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Personal note to all the noobies. Nay, a personal note to all players. This game is hard, this game is different from all other genres of video games. Rarely do I ever see a 'bad' player. I see new players, I see inexperienced players, I see players that have smoked a little too much weed before entering a game. The only bad players I see are the ones that blame people, get angry, and rage quit. Basically the negative people. Although I would like it to be different, this is a part of the game whether you like it or not. Don't let these people get to you, they are nothing but immature.

A good friend of mine really enjoyed playing the game, but the constant harassment led him to feel bad when he played and it was hard for him to play without getting upset. He has come to learn the game better (but by no means is he a good player) but he has taken an example from others playing this game and constantly blames other people, gets angry at everyone else, and believes he is better at the ga…
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Here's the deal my friends of Dotafire. As of now I shall be staying up and will be working on 2 new guides of which will be submitted within the next 12 hours. "But why NotSureIf? Why not just sleep?". Sleeping is boring people! Since all I ever do now is sleep, I thought I'd mix up my schedule a bit see what I can come up with. The guides will be fully formatted and will be full to the brim with helpful tips and info. See you all in 8 hours, fair comments if you will ;)
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Hi All,

I've had a few thoughts about the International - and some of the common issues was the 'repetitive use of heroes' at least 3, maybe 4 - sometimes 5 heroes, were re-used in the same lineup against the same team, throughout the tournement.
I'm not complaining AT ALL - I love a good competitive game, that's the beauty of Dota - same team, same heroes, different game every time..

However, some heroes saw 1 use, or 0 uses throughout the whole tournement. surprisingly Ogre Magi being one of them. Here are a list of heroes, that saw less than 3 games in the whole of the international - apart from the obvious, any thoughts as to why!?!?!

Ogre Magi - 0 games! wow.. becuase he's melee support perhaps?
Sven - 0 games, same issue, and he has a terrible win rate in the competitive scene.
Alchemist - 1 game, and lost - obv, he's ****
Axe - 1 game, 1 ban - surprisingly little use for Axe - I was expecting more - not sure why?
Bane - Shadow Demon Disruptor are better supports to do…
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I've been on Dota 2 a lot recently and been fooling around with the Eye of Skadi. Why do I see no one using it but me? It's not a bad modifier at all.. Anyone want to shed some insight on this?
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hi help me
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As I've play a lot of Dota 2 games I've been wondering if bringing down towers or the rank of each hero comes into affect of winning the game. I've seen horribly low level characters win somehow against really high level heros. Mainly because most of the opponents towers were gone and the other team had all their towers. and I've seen a strong team wither down when they get close to winning maybe due to their carelessness of not worrying about losing and thus causing them to lose.

So I've been thinking which one is better to work on either team ganks/helping the team out, or pushing towers....I know both is very important so....possibly a mix of teamwork and pushing?

But in all Towers are the key part into winning right??
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Hi all,

Just a quick thought on stacking neutrals + smoke of deceit farming style.
Na'vi pulled it off recently with Pugna using he 1st skill (whatever it's called) and a Bottle, while stacking the hard camp 3/4 times. He hit 6 before anyone else on the map - and as a result killed Anti-Mage very early, and unexpectedly!

So who else could pull this off? I'm talking about heroes you wouldn't normally see jungle, but it turns out can, if you know what you're doing. This is NOT a noob post, so you kinda need to know dota already.. :)

I know the smoke deceit has changed, but with skill cooldowns for these heroes, waiting for the neuts to go back to the camp won't be difficult.

my thoughts -
Undying - think about it.. :D any camp will do, I guess early you could stack the small camp, and take it out to level 2 - while on cd, stack the large camp, and get back to lane at the same time (or pull the lane creeps)
in theory - you could stack both mid camps on the radiant side, using a qu…
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Sorry if I double posted, my browser has been acting up. I was just curious if anyone knows whether Poison Sting and Orb of Venom stack. If they do, would the item be viable for Venomancer? Thanks in advance.
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Hey guys. I've been playing a lot of support recently and was curious whether there are other possible warding positions besides the rune spawns. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey everyone, just wanted to say HELLO DOTA COMMUNITY! Here's a small introduction about myself (mainly my gaming background):

Most of you will know me as Zephyr, but my previous username was Glayde. Glayde is also my username on various other games. I also play League of Legends (ID is Glayde, Level 30, PM if you wanna ranked :D), and I might start playing HoN soon, just to try it out. I used to play some FPS, but not so much anymore.

I guess I play pretty well, I usually get a decent score. I usually play nukers (Nyx, Lina), but I also play some other heroes, like Furion or Lich (Lich is still a nuker..right?). In LoL, I play a wide variety of champions. I usually play AP Mid or jungle, but in 3v3 (RL friends ranked team) I go semitank. I main Ahri, Lux and Xerath for AP Mids, Skarner and Nocturne jungle, and Mundo/Blitz semitank.

Hopefully I don't get flamed for playing LoL, but if I do, whatever :3
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