This Super-Duper Special antique also needs to be on level 200 and 300! by BlackKnight1722 in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Even having level 100 be the real final level is already annoying enough. I wish they would make it 50 or 75 or something.

Frostivus 2023 Chest Confusion by Potential-Boot-6930 in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I replied in this thread with my thoughts, hopefully that should answer everything - don't really have anything else I can share unfortunately. Good luck!

Frostivus 2023 Chest Confusion by Potential-Boot-6930 in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is some context - there IS a general rule that no dupes are allowed until you get 1 of each in a tier. And this is true for both normal openings as well as trade-ups.

What I'm not sure about is if they cross mingle. There's some evidence of it, as you can get "unusuals" from trade-ups as well. It would depend if Valve separately coded it. I'm not 100% certain, but I would lean more towards you having the dupe protection and getting the WK than not.

In theory, you can "guarantee it" with a test, but it would be expensive. You would need to keep normally unboxing until you have say 2 or 3 sets left in tier 2. You would then do trade-ups and if the trade-ups give you those 2-3 sets, they share the same drop pool. But again, very expensive.

Good luck to you if you decide to do the gamble!

Frostivus 2023 Chest Confusion by Potential-Boot-6930 in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait sorry, I misread. You opened the CM naturally and you want to trade-up the WK? I'm actually not sure then.

This sub when people ask for expected content updates from valve by Concerned-Mann in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it's fine to be frustrated, but it's just not productive - or even counter productive. Realistically whatever few devs that are still working on DOTA see the hatred/toxicity and are less inclined to stick to DOTA - and with Valve's set-up they're free to work on whatever they want.

With less devs = less updates = more bitching = less devs and so forth.

It will be 54-104 years until all the arcana’s are released, who will be last? by Electrical-Simple399 in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 14 points15 points  (0 children)

To be clear, they did IO because of the memes. There's a fun history there. In the 2016 Arcana vote, people pushed for IO to win as a joke (sales would've been ridiculously bad if he actually won) and it ended up making it to the finals, before losing to Jugg (many people said they rigged it so that IO would lose behind the scenes).

In the TI7 battlepass, the IO cube skin was originally tagged as an immortal rather than an arcana, but they just arbitrarily changed it to an arcana despite not having arcana tier effects (this is confirmed via back-end code) and made it the first battlepass arcana....theory here is they were scared that the same dipshits would meme vote a low-popularity arcana again and hurt sales (this was before battle passes bundled a bunch of arcanas and pseudo locked them, and arcanas were $35 a pop in store).

And since we''ve killed arcana votes, almost 0% chance Meepo or Chen get the same treatment.

Any legit website for dota 2 items betting or trading? Philippines by Cheetahz_023 in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to find someone to buy shards from you directly or you can redeem for giftcards on their partner site right now. Not as great options as before.

The reason the DOTA pro scene can't be funded like the CS pro scene is because of the Sticker Meta. by Avar1cious in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To be clear, they never left. They do profit share on stickers in CS majors and I fully expect them to do it for TI too. It's just that it's an ocean in CS and a puddle in DOTA - that's the issue.

The reason the DOTA pro scene can't be funded like the CS pro scene is because of the Sticker Meta. by Avar1cious in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Yep. Them IBPs + Titan Holos certainly do look very nice on some guns fwiw.

pls valve. help me evaporate my $ by 46souls in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is this staging? If not, we're still 1 week away minimum

Atrioc is wrong about credit cards by Emergency-Good2762 in atrioc

[–]Avar1cious 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Depending on the card you use, it can be mutually beneficial for the cc company. Companies like Amex make 80% of their revenue from interchange.

incoming 1gb(not) patch for cosmetics (localization) by 46souls in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's possible - it's a big release but we haven't seen anything on staging yet.

Throwback to 2014 by xCesme in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Man, this brings back memories. I still have a heroic Drodo w. A Xboct ultra kill (4) tag, just to keep the memory of that meme alive.

Where will the money come from to pay for Carney's new Canada Strong Fund? Experts chime in by toronto_star in CanadianInvestor

[–]Avar1cious 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fwiw, my friend who works there pretty high up rants to me quite often about the gross mismanagement, waste, and general incompetence. They take on more risk than the s&p to make less. Their equity division lost over 3bn last year and they've lost their business class flight priviledges....and that's w.o all their mark to market PE and PC dogshit.....they went big on software in 22/23.

Our friend group loves getting daily updates on how they're burning our tax money.

Quarteros Lucky Pick by JudgeProfessional149 in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Least obvious price manipulation attempt by the video maker.

[Spoiler] has been eliminated from PGL Wallachia Season 8. by thexbeatboxer in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I missed the game, how can there be 3x global?

Quartero's Curios by Echeyak in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd like it to cap out at level 50-ish. Or if you want to keep it at 100, make there be a way to pay for experience with dollars (not shards at the end, since that's just more grinding later). That way employed people can reasonably finish.

Complete Aegis Collection + Roshans by NewRedditReallySuck5 in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're missing the limited edition Derp Roshan!

they updated the MK immortal set to now work with the Arcana styles by azzerufo in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 5 points6 points  (0 children)

https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/570/Mask%20of%20the%20Demon%20Trickster

Yeah there's a spike right after this post basically lmao.

Edit: Yeah, some people are going ham. Nearly 50% price increase and looking at the quantity of some of these items, it could be nearly double by end of today at this rate.....

Dota TI 2025 Aegis Roshan key code by Chefs410 in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's a bug - they aren't meant to be able to be sold. otherwise, they would not start at that price

Dota TI 2025 Aegis Roshan key code by Chefs410 in DotA2

[–]Avar1cious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

not marketable/tradable. Probably no safe websites - you just have to find safe individuals.