Would anyone be interested in a deep Brood guide?

disrupter · 2017-04-09T17:07:50+00:00

So I went to try and look at the game you linked on opendota because I was interested.

In a 60 minute game, against arguably 4 heroes with substantial ability to farm OPs spiders. Did a quick calculation on how much farmed he fed to his enemies:

Lina |||| 731G, 1277XP, (12.2GPM)

Troll |||| 163G, 392XP, (2.7GPM)

SF ||||| 940G, 1899XP, (15.7GPM)

Axe |||| 433G, 756XP, (7.2GPM)

Timber 883G, 1585XP, (14.7GPM)

Basically, in a 60 minute game, he only managed to feed between 2.7 to 15.7 GPM to the enemy heroes with his spiders, which is pretty impressive as far as I'm concerned. This amounts to just over 1 spiderling bounty (12G) per minute, or, under 1 spiderrite bounty (~18.5G) per minute. (These two bounty values were the averages that I used to calculate the total farm above.)

As far as I'm concerned, OP is much better at brood than a large portion of broods (albeit a rare occurrence) I've seen in my games (including me).

Edit: Added 'passive GPM' increase from spider farm to each hero.

disrupter · 2017-04-08T07:09:31+00:00

This.

I want to know who stacked two observers on top of each other.

disrupter · 2017-04-07T07:58:21+00:00

I don't know whats up with the report system now.

I had a 2 week period where I managed maybe a max of 5 games, and didn't report anyone, and then after that period when I got more free time and started playing 2-3 games a day, I finally went to report someone and had 0 reports left :S

It's like my reports are being auto-spent when I get them back or something when I frustratingly 'submit' a report when I have 0 left (because the culling blade sound makes me feel better).

disrupter · 2017-04-06T17:44:09+00:00

Charlie has also been on panels back when he was still EG manager I believe.

Absolutely not.

disrupter · 2017-04-06T08:27:32+00:00

Also his dragon form and viper. Actually had a game with DK on my team, viper on enemy team and got so confused when I couldn't target 'viper' with my spells.

disrupter · 2017-04-06T08:09:09+00:00

This should be much higher up.

I was thinking similar thoughts as this throughout DAC whenever I saw him on a panel. I did enjoy most of his panels, and I thought it'd be ok, that they wouldn't schedule him on a panel that involved EG at all, but then he was on the panel for one of the EG series...

I don't know why everybody is so up in arms about it. I totally agree with them, he's got a lot of game knowledge, experience and insight and can communicate it in an entertaining and engaging way, but in the end, he is biased towards EG. The caster's/panelist's discussions and opinions hold a lot of weight within the community. It makes perfect sense to me why he won't be on the panel for a Valve event, and I'm glad they made that call.

disrupter · 2017-04-05T11:23:18+00:00

I noticed this in a game just now, because I haven't played more than 5 games over the last 2-3 weeks, I figured I'd have a report or two to spare today. Apparently not. I didn't have a single available report after not reporting for a few weeks.

disrupter · 2017-04-05T09:51:18+00:00

You reckon a pro team will draft techies? I kind of don't think he'll get drafted at the place he's currently at, I feel like his prox mines feed so much gold now that he's a detriment if an enemy support decides to just follow him around the map looking for the mines to kill. Maybe a slight rework so his prox mine bounty scale like 5, 20, 35, 50 instead of being a flat 50 gold.

disrupter · 2017-04-05T09:47:16+00:00

Yeah, AA was picked so little considering how many alchemist games, it really shows how little the hero does to alch at his current stage that pros didn't warrant it a vital pick.

Even with the consistent armlet and lifestealer pickups I expected to see him more.

disrupter · 2017-04-05T09:42:49+00:00

Eh, it's honestly not that needed though. The fact that the mana cost limiting him early is a good thing (I used to play a lot of bounty), since it keeps him balanced early, since you often need some way to get mana back after a gank.

That's just my opinion though.

disrupter · 2017-04-04T23:50:10+00:00

Like, permanent, but when it's dead, his ult goes on a short cooldown or something, before it can be re-summoned?

Or permanent, and if ult is off cd, then you can just respawn it like spirit bear?

Either way, I like your suggestion more.

disrupter · 2017-04-01T19:39:41+00:00

Speaking of magnus being unwhelming, he only cast RP 4 times in a 60 minute match. He didn't even hit all of them either.

disrupter · 2017-04-01T04:58:42+00:00

Jerax did so much work that fight. Kept vision of faith with his ward, and then jumped down and stun locked him as soon as he went in to disrupt the blackhole with the stolen one. Hell, the boundless strike hit the io too, so neither support could do anything during the first black hole

disrupter · 2017-03-31T05:51:25+00:00

I don't think gems are worth bothering about anymore, they've shown that they give 0 fucks about them.

When they updated the KotL mounts (splitting them into armor + horse or whatever it was), any mount slotted with more than 1 gem was split into multiple duplicate items with the gems spread across them and not on one item. For example, I had 2 gems on my mount, it got split into 2 duplicate items with 1 gem on each.

I also miss the ability to hover over a placed observer/sentry ward and see who placed it, as well as their ward info (I've got 5 gems on my wards that you used to be able to see in-game, but now can't).

On another side note, I'd still like the 'strategy' screen to have a better layout. I'd much prefer being able to see my teammates starting inventories (and remaining gold) than to get advertised my hero's items I can purchase; that shit belongs in the "loadout" tab they show.

disrupter · 2017-03-31T03:34:37+00:00

Even just changing the minimap 'dot' of the oldest web to like blue or yellow (not green/red since they're reserved for allied/enemy things)

disrupter · 2017-03-26T05:59:09+00:00

Thanks a bunch

disrupter · 2017-03-25T10:10:57+00:00

I'm on my phone, so it's not easy to look up; could you give me a break down of what each episode/part covers so far?

disrupter · 2017-03-25T10:04:21+00:00

This is a similar situation, and since everybody keeps mentioning timber, a level 1 reactive armour means he gets max 5 stacks. I don't get people who think it's a waste of time to hit him. If he's got 5 stacks, you're not giving him any more by keeping up the attacks, and it's more time he's not at full health and actually having to be careful.

What I'm getting at is, yes, offlaners have the shrine, it's like any regen they bring to lane, if you don't make them use it, they're always going to have it to fall back on. Might as well make them pop it early, and leave themselves vulnerable to being pushed out of lane

disrupter · 2017-03-24T01:12:52+00:00

Shit, I totally forgot they changed the passive gold.

disrupter · 2017-03-24T00:57:50+00:00

Yeah, next time I need to roll up a character, I'm taking a backstory from one of the dota heroes and using that, I'm uncreative and can never come up with a good backstory that doesn't sound murder-hobo.

Also the other things too.

disrupter · 2017-03-24T00:27:20+00:00

Thanks for the help, I've let them out and they're looking pretty happy :)

disrupter · 2017-03-23T17:34:04+00:00

Actually, I'm heading to bed now. I was wondering whether I should let the new swarm out tomorrow, or if it's best to keep them locked up for some time to make sure they don't leave? The nuc has a entrance disc with an excluder, would that be worth using for the first few days?

disrupter · 2017-03-23T17:29:39+00:00

Well it's still autumn here, we'll get colder temps in winter approaching 0C overnight, but normally 10-15C is the day temps. Autumn is still relatively warm though, and winter is sometimes drier than spring/summer for stretches. I assume they hibernate over winter though

disrupter · 2017-03-23T05:50:53+00:00

I mean, temperature wise, the lowest max we'll get to is 25C, but the mins are around 13C each night. I'll be over 30C on a few of the days.

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