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Fwizzz
Profile Joined May 2012
Philippines4420 Posts
October 09 2013 00:30 GMT
#81761
I think alia is okay, he was tweeting with EE the other day.
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34173 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-09 00:50:46
October 09 2013 00:48 GMT
#81762
What the hell ? I missing my "Find" button to search for a match, but anyway we really need Leagues like in SC2, that would make the MM a lot better

Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
Erandorr
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
2283 Posts
October 09 2013 01:17 GMT
#81763
why did i just randomly get in a game with four chinese people on USE :O
wat
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28103 Posts
October 09 2013 01:39 GMT
#81764
On October 09 2013 10:17 Erandorr wrote:
why did i just randomly get in a game with four chinese people on USE :O
wat

50% of the games I get on USE are Chinese 4 stacks, lol.
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babysimba
Profile Joined November 2010
10466 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-09 02:00:41
October 09 2013 01:59 GMT
#81765
The way you guys talked about drow's weakness makes me think that u guys aren't really playing to her strengths. Drow should be used to push towers fast, not farming for late game. She literally downs towers faster than a pugna. You want to fight when they have no bkbs (for silence), blinks/fs and hexes.

IMO max out frost arrows instead of the max aura utility build. Save skill points in aura if you do not want the lane to push. Her strong zoning abilities frees up your lane's supports, also forces the enemy to commit more than 1 hero when they want to stop your push. Favour treads over phase since you want dps for push and fights. Rush bkb to take teamfights and towers comfortably, then go sb to maintain map control if not pushing high ground anytime.

I consider drow close to a free win when i random it. I would even rate it over huskar/sb for pubstomping. 70% of my drow wins are pretty much before the 25min mark.
Erandorr
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
2283 Posts
October 09 2013 02:05 GMT
#81766
On October 09 2013 10:39 TheEmulator wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 09 2013 10:17 Erandorr wrote:
why did i just randomly get in a game with four chinese people on USE :O
wat

50% of the games I get on USE are Chinese 4 stacks, lol.


they even had the stereotypical girl who played cm and giggled a lot
FinestHour
Profile Joined August 2010
United States18466 Posts
October 09 2013 02:30 GMT
#81767
i always max the silence first lmao but ya arrows aint bad either i like leaving aura for much later
thug life.                                                       MVP/ex-
aintz
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada5624 Posts
October 09 2013 02:42 GMT
#81768
1 level of aura is enough till you max frost arrows and silence. that hero is so easy to pub stomp with unless your facing decent and tryhard opponents who picks heroes.
Acritter
Profile Joined August 2010
Syria7637 Posts
October 09 2013 02:57 GMT
#81769
Merlini's farming patterns are hilarious. Buying HotD to get a creep to go pull lane and simultaneously lasthit in two locations at once.
dont let your memes be dreams - konydora, motivational speaker | not actually living in syria
teddyoojo
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Germany22369 Posts
October 09 2013 03:02 GMT
#81770
On October 09 2013 11:57 Acritter wrote:
Merlini's farming patterns are hilarious. Buying HotD to get a creep to go pull lane and simultaneously lasthit in two locations at once.

in hon you could dominate multiple creeps with hotd (it had like 3 min cd tho) so you could do stuff like stacking 2-3 camps at once while farming a lane
Esports historian since 2000. Creator of 'The Universe' and 'The best scrambled Eggs 2013'. Host of 'Star Wars Marathon 2015'. Thinker of 'teddyoojo's Thoughts'. Earths and Moons leading CS:GO expert. Lord of the Rings.
icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19350 Posts
October 09 2013 03:05 GMT
#81771
level 3 and level 4 arrows has such a huge difference.
LiquidDota StaffAre you ready for a Miracle-? We are! The International 2017 Champions!
Daozzt
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1263 Posts
October 09 2013 03:12 GMT
#81772
Getting aura early really messes with your last hitting with the lane pushing. I usually just max arrows and get some early points in silence/stats. I also get the 1st point in aura somewhere between lvl 7-10 and the rest depends on the game.
Najda
Profile Joined June 2010
United States3765 Posts
October 09 2013 03:18 GMT
#81773
I see that said all the time about the aura but it's so rare that you have complete uncontested control of the creeps in pubs anyway.
teddyoojo
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Germany22369 Posts
October 09 2013 03:22 GMT
#81774


plz icefraud bring back best hero
Esports historian since 2000. Creator of 'The Universe' and 'The best scrambled Eggs 2013'. Host of 'Star Wars Marathon 2015'. Thinker of 'teddyoojo's Thoughts'. Earths and Moons leading CS:GO expert. Lord of the Rings.
FinestHour
Profile Joined August 2010
United States18466 Posts
October 09 2013 03:53 GMT
#81775
no pheonix is best hero when he gets 4 more rounds of changes
thug life.                                                       MVP/ex-
aintz
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada5624 Posts
October 09 2013 04:03 GMT
#81776
that 430 invoker video ruined all other invoker videos, nothing is nearly as impressive.
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
October 09 2013 04:13 GMT
#81777
On October 09 2013 12:18 Najda wrote:
I see that said all the time about the aura but it's so rare that you have complete uncontested control of the creeps in pubs anyway.

Aura's still just weak in general early game. Pre-6 you'd arguably even rather have Stats.

The current Drow gets a lot of strength from her solo killing ability with level 11 + Shadowblade, and there are a lot of kills you can get with 4-4-1-2 that you can't get with 4-1-4-2 or any other variant that maxes aura.

Also, just look at the per-rank scaling compared to the old aura. The old aura had its per-rank benefit spread out (+8% per rank) whereas the current one has the benefit mostly front-loaded into the first rank (double the rank 1%, only +4% per rank).
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igotmyown
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
October 09 2013 04:37 GMT
#81778
On October 09 2013 13:03 aintz wrote:
that 430 invoker video ruined all other invoker videos, nothing is nearly as impressive.

which one and why is it special?

Most qe high level invoker combos seem pretty standard.
Predicting sunstrikes
cold snap + forged spirit right click
tornado/euls->meteor->deafening (maybe ice wall/sunstrike at end)
refresher version, tornado->meteor->deafening->refresh->deafening->meteor->tornado or whatever

iceiceice and synderen explain it in vods
the only special thing i see for 430 is very good force staff->ice wall usage.
FinestHour
Profile Joined August 2010
United States18466 Posts
October 09 2013 04:50 GMT
#81779
he was in 99.999% of all 50+ kills on his team

its kinda impressive more like very
thug life.                                                       MVP/ex-
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28103 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-09 05:00:53
October 09 2013 04:59 GMT
#81780
lol. Just queued into a team with this guy called HiteN, and some other guy in the other team was called HireN. I was like "lol your names are very similar", and the guy said it was his brother and they even live in the same house. I checked their steams and they are friends in dota 2 and live in the same area, might be true rofl.

edit: oh and they have the same person in their profile pics.
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