DotA 2 General Chat Thread

VenomIreland · 16-01-2015 1:37am

BittaTrig wrote: »

If you're starting i'd recommend playing ranked early as possible, I left it until lvl 160 and ended up being stuck in a 2k mmr trench... I won 7 of 10 of my fecking calibration games too. the longer you leave it chances are your public MMR(Which is hidden) will get lower unless you're amazing at the game.

I think I won 7 out of 10 calibration also, got placed at 1850! On the plus side, I've stopped caring about it so much after being calibrated and nobody at this MMR knows how good Diffusal Blade is against Omni.

cherryghost · 16-01-2015 9:16am

Unless you've mastered 2 or 3 heroes don't play ranked.

KarmaBaby · 16-01-2015 9:35am

cherryghost wrote: »

My support Pudge is amazing. I've being playing him in nothing but a support role since his hook buff. It's incredibly good for first bloods now that there's 2 runes. You can sit in jungle on Dire or Radiant and bait out the run contesting with your mid/carry. Every time I get a hook off at 0:00 and our carry gets the first blood. If you guys haven't noticed I'm really liking support Pudge. I think I've won every game as support Pudge since the buff.

Guys. SUPPORT. PUDGE.

Shadow shaman+pudge roaming support duo? That would be fairly sick. Hook - Shackle - dead.

cherryghost · 16-01-2015 11:34am

We were roaming Skyrath and Pudge, seemed to do the job! We did Pugna and Pudge (Bit greedy) but didn't work out as well (though we still whooped ass). My problem with Shaman is that hes slow to get into positions etc, early game he needs boots to 100% ensure roaming kills.

Kunkka · 16-01-2015 11:53am

Had a good feed as Pudge last night thanks to you Cherry. **** you!

Dcully · 25-01-2015 11:55am

Hi guys ive flirted with getting into MOBAs very often but even playing against bots in tutorials scared me away the few times i tried.
Any thoughts on the easiest one of the bunch to get into?
Heroes of the storm looks pretty good too aswell as dota2,lol and smite.
But since this is dota2 thread any particular character i should play with first as a noob?

NeoSlicerZ · 25-01-2015 1:29pm

Try Wraith King.

BMMachine · 25-01-2015 5:43pm

smite is the least stressful Ive played and probably best for starting. I'm very jaded towards dota atm though so take from that what you will

KarmaBaby · 25-01-2015 11:40pm

I was on a very nice run there only losing 3 games in about 20. Last game was a complete troll-fest though. I was forced to solo safe-lane with a support Jakiro against a Weaver. Absolutely unwinnable.

I've a feeling Steam decided to press the doom switch now, so my good run will be punished this week by ensuring I'm paired up with the biggest idiots in Dota. Variance is a bitch.

cherryghost · 28-01-2015 1:12pm

Na'vi looking good in the DAC quali's today

BMMachine · 28-01-2015 7:24pm

cherryghost wrote: »

Na'vi looking good in the DAC quali's today

really glad to see Hearts Get Together through as well, loved their matches during the asian qualifiers.

shaping up to be a great event. For once I'm pretty much in the dark about who will do well (apart from Secret, LGD and Vici). I have a gut feeling Newbee won't be as good and maybe an early elimination. C9 and EG won't be up to much either I suspect

cherryghost · 30-01-2015 12:19pm

Secret prove that Techies is winnable in a professional environment. They are really on top of their game. EG looking good too, Fears Lone Druid play was great to watch yesterday.

I'm glad Chinese teams aren't dominating and to an extent I'm not surprised. Newbee have had little/no matches lately so I guess they're a bit rusty. The game they won they drafted outside the meta so I think that they should draft they way they like to play, not how they should be played.

I really like Rave's drafts so far too.

I think it's going to be an explosive next few days, can't really count anyone out from elimination (bar the top 3 maybe).

NeoSlicerZ · 30-01-2015 12:36pm

Newbee are RPG players.

Tar.Aldarion · 30-01-2015 12:42pm

techies won a game? link?

cherryghost · 30-01-2015 12:50pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

techies won a game? link?

Here you go friend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDMZMyp0Zks

cherryghost · 30-01-2015 1:02pm

Fun fact. Black has 100% winrate with Sniper this year. He's also won 2/2 sniper games in this tournament.

BMMachine · 30-01-2015 3:35pm

Newbee are playing absolute muck. C9 doing their impression of a Yo-Yo. read an interview with iceiceice who was saying they are easy to beat once you are used to their tempo, have to agree - EE shouldn't be drafting imo.
NaVi making a little comeback today which is always nice to see

and EG have surprised me, didnt think they would have it together after the shuffle but Aui2000 is a hell of a player, as is fear. I still wanna see BigGod go all the way, for the lols

BMMachine · 30-01-2015 3:48pm

on a side note - Dubstep is as bad as the garage music of late 90s / early 2000s, maybe worse. why can't they play good music in between matches

cherryghost · 30-01-2015 3:51pm

BMMachine wrote: »

on a side note - Dubstep is as bad as the garage music of late 90s / early 2000s, maybe worse. why can't they play good music in between matches

They only play music by musicat/issued by Creative Commons. New standards etc. Main BTS though always has aftertalk.

Also holy crap, that Secret vs CDEC game.

BMMachine · 30-01-2015 3:53pm

cherryghost wrote: »

They only play music by musicat/issued by Creative Commons. New standards etc. Main BTS though always has aftertalk.

Also holy crap, that Secret vs CDEC game.

yeah was an awesome ending. CDEC are great to watch in general I find, hungry young players, in fact they are playing for a sandwich.

whats a creative commons when its at home? and by new standards do you mean like radio rights and stuff? people wanting money for the songs being played?

cherryghost · 30-01-2015 4:11pm

BMMachine wrote: »

yeah was an awesome ending. CDEC are great to watch in general I find, hungry young players, in fact they are playing for a sandwich.

whats a creative commons when its at home? and by new standards do you mean like radio rights and stuff? people wanting money for the songs being played?

The labels yeah, won't allow music when streaming. Most users streaming from home get away with it because numbers are little/none. But when you have studios casting games they're in the spotlight and must adhere to the standards set out for freely licenced music only.

Tbh the whole thing reeks. Labels lose nothing if streamers play their music and gain everything by interested spectators in the music itself.

LGD vs Newbee is on in a bit. If Newbee lose they are in big trouble. If they do equally as bad tomorrow they would be essentially out. Top 12 go through, based on the qualis you can squeeze through with about 10 losses after all the games.

BMMachine · 30-01-2015 4:14pm

they are in the process of losing

cherryghost · 30-01-2015 6:42pm

BMMachine wrote: »

they are in the process of losing

Yup, awful games today. Na'vi on the other hand. Funnik QOP very impressive

douchie · 31-01-2015 10:06am

Hi all,

I'm new from Dublin but I don't get to play Dota 2 anymore since I don't have personal laptop. Is there any place you would recommend where I could play?

NeoSlicerZ · 31-01-2015 6:00pm

Omni is some hero.

cherryghost · 31-01-2015 6:04pm

So after day 3, MVP and Newbee will not be in the top 8, very doubtful for top 12 for sure. EHOME after a strong start have had some extremely questionable plays and as a result have fallen down the leaderboard after a good initial start. Na'vi continue their momentum. Apparently Funnik drafted Day 1 and Goblak has drafted every game since then, only dropping 1 and winning 6. Secret really look on top though. Some amazing plays all round, they look like they will win this outright unless their BO3 A-game isnt there.

BMMachine · 31-01-2015 7:07pm

cherryghost wrote: »

So after day 3, MVP and Newbee will not be in the top 8, very doubtful for top 12 for sure. EHOME after a strong start have had some extremely questionable plays and as a result have fallen down the leaderboard after a good initial start. Na'vi continue their momentum. Apparently Funnik drafted Day 1 and Goblak has drafted every game since then, only dropping 1 and winning 6. Secret really look on top though. Some amazing plays all round, they look like they will win this outright unless their BO3 A-game isnt there.

thats the thing, I only think they will get better in BO3

they are frighteningly good atm, probably the best 'superteam' I've seen so far (granted one tournament but DK last year weren't this impressive)

for nostalgias sake, Go on BIGGODS!!

cherryghost · 10-02-2015 4:23pm

If I kept playing Luna I'm sure my MMR would finally surpass 4k. Every time I play her I amass more than 100lh/10mins and win the game outright. Buuuuuut playing the same hero over and over is very boring.

I played with this Slark a few days ago. 1200 games of Dota 2 and 800 with Slark alone.

BMMachine · 10-02-2015 8:35pm

Luna. one of the first heroes I learned to play properly back in the day. Don't get hung up on MMR, it means nothing except in very high and very low cases. Its like chasing the dragon

cherryghost · 10-02-2015 8:41pm

I'm up 600 MMR since 6.82 so I guess I'm doing something right

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