would be nice to see more STR heroes like magnataur or centaur warchief

but if anything you're right, probably TA

If they add Gyrocopter & Rubick, I wouldn't doubt it if they added any new hero, I just hope that they will never add the new heroes (e.g. Legion Commander, Fire Panda, Goblin Shredder and what they all are)

TA or Luna, possibly wisp.

Does anyone have a key left for Larto? We need to get him away from LoL.

Hahahaha, I don't have one, sorry u.u

I really doubt they're even handing out invites at this point, as they just released them for sale for 40 bucks. They must have at least drastically decreased the amount of people they invite.

Just tell Larto to enter every Dota 2 thing on steam gifts until he wins lol

Nharox wrote:

Does anyone have a key left for Larto? We need to get him away from LoL.

€30,-

The Euro sign before the numbers looks fucking disgusting. Plus Larto has no money (guess why he plays LoL).

no money - no honey

Luna and Wisp are in

HOLY FUCK LUNA LOOKS FUCKING AMAZING ISFHSDOFJSDP:FJSDF:KLSDJF:SLDKFSD:FLSD

Luna can use orb effects besides Lifesteal now, I've waited for this moment for way too long !!!

You guys should add me

http://steamcommunity.com/id/sonez

I do have 1 key that i MIGHT be willing to part with, depending on how cool you are.

I need one key for a friend who are waiting around 5 or 6 months... D:

Edit: YEAH!

Shanaftw, key plz <3


>Has gotten over 11 keys, still needs 11 more.

omfg AM blink on Rubick has to be the most fun op shit in the world.

'Coz of the anti-mage replicate when Rubick blinks or why?

Magicphoenix wrote:

'Coz of the anti-mage replicate when Rubick blinks or why?

The Same thing happends on DotA 1.

When Rubick stoles the Magina's Blink and He (Rubick) uses it, he leaves the magina corpse on the ground for 1 second.

[AirCoN] wrote:

Shanaftw, key plz <3


>Has gotten over 11 keys, still needs 11 more.

Wait what, why you need so many. I gave away some on playdota already and some to amd peeps ^^

Magicphoenix wrote:

'Coz of the anti-mage replicate when Rubick blinks or why?

Cause its a delay less (like Blink dagger) blink on a 5 sec (or w/e) cooldown. When AM blinks, there is a tad bit of delay before he goes. He kinda twist and spins. Its instant for rubick, like Blink dagger.

That is indeed OP and fortunately got fixed on Nature's Prophet, SF & Sniper, though it was pretty amusing when I played as Rubick against them
Most imbalanced thing this patch is that Wisp's ultimate comes without a ping or warning on the minimap, when I stared on the minimap 'coz of Wisp and was sure nothing was there - suddenly beastmaster & Io crawling up my ass from behind

furion/sniper/sf has a casting time which is different from animation swing. Anti-mage only has an animation swing. Rubick has no animation swing, so his stolen spells becomes instant.

Gabi wrote:

furion/sniper/sf has a casting time which is different from animation swing. Anti-mage only has an animation swing. Rubick has no animation swing, so his stolen spells becomes instant.

This also applies to Powershot, right?

Yes, powershot has a 1 second Casting time.

On that topic, Powershot on Rubick is fucking hilarious.

Everything on Rubick is fucking hilarous, leap is especially funny f or me

They should totally map leap so that he jumps on his broom and hops away like on a pogostick imo.

Wisp so dumb and funny, I love that hero omg.

Ye, I love it how wisp-players always take baits. Let your carry farm, sit with 4 heroes smoked behind him, wait for Wisp & carry-able hero : profit

In Tournament CMs... Wisp is first ban or first pick.

Good job M5
http://www.joindota.com/en/news/3537-mo ... -amsterdam

http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=44468

Looks like Thrall and Undying are in now.


Also:

Update Notes - July 4, 2012
- Added Disruptor and Undying!
- Enabled Rubick, Wisp, and Luna in Captain's Mode.

GAMEPLAY
- Bloodseeker: Fixed Bloodbath not properly granting a heal from enemy heroes dying in an AoE.
- Invoker: Fixed DPS burn from Chaos Meteor not stacking per tick.
- Luna: Fixed Eclipse ending if you get Cycloned.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed astral indicator to only show for hero and allied team.
- Rubick: Fixed stolen Persuasion not killing stolen creeps when lost.
- Rubick: Fixed stolen Relocate not teleporting teammates who are linked with a stolen Tether.
- Rubick: Fixed Toggleable spells not being stealable.
- Rubick: Fixed not getting flying vision or flying height when stealing Firefly.
- Rubick: Fixed Fade Bolt stopping when Rubick dies.
- Rubick: Fixed stealing Morph Replicate and Replicate not working correctly.
- Rubick: Fixed Invoker's Spell Stolen abilities having broken hotkeys sometimes when using Legacy Mode.
- Rubick: Fixed Telekinesis land AoE triggering Linken's Sphere.
- Wisp: Fixed Magic Stick interaction with Tether.
- Wisp: Overcharge and the two spirit control sub abilities no longer proc magic stick.
- Wisp: Spirits no longer don't retain their vision after they explode.
- Wisp: Fixed Relocate's return not interrupting other channeling spells (like TP Scroll).
- Wisp: Fixed heroes continuing old movement orders after returning with Relocate.
- Wisp: Fixed Soul Ring not working with Tether.
- Warlock: Fixed the burn aura from Warlock's Golems so it stacks correctly.
- Small fix to creep aggro reaction time.

VISUALS
- Fixes for guardian spirits rendering with pops and such when entering/leaving FoW.
- Added 'Telekinesis Land' effect marker for Rubick.
- The game now desaturates when paused.
- Fixed Wisp voice lipsync getting stuck on with random noise.
- Fixed ranged display stomping on ambient effects, including Wisp.
- Fixed Unusual Flying Couriers losing some of their effects when transitioning.
- Fixed Tether being left behind when enemy teleported into FoW.
- Changed Guardian Wisp Explosion Effects.
- Added more obvious Wisp Tether Boundary Effect.

UI
- When someone buys back, an icon now shows on the top bar for 5 seconds.
- Tether now shows the amount that it heals it's target.
- Wisp spirits no longer show up on the minimap.
- Wisp and his tethered unit move their camera when they Relocate and Relocate back.
- Right clicking an upgradable item in the shop will attempt to upgrade any (fully combined) version of that item that the player already owns. (Right click on Necro 1 will actually buy a Necro recipe if the player has a Necro 1 or 2, etc)
- Fixed shop closing when other players' selections change
- We now show the Aghanim upgrade info in the ability itself if you're holding the scepter.

AUDIO
- The Relocate sound stops correctly now.

BOTS
- Fixed a bug were all bots would disable themselves if a human on the other team disconnected before picking a hero.
- Changed how bots use Glyph, they should no longer use it when their buildings aren't being attacked.
- Made Crystal Maiden bot even more timid.
- Bots will temporarily no longer do Roshan.
- Made bots go to the lane front when defending in-base rather than cowering behind the innermost towers.
- Fixed bug where bots weren't correctly parsing their roles, which would lead to bad hero picking/randoming.
- Fixed case were bots could "cheat" and have knowledge of where their target was when blinking.

yeahyeahyeahhh wrote:

Update Notes - July 4, 2012
- Added Disruptor and Undying!

Let the wtf-way-too-OP teamfights begin...

Tshemmp wrote:

http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=44468

Looks like Thrall and Undying are in now.


Also:

I still don't get how he became a fan magnet with his ear-hurting voice and 24/7 offenses...

Magicphoenix wrote:

I still don't get how he became a fan magnet with his ear-hurting voice and 24/7 offenses...

You won't be entertained if you take him serious ofcourse. You have the wrong approach I guess.

Of course I don't take him serious wtih all the crap he spouts out, still, his character pisses me off and like I said, his voice & accent destroys my ears.
+ I want Gandalf in DOTA 2

Sudden urge to buy Gummy Vitamins...

dafuq about the last update?

Also

Magicphoenix wrote:

+ I want Gandalf in DOTA 2

Yeah, I want Ezalor in da game too.

Just played vs [drd]KingRaven with Gabi. ROFL



No idea who he is look down

That guy is even worse than Sing Sing.

so i was practicing invoker and i bumped into this
how2get fast like him omg

yes, it's dendi but still

^ how the hell?

Dendi also tries to troll in his pubs no matter what, he's losing 11-22 with his team but still goes meka, vlads & dagger on AM

Magicphoenix wrote:

but still goes meka, vlads & dagger on AM

dafuq did I just read?

There's now an extra server for Russians & other north europeans, gg

Magicphoenix wrote:

There's now an extra server for Russians & other north europeans, gg

Wait does that mean less Russians for western Yurp?

If Yurp means Europe then yes, once people give a good feedback from the test stage there will probably be much less Russians playing on the official Europe server

Now they just need like a bajillion BR servers so I never get them on my team again

(no offense to Brazilian osu! players, but fuck most of the retards I get on my team)

invoker so fun
done practicing him \o/

Lycan is the best fucking hero ever. Losing as him is nearly impossible!

I approve, Remco finally got some kills.

N'aix, Slardar, Magina.

I can take down that Lycan with some other heroes.





Fucking "Farmer" Windrunner...

Nharox wrote:

I approve, Remco finally got some kills.

I always play support you baka

Hey, someone still has a spare key? I really need one :/

Try sharedota2 on Reddit, Steamgifts or buy a key on ebay. They are cheap and worth it.

I'm the best player ever!

If you'd like to beat Lycan just pick a hero who can man-to-man him like Slardar, Templar Assassin, Anti-Mage or just kite him with heroes who got escape spells like Windrunner, Mirana, Storm or just buy Force Staff/Ghost Scepter, wait until his ulti runs out and then laugh at him for being useless

Magicphoenix wrote:

If you'd like to beat Lycan just pick a hero who can man-to-man him like Slardar, Templar Assassin, Anti-Mage or just kite him with heroes who got escape spells like Windrunner, Mirana, Storm or just buy Force Staff/Ghost Scepter, wait until his ulti runs out and then laugh at him for being useless

If you think it's that simple to win vs a Lycan then you're just silly. Lycan is the power house he is for multiple reasons.

Gaba wrote:

Hey, someone still has a spare key? I really need one :/

You can trade 2 or 3 chest keys for a invite, just go to the main trade channel in game ( Trade or TRADE )

It's the usual counter for pubs, if you want to beat him properly you also need disables and especially the ones who go through BKB and lots of counter push and accurate execution, in the end DOTA 2 is a 5n5 though, as long as you can take care of the 4 other heroes, Lycan won't be a trouble as big in the end

+
Maelk raping people with his look
left to right, Fear - Bulba - Maelk - DeMoN - Universe (Evil Geniuses)

^ Maelk the only really "evil" one here .

lycan dominates the game at every single level of play. not only has this hero got the incredibly broken potential, but the amount of skill required to hit that potential is laughable. its quite tragic to see such an imbalanced hero after dota has been refined and tweaked with for so many years.

Mikey wrote:

lycan dominates the game at every single level of play

I concur, although this can be easily countered with Tresdin (if he gets ported anyway)

Lycan is a strong pubstomp hero. But he's quite weak on pro scenes.

Pizzicato wrote:

Lycan is a strong pubstomp hero. But he's quite weak on pro scenes.

I haven't spend that much time watching tournaments (yet) but Lycan always gets banned.

And we actually lost once with Lycan because Remco is a sletje hasn't farmed enough.

Pizzicato wrote:

Lycan is a strong pubstomp hero. But he's quite weak on pro scenes.

dafuq did I just read?

Are you serious?

If a Lycan catch in Mid/Late with only with Vladimir/S&Y, he'll destroy your body, and destroy you again in the afterlife.

Also, N'aix or Slardar are the only heroes who can beat him properly.

Pizzicato wrote:

Lycan is a strong pubstomp hero. But he's quite weak on pro scenes.

http://dota-academy.com/hero/85/
See? He is nearly always banned or picked in the last 4 months. And his winrate is quite impressive, too.

I love this thread!!

And I love you Zero.

I counter Lycan with Teemo hue.

Still waiting for Ezalor, Naga Siren, Troll Warlord, Magnataur, Meepo and Techies.

who gets S&Y on lycan

Phase Boots, Vladimir, S&Y, Basher, Terrasque, Assault Cuirass.

Yep, Lycan will destroy you.

I'll admit, that build is bad

iMercurial wrote:

Phase Boots, Vladimir, S&Y, Basher, Terrasque, Assault Cuirass.

Yep, Lycan will destroy you.

Typical pub trash.

Just do it... and tell me later how do you win

nah I think I'll get travel, vlads, orchid, linkens, diffusal, manta next game

or maybe sheepstick instead of linkens

yeah

I can deal with manta, but orchid? BKB is better.

Also, Diffu is, dunno, is not my way. BKB instead of linken and Assault Cuirass/Terrasque is a must.

Gabi wrote:

iMercurial wrote:

Phase Boots, Vladimir, S&Y, Basher, Terrasque, Assault Cuirass.

Yep, Lycan will destroy you.

Typical pub trash.

Basher is actually a viable choice, especially when you upgrade it to Abyssal Blade. He's easily kiteable and you want to get as much dmg as possible out of the little time he got ulti and you can't depend on team support if you go chase off a hero on your own

Vlads, Medallion, BKB, PT/BoT, Necro/Basher->Abyssal, HoT/AC is what I usually build in that exact order

I never said it wasn't viable, i said it was typical pub trash.

If you farm basher into abyssal it usually means you're going to be useless for quite a while, it also means you won't be able to push as hard as you need an insane amount of farm for abyssal. BoT in a pro game won't get you far either.

Lycan isn't "easily" kiteable, what the fuck? he runs at a 522 move speed and can't be slowed, if that's "easily" kiteable then i don't know what the fuck is hard. You want a Force/Dagger/blink skill to manage to get away from him(stun if he doesn't have bkb), and not every hero has that.

If the situation calls for it, get a BKB up asap after vlads/med/PT, if they don't have too many stuns, you get a necro book up which will improve your pushing potential by a lot. After that you buy AC/Deso OR IF YOUR TEAM LACKS STUNS YOU CAN GET A BASHER.

But in pubs people don't play him like that, and people don't know how to properly play against him, so he just farms jungle for 30 minutes and come out with mega items that will melt anyone he hits.

btw naix wont even beat lycan 1v1 in 90% of cases until like 50 mins in. slardar doesnt do that great either. ck and naga are two of the best ways to deal with lyca

Lanaya :>



Refraction looks really nice now.

- Added Templar Assassin!
- Enabled Templar Assassin, Disruptor and Undying in Captain's Mode.


GAMEPLAY
- Bounty Hunter: Fixed Jinada proccing on Tombstone.
- Broodmother: Fixed Spiderling passive proccing on magic immune units (like zombies) and spawning mass spiderlings.
- Disruptor: Fixed Kinetic Field sometimes causing heroes to fail to attack a hero who is being trapped in the field.
- Earthshaker: Fixed Echo Slam inital damage not hitting units through magic immunity.
- Leshrac: Fixed Pulse Nova procing Essence Aura.
- Lone Druid: Fixed Spirit Bear not aggroing creeps when it attacks a hero
- Luna: Fixed Moon Glaive bouncing on ward type units
- Luna: Fixed Moon Glaive bounce order.
- Lycan: Fixed wolves having max speed for their duration after Shapeshift ends if summoned during Shapeshift.
- Necrolyte: Fixed Death Pulse not healing allied magic immune units
- Puck: Fixed Phase Shift proccing Essence Aura.
- Rubick: Fixed being able to steal spells from their being toggled off.
- Rubick: Fixed getting stuck in Flesh Golem form when respawning with the buff.
- Rubick: Fixed some abilities being broken when re-stealing them, now re-stealing an ability will have no effect on your currently stolen ability.
- Shadow Shaman: Fixed Ether Shock ignoring Linken's Sphere.
- Spiritbreaker: Fixed Greaterbash affecting Magic Immune units when procced via other abilities
- Undying: Fixed Tombstone interaction with Refresher Orb.
- Undying: Fixed Deathlust sometimes not working properly.
- Undying: Fixed a bug where Deathlust would sometimes not go away.
- Undying: Decay now makes the target lose exactly 76 health when cast and heal exactly 76 when it ends. Before the health scaling was causing the target not to lose then gain the correct amount of health.
- Wisp: Fixed Spirits exploding on illusions.
- Wisp: Fixed Relocate to not teleport Wisp while dead
- Improved AFK detection.
- Fixed Smoke of Deceit dodging incoming projectiles if there are nearby enemy heroes.
- Fixed Ethereal Blade and Black King Bar interaction.
- Fixed completely-avoided damage from triggering blink dagger's cooldown.


UI
- Rich Presence now shows if you're casting a game.
- If you buy an Aghanim's Scepter on a hero with no upgrade, this is now shown in the ability.
- Battle point rate and any equipped bonuses are now shown in the inspect panel.
- Numerical battle points earned (split into base and bonus) are now shown on the game end screen.
- The play panel now shows matchmaking game modes and regions from the party when finding a match.
- Improved unpause countdown, added UI sound.
- Fixed case where we weren't properly crediting damage from summoned units/wards to their hero in the combatlog.
- Added an interface setting to prevent the camera from moving upon respawn
- Neutrals now have yellow healthbars when spectating.
- Roshan's healthbar is now slightly bigger.
- We now hide all match details until you reveal the winner.
- Team names and logos are now shown on match details panel.
- Fixed a handful of issues with the message and chat system when watching replays.


- The killcam card now flips over to show the full body portrait.
DOTA 2 BOTS
- Improved how bots manage their movement while doing evasive maneuvers -- they will now consider a range of escape directions and select the best one based on other nearby avoidance zones.
- Added avoidance to Disruptor's Kinetic Field (while it's forming) and Static Storm.
- Improved how bots request items from the stash via the courier. The courier will now only deliver items the hero has room for, and bots will take into account projected item combines.


VISUALS
- Added overhead messages when items or abilities cause unnatural mana gain or loss (such as Arcane Boots).

Love it how they immediately added her to Captain's Mode

I need psychiatrist help right now. I just lost a pub with lycan.

Lanayaaaaaaaaaaaaa

he's probably the best hero in DotA 2

Oh man, I just can't wait to go and be a useless piece of shit with Lanaya.

No idea why have I always sucked so many dick when played her.

^Comes with practice
Lanaya's ultimate is like the most op shit in the game, worse than Ice Wall
And Meld as well, 200 bonus dmg and -8 Armor OK
Seriously, Refraction is a joke as well, she kills you in 3 secs and you can't do a fuck about it and Psi Blades is like the ultimate lane-winner-harassassassination passive...
Whoever loses a lane or doesn't get any kills with her seriously got a problem with his playability

Magicphoenix wrote:

^Comes with practice
Lanaya's ultimate is like the most op shit in the game, worse than Ice Wall
And Meld as well, 200 bonus dmg and -8 Armor OK
Seriously, Refraction is a joke as well, she kills you in 3 secs and you can't do a fuck about it and Psi Blades is like the ultimate lane-winner-harassassassination passive...
Whoever loses a lane or doesn't get any kills with her seriously got a problem with his playability

i agree, shes ridiculously strong

I like how you can one-shot the enemy supports with her as soon as you get your Desolator and Blink.

Oh Lanaya, I used to play it frequently whenever a Techies was picked. Blademail plus Refract -----> walk to Land Mines ---> proceed to lol.

^That's also OP, the fact that she doesn't simply block the damage, she drains it and readds it again to do exactly what you just said

You can always blink while having Refraction activated now.

I hope that is a bug

It was just not possible in DotA 1 because Refraction was based on a heal there. Now it really blocks the damage and so Blink is not disabled.

Anyway one can see this as a buff, since Refraction got somehow nerfed with it's big visual effect.

But if this was unintentional...lol. Why did Valve already added her to -cm?

First DOTA 2 game in the pro-scene Orange vs iG with TA
Orange picked TA, ky.xy played it and gg for iG - TA 1 hit every support

Man CK has to be nerfed. That hero is not balanced in anyway.