stun(split earth has a huge AOE and great damage ontop of large casting range) and nuke(lightning storm, 265 damage to all targets it hits) on both low cooldowns. :P
Diabolic edict used to be instant-cast and have no cast time, but leshrac too stronk, so he was nerfed a bit.

Which is why it's so fun to play Rubick against leshrac, because rubick has an instant cast animation, and can steal spells. Stealing leshrac stun on rubick is pretty much the best spell you can steal, not counting ultimates.



This guide isn't the best to follow, it's a bit of a joke guide, but it's hilarious to watch.
It does have some good points though, just don't listen too much to the items and skills and what lane to go into.

[Words]

I noticed earlier that most of my problems with him are because of the lack of coordination with teammates. *lands a stun on two enemy heroes with no creeps around* *carry runs away* And Leshracs too squishy to even try vs 2.
Also, Leshrac is support, right? But he needs some decent funding too? *doesn't understand*

[Malthe]

Leshrac can be played as a hard support, getting nearly no items.
And he can be played as just a support whom will get a few items.
And he can also be played solo mid where he gets a lot of items.

He works in all roles.

A very versatile hero, but most people prefer him as a support-ish hero because he just needs levels, so lane him with a hero where he can get kills and it'll be all good.

Leshrac basically works as both 5th, 4th and 2nd position.

[Words]

I see, hard carry is difficult when you get pimento teammates. Last game I landed every stun but the 4 carries that were with me ran away every time and since I didn't have the many items I'd be the last running so enemy bots always caught me. They wouldn't let me farm either, so I think I spent the whole game destroying towers and feeding lol. The game before that was much better, every stun I landed there'd be someone there to finish them. It lasted like 20mins, because it was an awesome team and I finally felt like I helped (setting up kills and destroying towers). Leshrac is fun and I'm enjoying a lot learning how to play him... but it's sort of frustrating when this happen.
Time to try something less... squishy.

[Malthe]

So, you guys want to play some games tonight? We can play the new for fun game mode as well. :)

[Dusk]

It gets boring quickly, constant teamfights is too much. But yeah I'll play if my friends aren't doing anything on GW2.

[Malthe]

There have been going rumors around that Merlini(Old legendary DotA player) has considered going professional again, BUT he has also said that being the day[9] of DotA2 could be an interesting idea for him to pursue.
I really hope he does become the day[9] of DotA2, because he has a lot of good knowledge and is pretty good at teaching.

For people who don't know who day[9] is, it's basically a guy who makes a 'daily' show where he teaches people in starcraft 2, both new and experienced players tips, tricks and strategies. It'd basically finally give DotA2 a place where new players could legimitately go to get a better understanding of certain mechanics and heroes and what their role is and how to play them. Would be pretty cool, IMO.

Merlini basically became legendary for being one of the only people to ever make zeus relevant in games between the best.

[DarkForgeJ]

It gets boring quickly, constant teamfights is too much. But yeah I'll play if my friends aren't doing anything on GW2.

I play it more because because of the items ^^