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Dual mid was really popular for a very short while in dota1, who knows why. Harass the other guy out of lane, grab runes and go ganking while your carry safely farms is the idea I guess. It's not very good because it forces a solo lane without making up for it in extra xp and gold earned (a jungle hero is not in a lane but earns xp and gold anyway). Solo lanes have to play defensively. Also ranged heroes can solo mid vs dual mid because you are so close to the tower it is hard to get any kills in, resulting in more XP and gold for the enemy while crippling your own team.

There is no "most efficient" route. LoL is much like Starcraft 2, where you follow a list-of-things-you-must-do and the guy/guys who executes it best wins the game. Dota is balanced a lot better, and there are multiple strategies available. Picking in dota is very important and is done like this: http://www.dota2wiki...aptain.27s_Mode Some analysiz on 'current' hero picks: http://esfiworld.com...-list-june-2012 http://www.joindota....en/live/tobiwan NA'VI vs POTM paying right NOW on this stream. (NAVI is the "best" dota2 team currently). They have a new pick screen now, crazy. Both teams are pretty push and gank heavy. e: Of course since I said that Na'vi got stomped into the ground.

Surrender is stupid. It's fine for LoL because 40 minute games are decided in the first 10minutes, but that is not really the case in a dota2 game. If they improve their matchmaking algorithm then surrender is completely unnecessary. HoN had a surrender function and it was really dumb. Some kid would die first and spend the next 20minutes voting surrender every minute. Surrender votes would pass if you lost one team fight, regardless of how huge your lead was. Just ugh.

It's not balanced to be an e-sports. They either don't give a shit, or they have no idea what they are doing. Watching LoL is like watching someone use a chess board and chess pieces to play checkers.

LoL didn't have observer mode for the longest time. Riot gave LoL spectator mode by adding a 6th player to each team, in the beginning this player kept getting killed by global ults. The fact that LoL is an "e-sports" at all is not only ridiculous, it is just sad. If you get a tiny advantage in the first few minutes there is no way to turn it around since the game is just a huge farm fest, where nothing but amount of gold decides who wins.

This song is the top hit when you search for "dota" on youtubez. and there are ~20 million dota player (most likely more). The interface and valve infrastructure alone makes dota2 the better game, and also more accessible? Once it's open to all and they make some more learn features it would be really easy to get into dota2. Just download it on steam, click the learn tab, they show you some videos and place you in a practice game or tutorial.

https://twitter.com/Dota2CalloutBot

I just want Bristleback. Punch him in the butt and you will pay! e: I'm also curios about what they'll do about balance once all the heroes are in. Bristleback for example is banned from play in a lot of dota1 tournaments.

I have 500 hours of dota2 played, probably thousand hours+ of HoN and a few hundred hours of dota1, hundreds of hours spent watching videos and casts. I still feel like I'm really bad at dota.

CCP just boggles the mind sometimes. Why is DUST 514 a PS3 title. The intersection between Eve Online "enthusiasts" and PS3 owners must be really really small.

That is true. They haven't said anything other than wanting all the dota heroes in for the international 2 tournament. Although to be fair, they have to make everything (as in art, voice overs, icons, effects, etc) except the spreadsheet stuff for each hero they release.

My opinion on LoL players: e: Seriously though. The engine Valve has made is so superior to the garbage Riot uses for LoL, that dota2 is worth to try for 10+ hours just because of that.

You need to create a private lobby with bots to do that. Play tab -> Create Lobby -> Edit settings and enable bots, then starts the game, pick a hero and you are golden. There are many guides you could read, many videos to watch. I'll link some stuff from my bookmarks: http://www.welcometodota2.com/2012/01/purges-inclusive-guide-for-noobs-aka.html Dota is extremely complex, and the UI is made for experienced players, not newbies. Seems valve really doesn't care about the "casual" Lord managers, since LoL has that base covered anyway. Dota2 is far far superior to LoL though, with superior depth, superior balance, more interesting items, and the platform valve made is pretty amazing. Also last two weeks we've had like what, 5 new heroes? Crazy.

In a game where a single miss click will lose you a 50minute game? I'd say touchpad is a really bad idea.

You don't need a jungler in dota. Jungling is a really really bad idea unless you have two competent solo heroes on your team. A new player isn't going to be a very good at jungling. New players tend to sit in the jungle for 15minutes trying to get their core items, while their team loses all the lanes. LoL lords and items doesn't really translate well to dota2. Riot managed to take a fun game (dota) and make it really boring and uninteresting, so some of the mechanics are pretty different. The biggest pro-tip for LoL players is: don't use a mana ability unless you are going for the kill, or to save your own or a team mates life. Some heroes have really awful stat gain, and will benefit very little from +stat items. You pick items based on what your team is, and what your team wants to do. You also pick items based on what the enemy team is, and what they want to do. Unless you are a carry you can never go wrong with: Arcane boots, mekanasm, pipe of insight, urn of shadows. Buy phase boots on heroes which need the run speed to position well (e.g. shadow shaman) or heroes which need the +damage (e.g. bounty hunter). Power threads is nice for heroes which need the stats and the attack speed, most carries fall into this category (e.g. skeleton king, anti-mage, faceless void) with some exceptions like (Spectre wants the +damage from phase boots). Arcanes on support or heroes that transition into Bloodstone late game (e.g. leshrac, storm spirit, death prophet). Tranquil boots are only for pudge. Watch and learn this if you play a hero with threads a lot.

We had some pigs when I was a kid. We slaughtered them, and I was allowed to hang around and see. Freedom to the lobsters http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/25/4658321/man-frees-17-pound-lobster-from.html

My plan is to outbreed the stupids so we have a generation of smart people who can bail us out with some genius plan.

The article in the OP has a very US standpoint. An article that isn't a very good read for someone who isn't very familiar with the field of animal legal rights already, I should add.

If you wanted to You tried pretty hard to seem intellectually superior in this thread, but then you come out with internet douchebaggery like this. Please. Guess I'll just write this animal rights movement off as another pretentious hipster fad. To be honest, this discussion is completely ridiculous to even have in the context of a country where death penalty is in practice, health care is extremely poor, and same sex marriage is illegal.

Dolphins are evil. They rape females and infants, and also kill members of other species just for the hell of it. Intelligent, crazy, assholes.

They said they would release it after or right before the international 2, makes sense if its before so they can show off their spectating feature for it. That date would be end of august, same time as PAX.

You can buy your way in I believe.

Brink was just another good idea that they didn't manage to execute.

Works fine for me.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-17-the-dota-2-experience-part-two and this is the replay: http://stats.dota2.be/match/22432820