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I remember when instead of buying recipes, you had to use "Upgraders" for everything (upgraders cost 1.5k gold I think and were used for mostly the high end items, other items didn't require upgraders like the old soul ring which was regen + sobi + circuit).

Also, there was no denying and Guinsoo actually implemented a really weird way to prevent team attacking. Instead of doing a trigger that forced a stop command when you attacked an ally (which is simple in WC3, the event "Unit is attacked" activates when a unit "begins the attack animation" and not when it actually finishes it attack, this is why things like Centuar's return damage and stuff works in the beginning of the animation in Dota), Guinsoo did this complicated "Create a dummy unit, make dummy unit cast polymorph on attacking hero".

The result of that long text block - Attempting to attack your allies turned you to sheep for a few seconds.


Also I remember when Guinsoo put Atma weapon. It has the icon of Divine Rapier and it had a particle effect too on heroes. It was hidden on the map.

My favorite thing to do was go on Scourge (I found out about the weapon when it was on the Scourge side) and pick it up at level 1.

Favorite thing to do is scare new players and show off my uber 1337 item that makes my hero's weapon glow green.

Speaking of that, before 5.5 (5.3 I think), Dota has really OP items. I mean, Battlefury was (I think, I forgot) was the combination of Buriza and other items (or maybe it was Buriza).

I remember the stats were so OP and were the equivalent to 3 level 3/4 (In 5.xx series, there were 3 tiers of items, things like Buriza was tier 3 and something like Treads was tier 1, in 6.0x, Icefrog expanded it to 4 levels and moved most of the level 3 items to tier 4, finally when the specialty shops appeared, Icefrog removed the whole "item tiers based on level concept"). I don't remember exactly but I think Battlefury had like 50% attack speed, cleave, evasion, huge attack gain, life + mana regen, and some other crazy stuff. Yep, the end game items were OP. 5.4 and beyond toned down the items.

Anyway, fast forward to the Icefrog era.

I forgot when certain heroes appeared (Sand King for example, was he introduced in Guinsoo's era or Icefrog? I remember 5.8x, there were regularly new heroes).

Sand King when he was first introduced, had burrowstrike, burrow (SK would burrow, then he could unburrow to deal AoE damage and stun), Sand Trail (it was a passive AoE slow and evasion to nearby enemies) and epicenter (which was the same as it is).

Some new heroes were OP (Spirit Breaker for example was OP when he first came out). Some of them had weird stuff too (When Axe came out, it was found out you can take out Roshan at level 1 by luring him, with the help of Berserker's Call, to the Fountain).

Some of the new heroes were plain bad. Huskar (I think after people complained about new heroes like SB, Spectre, etc being OP, Icefrog decided to tone down the new heroes a bit) were just plain bad.

I remember when Burning Spears had a stack cap but yet still did really low damage. I remember going on the dota-allstars (before it split to playdota) forums and complaining. Good times.

I stopped playing Dota around the time Nightcrawler (or is it Night Crawler) was released (I never played NC in pubs, that's why I remembered). Around that time, I just played with AI only because I was tired of pubs (I did try joining clans but most of them were *inactive, I tried the clans advertised on the dota forums).

*Clans have fallen off in general since BW/WC3 days. I remember joining clans all the time in SC1 and even C.S. Back then my favorite thing to do in SC1 was to bust out a channel bot. My favorite thing to do was set up text responses (try to make the bots as human as possible.... hey it was cool sitting in channels doing nothing back then).