Thanks for the writeup. I've only played DotA and haven't been following any events or streams so I didn't know much about Dota 2 until this. I've also been following SC2 via TL, but have never made an account until now.

celious

United States195 Posts

November 05 2011 21:53 GMT

#485

awesome guide, thanks and thanks for giving keys to the community.

TheDominator

New Zealand336 Posts

November 05 2011 21:55 GMT

#486

Wow, brilliant guide, I thought I was a pretty good player but even I learnt things from this!
Thanks a bunch :D
lol if I get a key, I will honestly kiss someone's feet on the street.

jpak

United States5045 Posts

November 05 2011 21:57 GMT

#487

My bro plays dota, and he mains furion. Teleport ftw!!

Very nice guide.

hjop

Netherlands10 Posts

November 05 2011 22:00 GMT

#488

Guess I better go along with the rest of the herd by saying 'great guide'! :D

Would be awesome to finally be able to play dota 2

Chromie

Iceland8 Posts

November 05 2011 22:01 GMT

#489

awesome guide , keep it up ^^

Jitsu

United States929 Posts

November 05 2011 22:02 GMT

#490

On November 06 2011 06:43 gullberg wrote:

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Why would you do that? The fact that you can give anyone a 20 second BKB is your best asset lategame, considering that your heal is not very useful lategame either.

I always felt that that additional 10 seconds sometimes did more harm than good.

Ognam

United States798 Posts

November 05 2011 22:02 GMT

#491

Another awesome guide. Might also want to mention that killing melee barracks is better than the ranged due to difference in creep numbers.

I believe there was a game with old MYM vs Na'Vi in Farm4Fame where they came back from megacreeps. It's one of the top rated on gosugamers.

Gnight

77 Posts

November 05 2011 22:06 GMT

#492

Well, as a complete newbie to the Dota genre, this guide gave me nice view of the basics of the game, will surely help me in the future when I am free to play Dota 2.

Though, here comes a newbie question, the... Moon Priestress, doesn't she has "extra's" in night time as well?
Or is it really just Nightstalker that gains something "extra" when it's night time?

Not that I am doubting the info provided by Bumblee, just something that crossed my mind from watching streams here and there, could be my imagination in the end. ^ ^

Also, there are no Heroes that will gain something "extra" in the day time?

Either way, thanks for the nice guide Bumblee and for the others you made. Still need to check those though, just found out from this guide. xD

GoHome

United States3 Posts

November 05 2011 22:07 GMT

#493

good guide for us newbs! :D

JerKy

Korea (South)3013 Posts

November 05 2011 22:07 GMT

#494

I want DotA2 :D
Thanks for the write up

Kaidence

Netherlands18 Posts

November 05 2011 22:08 GMT

#495

Well written, I wish stuff like this was around when I started back in the original DotA :D

Harkness

Denmark3 Posts

November 05 2011 22:09 GMT

#496

Thanks for writing this, i'd love a key.

Ryusei-R1

United States2106 Posts

November 05 2011 22:10 GMT

#497

Good to see a very solid guide for beginners. After countless hours of playing DOTA, these things become like second nature though.

s1dd

United States43 Posts

November 05 2011 22:12 GMT

#498

Really good guide. I haven't played DotA seriously in a few years, and this helped refresh my memory. Good writeup

Bumblebee

3237 Posts

November 05 2011 22:12 GMT

#499

On November 06 2011 07:02 Jitsu wrote:

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I always felt that that additional 10 seconds sometimes did more harm than good.

The 2nd spell on OmniKnight is not an extra 10 seconds. It's 6, 8, 10, 12 seconds. The cooldown is 14 seconds.

Sels

Mexico3 Posts

November 05 2011 22:15 GMT

#500

Coming from LoL into DotA I never imagined there were going to be this much difference, ty for the insight.

Now I better get myself war3 if I dont wanna scrub it out, bot games here I go!.