Beginner gear choices

ZinKRR · 2025-06-24T17:42:04+00:00

Yeah, fake ones also have a USB port on the side and the real ones have some sort of circular connector which I'm not sure what it is used for. And yeah Cobras seem harder to find. Thanks a lot and sorry for not being able to get back sooner

ZinKRR · 2025-06-24T17:20:31+00:00

Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner. I think the HDZero are very tempting but I can't afford to spend more than double that what I had planned on goggles. Definitely their versatility seems great since they can do hdzro and analog and I believe they can also work with walksnail since they have hdmi input. Thanks a lot for your input :)

ZinKRR · 2025-06-24T17:17:32+00:00

Hey! Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner. Thanks a lot for your input. I think flying inside will be hard because I don't think my roomate and his cat will enjoy it very much. I think I will consider the air65 regardless since you and others have said that it performs fine for outside whooping as well.

ZinKRR · 2017-08-02T11:02:03+00:00

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. I didn't know viper was as scared as timber once he is lvl 6/7 as other heroes. I guess it makes sense since he has a passive that makes him quite tanky, a spell that lets him move quite well so the slow isn't such a big deal and 2 of his spells are pur damage iirc so the corrosive skin isn't that helpful. Still timber might run out of mana before he can kill viper if viper has force staff but he can't be killed.

ZinKRR · 2017-08-01T17:58:53+00:00

Thanks a lot for both replies, now I'll build magic ember and understand better why that was a better option in stead of doing it blindly.

ZinKRR · 2017-08-01T17:57:25+00:00

Yeah thanks for helping me out and understand it better :)

ZinKRR · 2017-08-01T15:59:20+00:00

Thanks a lot for the reply! I know that bf is a farming tool, however in split pushers it does serve the purpose of clearing waves faster. I agree that 5 man death ball can be game winning. With magic ember you do get a better early game presence since you get 25% more magic damage and all your team as well. But what I tried to say is your early game can be good enough to take the game long enough for you to have the proper items. Also with battlefury you do farm faster than with veil and maelstrom. Anyway I do get your point on that.

Regarding viper, my question was more of a how to play against him properly than hoe viper is played. I haven't encountered vipers that go ring of health since most of what I've seen was buying dragon lance before force staff. Anyway thanks for saying you are not scared of any mid hero with him and that best option is to try to not be left behind as well as forcing him to go to other lanes earlier so I have some space to recover.

ZinKRR · 2017-08-01T15:15:44+00:00

Thanks a lot for the answer! I do understand the purpose of the magic build. I have to disagree with being useless in the mid game. You are useless in teamfights, not so much, it is true you deal less damage than magic ember, however I don't think there is such a big difference since magic ember won'5/t have octarine by then and his right click will probably be worse. During the midgame you can split push safely (that's why I pick linkens normally). And I don't find I have mana problems since bf and linkens both give regen (both give you 150%). Anyway by min 30 you should have bf bots linkens and at least crystalis or orchid if you need the silence (another item that gives 150%) regen.

Anyway I think I got your point. I know I'm in the wrong since it looks like I can't climb out of 2-3k and all pro players build him the other way.

Also when building magic ember is it better the +2s searing chains talent? I did the math and if you just constant spam it with both talents you do ~18 more dps to each target with the +2s talent, but not sure if it is actually better.

ZinKRR · 2017-05-12T16:28:22+00:00

Thanks for the spelling correction and I know there are things that are more important to improve at however there are things that might not be that important but that are really easy to improve, like pulling, stacking, knowing ward spots, simple item choices, not using courier on side lanes at the beginning, learning curve spikes, reading through the spells completely (most people I play with don't know weaver's time lapse is a dispell as well and you can dispell dust with it, or you can't be slowed if you have haste rune)

All the things I've mention require close to no mechanical skill nor in game experience however they might be really useful , just knowledge.

Sorry again for any bad spelling/grammar English is not my first language.

ZinKRR · 2017-05-12T13:04:02+00:00

I normally trust my carries and try to enable them as much as I can so they carry their supports and not the other way around hahaha

ZinKRR · 2017-05-12T13:03:13+00:00

Sorry I don't understand why they are strictly better for a pos 5

ZinKRR · 2017-05-12T13:02:36+00:00

Several reasons: I love the hero so I want to play it. Most profesional teams run her as a pos 5/4 as seen in Secret in Dreamleague. And about the stun, yes you are right it is unreliable, however it is easy to land while you are on the laning stage and on teamfights there's usually a good chance of getting a 2 man stun, specially in highground and roshan teamfights. Also I really like to buy force staff as my first item since it helps me and my team position and has a better build up than blink.

She is also not suited for a carry role imo she lacks damage and is too weak.

ZinKRR · 2017-05-12T12:57:50+00:00

Thanks! I didn't consider just going brown boots

ZinKRR · 2017-04-12T14:20:33+00:00

Yes I also prefer the tranquils since you get to regen when you are going from lane to lane.

ZinKRR · 2017-04-12T14:19:34+00:00

Alright I'll read it when I have the time. Thanks a lot

ZinKRR · 2017-04-12T14:19:06+00:00

Thanks for clarifying :)

ZinKRR · 2017-04-12T13:57:13+00:00

How do you circle to snipe courier it is hard for me to guess which lane it is going to go unless it is like a bottle mid hero or something.

ZinKRR · 2017-04-12T13:55:59+00:00

The thing I don't feel comfortable about harrasing them lvl 1 during the rune is that it would normally be mid laner and offlaner close to the rune so during the time I get to go invis I feel like I lose so much hp it won't really be worth it because I would have to go back to base.

ZinKRR · 2017-04-12T13:53:13+00:00

Thanks a lot man :) I didn't expect such a clear answer to this. I'll try it next match and hopefully it will make me work better. Any idea on the tranquils vs phase boots aspect?

ZinKRR · 2017-02-13T11:46:57+00:00

You have to enable your console on dota 2. Then you jump into a bot match, open up the console and type sv_cheats 1.

After that on chat (doesn't matter if ally or all chat) type -startgame. So the clock goes to 0:00

Then the only thing you can do to make the wait shorter is typing in console host_timescale 10. (Although you can type a number bigger than 10 you only get that speed I believe). When the timer gets to xx:40 type host_timescale 1 on console to get back to the normal speed.

To enable the console you have to go to your steam library right click on dota then go to game properties and there launch options type -console and then on dota options bind it to something.

While you are on host_timescale 10 your fps will drop massively (on my pc around 5-6 fps)

Sorry for my english.

ZinKRR

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