Defence of the Ancients 2: volvo pls

[TheCrimsonfireball]

Yes it was blademail how could I forget. Thanks for answering, now im going to try it using it on wraith king for some suicidal tactics.

[Bardiche]

Is this why people create secondary accounts?

[Amraphenson]

considering my one and only account's page, I don't really see any meaningful difference

[helvetica]

I haven't played in two weeks WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME

[PX]

I haven't played in two weeks WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME

The happiest 2 weeks of your life?

[Dormio Ergo Sum]

WTB> New friends

[helvetica]

The happiest 2 weeks of your life?

If you call two physics exams happy then yes.

[Doll.S CUBE]

Hmm, maybe I should start playing some Dota again but being happy feels so good.....

[Pesco]

Save your happiness. Don't let the lure of games ruin you :V

[[Y]oukai [J]esus]

Save your happiness. Don't let the lure of games ruin you :V

Old men with old tales to tell
Tales of the trench

[Raikaria]

You haven't been to the trench YJ.

You are not MY level.

Tales of Offlane Bane getting Double Kills and eternal 5 carry teams. Tales of no Meks; Urns; Pipes or team items at all. Let alone wards. If I didn't buy the courier every game there wouldn't be one. Permanent 2:1:2 lanes or 1:Jungler:1:2 lanes. A trilane? What's that. And you cannot forget the Russians and about 50% of games having a random abandon in the 10~15 min mark or sooner; if anything biased to the WINNING team having a random ragequit.

[Pesco]

I'm an old man with some old tales

[Dr Rawr]

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/99370441
Back when Dr Rawr use to solo queue

[[Y]oukai [J]esus]

I'm an old man with some old tales

YOU KNOW SHIT IS GOING DOWN WHEN BANE HAS A SKADI

[PX]

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1983961

You know you're in for something when your first game has you go mid as CM because you're the only ranged hero

[Bardiche]

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/971018183

Pudge ragequit over how bad the team was. PA got farm, game was end.
I think I did pretty well as Shadow Demon, secured First Blood in the first minute, went lot of gank and harass.

EDIT
Also my first game:
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/51766630

Dose double boots, dat feeding

[Pesco]

Dotos from the dark continent

[Dormio Ergo Sum]

Level 1 stats Gondar OP.
And the late double edge Centaur.
And the laser max Tinker.
And the I don't even know what he's doing Chaos Knight.
I don't understand any of these skill/item builds.

[Pesco]

So that's where my level 1 stat point went.

[Raitaki]

Just a quick heads-up, apparently some Steam accounts (including at least one of us) are being hacked and used to send people links to screen-pictures.com. Quick google search says it's a trojan that takes over more Steam accounts, and some people got their Dota 2 inventories wiped because of it, so be careful of that link.

[Zerviscos]

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1024925682
What do you do when you first picked a 2-Position Huskar and your team picked 3 Hard Carries, and a 4-Position Bane?
WELL, YOU CREATE SPACE FOR YOUR 3 HARD CARRIES. Solo or with Bane, take all of them on. Basically it's one-two gankers, and one support, while 3 carries just farm away and TB split pushes.

This is why Mushi always ban Huskar and Riki, don't believe what he said back then on his facebook page. He's actually scared of Huskar.

[Bardiche]

Oracle. I think I still prefer Diretide.

[Dormio Ergo Sum]

So when I get my graphics card back, Oracle is what I'll be seeing.
BRB breaking my graphics card again.

[trancehime]

Oracle. I think I still prefer Diretide.

As the topic title, Oracle is pretty dumb. But he's beatable.

[Zerviscos]

Oracle. I think I still prefer Diretide.

I don't know who this is. I quit Dota 1 around 2009 or 2010 I think when I got hooked up to Brood Wars, then immediately SC2.
But from reading, I can say Orcale is quite a decent support hero.

I don't how her ulti works exactly, but I think it's like a pseudo-illusion/invulnerability/invisibility against enemies for an ally. Basically, all attacks and healing are delayed against the allied hero. Somewhat useful for your cores, but also pretty lethal if you didn't take the supposed damage into account, and did not heal immediately. How would you know if you already taken enough damage for you to die? When it ends ofc.

I don't know how effective Purifying Flames is in conjunction with her ulti. Since it also does instant damage, and healing is overtime. The ult's damage and healing is instant afterwards, so it'll probably be good, but seeing how it heals only a few HP, it'll probably be hard. It'll be a bother to cast it after the ult, since all damage is instant, and you don't know how much damage your allied took. It'll be better to have better healing sources like Hand of God.

Other than that, Purfiying Flames is a rather weak healing method. Only as effective for allies with low current health pool. It'll be more effective as a damaging spell, so long as the enemy is a sure kill.

As for her other skills. Both Fortune's End and Fate's Edict is good. Purge is always good, and 100% Spell Resistance and 50% Damage Amplification from other types of damage can be pretty situational.

Overall. Oracle's a rather situational support. Someone picks it in pubs, and most likely they'll lose. This hero needs some getting used to before they can decently play it.

I wouldn't mind getting her, but I would still love Pit/Abysmal Underlord to be brought first. I'm pretty sure I was still playing when he came out, and before his Expulsion was changed. He really changes the game.

[Dormio Ergo Sum]

The first skill is basically a more reliable Alch stun.
You can make the enemy carry take 50% more damage from your carry's right clicks while also disarming them. Which is pretty good.
The third skill is like the old active on SK's crit, it really helps in bursting somebody down.
Oracle's ultimate is a 9 second Shallow Grave+Shadow Dance on a 20 second cooldown.

Alternative strats is to W E your allies in lane to give them lots of healing.

[PX]

Merlini once played Oracle while not knowing what a single thing he did. He declared the hero broken pretty quickly.

[Zerviscos]

You can make the enemy carry take 50% more damage from your carry's right clicks while also disarming them. Which is pretty good.

Is also good for a team against spell-based heroes. It helps survivability against projectile spells when you're being chased down. Have your carry get BKB, and once the duration ends, cast Edict and your carry gets a 100% Spell Resistance and still have him chop down heroes without the worry of huge nukes. Ofc he'll have to worry non-magic.

Oracle's ultimate is a 9 second Shallow Grave+Shadow Dance on a 20 second cooldown.

Except Shallow Grave makes you alive, even at the end, so long as you don't get hit by some measly damage after it. :V

Also Shadow Dance > False Promise

I think FP is detectable through True Sight, which would make Oracle's ult most viable for early to mid game, and for letting main cores survive long in battle.
Ofc it can also act like a distraction. If the health bar on enemies' view is also delayed, it could work as so they won't focus fire on the hero with the ult buff, since of course they'll be like "I don't know, have I dealt enough damage already? Do I stop attacking or should I keep attacking?". Which actually helps tremendously. :derp:

Alternative strats is to W E your allies in lane to give them lots of healing.

Oh wow you're right. I didn't see Purifying Flames is Magical. Full 396 Heal is possible at max, but ofc it's a bit mana costly early on. Her int gain is pretty decent though. Just have her get Arcane Boots and probably a Basillius to last in a lane longer.

With that in thought, it makes her ult a lot more viable for. With that healing, ofc it'll be better to cast at near end of the duration.

Merlini once played Oracle while not knowing what a single thing he did. He declared the hero broken pretty quickly.

Well the skills are pretty interesting to note.

I haven't played this hero as I've said before. But I'm already seeing some rather situationally good aspects. Still not as broken as Abyssal Underlord in clashes I think.

[Dormio Ergo Sum]

Is also good for a team against spell-based heroes. It helps survivability against projectile spells when you're being chased down. Have your carry get BKB, and once the duration ends, cast Edict and your carry gets a 100% Spell Resistance and still have him chop down heroes without the worry of huge nukes. Ofc he'll have to worry non-magic.

You missed the part where the spell disarms whoever you cast it on.

Except Shallow Grave makes you alive, even at the end, so long as you don't get hit by some measly damage after it. :V

Also Shadow Dance > False Promise

I think FP is detectable through True Sight, which would make Oracle's ult most viable for early to mid game, and for letting main cores survive long in battle.
Ofc it can also act like a distraction. If the health bar on enemies' view is also delayed, it could work as so they won't focus fire on the hero with the ult buff, since of course they'll be like "I don't know, have I dealt enough damage already? Do I stop attacking or should I keep attacking?". Which actually helps tremendously. :derp:

It's 9 seconds of invulnerability. Even if your carry dies at the end, it should be more than enough time for them to wipe the enemy team.

[Zerviscos]

You missed the part where the spell disarms whoever you cast it on.

I should really read carefully more. :derp:
Still grants survivability atleast.