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haramarina
Profile Joined October 2011
Philippines2 Posts
November 05 2011 15:46 GMT
#61
You are right. The day/night feature is definitely a detail most of us miss to understand unless it's Balanar we are talking about.
gg
KnowMe
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany228 Posts
November 05 2011 15:47 GMT
#62
i had to install dotalicious client again because of gamescom and played for about 2 weeks.
now you keep teasing me with keys and i had to play there again.
weirdly enough the cpts there want you to play trilane most of the time.
in addition its very frustrating to play support in public games. help!
http://www.facebook.com/KnowMeSc2 https://twitter.com/YouBetterKnowMe
RyuChus
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada442 Posts
November 05 2011 15:47 GMT
#63
I'm superrr bad at DotA. I really like these. I think they help me understand a lot of things that I didn't before. Thanks for this man! Isn't pulling the easiest way to get creep farm anyways?
I have an announcement to make, "Moo!" That is all.
mcht
Profile Joined December 2009
Germany201 Posts
November 05 2011 15:48 GMT
#64
nice guide, good luck everyone!
neurosx
Profile Joined August 2011
Luxembourg1096 Posts
November 05 2011 15:48 GMT
#65
Nice that will help new players a lot :D
You'll wish I'd never stooped to notice you.
MiteCrow
Profile Joined June 2011
Ireland38 Posts
November 05 2011 15:48 GMT
#66
Thank you for posting this.
As silly as it sounds have have been having trouble seeing differences between Dota, LoL, and HoN and this showed that the games fundamentals are the same but with several KEY differences.
It is these differences why I can finaly understand some of Dota's popularity in comparison to other similar games and I will now be checking out the game upon it's release for sure.
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
BobMcJohnson
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
France2916 Posts
November 05 2011 15:48 GMT
#67
Cool guide

Could someone explain the key differences between the LoL jungle and the dota one? I'd be really interested since it's a mechanic that I like quite a lot in LoL
Romanes eunt domus
KingUNREAL
Profile Joined November 2011
United States1 Post
November 05 2011 15:49 GMT
#68
Awesome Beginners guide! <3 Dota2
I'm the King.
FenneK
Profile Joined November 2010
France1231 Posts
November 05 2011 15:50 GMT
#69
I had no idea this game would be so ocmplex, actually excited to play it.
good luck have batman
Narcind
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Sweden2489 Posts
November 05 2011 15:52 GMT
#70
Pretty good guide, especially for people who are new to the game. I think you should touch a bit more on the laning of the game however, it's quite common to run a 2-2-1 lane, and having a solo on one of the sidelanes rather than mid.
And you should definitely mention the possibility of having for example an earthshaker or a sand king just roaming and hardly laning at all to set up kills all over the map, though I guess this is most common when running a trilane, but definitely not the only way to do it.

Oh and cheese doesn't instantly restore full health/mana, it's like 2000 or 3000 hp (cant remember) and slightly less mana if I recall correctly.

Not wanting to nitpick or anything, but it's worth mentioning!
madhyene
Profile Joined March 2011
France43 Posts
November 05 2011 15:52 GMT
#71
Can't wait for DotA 2 to go out ! The International tournament really made me want to play it ^^
stkblee
Profile Joined December 2010
Singapore129 Posts
November 05 2011 15:52 GMT
#72
this is a really good guide. Thanks for posting this!
sonercirit
Profile Joined November 2011
2 Posts
November 05 2011 15:52 GMT
#73
Great guide sir
mademan18
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden3 Posts
November 05 2011 15:53 GMT
#74
Bamammam
Asha
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United Kingdom38257 Posts
November 05 2011 15:53 GMT
#75
I love you Bumblebee.

I've never played a moba and intend for Dota2 to be my first (no matter how nervous I can get about a hostile community =p), so I've been religiously reading and taking notes from this blog series haha =)

thank you.
ThaddeusK
Profile Joined July 2008
United States233 Posts
November 05 2011 15:53 GMT
#76
Very nice guide.

In HoN people often block the creep pull by putting the ward in the forest next to the creep camp such that it is blocked and the ward cannot be counter warded, does this work/ is this done in DotA as well?
Bumblebee
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
3237 Posts
November 05 2011 15:53 GMT
#77
On November 06 2011 00:48 BobMcJohnson wrote:
Cool guide

Could someone explain the key differences between the LoL jungle and the dota one? I'd be really interested since it's a mechanic that I like quite a lot in LoL

I only played about 200 games of LoL and I didn't really like it. I played some Amumu, but from some very obvious and easy to understand perspectives are that stacking makes a big difference. Pulling makes a big difference too because you can kind of sustain your jungle stay longer. That all the creepspawns doesn't have one set of creeps, but different creeps can spawn there and some creeps are harder for some heroes than others. Also there's no Smite ability and there aren't a power-up like blue and red.
There is no difference between a knight and any other man aside from what he wears. @robinnymann
Frolossus
Profile Joined February 2010
United States4779 Posts
November 05 2011 15:54 GMT
#78
When you mention pulling creeps to deny them/help jungle what do you mean by stacking the camps first?
mingg
Profile Joined August 2011
Netherlands1 Post
November 05 2011 15:54 GMT
#79
Nice guide, it's good for new people to understand the game. For me in a lesser way, because I already play the genre for a long time, but good for the newer ones nonetheless.
mademan18
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden3 Posts
November 05 2011 15:54 GMT
#80
I'll try for the key
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