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Keep in mind, that while AR definitely is a more casual screw around mode with varied and bizarre games (a definite perk). You do miss out on one very important aspect of improving that all pick allows. You can focus on any 1 hero or heroes for multiple games at a time and make a lot of...

The shit that happens between me and nutron has nothing to do with playing inhouses. We've probably played 100 group queue games at least. We just grate on eachother at times. It just happened to be in an inhouse.

I don't believe I'll be around tonight, but I'll do whatever works best when I am. Even games we can manage on average is all I care about.

Your ELO does not go up much when you group queue with a varied skill spread - just ask all the normal guys who I group queue in channel with. I'm probably close to the highest ELO in the channel - at least up there with the top group. Every solo game I play is in Vhigh - and has been for...

Thanks for the couple games - good insight into what we might need to do for balancing purposes I had a good time! Sorry Cyni!

You should have gotten a new key in your email if you purchased digitally that is the actual "game CD key" if you will. When you log into the mogstation to redeem this key, there is a button which is in the top right portion of the account service screen that basically says + add new service...

Same with me, unbelievable bullshit. 2 hours in chat - none available. Fucking stupid.

From the TI3 Retrospective of the 6.77 -> 6.78 Patch - a Nice little chart which compares Vhigh to Normal bracket games and the hero selections there in. The interesting thing to me was how many carries in normal games (especially ones that are very straight forward in how they play) and...

Surrender makes no sense in Dota. If your team wants to surrender, you can 5 man mid and try to take the game. Go for a couple teamfights, then everyone can be satisfied with the attempt - and lastly just go sit in the trees somewhere and ask them to politely push. It works 99% of the...

For inhouses, at least for fun/start, I would let the auto balancer handle the team divisions for the first couple games. Whoever makes the lobby needs to make sure the game results aren't set to private so that if you copy the id we can paste them in here for people to watch laugh at...

One more thing the last column is somewhat stupidly titled - but I couldn't think of anything else - But if you can play from 6-10 your local time - adjust it to EST - I don't have all the time zones memorized in order globally - so if you play in the evening in europe - list your play time in...

We need to get substantially more players in the forums involved before you can have 8 or 10 person teams. Not only that but dota is massively punishing for skill differential. If our vhigh players all made a team - unless there are a lot of vhigh players who are hidden in channel regularly...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...0cFNFeGc#gid=3 Link to the direct page of the google doc we'll use it for inhouse signups - if anyone has formatting ideas or extra information in the columns let me know I just threw this together in 30 seconds off Tecknoe's start.

If you run captains mode, the draft has to reflect the players you have, not the pro scene meta. And there is nothing wrong with that, I'm first banning lich.

The captain thing - is gonna be odd - I don't know how much picking teams is better than just having the auto balancer in private lobbies split us up - and if the auto balancer goes goofy we can mix it up some. I'll definitely play, it just will be extremely hard to get equal games, only...

I'm on a much less populous server than you guys are, max queue I saw while logging in was around 140 - it probably took me 20 minutes to get in casually reentering while reading web pages. I got one boot yesterday, but all told I want to keep logging in even though they won't let me. I...

I guess what confused me was the fact that I had to start as a gladiator and they were bottlenecked by the fact their level 10 class quest is instanced. I kept expecting them to be unlocked by now. People talking about opening them by level 10 was confusing me.

So a game related question, where do you unlock the guildleve accumulation quest, I cannot for the life of me find who gives it by googling the webs. I should be able to unlock the accumulation but I have no fucking clue where it could be - I feel like a fuckin retard by all accounts this...

There is a great deal of information that comes only from the minimap, more than you are implying. Improving is not as nebulous as you think. A few things, that go a long way. Obviously you cannot win every game of SC or Dota, and in both games you can lose when you play well. A...

Friend me and play some games with me, should bump up the ELO to be a little more difficult for you, and that way I can get a sense of what you don't understand about the game flow, might help. Just let me know.

I think troll will be experimented with, but I'm not sure exactly how that will play out. His ult is a super sterroid for the team, he probably fits in a 2 or 3 core lineup with some kind of timing around teamfighting. But there is still the entire aspect of global hasting anyone on your...

Vampire the Masquerade - just apply the patch you won't be disappointed. Great game. Totally wish It had not had such poor sales and a bug ridden start - we'd have had sequels.

I generally just open the party when I start them and broadcast whats up. Feel free to join in.

Game is hard, just try to honestly learn one thing at a time, or take away one thing at a time from every game. I've enjoyed playing with you guys, every once in a while we get a team fight that actually looks pretty close to what you would want out of it. I l really enjoy dota, so I...

I just went through the process from my GMG email - and everything worked first go on the na preorder side of things. And I just DL'd the whole client in 50 minutes. Worked simply, just followed the directions.

PvP will be a sideshow attraction if its anything like FFXI - they never balance it - there is no ladder or gear grind, its kind of for fun and it never impacts how bad ass your PVE abilities might be hurray. PvP not being important is the best thing to happen to an MMO in years. Ruins all...

it sounds like a lot of folks are enjoying some of the defining aspects of FFXI but refined to 2013 tastes a bit more with better UI etc. Those of us that played FFXI consistently promoted how bad ass the job system is. (or at least one like it)

My order took on GMG swapping to chrome finally, no idea why or whatever but it finally took. GMG25-OGRUH-7SM8H 25% off code to anyone else buying (22.50 USD)

Anyone have problems with Greenmangaming accepting a purchase request? it just hang and doesn't do anything at make payment. I've tried in firefox and I.E. Same problem

One tip you might not know about last hitting is animation canceling - and animation canceling is a useful skill period. But in regards to last hitting if you wind your hero up to hit a creep or launch a projectile (or cast a spell) if you hit the S key mid swing your hero will instantly stop...

Solo safe lane would be solo'ing the lane with the jungle pulls native to your side, solo hard is the lane without the friendly jungle. Offensive trilane would just be a trilane in the hard lane - i.e without jungle advantage. Defensive trilane is just opposite. They have these names...

Right, obviously a game of dota is a lot more complicated than 10 minutes of PvCreeping, but more improvement can be gained in those 10 minutes because its the only time in the game generally where the lanes remain semi-static for at least the first few minutes. Understanding how to maximize...

Right, but being IAP isn't necessarily about pulling a perfect box, its just about pulling a consistently more interesting one. I would have been satisfied with any of the 10 gods on godfest even if it was a color I don't really play. There is a difference between pulling a suboptimal god...

If you have brown boots at 10 minutes, its hard to manmode farm anything. CS leads to more CS as item acquisition accelerates future farm. The last 10 are hopefully the most influential, but they only happen from all the time spent getting to that power point. Obviously farming has its...

So a few things to add to what was posted, Think of your starting items are your gateway to lane sustainability especially as a carry, and your first item buys were completely detrimental to you staying in your lane. You decided to buy brown boots, followed by a belt of giant strength...

When you only roll 2-5 times, its all random, you just don't have the stamina to outlast the shitty times in the machine. My two gold eggs were 5* Toytops and 5* Alarune. 2 Silver and 1 shitbird 3*. I can't believe how poor my luck is at pulling the lever.

So I'm just curious what other heroes people want to nerf disregarding their winrate? What metric do you use to deterimine balance then? I'm still not sure I follow this logic of "At a certain point in the game NP has won the game and you can't do anything about it except fight 3v5 it takes...

He was banned primarily in the later bans of the draft when the opposing team had not committed to a mid and the drafting team wanted a specific int hero. Laning against OD mid is basically a loss for any int hero. So you have to commit your supports and time to rotate and kill OD, so...

Same, saved 25. toyceratops Agdrall Mystic dark knight Alarune Ancient Dragon Knight. /wrist I even used sorrows method. Rolls were minutes apart. Shitty luck! I'd rather of had the 125 box space extra.

Shit, I guess he's broke, you convinced me.