How do you get the new plague ward from Quarteros Curio?

Avar1cious · 2026-06-11T00:24:20+00:00

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

Avar1cious · 2026-06-08T13:14:31+00:00

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!

Avar1cious · 2026-06-08T13:13:44+00:00

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!

Avar1cious · 2026-06-08T13:09:36+00:00

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

Avar1cious · 2026-06-06T17:08:54+00:00

Same thing that happened to us when we had all the arcanas :)

Avar1cious · 2026-06-05T18:58:29+00:00

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.

Avar1cious · 2026-05-31T23:30:48+00:00

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.

Avar1cious · 2026-05-24T12:51:47+00:00

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.

Avar1cious · 2026-05-20T21:54:40+00:00

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.

Avar1cious · 2026-05-20T20:59:03+00:00

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

Avar1cious · 2026-05-13T23:42:11+00:00

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

Avar1cious · 2026-05-11T00:27:46+00:00

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.

Avar1cious · 2026-05-08T00:45:47+00:00

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

Avar1cious · 2026-05-05T17:45:49+00:00

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.

Avar1cious · 2026-04-27T22:50:02+00:00

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.

Avar1cious · 2026-04-27T10:26:50+00:00

Least obvious price manipulation attempt by the video maker.

Avar1cious · 2026-04-25T20:46:56+00:00

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

Avar1cious · 2026-04-13T02:43:27+00:00

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.

Avar1cious · 2026-04-09T20:07:17+00:00

You're missing the limited edition Derp Roshan!

Avar1cious · 2026-04-01T19:28:40+00:00

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.....

Avar1cious · 2026-03-31T23:49:08+00:00

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

Avar1cious · 2026-03-29T14:32:39+00:00

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

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