w33ha talking **** when his team loses to shazam lol

those game 2 fights with rubick were insaaaane

:O

Black Holes in Empire vs Secret 2:

Enigma: 8 casts, 777 dmg, 0:19 stun
Rubick: 3 casts, 5996 dmg, 0:44 stun

Can puppey and EE kick themselves?

its so weird how secret played so perfectly against ehome (a vastly superior team to empire) and then, well.. dota math doesnt work!

G3 was pure outdraft. Secret last picked safe lane lifestealer with no other cores that can inherently push out lanes and left slark in the pool where they had **** all for control.

G2 Secret last picked drow with no venge or other defensive support with a spec + nyx already on the field. This game was definitely still winnable but KingR god-moded on rubick.

yeah, i wonder how many times people win when they draft a carry that is countered by the other team's carry... guessing not very many. drow pick very overconfident

rewatching the booth cam in secret game 2 draft. they look mad. arteezy looks like WTF and envy is yelling a lot.

That Roshan bash...lol.

WANGZ

walrus kick online

Wings played really well in the final. That alch was nuts.

alright just watched all the games all i can say is holy **** lol.

With EG and Secret needing more chemistry/practice with their new lineups, it's arguable that fnatic and liquid were the top two world teams currently.

And wings beat fnatic and destroyed liquid

Holy crap. The last 3 lans were won by MVP(who is already in a big slump afterwards...), VGr and Wings Gaming lmao.

It's finally here!!!!!

http://www.dota2.com/687

Please no LD nerfs. Please please please...

AH ****! Ranked All Pick with bans now, oh why Valve must you do this to me. I was top 20 Lone Druids on Yasp too

Oh sweet. I can still play him half of the time, "Each player votes for a different hero. Afterwards, half of the heroes that were voted on will be randomly selected and banned."


Holy crap StarCraft scan ability has come to Dota. Wowowow...

"Scans a targeted 900 AoE for 8 seconds. Indicates whether there are enemy heroes in that area during the 8 seconds.
Starts on cooldown and has a global team-wide cooldown of 4.5 minutes
Note: Does not consider units inside the Roshan Pit, but does consider Smoked units. Does not show how many heroes there are, just if there are any enemies. Enemies do not know when your team casts it."


OMFG wow... we are league of legends now... "Intelligence now increases your spell damage by 1% per 16 Intelligence points. [?]"
^Okay actually this only gives a very small boost of damage right now. If they up the numbers though it's def. league of legends.

Wow huge: "Towers now grant an armor aura to allied heroes [?]"


Dang so far this patch is very game changing. Thought it'd just be a small balance patch with Major and TI coming up soon, but nope! I like it so far though.

Melee hero big change/buff: "Melee hero attack range increased from 128 to 150"

Holy crap. 7 new items. This patch is hugeeeee.

Bloodthorn (Orchid + Crystalys) = OP as hell wow. Perfect item for QoP. The true strike and crit chance for all allies is what makes it OP imo.

Echo Sabre (Oblivion Staff (yay) + Ogre Club) = OMG amazing item for Tiny. Gives a geminate attack basically for melee heroes, with a small MS/AS slow. Tiny with no AS items with Echo Sabre is now a legit build. Omg omg, I just noticed it gives a passive ability to attack twice (5s cd), that's really OP. These new items are crazy so far.

Blight Stone (new item, 300 gold): Reduces armor by 2 on attack, another passive giving item. Wow I guess items that give passives is the new thing. Another incredibly OP item.... I'm guessing that this stacks. So WR with Blight Stone = 300 gold death to anyone with ultimate? Seems super good.

Infused Raindrops (new consumable, 225 gold): 120 magic damage block with 5 charges. Procs passively (again) on 4 second cd. Also gives 0.85 regeneration. For some reason only becomes available for purchase after 3 minutes (WTF??? please let's not include more things like this in the game on purpose... ugh)

Wind Lace (new item, 225 gold): +20 movement speed. Super ****ty boots I guess haha. Used in recipes. Seems like a cool item IMO.

Tome of Knowledge (new consumable, 150 gold): Grants 425 experience for 150 gold. HOLY HELL PLEASE NO, this is such an old school DotA 1 mechanic, like really really old when the map was getting started and still sucked. Only comes in stock every 10 minutes. I guess this is a much needed buff for supports. Ayieee, this game just keeps getting more complicated.

Hurricane Pike (Force Staff + Dragon Lance + recipe): Really really weird item. Lets you push an enemy so you are 900 units away from each other, then you can attack that enemy without range restriction for 4 attacks (5 sec max). So strange. Doesn't work with melee heroes. Seems like another great item for enchantress for sure. Maybe good for heroes like Sniper? Can keep enemies off you at least.


Wow Blademail item change: "Now returns damage before any kind of reduction, and returns it in the same type as it was received"

^ Funny cause I was thinking this would be an amazing change for Blademail a few days ago. Can't believe they actually did it. Blademail is now one of the best items in the game, by far IMO. Imagine using it as say a Huskar vs a Zeus, even more instant GG than that match-up already is.

Invoker took a mini nerf so I guess i'll have to take it. PAs dagger is no 'normal' damage and axes spin is now pure. Alot of little nerfs to spectre, earth spirit, void, OD. I think BM is the only one who needed a nerf and didn't get one.

The wtf change this patch for me is now abyssal includes vanguard recipe instead of relic, so it can no longer be the go to agi carry item for fighting heroes imo.

These new big items are all sort of niche but have ridiculous potential. Hurricane pike seems like an unreal hard counter to melee carries for someone like Drow. Infused raindrops is just plain dumb. Ridiculous value in team fights/skirmishes. Echo Sabre seems like it would be pretty cool on Jugg, Tiny, maybe Ember if it works in Sleight. Bloodthorn is so damn baller. Blight stone is probably a buff applier, so it's just a flat -2 armor.

Pretty big but likely unseen item change : Blade mail returns the damage before reductions, as the same type it was received, THROUGH BKB. This means that BKB heroes can take physical/pure damage return from BM

Also, some Scepters & Scepter Reworks that range from elite to ridiculous (BS, Gyro, Mirana, ES, Oracle, STORM, Wyvern). Gyro & Mirana's are ridiculous passives, only BS's actually affects his ult (2 charges of Rupture, 40s charge replenish time), while the others are stupid modifications on non ult abilities (Enchant totem now a 900 range blink, Purifying flames 1.0 cooldown & 0.1 cast time, Storm vortex now 475 AOE with aghs, Arctic burn is a TOGGLE). Meanwhile, no changes to the still completely useless storm spirit other than the Aghs. LOL

lots of cool good stuff

too bad ill be playing hearthstone all day for a few months

Earthshaker gonna be Vince Carter level dunker now. That's gotta be the most fun change of the patch. (Oh also Aghs Mystic Flare 2.4 to 12 seconds lolol)

Yeah Blightstone must be a flat -2 armor, not stacking. That makes it pretty decent. I always like seeing new small items.

Storm Spirit aghs = big plays incoming. 500 range flying ravage essentially... Should make for some amazing moments if he is ever picked again.

Loving the nerf on OD and Spec. Invoker nerf was quite small but I like that too since I play Invoker


Also apparently there is gonna be some special event with Bananas involved. Maybe a new hero, Sun Wukong since he's a Monkey? I know they teased this a while ago but it didn't seem like it got released (unless PL = Sun Wukong?).


lmfao wow, yeah, ES new king of dunking:

report icefrog, no nerf iron talon

we probably wont see OD played for a year or two lmao...


hero = destroyed

meanwhile PA's new daggers look broOoOoOoKen

it's kind of crazy since i think lane creeps got gold bounty nerfed a little bit, so jungling is even better than before...

OD got the bloodseeker treatment from last patch, just completely dumpstered.

I'm watching ar1se on stream playing mid earthshaker. He rushed aghs into aether lens, and it's about the clowniest **** you've ever seen. Basically an 1100 range blink with 5s cooldown that AOE stuns on impact.

Lich first phase ban and picks with the range creep deny xp now? So tilted they didn't nerf invoker super hard like they did OD.

earthshaker aghs seems like the funnest thing to do in dota now

Ya, prob time to revisit deso PA imo. Shame she gets annihilated by everyone who got buff.

Yeah man, I think steam roll pa is dead. Hard carry only now.

Her lvl 3 dagger does like 90 damage to the melee creep with a wraithband. Lvl 4 with aquil phase bf and hod does 213, no hod + deso is 265. Predicting ez 1 shot dagger all squish supports with crit dagger lategame.

I guess the big question at this point is if blightstone is better than venoorb, as that item already often does not make the cut and was mostly for its steamroll/firstblood potential anyway. At least blight helps her farm, so ya prob replaces imo. Blightstone +4 rightclick damage at 47=>51 and takes dagger from 65ish to 75.

damn it's live already

AXE IS AXE