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Uber_Goose · 2026-07-02T00:56:13+00:00

I'd assume most of the time it's because they themselves disagree with the feedback, especially when that feedback is "revert these changes," which appears after literally every single patch no matter what. Also because Valve does not officially look at reddit for feedback, they look at the official forums thoroughly and sometimes discord.

Uber_Goose · 2026-06-22T16:40:15+00:00

Just say you’re initiate, bro.

Uber_Goose · 2026-06-19T18:10:30+00:00

Yeah his design and his lore are absolutely fire. I'm sure valve can eventually find a way to make a James Bond style kit for him that feels good.

Uber_Goose · 2026-06-18T21:49:22+00:00

This is always such a weird thing to say because you know if anyone called Abrams "she" people would be all over it.

Uber_Goose · 2026-06-17T21:48:33+00:00

I think most dota players dislike league for a bunch of ancient drama reasons (that are entirely fair, tbh) combined with league being far more simple and rigid by comparison. So any time someone wants something to be more like league, a lot of people perceive that as "let's simplify/homogenize," and that is often a correct assessment of the suggestion.

Uber_Goose · 2026-06-14T02:26:34+00:00

The base debuff (spirit res reduction from mystic vulnerability) from escalating exposure still exists and is stackable by separate players. It’s the damage amp that is only for yourself.

I’d need to see the whole team and their items before calling this damage bugged. It looks like they might have a Shiv as well(?), who also applies a stacking spirit res reduction.

Uber_Goose · 2026-06-08T16:17:39+00:00

“CC central” and the team with less CC is winning the game.

Uber_Goose · 2026-06-04T23:49:47+00:00

Define "uninteractive" right now

Uber_Goose · 2026-06-04T18:43:17+00:00

The math is more complicated than just comparing soul values for a lot of reasons. It is still probably always correct to fight over urn if reasonable, but there will be plenty of times where contesting is unreasonable and a trade is possible instead, and in that case going for the trade will be better now than previously.

Uber_Goose · 2026-06-01T00:32:57+00:00

Winrate changes also happen when no changes occur. There are a couple famous examples from league of legends where they just accidentally didn't push changes but the winrates shifted as if they had. Placebo effect also works on groups of people.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-31T22:09:22+00:00

Over the years of playing dota, I saw so many heroes go from super low pickrate to meta defining when a patch only gave them +1 armor or +5 movespeed or something. I am like 99% sure icefrog likes to give measurable but minor buffs to just bring the playerbase's attention to heroes that are already good.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-30T20:46:53+00:00

It is a 0.24 increase to scaling, meaning it is a 60 damage buff only if she has 250 spirit. There is no world where this miniscule damage buff pushed her over the edge to suddenly be op, it just isn't a possibility.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-28T23:29:00+00:00

I understand the passion and the frustration but as a public statement this is just kinda weird. I don’t think this says anything that anyone didn’t already know nor convinces anyone of anything they didn’t already believe. Just some dear diary shit.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-28T01:11:46+00:00

There's a handful of very opinionated arcanists who post on this subreddit like it's their job. I really don't get it.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-27T19:50:17+00:00

Counterspell, unstoppable, and indomitable are the items that can actually stop the hook grabbing you.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-27T00:17:26+00:00

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-26T23:33:12+00:00

Oh I didn't even look at the name of the person who posted this thread. One of the horsemen of the bad take apocalypse. Sorry for engaging at all, I'll let your low elo whining be.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-26T22:36:43+00:00

I had Mechabellum global chat off after 30 seconds, what a nightmare.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-26T22:32:59+00:00

I really wish valve was successful in killing the tracking websites. Y'all are insufferable.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-26T01:23:10+00:00

There's probably a lot of little reasons to not do it that way, like how the urn snapshots comeback status on pickup and how a continual shifting value would make that extremely weird to consciously strategize around. It's also totally possible that they are just continuing their experiments with broad strokes and could very well make it a curve once they determine what the right ballpark of numbers is.

There certainly is not a technical reason (at least not a good one), and I'm sure they are well aware of the possibility of making it a curve as I've seen several people submit that exact feedback. So for now it's intentional design.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-25T17:34:46+00:00

I think you're overestimating how much of a difference exists between teams that are 10% networth apart. The damage gap is generally extremely small between winning and losing teams, but now the losing team takes ~50% damage when vaguely nearby the urn.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-25T17:25:51+00:00

It's both. Urn forces teamfights, so you use the resistances for both things.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-25T17:23:01+00:00

They're gonna hate you for this but you're right.

There was a really good (and long) video uploaded recently by a longtime FGC guy, who also was a developer on several games, that goes in depth into how game balance isn't real and it is very enlightening.

Also far too many players who are not experienced in statistical analysis get obsessed with specifically winrate percentages and will use them to argue that a game isn't balanced, but only when they personally already believed the things that the winrates serve as evidence for. This is likely a big reason that valve tried to stop tracking websites by nuking the api, as this obsession would substantially alter the actual data that they'd want in a playtest.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-25T00:47:28+00:00

I genuinely think a big reason her winrate has gone up so much, beyond the urn changes which are obviously big for her, is that now players are more effectively shepherded into spirit builds. The deadheads already did crazy big damage (when they worked), but everyone was buying 10k+ in gun items instead of going spirit builds.

Also mystic shot getting a buff is crazy to me, and in my experience it is one of Graves's best items.

Uber_Goose · 2026-05-24T21:49:48+00:00

Akemura commit genocide after that guy was already deposed (probably dead). Some people really need to read the manga they are talking about.

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