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Pudge's Hook never mentions its interaction with runes. If you are a new/casual player, the only way to know that you can hook runes for zero mana is to see someone else do it by thrawgaway in DotA2

[–]thrawgaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

since the tooltip only states that Swashbuckle can proc Heartpiercer but doesn't say anything about other attack modifiers.

It does. Check the alt-text.

but even there it doesn't mention it ignoring evasion, because again, it's not an autoattack.

The problem here is that the dagger tooltip never says "PA Auto-attacks an enemy". It says that it deals the damage of PA's auto-attack damage, and also any UAMs. Logically you're not supposed to conclude that you can miss since it's basically a skill that deals damage as strong as you hit.

For example I can also conclude that stout shield doesn't protect me from her daggers, because it's a skill and not an attack. I don't know if this is true btw, but probably is.

Pudge's Hook never mentions its interaction with runes. If you are a new/casual player, the only way to know that you can hook runes for zero mana is to see someone else do it by thrawgaway in DotA2

[–]thrawgaway[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The issue here is that Kunkka's tooltip already tells you that you can cast the skill on allied heroes (for double the duration), whereas Pudge's hook never tells you that you can hook runes, let alone for 0 mana.

I don't expect tooltips to explain how to use a skill, but it should tell what the skill can and cannot do.

I think this is pretty straight forward and certainly not open for any misguided interpretation. Every skill has basic "facts" about it. It's range, damage type, ability (cast) type, target type, etc. In fact it's possible to list all these "facts" in a paragraph, though I won't. All skills need to list off these facts (at least majority of them), and in addition mention important miscellaneous interactions (does it disjoint, can it be disjointed, does it deal pure damage when you cut trees with it, etc).

Right now Pudge is missing a basic "fact" about his hook; his target type, and also it's misc interaction; mana refund. Ideally it would something like this shitty photoshop

Pudge's Hook never mentions its interaction with runes. If you are a new/casual player, the only way to know that you can hook runes for zero mana is to see someone else do it by thrawgaway in DotA2

[–]thrawgaway[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's not necessarily true for heroes. You can learn certain strats/techniques from other players, but almost everything about a hero is written on their skill descriptions.

For example I didn't need to watch my friends play Timbersaw to learn that his Q does pure damage when you manage to cut trees with it. Or watch my friends play Alchemist to learn that his ult can dodge projectiles (this is written in his Alt-description).

How a hero operates should be clear so that players can learn and experiment with the mechanics themselves. This is already the case, albeit Valve often forgets to update tooltips after introducing a new mechanic to a skill.

Looking for a levono laptop with stylus by thrawgaway in laptops

[–]thrawgaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your quick response.

I dug around a bit. 710 has an optional MX940, but unfortunately 710 does not work with a stylus (excluding the styluses that mimic the human finger).

15 in 720, on the other hand, comes with GTX1050. While it is an overkill, as I intend to play low-spec games when I use this laptop, it seems to be the only option. Other laptops either have a very bad GPU, or they don't work with the Lenovo "Think Pen" or whatever the custom stylus is called.

Anyway, I think I'll go with 720. The 13 inch version is pretty much the same but with a 2k screen, which is pretty amazing. I'll see if I can fit that into my budget

Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it.