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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
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BurningSera
Ireland19621 Posts
The sickening part is that pub finally realized anchor smash is the best spell of tide in early game, bad support with you means the hardlane tide will get farm (and hurt your farm with anchor). | ||
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
On June 18 2014 19:43 Spicy_Curry wrote: Didnt tobi do something similar in 2012 and valve took the grandfinals from him? Point being, Tobi was the face of dota at that time and valve was not afraid to bench him. isnt there a huge difference between 2012 tobi and draksyl though | ||
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Spicy_Curry
United States10573 Posts
On June 18 2014 19:55 BurningSera wrote: You tend to not want to skill kraken shield in early game because a stoutshield is almost equivalent to lvl2 kraken shield (just sell it when you got >lvl2 kraken). The sickening part is that pub finally realized anchor smash is the best spell of tide in early game, bad support with you means the hardlane tide will get farm (and hurt your farm with anchor). You dont need more than 2 points in anchor to get farm reliably in the offlane. Its far better to max kraken and skip the stout since it also lets you get your spells off more reliably. | ||
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BurningSera
Ireland19621 Posts
On June 18 2014 20:07 Spicy_Curry wrote: You dont need more than 2 points in anchor to get farm reliably in the offlane. Its far better to max kraken and skip the stout since it also lets you get your spells off more reliably. You only need 1 level of kraken to 'get your spells off more reliably', 600dmg at lvl1 to 450dmg in lvl4 is a no brainer, a 250gold stoutshield is a much better deal so that you can take more early gush/anchor levels. just sell the shield whenever you are around lvl11, which is like around or later than 15mins into the game; take kraken earlier if you needed that item slot, if you are not too fat your function is literally just to get the ult off and anchor the core heroes. | ||
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Spicy_Curry
United States10573 Posts
On June 18 2014 20:17 BurningSera wrote: You only need 1 level of kraken to 'get your spells off more reliably', 600dmg at lvl1 to 450dmg in lvl4 is a no brainer, a 250gold stoutshield is a much better deal so that you can take more early gush/anchor levels. just sell the shield whenever you are around lvl11, which is like around or later than 15mins into the game; take kraken earlier if you needed that item slot, if you are not too fat your function is literally just to get the ult off and anchor the core heroes. There is a pretty big difference between kraken and stout; anchor is -60% at level one anyway. The 2 levels in anchor allow you to get uncontested last hits in lane because no one has ~100 base damage. I would rather get an urn to tank up than waste gold on a stout. | ||
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Qbek
Poland12923 Posts
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Spicy_Curry
United States10573 Posts
On June 18 2014 20:31 Qbek wrote: With maxed kraken by 7 you will take ZERO damage from autoattacks from anyone affected by anchor smash. It is actually retarded u mean great | ||
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teapoted
United Kingdom24425 Posts
On June 18 2014 19:56 Targe wrote: Yeah this isn't really the same story, although the hubris is similar in the "I'm better than this". At the same time you could say Tobi was worse because they obviously agreed to cast and then didn't follow protocol after.isnt there a huge difference between 2012 tobi and draksyl though Tobi in 2012 was a significantly bigger deal though than Draskyl or anyone else is today. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On June 18 2014 20:48 teapoted wrote: Yeah this isn't really the same story, although the hubris is similar in the "I'm better than this". At the same time you could say Tobi was worse because they obviously agreed to cast and then didn't follow protocol after. Tobi in 2012 was a significantly bigger deal though than Draskyl or anyone else is today. 2012 was also a different scene and context, especially for Valve | ||
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BurningSera
Ireland19621 Posts
On June 18 2014 20:30 Spicy_Curry wrote: There is a pretty big difference between kraken and stout; anchor is -60% at level one anyway. The 2 levels in anchor allow you to get uncontested last hits in lane because no one has ~100 base damage. I would rather get an urn to tank up than waste gold on a stout. I dont think we are conflicting on the anchor smash part; and if you are not buying stoutshield at the very beginning then dont buy it then, i didnt suggest to get one when you are like lvl3/4 on lane after boots etc. I am simply emphasizing on the timing where you can have 3-0-2 or 2-0-3 with stoutshield you can do some nice ganking or own the lane harder before lvl7 since the damage from gush/anchor are preferably to be used in early game. Imagine one maxes anchor using 1-2-4-1, then you might as well get a stoutshield and go 3-0-4-1, way more aggressive and utilizing that early nuke from gush. Otherwise 1-4-1-1 for some very tanky tide build but if you cant make use of that tankiness in early (you need some form of nuke or dps to help to kill which is hard to come by in early game) then you get wasted opportunity for not leveling gush/anchor. Urn/mek are not related in this context because when you get focused down you just die (in early), when your team is ahead then you are harder to be killed either way. On June 18 2014 20:31 Qbek wrote: With maxed kraken by 7 you will take ZERO damage from autoattacks from anyone affected by anchor smash. It is actually retarded if the oppos get anchored and still focus tide with their dps then the game is retarded either way... | ||
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Geo.Rion
7377 Posts
Holy shit i dindt think this was possible 178 is my new lucky number, the lvl i gained it. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On June 18 2014 21:22 Geo.Rion wrote: The Dota deities finally noticed how horribly they ve been mistreating me for the last couple of weeks, and rewarded my unwavering findmatch spam with an f-ing ARCANA DROP. Holy shit i dindt think this was possible 178 is my new lucky number, the lvl i gained it. which hero | ||
idonthinksobro
3138 Posts
i think there is only 1 that can drop and that is legion commander. maybe terrorblade can drop too, can't check atm. | ||
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Steveling
Greece10806 Posts
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teddyoojo
Germany22369 Posts
tb arcana is also dropping i dont know about lina one | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On June 18 2014 21:37 idonthinksobro wrote: i think there is only 1 that can drop and that is legion commander. pretty sure lina drops too | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10990 Posts
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idonthinksobro
3138 Posts
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hootsushi
Germany3468 Posts
On June 18 2014 21:42 Velr wrote: I saw Linas drop once... same, Lina arcana can definitely drop. | ||
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