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Comeh
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States18919 Posts
May 15 2013 20:53 GMT
#8881
On May 16 2013 05:02 Verror wrote:
Is there anyway to stop an item from combining? I was thinking of (on bristleback) going casual ring of health if needed, into heart, but (assuming i started with a stout shield, which I do) buying the vit booster would cause a vanguard to be made.

Is there any way to get around that other than changing the item buy order?

There's probably a better alternative to RoH for him if you dont want to go vanguard.I feel like Tranquils wouldn't be unprecedented on him (keep a sobi mask, use tranquils, deconstruct into RoB).
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Mandini
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1717 Posts
May 15 2013 21:29 GMT
#8882
On May 16 2013 05:53 Comeh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 16 2013 05:02 Verror wrote:
Is there anyway to stop an item from combining? I was thinking of (on bristleback) going casual ring of health if needed, into heart, but (assuming i started with a stout shield, which I do) buying the vit booster would cause a vanguard to be made.

Is there any way to get around that other than changing the item buy order?

There's probably a better alternative to RoH for him if you dont want to go vanguard.I feel like Tranquils wouldn't be unprecedented on him (keep a sobi mask, use tranquils, deconstruct into RoB).

RoH is nice to build into pipe
KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14912 Posts
May 15 2013 21:52 GMT
#8883
I don't really like tranquils on BB, you have to tank a lot of damage and those boots are gonna break really frequently which kills your chasing speed and mobility
flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
May 15 2013 21:54 GMT
#8884
yango rages so much when he accidentally builds vanguard
Writerdamn, i was two days from retirement
r.Evo
Profile Joined August 2006
Germany14081 Posts
May 15 2013 21:57 GMT
#8885
"wat no that was on purpose I needed the slots"
"We don't make mistakes here, we call it happy little accidents." ~Bob Ross
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
May 15 2013 22:11 GMT
#8886
On May 16 2013 06:54 flamewheel wrote:
yango rages so much when he accidentally builds vanguard

If I have Stout + Vit and go to the side shop and try to buy Hood in one go, it makes Vanguard and leaves me with 2 RoRs and a Cloak.

I clicked on Hood--meaning I wanted to buy a Hood, ffs.
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Comeh
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States18919 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-15 22:20:42
May 15 2013 22:19 GMT
#8887
On May 16 2013 06:52 KOFgokuon wrote:
I don't really like tranquils on BB, you have to tank a lot of damage and those boots are gonna break really frequently which kills your chasing speed and mobility

Hence why I was suggesting to disassemble them.

On May 16 2013 07:11 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 16 2013 06:54 flamewheel wrote:
yango rages so much when he accidentally builds vanguard

If I have Stout + Vit and go to the side shop and try to buy Hood in one go, it makes Vanguard and leaves me with 2 RoRs and a Cloak.

I clicked on Hood--meaning I wanted to buy a Hood, ffs.


And this is why there are so many posts by Yango defending Vanguard as being situational.
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Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34504 Posts
May 15 2013 23:48 GMT
#8888
On May 16 2013 07:11 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 16 2013 06:54 flamewheel wrote:
yango rages so much when he accidentally builds vanguard

If I have Stout + Vit and go to the side shop and try to buy Hood in one go, it makes Vanguard and leaves me with 2 RoRs and a Cloak.

I clicked on Hood--meaning I wanted to buy a Hood, ffs.

I've done this before too, heh.
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Kupon3ss
Profile Joined May 2008
時の回廊10066 Posts
May 16 2013 00:07 GMT
#8889
why bother with unmanly items on BB when u can just get armlet
When in doubt, just believe in yourself and press buttons
BurningSera
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Ireland19621 Posts
May 16 2013 00:08 GMT
#8890
On May 16 2013 07:11 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 16 2013 06:54 flamewheel wrote:
yango rages so much when he accidentally builds vanguard

If I have Stout + Vit and go to the side shop and try to buy Hood in one go, it makes Vanguard and leaves me with 2 RoRs and a Cloak.

I clicked on Hood--meaning I wanted to buy a Hood, ffs.


Did you report/suggest that on dev yet?

+ Show Spoiler +
I lol'ed. because it happened on me before.


It is also not just that, resembling/assembling Ring of Protection also love to play with me, happened so often whenever i dissemble basi to make urn.
is 2017, stop being lame, fuck's sakes. 'Can't wait for the rise of the cakes and humanity's last stand tbqh.'
Klonere
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Ireland4123 Posts
May 16 2013 11:43 GMT
#8891
Thoughts on midas spectre when you are freefarming (ie 5/6 min midas) vs another free farming hard carry? radiance is just too slow and doesn't scale half as well (i think).
PassiveAce
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States18076 Posts
May 16 2013 11:46 GMT
#8892
On May 16 2013 09:07 Kupon3ss wrote:
why bother with unmanly items on BB when u can just get armlet

I was playing bb yesterday and realized after i finished my pipe that I had no idea how to build him. Now I know!
Call me Marge Simpson cuz I love you homie
Comeh
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States18919 Posts
May 16 2013 14:23 GMT
#8893
On May 16 2013 20:43 Klonere wrote:
Thoughts on midas spectre when you are freefarming (ie 5/6 min midas) vs another free farming hard carry? radiance is just too slow and doesn't scale half as well (i think).

Well, the problem is the same problem that getting midas on any super lategame carry - it makes your early / midgame that much weaker. That being said, she's level dependent and needs farm really badly, but with that 1900 gold, you could have upgraded boots + bracer and be working your way to drums (or, if you like the yasha + vit booster into manta build, that'll bet you one of those items.)

The thing about spectre is that if you get some decent midgame items (common build is phase drums into either Diffusal or Manta), you can actually fight pretty well in the midgame with her.
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aintz
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada5624 Posts
May 16 2013 15:33 GMT
#8894
fast 4-6 midas is good on pretty much any carry in pubs. and spec could really use that exp.
Cyx.
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada806 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-16 15:37:52
May 16 2013 15:36 GMT
#8895
On May 16 2013 20:43 Klonere wrote:
Thoughts on midas spectre when you are freefarming (ie 5/6 min midas) vs another free farming hard carry? radiance is just too slow and doesn't scale half as well (i think).

It's okay but I'd prefer to go for a radiance if I have that level of farm - midas doesn't give you nearly as much gold over the course of the game as radiance will, and radiance also gives you pretty strong teamfight with your illusions + desolate + casual vit booster or something. If you want to be effective earlier than radiance, I think I would prefer to not get a farming item at all and snowball off drums pms yasha teamfights into my bigger items - midas seems too middle ground for me. If you want to farm, go big, and if you don't, don't waste money on midas.

edit:
On May 17 2013 00:33 aintz wrote:
fast 4-6 midas is good on pretty much any carry in pubs. and spec could really use that exp.

all that being said, this is pretty damn true in pubs and if you can get it at 4-5 minutes and you feel like it, it's probably not gonna hurt too much and will probably pay off pretty big when nobody else does anything for 25min.
Rhyme
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1069 Posts
May 16 2013 15:39 GMT
#8896
also the attack speed of midas scales well with desolate.
dont ever say that
Logo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States7542 Posts
May 16 2013 16:01 GMT
#8897
I always found radiance spectre to be underwhelming in pubs, but maybe that's just me. With the general lack of disables and poor initiation the radiance just seems to leave me a bit worthless, especially if your team tends to stumble into fights at stupid times and you need to blow your ult's active to get to them. Then of course is the difficulty in getting radiance if your support/team is doing a crappy job of giving you some room to farm. Diff/Drums always seemed nice to me because you can be more active in the mid game and can snipe heroes in the weird small skirmishes pubbers find themselves in. Then again I'm a terrible spectre to begin with, but I'm just curious if that matches anyone else's experiences.
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aintz
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada5624 Posts
May 16 2013 16:33 GMT
#8898
the games i go radiance on spec are pretty much won already. radiance is a strong item but its just expensive and relic alone isnt very good and costs 3800. i prefer items like yasha/defusal
Oukka
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
Finland1683 Posts
May 16 2013 20:36 GMT
#8899
What's a good build on Ogre Magi? I like him as a lanesupport who sets up ganks or then just full-on roamer, so far I've been building boots, wand, urn and then arcanes. After that should I aim for general utility like mekanasm and pipe or more into ganking/initiating items like eul's or sheep?

I've just played some 50ish games so the skill-level of both me and my opponents isn't that high yet ^^ In pub games I just feel like general team utilities like meka and pipe tend to be rather useless as the general chaos level escalates rather quickly and it is hard to make even a three man push happen.
I play children's card games and watch a lot of dota, CS and HS
aintz
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada5624 Posts
May 16 2013 21:27 GMT
#8900
some ppl get orb of venom on him. the item progression depends on how the game is going. if you're doing well and scoring assis/kill gold, i like to go for arcane into aghs. if im not doing all that hot i would still get arcane, but go into a mek afterwards if no one on the team is, or drums. it all depends on whos on your team and what items they are choosing to go. personally i would always get a drums if non of my teammates are getting it.
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