Custom Recommended Items

I do not believe anyone has found this yet, but you can create your own custom Recommended items for each hero. There are saved text files within the DOTA2 game folder that, once you know what the item's name is scripted as, an example being: "item_branches" for Iron Branch, it's easy.

If there is a need for this kind of guide, I can create one for everyone to reference for every item name and maybe even something we here at DOTAFire can support by simply wrapping it in Code tags with our own information for people to access.

I will play with this concept more and let you guys know whats up, if it's 100% viable and what we can change, what we cannot.

Anyways, here is a sample of what the files look like and it appears that there will be some kind of support for this in the future judging by contents of the file:

An example of what is possible with this concept:

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All because I changed it to this:

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I was waiting to see if this was possible, I love changing my recommended items for quick reference. If it does work out I'd be interested to know!

awesome and highly useful! thanks

Oh it is, you just have to know what to put in and it's very easy. No coding knowledge required or anything, it's just a regular text file and as long as you play fill-in-the-blanks properly, you will be fine. I recommend however, that you keep a back up of the file just in case!

Anyways it is simple to find the file:

Go into your Program Files and locate the Steam folder. From there, open the folders in the following order:

steamapps
common
dota 2 beta
dota
itembuilds

From here, find the hero you wish to select and I will be using Queen of Pain for my demonstration. Once the file is open it will look like this:

Now you can go through each hero's item build file individually to find your desired items to list. If not, then just play around to get the hang of it while I see about making a list. All I did was swap the data with my own:

So if I were to say take out 3 of the "item" lines would that then make it so I only have 3 items in my recommended for that section?

Correct. You can name them anything you want as well, say you only want Starting, Core and Luxury. Then just make the fourth a miscellaneous bar for things like wards, teleport scrolls, etc. Didn't try removing a whole category because I don't see a reason to.

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/630731953232818024/72AE5262A489D5C67134224FBAE9AE7121FAC834/
it works, thanks Love!