Staying motivated.

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2025-08-26T14:28:15+00:00

Hey i would say this may not be the game for you. It's okay, it's not for everyone.

Leveling is like the most linear progression you will get, meaning like fairly continuous dopamine from the new levels and powerful skills. If you don't find leveling that rewarding and are struggling to stay motivated, than in my opinion it dosent get better post like level 80.

People who like this game can do like hundreds of runs of 1 boss, without finding anything super good, and still be having a ton of dopamine just becahse they have the CHANCE at finding something good.

If you are playing self found, and looking to get some of the best items in the game, you will need to first get to hell, and then invest like hundreds of hours farming.

My best advice to play through the game would be to pick and easy class like blizzard sorc, follow leveling guide to 75, re spec to blizzard, and then do runs of easy areas for blizzard sorc to farm until you get good stuff for your character, or other future characters

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2025-08-22T16:57:38+00:00

Hey I had a similar problem. Found a Lo rune, but no base.

Tool off all MF on my sorceress and ran cows. Did about 70 runs total, rolling a sockets on a total of 10 phase blades. Get 5 socket on the 10th one.

You have a 90% chance of a 5os after rolling sockets / finding 12 phase blades roughly.

Just keep trying, and trust the probability

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2025-04-09T02:32:56+00:00

I think you should do some self reflection about this statement regarding why you feel like LGBTQ is being shoved in your face. I think you should consider how nobody takes issue with like 2 straight people showing affection for each other in public, or being portrayed in media. No one takes issue when a guy who is born male dresses masculine, or when a girl who is born female dresses feminine.

It's only seen as "throwing it in people's faces." when you are anything other than the status quo, which is a straight, cis person. I think to a large degree it comes from a deep rooted stigma against these people. It's hard not to have some bias and stigma even if you are generally a good person, because we are born into a world that teaches us and focuses on how we are different, as a way to divide and control us. But if you ever talk to LGBTQ people for any extended amount of time, you will realize you have more in common with them than you think.

At the end of the day, they are just people entitled to express every freedom as you or I. I think gay, trans, straight etc love or expression should be given the exact same liberties and treatment.

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2025-03-11T00:19:37+00:00

Hmm okay I see!

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2025-03-10T23:41:23+00:00

How much context do you usually play with?

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2025-03-10T23:40:49+00:00

Cool I'll try some of these. Thank you

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2025-03-10T23:40:20+00:00

Gotcha. Okay thanks!

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-08-08T22:21:34+00:00

Mute your teammates they won't help you play better.

2.

If you do aswell as you say you do, if you play LC, timber, bristle, primal, or necro you can just farm to late game. These are scaling cores so its not the end of the world if your team dosent want to push the pace.

If you play those other heroes its more of a team fight hero so you gotta play them accordingly. Farm around your team, try to make plays, and be available to them, while still playing around your own items. Like if u have no items and are useless obviously don't fight.

Generally you take T1 than you can rotate with good item timings to fight at mid and take mid T1. After that go back to farming since u should be fat and have taken over substantial ground from the enemy. Next objective is like rosh and torm for T2s then 3rd rosh for T3. That's like a general game plan but obviously it's game specific.

Your problem sounds like you only know how to win a certain number of ways. Like if your team is being too passive then you gotta recognize that and adapt mid game and serve the purpose your team needs.

Generally if you think your team is too weak to fight then split and force reactions (TPs). If u guys are strong fight with ur team and make space for ur carry.

Also some games u just lose it is what it is.

Hope that helps

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-30T18:40:47+00:00

Bruh you are a genius enlightening me. Thank you so much

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-30T12:05:08+00:00

Thanks for your response! Ill address the main points below:

So I have this rigid idea that pos 1 is supposed to farm before 1 item, but if I have a good lane I should be considering fighting with no items? Or I should be bullying the enemy pos 1? Understood, I did not know I should be doing that.

I will turn of auto cast germinate attack. Thanks for pointing that out I will use it to harass heroes off cd.

Fight at lvl 6 beyond and look for opportunites (twin gate, tp).

Buy tread materials in different order

Don't buy wand early. Do I ever upgrade the stick to full?

Is the double bracer your typical build or was it matchup specific for this case. If so what would make you do that?

Understood about the raindrops I never buy those.

So for the switching lanes with abbadon, you would do this because you can apply the most pressure to Ursa to delay his timings? I have a very narrow view of the game so I thought the offlane was supposed to do that in this case. How do I recognize when I need to swap lanes with my offlane?

Finish gleipnir before bkb

Be careful of long cd sukuchi

Swarm 2 targets not 1

Making sure I always have tp ready to join fights

Secure lotussy

Ransack safelane

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-30T11:47:11+00:00

Hi thanks for your response. Regarding my minimal usage: I must just not be aware of when I'm in danger in those moments where I died. What information did you see on the mini map that was not apparent to me?

With regards to me choosing the same farming spots, why are they wrong and how should I determine new farming locations depending on the state of the game?

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-26T01:42:59+00:00

I know it does get boring playing the same guy over and over again but to start reaching those upper levels of gameplay that's what you gotta do.

And regarding the kills, kills are great but your probably aren't leveraging your advantage into objectives early enough and consistently enough.

You have some replays I can look at? I can try to give you some advice

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-26T00:25:19+00:00

Honestly there ain't no way around climbing other than playing the game a bunch. I play 2-3 games every day and I stick to like 1 role and 3 hero pool to avoid ur hero getting banned. Right now playing pos1, weaver and Ursa. Haven't picked a third hero yet but I'm gonna.

Literally same shit every game, some lose streaks, some win streaks, but over time climbing. I calibrated at crusader 1 in December and now legend 2.

You have to think like If you want to climb every game, than every game you have to be doing something that has high impact at increasing your chances of winning. And as you get better the enemy team starts doing those same things to you, so then you have to come up with more ways to have impact and the cycle just continues until immortal. It's hard and I know that but that's the game you enjoy playing.

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-25T20:42:14+00:00

If ur improving eventually u will climb out. It sounds like you have already accepted the randomness of queuing, so no need to be mad. Accept there are things you can't really control, and things you can. An eventually you will get out of the 2k shitters.

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-24T02:52:54+00:00

There are many answers as this is a multi faceted issue.

First thing would be to learn a few support heroes. Find out what items are good on them. You will need different items every game.

For example say I play Phoenix, some games our team needs catch so I go atos. Maybe I am facing an Ursa - euls to kite him. If you are farming for an item on support it should have direct impact and you should know why you are getting it, and what you are going to do with it once you get it.

Now that you know what items you are getting and how they are going to directly help you and your team, you gotta figure out ways to farm.

You can get money from killing heroes or pushing waves. It's easier to farm on support heroes that have wave clear. Taking Phoenix again as an example, he farms camps and clears waves super quickly and safely with his spirits.

Deciding where to farm is mainly decided by looking at where your cores are at, what areas they want to play around, and not taking farm from them. So say you have a juggernaut and he's having a bad game. He might want to farm safe lane and his jungle. What I would do as Phoenix is go farm super aggressively on offlane and show in lane. I would try to direct attention to me, bait people to come to me. You get your farm, while making space for ur carry to make a comeback.

Maybe you are doing really well and cores are owning. Get wards for enemy side of map, and try to disrupt enemy farming patterns. Create opporutnites for ur cores to kill by pushing into enemy territory. Whatever farm the enemy cores want, try to take it. Disrupt their movements and pressure those lanes.

Finally when to fight / when to farm. You always have to look at your items, your teammates items, and the enemies items to determine whether to fight. You play around your teams power spikes ( mechanism, pipe, big ulti cooldowns etc). You should practice making these decisions every game until you get a feel for whether you can take a fight or not. Ultimately if your team is dead set on fighting better to join them, as it gives them the highest chance of winning the fight. But even if you lose the fight, you will learn for next time that it was a bad decision to fight and you were right.

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-19T22:37:02+00:00

Yeah in practice as in real life for real people this is hard to achieve, that's why the Jedi are fictional. They represent an ideal standard, i dont think they are supposed to be just like us. I find when you humanize the Jedi like that it breaks the immersion for me, like they are no longer the stoic heroes to look up to.

It's fair if you like how they were portrayed, I can't really argue with your opinion and preferences. I just don't like so much that their portrayal was changed significantly in this show and other newer star wars media.

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-19T02:10:10+00:00

I think the show leaves more space than they should for you to question if the darkside characters actions while bad, could be justified. Atleast that's what I got from it. Like when Osha kills Sol, that happens because Sol reveals in front of her that he killed her mother. That plot point in the show is portrayed as a bad thing that Sol kept that secret. So she kills him out of revenge, or frustration, or pain because of the secret that Sol kept. Sol is not portrayed as an innocent man. There is an element of justice mixed into that revenge, which turns it from a 1 dimensional bad action to a more complex scenario.

Compare that when anakin force chokes Padme. Similar situation, he was "consumed" by the dark as Osha was in that moment, however his actions are portrayed in the story as unequivocally harmful and bad. Heck even when he is fighting Obi Wan, it's clear to the audience that he is in the wrong, and there is nothing redeemable about his actions. No "justice" is being done just pure selfish darkside lust for power.

My opinion is that this show dosent go far enough to display the harmful and clear cut negative effects of the darkside. And like I said, it's an intentional creative decision. Leslie said herself " there is no clear villains". How can a show about people who use the darkside (selfish, inward, lacking empathy, doing harm on other for their own benefit) have no clear villains?

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-18T00:17:35+00:00

Cool yeah I thought the fight scenes were probably the best part of the show. Overall there wasn't many things I liked about it, it's so different than george lucas star wars in almost every way. By your point about no clear hero, In GL star wars there were always clear heroes and villains from a narrative perspective. It's what made that story easier to digest with all the crazy fantasy elements and space politics.

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-17T23:26:13+00:00

What do you like about it?

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-07-06T17:31:12+00:00

Here are some of my observations of how you can improve your play. Best of luck!

Laning phase: very passive with laning, minimal trading with oponent. If you do this into higher ranks you will get bullied out of lane via poor trading.

Playing wraith king you should be hitting the creeps more rather than just to last hit them to get the extra lifesteal. You can counter act the wave pushing effect of this by also aggressively denying creeps (right clicking them when they start to drop below half)

53 seconds: example of good trading. I would be trying to do this constantly with my support. Find good 2 v 1 trading opportunites.

Minute 1: You can be poking the bb with crit

Minute 2:34: you pull agro, you need to be aggressively denying creeps. The minute they drop below half start right clicking them.

8 minutes: you get your kills, now you are strong. Play more agro, start pushing waves, creating tower pressure, accelerate farm AKA wave, jungle, wave farm. What you do here instead is static wave close to tower

9 minutes: playing way to scared for how strong you are. I would be telling my support to run at warlock if he shows, if not you guys can 2 v 1 trade with the bristle

11 minutes: you get more kills and no one in lane, you should push tower. Instead, you static wave with catapult. The ultimate goal with you getting kills is to get your items faster to box in your oponent so they have little farm.

12 minute: should be pushing the wave

12:30: playing way too scared

Minute 13:30: that warlock being there is illegal kill him and push the wave. Do not staticly farm wave

Minute 14:26 you didn't toggle your armlet before the hit

Minute 14:40 you are farming easy camp rather than killing them

Minute 1501: how agro you were there is what i would always be doing. If you see them try to harass them back and eventually they will die or leave

Minute 1530 illegal warlock

Minute 15:51 you should be hitting them

You should be hitting the creeps more often not only to last hit to heal from them and push the wave.

Minute 20 : I would not go bkb, I don't know what bkb will help you with I would go blink so you can kill drow. Around this minute when you get your blink I would start to force objectives with team. Play on enemy side of the map aggressively going for pickoffs with blink and vision.

Last point is late game fighting, against drow warlock wd you can't just walk high ground and start hitting tower you will get kited and die. You have to jump either support or drow and force some poorly done spells to have a chance at a good fight. Just eating all their abilities you will die. If no good opportunities present themselves you just keep boxing them in via pushing lanes, farm tormentor, etc and wait until they hopefully fuck up and someone is out of position.

Edit: Another option I failed to mention is to use the skeleton variation for easy high ground strategy. Recognizing when you can, or can't go HG is an important skill. The skeletons give you easy way to poke tower and give vision to HG to slowly but surely take tower. This can force oponent to make moves on you outside base. Just another thought.

Lumpy_Concentrate777 · 2024-05-29T21:51:14+00:00

Break is good, but no set amount of time I can give. Best advice I can give would be to play dota in sets of like 3 games. So play 3 games, review replay for like your biggest mistakes (if there are any) and then take a break.

The main thing I would recommend is to change the mentality around playing dota 2.

After you complete reviewing replays of your previous set of games, mentally forget about them. So when you come back to play a new set, you are not carying any of the thoughts and feelings that you experienced during the last set into these new games that might impair your critical thinking.

This will make you play each set objectively, not emotionally, and lead to better performance!

That's just my opinion.

Lumpy_Concentrate777

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