/d2g/ - Dota 2 General

That dude that sounds like Tobi that casted yesterday is pretty good. Had a retarded nickname like killer something.
By the way, Tsunami is fucking annoying.

Nobody, he'll win TI and the take all over the world. You'll better start learning Estonian.

Hopefully. Hey janny keep this one up

Because other MOBAs are worse. League and Smite are both shit.

Not until they gas the actual furfag posters.

So who are you giving your valentines chocolate /d2g/?

You.

I ain't a girl, dumb taigaposter.

>merlini leaving
that actually feels bad, wtf man

meme hammer aghs skywrath is the new meta
embrace it

game ogre

>turboslut
w/e kid.
It sounds good considering the components

>Merlini bailed
>LD bailed
Sunsfan actually did it, he won

>I don't have the full version.
Doubt

Also based mods getting rid of your filth you fucking degenerate

Isn't LD (((behind the scenes))) now?
rip merlini though

All right what's the secret I can't figure it out
When do you buy hand of midas?

did someone say behind the scenes?

I honestly can't find it. I would love to have it though, so please let me know if you find it.

>are you fly?
Every game
>are playing in a 5 stack
Situational. Get it if you can stand early and want to go late.
>are you playing solo
Never.

When you can get it at a good timing and your hero needs levels.

please fuck this trilane meta on thursday frosttoad

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>money.cnn.com/2014/08/28/investing/ben-wu-dota-video-games/index.html

Unironically this

If you have a good lane. I like buying hand of midas on any offlane hero that doesn't need a blink dagger asap. Otherwise I buy shit like vlads.

make dem bands pop

i haven't been this frustrated by a meta since 6.83 storm spirit

i've honestly considered just picking offlaners that can farm the jungle from level 1 at this point because trying to

Just stop trying to be aggressive user~

>people pick up midas if they are getting freefarm
>people pick up midas if they get little farm so they can get back into the game

????????

wtf 0 merlini ;_;

I'm just going to start spamming underlord with a shitload of clarities

get experience against a trilane that know's exactly what its doing is fucking ridiculous

i just came out of a game where i had two enemy heroes camped right outside of tower attack range

it was ridiculous

Midas is pretty shit right now because battle fury is much more preffered , this is why you don't see ranged carries very often aside from gryo or heroes that can go mid like dusa,sniper.
Also midgame items are very strong like spirit vessel,force staff and euls so going midas is very risky since you're losing out on utility.
Pushing seems like the meta so going lategame and being greedy rarely works out.
You can still get away with buying a midas on offlaners like nyx,clock(but 4 clock >>> off clock) , nightstalker etc etc that want to scale lategame.

>No more Merlini

test

He had a good run.
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back to shitposting hehehe

damn, the opposite is probably true now
this feels bad

there a point to hearing dota 2 casts without merlini casts lads

>There are more posts deleted than ones still up
This is what happens when the rules suddenly start getting enforced after months of Rule 3 being a figment of our imagination.

>not being in trees before that even happens

I hope Fogged becomes the new Merlini

there were like 5 posts out of 50 , dumb furfaggot.

>Projecting

What a time to be alive

>pot calling kettle

while I know players like black^ and Synderen want to keep playing they're great too and I hope they're hired for panel and analysts too
there aren't really many good analysts any more, which is surprising because everyone always said that any players who retired would move into that role

>Furfag projecting his furfaggotry on to everyone else

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The thing about players is 95% of them are spergs, sociopaths or incompatible with casting schedules.

BSJ is a decent analyst.

7.08b
>whoever picks shadow shaman will now die of painful cancer in the next few weeks

Balanced?

>n-no u!
LOL!

>being mad at trolls
Sasuga reddit spacing guy.

Mars will be a Loli
you heard it here first

Mars will be a crab
you heard it here first

Aw yiss

Admiral bulldog seems like a fun caster. Earlier today during his stream a player activated bkb while farming creeps.

That was funny.

This has been spaced to trigger certain people.

Who cares if merlini left BTS as long as he streams with trance music?

nice

These gooks are more finished than SC2 or merlini

t. self-admitted closet furfag

he retired from casting completely no?

Faceless void bash now reworked
>will guarantee a bash every even seconds
>has 2 second cooldown
>can be toggled to odd seconds
>back track procs every odd/even seconds

Merlini is done.

>dota 2

Maybe we should be done too, what are still doing here?

Wow Even merlini is bailing out.

Just to clarify , if bash is set on even , backtrack will automatically be on odds
>Chronosphere will stop ingame time when inside the chrono

Better than having another furfag hero

Real question is if it will be some boring support or an actually useful carry or not

I can't remember the last thing merlini was apart of.

Maut is still casting so it's fine

he kinda faded into the background as an analyst.
and to be quiet honest its sad to see him go because theres so few actually GOOD casters.

I mean people in the 6k+ range of casting.

someone like odpixel can't keep his mouth shut from saying something stupid and giving his trash 2k mmr advice.

And then a bit more complex. What if talent starts undercutting other talent and I get paid less, despite Dota increasing in popularity and mounting prize pools? What if organizers start saying, “hey, we’re going to cut your rates in half.” What power do I have to say no? I *can* say no, but then I’m not making any money. The opportunity cost of me not going is huge. I can maybe stream in the meantime, or do some amateur casts, but that’s only a temporary solution for a paltry paycheck. And this is tier 1 talent, mind you. If I have little leverage, imagine the leverage of some others. Anyways, if one or two of the tier 1 talent is missing at an event, the organizer isn’t going to take a hit. They know that, and they realize they have more leverage, and hence can fiddle with rates as they wish. I’m at someone else’s mercy despite being at the top of the field.

(((GOYMAN))) strikes again. merlini got jewed out of dota. good thing all these studios get tier 3 casters to cast their shit!

based Maut is still casting so it's fine poster

Excellent

someone post the webm

you know the one

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good riddance kike. it makes me happy knowing i'll never listen to him cast again.

would you asswipes stop being so fucking pissy about the threads? I'm getting real fucking sick of haveing one thread for 20 posts, it being deleted then fifteen more threads all show up

maybe stop posting furry porn then, homo.

There's going to come a point now where the majority of people in the thread won't know who is in that webm.

>newfags won't recognize winter
wew

>there will never be more than one merlini on stream again

>I always try my best to stay in touch with the game, know the teams/players, watch tournaments, and peruse some stats before I talk about the teams. I try not to talk smack about organizers. I’m almost never late. I keep my word. I played plenty of Dota. I’m reliable, and I’m honest. Simply put, I do my job. There’s a bit of room for improvement (learn more heroes, do more research on t2/t3 teams, etc.), but job-wise, I’m close to the ceiling. So I have to look for other avenues for growth. Am I skilled enough to play competitive? Clearly not. Do I want to make YouTube videos about Dota? The market is not sustainable for me, I tried. Do I want to actively engage and promote sponsors for more income? I have morals that prevent me from selling products that I don’t like or use myself. Do I want to accrue a ton of subs and stream full-time? I never shilled for subs because my soul hurts asking other people for money. Do I want to become a variety analyst/caster? No. Dota is my game. Other games piddle away in comparison. Is Dota going to be alive in 5 years? Probably, but it’s not guaranteed. I struggled to find ways to grow, and concluded that casting was only a temporary thing for me.

He was too pure. Meanwhile Tobi is involved in some crypto scam.

TI was apparently the most recent even he did.

it hurts lads

youtube.com/watch?v=SNZ6_tp9_1A

it's largely because of one guy making threads super early so he can have his furry discord in the op
even when it gets deleted he makes more

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>/d2g/ was once widely considered the best general on Veeky Forums
Just let it die honestly, this is just insulting

Make way for Merlini's replacement