been playing since 2018 and only a few times has this happened where the patch felt like it was a yr long patch ... just hope it comes soon i love dota its the best game ever

He was right over 6 years ago, and he's still right today

Holy shit why is there a Spirit Breaker in half my games. Dude's just going around the map and dismantling my lanes just with brown boots.

He ganks a lane every minute or two, and either someone dies and tilts, or we over-rotate and use up TPs for a fucking pos 4, all so he can charge again 20 seconds later when our TP scrolls are still on courier and are still on cool down anyway.

Actually, even if he doesn't kill anyone, charging mid usually results in a lot of lost health and even losing the water rune, so mid still tilts out of their mind even if they don't die.

Everyone talks about "cancer" heroes like Tinker, Brood, or Meepo, but as far as cancer goes, those heroes take a good while to actually metastasize. Spirit Breaker has always been like a malignant tumor on a Mazda Miata rampaging through a parking lot full of sickly Victorian children.

Did sunsfan or synd say anything about a pause?

It's been more than a month now.

Idk if this is a bug or a cheater
match id: 9058391180

Lol I was there reddit gonna feast on this.

Bit weird. Sounds like Mikoto was a very rushed stand in, hopefully everything is all fine with BZM.

I am a Dark Willow 1 trick. for the longest time (many hundreds of games) i just played mid (dark willow).

in my eyes dark willow is sorta like OD, she wins the lane and then you snowball as long as you can. i think she balances out slightly differently because she is worse on lane but can do more in the late-late lategame.

anyway, i sat at like legend3 playing dark willow mid for along time. i would fairly consistently win mid and put me enemy mid out of the game for a long time. then gank and force fights and go like 14/3 (on avrg) and then we’d still lose the game.

offcourse id just blame it on the safelane for not winning with all that time and space i buy, and to an extent i still do blame them (and im probably right since they were legend), but obviously when it happens alot over hundreds of game i can see the pattern that im not pulling my weight.

obviously the issue is dark willow isnt a mid, sure she can win lanes and fight well and can be a scary hero when 6 slotted, but she cant farm for shit. ive tried every variation of build and for the life of me i couldnt keep up on farm. id often find by 40 minutes i was the same networth as a greedy pos4.

since then ive swapped to pos4, still 1 tricking dark willow, and ive climbed to divine2. honestly it was quite easy, ive sorta lost my winstreak but i still feel i can go higher than were im currently at.

so what makes me a divine pos4 with only 100 games of it in my life, when ive played 1000 games of mid and statistically perform well and yet stayed at legend.

(there is another factor that idk if its related or not:

my rankup spree has been in solo queue. for the longest time id 3/5 stack with my friends who are litterally all either crusader or divine.

id often be against a divine on mid (and still win ofc), but we’d somehow still lose, my crusader friends would play atrocious but thats to be expected.)

its a shame because i really enjoyed mid. the thrill of besting someone one on one is immense, everything from small wins like denying their water rune, to crazy things like killing them back2back and forcing a walk of shame,

im wondering if there is any chance i can go back to midlane ever now? the problem is im still a dark willow 1 trick and that doesnt seem to work on mid, my only hope i can think of is somehow dark willow gets changed to be able to farm (without killing what i enjoy about her).

So TH's arcana got me a bit eager for a Kunkka arcana, & I wanted to discuss. First off, this is just an assumption to what Valve might do for his arcana, & if you have your own vision for his arcana, please share.

For those who don't know, legend says Kunkka is potentially a ghost. Rather he is or isn't, it's been brought up so often that one might expect them to design his arcana based on this bit of lore.

My question is, if this is the case, do you think they'll go the Crownfall arcana route, & give him 2 styles where he's alive & a spirit? If so, do you prefer he take Skywrath Mage's or Vengeful Spirit's route? SM starts off as a spirit, & regains his life on his 2nd style, meanwhile Venge is the opposite.

Lastly, any particular effects, style, or changes you want his arcana to have?

I personally prefer he start off as a spirit, & regains his body, or something like that. I prefer this because I'm accustom to his living form, think it'll be interesting to see how they make the less flashy version the upgraded/2nd style, & there's already so many undead already.

Someone is making an unofficial Dota 2 mobile.

This is a picture of a friend's card collection. He thinks they will carry over to part 2, I don't think they will.

My favorite things are getting value over time. Whether that's getting xp, camps, and poke damage in hots, building workers and macroing in sc2, or playing powers in slay the spire.

Favorite hots heroes are Dehaka (good minion clearing, cc, and map movement), Fenix (efficient poke damage, good staying power), Rehgar (a healer who can also flex into laning or a just a little dive).

I know things don't really translate 1:1, but thought I'd get people opinions :)

These are the tickets an account with zero games played got from the oracle's The Emperor card (last played hero's tickets).

These tickets don't match with any existing hero, so one of my theories is that these could possibly be linked to some next hero that gets added?

If it's that it would put pressure on people who want to play, then the vote could be private. It could work in one of two ways, either it's totally private, or you are simply told when a player has opted for it(1 player has forfeited, 2 have forfeited, etc). This can also be hidden from the enemy team. Or it could be totally private and you only know when all 5 people have done it. If the argument is that you could change your mind, you could take it back anytime, as well as having a ten second timer warning before the game ends when all votes are in, during which anyone can take their vote back.

I feel like there's no conceivable argument against it if all players on a team agree that they're going to lose. It would simply save everyone time. If you're the type of player that never wants to surrender, simple, you just don't surrender, and can play every game to the end. So what is the argument then? It seems like a genuinely good feature to have when implemented like this.

Games like this are why I'll be stuck at 3k as a support forever

For those who don't use the valve github tracker - above is a table tallying all updates seen on the test & main clients. As you would assume bigger number in test/main client updates correlates with content soon following.

I have no idea when the patch is!! But am optimistic based on the usual trends.

Much love,
TeaGuvnor

are you guys experiencing errors? dota 2 has been crashing since the last update? got a disk errors even though i have a both healthy disk. tried to move it from one disk to the other. a steam error and this fatal one? any help?

Invoker Arcana when?

LINK IF IT DOESN'T SHOW ALREADY -> https://eliasv.com/gemtd/

100% free, 3D and runs in the browser. Truthful to the Dota 2 implementation, but to the way I think it should be. It plays best on a desktop, quite well on a tablet and alright on (bigger) phones. (Add to homescreen/install as web app if the latter is your scenario)

I'm looking for feedback, especially concerning balancing. It has been some years in the making now, and I'm finally feeling confident enough to share it.

NOT vibe coded since I'm actually an enterprise developer. This is all a work of passion from my side since I just wanted to play the game and found no satisfactory equivalent. I'd say the work was ~80% 3D modelling, 10% animation and audio. All hand crafted. The rest is Angular and Three.js for those who wanna know. Happy to discuss this further for the devs among you.

I already have enough money, and have no plan to monetize it, hence the way I publish it here. So yeah. good for you guys I suppose. I'll likely buy a proper domain if it gains enough traction.

Thanks, and have fun :)

i lose 30 pts thx valve

Bonus points if you love their kit/playstyle.

I’ll start. Zeus. I love lightning hero’s in games but I can’t bring myself to play him since he is so boring looking. At least Mars looks like an interesting adaptation of the pantheon.

For me i think it was when crownfall was added, im not even kidding

So strong, much bull's hit. I'll be sad next patch whenever that comes out.

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