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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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Thoughts? Do you think they will get the to the Competition level?
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Quick thought - Idea's for Aghanims, for heroes that don't have one.
Clearly some heroes will be useless with it - ie cent and traxex But who do you think would benefit from having an aganims upgrade?

Here's a quick example of what I mean -

Anti-Mage - my idea here would be to burn mana equal to damage dealt also in AOE. ie// if you did 600 dmg you would burn 600 mana from target, and anyone caught in the AOE - and reduce mana cost of cast.

Bat Rider - decrease CD? to 20 seconds or 15, with extra half second or second on lasso?

Bloodseeker - increase cast range, increase duration to 10 seconds, auto 'ON' for blood lust during the 10 seconds, MAYBE decrease cd slightly, but anything less than 45 seconds would be OP

Bristleback - pointless, can't really justify it, without being op - 1 extra stack longer duration?, but then it's not worth buying an aganims

Chaos Knight - +1 illusion (now 4) decrease cd to 100 seconds

ETC? Anyone have good idea's for the remaining heroes without ag…
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I personally want Medusa to be joined because she is a GREAT counter-pusher
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At the moment, all anyone does is complain about pushing line-ups and the entire meta is surrounded by pushers. Just a quick FYI as to why that is: A lot of the competitive Gankers, Teamfight and Turtle-oriented heroes are not in the game yet, or heroes that are needed for them to work. Examples of this are Medusa, Wisp, Pit Lord, Nyx, Tauren Chieftain and Undying are the big examples. Medusa's ultimate denies Pipe since it purges effects, her nuke drains the entire team of mana, she can turtle back and amass gold, becoming what is considered one of the best carries in the game right now. Wisp's ability to gank and deny pushes is also very good and also gets exponentially better late game with his buff. Wisp can also suicide which has pretty much been falling to heroes like Windrunner and Queen of Pain these days. Nyx is an amazing ganker and can really shut down any semi-squishy hero in the game, with his recent buffs (though some see them as nerfs), he has become even better in a tur…
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