Okay, I just DCed from a game and couldn't reconnect. After the first try, I didn't even have the option of reconnecting and I'm assuming the game is lost and not recorded. What the f*** SEA server. This was a game I was clearly going to win.

Anybody else got that problem?

And holy shit, Ursa can solo Roshan at level 4 now.

Another tip for warding. You can tell where people are warding if you manage to see them. If you see a support appear in your ward vision on your minimap, take a couple of seconds to look at them. You'll know when they place a ward if they look in a certain direction without moving for more than a couple of seconds. And if you see observer wards in the enemy inventory, it doesn't hurt to deward common warding spots anyways.

And please for the love of God, deward before you attempt to Rosh. Or at least smoke up.

Vengeful Spirit is a VERY powerful support who is relevant late game, unlike CM who dies in 3 hits. Compounded by the fact that Vengence Aura has been buffed to a pain in the ass for you enemy. And her awesome ultimate.

This post has been edited by Arcisal: May 2 2014, 04:36 PM

Does anybody have any experience with ixdl or any other in-house league?

Looking for a more competitive environment (preferably not tournaments YET).

Were either of those any good?

Thanks for the tip. Finding a 5-stack is hard enough already, let alone a decent one.

Season 2 has already begun right? Is it an annual thing or...?


You should have gotten a Desolator after your Drums. Maybe replace your Bottle with an Urn since you didn't go mid and Pudge bought a Bottle already.

Other than that, it's probably the BS who fed them a lot. Going Force Staff and SnY first is terrible.

This post has been edited by Arcisal: May 4 2014, 05:54 PM

You should get 1 level of your Q, W and E by level 3. After that 9 times out of 10 you max your Q (Battery Assault) first, followed by Rockets and then finally cogs. Always take cogs at level 1.

Aghanims is good on Clock, but you should not rush it. A Clock with Boots and Aghanims is useless compared to a Clock with Boots, Force Staff, Drums and Urn. 12 second ulti is nice, but it will be a very long time before you can start spamming it.

My usual itembuild is Phase > Urn (Bottle) > Drums > Force Staff (Blademail).

Everything after that is situational. You can go straight for Aghanims or you can get Necrobook, Orchid, Hex, BKB or Heaven's Halberd. Just get whatever your team needs the most.

This post has been edited by Arcisal: May 5 2014, 09:49 PM

Depends. If you can finish your Phase in lane before level 6, then do it. If you can't, then just get an Urn and finish your Phase after that.

Most of the time yes, but I think he works best after another person goes it to initiate, like a Magnus or Tidehunter. If he's the first one to go in, he'll die very easily.

If you can, solo offlane. Mid or safelane is also good though.

But if you don't have any other mid in your team, or nobody wants to, then clock can go mid. Not saying he should or must, but he can basically go any lane and still do a decent job.

Please get a Force Staff of Clockwerk. It's the only "ate" game item you need. Hook their carry and trap them in cogs then force staff yourself out, and it's a 6 second "stun", or at least until they destroy it.

Necrobook is only good if you will be pushng 90% of the time (Lycan or NP), if you need more push (Bane) or they have annoying invisible heroes.

Do we have a lowyat guild or DotA group?

Sorry for being a retard, but what's /k. This isn't 4chan right?

Flavour of the month: Wratih King support.

Discuss.

Problem comes when you look at your minimap TOO much, especially with Mirana arrows.

Please. No Pudge arcana. We have too many Pudge pickers in games already and there are a lot of super nice sets for Pudge.

I think Puck or Rubick deserves an Arcana.

Has anyone been experiencing delay in-game? When I play Ember Spirit I can't see my remnants or Invoker's tornado. Really annoying.

Sometimes I lose connection to the Dota 2 network as well. Its f***ing annoying and loses games.

I don't think they understand me very well.

Anyways, yesterday I stood-in for a scrim for one of my friends. It was my first real look at a competitive experience. Even though I lost, I thought it was x10 more fun than pubs.

Any place I can go to scrim or play more competitively?

Carry Silencer, Arcanes-first and Blink Dagger Sand King and Spirit Breaker in one game.

C9 going full retard.

To be fair, game impact isn't wholly dependent on just one person or role. A good support can also have as much impact on the game as a solo mid does. It's just that it a lot harder to make a noticeable impact as a support cause you have to go beyond upgrading the courier and buying wards. There is just so much more to being a support.

VS is a super good support for pubs. Can gank, has stun/nuke and has freaking OP aura.

And can go semi-carry if you really need to, but not as good though.