DOTAFire Blogs

So i know its been a while since my last Blog and i know some of you have asked if im going to do another.. well yes and no.

I will try to write them "semi" regularly but i only write them when i feel i have something that can affect those who read them. for example my previous posts have had an effect on some people here at the beloved dotoforo, and i have received pm's thanking me for writing them so i think that to frivolously write a disjointed and unfocused blog just to gain reps and or comments is not what these should be...

i want them to help people and in doing so ive helped myself as well. Thus with that being said i have had a profound experience recently with Doto and considering it ive decided to write about it for all of my fellow dotoforians ...

But first, some backstory.

about 3-5 months ago i transitioned, with some help from a coach and a lot of watching and reading, into a what i think is a better player. i was being placed in higher skill tiers and i was making …
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So I am having technical difficulties posting it... still don't know why. Anyway, here it is as a document online.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f-MlK95ZdoPUZEu8OnfmeWnECqe7ajZ-8SwivAahBs0/edit

Tell me if you can't view it for whatever reason.
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So I pretty much know exactly where this abomination of an RPG is headed, so there is a very good chance I'll be posting them much more regularly than the weekly schedule. So this is out two days ahead of time.

No intro jokes this time round because I figured if you want one you should check my Dotabuff stats.

Act XIII: Freed from the Real

Hangovers. They distracted you from duty.

Whisky, however, did not, and Tresdin drained another glass before refilling it.

"You say he incapacitated her? Lanaya was not a part in this… murder?"

The Crystal Maiden slowly shook her head, shaking. It was unfortunate she was too young to drink - Tresdin thought it may have calmed her, made this report easier for her.

Perhaps Lanaya were innocent, taken against her will. But Tresdin knew of the Psychomancer, and anything he was involved in was full of lies and duplicity. Rylai gazed at her with pools of sadness.

She had been found not a day past, wandering aimlessly around the jungle. Her eyes w…
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http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1217682350

Alright.

First off, these were the most stupid-*** lineups I've seen in a long time. I second picked Void, which while not a good idea I thought I'd get away with.

So I'm doing my job. Farming.

DK dies in the first minute. No big deal, or so I thought. Then he goes AFK for god knows how long. I'm fine with it. More farm for me. I get ganked by Slark and Slardar, I an't time walk out of there. Oh well. I get a kill, things even out. Huskar is doing his early game thing, shreking face. I'm keeping it low. When I get Chrono, and MoM I get some easy kills. I took Maelstrom over Battlefury, since my team was feeding so hard I had to get my farm sooner.

Not much else to say. I thought building Aghs + Refresher would end up working, since every time I popped my ult we'd destroy the enemy team. But my team was busy cooking up meals like a soup kitchen and I never got to the refresher.
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I played a few solo pubs yesterday and it felt pretty good. I've been teaching my friends how to play for the last month or so, so I really haven't had time to focus on my own Dota. I was actually afraid that I had gotten worse from playing medium bots with them game after game, but to my surprise I was actually playing a bit better than normal.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1213199503

ANYWAY, my last game was the one above with me playing as Dragon Knight. He's one of my favorite heroes and I had been wanting to play him for awhile, so I had him selected with mid lane called. Someone else (I forget who, perhaps CM before she picked that hero) highlighted mid with their hero and said "MID PLZ" and I immediately thought "great.." but they gave up when I said I was going and we could just split farm ;) Well, the early game was going pretty rough for me because I was up against a Shadow Fiend. He got early souls and was harassing me pretty hard, but I ended up getting first blood on…
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I might make these intro jokes a permanent thing... but am I really that cruel?

Your mother's so fat even Demon can't throw her.

Why did Slark fall over?
Cause he was imbalanced.

Act XII: Taken by the Plague

The night was soothing, calm and cool, the sky perfectly clear. The waxing moon bathed Slom in pale light, and the stars sparkled amidst the velvet canopy. The highest spire of House Avernus was an astronomy, built by Lord Kayle d'Avernus two hundred and fifty years ago. It was here that Abaddon now stood, gazing longingly into the sky and thinking deep thoughts.

Now is the moment, he told himself. There had not been nearly as much preparation as he would have liked, but that could not be helped. It was now or never. Not only that, but he was still needed at the Ancient War. He had sworn to assist Arash in the endgame.

Yet it was not Arash he thought of most, but Lanaya. I have fallen for her, he realised suddenly. How he wasn't sure - they had all of nothing in common. He wa…
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Hello Dotafire, this is Blubbles, writing for all you people who have nothing better to do than look at blogs about video games ( Like Me ) !

I just started this blog, and if you really want to know I WILL be talking about random **** that happens in Dota 2, that most likely you will not care about! But I'm doing it anyway!

This includes but is not limited to :

• Venting
• Update Opinions
• Which heroes I think are ****s
• Which heroes I think are great
• Strategy

To start of I will be talking about my journey to nontotalnoobyness.

It was a exciting moment, my first game was. I was giddy (yes, I used giddy) to play a game against real people. I thought I would be pretty good, I did the tutorial, I knew the basics, I would do well. I was very, very, utterly, life crushing, hellraisingly wrong.

It was textbook. I think I went 1 - 20 or something and my only kill was from a killsteal. To make matters worse, I was Witch Doctor and did not know what the **** a Courier was, so on top of noob r…
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http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1200378678

*******it.

Alright, so a few weeks ago there was the whole discussion about a fan-see newfangled meta for good ol' Anti-Mage, with Maelstrom instead of Battlefury. So I decided to start a blog on testing alternative metas for heroes.

Well those are the results.

Let me give you a brief play by play.

Me and Dazzle (My friend) go safelane. And for whatever reason, DK went mid and OD and Bounty Hunter went offlane.

Me and Dazzle started out strong, he died once early to Broodmother and Nyx but eh. Once he bought wards it was no longer a problem.

I was doing my job, farming, staying out of fights as Anti-Mage.

I got a 13 minute Maelstrom, and a 16 minute Vlad's. So clearly, the Maelstrom sped the farm up quite a bit. It wasn't the same as a Battlefury, but the effect was much earlier than if I had bought Battlefury, which probably would have ended up a 20 minute buy. Mjolnir with Vlad's felt about the same though.

The real issue was Kunk…
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Sometime we are confuse who is the strongest heroes in dota 2. because when we see every heroes have plus and minus. but today i want to explain who will be Strongest heroes in dota 2 with some of accurate data. enjoy my post!

Overall most picked heroes i found this on other site..



another one




From ma pict we can see they are different think there, which my first pict, Tidehunter are the popular heroes now, and on my second pict juggernaut are the popular heroes now..

I think i will explain about juggernaut first

1.Juggernaut



"No one has ever seen the face hidden beneath the mask of Juggernaut. It is only speculation that he even has one. For defying a corrupt lord, he was exiled from the ancient Isle of Masks; a punishment that saved his life. The isle soon after vanished beneath the waves in a night of vengeful magic. He alone remains to carry on the Isle's long tradition of ritual and swordplay. The last practicioner of his art, Juggernaut's confidence and courage are t…
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Hey guys. Just dropping the index of my next guide for anyone interested. Still have no idea when it's going to be done. For anyone interested.

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Preface
1. Optimal Settings
1.1. Framerate
1.2. Key Strokes
1.3. General Settings
1.4. Quick Cast
2. Memory
2.1. Knowledge
2.2. Muscle Memory
3. Card Counting
4. Eye Cursoring
4.1. Keyboard Coordination
5. Reflexes
5.1. Disjoints & Narrow Disjoints
6. Maxing Spell & Item Relevance
6.1. Exploiting Turn Rates
6.2. Chaos Nukers (Teamfight Fragging)
6.3. Re-Initiation (Finishers)
6.4. Pre-Initiation (Setups)
6.5. Cast Time & Animations
7. Shifting (Commands)
8. Runes
9. Lane Equilibrium
9.1. Early Denying
9.2. Using Spells In Lane
10. Offlane Pulls
10.1. Choke Points
10.2. Blind Spots
11. Handling Stats & Regen
11.1. Power Treads
11.2. Arcane Boots
11.3. Dropping Items
12. Flurrying
13. Juking & Kiting
13.1. Terrain Force Staff-ing (And Other Mobilities)
14. Eyeballing & Pinpointing
15. Baiting
15.1. Turn Around Bait (Re-Initiation Technique)
16…
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