You usually know what you are talking about so maybe I'm wrong.

Having said that I disagree completely. You should have maxed Conjure Image by Lvl 9/10 at the latest. A max level Image with say a Yasha can solo any jungle camp which is amazing for flash farming. Even without the Yasha they can solo the easier camps or speed up your farming in general by a lot. You can easily do Ancients with your hero + 1 image, letting the image tank.

You also absolutely melt towers with two meta'd Images and your hero.

Maxing Meta before Conjure Image is fine but Reflection>Meta>Image is just too slow I feel. It also hurts your farming.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

January 29 2014 00:48 GMT

#489

Conjure Image is unquestionably the better farming skill, but I don't think the pace of DotA as it stands lets you take advantage of that. Carries in the current version of DotA need to have fighting skills and need to level their fighting skills. As a fighting skill, Conjure Image does nothing before you have both a damage item and an HP source so that the images don't die to random AoE.

Jinxed

United States6450 Posts

January 29 2014 00:50 GMT

#490

On January 29 2014 09:48 TheYango wrote:
Conjure Image is unquestionably the better farming skill, but I don't think the pace of DotA as it stands lets you take advantage of that. Carries in the current version of DotA need to have fighting skills and need to level their fighting skills. As a fighting skill, Conjure Image does nothing before you have both a damage item and an HP source so that the images don't die to random AoE.

Well I guess the question then is what do you prioritize? I feel like his metamorphosis is the best skill for him if you want to fight early, since he still has a pretty low hp pool.

Hagen0

Germany765 Posts

January 29 2014 00:55 GMT

#491

Conjure Image is also a better fighting skill than Reflection past the first rank. Obviously early on you can only really fight with meta up. Since meta'd images are ranged they are a bit less prone to catching incidental aoe than melee images. They still die rather easily to heavy aoe but I wouldn't pick TB against good aoe anyway. Damage however isn't a problem at all. A meta'd image hits harder than most heroes.

Seraphic

United States3849 Posts

January 29 2014 01:03 GMT

#492

I think the Terrorblade model looks pretty good. I am too used to Illidan's attack stance though. Him standing up seems a bit awkward for me lol.

BurningSera

Ireland19621 Posts

January 29 2014 01:29 GMT

#493

Not entirely sure why TB gets so much hype, a hero who relies heavily on farming and one of those worst heroes to play in an disadvantaged game. Model is well made though, love that they keep the fire trails, other than that he used to be a fun pub hero if you know how to use his soul steal ability but now with his skillset he will probably go safelane and be completely useless when team didnt win at 4v5 already. SnY/Manta+Skadi should still be his cores.

Phoenix on the other hand will be the new kaolin, jesus christ that hero.

Kishin2

United States7534 Posts

January 29 2014 01:33 GMT

#494

Takeover mode could be pretty fun for TI4 compendium matches. A ton of potential there and if they make it duration based it's pretty much a mini game.

cecek

Czech Republic18921 Posts

January 29 2014 01:35 GMT

#495

I don't like the model at all.

govie

9334 Posts

January 29 2014 01:59 GMT

#496

i think the terrorblade looks to much like doom. 2 horns similar shaped with wings. Still cool, but not inspiring, the feniks is awesome tho.

Hagen0

Germany765 Posts

January 29 2014 02:00 GMT

#497

On January 29 2014 10:29 BurningSera wrote:
Not entirely sure why TB gets so much hype, a hero who relies heavily on farming and one of those worst heroes to play in an disadvantaged game. Model is well made though, love that they keep the fire trails, other than that he used to be a fun pub hero if you know how to use his soul steal ability but now with his skillset he will probably go safelane and be completely useless when team didnt win at 4v5 already. SnY/Manta+Skadi should still be his cores.

Phoenix on the other hand will be the new kaolin, jesus christ that hero.

You are underselling TB a bit. He pushes very hard with just an S&Y or Manta, you'd could potentially play him in a pushing linep. He is also a decent split pusher lategame. Similar to Naga though not quite as good. If you are behind there is a chance that you can rat it out.

But yeah, Phoenix is way stronger.

SKC

Brazil18828 Posts

January 29 2014 02:05 GMT

#498

TB isn't the hero he was a few years ago. With the new Metamorphosis and Reflection he isn't as useless early on.

AndyJay

Australia833 Posts

January 29 2014 02:08 GMT

#499

TB seems like a pretty nuts pusher, if you max metamorphos and image. He seems to be based a lot around his metamorphos ability and cd, while it's up you can push/gank while it's down you just sit back and farm.

Kuroeeah

11696 Posts

January 29 2014 02:09 GMT

#500

On January 29 2014 11:05 SKC wrote:
TB isn't the hero he was a few years ago. With the new Metamorphosis and Reflection he isn't as useless early on.

how was he useless before? he had passive regen with zeal and metamorph had a shorter cooldown