Dingo
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Post by Dingo on Oct 2, 2008 21:03:00 GMT 8
this is a strategy guide where we all chip in some ideas about how to play, personally my current hero of choice is still razor, his chain lightning and passive skills are extremely user friendly compared to some other heroes
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Post by Chowiez on Oct 2, 2008 21:12:54 GMT 8
Whats your username? What gateway?? Im still a noob... Chowiez here in US.West
Brood is the best! Web, invis, easy farming, harass, and good early game hero...
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Post by Dingo on Oct 2, 2008 21:42:44 GMT 8
brood is a big mofo... and its melee, dont feel well about anything thats melee
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Post by Dingo on Oct 6, 2008 16:17:25 GMT 8
first thing everyone should get is a pair of boots of speed and ring of regen
HIGHLY IMPORTANT GEAR
maelstorm --- 20% chainlightning {300 damage } +25 damage increase
Monkey king bar - + 75 damage with a load of other add ons
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Post by yonathanho on Oct 6, 2008 21:10:14 GMT 8
i use that skeleton archer dude.... when i used to play last year
i just remembered the name.... boneklinks.... i think
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Post by Magiaz on Oct 16, 2008 23:12:51 GMT 8
Yeah, bonelinks (if that was his name, his class was bone fletcher IIRC) was really good. Don't know much about current versions. Just go damage crazy and slay peons, if any heros come for you just windwalk and run away. Then in late game you do so much damage you just slay everything.
I always favoured the dark eleven ranger. Extremely passive character, very low damage / health with ranged attack. She has the abilities to slow people down constantly with ice arrows, so even though she can't kill one on one, she can stop others running away, which is a lethal ability. Other ability is silence, which prevents enemy from using their skills for a short time.
Basically you slow the enemy down to stop them running away while a damage dealing teammate dicks them over. Silence is used to prevent the enemy from windwalking, teleporting, using that life swapping technique, or to just prevent them healing. Although the dark ranger can't exchange damage, she can mess up the enemy long enough for someone else to kill, and if you lose against an eleven ranger your gone, because you can't escape thanks to frozen arrows.
As for items, you get stuff to boost attack speed, health regeneration, and to increase max health. Her high level ability gives her a chance to instantly kill non hero units, so you give her high rate of fire and then farm peons. The health and regeneration means that you can hang around and farm for longer without having to go back to heal.
If you increase her health and mana enough then eventually you can take enemies one on one, since skills do fixed amount of damage and mean a great deal less when you have a huge health bar. So basically you just constantly ice arrow them, weakening their attack rate and stopping them from running. They spam all of their abilities at you which doesn't do much thanks to the health, and then they have to wait for cooldown, at which point they're screwed. But that only works if your much higher than your opponent.
She's also hard to kill / finish off, since when your running away you can just do a fighting retreat with ice arrows, falling back while slowing them down.
I'm not much of an experienced dota player though, and haven't played in ages. Woulden't mind having a game though.
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Post by Dingo on Oct 17, 2008 0:43:01 GMT 8
well equipment wise, i go for anything that increases damage big time, as i progress my record add on damage is about +180
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Post by play150 on Oct 19, 2008 1:17:15 GMT 8
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Post by Dingo on Oct 19, 2008 2:53:00 GMT 8
thats preety off topic
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Post by malavern on Oct 19, 2008 5:54:27 GMT 8
@ Play150
lol, nice one, BASSHUNTER FTW!! gamer turned DJ / singer... wonder where he went...
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Post by Dingo on Oct 20, 2008 12:17:42 GMT 8
peeps. due to constant use of lightning reverant, i am starting to worry about using other heroes, as razor was the only hero i knew how to use... thus i should start thinking about learning how to use a new hero any suggestions (needs to be ranged and preferably has good passive skills)
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Post by Dingo on Oct 25, 2008 18:23:33 GMT 8
right found my load out
stygian desolator boots of speed maelstorm battlefury monkey king bar ring of regeneration
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Post by Dingo on Oct 28, 2008 11:36:44 GMT 8
just a note of reminder, maelstorm can only project 150 damage, does no damage to towers and stuff, the stygian desolator's main attribute IS NOT the corruption (armor decrease as per hit 15%) its the extra 60 damage, well advised to save for the last, the first piece of equipment that one should aquire would be maelstorm then battle fury, crystallys/ultimate orb/perserverence YES it sucks on its own, HOWEVER, its a key piece of equipment for higher level gear i.e battle fury, eye of skadi, thus dont come round and say the suck and i wont waste money, REMEMBER PPL DOTA gear is all about futre investments, i get a shitty crystalys now and i can use that to make a Buriza-do Kyanon well of course one would also require a demon's edge to do so... o btw if any one plans on getting a divine rapier, unless you lot are experts in gank and tank, its a big bloody no no, drop it, nicked it, f**k it, a golden rule passed on from generations of dota players whom mentored me,
basically its a dropped when dead item, once you are id-ed with the weapon every ai/human hero would be hound after your bottom in, unless one is a capalble gank and tank with thy team, you are basically giving away the item
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