Hello, friend. While I can't understand what I'm typing (a little too drunk), I trust that you will. If you want a fun friend to play Dota 2 with, I'm your man. I'm not usually drunk.

FAREWELL, KEY-GIVER.

Atlare

Australia893 Posts

November 06 2011 05:42 GMT

#662

Great post + blog! Looking forward to having a look at valves take on Dota

twopint32oz

United States14 Posts

November 06 2011 05:54 GMT

#663

Great guide! Never actually played dota, but I have wanted to try dota 2.

CarnalEvil

United States3 Posts

November 06 2011 05:56 GMT

#664

After 10,000+ hours of DotA, I'm still looking forward to DotA 2. Might as well try my luck for a key.

Melvin0000

United States32 Posts

November 06 2011 06:03 GMT

#665

Nice guide, really looking forward to Dota2

ILoveCoffee

Malaysia164 Posts

November 06 2011 06:03 GMT

#666

Played dota for quite awhile. Looking forward to the Dota 2 release. Nice blog on the basics.

penguinking

United States23 Posts

November 06 2011 06:16 GMT

#667

i dont know how i'm going to split my time between dota2 and sc2, and d3 as well. jesus stop making great games for a little while

Jubeiz

Canada23 Posts

November 06 2011 06:18 GMT

#668

Good read for the basics, was glad it showed pulling most of all. you would be surprised how many people don't really know how to do it.

People Is Tasty

Canada12 Posts

November 06 2011 06:20 GMT

#669

Great write up, should help beginners a lot.

traumaplay

11 Posts

November 06 2011 06:28 GMT

#670

If it's not too much trouble, do you think your next guide could be a write-up on the intricacies of laning and drafting? I've played DotA a few years back casually and have a good grasp of the game's flow, but whenever I watch casts I'm absolutely stumped at the casters' analysis of what hero should get picked/banned next, and also their predictions of which heroes will go to which lane.

Yeah I'm not very good.

BAHRAM

Canada34 Posts

November 06 2011 06:44 GMT

#671

Now that everybody's been talking about DotA 2 and after seeing a bunch of vids/pics of the game, I have to say I'm actually surprisingly looking forward to it. Lol, I started playing DotA back in the W3: Reign of Chaos so I still remember the good old days of HOSTING shenanigans and moments where people would be buying recipes thinking they gave stats. And I'm CONVINCED I started the Rikimaru trend of getting Diffusal Blade, but that's a different story for a different day I suppose.

Anyways.. I Ended up becoming a beta-tester for new DotA patches that were periodically coming out back in 2007ish till about 2008. Sadly I kinda got kicked out after showing off new patches to friends of mines so that and the fact that the community started dieing down in terms of people, skill, and "manners", led to me quitting DotA about a year and a half later (About 6 years of playing). No matter how good DotA 2 is though, nothing will ever beat the EARLY days of W3 DotA!

Haha, well... I planned on saying a few words about the blog post but after I began writing a few things about DotA I really got hit with nostalgia

. So good job on writing about the basics and I'll stop here before I write a whole blog post myself

confire

United States97 Posts

November 06 2011 07:18 GMT

#672

Awesome read, will be looking forward to future posts by you sir.

papyrus

Philippines716 Posts

November 06 2011 07:22 GMT

#673

nice writeup for noobies, very concise guide.

Clived

United States3 Posts

November 06 2011 07:28 GMT

#674

Very good guide! I just introduced 5 or so people to DotA this week and i'm definitely showing them this.
Thank you very much!

trancey

United States430 Posts

November 06 2011 07:36 GMT

#675

Pretty sweet guide!

HocusPocus

Germany214 Posts

November 06 2011 07:57 GMT

#676

Very nicely writte guide with a brief overview over the dota map. I personally didnt know about double pulling bot, looks cool

Krakenman

Singapore3 Posts

November 06 2011 08:21 GMT

#677

Great guide, looking forward to more!

gullberg

Sweden1301 Posts

November 06 2011 08:40 GMT

#678

On November 06 2011 07:12 Bumblebee wrote:

Show nested quote +

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

Rofl figured it out a minute after I posted that, I just assumed that he was telling the truth

Daozzt

United States1263 Posts

November 06 2011 08:44 GMT

#679

Nice guide, seems really helpful for beginners.

I actually haven't touched actual DotA since for nearly 4 years, so this really brings me back. HoN just doesn't carry the same feeling

[Tribes]

Canada61 Posts

November 06 2011 08:51 GMT

#680

Cool write-up, do more!