gaming Dota 2 discussion thread

[Lost 1,410]

Got a bunch of items today!

 

I got my Slark Mythical dagger that i've been after, and i opened a bunch of chests, among several mythicals, a bunch of rares and the odd uncommon i managed to obtain a Strange Mythical Tegu and a Strange Legendary Skip The Delivery Frog. Soooo happy about them

 

 

Think im gonna main Slark for a while

[cd_solidsnake 122]

Well, I do play Dota ocasionally :3 I really love how clever the game manages it all. I'd like to play with you

 

My Steam nickname is cd_solidsnake :3 so please, add me

[Danze 15]

It's that time of the year for Dota 2, the International 3!

 

Prelim Stuff:

 

With TI3 prelims wrapping up, really excited for this year's tournament. Alliance coming out undefeated from group stages... I was expecting them to rock house, but I didn't expect them to go undefeated so far (sad face compendium predictions). Na'vi also looking very strong, only losing 2 games, both to Fnatic. 

 

I was worried for the Chinese teams, because in the first couple days of prelims it was looking like iG might be going to the losers bracket despite being the champs last year. They did manage to turn it around a bit though. I'm not a big iG fan, but I was happy to see both LGD and DK make it to the winner's bracket. LGD probably my personal favorite of the Chinese teams, but DK the strongest of the China teams coming out of the group stage.

 

On the downside, it was a bummer that Liquid is in loser's bracket. With complexity dropping out so early last year, would be nice to see some USA love. Granted, they still might do very well in the loser's bracket. Also, I'd like to see mouz win some games, as I really like them as an underdog team. 

 

Overall: Na'vi and Alliance are the two teams to beat right now. When these two teams face off in the tournament, there better be epic plays. 

 

Fantasy Teams!

 

So I thought this whole fantasy team thing on the compendium was pretty cool, here's my lineup: 

 

C: Loda (Alliance)

C: Sylar (LGD.cn)

SO: Dendi (Na'vi)

S: Kuroky (Na'vi)

S: EGM (Alliance)

 

I'm wishing I had put Xboct as a possible sub for Sylar, as his performance in prelims was off the charts, but sadly I didn't pick him and opted to make a little room for China with Sylar on my Na'vi/Alliance dominated roster. So far my total is 268.8 points for the prelims. As far as I know, I think Xboct has the highest scores of any carry so far, but I'm not certain about that. I don't really know what supports have been leading the boards, I'd like to see if anyone is keeping track of who's gotten the most points in each category. 

[Mood~Whiplash 63]

This thread be dying, can't let that happen.

 

How many people here like playing Rubick? I personally love Rubick, he'd be my go to support against a team full of casters. My one problem would be that there are so few legitimate item builds for him that make him any less frail, but I suppose that's the price of being such a fun hero.

[Danze 15]

This thread be dying, can't let that happen.

 

How many people here like playing Rubick? I personally love Rubick, he'd be my go to support against a team full of casters. My one problem would be that there are so few legitimate item builds for him that make him any less frail, but I suppose that's the price of being such a fun hero.

 

Building a mek is always a nice way to give a squishy support a bit more survivability, especially if there aren't any other good mek carriers on your team. Or picking up bracers to build into drums later. Still though, he is rather unfortunately squishy.

 

I've played a bit of naga siren support recently, which is really nice. Pick up a stout shield for laning and you can trade hits pretty effectively with most heroes. Great base armor and movement speed. The minus armor from riptide is amazing as well. Her ultimate can be game changing, but hard to use in pub games where you might not have good communication with your team (such as them not understanding any English xD). At the very least, it's a great "get out of jail free card" for your team. She's also got the flexibility to build into a semi carry if the game goes late, which is nice. 

 

My favorite hero this past week has been lone druid. Surprisingly fun hero, despite his lack of flashy active abilities. The bear is just a total beast. If you can manage to farm a quick 15 minute radiance and then pick up an AC/mjolnir, his pushing power is just ridiculous. Split pushing is also really easy to do with your bear once you've got the radiance. 

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

I just started this game the other day and It's pretty damn addicting. I just finished the tutorial where you got to destroy the middle lane 10 times. I'm going to try to 5 npc full on battles (tutorial) right now. I can see myself playing this game a lot in the future.

[The Blades Shadow 444]

Well, I'm currently downloading this game again (The computer I used to have it on broke), so when I do would somebody be willing to play a few matches with me so I can get used to the game again? (It's been quite awhile since I last played)

[Mood~Whiplash 63]

Current hero I've been playing most this week would be Ancient Apparition.

 

"Hey bro I need a gank."

Throw ice ball

Get double kill

You're welcome

 

I racked up 14 kills with no deaths on that game.

[IceBeerG 55]

AA is a lot of fun, but not so much as Bat rider.

 

Opposing team :

 

"Hey dudes gathering up together. They stand right after corner. Axe - you will blink there and taunt all of them. Nature prophet - you will teleport behind and hex their carry and... do whatever you can. After they did it Broodmother and me goes in. Sniper you... Where the hell sniper flew? o_O"

[Mr F 1,522]

oh yay there is other people on the forums playing dota 2.

(I am pretty bad at it, too many non english talking on english servers)

though it is really fun.

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[Soundgarden 2,758]

This thread be dying, can't let that happen.

 

How many people here like playing Rubick? I personally love Rubick, he'd be my go to support against a team full of casters. My one problem would be that there are so few legitimate item builds for him that make him any less frail, but I suppose that's the price of being such a fun hero.

 

Pretty much, but holy shit is he fun if the enemy team got some powerful ults (I always insta-pick this guy whenever the enemy team picks Enigma :3)

 

Thanks to my stupid computer lagging like hell, I haven't been able to play Dota 2 in a while ;_;.... but I guess I can catch up on the discussion

[MrKenyon 10]

Ah, Dota.  My home and native land.  Shame I've been stuck in the trench for so long I forgot what playing good feels like.  Bah.

 

I am very interested to see if anyone would make a mod/paid adon for dota 2 which changes the courier to something like derpy, or rainbow Dash.

 

Well, there was that Pony Courier that they tried to get through:

 

 

But between the fuss it made and Valve not wanting to get sued, that kinda fell through.

[Lost 1,410]

Time to revive this thread again.

 

If you don't have DOTA 2, get it, if you play LoL instead, quit LoL and get DOTA 2, after you get used to the mechanics, it's a far more enjoyable game, far superior in every aspect

[Cakebandit :3 1,064]

Time to revive this thread again.

 

If you don't have DOTA 2, get it, if you play LoL instead, quit LoL and get DOTA 2, after you get used to the mechanics, it's a far more enjoyable game, far superior in every aspect

I completely agree with this, Dota 2 is so much more enjoyable and slightly harder imo but once you get used to it, its a glorious game oh and you dont need to buy heros which is a really big bonus

[The Blades Shadow 444]

it's a far more enjoyable game, far superior in every aspect

Not necessarily... Dota 2 is an amazing game, but League of Legends is just as good. I'm not saying Dota is bad, and I'm not saying League is better, but I think they're equally good.

[Skeleton Kin 385]

sometimes I do, sometimes I don't

It really depends on what gaming mood I'm in, sometimes i will be in a FPS/TPS mood and sometimes the RTS mood