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Bombadil was brought up at the Council of Elrond as a potential way to handle the ring. Gandalf and Elrond both agreed that he was too care-free to take the evil of the ring seriously and would have eventually lost track of it. Even if he didn't, the ring wasn't even the major threat in the...

I don't know what you're talking about (dumar), I still get crushed in all the modern shooters. If anything, they're harder than the old ones because you can't tell where you are getting shot from in a lot of cases. At least in CS or Unreal you could spray and pray in the general direction of...

I would be receiving Ball/Brees. My team right now is: QB: Brady RBs: Ellington/Bell/Ridley/Miller/Asiata/K. Davis/Gerhart WRs: Megatron/DT/Cobb/Decker/Josh Gordon (playoff stash) TE: Gronk My obvious weak points are RB (no one reliable) and QB (Brady is hot garbage and I'll be...

Two trades are on the table: Montee Ball for Randall Cobb straight up. Or Drew Brees + Montee Ball for Calvin Johnson + Lamar Miller Thoughts?

I can't remember ever being able to ward the pit with either type of ward, I might be wrong though. There's also vision blockers that prevent wards from seeing into the pit from the outside, as well as the area right around the entrance near the secret shop cliff. For some reason I remember...

You aren't able to put a ward inside the pit. You can put a remote mine, though =D.

Sentries don't reveal smoke any longer. But you're right, Lycan is amazing when something else is going on to keep the other team distracted. I can't count how many times I've thought my team won a team fight just to pan over and see Lycan taking two towers or Roshan. He's stupid fast at split...

It has a huge cast range on top of a huge radius and casts instantly. It lasts 25 seconds with a CD 30. It's pretty much the easiest item to use in the entire game, and far easier than a level 1 dagon.

I'd prefer veil unless your team is overly heavy on physical damage. But if you have fun with dagon, knock yourself out. Not everything is about efficiency.

Veil is a decent option too. It's probably the most underrated item in the game overall. For less than the cost of an Aghs, you can get a veil and a casual point booster. Comparing the two you get: Aghs - 200 HP, 150 Mana, 10 All Stats, +33% Damage on Scythe, Buyback Canceling Veil+PB...

Not 10% of all players, just 10% of those online on any given weekend. I don't think that's too unrealistic if is it is well promoted and has rewards that you can't buy or get through ordinary pub games.

Does League do something similar? I've never played that game. Anyways, I was thinking different colored effects, in game titles, special colored fonts, maybe something like a crown or border around your icon. That sort of thing. Nothing too obtrusive but still noticeable. 10% would probably...

You also get to play with a flag and base icons. The downside is it's not a functionality that's really encouraged all that much. I would like to see something like monthly tournaments where teams are able to compete for items, bragging rights, special effects, etc. Have different...

I actually liked the outcome of the game. Newbee dominated everyone they played after the group stages and completely deserved the win. They even did it while starting from the hardest possible position. And I'm not making up rules. Almost no major sporting events allows forfeiting absent a...

Chinese teams make mistakes. They throw leads. They aren't some breed of super-gamers impervious to nerves and bad decisions. It's the same line of thinking that had people saying wisp would never work against the Chinese because they were so good that they could never be caught out of position...

I wouldn't mind a rule forbidding forfeiting in the main event. Giving up before you have even lost a tier two, let alone attempted to defend high ground is weak. I don't care how far you are behind. Nut up and do your best or take the humiliation. That's the way it works in any other sport.

Like Tyson says, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. VG punches you in the mouth. They aren't going to let you sit around and farm for 30 minutes so you can get your quad core lineup online. EG should have recognized that and tried to avoid the punch or figured out a way to...

EG drafted way too greedily against that early game lineup of VG. If they want to move on, they need to abandon this idea of quad core. *edit Come on. Alch, Weaver, Void, Enigma, Viper. I couldn't think of a greedier lineup if I tried.

Sylar has been an absolute monster on Morphling. In 8 games he's 7-1 with an 87-17 KDR. If he isn't banned out they will ride him to the championship. TI2, how I've missed you.

That's true. The four teams in the winner's bracket were guaranteed to place extremely well just by nature of the brackets. It's as if the tournament was half decided before it even started. Compared to TI3, where everything was much more uncertain, it's not nearly as exciting.

The WB Finals was at like 7PM eastern. I suppose some people on the west coast would still be at work, but most central and eastern people would be home already. Europe would have been around midnight, so work wasn't an issue there either. There's just not a lot of interest. There used to be...

It's strange. The game is much more popular this year and the community-funded prize pool is many times larger, but it seems like the general interest level is much lower when compared with previous Internationals. On Reddit, post-match threads only have a couple hundred comments. In game...

Mirror match, 5v5 techies. Make it happen.

Yeah. The vision blocking the passive regen is annoying early game, but easily solved with an urn/salve/wand/tranqs or any other form of healing. It's really the silence that kills you. Without pounce or dark pact you're nothing but a super squishy creep.

At least at TI4, it seems like the supports chosen are those that have some kind of big teamfight ult and usually at least one reliable disable. Lina has an unreliable short range stun and her ult is high damage but single target. That's probably why she wasn't being picked. But the main...

Or an urn. Slark is a ganker.

Slardar is a strong hero. His ult is spammable and makes any target its on squishier than Crystal Maiden, even farmed carries. It also gives vision, goes through BKB, and can let him practically one shot supports with blink crush. Oh, and it makes Roshan cake with any lineup. Sprint gives...

datdota: The International 2014

With either Navi or C9 eliminated after the first round of the main event, we are looking at a predominantly eastern live tournament. They are great teams and all, but I still can't help but feel disappointed. East vs West games are much more interesting than East vs East or West vs West and are...

I'm surprised Navi has made it this far, to be honest. When they go up against a team with a clear plan and the practice to back it up, they just look lost. Puppey is dead weight in games and is consistently beaten in drafts. They can't handle rotations or pressure on their lanes without...

The point isn't that the hero is unbeatable, it's that when shedoeswin, it's in one of the most boring ways imaginable.

Naga illusion push is getting nerfed, there's no doubt about it. The fact that it is 'balanced' in terms of win/loss ratio is more or less irrelevant since the wins come in a way that isn't good for the game. 70 minute illusion-fests where the real hero doesn't even cross the river aren't...

A win there could have put Liquid in fourth and one match away from the winner's bracket. Now they are potentially in the 7-10 bracket, 3 matches away from the winner's bracket, and facing an elimination match. That's a big game to gg out of early.

Update: Mouz and Alliance stay alive. If they win their last games they force a tiebreak with LGD and Newbee for the last two slots. VG secures top two. EG drops a game. If they win their last, they are into the top two. If they fail to do so, they will go to a tiebreak with DK and...

Fnatic is out with their loss. With the LGD win, the 10th slot will be a 7-8 record. Both Mouz or Alliance can force a tiebreaker if they win their last two matches. Four of the top 6 slots are wrapped up (EG, VG, IG, and DK). Titan, Liquid, C9, and Navi are in contention for the last two...

Top two (guaranteed winner's bracket and at least 5th/6th place overall) are pretty much wrapped up for EG and VG. The each only need one win with two games remaining to be assured the slots. Even if they lose out, they'll still get a tiebreak. For top six (guaranteed entrance to the main...

I would say that no one in this tournament is doing anything to the same level of perfection as TI3 Alliance's Rat Dota or TI2 Chinese Morphling. It seems like everyone is just kind of relying on all-around skill and playmaking rather than any particular well-practiced strategy. That might...

Interesting fact: If you take out Arteezy's 5-1 record on Razor, the hero is 18-33 for a putrid 35% win percentage. Hard to believe he keeps getting picked.

I don't even think he'll be nerfed. For the tournament he's only the 9th most picked and he has the third worst win percentage among the 17 heroes with more than 20 picks. He's just a flashy hero and trending, so he's attracting a lot of attention. His biggest problem is that he's dead weight...

Void hasn't been doing nearly as well this tournament as heroes like Doom, Brew, Enigma, Lycan, Tinker, etc. Just because he dominates in few games doesn't mean he needs a nerf. Again, this goes back to the Naga discussion. If you pick a mid game oriented lineup and don't win in the mid...