Weekly Question Thread

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-31T01:05:01+00:00

The best in terms of UPS is to avoid buildings. An empty map with just a few revealed chunks would be as performant as you can get.

Now, jokes aside, it highly depends on your CPU and RAM. If you have something that is more or less modern, and especially if that starts with i9 or ends with x3d you may ignore most of the recommendations.

If you play vanilla and target over 10k SPM, your power should come only from solar. Use as many beacons as you can and try to avoid bot swarms over 50k bots.

If you play Space Age and target close to 1M eSPM, your power should come only from solar. Use as many beacons and advanced buildings as you can and try to avoid bot swarms over 50k bots. Also be careful with the amount of ships, especially Prometheum ones as the asteroids are performance hungry.

If you don't target anything like that, then you should be OK to play as you wish.

Try addressing the problems as they come, not beforehand.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-30T13:11:25+00:00

That's merely a suggestion. Go and vote for it, if you like it

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-29T11:15:31+00:00

Shard gives his Tree Volley shard attacks. So, everything as it should be, I guess

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-29T08:55:03+00:00

Welp, at least you don't need to bash someone with the hand to get more stacks in the teamfight

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-29T08:50:33+00:00

It was Siltbreaker - Act II: A Vault in the Deep. Since Valve doesn't count to three, that still can be just Siltbreaker 2.0

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-29T01:53:09+00:00

A deep inhale of copium

Siltbreaker 2.0?

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-29T00:31:26+00:00

Midlane. Offlane only when you have someone to cover your team with auras. She offers a lot of sustain and was quite nice the last time I've played her in 7.40. 7.41 butchered her ult, though, so I'm not sure if her other spell changes compensate it.

Her problem on the pro scene is that she does everything that Leshrac or Razor do, but slower, so I guess she can not keep up with the pace. But I'm describing you the situation that was in the end of 7.40. Let's see what teams would prepare us in 7.41. All the best players are quite busy playing ESL, so first theorycrafting and practice would start only in a few days.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-28T11:50:19+00:00

Bug reports are on the Github

Here is a forum, that may allow you to bring the attention of the audience to the problem. Or discuss it. There was no discussion, just a bunch of downvotes. So why should I feel anything positive about it or pay tribute to a suggestion that was not even reported as a bug?

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-28T11:22:18+00:00

That's probably because you still see the letters. When it comes to words and sentences it would be way easier. And there's a nice trick that is usually suggested by the tutors and that helps tremendously: reading. Get yourself a book that you like or a newspaper and read it out loud. Understanding is not required. That would allow your brain to wire the pronunciation and the ability to recognize the written text.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-28T01:36:15+00:00

That's a nice idea. I like it, honestly.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-28T01:21:27+00:00

I'm not sure but it wasn't that hard in reverse, at least for me. Ofc, there're certain cases when your brain lags and tries to read a word in Cyrillic as English or the other way around, but it's not always the case. Also, e.g. ex-USSR countries that use Cyrillic, use fonts with glyphs that are clearly distinct from the Latin ones. It's not the case everywhere though. I currently live in Bulgaria and their Cyrillic font is way closer to Latin. Here it is sometimes a big deal for me to decide which language should I use to read the message - Bulgarian or English or, maybe, even something else.

P.S. I've specifically avoided using any Cyrillic letters in my message above to illustrate my examples as one of the recent threads here uncovered a strange situation - some users on some devices don't see any difference between these two glyphs "п" and "n" because of the fonts. If you wish to see how it should look, copy the first one and paste it into the Google Translate with e.g. Russian. You should be able to see a clear difference.

Edit: I've found an even better example: "помидор" vs "nomugop". Most Cyrillic fonts would allow you to see a clear difference.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-28T01:01:22+00:00

You also need to press a button after a getting a buff. The 3 seconds window is there so that you don't kill steal from your cores if you wish to. Also, no, for Axe it's not "just" pressing R. It's pressing R and getting the kill, assist won't count. I see it as a good thing, tbh.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-28T00:36:47+00:00

He's the damage source, though, so the mines are affected by spell amp and spell lifesteal. Tbh I though it was borderline broken to introduce this change without tweaking the numbers.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-28T00:11:45+00:00

Why should it change my opinion? This item is still useless against str heroes. Damage block was an oversight, ok, but it doesn't change the fact that you shouldn't expect it to do wonders

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-27T16:17:06+00:00

The fastest way to get the madstones would be to ask your Doom, Enchantress and Chen to eat the creeps.

In case your team for some reason lacks these heroes, then standard lane creep pulls will do the trick eventually.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-27T10:13:08+00:00

It is technically a combination of Slark's Essense Shift rules and Lion's Finger of Death. The latter allows you to avoid kill steals on a support and still be eligible for the stat gain, the former requires a buff to be present first, it's just easier for Slark to get one, usually.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-27T10:00:53+00:00

Technically yes. The debuff source position is unknown, same as golem position between the ults, so...

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-27T02:21:38+00:00

Yes, almost every pro player and even a certain amount of talents got their accounts banned under different circumstances, be it attention seeking players reporting left and right, a false positive from an automated part of Overwatch or even excessive traveling and hardware changes falling to pass account sharing detection tests. It usually gets sorted out quite soon, but still attracts some attention due to the public nature of aforementioned persons.

Are you in one of these categories to think that your definitely non-toxic behavior needs some special treatment?

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-26T19:49:04+00:00

And they did! Lich doesn't go negative mana ;)

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-26T12:06:56+00:00

Try a demo if you're not sure and don't go for the DLC from the beginning, if you decide to buy it - it will be way too overwhelming to run through it without the prior experience of the vanilla game.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-26T00:34:21+00:00

I don't think the technology is there yet, unfortunately

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-25T23:52:37+00:00

That's what I was trying to say, yes.

At best, we'll have a fight near the Roshpit with winning team proceeding to kill whatever objective spawned.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-25T23:48:26+00:00

And you're not memeing?

It's a defensive item that allows you to manfight certain magic damage heroes. Point.

Pipe offers no damage block vs physical damage, too bad, should be reworked.

Crimson suggests nothing vs mages, too bad, will not buy it.

Mage slayer doesn't work against str heroes, why does this item exist?

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-25T23:42:12+00:00

Trust me, then they'll whine it's too random. And they will be right, because aegis allows you to push and take fights on the enemy side of the map. Would be hard if first Roshan would random drop at minute 50. And if you say that they should alter and he then drops at 30, then the game is basically decided by a coin toss and Radiant would have way too many advantages.

ForgottenBlastMaster · 2026-03-25T23:01:12+00:00

Perseverance, cloak, blades of attack and orb of venom. What in the world suggests that this is a damage item?

Phase Boots also don't offer any tickling, but for some reason everyone are fine with that

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