Dota 2

"You can now set hero-specific ability key bindings in the Settings > Hotkeys menu." <—- FUCKING FINALLY!

Apparently Sumail and Fear haven't left the team, according to Polygon.

edited 23rd Mar '16 7:53:01 PM by Pannic

I'd like to ask something guys. Go download a replay and try watching it. Can you do it? For some reason I can't.

EDIT: Turns out it's a bug that comes with Spring Cleaning patch. And already fixed

edited 29th Mar '16 8:28:14 PM by ChrisX

Double post, but look at what Dopatwo whipped.

He also asked, "Should I make a LOL series?" And expectedly, Dota fanboys still flock to the old hatred and say NO NO NO LOL SUX. Seriously, I thought it's one attempt to quell the hatred of two fandoms.

This is just my observation, but I feel like the 'stereotypical Dota fan' seems to think that any LOL fans must be worshipping Pendragon's bullcraps, when I have seen LOL fans pulling Everyone Has Standards and they didn't approve Pendragon's hijinx even if it's for their game's publication. I think I want to destroy this stereotype. It's making Dota fandom look bad.

edited 29th Mar '16 8:33:10 PM by ChrisX

Most LoL fans never speak out against Pendragon's actions. Because the majority of its million-large playerbase never even heard of it.

Also, the biggest hurdle for making LoL videos is that the Champions - except for some of the more recent ones - don't have nearly as many voicelines as an average Hero. At least, it feels that way.

There are those who do, though. The bigger problem is that Riot/Pendragon has a way to take down things that defame them and whitewash it to make them look good. With that, I know they will ensure that their millions playerbase will never hear of it. But those who do have heard of it are not amused.

I understand he'll have problems about the voicelines, but if Dopatwo can work it out, then it'll be good news. I personally think he can. (Though I should have said that if many voicelines is the thing, he should have set his sights to Heroes of the Storm in stead of LOL, that game's voicelines amount kind of rival Dota 2's, although he might have to contend with Carbot Animations)

edited 29th Mar '16 10:51:24 PM by ChrisX

Yasp.co with the april's fools

Dinner time for Xin!

Pretty sure this is 6.87◊

I didn't want to triple post, but this thread has had no posts in a long while.

edited 22nd Apr '16 3:00:21 AM by Eldrake

... I have no idea how legit that one is.

It was made with the Markov chain text generator, for those confused.

Better luck next time Mineski...

Team Secret not exactly off to a great start on their first tournament with the new lineup as they go 0-2 against Team Empire in ESL One Manila's Group Stages. They'll have to win both against EHOME and Team Empire as well in order to get into the playoffs for the tournament.

Don't you mean to get into the semi-finals though? Because technically speaking their match against EHOME is the "playoffs" already LOL

edited 22nd Apr '16 11:35:39 PM by entropy13

Not by how it's being advertised in Liquipedia and the ESL One website. It's still going to be a tiebreaker match for their respective Grousp after this to decide which teams are gonna be part of the playoffs.

IT'S HAPPENING

Damn, Arc Warden got nerfed hard, though I'm not complaining. Prophet, OD and Invoker have also been nerfed, though Prophet seems to have been hit the hardest, her Siphon going from Pure and immune- piercing to Magic non-piercing.

• Each team now has a Scan ability, available on the minimap UI.

ayy lmao we starcraft now.

• Intelligence now increases your spell damage by 1% per 16 Intelligence points.

ayy lmao we league now.

But IceFrog, I expected a small update, not such huge changes!

So... this is legit, right? Not sure what they're trying to do to the game...

Thank goodness for that Arc Warden nerf though, that'll teach them to abuse Rapier.

• Reworked Scepter on Earthshaker

• Increased Illusory Orb speed by 1

@Illusionary Orb: It's from the Markov chain's 6.87 patch.

Also, bananas are dropping from destroyed trees! It's suspected that it's part of an event.

Ohhh. So basically, it's that one Dark Seer "nerf" all over again. That being said, did they actually buff Illusory Orb's speed by 1?

And as for the bananas... Must resist urge to make Venomancer joke...

Echo Sabre... Looks like an item that we'll see a lot in melee carries like Anti Mage, Faceless Void, Phantom Assassin and Sven...

I definitely see Bloodthorn becoming a core on Sven as an alternative to Daedalus, especially when up against heroes with evasion.

Drow and Enchantress, I can also see getting the Force Staff upgrade item as a core item, on Drow especially.

Okay, so after a few runs in the test client, I have to say that Earthshaker's new Scepter upgrade is probably the most awesome thing ever. It's not exactly a substitute for Blink Dagger... But it's awesome.

And basically, Bloodthorn seems like a massive middle finger to heroes like PA and Windranger. And I actually see Clinkz building Orchid again.

Raindrops is also a pretty cool item for when you need to deal with heavy nukers like Lina and KotL. Not exactly the flashiest, but it works wonders at what it does.

Raindrops is going to be one of the best items early game against standard nukers, seeing as you'll be able to block a total of 600 Magic damage. PL, in particular, will probably have a much more difficult time harassing his targets now, unless he has a good support who can nuke the charges off before using his lance himself.