DOTA 2

LC is not really a carry. She falls off late game unless she snowballs hard. Early to mid she can do some carrying, but later on becomes more an initiator to eat a support while the true carry goes to town. Jugg honestly is a good carry to learn, and pretty easy to start with. The healing ward lets you help sustain farming, and the Q spin is good for trying to escape. Ursa is also not bad if you have an IQ above room temprature. (Celsius scale). Just learn to farm well and you should be able to quickly learn to out carry your opponents in the beginning matchmaking tiers.

The event was amazing. Easily a 9/10 in my book. I am extremely impressed by their production, setup, free stuff, etc... A lot of conventions just feel like a money grab. This one feels like Valve giving back to their Dota Community. The balance of the indoor production, with the open-air huge screens at the outdoor parks is awesome! Key arena is not the greatest. At 6'2" I barely fit in most of the seats, so to be able to get up, go outside, hit a food truck and watch the games outside is great. It is such a cool atmosphere with the water park and the non-dota folks interacting with the nerds.

As for the people, attendees, I have to say well done by you. Nice, friendly, polite, and mostly showered. Asians definitely come out for TI, they probably made up 50% of the crowd. Girl quantity was pretty low, but quality was surprisingly high. The nationalism (USA, USA, USA) chants got kind of cringey for an international event, but I hope most of the foreigners know it is just in good fun.

I saw 3-4 Twitch people I watch semi-regularly. The casters and personalities are all over the place and accessible if you want to say hi. The only one I sought out, was Blitz. I kept it short. I told him he does a great job, big fan, and that he should stream more. I am probably the reason he is quitting casting, lul. The players are a bit harder to interact with, which is understandable. But, they do have meet and greet times setup if you really want an autograph, not my cup of tea.

I have to give a huge recommendation to the Mid-Week tickets. You get the opening ceremony (Gaben), the best of 1's knock out games, the team(s) you care about are still going to be in, small crowds so you can sit anywhere you want, small lines to pick up the swag bag/store purchases, you can partake in the other activities like the VR experience center, and the All-Star match is crazy fun way to finish the week. By Friday and Saturday the arena completely fills up, it is a bit of a pain in the ass, and the teams you care about are probably already on an airplane back home. If I had to choose between the two, Mid-week all the way.

Have you calibrated your MMR yet, Needless? Or do you have an idea of what it is based on who you're getting matched with in your games?

Abandoning is really not worth it, just focus on your own game if the rest of your team sucks dick.

I strongly suggest avoiding the cheesy carries like Slark, Clinkz and LC, since to shine in pubs you need constant stream of hero kills. WK, Medusa, Jugg, Drow, AM or Sven give you much better understanding of farming mechanics, like BF, stacking, Helm of the Dominator and blink usage, but in the end play what you find fun. It's really hard to play the game "wrong" at low skill.

Finally finished my 3 "free" quest sets, fuck 3starring that crap, it was fun and made me step out of my comfort zone, but damn next time they could put in more support quests.

Using dotabuff or yasp can help you analyze your games too Needless, a lot of the time someone in the games you play will have dotabuff plus which tracks a lot of good info. Check it out. (Also lets you know what skill tier you're playing in).

Fuck this windrunner quest. Everytime I actually complete it, team throws hard.

Must have 30 fucking games at it now, and it's the last one I need 3 stars on

shishare said:

Fuck this windrunner quest. Everytime I actually complete it, team throws hard.

Must have 30 fucking games at it now, and it's the last one I need 3 stars on

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I found that one and the enemy deward one to be the biggest pain in the ass. I have all the path's complete, but I'm at 33/45 3-stars and that is probably about where I will end.

I'd probably just say fuck it if it wasn't the very last one myself

I completed the Windrunner one, but it was a bitch. I just gave up on trying to be productive for the first bit and rushed a shadowblade and did nothing but shackle and run. Fortunately we had an Ursa that just went ham on everyone.

Once I finished the 3star on it I started building into the normal useful items. But yeah. It took me a few days of playing nothing but WR to get it done. Cheap trick if you can, is when two people are chasing you if you can get a shackle off it normally works. Except the times it doesn't cause of casting delay and you die horribly. But who cares.

Good luck with it. After 3 starring it I said fuck trying to max out the rest of them.

What? I thought you had to 3 star all the quests? Did they change that? SIgh. So many hours of mt life lost