General Discussion - Page 2641

On April 23 2013 04:29 DoNotDisturb wrote:
will Yango get a star this year

please

On April 23 2013 04:15 TheYango wrote:
The other problem you've failed to address is that pretty much everything Centaur has is melee range, and he has one long-cooldown engagement skill that only lasts 3.75 seconds. You're skipping Blink Dagger, and buying no +MS (even delaying your Boots upgrade) on a 300 MS hero. All the damage you buy means nothing if your ability to stay on targets is weak. You're essentially going all-in on your ability to one-shot people inside ult+stun (which will only catch 1-2 people if you don't have a Blink), and after that all your fighting power is gone.

It's why Phase+Drum became popular on Naix--people realized that superior mobility results in more practical teamfight power than more raw damage on a hero that has no Blink-like skills. And without Blink or any significant +MS items, it's a problem you have to deal with in your Centaur build. From this perspective, even on carry Centaur, Lothar's is a more appropriate follow-up than Armlet.

The flexibility that Blink allows you is that you can Blink initiate, and then WAIT on your ult until the initial round of disables runs out, and use it for the ability to stick on a target when your stun is on CD, rather than having to use it to get in range to use your stun in the first place.

On April 23 2013 05:00 NB wrote:
personally i find urn a bit too stronk as i tend to get it a lot. Either if its the casting range or the healing speed + cooldown, i wouldnt mind too much seeing it got nerfed a bit. The offense usage of urn that is, the defensive usage is fine.

On April 23 2013 04:56 Comeh wrote:

He got a hammer instead.

He esentially embodies every response I've ever wanted to write, but am usually too lazy to write out completely. He also will continue discussions where I would have been like "ehhhh fuck it, I'm not going to argue with this clearly wrong guy anymore"

(no offense to anyone, he's done it to all of us at some point).

Icefraud pls nerf yango

On April 23 2013 05:43 evilfatsh1t wrote:

the offensive side isnt THAT strong. i mean its strong, but its not like the 130? dmg is a game changer mid game.

On April 23 2013 07:12 maru~ wrote:
Roaming TA strong.

Also, Orchid is pretty good on TA.

On April 23 2013 07:15 Avs wrote:
I haven't reported anyone for weeks but every time I open Dota 2 it says Valve has taken action against players I've reported.

- Chat wheel isn't prevented when communication banned.
- Fixed bug allowing more than the maximum reports/commends per week.
- Allow chat in private/tournament lobbies while communication banned.
- Players are now notified how much time is remaining on the communication ban.
- Fixed server stability issue that was resulting in a reduced number of servers and long wait times.
- Fixed issue where heroes were not displaying in the Loadout panel when using some items.
- Workshop panel updates the hero and item models on import.
- Fixed an issue where some courier effects were not being loaded and displayed.
- Fixed an issue where Lina's Fiery Soul skin was incorrect.

All current communication bans have been lifted as of this update.

On April 23 2013 07:31 RuskiPanda wrote:


Except nowadays you pretty much have to rush bkb before/after blink against most of the common mids/lineups (bat/sd/lesh/bane/nyx, etc) and ~8000 gold in there's probably a better orchid carrier on your team (maybe not though). I'd also much rather have a deso or close to finishing a daedalus if I wanted a dps snowball item.

On April 23 2013 08:05 blahz0r wrote:


More chat stuff.

On April 23 2013 08:26 Zephirdd wrote:


Is it still that bad though? Chat Wheel should provide pretty much everything you need, together with pings and "Alert Allies" from support items.

"Oh but then I can't communicate on a deeper level, advanced strats etc" now hear me out.
1. If you were banned in the first place, it's most likely that you wouldn't contribute THAT much
2. This is a 5 player game. If one of them is banned, the other 4 can still strategize. "OH but they are bad and don't know how to do it" - well, sucks to be you, but you got bad teammates. And if you hadn't been banned in the first place, you would be able to win that game.
-- Of course, this gets worse when it gets into a 3-silent + 2-talking players. But then, these two players better coordinate the team and the silent players better listen to them if they want to win - if they don't, well they deserve to lose.


Still, there are things that can be improved. For instance, the lack of a "Affirmative" and "Negative" options on the chat wheel make it an issue.

Then there is the biggest issue that the system is automated. If the system actually was less rigorous, or there were people actually checking the chat-reports, this would be a much better system. AFAIK right now any stack can just report and ban you for shits and giggles.


It's a step in the right direction.

On April 23 2013 08:33 crms wrote:
the amount of people being chat banned for being innocent angels getting picked on by the mean stack in their game is probably 1/50 the amount of people getting chat banned for being assholes.