Dota 2

[Trace]

You guys need to chill, I am yet again reminded how irritable people get when playing dota.

[zaneyard]

You guys need to chill, I am yet again reminded how irritable people get when playing dota.

dota 2 is my life.

[Squishy3]

here we have a wild animal called the zaneyard, who is the exact opposite of most animals seen in the jungle of dota 2, instead of getting mad at someone for being bad, he is getting mad at someone over a seemingly randomized choice in items that actually turned out to be good for that hero

[zaneyard]

here we have a wild animal called the zaneyard, who is the exact opposite of most animals seen in the jungle of dota 2, instead of getting mad at someone for being bad, he is getting mad at someone over a seemingly randomized choice in items that actually turned out to be good for that hero

i'm extremely mad

[Eschatos]

Looks like they're adding a Bastion announcer. I like.

[zaneyard]

and shredder

[Eschatos]

and shredder

Man I gotta try bloodstone on that guy.  He seems like a more mobile, less pushy Leshrac.

[Surf314]

[quote author=zaneyard link=topic=5832.msg258402#msg258402 date=1355458796]
and shredder

Man I gotta try bloodstone on that guy.  He seems like a more mobile, less pushy Leshrac.
[/quote]

My first game with him I raped face. He does take a bit getting used to though.

[Squishy3]

http://www.playdota.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1203260

6.77 changes out for wc3 dota, which means they should be coming to dota 2 soon.

drow fixed, also centaur's ult now applies 100% slow when running through people instead of stun.

[zaneyard]

Actually super excited about the tree buffs. He might be a pretty decent mid now. vanguard+poor mans shield = invincibility.

[Eschatos]

Actually super excited about the tree buffs. He might be a pretty decent mid now. vanguard+poor mans shield = invincibility.

I feel like they need to add back damage to his ult for him to be viable.  He just doesn't match up to tide/sand king/magnus/enigma/puck without that.

[zaneyard]

Icefrog doesn't want his ult to just be a shittier version of tide ult though. Which unfortunately it is right now. I'm hoping to see a mechanic added to it that makes it unique.

[Eschatos]

Icefrog doesn't want his ult to just be a shittier version of tide ult though. Which unfortunately it is right now. I'm hoping to see a mechanic added to it that makes it unique.

I saw someone on reddit suggest applying living armor to all allies caught in the range, which seems like a reasonable buff.

[Squishy3]

http://www.dota2.com/frostivus/

[zaneyard]

[quote author=zaneyard link=topic=5832.msg258518#msg258518 date=1355597092]
Icefrog doesn't want his ult to just be a shittier version of tide ult though. Which unfortunately it is right now. I'm hoping to see a mechanic added to it that makes it unique.

I saw someone on reddit suggest applying living armor to all allies caught in the range, which seems like a reasonable buff.
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Although it might be abused, could make it so allies are rooted in place, but given the living armor buff, and then the regular root and attack cancel is placed on enemies. Kinda gives it a skill ceiling to not screw up your teammates positioning without making it super overpowered by making the entire team invincible.

[Squishy3]

played a game as broodmother today. earthshaker kept bitching that i wasn't at teamfights. the other heroes on my team were: earthshaker, lion, ursa and axe. i feel like they should of been able to handle any team fight early game while i was busy knocking on their tier 2 tower. (especially with the early roshan) axe and i certainly didn't lose our lane, but i guess earthshaker lost his lane while ursa was jungling.

[Eschatos]

played a game as broodmother today. earthshaker kept bitching that i wasn't at teamfights. the other heroes on my team were: earthshaker, lion, ursa and axe. i feel like they should of been able to handle any team fight early game while i was busy knocking on their tier 2 tower. (especially with the early roshan) axe and i certainly didn't lose our lane, but i guess earthshaker lost his lane while ursa was jungling.

You know there's gonna be a bad time when you have a jungle ursa, naix, or lone druid on your team.  Just because they can jungle at low levels doesn't mean they should.

[Squishy3]

[quote author=Squishy link=topic=5832.msg259125#msg259125 date=1356322330]
played a game as broodmother today. earthshaker kept bitching that i wasn't at teamfights. the other heroes on my team were: earthshaker, lion, ursa and axe. i feel like they should of been able to handle any team fight early game while i was busy knocking on their tier 2 tower. (especially with the early roshan) axe and i certainly didn't lose our lane, but i guess earthshaker lost his lane while ursa was jungling.

You know there's gonna be a bad time when you have a jungle ursa, naix, or lone druid on your team.  Just because they can jungle at low levels doesn't mean they should.
[/quote]ursa and lifestealer are fairly straightforward to play at least, they aren't exactly super hard heroes. lone druid on the other hand...

the ursa was okay but everyone else was god awful

[zaneyard]

yeah lifestealer is slow as shit in the jungle and he's super easy to destroy early.

[Squishy3]

Had a really good game even though we lost because of our team comp.

Our team was Juggernaut Zeus Dark Seer Tidehunter Queen of Pain. Theirs was Huskar Windrunner Riki Phantom Lancer Bane.

Needless to say, we lost because we didn't really have a way to counter-push back on PL's level. If our team was say, Juggernaut Zeus Dark Seer Tidehunter Broodmother, we'd have had the counter-pushing power because Broodmother owns at that. Replacing Juggernaut with Faceless Void for safe lane would also probably have worked out well because it'd shut down PL and his ability to create far too many of himself during teamfights/when he's pushing.