DOTA 2

Luthair · Dec 7, 2014

The Secret vs VG semi was mostly awful games by both teams. It felt like the whole series was like the game in the finals where C9 won because VG was buying random shit. I think my highlight for the event was the VG vs Secret game w/ Loda, Pajkatt, Zai and Pieliedie casting, such a weirdass game.

I really wish we would see C9 play as they do in the group stages of Starladder or the Summit where they seem to have it together and dominate. Why do they leave the group stages and suddenly no one can get anything done?

I don't understand why people keep picking lich, that hero never seems to win. Similarly Phoenix still seems pretty worthless after 25-minutes, might work in a push strat but otherwise....

Louis · Dec 8, 2014

I feel like C9 truly just crumble under finals pressure. They have the skills to beat any team, but come finals they always play a shell of themselves.

Pinch_sl · Dec 10, 2014

C9 vs VP.Polar right now: C9 took all VPP raxes over an hour ago. VPP has been defending vs mega creeps and is gaining momentum. Game reached a weird stalemate where both teams would fight until buybacks were used, then they would both retreat until buybacks were available again. VPP gradually chipping away at buildings and took a lane and a half of raxes so far, and may actually be favored to win right now. Currently paused due to lag, but worth tuning in to see how it ends!

Luthair · Dec 10, 2014

I actually watched that game when it was on, watching one team push lanes and the other team defend for an hour was some boring shit. I think C9 tried too many cute plays to end the game which let VPP get important items on 2-5 positions when C9 should have boxed VPP in their base and farmed. I think it was 70-80 minutes before Envy had more than bkb, deso, mkb, blink, travels on a lycan.

Jovec · Dec 11, 2014

Prime_sl said:
Valve takes 62.5% of the profit, 25% towards the prize pool, and 12.5% towards the organizer. Valve matches any money put towards the prize pool, so the usual split is 75% towards valve and 25% towards the organizer. 860k in ticket sales is 107k towards the organizers. Pretty good for an online tournament, but not that good when you look at a tournament with a LAN. It's so ridiculous how much money Valve takes from ticket sales.

If that's the split, then the scene is still almost entirely sponsor dependent. BTS might not be left with $50k before taxes, to be split however many ways.

Luthair · Dec 15, 2014

I think Pajkatt may no longer be on TT, at least he was playing for alliance around the same time TT had a standin.

Intrinsic · Dec 15, 2014

There was a Reddit thread a couple days ago saying that, well at least that he was no longer with TT, Guess time will tell what the new Alliance looks like.

Intrinsic · Dec 15, 2014

6.83 Patch Notes:

GAMEPLAY UPDATE 6.83
GENERAL
Ranked All Pick initial planning phase reduced from 40 to 30 seconds

First rune spawns are now both Bounty Runes that are twice as effective (50/50 gold/xp to 100/100)
All Illusions now deal 25% less damage to structures

Melee and Ranged Barracks bounty reduced from 352-370 to 100-150
Melee and Ranged Barracks now give 125 and 75 gold to each player, respectively

Ward location to the right of Roshan is now pathable
Fixed a ward location near the Dire ancients that could not be easily seen

Ancient Granite Golem health reduced from 2000 to 1700
Ancient Granite Golem now has an aura which grants 15% bonus health to its allies

Private Lobby games now use the Captain's Mode creep spawn timer when in All Pick

Maximum Attack Speed increased from 500 to 600 (the primary impact of this is on abilities like Windranger's Focus Fire and Ursa's Overpower)
The following abilities no longer have restrictions when cast on Spell Immune Allies: Kunkka's X Marks The Spot, Magnus's Empower, Treant Protector's Living Armor, and Warlock's Shadow Word

The tooltips for Vanguard, Stout Shield, Poor Man's Shield and Crimson Guard now reflect their internal proc chance instead of their legacy representation (no actual balance change)
Vision and Fog of War can now be any numerical value, rather than specific intervals (previously it was 0, 64, 192, 320, 448, 576, 704, 800, 832, 960, 1088, 1216, 1344, 1472, 1600, 1728) [?]
HEROES
[[abaddon]]
Borrowed Time duration increased from 3/4/5 to 4/5/6

[[alchemist]]
Greevil's Greed base bonus gold increased from 4/6/8/10 to 6/8/10/12
Greevil's Greed extra bonus gold per stack from 1/2/3/4 to 3
Greevil's Greed max bonus gold from 30 to 12/20/28/36
Greevil's Greed recent kill window duration increased from 25 to 30

[[axe]]
Battle Hunger duration from 10/12/14/16 to 10
Battle Hunger damage from 15/20/25/30 to 16/24/32/40 [?]
Battle Hunger cast range from 900 to 750
Battle Hunger movement and slow from 10 to 12%
Battle Hunger mana cost from 75/85/95/105 to 75

[[bane]]
Nightmare cooldown from 15 to 16/15/14/13

[[beastmaster]]
Call of the Wild now always provides a Hawk and a Boar at each level, and each now scales per level
Hawk health from 50/50/100/100 to 40/60/80/100
Hawk movement speed from 270/270/400/400 to 250/300/350/400
Hawk day sight from 500/500/1600/1600 to 700/1000/1300/1600
Hawk night sight from 500/500/1200/1200 to 700/800/900/1000
Hawk kill bounty from 30/30/65/65 to 30/40/50/60
Boar health from 0/400/400/500 to 200/300/400/500
Boar base damage from 0/26/26/46 to 15/30/45/60
Boar base attack time from 0/1.5/1.5/1 to 1.25
Boar poison slow from 0/20/20/35% to 10/20/30/40%

[[bloodseeker]]
Added to Captain's Mode [?]
Bloodrage no longer amplifies outgoing damage if the damage has the no-reflection flag [?]
[[bounty_hunter]]
Track bonus gold for self increased from 150/200/250 to 200/275/350
Track cooldown reduced from 10/7/5 to 4

[[brewmaster]]
Base Armor reduced from 4 to 2
Thunder Clap hero slow duration from 4.25 to 4
Thunder Clap cooldown from 12 to 13

[[bristleback]]
Quill Spray stack damage increased from 30 to 30/32/34/36

[[broodmother]]
Spiderlings' day vision reduced from 1400 to 1100

[[chaos_knight]]
Reality Rift damage increased from 25/50/75/100 to 60/80/100/120
Reality Rift mana cost from 70 to 50
Phantasm illusion duration increased from 34 to 42

[[chen]]
Test of Faith now teleports all of your units to you when cast on yourself [?]
Holy Persuasion max units increased from 1/1/2/3 to 1/2/3/4

[[clinkz]]
Base attack range increased from 600 to 630

[[rattletrap]]
Battery Assault damage increased from 15/35/55/75 to 20/40/60/80

[[crystal_maiden]]
Crystal Nova attack speed slow from 20 to 30
Frostbite cooldown from 10 to 10/9/8/7
Freezing Field duration increased from 7 to 10 seconds
Freezing Field explosion spawn radius and slow radius increased by 150
Freezing Field explosion damage radius increased by 50

[[dark_seer]]
Base armor increased by 1
Vacuum pull duration increased from 0.4 to 0.5

[[dazzle]]
Base attack range increased from 500 to 550

[[death_prophet]]
Strength growth reduced from 2.2 to 1.9

[[disruptor]]
Glimpse mana cost rescaled from 160/130/100/70 to 100
Glimpse cooldown reduced from 65/50/35/20 to 60/46/32/18
Kinetic Field cooldown reduced from 14/13/12/11 to 13/12/11/10
Static Storm cooldown from 85 to 90/80/70

[[dragon_knight]]
Elder Dragon Form level 3 now maintains the Corrosive Breath ability from levels 1 and 2

[[drow_ranger]]
Illusions now benefit from the Marksmanship bonus [?]
[[earth_spirit]]
Rolling Boulder no longer reduces attack speed by 80 for 2 seconds
Rolling Boulder no longer does an additional 45 damage when used with a stone remnant
Rolling Boulder base damage increased from 90 to 100

[[earthshaker]]
Enchant Totem mana cost reduced from 50 to 20/30/40/50

[[elder_titan]]
Astral Spirit damage reduced from 60/100/140/180 to 60/90/120/150
Fixed a few cases where Elder Titan could move his Astral Spirit while casting Echo Stomp

[[enchantress]]
Base movement speed increased from 315 to 335

[[faceless_void]]
Time Walk no longer slows attack speed
Chronosphere cooldown increased from 130/110/90 to 130/115/100
Ward unit types are no longer able to attack while inside the Chronosphere

[[gyrocopter]]
Call Down area of effect increased from 450 to 600
Call Down missile one slow amount reduced from 50% to 30%
Call Down missile two slow amount increased from 20% to 60%
Force Staff can now be used on Homing Missile

[[huskar]]
Inner Vitality base health regen from 2/4/6/8 to 10
Inner Vitality regen bonus when hurt form 30/45/60/75% to 20/40/60/80%

[[wisp]]
No longer requires turning to perform any actions

[[jakiro]]
Liquid Fire damage reduced from 15/20/25/30 to 12/16/20/24

[[juggernaut]]
Base agility increased from 20 to 26
Blade Dance critical strike chance rescaled from 15/20/25/35% to 20/25/30/35%

[[keeper_of_the_light]]
Chakra Magic mana cost from 25/45/65/85 to 25/35/45/55
Blinding Light blind duration increased from 3/4/5 to 4/5/6

[[kunkka]]
X Marks the Spot enemy delay from 1/2/3/4 to 4, and allied delay from 2/4/6/8 to 8
X Marks the Spot cast range from 500/650/800/950 to 350/550/750/1000
X Marks the Spot cooldown from 14/13/12/11 to 19/16/13/10
X Marks the Spot Return mana cost reduced from 50 to 0

[[leshrac]]
Diabolic Edict duration increased from 8 to 10 seconds
Lightning Storm slow duration increased from 0.5 to 0.75
Lightning Storm cast range increased from 700 to 800

[[lich]]
Chain Frost cooldown from 145/115/60 to 120/90/60

[[life_stealer]]
Infest now allows you to control the unit you are in using a sub-ability

[[lina]]
Attack projectile speed from 900 to 1000
Dragon Slave damage increased from 100/170/230/280 to 110/180/250/320
Dragon Slave mana cost increased from 90/105/125/140 to 100/115/130/145
Light Strike Array damage rescaled from 90/150/210/280 to 120/160/200/240
Light Strike Array mana cost increased from 90/100/110/125 to 100/110/120/130
Light Strike Array stun duration increased from 1.6/1.8/2/2.2 to 1.6/1.9/2.2/2.5
Fiery Soul duration increased from 9 to 10

[[lion]]
Base attack damage increased by 7
Mana Drain drain interval from 0.25 to 0.1 [?]
[[lone_druid]]
Removed the cast time on Spirit Bear's Return
Battle Cry cooldown increased from 30 to 60
Battle Cry duration reduced from 8 to 6
Battle Cry bonus damage increased from 20/40/60 to 50/75/100
Battle Cry bonus armor increased from 2/4/6 to 5/10/15

[[luna]]
Moon Glaive level 4 bounces increased from 5 to 6
Eclipse beam count increased from 4/7/10 to 5/8/11 (Scepter increased from 4/8/12 to 6/10/14)

[[meepo]]
Divided We Stand respawn time reduction now 20% instead of 10/20/30%

[[morphling]]
Adaptive Strike stun max duration increased from 0.75/1.5/2.25/3 to 1.25/2.25/3.25/4.25

[[night_stalker]]
Base attack damage increased by 4
Crippling Fear mana cost reduced from 90 to 50
Darkness now sets all enemy vision to a maximum of 675, instead of reducing it by 25% [?]
Darkness no longer pauses the day/night timer
Darkness duration from 40/60/80 to 50
Darkness cooldown reduced from 180/150/120 to 160/120/80

[[ogre_magi]]
Fireblast damage reduced from 60/120/180/240 to 55/110/165/220
Fireblast cast range reduced from 600 to 475

[[obsidian_destroyer]]
Astral Imprisonment intelligence steal increased from 4/6/8/10 to 4/7/10/13
Astral Imprisonment intelligence steal duration reduced from 60 to 50

[[phantom_assassin]]
Coup de Grace critical strike damage from 250/350/450% to 230/340/450%

[[phoenix]]
Supernova attacks required to destroy increased from 5/7/10 to 5/8/11
Fixed Stop Icarus Dive ability sometimes being interrupted by auto-attacks

[[pudge]]
Meat Hook range increased from 700/900/1100/1300 to 1000/1100/1200/1300

[[pugna]]
Decrepify movement slow on allies reduced from 50% to 25%
Netherward attacks required to destroy increased from 3 to 4
Blademail no longer reflects Nether Ward damage onto Pugna

[[queenofpain]]
Blink range increased from 700/850/1000/1150 to 1300
Blink cooldown from 12/10/8/6 to 15/12/9/6
Sonic Wave now does Pure Damage and affects Spell Immune
Sonic Wave damage reduced from 350/475/600 to 290/390/490 (Scepter reduced from 350/530/725 to 325/450/575)

[[riki]]
Blink Strike max charges increased from 3/4/5 to 4/5/6
Blink Strike charge restore time increased from 30 to 35
Blink Strike bonus damage from 50/70/90 to 40/70/100

[[rubick]]
Fade Bolt mana cost from 150 to 120/130/140/150
Scepter Spell Steal cooldown reduced from 5 to 2

[[nevermore]]
Shadowraze damage increased from 75/150/225/300 to 100/175/250/325

[[silencer]]
Glaives of Wisdom intelligence into damage bonus from 30/48/66/84% to 30/50/70/90%
Last Word cooldown reduced from 36/28/20/12 to 30/24/18/12
Scepter Global Silence no longer increases duration by 1 second

[[skywrath_mage]]
Base agility reduced from 18 to 13

[[slardar]]
Sprint duration reduced from 20 to 16
Sprint cooldown reduced from 28 to 23
Amplify Damage cooldown reduced from 10 to 5

[[slark]]
Pounce damage reduced from 60/120/180/240 to 55/110/165/220

[[sniper]]
Shrapnel no longer does damage to buildings
Shrapnel now has 3 charges with a 40 second replenish time [?]
Shrapnel mana cost reduced from 120 to 50
Shrapnel duration increased from 9 to 10

[[spirit_breaker]]
Empowering Haste cooldown from 20 to 16

[[storm_spirit]]
Turn Rate improved from 0.6 to 0.8

[[sven]]
Warcry duration increased from 7 to 8 seconds
Scepter God's Strength ally bonus damage from 40/60/80% to 50/75/100%

[[techies]]
Added to Captain's Mode [?]
Land Mines damage increased from 225/300/375/450 to 300/375/450/525

[[terrorblade]]
Reflection cast point reduced from 0.5 to 0.3
Sunder minimum HP from 25/20/15% to 20%

[[tidehunter]]
Base movement speed reduced by 5
Ravage damage reduced from 200/325/450 to 200/290/380

[[tinker]]
Heat-Seeking Missile damage increased from 100/175/250/325 to 125/200/275/350

[[tiny]]
Toss duration increased from 1 to 1.3 seconds
Grow move speed bonus rescaled from 20/40/60 to 40/50/60

[[treant]]
Eyes In The Forest's Overgrowth damage increased from 135 to 175 per second
Eyes In The Forest cooldown reduced from 55 to 25

[[troll_warlord]]
Fixed Fervor stack count being 1 stack too slow

[[tusk]]
Ice Shards projectile speed from 900 to 1100
Ice Shards shard duration from 5 to 7 seconds
Walrus PUNCH! is now an enemy target ability, and is auto-castable
Walrus PUNCH! cooldown reduced from 25/20/15 to 20/16/12

[[undying]]
Soul Rip max units from 5/10/15/20 to 10/12/14/16
Soul Rip damage/heal per unit from 25 to 18/22/26/30
Tombstone armor increased by 1
Flesh Golem max slow increased from 15 to 20%

[[vengefulspirit]]
Wave of Terror cooldown increased from 15 to 20

[[visage]]
Gravekeeper's Cloak recovery time from 12/10/8/6 to 6

[[warlock]]
Fatal Bonds cast range increased from 800 to 900
Fatal Bonds radius increased from 575 to 700

[[windrunner]]
Powershot travel range increased from 1825 to 2600
Powershot max damage is now dealt after 1 second channel instead of 0.7 [?]
Powershot cast point improved from 0.3 to 0
Reduced the area of the lingering vision at the end of Powershot from 800 to 400
Focus Fire attack speed bonus increased from 400 to 500
ITEMS
[[courier]]
Cost reduced from 150 to 120

[[armlet]]
Recipe cost reduced from 600 to 500

[[blink]]
Blink is no longer disabled if you take no damage (e.g. Spiked Carapace, Refraction, etc)

[[bottle]]
A courier carrying a non-full bottle will always be slowed [?]
[[broadsword]]
Replaced Talisman of Evasion with Broadsword in the Side Shop

[[circlet]]
Cost reduced from 185 to 165 (Null Talisman, Wraith Band, and Bracer Recipe costs increased by 20)

[[clarity]]
Mana restore increased from 135 to 150

[[crimson_guard]]
Guard duration increased from 9 to 10

[[diffusal_blade]]
Diffusal Blade is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier
Multiple Manabreak type abilities do not stack

[[ancient_janggo]]
Endurance charges increased from 5 to 6

[[cyclone]]
Recipe cost increased from 500 to 650

[[flask]]
Cost reduced from 115 to 110

[[helm_of_the_dominator]]
Dominated unit bonus health increased from 250 to 500

[[magic_wand]]
Max charges increased from 15 to 17

[[medallion_of_courage]]
Recipe cost increased from 200 to 325
Valor can now be cast on allies to give them armor
Passive armor and exchange armor increased from 6 to 7

[[pipe]]
Recipe cost reduced from 900 to 800
Barrier duration increased from 10 to 12

[[refresher]]
Cooldown increased from 185 to 195

[[shadow_amulet]]
Cost reduced from 1600 to 1400
Your movement is now only interrupted when the invisibility starts rather than when you cast it

Dudebro_sl · Dec 15, 2014

Nice chaos knight buff. My record is 26-7 with him before the patch lolz. This will be fun.

Only shitty part is illusions doing 25% less damage to buildings.

Zaphid · Dec 16, 2014

Enchantress move speed 335 ? The fuck ?

Waiting for somebody to farm up blink dagger on chen and teleport creeps right on somebody's head with test of faith

Jugg literally OP now, I think he's a viable offlaner.

Lina changes - Just fix the fucking animation already -.-

Lion changes

Gyro has literally nuke now.

Nightstalker will be a pain to play against now

Pudge support is legit now

Dandain · Dec 16, 2014

I'm not sure how I feel about the kunkka changes, kunkka support might be real. They establish his X both as a long duration lane hold when cast on enemies (4 seconds is forever to be walked down only to be brought back and walked down more), but it can now be used at level 1 like kunkka's were doing once the X was at 4 (self cast... walk to wave auto attack get recalled home to harass late game) as well as being simply a free trip back to towers early game off a tp home for allies and enemies - a bit like an ember remnant for your teammates as far as the fountain fuctionality. Boat is and always has been a super legit teamfight tool. Both offensive and Defensive. A support build might just forgo the cleave until last. Torrent, Boat, and X are all formidable teamfight skills.

Excited by jugg's base damage increase that's sweet.

Disrupter has a nice early game buff - saving 60 mana per glimpse cast at level 1 and savings at 2 really affects its usability in the first 5 minutes - give you an extra chance without requiring some kind of clarity or trip home.

QOP buffs look pretty good be usable again. 1300 range blink is pretty legit at level 1 huge range. And scream going through BKB brings back some of her burst.

The diffusal blade becoming a non-attack modifier means its a much more situationally buildable item especially for agility carries based on game need. The fact it won't compete with either lifesteal/moljnir is pretty massive, manaburn on hit can be very strong situationally However, it does hit heroes like Omni Knight/Warlock who just get reamed by diffusals in ways we won't know till we see. I expect to see this item built way more often.

Ancient stacks having more total health if the rock golem is there is interesting, but I guess that just means you prioritize killing him first.

Always fun to see dota change a little bit.

Pyros · Dec 16, 2014

They also added a tree in the river in front of roshan pit, the jukes!

The rune change on 00:00 was coming at some point, surprised it took this long(though the fix before the addition of double runes/bounty runes would simply to not spawn at 00:00), certain runes completely break laning which isn't particularily good design. Thing is with the new bounty stuff versus no runes at all, it's still very worth contesting them. 100g this early is a pretty fucking big deal, hell it's almost a sentry or a good bit of your bottle gold if you're rushing one and so on.

Lina changes are a big list of nothing. Saw all the changes was like damn, then read them and was sad. Rubick agh buff is interesting, though not sure it's going to be good unless it's deemed sufficient for a position 2 rubick in mid where you can actually farm the items to use it. 2secs cooldown sounds great until you figure you can't fucking cast that many spells anyway. Sniper change is fucking weird, sounds worse to be honest, not being able to shrapnel towers means it's even less likely you'd take shrapnel just to cover a large area, main issue being his passives being so good. Windrunner buffs are interesting, that powershot range buff is massive. Hope she comes back.

Zaphid · Dec 16, 2014

Dota 2 - Shifting Snows Update

I recommend alt-clicking the patch notes

Luthair · Dec 16, 2014

Dandain_sl said:
I'm not sure how I feel about the kunkka changes, kunkka support might be real. They establish his X both as a long duration lane hold when cast on enemies (4 seconds is forever to be walked down only to be brought back and walked down more), but it can now be used at level 1 like kunkka's were doing once the X was at 4 (self cast... walk to wave auto attack get recalled home to harass late game) as well as being simply a free trip back to towers early game off a tp home for allies and enemies - a bit like an ember remnant for your teammates as far as the fountain fuctionality. Boat is and always has been a super legit teamfight tool. Both offensive and Defensive. A support build might just forgo the cleave until last. Torrent, Boat, and X are all formidable teamfight skills.

I don't see core Kunkas putting more than 1-2 points in X, 8-seconds is far too long to be recalled automatically if disabled. Some pub players were abusing X pretty hard on allies allowing them to be in dangerous spots with complete impunity (e.g. tinker porting out with X so he's unkillable).

The buff to medallion is pretty big.

Intrinsic · Dec 16, 2014

By the talons of Skree'auk! My precious Agility!

Luthair · Dec 16, 2014

Oh, Envy blog post -My Perspective on DotA?2

Sutekh · Dec 16, 2014

This whole Envy blog post and RTZ replying to this shit just goes to show what happens when you've got fucking entitled children that have never worked for anything in their life making a living.

These kids are playing VIDEO GAMES, traveling around the world, making potentially 6 figures, and they're complaining that they have so many tournaments to choose from. Oh no the tournament was delayed because of PC issues

Shut. The. Fuck. Up. and sit your dumbass down at the chair and play the fucking game when the time comes.

The fact that they don't realize just how fortunate they are to not only have a job doing something they enjoy, but to be able to actually make a decent living doing said job is just the most astoundingly stupid thing I've seen in years. I'd like to sit that little Faulty Armor down and slap the shit out of him.

Zaphid · Dec 16, 2014

Thanks for the insightful comment.

He has quite a few valid points, the scene is in a bit of a mess, like, does anyone really believe Chinese teams dropped out of Dreamleague due to visa issues ? He talks about Secret bowing out of some tournaments due to their requirements and there needs to be some discussion about what how many games you need to play to actually get your prize money, because then it doesn't look nowhere near as pretty. Summit 2 was alright due to all the continents having only a single slot, so the games mattered. The event itself was more of a clusterfuck of issues, although nowhere near as bad as Dreamleague. 17 PCs which can't keep stable fps when playing Dota ? What is this, ESL NY ?

Broodwar gave us the best games possible because they gave their star players the best training space and cleared their schedule so that they could focus on the match that mattered and it is still very much alive. Forcing all the players and viewers to slog through hours of games that have close to zero impact is retarded and will kill the interest until TI rolls around, which does exactly what Broodwar did.

Sutekh · Dec 16, 2014

Zaphid_sl said:
Thanks for the insightful comment.

He has quite a few valid points, the scene is in a bit of a mess, like, does anyone really believe Chinese teams dropped out of Dreamleague due to visa issues ? He talks about Secret bowing out of some tournaments due to their requirements and there needs to be some discussion about what how many games you need to play to actually get your prize money, because then it doesn't look nowhere near as pretty. Summit 2 was alright due to all the continents having only a single slot, so the games mattered. The event itself was more of a clusterfuck of issues, although nowhere near as bad as Dreamleague. 17 PCs which can't keep stable fps when playing Dota ? What is this, ESL NY ?

Broodwar gave us the best games possible because they gave their star players the best training space and cleared their schedule so that they could focus on the match that mattered and it is still very much alive. Forcing all the players and viewers to slog through hours of games that have close to zero impact is retarded and will kill the interest until TI rolls around, which does exactly what Broodwar did.

Broodwar gave us good games because it was cornered by a monopoly basically. If you didn't comply with said group you were fucked. I see no problem with qualification matches, all it serves is to improve the teams honestly. I would not want the BW system to come to dota2 ever. The only point I really would agree on in the entire post is tournaments attempting to pump out multiple productions in the same year. Starladder should be restricted to 1 per year, DH 1 per year, ESL 1 per year etc. They could easily space their tournaments out over a period of time with a downtime after TI.

That's on Valve to regulate though.

Genjiro · Dec 16, 2014

Illusions now get marksmanship bonus..nice.

Kunkka support is going to be insane at early lvls....wtf guaranteed first blood

Luna and LD both look like they could be playable again.

QoP ulti now pure damage is badass and goes thru bkb? Yes plz.

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