General Discussion - Page 4898

On March 06 2014 10:05 TheYango wrote:
The list of Universal spells is pretty short though. Tinker can use March now but can't use Laser, so it's maybe a little better (rank 4 Laser used to one-shot rank 1 Familiars before, though, so I dunno). Midnight Pulse is hard to use to do meaningful damage to Familiars since it's percentage-based damage and Familiars have fairly low max HP. You're obviously not going to Doom Familiars. Warlock Golems and Echo Slam killing familiars is a nice bonus, but won't really change the dynamics of the heroes against Visage (Visage vs. Earthshaker is more likely to involve the Familiars trying to stop Shaker's Blink, so it's not likely that they're going to be in the Echo if he gets the Blink off).

The lack of Pure damage AoE probably means that Familiars are more likely to die incidentally in a fight now than they were before, but conversely means that they're harder to snipe because virtually all the of the Mixed and Universal damage spells are either high-value ultimates or over-time damage.

EDIT: Though since thus far, DotA 2 hasn't replicated DotA 1's flying/hovering unit mechanics, this means that Techies mines could potentially one-shot Familiars at all ranks.

On March 06 2014 22:41 teapoted wrote:
That's some fucking weak drama.

Call me when Tobi gets involved, then it might get interesting.