Whats with incomplete games? The past few days, any time someone on the other team drops and then my team wins, the game becomes "Incomplete" and doesn't count, but shows up. (Or, sometimes, just doesn't show up). When someone on my team drops, we get a loss. I'm confused by this.
Shield is absolutely required in high level games. It allows you to constantly relock flags, bubble-hearth out of gank situations, come in and save your teammates, etc. Any oak without shield is, quite simply, doing it wrong. This game is about flag control, not DPS. In a 3v3 fight with a Sedna, you can be almost dead, drop a shield on yourself, and within 6 seconds you've got about 4k health back (Bishops, High priests, the heal from the shield, a heal from the sedna,
Let's be honest folks. I can't remember the last time I got past level 15 in a game - and I only get that high when we are messing around with artifacts instead of just killing their citadel. The games are decided by level 11-13. (And thats with getting XP1 at warscore 2 every game).
I got it at level 9, iirc - but the game was pretty much over before I got past level 8. I definetly erred in not getting it at 8, and was kicking myself for it then - one of those times where you grab your skill point in a hurry.
Frankly, the fact that you suggested Grasp level 2 really showed your entire lack of understanding of how this works. You've got Scope 3 and Grasp 2, and Heavens Wrath. It's not at all an advanced combo. I'll play against you and your handpicked two others playing that combo with my premade any day of the week.
I'd have more sympathy there Pacov, except that you and FutileEmotion isn't exactly a bad team :P I don't know why the two of you wouldn't WANT to take on a premade.
Just looking at my last 25 games, people I played: Morpheas768 rank 5 primz rank 42 trousersnake rank 15 pacov rank 19 kalel rank 3 sakke rank 83 erskaconti rank 20 In that span, I have two losses, none to them, one of which my team won, both due to D/C. Note: tshughes and I played 2 2v2's vs Sakke and erskaconti and slaughtered them both times. One shows up as an incomplete after
What I find incredibly annoying is how I can go and win 15 games in a row or so, and then lose 1 because someone drops at 3:30, and my ranking goes down.
This has been happening to me ALL NIGHT LONG. It's irritating. Of my last 5 games, two haven't showed up at all and three show up as incomplete. wtfbbqmate.
No one is arguing otherwise. But the point still stands, it's a very minor bug that after you encounter once or twice, you can very very easily work around.
I'd just like to point out the massive statistics fail in this thread. Going simply by the only calculation that made sense, a QoT has a 7.02% chance of taking any given slot. So in a 3v3 game, there is a 92.98% chance that the slot will NOT be filled with a QoT. So there is a 92.98^6 = 64.61% chance that any given game will have no QoT. This gives you a 35.38% chance of having a QoT, or about 1 in 3 games. Edit: With the 6.12% chance of Qo
You have to wait to summon the priests until after you pass the citadel. It's a bit unfortunate, but not a big deal.
That was a pretty good game Pacov. The intitial Sedna-UB mirror tango lasted something like 3 minutes before we dropped Trousersnake. We get XP 1 very early, and currency pretty much as soon as possible (aroud 7:15) 9:07 You've got a flag lock (your second of the game) on the damage flag, and we are nowheres near it. It's completely wasted. You guys still don't have currency or XP1. Meanwhile, tshughes and futile are simply unloading in the
Actually, I'd suggest getting Boulder Roll and the tower of light at level 5, and then slam 2 at level 6. Level 2 slam at level 4 isn't very useful. When I play a tower rook I save at 3, get Tower2 at 4, then Boulder and tower of light at 5.
I'm bored, so I think I'll go through and comment on that match also. I have no idea who wins going in, so that should add some fun. Looking just at the teams, I like forces of Darkness (henceforth DARK). Rawwwr, abuggerdhedgie, and Kalelsmx as UB/Sedna/EB vs dice/playground/morhpheas, just because LIGHT has a Rook, and forces of darkness has an inherent advantage in any cataract match. The interesting point here will be Playground as the roo
The big problem there is that UB and Ere are the two best counters to reg - the UB just dominates a reg with spit, and Ere can just batswarm/bite him to death. You messed up by playing a Reg in that matchup.
I know we've tangled with them a few times, so it's not like they avoid good games.
You don't have the survivability because you've got swift anklet and boots taking up an (early) item slot. You still aren't fast enough to outrun anyone else - Ere, Sedna, UB all are faster then you as long as they also get boots of speed, and oak with his surge and penitence is too. So now you have crap survivability, average speed, and no towers. I'm not sure where the advantage is.
Yeah, but I'm not sure we'll be able to get games anymore Futile.
Watching that pug vs premade right now. Will take notes and put my thoughts on it, g0g0 dual monis At 1:10, the initial fight, the premade has 2 generals and 4 monks at the fort flag, and a UB with no monks at the brilliance flag. Thats simply horrid. 2:52 He's fighting a UB and a QoT, and the Erebus (vdxman) is going with minions. Against a UB and a QoT, aren't minions just going to get oozed/ground spiked out of existence?  
The people I play DG with, we call a rook alone "Free Gold". Sometimes people speed stack a rook and they are harder to gank. We call that style of play "useless". Sure, we can't gank it as easily, but it can't actually DO anything. Playing rook without teammates that you KNOW will tele in when the other team trys to gank you is, quite simply, asking for lots and lots of ganks.
And, of course, HoN has a ton of people playing the *free* beta clone of DOTA. How many of them have paid for it yet...
This has been coming up more and more often lately. What will happen is one person drops another person (or one person drops two people). What used to happen is then both of them would instantly drop, ejecting eachother. Now, instead, you get stuck on the connectivity screen until one of them either pulls the plug or ctrl-alt-deletes. If it's one person ejecting two others, either both of them or the one person ejecting them has to bail, and then the game resumes.
You can grab the "last game" replay, which has it. I don't think it goes all the way to the end of the game though, from what I recall of the replay I grabbed of Belier and Apika doing this to me.
This update is going to singlehandedly force me out of Demigod. I'm taking a huge courseload this semester, so I basically only play when people from my premade drag me on (tshughes, futileemotion, socialistryan, etc). I like playing with good players on my team, ones that I don't have to cover for, ones that help me buy currency and xp. I tried playing with a balanced game with Pacov the other night, where we got 8 people on vent and then tried to balance the team - and I d
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