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Sorry if I double posted, my browser has been acting up. I was just curious if anyone knows whether Poison Sting and Orb of Venom stack. If they do, would the item be viable for Venomancer? Thanks in advance.
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Hey guys. I've been playing a lot of support recently and was curious whether there are other possible warding positions besides the rune spawns. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey everyone, just wanted to say HELLO DOTA COMMUNITY! Here's a small introduction about myself (mainly my gaming background):

Most of you will know me as Zephyr, but my previous username was Glayde. Glayde is also my username on various other games. I also play League of Legends (ID is Glayde, Level 30, PM if you wanna ranked :D), and I might start playing HoN soon, just to try it out. I used to play some FPS, but not so much anymore.

I guess I play pretty well, I usually get a decent score. I usually play nukers (Nyx, Lina), but I also play some other heroes, like Furion or Lich (Lich is still a nuker..right?). In LoL, I play a wide variety of champions. I usually play AP Mid or jungle, but in 3v3 (RL friends ranked team) I go semitank. I main Ahri, Lux and Xerath for AP Mids, Skarner and Nocturne jungle, and Mundo/Blitz semitank.

Hopefully I don't get flamed for playing LoL, but if I do, whatever :3
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I'm not too sure if someone has already done so, but I thought I'd get a post going the benefits of my mates who play Dota 2.

Here's what I'm after, what do you think is the hero combo that hurts the most? For example Juggernaut + Crystal Maiden.

Post your thoughts and reasons. Lets see what we can come up with. :)
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I've never actually played DOTA 2, but I have watched quite a bit of streaming, both professional tournaments (Go Zenith!) and pub matches from pros (personal favorite is Blitzdota). I have seen nearly every single item bought except for Sange and Yasha. I know I'm new and all and maybe I'm just missing it, but is it really that bad? The greater maim effect seems really useful, and the stats it provides would help nearly every single agility carry. Just think of Drow's arrow slow with the maim, or PL's illusions procing slows left and right. Is it because its expensive, or Manta Style is just better, or what? I'm seriously puzzled why this item isn't a prominent pub stomping choice.

Yours Truly,
Code_Monkey
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Hey guys! Me and my friends have started a Youtube channel. We currently have lots of L4D2 gameplay and some other gameplay's that I have done (Airwick) and my friends have done. We will be adding games like Dota 2, LoL, things like that. Please check it out and give feedback!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/SteamedRiceGaming?feature=guide
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Good luck to all :)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QinhXGx-Uo4
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A quick blog on hero skills, and Item skill idea's?
You can post a particular hero, and change an existing skill - or just generally new skills/items.

Some existing idea's I have -

A passive hero skill similar to bash - but instead of bashing it will silence an enemy hero.
Hero would need to be melee (probably a carry)
level 1/2/3/4
10%/15%/20%/25% chance

Silence last 3 seconds, skill cd 5 seconds.

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Quater Staff upgrade. Afterall it is called a Quarter (1/4) staff?
4x quarter staffs, creates one staff. (total cost: 3600)
+40 dmg
+40 AS
Active - cast on self or allies to increase MS by 25% and AS by 50% for 5 seconds. CD 20 seconds. It CAN be purged. - I can see lots of uses for this item, especially ranged heroes.

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I've noted a LACK of agi based, mid price ranged items - Yasha, well and truey seems to be the only thing around the 2k mark. Everything else is low or high (diffusal, eaglesong etc)
This needs an update, a new agi-carry based item would be good.

Idea's welcome!
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DotA was always a community based-game and back on PlayDotA there was a lot of new hero ideas so I made this blog just for that. I will be posting some hero ideas 2 but you can post yours and I will bring the most liked on the blog so that the greatest ideas never be forgotten. You can write one down in comments or you can send it to me on Dotafire, and if it is good ( i mean not trolling) I will post it bellow.
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