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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 05:54:29
September 08 2015 11:57 GMT
#4281
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BluemoonSC
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
SoCal8910 Posts
September 08 2015 18:58 GMT
#4282
again, with the clarities on a melee hero (jugg).. its incredibly difficult to keep your clarity going and still be able to last hit. even if the offlaner takes a couple hits from your creeps, its worth denying the clarity on a low mp jugg.

I cant see at work, but isn't aquilla core on him anyway? basi + stick should be fine bc the CD on his abilities is long anyway. he'll regen the mana/get up the stick charges in the amount of time it takes for spin to come off CD at lower levels.
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-08 21:05:13
September 08 2015 21:04 GMT
#4283
Mid and safe lane carries rarely start with clarities. Offlaners can, depending on the offlane (e.g. DS can Ion creeps and stand back with a clarity going).

There's really not a reason to start with a clarity over a salve on Jugg when using a Salve basically saves you the 120 mana cost of a Healing Ward while still healing more than Ward at low levels.
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BluemoonSC
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
SoCal8910 Posts
September 08 2015 21:10 GMT
#4284
the most important thing is that you can pop the salve, get back to full, and start last hit again very quickly.

have we discussed putting 2 sets of tangos in some safe laner's builds in the past?
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
September 08 2015 21:14 GMT
#4285
2 Tango vs Tango Salve depends on the lane. I'd rather just do Tango Salve in a generic guide.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 16:54:57
September 09 2015 05:55 GMT
#4286
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 07:16:52
September 09 2015 07:10 GMT
#4287
Arc Warden
2-0-3-1 at 6 into Wraith > Field/Flux (you get rank 1 Field at 8, after that it kinda depends)

Starting items, standard support stuff + a shitton of clarities (for low level Wraith spam)
Early game Boots, Bottle, Salves (you keep 2 extra Salves all the way into mid/lategame because the clone can use Salves for free on people)
Core Midas Necro3 Travels
Extension Rapier Sheep Manta Travels2

Don't play this hero as a core. He controls the river as well as Techies early game so you don't want him farming a lane to waste that. It's impossible not to get farmed as this hero due to double Midas shenanigans.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 10:32:08
September 09 2015 07:20 GMT
#4288
I'll be back later today.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 13:41:16
September 09 2015 10:57 GMT
#4289
There'll be an Arc Warden Mid and Laning guide. Since a Push-style Arc Warden maxes Field second, we have a situation:

  • We can make the Lane and Mid-version of Arc Warden the same [small pre-6 skill build difference]

  • or we can make Arc Warden mid a ganker and the lane version a pusher

Pushing Arc Warden can go Necro 3 (with ult; makes double the necro book)

Ganking Arc Warden can have more utility items (Eul's/Dagon/Atos, etc.)

edit: the more I look at it; the better it sounds to have the two builds completely separate styles.
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 13:50:51
September 09 2015 13:49 GMT
#4290
I'm gonna go with don't tell people playing AW mid is ok.

And no, AW *always* goes Midas Necro3 unless DotA 2 changes how ulti interacts with item CDs.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 14:18:19
September 09 2015 14:15 GMT
#4291
On September 09 2015 22:49 TheYango wrote:
I'm gonna go with don't tell people playing AW mid is ok.

And no, AW *always* goes Midas Necro3 unless DotA 2 changes how ulti interacts with item CDs.


If we don't put a mid-version and another person does despite it being generally 'unrecommended'; we lose out. Creating a second "version" much later is a harder task (see Lina - Middle, Alchemist - Middle and Leshrac - Middle [most took over a year to gain momentum and are still not in-game]).

I'd rather have a proper "unrecommended" way to play a hero and improve it until a patch makes it viable than fight from the bottom after initial hype and reference.

Not making a guide doesn't send the right message that it isn't recommended, just unavailable.
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 14:23:46
September 09 2015 14:22 GMT
#4292
If that's your argument then every hero should have 2 guides cuz Icefrog could remake a hero and make it good mid.

If you really insist on making an AW mid guide then just copy-paste the support one cuz it apparently doesn't matter whats on it, you just want it to exist.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 14:31:28
September 09 2015 14:30 GMT
#4293
On September 09 2015 23:22 TheYango wrote:
If that's your argument then every hero should have 2 guides cuz Icefrog could remake a hero and make it good mid.

If you really insist on making an AW mid guide then just copy-paste the support one cuz it apparently doesn't matter whats on it, you just want it to exist.


That is actually almost entirely what I have been doing from around mid-2014 and with each subsequent release of a new hero [almost]

Alchemist
Ancient Apparition
Beastmaster
Bloodseeker
Dragon Knight
Earth Spirit
Elder Titan
Ember Spirit
Gyrocopter
Kunkka
Legion Commander
Leshrac
Naga Siren
Nyx Assassin
Oracle
Phoenix
Shadow Shaman
Skywrath Mage
Silencer
Sniper
Slark
Tiny
Troll Warlord
Ursa
Warock
Weaver
Windranger

That's a lot of mid heroes; some were good, some were never good and some were made when the hero was released because we wanted to snag it in case others did (and others did do it; such as Oracle - Middle).

Some Mid guides we removed: Tusk, Phantom Lancer

I'm just covering our options, generally what happens is that the guide gets the ratings, but most of the users subscribe to the right version (Phoenix Lane as opposed to Mid) and if not, we can always just swap them.




It's more about ensuring control of all possibilities for the future and against other guide creators who aren't consistently updating when they should be.
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tehh4ck3r
Profile Joined August 2013
Magrathea7080 Posts
September 09 2015 15:15 GMT
#4294
I really don't think AW should have a mid guide. We had this same discussion with Winter Wyvern, and no one plays that hero mid.
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
September 09 2015 15:21 GMT
#4295
Also Oracle. A mid guide exists, but is way less popular than the support guide. And Oracle's far better mid than AW.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 15:38:28
September 09 2015 15:32 GMT
#4296
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=344525275 -- Literally 30 minutes after I posted the middle version of Oracle.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=391462018 -- Winter Wyvern Middle guide. 10 minutes after I posted our own guide.

These pop up and they take away literal 100,000+ of users. It's preventable, but it means sometimes doing unrecommended versions of guides and then scaling back.

edit: We'll draft up an 'ideal' AW mid and ultimately decide if it's worth pursuing when he's been fully revealed (pre-release). I have a mid-Pit Lord that is evidently not ideal, but for the same intention.
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
September 09 2015 15:39 GMT
#4297
So you would rather have your shitty mid guide for terrible mid heroes out here for people to subscribe to than someone else’s?
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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tehh4ck3r
Profile Joined August 2013
Magrathea7080 Posts
September 09 2015 15:51 GMT
#4298
Like Yango said, if you're really worried about the possibility that AW is going to be buffed to be viable in a lane that he wasn't viable in before then literally every other hero should have a lane/mid/jungle guide because icefrog could maybe change them so they can lane differently
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-09 16:54:48
September 09 2015 16:54 GMT
#4299
Technically, we would create a guide of all versions for every newly released hero, and not those already released (since the ratings for those heroes have typically passed or have been cemented).


Also, found a mid-version of AW: http://www.dotafire.com/dota-2/guide/arc-warden-a-definitive-guide-9162

Not amazing, but nevertheless.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-10 22:22:10
September 09 2015 16:56 GMT
#4300
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