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Love it or loathe it, the Valve matchmaking system is probably the single most important aspect of making Dota 2 a fun game to play. Personally, I'd rather lose a close, exciting game, than win an easy stomp.

Matchmaking is so important in Dota because the differences in skill between players tends to make or break the game. Assuming the system gets it pretty well balanced then it comes down to team work, picks, good plays and maybe a bit of luck - hopefully making for a gg.

Did a bit of research and found out some interesting things about the matchmaking system:

- There are no actual skill brackets for matchmaking (you can see which category your games get placed in by going to "Watch", and then filtering by skill and your name), it's on a continuous scale. This is good to hear, as you'd think they'd be some pretty big variations by putting players into just 3 categories.

- Your usual role and hero choices aren't taken into account when matchmaking. This is a bit disappointing…
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I have decide to explore Omniknight as my first subject to write about. I will list Omnikinght needs with priority order.

1) Mana pool and mana regeneration
2) Health point
3) Extra effect
4) Damage per second

This is my first thought of Omniknight. Let this be my hypothesis.

First of all why did I say he need mana? Omniknight were picked not because his stat nor his damage. The main reason he is pick is because of his skills. How can we maximize his potential is with sufficient mana. If he can cast his spell when ever its need, he is utilized.

Second, it is generally can be said Health point but what I want to appoint here is his survivability. Omniknight need to survive for at least after he cast all his spell. But casting all his spell is not enough. He needs to cast it on perfect timing. The worst case is he is dead without using any of his skill. A sufficient survivability is important so he can buy some time on timing his skills and casting it. Besides that I also sees some p…
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Hello guys, I am The Way of ****** and you can call me TWoR. If you really want to pronounce it, you can pronounce it as Wor which you silent the T or just pronounce it as War in British ascent. English is not my native language so Broken English is a MUST.

My DotA thing start in early 2012. The story begin when I am doing research about the end of world. Turn to be my research end up with Mayan's theory which the world will end during 2012. At the time I am so scared and feel so down. So, I decide to resign from my job and spent my last moment the way that i want.

I decided to have fun with cyber-life before my life ended. I rent small apartment room, buy new PC and rent fastest internet service available. I do a lot of thing but end up with DotA. Since then I play DotA like 24/7 and Isolate myself from real world.

Time goes fast and now its 2013. Clearly I am **** up right now. Mayan's are liar. Clearly, Mayan's is not trust able, and maybe they are just some idiot cult. So, despi…
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Hi, I'm Sando - I've been playing Dota 2 about a year and a half and mainly play int/support heroes, thou I'm getting quite into randoming :)

This blog is going to be a series of musings on games I've played, thoughts about strategy and hero comments.

First up Timbersaw...now I'm happy to be corrected on this...but I've yet to see anyone play him effectively. Supposedly he's a ganker, but due to his powers he doesn't seem like a great mid, and he never seems to get going enough to really do very much from the sidelanes. Not really a carry or a support...where does he fit into a team? I can think of more effective gankers, team fighters and other non-carries. So, bad pick, or just bad players?
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I joined this site about 3 weeks ago. I did it so, I could write guides and blog, I guess. It was not until attempting to write my first guide that, I realized, I don't know much about the deep game mechanics. I mean you see guides like the, (ANTI-tabs) and is the pinnacle of genius and, Dota understanding. All of the guides explain every possible way to play a hero. I started reading walls of text on heroes and overall stats on strength, agility, and intelligence. I started to have these thoughts about combos between items and heroes. I feel like this website overall has just made me a better, Dota player. Thanks.
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Recently some of us have been discussing ways to increase activity on the site or create a more populated community. I've been brainstorming a few ideas myself and wanted to know what you, the users, think about these ideas and if you'd be willing to participate.

My first idea consists of creating a more abundant amount of responses by adding notifications. Such as if someone rep'd you, commented on your guide, or quoted you. I feel like this will quicken the response time between users and allow them to see who is interacting with them.

Another idea I had to create more communication between users is to change the Off-topic sub-section to something more inviting. Something that has been done on sites like GaiaOnline (iE; the Chatterbox), and create something where users that are close within the Dotafire community can just blab between each other about whatever.

Most likely the most impactful of my ideas; create rewards for the active members of the community. By creating forum com…
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Want to learn Omniknight!
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Here is a list of sets that I personally "built" from from other set items and individual items.

I'm using them together either because most of the other better looking items are too expensive or too hard to get, or the original version of the set does not look at good as it could look.

Items: Aspect Mask of Fulimant Rage - rare mask Strange Grand Claive of the Unshamed - common sword Seven-Sealed the Fur Bracer - common bracer Twelve Tusks the Cape of Boars - common cape

This is a set I recently settled for after trying to mess around with a combination of High Plains bracer and Cuffs + Defender of the Ivory Towers for a more barbaric-looking Juggernaut.

The colors on all the items fit Juggernaut's default color scheme which is orange.
Personally I feel that the Claive of the Unshamed looks nearly as good as a Fireborn Odachi due to it's glow, the extra details with the rings on the blade only makes it more appealing.

I'm not a big fan of putting …
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Well, I guess I won't tag this inaugural entry. I'm very new to the Dota 2 scene, and to ARTS games in general. I'm learning and have every intention of practicing so that I can enjoy the game with friends. Not looking to make any waves, but it feels like a waste to own a game like this and not play it, so I need to start somewhere.

I was surprised to see that Dotafire has blogs, but I guess if I have anything to say about my experience with the game, I know where to put it!
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ALRIGHT GUYS, you got like 100 heroes and you gotta kill one, **** one and marry one. so whats it gonna be?
me? i would kill axe, **** lina and marry queenie.
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