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Yeah, this is the rodent's 6.89 I suppose. I tried something new and balanced around balance as opposed to rule of cool and taking a **** on Windrunner. Though I still did the latter because **** it.

Whatever let's get into it. Nobody reads my intros anyway so nobody will read this sentence and if they do read this sentence they'll realise it's excessively long and doesn't really serve a purpose except to confuse the people that do read this intro into no longer reading the intro which makes this sentence even more pointless.

General

-Roshan now gives 250 (up from 200) gold to the team that defeats him. Snatching the Aegis now grants 200 gold to the team that does so. Roshan kills before the 1-minute mark award a bonus 100 gold.

I still want to see crazy risk-taking Rosh shenanigans.


-Heroes are now credited with assists if they helped with non-damaging abilities such as Overgrowth and Global Silence. Shackleshot is excepted from this rule.

-Heroes are now granted double thei…
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Do you think I'm worse than you?

Some of these heroes I'm not sure are balanced at all, so I put a trigger warning next to them.

Abaddon

- Mist Coil cast point from 0.35 to 0.3
- Aphotic Shield cast point from 0.452 to 0.3
- Aphotic Shield now deals damage equal to actual absorbed damage upon bursting


Alchemist
- Acid Spray radius from 625 to 375
- Acid Spray duration from 16 to 8
- Acid Spray damage per second from 15/20/25/30 to 30/40/50/60
- Acid Spray armor reduction from 4/5/6/7 to 3/4/5/6
- Unstable Concoction cooldown from 16 to 10
- Unstable Concoction maximum damage from 150/220/290/360 to 100/170/240/310
- Unstable Concoction throw range from 775 to 800
- Greevil's Greed no longer provides extra gold bonus per stack
- Greevil's Greed base gold bonus from 6/8/10/12 to 7/8/9/10
- Greevil's Greed now can be cast on an enemy creep, ward or mine to provide 120 gold bounty and 50 or 1.2x/1.3x/1.4x/1.5x experience, whichever higher. Has a cooldown of 125 seconds. (Grants 58 e…
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Let's make a 6.89. The general idea is to make some cool heroes playable again. And to give a *fair* nerf to the meta in very high scrub tier pubs.

- Sven

* Storm Hammer cooldown rescaled from 13 to 22/19/16/13 seconds
* Storm Hammer damage rescaled from 100/175/250/325 to 25/125/225/325
* Warcry coooldown rescaled from 32/26/20/14 to 17 at all levels

**** the 1/4/4 value abuse build. Seriously. That build is the reason why he gives a 20 armor bonus to his entire team at the 10 minute mark, which is broken as hell.


- Kunkka

* X Marks the Spot cooldown rescaled from 26/20/14/8 to 25/20/15/10
* Ghost ship rum duration reduced from 10 to 7 seconds

Yes, that's a Kunkka nerf. Because the point is to balance heroes around their actual strength, not their pick rates...Right?


- Dragon Knight

* Breathe Fire mana cost reduced from 100/110/120/130 to 105 at all levels

Makes up for the fact that bottlecrowing and even bottle is dead, so you can't even afford to use your Q in the…
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Drow ranger is suppose to be carry, mid game carry right ? but I think she need buff or rework her ulti (marksmanship) and i have 2 reason to say that
first what is the point if your maximum power disappeared because someone become near to you. i don't get it .


if we gonna compare her stats and skills with any mid game carry hero we will figure out the most useless carry ever is drow ranger . jugg his skills and his stats perfect . clinks he is squashy as drow but his skills and agility gain is better than drow just think of any carry u will find him better than drow


second reason her E (precision aura ) also make her attack strong based on her agility that mean also if anyone become near to you just fu*#ed up . if I told you that to counter carry just try to be near to him and 2 of his skills become useless . easy right?!! and guess what this two skills are this carry's way to deal a damage .

also guess again she got the ****ty stats ever for a carry right clicker . drow sup…
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when I play with juggernaut against pa, I buy the usual items eye of skadi or manta and battle fury before mkb but I can't fight back with her and she beat me very fast
my question here is if i buy mkb instead of battle fury will that work ?
sorry if had any mistakes in the language
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So today, this is my last post before the international. I like to remove myself from.the public eye, so here goes nothin

Phantom lancer, people think, is an underpowered hero. What with direct and indirect needs. Doppelganger, juxtapose, agi, all were nerfed to his detriment but I feel there is hope for this behemoth of a snowballer that he should be played as.

People tell me that diffusal nerf buried him. Some fellow members say it is true, that it cut down his output by 30% or so. But 30% of what?
30% of awesome is still awesome so here it is, how manta into heart is one of the new meta (I know you hate this word) way to play cancer lancer.

Why manta is a viable alternative to diffusal?

Well let's say that phantom lancer can do the same on ratting if not better than diffusal.

A diffusal roughly gives you 240 awesome damage with 8 rillusions , manta early game gives you less ( around 100 damage)but reliable damage over time as the 66% increase is guaranteed instead of depending…
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I apologize for posting on the blog twice in a row, but this happened today:

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM SHAAAAAAKKAAAA LAAKKAAAAA.

I is excite, as you can tell. I'm one loss from falling back down and still need to play like 20 more games before my Seasonal replaces my regular MMR but for now... EXCITEMENT!
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I've been thinking about Linken's Sphere. I feel like the item is slowly becoming more and more irrelevant as each patch comes out: it was given the ability to be used on other people, its cost has shrunk significantly over the past few patches (the recipe getting reduced to 1K gold flat in 6.87!) and it's cooldown is 13! Down from 20 back in the day. And yet...

Who... buys this item? Does anyone?

The natural heroes that come to wind are Medusa, Morphling, and Weaver, yet it's becoming far more common to skip this item in favor of other things: Medusa and Morphling get much more out of an Eye of Skadi, and Weaver... well, I'm a Phase/Deso guy on Weaver, but that's another thread entirely.

It straddles this odd line of not knowing what type of item it wants to be. The fact that you can transfer the spellblock makes it seem like a support item, but at almost 5K gold and having two 1K+ costing components, it's difficult for a four or five position to get this item unless y…
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I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WISP 'IO' AND HOW TO PLAY IT REALLY WELL. So this is really not a blog or anything... Is there anymore site where I can learn from it?
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I made a blog post named dota theory 2.
And i cant see in my blog posts or saved blogs. Asked hades and lets just say bug reported...... Annnnnnyyywaaaaayyys





So what is the deal with Abaddon?borrowed time look less like a cheat death and more.like heal.me if you hit me.

You ever wonder why?
How about we attempt to reinvent borrowed time?
Here is mine!

Borrowed time is an instant cast ability that allows Abaddon to come back to the previous HP state 4/5/6 seconds , before casting the ability.

I know it sounds like time walk, but you can cast it while being stunned. And here is the kicker

Borrowed time allows Abaddon to cheat death when it is off cool down and returns him to 4/5/6 seconds previous to his state and allowing him to steal 15/25/35% current HP from his attempting killer.

Looks like borrowed isn't it?.....

Now how about his aghs upgrade?
Casting borrowed time allows Abaddon to heal back 50% of the damage done to his allies 5/6/7 seconds back. Range:900

So your mag…
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