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Belisarius
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia6230 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-11 01:37:14
February 11 2015 01:36 GMT
#20681
SR first was a lot more useful when you could use it to take big ancient stacks, so it would pay for itself. These days I think it's hard to justify unless your supports have triple stacked like half the jungle.
Dead9
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States4725 Posts
February 11 2015 03:41 GMT
#20682
sr is nice if u march a lot of jungle creeps early game. it's better on radiant than on dire
on tinker save skill points until 3~5 (laser, save, laser, save, etc). a lot of the time u can get kills with a sudden rocket
almost always max march by 11 tho, don't max laser/rocket unless you're stomping
molecu
Profile Joined June 2013
347 Posts
February 12 2015 13:04 GMT
#20683
why do my safelane dual lanes always lose? ffs how do I win?
it all matters
bardtown
Profile Joined June 2011
England2313 Posts
February 12 2015 13:59 GMT
#20684
I just activated a double damage rune while in ult on Storm Spirit and it just didn't work. Is this supposed to happen or is it a glitch? I bottle while zipping all the time so I just assumed activating runes would also work?
govie
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
9334 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-12 14:10:42
February 12 2015 14:09 GMT
#20685
On February 12 2015 22:04 molecu wrote:
why do my safelane dual lanes always lose? ffs how do I win?


Defensive support like lich is less likely to lose, with the lane pushing under your tower. In a hard lane i go 1 point in frostarmour at lvl2 which is allways worth it. Even if your carry is retarded atleast he is less likely to feed early with frostarmour, it is a really good spell even mid/late game it has can have an impact.
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Rocket-Bear
Profile Joined July 2014
3070 Posts
February 12 2015 14:13 GMT
#20686
On February 12 2015 22:59 bardtown wrote:
I just activated a double damage rune while in ult on Storm Spirit and it just didn't work. Is this supposed to happen or is it a glitch? I bottle while zipping all the time so I just assumed activating runes would also work?

I think it's a bug, it even happens if you activate DD and ball lightning right after. Has happened to me several times.
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ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22208 Posts
February 12 2015 14:17 GMT
#20687
you go invulnerable during ball, maybe you can't apply runes to invulnerable characters

what RB said sounds like a bug though
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
BluemoonSC
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
SoCal8910 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-12 14:49:55
February 12 2015 14:49 GMT
#20688
On February 12 2015 23:09 govie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2015 22:04 molecu wrote:
why do my safelane dual lanes always lose? ffs how do I win?


Defensive support like lich is less likely to lose, with the lane pushing under your tower. In a hard lane i go 1 point in frostarmour at lvl2 which is allways worth it. Even if your carry is retarded atleast he is less likely to feed early with frostarmour, it is a really good spell even mid/late game it has can have an impact.


it could be useful, but vs a solo offlane, the power to deny xp and harass out of the lane is more often worth maxing frost blast and sacrifice over any points into frost armor that early
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govie
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
9334 Posts
February 12 2015 15:51 GMT
#20689
On February 12 2015 23:49 BluemoonSC wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2015 23:09 govie wrote:
On February 12 2015 22:04 molecu wrote:
why do my safelane dual lanes always lose? ffs how do I win?


Defensive support like lich is less likely to lose, with the lane pushing under your tower. In a hard lane i go 1 point in frostarmour at lvl2 which is allways worth it. Even if your carry is retarded atleast he is less likely to feed early with frostarmour, it is a really good spell even mid/late game it has can have an impact.


it could be useful, but vs a solo offlane, the power to deny xp and harass out of the lane is more often worth maxing frost blast and sacrifice over any points into frost armor that early


i said lvl2 (1 point) if needed, not max frostarmour.
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
February 12 2015 16:52 GMT
#20690
On February 12 2015 23:09 govie wrote:
Defensive support like lich is less likely to lose, with the lane pushing under your tower. In a hard lane i go 1 point in frostarmour at lvl2 which is allways worth it. Even if your carry is retarded atleast he is less likely to feed early with frostarmour, it is a really good spell even mid/late game it has can have an impact.

Lich is not a defensive support. Lich is an offensive support. His protective ability is actually very poor, his strength is his sustainable harassment and denial. You don't run him with carries who need protection, you run him with self-sustaining offlaners or mids that need the boost to their offensive potential (e.g. offensive 2v1s mid to suppress an enemy solo).

On February 13 2015 00:51 govie wrote:
i said lvl2 (1 point) if needed, not max frostarmour.

It's still situational to get Frost Armor before 6. You usually need 2 points Sacrifice to support Frost Blast because of how high the mana cost is, so anything other than 3-0-2 at 5 is a sacrifice in offensive capability. You only get Armor against specific lanes where you need the buff to survive, but that's not ideal.

Whether you level Sacrifice past 2 is actually what depends on the game. I usually stop it at either 2 or 3.
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bardtown
Profile Joined June 2011
England2313 Posts
February 12 2015 17:08 GMT
#20691
On February 12 2015 23:13 Rocket-Bear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2015 22:59 bardtown wrote:
I just activated a double damage rune while in ult on Storm Spirit and it just didn't work. Is this supposed to happen or is it a glitch? I bottle while zipping all the time so I just assumed activating runes would also work?

I think it's a bug, it even happens if you activate DD and ball lightning right after. Has happened to me several times.


Just tested it. All runes work except DD, definitely a bug.
ThePianoDentist
Profile Joined July 2011
United Kingdom698 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-12 17:10:44
February 12 2015 17:09 GMT
#20692
On February 12 2015 22:04 molecu wrote:
why do my safelane dual lanes always lose? ffs how do I win?


either you're probably against a dual lane, or a solo offlane.

against solo offlane with only a dual-lane it can be often hard to get a kill, so if you cant zone them out of xp, if you ever leave lane your carry will now get shat on by their offlaner
for against solo offlane check out fluffs youtube video


if its dual versus dual, you have to think that most people who pick dual offlane do so to make sure they win that lane, whereas often you have a hard-carry + support. therefore you will lose this lane straight up, you just cant win this 2v2, then if you have a jungler, their safelane has freefarm, so they can win all lanes and just win the game from that pretty much.

if it is 2v2 where you are weaker, its often best to just leave your carry to get xp whilst you a) stack for them to catchup
b) gank other lanes, especially mid, letting your other cores snowball giving space for your carry later.

then you can come back when they are 6 and maybe try and get a kill with their ulti

c) be patient, only be aggressive when one goes to get rune and leaves the other solo.

if you're the carry in this scenario, then I find it a bit more awkward, just have to be patient and not panic, build in a way that you can move to the jungle as soon as possible if getting literally 0 farm.

edit: also safelane lich makes me want to throw up. He is so good at supporting mid or offlane, his potential just seems waste in the safelane. i'd rather leave the safelane carry solo, than support there with lich
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Jaeger
Profile Joined December 2009
United States1150 Posts
February 14 2015 03:45 GMT
#20693
The only option it's giving me is search for year beast brawl matches, how do I play regular dota?
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/8137911
FHDH
Profile Joined July 2014
United States7023 Posts
February 14 2015 03:46 GMT
#20694
On February 14 2015 12:45 Jaeger wrote:
The only option it's giving me is search for year beast brawl matches, how do I play regular dota?

You wait ten minutes.
После драки кулаками не машут (Don't shake your fist when the fight is over)
Jaeger
Profile Joined December 2009
United States1150 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-14 03:47:01
February 14 2015 03:46 GMT
#20695
that's incredibly retarded
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eieio
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States14512 Posts
February 14 2015 03:48 GMT
#20696
I mean waiting 10 minutes isn't that hard but yeah I'm surprised that Valve didn't consider that people would want to play regular matches instead of year beast ones lol
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Jaeger
Profile Joined December 2009
United States1150 Posts
February 14 2015 04:04 GMT
#20697
Well guess I didn't need to worry, it's dropping the game after the draft 3 games in a row.
So I guess there's no dota either way.
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/8137911
75
Profile Joined December 2012
Germany4057 Posts
February 15 2015 17:37 GMT
#20698
did they increase the droprate of "random drops"?
in my last 3 games i have seen more drops than in my last 100 before.

yo twitch, as long as I can watch 480p lagfree I'm happy
FHDH
Profile Joined July 2014
United States7023 Posts
February 15 2015 17:41 GMT
#20699
On February 16 2015 02:37 75 wrote:
did they increase the droprate of "random drops"?
in my last 3 games i have seen more drops than in my last 100 before.


Yes, they changed the drop system in the last patch.

Whoever designed the last one was either bad at math or bad at social engineering because the amount of games you could go without seeing anyone get a drop was absurd and not a good system.
После драки кулаками не машут (Don't shake your fist when the fight is over)
zdarr
Profile Joined September 2010
France375 Posts
February 15 2015 20:32 GMT
#20700
On February 14 2015 12:46 Jaeger wrote:
that's incredibly retarded


What is incredibly retarded is people who can't wait 10 mins to play, at this point gaming is becoming a drug for some of you
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