Dota 2 Discussion (~Boston Majors & Road to TI7~)

[Dr1f7]

played a couple games over the last few days
man now I remember just how much this game blows ass when you get a team that just isn't working together and you have to sit there and watch yourself get stomped on for 50 minutes straight
there goes my gaming hour for the week

Sorry to hear, brother. :/

Most of my DotA games it's more of a battle of trying not to mold/tilt or rage. It's not about playing the game that much. I hear it's different in not ranked games.

idk i don't even get mad really it's more just that i feel like i'm losing a huge chunk of my free time when my team just isn't playing the game (especially if i'm playing support)
like it's so time consuming, i have maybe time for one game every few days, and it really blows when that one game just ends up not even really being a game

anyway it ended up happening again (i was support and my position 1 was literally doing nothing for the first 8 minutes of the game) so I just abandoned the match then guess what, I end up in some "punishment pool" where the queue times for games are over a half hour

holy shit the game punishes you for not wanting to have your time wasted, by wasting your time even more
ughhh
I wish dota wasn't such a good game, then it would feel better to just uninstall and be done with it forever

 

[Axel_am]

Yes, brother. Dota is an addictive substance.

 

[Axel_am]

I hate/love it too.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Unfortunately Dota simply doesn't work as a casual game anymore. You have to devote huge chunks of your life to it and even then it's a very sad ratio between playable/unplayable matches.

I love it, been playing it off and on for about 12 years now, but I can't justify putting in the time. It's just not worth it no matter how you look at it.

 

[Axel_am]

I have a bunch of party stacks in my friend list that play only AP/SD/RD, or something else that's not ranked. It's very non-competitive, casual, and dare I say it - fun. A lot of the not so meta heroes are picked and people rely more on their heroes not wards, stacks or something similar. The games usually are also a lot shorter. I don't know if you guys are queuing only Ranked, but Normal pick is very casual and fun.

On the other hand playing ranked is like swimming in a cesspool filled with vipers. Everybody has already played 100 games before this and are on the verge of breaking their keyboards. The things is, that even if you want to get to Divine or higher you'll have to compete with people that have been spending their entire day playing DotA. Not for weeks, not for months, but for years. So what's the point? No, really what's the point? Just seeing your MMR stop at a number that will satisfy your ego? That might be it for me.

So what am going to do now? Well getting a cup of coffee and starting up my daily dotes of course.

 

[luj1]

People really play to win.
Of course you run into this guy wanting to try something ridiculous out once in a while, but they are rare.

Really all I ever do. Many people play for plays, like me.

 

[luj1]

I love it, been playing it off and on for about 12 years now, but I can't justify putting in the time. It's just not worth it no matter how you look at it.

No game is when you put it that way. Once a week (5, 6 games) I like to sit down with friends and play.

 

[Axel_am]

Not sure on that one. With single player games you do get better with time and there is a sense of progression. Not the same with mobas. The meta changes all the time and patches nerf/bufff stuff. So you have to put extra time in learning that if you want to be competitive. Also no story to progress while playing.

More like - "No PvP game is worth when you put it that way."

 

[Axel_am]

7.34e. I was expecting harder nerfs. Looks like we are headed for the Gyro/PL meta. Hopefully, we will skip the Lycan but the SB, Kunkka, NP nerfs and Vlad buff suggest otherwise.

A new Frostivus event is coming which I'm actually looking forward to this year. If they release something like Aghanim's Labyrinth, and if other codexers are down for it, maybe we can make a stack and see how it goes?

Arcana event coming soon™.

 

[InspectorRumpole]

Another few month before the "real" update. Maybe tied with the release of Ringmaster.

With the quality of Valve big patches, I'm ok with waiting.

If they release something like Aghanim's Labyrinth, and if other codexers are down for it, maybe we can make a stack and see how it goes?

A reddit user said they've updated some code regarding Aghs Lab. Who knows.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

I'm a new player with about 30 hours. Mostly playing position 4. Anyone here still play?

 

[Axel_am]

Giving myself a break from Dota. Waiting for the christmas events and hopefully I don't get sucked into it after.

My meta prediction was very off. Except for the Gyro shit. It was pretty strong on pos 4/5 a few weeks ago. Haven't looked at meta lists but I'd imagine Slardar and Lone Druid are kings.

 

[InspectorRumpole]

I'm 10k hours and still playing.

 

[Nathir]

I can't play even one game. Worst patch ever, with the same heroes picked over and over again.

 

[luj1]

I'm 10k hours and still playing.

If we are counting Dota 1, then I probably have 20k hours across both.

 

[luj1]

Phylactery so good on some heroes man

sickening on Rubick, Sky, Lich

 

[Axel_am]

I've tried it on Sky too. It's decent but it feels like it's delaying his key items too much.
Phylactery on BH and Clinkz is fucking disgusting.

 

[The_Mask]

I looked at the damage breakdown at the end, and how much phylactery adds to damage. My conclusion is that it is very overpriced for what it does.

I look forward to being proved wrong.

 

[Axel_am]

Holy shit. This patch is huge.

I'm just gonna skim over it and figure things out in-game for the most part. I've been reducing my DotA time and reading 10 pages of patch notes is certainly gonna boot up my addiction full force once again. If any of the changes left an impression on someone feel free to share them.

 

[The_Mask]

Phylactery became a Core-only item. Like... it's so expensive that I can't justify it on a Support... like... almost never.

 

[Black]

 

[Axel_am]

Phylactery became a Core-only item. Like... it's so expensive that I can't justify it on a Support... like... almost never.

I'll try it out on Sky/4 later. I've been falling down the ladder so hard the past two weeks that it would fit my games pretty well. Or maybe Sky/3 with Midas. topkek

 

[Axel_am]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3_MwB-_AOo&t

Based Valve.

 

[The_Mask]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehehehehehehehehehehehehe~!

 

[Dr1f7]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehehehehehehehehehehehehe~!

wish valve would ban my account and put me out of my misery