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War. War never changes.

Sure, the faces may be different from time to time, as Icefrog's mighty hand buries some into the trash tier while invoking others to positions of prominence. Hell, even the terrain itself may be swept clear and remade as seasons come and go. But at the end of the day, it's always a bunch of scared kids charging out into a senseless bloodbath, defending a hunk of magical rock that never did a damn thing for 'em.

It's times like this it's good to have a friend by your side: someone to watch your back. Because the world isn't nice to small, fragile men that waddle from place to place. Who was stupid enough to follow me into battle, you might ask? None other than the master of all cuttlefish himself. Damn fine soldier.



Cuttleboss:

We had Sniper planned beforehand, Cyn hoped for a miracle. I was prepared to give him the next best thing, Abaddon, a hero that can pair very well with Sniper, since Sniper really just needs a tank who can lead charges wi…
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Dear Dotafire community

I am highly surprised by the number of bot posts, **** posts and troll posts that are doing the rounds of this fine community.

It is rampant. And no one other than a mod can do anything about it. However, even if they do, it is in vain because of two perspectives:
1. The troll/ ****poster/ bot keeps doing it again and again
2. We do not derive any entertainment value from these trolls anymore. Even lord of troll kyfoid has lost his sheen. His armor has holes for *****s.
3.Positive debating gives us more to think, post and enjoy. Evidenced by hamstertamer's 6.87 Wishlist thread

I have devised a solution to this trolling

YOU NEED A COUNTER TROLLER

1. One who trolls the trolls. So the trolls get counter-trolled. And I can go techies style" Counter trolls win"
2. You derive entertainment value from the ensuing debate where i put meaningful points forth in the troll thread thereby aligning the thread to be a serious one or I beat the troll with their own logic.…
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Kyfrog this is for you. Dota needs fixing and only you can do it.

General

- Heroes in their fountain can no longer have their position changed by any spell or item controlled by enemies.
- Fountain now has true strike and can attack ethereal units as if they were not ethereal.
Death to fountain farming.

- Courier respawn time reduced from 3 to 2 minutes

- Ultimate Orb moved from secret shop to base
Why was ultimate orb removed from side shop again? Right now it's such a pain in the *** to buy skadi, linkens or whatever item based on it. Why?

- Sentry Wards no longer reveal enemy wards if placed normally. They still reveal invisible units.
- Placing Sentry Wards while holding the ALT key now places Ward Detectors, which are visually different from normal sentries. Ward detectors reveal enemy Observer Wards, Sentry Wards and other ward detectors. However, they do not reveal invisible units.
The idea of this change is to remove any interaction between dewarding and countering …
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So I'm a numbers guy, yeah? Lemme drop a little stats on you.

No one talks about stats like that. You are NOT the cool, young fresh Nahaz.

Shush. Anyways, in my many years of playing Dota 2 I have engaged in 1227 matches. A lot of Dota, for sure!

Jeeez. How many hours do you have logged to Steam on this thing?

Only... 3000 plus... shush, I have a life I swear. Anyways, that's not the statistic that matters, here. What matters is this: as of this writing, I have never played more than 43 games on a single hero.

... what? How the heck is that possible? You don't have a main hero? Something you spam to try and win games?

The only hero I spam is the random button.

You are the worst kind of filthy casual game-ruiner in existence, you know that?

Fair enough. It does have its advantages though: when Dotabuff released their arbitrary achievements, I was ASTOUNDINGLY close to the Every Hero Challenge. I've won games on practically every hero there is: I'm versatile like that.
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Looking for people to join the team if anyones interested message me
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There comes a time in the life of every human being on this planet where they must say 'enough is enough'. No longer can things be put off. No longer can dreams be allowed to remain dreams. There is an imperative set by the gods that every man worth his salt, who wishes to prove himself in the ring of honor, must be weighted. Must be judged. And most definitely, must finish what he started.

So this man goes forth upon his final battle, back into the ring for the tenth time, to put an end to the sinister demons of waiting, uncertainty, and the unknown. Beckoning to the gods for their aid, he picks a hero wrought in their image: Zeus, the divine emissary of lightning, lord of thunder, rage, and pub stomps. Perhaps this facsimile of strength will transfer some of its digital splendor upon the man behind the keyboard. Or perhaps he shall be smitten for his arrogance. The combatants are set. May the game begin.

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Dota, a dangerous game

Well because this is a community purely about dota I would like to talk about things that you can do that aren't dota related. I do this because there is way more in live than just dota and there are alot of people addicted to this game.

My addiction

a dieing family member

So I start with a little story from me. Previous year my granny was in hospital due to cancer. She is a really important person for me and I am for here the person where she has the strongest connection with. Of course I didn't want her to die, just like the rest of my family didn't want that. I was really sad, almost depressive during that period. But instead of helping my grandmother by visiting her and motivating her and stuff, I just played dota. I visited her sometimes but not as much as I should do and I also did less for school just to play dota. Dota was the best way for me to get away from all the trouble. However at a certain point she was moved to "intensive care" because the ch…
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Hello Dotafire,

Believe it or not Ive been gone for about a month playing League. Yes, I will accept the hate. All my friends play it, so I thoughtd I try it just so I could play with friends. Now im coming back to my home territory. League is disgustingly easy in comparison. Takes about 10 nukes to get someone to half health.

MY CRITIQUE OF LEAGUE

• No in-game voice chat. Cannot get anything done.
• Holy s*** its is so unbelieveably pay to play. Unfourtunately for me I got hooked on the 'buy a champ' rush and eneded up spending about 100 bucks on league. Disgusting. You need to play 63 games in order to save enough in-game currency for a new champ. So say 6300 hours later you wont evenb have enough to buy the entire roster of champs. What?
• The runes and masteries are just dumb. Theres things that give poeple an advantage outaide of the actual gameplay? Makes no sense. Starting off even every match is refreshing.
• The whole 'bushes that hide you' is just kinda unessisary. I mean what do

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Ranked matchmaking seems to have a REALLY hard time deciding what to do with me.

Hot off a three game losing streak (which is really an eight game streak with a nice breath of fresh Zeus pub-stomping air in between), I figured it was as good a time as any to queue up and see if I can get this thing done I promised I would. And I waited. And waited. Ten minutes later I stopped waiting, went and took a shower, did some stretches, set my alarm for work, and queued back up again. This time it only took five minutes. Hooray?

I'm somewhat encouraged by this: after all, longer wait times means there aren't as many people at my level to queue with, right? Then again, the guy who insta-picked Spectre on my team was only 2.7K so... maybe I shouldn't get my hopes up for a 3K+ calibration. 2.4K was my initial prediction, after all.

I was pleasantly surprised by how communicative our team was during the drafting phase: a nice change from previous matches I've played. Our orange said righ…
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Does anyone know what is the best item build for phantom lancer, I have been copying the item build from this page. And my friends actually told me that my item builds are for noob, anyone wants to share how they use their PL? And can someone also tell me what technique or skills they mostly use :D ! All Hail Dota! XD~~~~~
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