Toribash
so i had a bit of team toribash fun last night with Alpha and Tinerr (will grab you next time zalmoxis, you wont have a choice.)
was fun
http://dotabuff.com/matches/487300687
http://dotabuff.com/matches/487245855

discovered that playing invoker isnt just about invoking =/
my invoking and comboing invokes is fine, but my plays are terribad.
now idea how people manage to rush a midas in under 10 minutes while still getting bottle and roaming.
surprisingly, a slark mid is a good counter to invoker, one the slark gets level 6 and starts ganking lanes, the invoker has to have more map presence and just cant keep up, slark too fast.
determined to get my invoker right though.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/487194859
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The last 2 days were the worst I've had in Dota.

Went from 4018 to 3800ish.

God, the fkn humanity of it all.... I have never seen worse teams in my entire life. All had at least 2-3 russians who had no idea what to do and ruined the entire game and/or threw the game in the last teamfight even if we had +10 kills over the enemy....

I need a new goddamn game or some hard liquor if I'm gonna play more Dota these days at this rate...
Originally Posted by Zalmoxis View Post
The last 2 days were the worst I've had in Dota.

Went from 4018 to 3800ish.

God, the fkn humanity of it all.... I have never seen worse teams in my entire life. All had at least 2-3 russians who had no idea what to do and ruined the entire game and/or threw the game in the last teamfight even if we had +10 kills over the enemy....

I need a new goddamn game or some hard liquor if I'm gonna play more Dota these days at this rate...

change it up, was feeling the same the other day with my party ranking.
lost 6 ranked games in a row, dropping me from 3880 to 3730.
went into solo rank and won my first two games, then played a couple of fun games with alpha and tinerr
feeling much better about dota now
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^ For this reason we need more SEA players. Everyone I know is terrible so I end up being discouraged, and most of the people who queue for SEA seem to not be from SEA so every game is "hurr durr mah ping". Seriously if local players get 100+ ping and you queue from USA/Russia what do you expect?

8 wins in a row then hurr durr lets all play agi carries. 1 support 4 carries is not good. It doesn't help that the other team countered hard with a pushing team, plus 1 of our players is level 5 or so.

Needs more d2ware and 1v1.

We need a toribash 1v1 tourney
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Originally Posted by ImmortalPig View Post
^ For this reason we need more SEA players. Everyone I know is terrible so I end up being discouraged, and most of the people who queue for SEA seem to not be from SEA so every game is "hurr durr mah ping". Seriously if local players get 100+ ping and you queue from USA/Russia what do you expect?

i get 470ms to both the SEA and AUS server, so i cant play on those.
250ms to US east and 300 to US west.
200ms to EU
60ms to South Africa.

I dont mind playing on EU or US east though.

if anyone else is interested in finding out befor actually palying on the servers, the server addresses are here:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=217075877

Originally Posted by ImmortalPig View Post
We need a toribash 1v1 tourney

Oh that would be awesome
if we could all check our pings to the servers and post them here, we could start setting that up.
timezones would be the only concern really.

On a side note, terrorblade is here, everyone ready for the highest agi gain hero in the game?
Last edited by BenDover; Jan 28, 2014 at 11:51 AM.
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Originally Posted by BenDover View Post
so i had a bit of team toribash fun last night with Alpha and Tinerr (will grab you next time zalmoxis, you wont have a choice.)
was fun
http://dotabuff.com/matches/487300687
http://dotabuff.com/matches/487245855

discovered that playing invoker isnt just about invoking =/
my invoking and comboing invokes is fine, but my plays are terribad.
now idea how people manage to rush a midas in under 10 minutes while still getting bottle and roaming.
surprisingly, a slark mid is a good counter to invoker, one the slark gets level 6 and starts ganking lanes, the invoker has to have more map presence and just cant keep up, slark too fast.
determined to get my invoker right though.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/487194859

That Juggernaut match was not much fun for me, haha.
Slark was so damn scary.

The Undyings, especially the second one where you played Weaver was a lot of fun!
I loved reflecting after the matches, taught me quite a bit.
Especially about Undying's ulti and my role. Seeing it paid off really felt good.
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6.80 does not look like a good patch to me...

Broodmother nerfed back to hell (RIP semi-viable BM), random changes (drow silence changes wtf), most things made more complex for no benefit (d ragon tail rescale and beserker call rescale), random buff (void needed all those buffs, yes yes), wtf why did they change jakiro (I guess everyone was avoiding dual breath lol, but liquid fire is still better), moment of courage finally fixed holy shit that was the worst, Lion buff (YES YES), meepo mega buff, nether strike cannot be juked (0skillrequired), tinker aghs, troll buff, venomancer nerfed from roaming and laning (boo), BLINK NO MANA COST, CAN SEND BOTTLE CHARGE (wtf ctrl click that's not a thing), Force staff 33% slower, IRON BRANCH BUFFED (new meta), mom buffed, necronomicon nerfed hard (still best item in game though), observer ward change (wtf), shadow amulet targetable on allies @_@, TRANQUILS BUFFED 20%.


Holy shit this patch.
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meepo ultra buff.
like a level 25 meepo needed to be stronger...

shadow amulet into shadow blade as a new meta support item.

veno and CM nerf is annoying

the rest, unphased
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Not phased by necronomicon nerf, blink buff, bottle buff or tranquil buff?

Shadow amulet now amazing, buy 1 on support and whole team can invisigank. Absolutely amazing luls.
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