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On March 25 2012 04:33 DoNotDisturb wrote:
When is it fine for supports instead of the carries to get the kill early?
If you're babysitting a carry in your lane and he's getting all the creep kills, it's ok for you to get the kill, so long as u guys actually get the kill. Don't waste time debating who is going to get it, killing the opponent is more important than who gets it.
Supports need gold too, so if he's getting the farm from creeps, like I said, you can finish off the enemy hero. He still gets the experience, which is a big deal.
Side note: I know a lot of people hate me for this, but I don't care if there is a carry nearby or not, I will *almost* always take the kill as a support because I'm simply better than they are and they will run off and completely squander their gold advantage anyway. ARRGH.
Also, I know everyone thinks they are better than everyone else, but someone has to be right, and why am I always the one carrying the team regardless of what hero I have at the end? So, a little off track there, but w/e.
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Phonetic Question of the Year:
Riki-marr-uuu
Riki-mah-ru
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On March 25 2012 04:33 DoNotDisturb wrote:
When is it fine for supports instead of the carries to get the kill early?
Whoever gets the kill gets the kill. Honestly, IMO, the "save hero kills for the carry" mentality is an outdated one anyway. Supports don't operate on 0 gold anymore anyway--there are extremely important items that make an enormous difference on supports that they do have to buy, and they will get some farm for them anyway. An Earthshaker getting 250 gold for a kill means 250 gold less that he has to farm to get his Blink Dagger, which is 250 gold that will go back on the carry when he farms those creeps that ES would have gotten.
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On March 25 2012 05:57 Candadar wrote:
Phonetic Question of the Year:
Riki-marr-uuu
Riki-mah-ru
should just call him riki
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On March 25 2012 06:42 Spicy_Curry wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2012 05:57 Candadar wrote:
Phonetic Question of the Year:
Riki-marr-uuu
Riki-mah-ru should just call him riki
BUT I HAVE TO KNOW
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is there a mac client yet?
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So this is probably a weird question. Me and a friend were just trying to watch a replay together by syncing them up. However mine seemed to playback faster than his. We were both on 1x but mine would go 1.25x faster, I'd guess. So it went out of sync really fast. Any idea what's up with that? He mentioned there might be a setting that changes the speed of replays dynamically or something.
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On March 25 2012 02:35 TheYango wrote:
Bat is an OK urn carrier. You can get it, but there are other heroes that can carry it better than you, so don't feel like it's required if you're doing well.
Only get Vanguard if you're doing poorly and need the HP immediately. BKB makes a WORLD of difference when initiating with Bat. Naturally, if you have BKB, you're not a great Pipe carrier.
In an ideal game, you will get Blink->BKB or Travels. You can get Treads to push an advantage in lane, but if you don't need it, Travels are very good for giving you a global gank presence (being able to Travels->Blink gank puts a LOT pressure on the enemy team). After that, what you buy is dependent on what your team needs. Janggo, Sheep, AC, Shiva's are all decent options.
In my game there were only 3 urn carriers, Bat, Pudge, and ES. I was going mid because the Pudge was awful and never played dota before. The ES I figured was going to play support but he ended up playing farmed support wiht a soul ring mana boots and blink dagger at like 18 minutes, and I told him to get a refresher orb since we would need it. He did, and also had an urn thrown in there somewhere. So it turns out him and i both held urns which worked out fine in the end but I figured i was the best urn carrier in that situation, mid bat.
Usually I go Boots, Treads, Dagger, Vanguard, now that I think about it I totally didn't need the vanguard and should have rushed the pipe faster
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On March 25 2012 05:57 Candadar wrote:
Phonetic Question of the Year:
Riki-marr-uuu
Riki-mah-ru
I'd go with Riki-mah-ru I think
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On March 25 2012 09:02 scottyyy wrote:
So this is probably a weird question. Me and a friend were just trying to watch a replay together by syncing them up. However mine seemed to playback faster than his. We were both on 1x but mine would go 1.25x faster, I'd guess. So it went out of sync really fast. Any idea what's up with that? He mentioned there might be a setting that changes the speed of replays dynamically or something.
There is an Autospeed option if you're in Directed mode.
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On March 25 2012 10:29 Pseudoku wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2012 09:02 scottyyy wrote:
So this is probably a weird question. Me and a friend were just trying to watch a replay together by syncing them up. However mine seemed to playback faster than his. We were both on 1x but mine would go 1.25x faster, I'd guess. So it went out of sync really fast. Any idea what's up with that? He mentioned there might be a setting that changes the speed of replays dynamically or something. There is an Autospeed option if you're in Directed mode.
We were both in free cam though.
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Now I realize items are very situational, but when I looked over the 5-s Thread for shits and gigs I noticed on Warlock it said to get a Refresher Orb (I presume for Fatal Bonds/Ult) but when I brought this up to my friend, he said I could better spend my money elsewhere and that's a very very very lategame item. However, I can't deny how brutal it would be to have two Warlock Ults, yet I can see how me being the wardbitch and getting stuff like Mek and Janggo could be more useful.
The same question applies to other heroes who may benefit from the item.
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On March 26 2012 05:25 Candadar wrote:Now I realize items are very situational, but when I looked over the 5-s Thread for shits and gigs I noticed on Warlock it said to get a Refresher Orb (I presume for Fatal Bonds/Ult) but when I brought this up to my friend, he said I could better spend my money elsewhere and that's a very very very lategame item. However, I can't deny how brutal it would be to have two Warlock Ults, yet I can see how me being the wardbitch and getting stuff like Mek and Janggo could be more useful. The same question applies to other heroes who may benefit from the item.
My guide is more aimed at low - mid level pubs, Mek and Janggo are always good items on most support heroes (as long as you have enough mana for mek and your spells).
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On March 26 2012 05:40 5-s wrote:Show nested quote +On March 26 2012 05:25 Candadar wrote:Now I realize items are very situational, but when I looked over the 5-s Thread for shits and gigs I noticed on Warlock it said to get a Refresher Orb (I presume for Fatal Bonds/Ult) but when I brought this up to my friend, he said I could better spend my money elsewhere and that's a very very very lategame item. However, I can't deny how brutal it would be to have two Warlock Ults, yet I can see how me being the wardbitch and getting stuff like Mek and Janggo could be more useful. The same question applies to other heroes who may benefit from the item. My guide is more aimed at low - mid level pubs, Mek and Janggo are always good items on most support heroes (as long as you have enough mana for mek and your spells).
I assumed such, that specific item just stood out to me when browsing over. ^^
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Does anyone know a console command to change the health bar colours of enemies?
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not sure if this is minimap colors or health bar colors, but try this
dota_enemy_color_r 0; dota_enemy_color_g 0; dota_enemy_color_b 1
default is r = 1, g = 0, b = 0, that should set it (or something at least lol) to blue
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any shortcut key to disable all sounds? couldn't find one in the customize keys screen
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On March 26 2012 13:17 Dead9 wrote:
not sure if this is minimap colors or health bar colors, but try this
dota_enemy_color_r 0; dota_enemy_color_g 0; dota_enemy_color_b 1
default is r = 1, g = 0, b = 0, that should set it (or something at least lol) to blue
That's minimap colours, but it helps a lot thanks. 
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On March 26 2012 19:44 Bloodash wrote:
any shortcut key to disable all sounds? couldn't find one in the customize keys screen
I haven't found one either......I always end up pausing and disabling sound completely through the menu tabs since I have feedback issues with the microphone.
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