Author Topic: Defence of the Ancients 2: volvo pls (Read 58418 times)

Raikaria · « **Reply #330 on:** May 03, 2015, 12:49:02 PM »

Quote from: Dular on May 03, 2015, 09:32:35 AM

I think the teamspeak stack is on average level 150, so that'd be... What, 600$ so far?

Also, I don't think I've seen compendium points drop a single time since it came out, for anyone. The drop rate is probably absurdly low, which is basically saying "To level up, giff monies."

Yeah I'm not liking the compendium as much as last year. No battle point boost, leveling is 'gif moneh'. Coins are nice however and I had a 750 stack drop.

Zerviscos · « **Reply #331 on:** May 03, 2015, 01:09:04 PM »

Everyone has compendiums.

And here I am, being so cheap, still waiting for cheaper compendium points to be sold in the Steam Market. :V

Also, pls ffs stop voting carry Arcanas. Invoker needs Arcana. Plox Voker Cana plox. Or Chen. GREAT CHEN NEEDS IT.

Bardiche · « **Reply #332 on:** May 03, 2015, 03:05:27 PM »

Just got a compendium because a friend buggered me about it. Got Huskar Immortal. Halp, I don't want that one.

NekoNekoRex · « **Reply #333 on:** May 03, 2015, 07:20:10 PM »

Quote from: TheCrimsonfireball on April 29, 2015, 05:21:06 AM

Whats the point of Techies aghanism again? All it did is to make those mines around the sight post turn permainvisible. It doesn't really help much gameplay wise since the enemy team will know immediately that there's mines nearby when they see the sign. The enemy team can always defuse those mines by using decrefy or ghost staff. Its unnecessary and pointless buff.

You don't have to out mines there if just the sign is enough to scare people away...

Dular · « **Reply #334 on:** May 03, 2015, 08:04:53 PM »

Techies staff is more used for the "Kill creepwaves with one mine, even into late game." rather than the mine thing.

If you do the mine thing, you might as well get a refresher orb and permanently lock down a lane push.

Bardiche · « **Reply #335 on:** May 03, 2015, 08:20:53 PM »

Also makes it so you can toss your R farther, so you can teamfight without being as much in the thick of it.

Aghanim is pretty much standard on Techies for me, the change doesn't change anything about that. It's fun watching enemies not fear the mine sign yet though. Ran into my 12-Q Staq with Eye. I don't think they know how the sign works yet.

KyleTheCarl · « **Reply #336 on:** May 04, 2015, 03:21:58 AM »

eg.fear

Raikaria · « **Reply #337 on:** May 04, 2015, 07:39:29 AM »

According to Dotabuff I've been playing in High Skill games recently until I had a 3 loss streak.

What is this I don't even.

Zerviscos · « **Reply #338 on:** May 04, 2015, 07:48:00 AM »

Quote from: Raikaria on May 04, 2015, 07:39:29 AM

According to Dotabuff I've been playing in High Skill games recently until I had a 3 loss streak.

What is this I don't even.

Your bracket is based on your MMR. If you don't have one, then it's based on your hidden MMR.

Raikaria · « **Reply #339 on:** May 04, 2015, 05:37:51 PM »

Quote from: En on May 04, 2015, 07:48:00 AM

Your bracket is based on your MMR. If you don't have one, then it's based on your hidden MMR.

I don't have an MMR.

And you don't get it I'm supposed to be trench level. Deep trench level. Although apparently I managed to win 7 games in a row at one point.

Also does anyone know if you Glimmer Cape before using Supernova if that makes your Pheonix Egg invisible?

Amraphenson · « **Reply #340 on:** May 04, 2015, 07:02:30 PM »

Your continued screaming that your trench is somehow a magical special snowflake different from everyone else's continues to make me shake my head. You have a hidden MMR if you haven't done ranked matches.

PX · « **Reply #341 on:** May 04, 2015, 07:20:44 PM »

Quote from: Raikaria on May 04, 2015, 05:37:51 PM

I don't have an MMR.

And you don't get it I'm supposed to be trench level. Deep trench level. Although apparently I managed to win 7 games in a row at one point.

Also does anyone know if you Glimmer Cape before using Supernova if that makes your Pheonix Egg invisible?

Even very high skill level is still the trench. Also, Glimmer Cape Supernova doesn't work because the Egg is a different unit from Phoenix

Bardiche · « **Reply #342 on:** May 04, 2015, 11:33:12 PM »

Quote from: Raikaria on May 04, 2015, 05:37:51 PM

I don't have an MMR.

And you don't get it I'm supposed to be trench level. Deep trench level. Although apparently I managed to win 7 games in a row at one point.

You don't get "deep trench level" in normal matchmaking, since anyone could end up in your pool. Exception: if you consistently have good creep score/KDA ratios/win-loss ratios, MM seems to want to put you in a high skill or very high skill bracket with others who achieve similar results, to avoid curbstomp games where newbies are pummelled with experience. This is a "hidden"/pseudo MMR that isn't shown to you but the matchmaker keeps it in mind.

Basically, you're not "deep trench". Suck harder.

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #343 on:** May 05, 2015, 12:40:56 AM »

Uh, in normal matchmaking you won't get matched with anyone.
You have 4 sets of MMR. Normal Solo MMR, Normal Party MMR, Ranked Solo MMR, Ranked Party MMR.
Just because you can't see your normal MMR doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
For Dotabuff, normal skill bracket means that the average MMR of the game is below 3.2k. High skill bracket is between 3.2k and 3.8k MMR, very high is anything above 3.8k average MMR.
In other words, the brackets mean jack because they're outdated and all brackets are trash.

Zerviscos · « **Reply #344 on:** May 05, 2015, 06:01:57 AM »

Had a Bristleback game a while ago. We expected we were gonna lose because of our Drow picking RIGHT AFTER Terroblade. We won 'cause I was just able to tank everything, and having 3 disables and silence.

Sadly, DC'd. It wasn't poor network connection. Everyone just DC'd.

Valve's servers plox. :derp:

[Y]oukai [J]esus · « **Reply #345 on:** May 05, 2015, 11:53:32 AM »

The only person who isn't in the Trench over here is probably Prody
He sits on 5.6k solo Q mmr atm

I'm in deep trench (high - very high) SEA which is shit land and I've won 10 games in a row not a big deal if we're not at prody's level

Raikaria · « **Reply #346 on:** May 06, 2015, 07:16:46 PM »

So, apparently with the gold flow changes if you get first blood on a Venomancer support; and then use that to snowball your lane; you get so much gold while feeding your Clinkz you almost have the same GPM as the people who were in mid and top-farming but didn't get as many kills as I enabled on Clinkz. Admittedly I did have about 2 mins of solofarm in a lane however where I took a tower [And then 3 people jumped on me and they all almost died and they had to deny their own PA; while the rest of my team took two more towers]

I had like ~480 GPM as a support Venomancer while WindRanger and Chaos Knight had ~520. [Clinkz had about 650]. By the end of the game despite being the guy buying all the wards I still had Veil/Glimmer/Arcanes/Ag

Also sneaking into the middle of a teamfight under Glimmer Cape and dropping Veil [We had quite a lot of magic damage between me; CM; and Clinkz]+Nova is hilarious. I didn't get any of the kills; which is a good thing, but their HP just got incinerated. And I survived.

PX · « **Reply #347 on:** May 07, 2015, 02:26:37 AM »

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We had quite a lot of magic damage between me; CM; and Clinkz

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magic damage... Clinkz

Wot

Raikaria · « **Reply #348 on:** May 07, 2015, 06:57:20 AM »

Oh I thought Searing Arrows was magic. Since you know... magicaly ignited.

Still, Veil helped melt people and we didn't lose a single fight after I had it.

Bardiche · « **Reply #349 on:** May 08, 2015, 12:19:00 AM »

Got Clockwork and Gyrocopter taunts. Would trade for Rubick/Zeus taunts. :#

helvetica · « **Reply #350 on:** May 08, 2015, 01:00:44 AM »

Quote from: Raikaria on May 07, 2015, 06:57:20 AM

Oh I thought Searing Arrows was magic. Since you know... magicaly ignited.

Still, Veil helped melt people and we didn't lose a single fight after I had it.

Searing arrows is physical which is what makes it so dangerous (combined with strafe). Now the +30% damage amp from orchid soul burn is considered magical so veil would still help somewhat, although that's a really subpar item choice. Better to just go raw damage like crit or mkb (or heck, skadi since searing arrows isn't an orb anymore, although death pact gives you a huge amount of health as it is) after orchid instead of magic amp, you're a carry and your item slots are precious.