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Hey guys. Just dropping the index of my next guide for anyone interested. Still have no idea when it's going to be done. For anyone interested.

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Preface
1. Optimal Settings
1.1. Framerate
1.2. Key Strokes
1.3. General Settings
1.4. Quick Cast
2. Memory
2.1. Knowledge
2.2. Muscle Memory
3. Card Counting
4. Eye Cursoring
4.1. Keyboard Coordination
5. Reflexes
5.1. Disjoints & Narrow Disjoints
6. Maxing Spell & Item Relevance
6.1. Exploiting Turn Rates
6.2. Chaos Nukers (Teamfight Fragging)
6.3. Re-Initiation (Finishers)
6.4. Pre-Initiation (Setups)
6.5. Cast Time & Animations
7. Shifting (Commands)
8. Runes
9. Lane Equilibrium
9.1. Early Denying
9.2. Using Spells In Lane
10. Offlane Pulls
10.1. Choke Points
10.2. Blind Spots
11. Handling Stats & Regen
11.1. Power Treads
11.2. Arcane Boots
11.3. Dropping Items
12. Flurrying
13. Juking & Kiting
13.1. Terrain Force Staff-ing (And Other Mobilities)
14. Eyeballing & Pinpointing
15. Baiting
15.1. Turn Around Bait (Re-Initiation Technique)
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How many Russians does it take to raise a child?

Six - one to care for it, and five to feed it.

(My god that truly was terrible)

Act XI: Over the Edge

Lanaya woke gasping for air, head throbbing painfully. The shredding agony from her wound had subsided to a dull ache, and she noticed that someone had stitched the wound shut.

She was locked in a cell inside on of the buildings, who knew which one. Slowly, she looked around, trying to find anything that might be able to help here escape, but there was no such luck. She tried using her psychic abilities, but something was blocking her.

"I'm going to kill him," she snarled. He would burn. She wondered what the room would look like painted in Arash's blood, but figured that he wouldn't come in here at all to give her the opportunity to see.

Stupid, stupid! Why had she ever believed he had good intentions? No doubt he was scheming away, and had already forgotten her. Hatred rose in her as she inwardly cursed everything - her own fool…
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Wheeeee!
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So hi everyone, if you follow the other fire sites around then you probably have seen my name pop up a couple of times on Smitefire. Well, thanks to a friend, now I'm into Dota also! So here's a quick introduction so you guys and gals know more about me because I hope to remain an active member (although I'm still kinda noobish so I can't really take about balancing and combos and all that stuff yet :/)

Been playing LoL since Season 3

Been playing Smite since September 2013

Been playing Infinite Crisis since October 2014

I love playing the support tank role in IF and Smite and love playing ADC in LoL

My IGN is "TheCommunistCzar"

Well that was a shorter list than I thought it would be :/

Nice to meet you everyone :)
Also why does Dotafire have the privilege to have such a nice color formatting?
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Corus the Spectrum

STATS

Faction: The Radiant
Primary Attribute: Intelligence

Corus
Attack Type: Range
Roles: Support, Disabler, Initiator

Str: 59.3 at 25 (19 + 1.68/level)
Agi: 74.5 at 25 (14 + 2.52/level)
Int: 83.4 at 25 (27 + 2.35/level)

Health: 1,277 at 25
MP: 1084 at 25
Armor: 10.6 (0 base armor + 10.6) at 25
Movement: 290
Range: 600 (Range)

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LORE

Created by Ezalor, Corus pursued the greatness of its creator and tries to become a fundamental being of the universe itself. Venturing to try and go to the fundamental plane to please its master and creator, Corus went to many lengths just to impress the Keeper of the Light. With its luminance radiancing, all that glares the Spectrum are stunned and unable to comprehend the reality they are in.

Along Corus' journey of greatness, obtained powers and abilities beyond imagination. Corus wanders through different realms meeting every fundamental beings of the universe, s…
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After 12 hours of writing just today. I am happy to announce that the full guide is going at a decent rate.

I am currently working on section 40, that is finishing the spells sections more of less. Next up is the Map and map general guidelines, such as lanes, objectives, buildings, pushing and defending, roshan, jungle and jungling, pulling and stacking, etc, etc.


Section 40 is about 1/3 of the whole guide done, as it is around 120 sections, maybe a little but more. And it is already longer than my guide to the Midlane.

So yea, just, remember this is still a thing to come in the future. I doubt it will be done in January, I also doubt it will be delayed until March, so it will just come when it has to come.

-Goo
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My guide to drafting and general lineup strategy is finally done.

I had some trouble with the formatting port, as I had texts on different devices, etc. Will take a little longer than I though it would. Not much more than a week, I hope. You will be getting that guide.

I have to reformat over 30 word document pages worth of guide, so be patient.

The full guide is still on development, as you may think (its a pretty massive guide). But certainly moving forward.
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Sorry for the extra week, I was on holidays.

Act X: It All Comes Together in the End

Her rage had burnt down to smouldering ashes but her hatred remained a blazing inferno.

It had taken the two another day to reach the Dire Ancient, and over that time, Lanaya had seethed. She could never bring herself to forgive Arash for what he had done. To think she had once pitied him. She could picture it already, him bleeding, broken on the ground, in hundreds of pieces. The image was burnt on her brain. It was justified, but more than that-

It was… glorious.

He would burn- no. She would drag him before the Hidden Ones and enact their lethal judgement. Painfully, of course. But no less honourably.

She could see the walls of the fortress in the distance, and wondered what Arash was planning.

"Oh, of course!" he said suddenly. "You're my prisoner now, aren't you?"

He turned around, drawing Orchid Malevolence and striking her with it. The staff struck her on the arm, and its silencing effe…
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Hello fellow Dotafire members.

in a Lull of writing while my Manu (manuscript) gets edited and feeling like "eh i cbf starting on book 3" i thought, in my current mental state of boredom, i should maybe start a blog series on my thoughts concerning our beloved game.

Mostly this series will be about certain situations and how they relate to real life. I expect there will be some existential musing on the theory of all and maybe some raging at scrubs or just personal thoughts relating to my everyday life. In fact this series will be me just talking about everything and anything while relating it all to Dota. If that seems like something you guys would love to read then throw down some comments and thoughts and DISCUSSION SHALL ARISE, like a Aegis holding Enigma.

I recently have been playing Juggernaut a fair bit and it was after a match where i dominated sometimes and fed in others i thought to watch the game back and see where i went wrong or where i went right? or left?

It was dur…
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So, your team decided to pick an AFK jungler and you have only 1 support...there's a good reason almost every pro team always runs 2 supports...here's what you give up:

A trilane for your carry

This may or may not be an issue, depending how many heroes the opposition puts against your safe lane, and how good they are at looking after themselves. If you're running a hard carry like Spectre, especially against another dual lane, don't expect them to be getting epic farm though.

Mid Tangos

One support is unlikely to be able to get more than 1 set for regen, and will likely have to do without a Healing Salve. If they've got a relatively easy lane, they might be able to afford to give you 1 Tango. You might have to buy some yourself.

Detection and TPs to mid / offlane

A biggee. Each hero gets 625 starting gold, and 100 per minute income without last hits, assists or jungle creeps. That means our sole support likely has about 1700 gold in the first ten minutes without assists,…
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