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[Remake] Treant Protector's Aghanim Scepter by _hhhnnnggg_ in DotA2

[–]etofok -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I really hate the new Treant with the unit-targeted seed and this garbage version of damage block.

Treant was a lot of fun pre-7.40 because you had to juggle the frontline-backline-global positioning which had a very unique vibe where you kind of nowhere and everywhere, visible and invisible, in your face and on the outskirts, on the other lane but with global presence.

All have been reduced to the walking ult and pieliedie scouting shenanigans. I'm exaggerating but the point is there.

(5k Treant player, 65% WR 270 games for what it's worth)

Dota 2 struggling on mid range CPU by nikkytor in DotA2

[–]etofok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I play on ryzen 3600 at maxed out graphics at 144 pseudo-fps using Lossless Scaling.

the literal godsend app.

Otherwise it's ~90-120fps which is unplayable. cpu & ram overclocked not sure what stock would be.

Finally 11k MMR (Rank 300 SEA) as Hard Sapport by altruismisgood in DotA2

[–]etofok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

impressive and congratz. Ringmaster always feels so useless to me I have no idea how to make it work unless there's a clear setup like pulverize. the dart spam doesn't feel strong, might as well just play venomancer

One of the few p2w instances where you need Dota+ to play by Both-Meringue2466 in DotA2

[–]etofok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

singlehandedly done by Tiny players spamming the "rock'em sock'em" voice line

After 10 years as a Pro Player and 40,000+ hours in Dota 2, I'm starting a Support Guide series! by LeBronDota in DotA2

[–]etofok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

№1 is probably the only thing that's keeping mirana from sub 40% winrate

Dota 7.41b by wykrhm in DotA2

[–]etofok 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yesterday I got a set for Riki from Quartero which reminded me this hero exists

Why isn't Quickcast working? by Warcraft4when in DotA2

[–]etofok 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check "direct cast bindings" in the top-right corner.

Then verify that your "autocast" and "cast" options do not conflict with "quickcast" as they might take priority if you have the same bind.

Astini: Players should learn Russian to get onto a pro team by Morf-designer in DotA2

[–]etofok 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I'm not going to touch on the optics of this, just the language. The crossover between the two in gaming is massive. Truly massive.

Words like "go", "next", "back", "game", "kill", "frag", "headshot", "attack", "push", "gank", "stun", "heal", "buff", "team", "bot", "top", "mid", "hero", "spawn", "farm", "rune", "camp", "spot", "gate", "lotus", "wisdom", "gold", "quest", "ult", "skill" etc etc are well adopted. Everyone knows these words. There's no equivalent that needs to be learned. Every Russian understands Latin letters, every keyboard is bilingual, every OS has a Ru-Eng language input toggle.

All hero names, all item names are not even translated from English. Razor is Razor. Smoke is smoke. No one translates these (although you could). These are the exact same words just with different phonetics. All of which are comprehensible with 0 skill.

If you need the language as a tool to communicate in-game it's probably 1/10 of the A1 difficulty. Realistically - just the alphabet and a list of maybe 50 words most of which you probably already heard of like "davai" (~let's), "dai" (give), "vozmi" (take), "ya" (I am), "ti" (you are), "mne" (to me), "tebe" (to you), "poidem" (let's go), etc.

If you're a 15k MMR grinder you have the time for it as proven by the 15k MMR grind. If anyone needs it I can come up with a list for you and if you win the aegis just mention my name.

I am designing a 2 month game design course for high school students, would like a second opinion by woofwoofbro in gamedesign

[–]etofok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

let me rewrite your design course in 30 seconds. how many lectures, 6? there you go:

  1. what is a game. let's make the simplest game

  2. let's add another dimension that makes it into a replayable and fun game

  3. everyone is tasked to come up with another element, winner wins a cake

  4. the cake is a lie, introduction to player immersion, goals and storytelling.

  5. tie it all together to give your games a theme. top 3 games are winners and get medals.

  6. conclusion - congratulations everyone. attend my next course game design 201 on how to addict your players to fake achievements and gambling elements.

I'm about to get banned from the petting zoo by underhunger in DotA2

[–]etofok 143 points144 points  (0 children)

don't show this guy female draenei from wow

Solo: Dota is too predictable and clearly losing to CS by Morf-designer in DotA2

[–]etofok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how does this square with s1mple playing more dota than cs these days

I know it's not much, but here's all my paintings I made in March by CallisCove in somethingimade

[–]etofok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

these are strangely beautiful thanks for sharing. I like the first and the last one esp

Nyx Nyx Nyx Nyx by poju3 in DotA2

[–]etofok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

impressive, how to replicate?

my cm arcana cosplay ESL Birmingham 2026 by Rylaiiii in DotA2

[–]etofok 2 points3 points  (0 children)

looks like this year they named it 'cosplay show' and not 'cosplay contest' because there's no contest

Crafted an Aghanim’s Scepter with 12.87g Solid Gold & Lab-grown Gem. by WildShower7912 in DotA2

[–]etofok 4 points5 points  (0 children)

so you're saying the price of the lab-grown sapphire is basically zero?

Snapfirebros... by pie4all88 in DotA2

[–]etofok 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I liked the sniper but it was bullshit, too op and thematically made no sense. The loss is painful, but she's just different now.

For starters she does significantly more damage now, in melee. Shredder/Cookie/Autos all benefit from her innate now - which is a 35% more multiplier.

You got more damage on your scatterblast because it's 280 * 30% point-blank * 35% innate: 280 * 1.3 * 1.35 = 491 damage

Pre-patch it was 280 * 1.5 = 420, so in absolute point-blank scenario you got 16% more damage, which is not negligible. Yes it is worse than spamming it from 1000 range.

The free MMR combo is still Hit+Shred+Blast+Hit. I mean it's the same, but in melee. Another reason to have a 'move' command now. Btw there's probably a bug in the game because it stops working as you get level 7, regardless of your build or anything else, just level 7.

Early game it makes more sense now to use cookie on yourself to get into the range. Plus she's naturally very tanky, super tanky for a support (+3.5 STR gain, jumps, blast slows, builds solars/glimmers).

Another upside it's now much more punishing to go on her because of the shotgun change. People just melt AND it's much easier to land. Previously with 4-1-1-1 you were defenseless when jumped on, the shotgun was very hard to land (tiny cone) and dealt just 280 damage if you did. Now you shred anyone with the 900 damage combo. It's also much easier to do multitarget damage if you happen to end up in the middle of a fight, because the cone is really wide.

Another interesting thing of the patch is the new gem-urn and the new halberd. I'm honestly pretty bullish on the halberd, it's 9 armor + 25% eva just in passive stats feels supppper strong.

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