General Discussion - Page 3536

On August 07 2013 17:44 SkelA wrote:
Another 3 chests opened, another spec blade, unicorn kotl and wd mask -_- , enough chests for me lol.

On August 07 2013 18:31 Shadowpostin wrote:

if you want to get value from opening massive amounts of chests you are better off spending your keys on the summer stash chests.Most of the lava effect couriers are like double the value of ti3 ones.

On August 07 2013 17:56 cecek wrote:
I opened one TI3 chest and got that stupid Sven sword. If it wasn't as ugly as it is, at least.

On August 07 2013 20:36 Mataza wrote:
Yes, and the only option you have at some point is to tank with your hero at some point. If you do that you have to heal at some point.

On August 07 2013 21:06 Benjef wrote:
Anyone tried the N-gage inhouse league? Website is currently down atm but heard some people talking about it, just wondering if its any good.

On August 07 2013 21:25 icystorage wrote:
http://youtu.be/g0_Z7HSXUlc

i dont even..

On August 07 2013 21:25 icystorage wrote:
http://youtu.be/g0_Z7HSXUlc

i dont even..

On August 07 2013 21:25 icystorage wrote:
http://youtu.be/g0_Z7HSXUlc

i dont even..

On August 07 2013 21:53 Talron wrote:

Manliest 1v1, which isn't including bears or Axe.

And for some actual DotA discussion: So, can anyone tell, why solomid Alchs don't abuse ancient stacking, when playing radiant? You can simply use acid spray up the cliff at the respective stack times, while still getting the lane creeps gold / exp. I highly doubt it's just because the camp can be blocked, because that would mean, the opponents have just one ward at the very start, which would actually grant them decent vision, leaving them wide open for any incoming ganks until the wards in shop have been refreshed.

On August 07 2013 22:27 Comeh wrote:

Basically, because you need to use the acid spray in mid or you pretty much won't get anything done with alchemist mid.

On August 07 2013 22:42 Talron wrote:

I don't see this as a problem tbh.

Acid spray has a 22 second CD. Using it twice per minute with a bottle for mana sustain isn't that much of a deal. Similar to pushing out the lane to secure an advantage before grabbing the rune, you use one Acid spray to push out the lane, the second will be used to not only stack the ancient camp, but also slowly kill it, which will result in a greater goldadvantage overall [one creepwave early consists of 4 creeps, which equal roughly 200 gold, assuming you get all of them, while one ancient camp is averaging 250+, while also delivering more exp in addition to the lane exp, which you won't be missing this way] The times where you're not having acid spray in the face of your enemy, while you're trying to cs is where your bottle comes into play and keeps you in lane. Please also note, that jsut because you're not having acid spray in lane for a single creepwave, doesn't automaticly mean you're getting 0cs in that wave. Especially with other popular melee mids like Mag, DK and Beastmaster I think Alch is safe for contesting cs. It's a different story against mids like Puck or QoP, but he doesn't fare well against those to begin with.
So I'd say that at least against other melee heroes mid this should be highly viable.

On August 07 2013 23:05 Comeh wrote:

A couple of assumptions - you are assuming the other melee hero won't be pushing the lane as hard (ie 2 dk breaths, a few tidebringers, etc etc), thus, the lane actually won't be pushed with only 1 acid spray. Also, using that acid spray to stack is also ruining the timing for using that acid spray to push the lane (because, well, stacks happen at 1:00, and runes happen at 2:00)

Alchemist isn't the best mid or anything, and he CAN do it, but it hurts his midlane quite a bit.