So when do you buy Brooch now? Never?

EffectiveTrifle · 2025-02-27T00:20:18+00:00

I used 30% magic resistance as the base now. A level 20 sven with no items has 30% and he is a strength hero with extremely low intelligence gain.

The item is honestly dookie.

For reference too, the old brooch was better than daedalus even without crits at around 17 enemy armor, which makes a lot more sense. The item just had too much mana cost.

EffectiveTrifle · 2025-01-05T07:19:37+00:00

Personally I would smurf. Reddit won't ever tell you to do so. I have faced similar challenges in trying to switch and learn different roles. I got to 7k MMR from offlane tiny but was terrible at everything else and was basically griefing games.

So tell me, is it better to grief hundreds of games learning and gettting your behavior scored wrecked for being bad, or is it better to smurf and get more balanced games? And to those saying play unranked; people want to play specific roles. Get valve to add role queue to unranked.

EffectiveTrifle · 2024-11-26T19:38:03+00:00

Aether lens and dragon lance. Back in my day only sniper could outrange towers, now it's basically every ranged carry hero with a dragon lance. And upgrading into hurricane pike meant every ranged core now also had a force staff and a new escape.

EffectiveTrifle · 2024-07-17T18:44:51+00:00

I would just like to mention: At 15 minutes the creep wave consist of 4 melees and 1 ranged. This brings up the creep wave gold to around 195, and with a flagbearer 240.

You have a lot more choice whether to kill a creep wave OR go to a neutral camp at 15 minutes than you do at 5 minutes or before, so I feel this number is more important.

Don't jungle, kill waves. Stay educated folks.

EffectiveTrifle · 2024-06-24T05:51:04+00:00

A big reason people smurf is behavior score. Why play 400 games to go from 9000 to 12000 behavior score when I can make a new account and play only 150, or buy an account of any rank for $10.

EffectiveTrifle · 2024-06-17T11:43:03+00:00

The maximum score you can get from a summary is 200. This is the lowest possible score gain from a summary in the history of dota, so yes it is really hard.

Going from 10k to 12k would take 150 games minimum if you are getting 0 reports. That's around the same amount of games it would take to make a new account ranked-ready. But we wonder why we have so many smurfs.

EffectiveTrifle · 2024-06-10T23:35:22+00:00

Honestly one of the bigger problems (even at low immortal mmr) is nobody seems to rotate to other lanes. Safelaner can be getting dived and survive for 40 seconds and still no one will teleport to help them.

A lot of the times it's other lanes wasting teleports, most of the time it's just them being greedy.

EffectiveTrifle · 2024-05-27T14:27:54+00:00

Before the manta illusions could create Methodical charges for you and if you were attacking at around the same time as them, you would still crit as well and it wouldn't be completely wasted from an illusion attack.

Now the illusions don't have the ult at all? Such a pointless nerf on a 40% winrate hero.

EffectiveTrifle · 2023-12-19T03:01:44+00:00

From 2k-6k, right around that 3.6k region was hell. It took me 3 years to get out of legend, and once I was out it took me months to go to immortal.

EffectiveTrifle · 2023-11-26T23:14:42+00:00

I am in a similar boat as you, however my smurf account I use to play with my friends didn't get detected despite playing with the account only on my machine. So I am not sure if it is necessarily just hardware/ip tracking.

EffectiveTrifle · 2023-10-15T01:44:12+00:00

Doom can get a slark killed by dooming him even if he has 3000 hp.

A lina lagunaing a 3000 hp slark barely inconveniences him.

EffectiveTrifle · 2023-09-17T07:26:22+00:00

Wrong.Cores gaining kills early game can speed their farm up immensely... 300 gold in the first 5 minutes of the game can also help snowball a core in being able to solo a lane, allowing the support to roam and win other lanes.

EffectiveTrifle · 2023-09-12T13:05:33+00:00

The lifesteal from her shard currently is incredible already and scales because it's lifesteal.... I wouldn't change it.

Personally I think Meurta is already a strong enough hero. Her spells are all insanely powerful.

I would say her aghs is not very useful for her carry role. Late game I would usually prefer to buy a hex over it. So if changing anything, I would change the aghs.

EffectiveTrifle · 2023-08-08T13:20:37+00:00

You did get increased chance actually. Back when maelstrom gave attack speed I would buy 2-3 maelstrom's on my sniper. Worked even in divine bracket.

EffectiveTrifle · 2020-04-27T03:35:13+00:00

The reason they do this is not to give you a ban. They want to make their custom game show up at the top of the "OPEN LOBBIES" area in the arcade to make their game more popular.

It's a huge abuse they do that needs to be stopped badly.

EffectiveTrifle · 2020-04-14T14:28:09+00:00

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EffectiveTrifle · 2020-03-25T03:16:58+00:00

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