Simple Questions, Simple Answers - Page 1083

On April 23 2015 03:00 Sn0_Man wrote:
its called necronomicon
and it's because the summons are tied to the item. If you had a 2nd necrobook you could use one (both go on cooldown), refresh, then use the other to have 2 sets of summons if you really wanted (not worth the money).

As for reasons, you'd have to ask icefrog or something.

On April 23 2015 09:18 ADSRelease wrote:


so i know they share cooldown, but you're saying if you have two books that the summons aren't shared? seems like too many slots. xD

yeah i guess i was hoping to find out a justification for it.

On April 23 2015 15:22 SilverSkyLark wrote:
Might not be a simple question:

If heroes get nerfed to let other heroes shine (as we've seen how big patches would come before/during/after big tournaments), would Dota 2 ever reach a "perfect game state" where every hero is playable in the metagame (of course assuming that the metagame acknowledges a plethora of playable strategies as competitive)? And if so, how long would it take for the game to reach the said perfect game state?

I know that there was a recent tournament (DAC I think) where I think less than 10 heroes in the available hero pool for captains mode were not used. However, if we look at the hero pick/ban distribution, we wouldn't get an equal pick/ban distribution, we'd still get a certain number of heroes that were picked/banned and then it would trickle down to heroes that were picked/banned once or twice.

On April 15 2015 01:23 TheYango wrote:
I've said this before, but that's pretty much impossible. Even if a "perfect version" existed, the desire to simplify and reduce things to something understandable would lead players to copy what the best teams are doing, creating the illusion that what they were doing is the strongest in that version, even if it actually wasn't.

The only time we have "diversity" is during the first few months of a patch where nobody actually has any idea what they're doing so everyone is just trying random shit. That invariably ends when you have a major tournament that's big enough for everyone to pull out all their secret strats so that by the end we know which one was the best.

On April 23 2015 09:18 ADSRelease wrote:


so i know they share cooldown, but you're saying if you have two books that the summons aren't shared? seems like too many slots. xD

yeah i guess i was hoping to find out a justification for it.

On April 24 2015 02:47 zdarr wrote:


Well my best guess would be tinker and an infinite army of necro warriors

On April 23 2015 16:22 BeeLz wrote:
Also don't mistake heroes not being picked a lot in the professional scene as them not being viable or not being in a good spot. It's often just trends with some team trying something out, other teams picking it up and new strategies being found to counter it.