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njt7
Sweden769 Posts
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Phantasmiq
Czech Republic32 Posts
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Firebolt145
Lalalaland34504 Posts
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Doomblaze
United States1292 Posts
On November 12 2013 20:31 Phantasmiq wrote: Hey guys, I have been seeing a lot of pro players buying sentry wards early in the game, like right at the beginning and then proceeding to block camps with it for example. Why are they using sentries for the camps? they last a long time now since the patch, its not devastating to lose like an observer ward is, it doesnt give up gold, you can deward their sentry if they cant find your hiding place, and observer wards are more limited now so you can have 3 coming out of laning stage instead of 2. | ||
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Mataza
Germany5364 Posts
On November 12 2013 20:31 Phantasmiq wrote: Hey guys, I have been seeing a lot of pro players buying sentry wards early in the game, like right at the beginning and then proceeding to block camps with it for example. Why are they using sentries for the camps? It actually has only a few reasons: 1. At the start of the game you can buy exactly 2 observer wards. Seeing runes is very helpful, so at least 1 obs ward is used for that. But in progames people often try to block more than just 1 spot, so they use sentries. That's the big reason. Minor reason 1 is that if you block a camp, you don't need the vision. Many block spots are surrounded by tree, so you wouldn't even get vision if you wanted. Minor reason 2 is that if you block a camp with a ward, it is highly likely that the enemy tries to deward it quickly(at least in pro games). So the shorter duration isn't a concern, as a block ward will probably never last the 6 minutes of an observer ward anyway. | ||
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Rodberd
Germany531 Posts
i can pause a game without any problems but i only can unpause my own pauses, why cant i unpause other ppls pause? but (in pubs ofc) other ppl can unpause as often and as much as they want, except me. i can hammer f9 like a maniac and i wont unpause ... is there a reason for this? bug? feature? chuck norris? | ||
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Firebolt145
Lalalaland34504 Posts
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Laserist
Turkey4269 Posts
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Rodberd
Germany531 Posts
like random pause at 42min, mb because other team fed and now wants to annoy (or v v) they pause, i cant unpause i pause and instantly they can unpause me | ||
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nojok
France15846 Posts
On November 13 2013 00:56 Laserist wrote: Insta-unpause bug still continues? I saw it happened only twice and it skipped the 3 seconds delay because I instantly unpaused (we both wanted to pause because of a DC player). I don't know what triggers it. | ||
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TheSubtleArt
Canada2527 Posts
On November 11 2013 05:04 idonthinksobro wrote: I'm still kinda new to dota and i have the following 2 problems when playing with randoms, i would assume i'm ranked very low. 1) my allies pick complete bs lineups that make it near impossible to win (i usually pick last for damage control but more often than not they just pick 4x carry) 2) i would like to play support, but if i am not a carry chances are the carry(s) in my team can't farm effienctly enough so we eventually end up losing because of that - what do? 3) how can I encourage players to play as a team, quite often everyone does random stuff and nobody reacts if a teamfight happens or a tower gets attacked. 1) Bad lineups are supposed to be bad, not much you can do. Even ~1600 games in we get horrible team compositions a lot since AP isn't taken as seriously. You can try random draft or captain's mode, people usually pay more attention to team comp there, however I'd refrain from captain's until you're comfortable with a large pool of heroes. 2) This complaint is really irrational if you think about it. Valve's matchmaking is fine for the most part, so if you find the carries on your team are consistently worse players than you, you probably just have a skewed perception of your own skill. Or you're selectively remembering games with bad carries. If you're indeed better than the people on your team (in my humble opinion 99% of people who make this sort of complaint just think they're a lot better than they actually are), then just play carry or mid until you've brought your MMR up to a point where you're playing with equally skilled teammates. http://dotabuff.com/heroes/winning?date=patch_6.79 . This is a pretty decent indication of what heroes do well in pubs. 3) Play with a group of friends, use voice chat, or queue in game modes where people are less inclined to play individually (captains, random draft, captains draft) | ||
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
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synapse
China13814 Posts
On November 13 2013 04:58 Najda wrote: Does the new roshan only spawn at 8, 9, 10, and 11 minutes? Or can it be any time interval between? can be any time within those three minutes. as a spectator you'll see it show 1, 2, or 3 minutes left on the second rosh clock thing but rosh can spawn any time during the last minute on those clocks. | ||
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
iirc they had sylla enigma dazzle jugg and omni how are you supposed to play against this? i told my team to have 3 people defend (or slow the push) and have our two dps heroes (storm and sniper) farm and push the lanes that weren't getting pushed all the other team did was 5 man t1, t2, next lane t1 t2, next lane t1 t2, rosh | ||
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Shootemup.
United States1044 Posts
On November 13 2013 05:22 mizU wrote: played against a really weird lvl 1 5 man push strat iirc they had sylla enigma dazzle jugg and omni how are you supposed to play against this? i told my team to have 3 people defend (or slow the push) and have our two dps heroes (storm and sniper) farm and push the lanes that weren't getting pushed all the other team did was 5 man t1, t2, next lane t1 t2, next lane t1 t2, rosh That's exactly what you need to do. it can be tough to defend that kind of push if you don't have good anti-push heroes though. | ||
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
then we just started winnings fights because they only had push items but we basically had to hold off fighting until they were pushing t3s | ||
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Mataza
Germany5364 Posts
On November 13 2013 07:03 mizU wrote: luckily we had ET which gave us enough anti push to slow it down until we got decent items on storm (bkb) and sniper (deso) then we just started winnings fights because they only had push items but we basically had to hold off fighting until they were pushing t3s Which is quite normal | ||
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
not at like 14 minutes O.O | ||
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Shootemup.
United States1044 Posts
Well, normal when the other team does an all-in pushing strat. | ||
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
On November 13 2013 07:33 Shootemup. wrote: Well, normal when the other team does an all-in pushing strat. right. so assuming they have a semi normal line up like that and you dont manage to get some sort of good counter push do you just die? or are there any cheap items you can get to slow down their push? | ||
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