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United States47024 Posts
On April 30 2014 15:53 Belisarius wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2014 12:25 Anesthetic wrote:
Nobody talking about earth spirit =( He's still a really difficult hero that is underwhelming even when the effort is invested. The CD reduction didn't change that.At the very least, they could have put him in CM to see what would happen. He's probably the weakest pub hero in the entire pool, and can only be played in pubs. He's in a pretty terrible place, imo.
Earth Spirit is supposedly picked quite a bit as a support in 5-6k MMR pubs in China and quite well regarded.
He's really hard to play, but ostensibly that effort is actually worth it.
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On May 01 2014 00:41 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2014 15:53 Belisarius wrote:On April 30 2014 12:25 Anesthetic wrote:
Nobody talking about earth spirit =( He's still a really difficult hero that is underwhelming even when the effort is invested. The CD reduction didn't change that.At the very least, they could have put him in CM to see what would happen. He's probably the weakest pub hero in the entire pool, and can only be played in pubs. He's in a pretty terrible place, imo. Earth Spirit is supposedly picked quite a bit as a support in 5-6k MMR pubs in China and quite well regarded. He's really hard to play, but ostensibly that effort is actually worth it.
With the new rock cooldown he seems worthwhile to pick again. The ult is still devastating when used well and you can now you can ult -> pull to silence anyone afflicted by the ult which seems nice and pretty reliable. It's not as good as being able to stun from far away, but the fact that you can silence for 5s and push an enemy into allies is still pretty good. I'm pretty excited to give him a try again.
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what lina needs is a better turn rate, probably faster attack animation would work too
lich is such a good offlaner now
the hype about kotl... would a team yield income to a support early game?
i want it to be a legit meta, giving a reason for support to have farm priority in the opening
but honestly, with the current egodicks out there, i dont think it will ever work
the problem with ember is the divine status while in fist mode is way too long
i would be okay if it's 0.1 sec per jump, so he would be divine only for probably 1.5 sec when a full team plus 2 waves pushing, but currently 3 sec divine status is way too long
instant cast + 3 sec divine status + escape mech = ultimate put stomper
it's not the damage causing the problem
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Apparently you can stack multiple chain frosts..
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United States15275 Posts
Rushing a Aghs on Dire side is really dangerous and rushing it on Radiant side will probably suck farm away from the other support. I don't see the rush being viable for KotL unless you play 2-1-2.
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demand kotl mid all day baby
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Skadi satanic spears huskar is quite powerful
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On May 01 2014 00:41 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2014 15:53 Belisarius wrote:On April 30 2014 12:25 Anesthetic wrote:
Nobody talking about earth spirit =( He's still a really difficult hero that is underwhelming even when the effort is invested. The CD reduction didn't change that.At the very least, they could have put him in CM to see what would happen. He's probably the weakest pub hero in the entire pool, and can only be played in pubs. He's in a pretty terrible place, imo. Earth Spirit is supposedly picked quite a bit as a support in 5-6k MMR pubs in China and quite well regarded. He's really hard to play, but ostensibly that effort is actually worth it.
I still play him, however I play him different (I go mid dagon level 1 and then early/midgame just run around ganking like crazy, lategame I do go support though), I think he still does have the potential to completely wreck anyone whos farming alone with a well executed combo+ dagon
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On May 01 2014 03:29 Alur wrote:
Skadi satanic spears huskar is quite powerful
You would know you dirty Huskar picker.
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Earth spirit was still broken last version in good hands. Now people will try him again and notice he's imba. I've already seen some disgusting Earth plays in page1.
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On May 01 2014 03:29 Alur wrote:
Skadi satanic spears huskar is quite powerful
lightning lightning lightning
why arent you getting more lightning?
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Satanic Skadi Mjollnir Spears Huskar technically works
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i play mjollnir clinkz right now it is fucking insane
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Northern Ireland22208 Posts
How does that stack, mjollnir procs only if you have flaming arrows on autocast?
(I mean the chain lightning part)
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On May 01 2014 07:24 ahswtini wrote:
How does that stack, mjollnir procs only if you have flaming arrows on autocast?
(I mean the chain lightning part)
Mjollnir is always able to proc. When they proc, searing arrows doesn't. At least that's how it should be. Autocast doesn't matter, that's Skadi and Searing Arrows
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Northern Ireland22208 Posts
So even if you manually cast flaming arrows, a maelstrom/mjollnir lightning proc will override it?
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On May 01 2014 07:37 ahswtini wrote:
So even if you manually cast flaming arrows, a maelstrom/mjollnir lightning proc will override it?
No, thinking about it I think you can't override manual casting orbs and they take preference.
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On May 01 2014 00:41 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2014 15:53 Belisarius wrote:On April 30 2014 12:25 Anesthetic wrote:
Nobody talking about earth spirit =( He's still a really difficult hero that is underwhelming even when the effort is invested. The CD reduction didn't change that.At the very least, they could have put him in CM to see what would happen. He's probably the weakest pub hero in the entire pool, and can only be played in pubs. He's in a pretty terrible place, imo. Earth Spirit is supposedly picked quite a bit as a support in 5-6k MMR pubs in China and quite well regarded. He's really hard to play, but ostensibly that effort is actually worth it.
Which is why I would have really liked to see him in CM.
It wouldn't surprise me if he actually was viable for people who were ridiculously good at him, but there's just doesn't seem to be enough motivation for 99% of the player base to push through. That makes me sad.
Guess we'll see.
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United States15275 Posts
UAMs that are hero abilities should always override conditional modifiers, no?
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I'm on a Mac and get this error when I try to open Dota:
Unable to load manifest file 'scripts/game_sounds_manifest.txt'
Any way to fix this so I can still play on my Mac?
Fixed it:
1. Right click on Dota2
2. Click Properties
3. Go to Local Files
4. Click Verify Integrity of Game Cache
5. Profit
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