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Xxazn4lyfe51xX
Profile Joined October 2010
United States976 Posts
September 02 2014 04:50 GMT
#18961
http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=124061

Yes.
nojok
Profile Joined May 2011
France15846 Posts
September 02 2014 09:03 GMT
#18962
I don't get radi PL, it does not increase his farm that well compared to just stats item and he can't make a good use of the early radiance because he's so squishy and illu don't last long. A sick 22-24 minutes diffusal + HoT is way better imo and straight out wins the game. I've lost two games while providng some 12 minutes radiance on PL and it really sets him back. What is the reasonning behind this?
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Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 02 2014 09:12 GMT
#18963
Theres no other reasoning than what you already mentioned. You get it for the farming speed. I think you kinda underestimate how much it increases farming speed if you use illusions properly though. But the hero is pretty lackluster either way, has a hard time fighting even with an item advantage. And anything he does a Naga does twice as good.

Btw 12min radi PL is like super super early.
nojok
Profile Joined May 2011
France15846 Posts
September 02 2014 10:07 GMT
#18964
On September 02 2014 18:12 Kreb wrote:
Theres no other reasoning than what you already mentioned. You get it for the farming speed. I think you kinda underestimate how much it increases farming speed if you use illusions properly though. But the hero is pretty lackluster either way, has a hard time fighting even with an item advantage. And anything he does a Naga does twice as good.

Btw 12min radi PL is like super super early.

Yeah, they were good at last hitting and got them some kills but they skiped boots and all.
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KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14912 Posts
September 02 2014 12:44 GMT
#18965
IF you can't snowball your farm from getting a 12 minute radiance then you did something wrong
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
September 02 2014 15:39 GMT
#18966
When should you go boots first on razor?
Sn0_Man
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Tebellong44238 Posts
September 02 2014 15:46 GMT
#18967
On September 03 2014 00:39 kollin wrote:
When should you go boots first on razor?

Whenever you can abuse link to cs/lane control and know you won't need unreasonable amounts of regen.

So its awful vs say an offlane dark seer who you can't particularly link and who will force u to have regen etc, but its super good vs an OD mid who can't interact with you if you link him and punish him.
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Comeh
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States18919 Posts
September 02 2014 16:07 GMT
#18968
On September 03 2014 00:39 kollin wrote:
When should you go boots first on razor?

Against OD.
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hooahah
Profile Joined October 2011
3752 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-09-02 16:38:13
September 02 2014 16:34 GMT
#18969
On September 02 2014 18:03 nojok wrote:
I don't get radi PL, it does not increase his farm that well compared to just stats item and he can't make a good use of the early radiance because he's so squishy and illu don't last long. A sick 22-24 minutes diffusal + HoT is way better imo and straight out wins the game. I've lost two games while providng some 12 minutes radiance on PL and it really sets him back. What is the reasonning behind this?


It's an old build from before the 4.2 agi buff. It boosts the farm but IMO for that 5k gold you could've had Drums+Diffusal which is somewhat slower for farming (though not too slow) and it lets you teamfight much earlier, much better. With the Agi buff, farming with Diffusal got much better.

that being said a minute 12 Radiance on fucking ANYONE should be amazing, even KotL. You just walk aroudn the map and things die. What I've seen some PL players do with a <15 minute Radiance though is just march all their illusions down a single lane. NO. That's not how you fucking do it, you send one illusion to each camp in the jungle in order to farm everything you humanly can. But...Naga is much better for this since she doesn't rely on luck for her illusions, with better teamfighting and early game presence. Terrorblade is also better for this since, again, illusions are more consistent. I've seen iceiceice get 30 minutes 6slotted on TB with a minute 14~ Radiance.

TL;DR - it's bad, go for vlads&yasha/drums&diffusal

since I'm on a roll - the popular Weaver build used to be Radiance, until people realized that UAM applies to both his attacks. Basically Radiance is shit unless you're Naga, Spectre or Lone Druid.
Jaeger
Profile Joined December 2009
United States1150 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-09-02 17:57:01
September 02 2014 17:55 GMT
#18970
On September 03 2014 01:34 hooahah wrote:
since I'm on a roll - the popular Weaver build used to be Radiance, until people realized that UAM applies to both his attacks. Basically Radiance is shit unless you're Naga, Spectre or Lone Druid.


Pretty sure orbs don't work on the geminate attack.
In dota 1 geminate blocked all UAMs even on non-geminate attacks so deso didn't work at all on him.
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Unleashing
Profile Joined March 2011
Denmark14978 Posts
September 02 2014 17:58 GMT
#18971
Lmao no UAM don't apply to both his attacks, deso had its duration(the debuff) increased and its cost decreased(IIRC?) and since the only thing it did was reduce armor there was no need for it to function with the second hit since the second hit would still benefit from the minus armor.
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hooahah
Profile Joined October 2011
3752 Posts
September 02 2014 17:58 GMT
#18972
On September 03 2014 02:55 Jaeger wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 03 2014 01:34 hooahah wrote:
since I'm on a roll - the popular Weaver build used to be Radiance, until people realized that UAM applies to both his attacks. Basically Radiance is shit unless you're Naga, Spectre or Lone Druid.


Pretty sure orbs don't work on the geminate attack.
In dota 1 geminate blocked all UAMs even on non-geminate attacks so deso didn't work at all on him.


and that was changed in dota 2, one of those unintended changes that have just been left with (I think)

nope, wiki check says you're right. Could've sworn there was a change. Oh well, guess Radiance Weaver just straight up fell out because of the early game meta.
Sn0_Man
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Tebellong44238 Posts
September 02 2014 18:07 GMT
#18973
I dont' think you read his post.

There was a change. The change was: UAMs proc on the first attack, which they didn't in Dota 1. They kept that change.

Deso happens to functionally work on both because there are essentially no situations where the second attack doesn't hit during the deso debuff duration. Hence it being popular.

Also Radiance rush weaver may or may not have been attached to vanguard weaver which obviously sucks and radiance rushing in general got a lot worse as teams basically got better at timings etc. Weaver's kinda an awful radiance hero since it doesn't solve his mana issues or his "burstability" issues. And radiance after 1st item is sorta just always bad iunno.
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Mataza
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Germany5364 Posts
September 02 2014 20:13 GMT
#18974
On the other hand Weaver has incredible mobility and only few heroes can effectively take him out of the fight(doom, skywrath, silencer) early on.
Great mobility is a good fit for radiance and Weaver has ok survivability and good teamfight presence with shukuchi.
It's a lot of "if"s though to get radiance first and in any kind of semi-organized play its not worth it compared to deso/linkens builds.
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-09-03 03:10:01
September 03 2014 02:55 GMT
#18975
On September 03 2014 03:07 Sn0_Man wrote:
Also Radiance rush weaver may or may not have been attached to vanguard weaver which obviously sucks and radiance rushing in general got a lot worse as teams basically got better at timings etc. Weaver's kinda an awful radiance hero since it doesn't solve his mana issues or his "burstability" issues. And radiance after 1st item is sorta just always bad iunno.

It didn't suck when Vanguard was an OP item pre-6.73, which is where most Radiance-based builds originated. And Weaver doesn't really have mana issues that can't be solved by most early regen items (Aquila, Bottle, Urn, or Medallion)--it's just that Linken lets you skimp on those with your Ultimate Orb/Perseverance which ultimately speeds up your major items thanks to not spending 600-1k gold on early-game focused items if you're going to play the hero like a rat-farmer and not a fighting hero.

Even in DotA 1, there was already a transition toward fight-oriented non-Radiance builds once 6.73 hit and Vanguard wasn't efficient enough to be a good fighting item even for ranged heroes anymore (and the OP Tranquil Boots took over their early regen value.

Radiance actually works with Weaver's engagement pattern just fine (you spend 4 out of every 6 seconds invis and not attacking and attack primarily on Geminate CD until you have BKB or Heart to actually give you the defensive stats to manfight things straight-up), so it really wasn't all that bad.

The thing is, Deso just flat-out changes how the hero plays. Deso is powerful enough that it allow you to get it second after an item that gives you almost no contribution to your damage-dealing ability (Linken's) and still be impactful. None of the alternative damage options have that much singular impact at the time you'd get them as a 2nd item--Linken->MKB, Linken->Crit, and Linken->Radiance are all really really shitty. As such, you couldn't even play the hero that way in DotA 1. Either you needed to get a Radiance and farm for either Radiance+BKB fight timing or a 3rd item Radiance+Heart+damage item timing--or you needed to get fighting items (Urn, Aquila, Medallion, Yasha, early BKB, etc.) and hopefully snowball into your damage item. Linken Weaver as it exists in DotA 2 sucked in DotA 1 because there simply was no 2nd item that could make it be impactful at that point.
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Jisira
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
470 Posts
September 04 2014 07:31 GMT
#18976
On September 03 2014 00:39 kollin wrote:
When should you go boots first on razor?


If you're 1v1 with anyone you can link for at least 2-3 seconds using your speed increase, get boots. You either get an inherent damage advantage that allows you to control the lane or force your opponent away which means the same thing, really.

If "against OD" is a valid argument, then I'd say against Viper. Razor just flat out kills Viper if he gets boots. He battles the (imo) stupid laning heroes by being situationally even more stupid.
villainzilla
Profile Joined July 2014
Philippines192 Posts
September 04 2014 14:03 GMT
#18977
How to get out of low-3k mmr? I'm in SEA, I see a Tinker every game.
Sn0_Man
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Tebellong44238 Posts
September 04 2014 14:16 GMT
#18978
On September 04 2014 23:03 villainzilla wrote:
How to get out of low-3k mmr? I'm in SEA, I see a Tinker every game.

Improve your game.
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Mafe
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany5966 Posts
September 05 2014 12:04 GMT
#18979
Do chen creeps, mines, etc. stay on the map when you die in ARDM? I suppose mechanics would be similar to when rubick steals a new spell.
Trustworthy-Tony
Profile Joined March 2014
Tanzania187 Posts
September 05 2014 13:29 GMT
#18980
Are good games anywhere to be found? Seems like people are either awful or trolling in 99 cases out of 100. I'd happily lose every single game forever if only my allies weren't cancerous glue-sniffing awful trash noobs.
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