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Hey guys, I haven't seen any announcement on this site yet about any of those so I'm just spreading the word, you can play -omg dota and other fun modes on http://d2ware.net/ and on the Dota 2 - Custom Realms client (latest version atm is 1.28).

The different modes allow you to pick or random a hero and then pick or random 4 skills for the hero. d2ware just recently introduced the deathmatch mode which basically randoms a hero for you, once you die, you respawn with another randomed hero with same items/lvl.

On the Custom Realms client, you're the one being used as host and takes a bit longer to set up, but on d2ware there are actually servers that host automatically once 10 ppl join a lobby which is rly neat.

Have fun.
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A week ago I used DotaFire’s ‘Contact Us’ page to inquire about any possible ad revenue sharing options with the prominent writers of the community. It seemed only fair to me-—we the writers generate content for this website, and DotaFire makes ad revenue from hits on those guides.

That was last week, and I have not received a response of any kind.

DotaFire, along with its sister sites MobaFire.com and SmiteFire.com, all generate ad revenue based on the guide content its users create. While the MobaFire Network is not alone in doing this, (take sites like GameFaqs.com for example) it doesn’t make it any fairer to the content creators of this community.

Don’t get me wrong-—the MobaFire Network should be making money. But so should the content creators of those sites. Because without us, the writers, there is no DotaFire. I appreciate the awesome guide creation tools that DotaFire provides (one of the many reasons why I continue to use and support the site) as well as th…
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A strange mentality I'm seeing in games is starting to become annoying on many levels. When a game is going bad, and you are getting 'pubstomped', there seems to be always a guy blaming his own team for being 'noob'.

Yesterday, a client came into the DVD Rental store I work at. The woman brought back a DVD, placed it on the counter, and started complaining. She told me that she placed the DVD in her DVD-Player, and it refused to play. So, as always, I took out the disc, and checked it for scratches. There weren't any. Upon telling the woman that there seems to be nothing wrong with the disc, she continued on to tell me that she has the best, state-of-the-art DVD player, and that the disc must be faulty because her player is perfect.

Now, my metaphor is a bit in reverse, but it'll do. Just because your team loses, doesn't mean your team is the 'biggest noobs on Dota', and 'should uninstall Dota'. In fact, I have come to realize that very often than not, you lose a game because the ene…
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I'm not saying that Heart of Tarrasque is a bad Item. I Love it. And It makes your health bar Dauntingly unconquerable. But it's not the only answer to being tougher. A Largely overlooked Item is Eye of Skadi. Especially when your character has low armor (under 15). Another note is that if you're already tough from spells via Black King Bar Eye of Skadi can do more than a Heart by slowing the attack speed of the opposing Carry by 20% essentially increasing your combat time by ~20% (that time gained just from the slow.)

Eye of Skadi compared to Heart of Tarrasque:
Builds better than a Heart!
Point Booster is an amazing Item, more bang for your buck than both Vitality Booster and Energy Booster
Orb of Venom is amazing if you are a melee hero.

Costs 175 more gold
offers -335 HP
3.5 more armor. about 6-7% more damage reduction (this percent is bigger if you have low armor, smaller if you already have a lot of armor)
+25 Attack Speed
+25 damage
(if STR hero, -15dmg)
+250 mana
An…
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I'm fairly new to Dota (5 months) so when deciding which items to build, I started as a blank slate. I used math and logic to decide which items to build on different heroes for different reasons. But even as a noob, I'm surprised to see better players use weaker items and use poor builds! One example is a Razor building Vanguard! So I though I would offer some reasonable substitutes for these Items.

I still implore the use of a stout shield in early game. So it's then 1,975 gold to build vanguard. Vanguardlet's say I'm a lvl 6 Clockwerk by the time I build vanguard:

Pre vanguard:
Armor: ~4 armor (probably have an iron branch)
Stout Shield: 53% to block 20dmg. (due to pseudo random distribution)
Expected dmg reduction:
19.4% dmg red. from armor
assume attacks are for 80 dmg.
With stout shield and Armor I'm stopping an expected value of 24dmg per attack of 80 dmg.
Remember that the shield stops damage before the armor, so it's not really adding an extra 20 dmg reduced.

After Van…
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Sick of abusive players in DOTA 2 that deliberately feed, abuse abilities or just insult other players? Reporting them in game is good, but only one report isn't enough. Share your DOTA 2 player reports at http://www.dotareport.net so those that deserve LPQ get it.
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What's the point of a trilane? First of all to try and secure freefarm for a carry, then to go get kills, or to stop the enemy carry getting farm.

Safe-lane trilanes either need kills, or at least a carry worth putting all your eggs in one basket for, ideally both.

Lately I've seen a lot of failed tri-lanes - either massively flawed execution (you wonder how they failed to get kills with the skills they had available), or really poor decisions to make one in the first place.

Case in point, I've just played two games as Slark, who I'm trying to learn. He's a good hero, capable of surviving a tough lone solo, although much better with a support who can help him gank.

The first game, the enemy team picked a Phantom Lancer (groan), one of my team picked Axe to jungle, leaving me a long lane solo. As it turned out PL had Nyx Assassin for support (well I suppose it could have been Keeper of the Light!).

The second game, my team decided to tri-lane a Sven (!), when the oppositio…
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We all know about the item, and many of the beginners in Dota 2 find it a waste of 135 gold that could be spent on another 2 Iron Branches. But, this is most definitely not the case. One of the best items in the game is the Town Portal Scroll.

When in a fight, its always a good idea to have mobility. When you consider the size of the map, its a large liability to not be able to help your carry that's getting ganked top, or to assist your offlaner on an aggressive push against your tower. To solve this problem, we buy a TP scroll. The scroll is a once-off use item that teleports you to any friendly structure. You can use it to TP back to your base, or more importantly, to aide your allies near a tower.

Now, I know that it uses up a valuable item slot, and you might ask yourself, why buy this 135 gold item that I might use, while I could keep it, and be nearer to my 1100 gold Vitality Booster.

Take a car tracking system. Its purpose is to provide you with the ability …
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Hey Guys,

What should i do first when im gonna use invoker? (i know that i need to memorize the 10 spells and fast hands too) but i want to know what skillbuild should i use if im new to this hero?
should i i use quas wex, quas exort, or exort?

Thanks you!
sorry bad english =)))
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• Dotafire Account
• Speak/Read/Write basic English
• Working microphone
• At least 100 completed games
• Share match history enabled (For the 100 games completion verification)

Entry: _{(Post in the entry thread filling in the said requirements.)}

• Steam Username
• Dotabuff Report
• Skype Username (Optional)

Regulations:

• 10 persons
• 5 versus 5
• Captains Mode
• Randomized user teams
• Team elimination rounds

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• 1 Ticket = 1 Common of choice from DoTA2 in-game stor

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