Dota 2 Update - September 27, 2012

That time Valve dissappointed us, they just realized small updates but not new heroes.

The Results of SLTV in the First Week StarSeries

During several weeks the strongest 16 teams from Europe and America fought for right to participate at the LAN final of SLTV StarSeries in Kiev. Let us introduce you short review of the first contest week.

More than one month of games, 120 matches – and everything are on a live Stream! Mass of emotions, sensations, new teams… Everything you can observe at the games of our main Division - SLTV StarSeries.

Moscow5 to face Garaj Gaming in WCG2012 Russian qualifiers

Today the organizers of WCG2012 Dota 2 Russia Preliminary have announced their decision about the teams participating in the finals.

Let us remind you of the situation. The previous M5.BenQ roster consisting of PGG, Vigoss, Admir, Silent and Bl00dangel had gone through the qualification rounds right into the finals. But due to the disbandment of that roster, the team couldn't play on. So, the organizers had to find a replacement and they chose zNation, who had lost to M5 in the semifinals. But as we all know, Moscow 5 took 4 players from zNation, so the current M5.BenQ roster is allowed to play in the finals due to one player's replacement - Dread instead of KSI.

So, this is the current M5.BenQ Dota 2 squad:

 Igor 'Nexus' Lysakovskiy

 Ilya 'Stalianer' Drugov

 Alexey 'Solo' Berezin

 Andrey 'Dread' Golubev

 Vadim 'Sedoy' Musorin

In the finals, the Russian powerhouse will face Garaj Gaming, the mix-up team which consists of:

 NS

 Scandal

 blowyourbrain

 LightofHeaven

 Ars-Art

Diablo III Patch 1.0.5: Steps to Change Monster Power Level

Similar to the "Players X" command in Diablo II, Monster Power is a system designed to give players more control over how challenging enemies are in each difficulty.

 

Step 1: Open up the in-game Options menu (default: Esc) and select the Gameplay tab.

Step 2: Check the box next to "Monster Power" to enable it.

Step 3: Open up the Quest Selection window.

Step 4: Select your designed Monster Power level from the drop-down box near the bottom of the window, under "Difficulty Setting."

Step 5: Once you've set your Monster Power level, quest, and difficulty, click "Select Quest" to confirm.

Step 6: Enter game and profit!

 

"No Monster Power" is the default setting. Each Monster Power level will increase the health and damage of monsters, and in return players will receive scaling bonuses to experience (for heroes levels 1-60) as well as boosts to Magic Find and Gold Find (for heroes in Inferno) which will stack above the 300% cap. The option to increase Monster Power will be available to all players starting at level 1 and can be adjusted separately for Normal, Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno difficulty.

 

(Note: If you join a multiplayer game, you will adopt the Monster Level of the party leader. When you leave the party, your Monster Power level will automatically revert back to your previous setting.)

Five-Man Solo Ganks Are Now Possible

The patch update has arrived and has brought along 'Meepo, The Geomancer'.

Yes, all five of them.

First spotted in the image feed during The International and predicted to be as an incoming hero in Cyborgmatt's Patch analysis on September, 13th, The Geomancer has finally arrived. It appears that Valve has outdone itself this time around as releasing five heroes in a single patch, has never been witnessed before.

The following is an excerpt of the Changelog:

- Added Meepo!

- Added Meepo!

- Added Meepo!

- Added Meepo!

- Added Meepo!

- In the Test client, heroes will now randomly equip cosmetic items every time they spawn.

GAMEPLAY

- Pugna: Fixed Nether Ward briefly registering the incorrect team right after casting.

- Wisp: Fixed being able to Teleport a Tethered creep to the enemy base.

- Lich: Fixed Chain Frost being dodgable.

Although an extremely rare pick in competitive Dota games, Meepo was known to wreck havoc with a blink dagger initiation and subsequent team wipes. It was also the hero that garnered maximum experience throughout the game. It’s worth mentioning that the hero requires a fair amount micro-controlling skill and needs decent amount of practice.

With its inclusion Dota2, we would finally be able to get some hard statistics with respect to the average Gold-per-minute and Experience that its capable of accumulating. It would be safe to say that any previously set records for these statistics are in for a contest.

UI

- Pennants now work for any game that's part of a tournament.

The pennants have now been given relevance, post TI2, and will be enabled on every game that is part of a tournament.

TeamKharkiv at Starladder

At the “Twitter” somebody posted information about creating new team.

ArtStyle will play with Magus, Alwayswannafly, dubas and unknown player Unstop. EarlierMagus played with Ivan at the team Darer. Recently, fly left "Empire" and dubas temporary was inactive.

TeamKharkiv will substitute  mTw. Now team mTw is just the only player.

TeamKharkiv:

·Artstyle

·Mag

·Fly

·Unstop

·Dubas

Diablo III Statue Coloring Completed

Nick Carpenter, the Executive Art Director of Blizzard, has published his new process of Diablo statue for Sideshow in his own blog.

Star Ladder 3 Series Dota2 has just begun

SLTV Star Series: the first matches!

The most expected for all us event has just begun. It is Star Ladder 3 series Dota 2. Today we will become the witnesses of furious battles between the most outstanding 16 teams from  Europe and  America. Watch for your favorites! They will fight for more then 15,000$.

  

Star Ladder

Following commentators will review this tournament especially for you:

 Vitaliy "v1lat" Volochy

 Vladislav "mtrx4u" Suzdal

 Tobi "Tobi Wan" Dawson

You can watch live broadcast on your website at the Stream mode. The first game begins at 19:00. Do not miss it!

Matches of SLTV StarSeries 17.09:

 M5 -vs-  BVM (ex-Keita) [19:00, stream by mtrx4u]

 Virtus.Pro -vs-  Team Empire [19:00, stream by v1lat]

 Fnatic -vs-  M5 [20:00, stream by v1lat]

 Team Empire -vs-  Darer [20:00, stream by mtrx4u]

 BVM (ex-Keita) -vs-  Fnatic [21:00, stream by v1lat]

 Virtus.Pro -vs-  Darer [21:00, stream by mtrx4u]

 EG -vs-  Wolves [22:00, stream by v1lat]

 Mouz -vs-  Quantic [22:00, stream by mtrx4u]

  

The chief ref of the tournament:

 Vladislav "mtrx4u" Suzdal

Source - dota2.starladder

DOTA 2: Temporary Team List of Mousesports

At the official mousesports’ website, you can see the new list of the team that will take part at Raidcall League Dota 2 and new season of SLTV Star Series.

Regarding to announcement, there are a lot of questions connected with the team list of  mousesports. If compared with “The International 2” team list, we can observe the following changes:  Alexandru 'ComeWithMe' Craciunescu moved to the ambitious team  Team Y; captain  Sivatheeban '1437' Sivanathapillai left his teammates. Situation connected with  Dominik 'Black^' Reitmeier isn`t so clear, but he asked for a small vacation right after TI 2. Currently he is a reserve player.

(Black, Bamboe, 1437, KuroKy, SingSing at the The International)

Due to the fact that the organization don`t want to miss global online tournaments, they ought to ask for the help of Germany Dota 2 community. Following players known for their excellent performance at  Panzer and  Uebelst Gaming:  Alexander 'Alex' Reinhardt and  Rene 'Kebap' Werner. Moreover  Kuro 'KuroKy' Salehi Takhasomi, who played a role of “standing player” at the TI2 stays at the team.

That is how team manager  Florian 'PaisY' Schmedes commented on a situation:

We don`t want to make facile decisions which we will regret of latter. We announced temporary team list of the Raidcall Dota 2 League and new season of Starladder that to defuse tension. Luckily we have perfect replaced players like  KuroKy,  Kebap and  Alex. Despite that team list is mixture of players, I hope we will achieve good results. That temporary team list allows us to gather powerful team in 2013. I really appreciate those players who agreed to come back to the team for a short period of time. Also we looking for forgiveness of old team list`s fans, but let`s look ahead and pray for success of Mousesports Dota 2!

Temporary team list   mousesports:

 Wehsing 'SingSing' Yuen

 Alaan 'Bamboe' Faraj

 Kuro 'KuroKy' Takhasomi

 Alexander 'Alex' Reinhardt

 Rene 'Kebap' Werner

 Dominik 'Black' Reitmeier (в отпуске)

Good news for League of Legends Community

In such a world where the cover of night shields elite Special Forces teams, Gangplank heads the best commandos into the worst of urban hotspots. To commemorate the League of Legends launch in Brazil, Special Forces Gangplank is now leading the attack into the dense jungles of the Fields of Justice equipped with a modern sidearm, badass bolo knife, and slick combat beret. When things get too hairy on the ground, Special Forces Gangplank can call in the choppers for air support – including searchlights.

Destroy your enemies with Special Forces Gangplank!

Dota 2: Na'Vi leaves the RaidCall League

It seems that  Natus Vincere will not take part in RaidCallLeague Dota 2. Citing fatigue and an abundance of incoming competitions.

 Na`Vi has opted to withdraw from D2L season 1, which features a prizepool of $10,000.  We Haz Asian will be the replacement team.

Team manager  Dmitriy 'olo)Ash' Ugarov gave the following statement explaining their withdrawal:Unfortunately for all the fans, we are not able to participate in every leagues and tournaments of the upcoming season. This would be too exhausting for the team. After our players' planned vacation we will play refreshed in the three leagues and will eventually enlarge the amout of leagues/tournaments up to 5. The team is also planning to attend all major LAN events of the upcoming gaming year.What's more, the team and the management reconsidered an approach and actual flow of the practice process. We have improved the bonus / penalty system. This means that training process will go up to a new, professional level.

Na`Vi has also stated that they plan to compete in upcoming seasons of The Defense, StarLadder, and GosuLeague. As for LAN Dota 2 events, they have also reaffirmed their desire to compete in ESWC and DreamHack.

Pick up Loot after the End of Boss Fight is Permitted

A player said that he died on the skeleton king fight and respawned on the outside of the room and he had to wait till the fight was over. But then after the fight it would not let him in the room so he was unable to loot. He was not sure if that was meant to happen but it felt bugged. And the blue post said that was only an issue with the Beta.

The content of the blue post is strange…… I remember last year the development team said one would have no chance to loot when died in the Skeleton King fight unless he could reenter the battle in time. And now it becomes one is able to loot after the fight but are unable to join the battle.

The setting is no big deal if the missing of one player would enhance the difficulty of the fight. After all, either your teammates are powerful, either your group wipes out and starts again.


This is only an issue with the Beta since the Beta content ends with the Skeleton King fight. In the full game, you will be able to run back into that room, pick up your loot, and continue on your adventure.

Diablo3 Damage Types

There are different types of damage in Diablo 3. These are caused by various spells, runes and weapons. Characters and monsters counter these attacks with equivalent types of resistance and immunities. Players must find the right balance of their abilities to succeed in their battles and conquer the different damage types casted upon them.

Every form of damage can count for a critical hit and when this happens, a bonus effect is added along with increased damage. Targets that die form critical hits usually explode in a gory manner.

The Elemental Damage types are the Arcane, Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Poison. There are also Disease Damage and Holy Damage.

These different types can be realized through three ways – the Melee damage, ranged damage and spell damage. For the Melee damage, the attacker is toe-to-toe to the defender. Most weapons are melee weapons. For the ranged damage, there is a distance between the attacker and the defender. Bows and crossbows are usually used for ranged damage. And for the Spell Damage, the attacker uses spells from a Skill Tree against the defender.

Diablo 3 population drops drastically

It was reported to game statistic companies that Diablo3's population took a massive hit again... already losing around 30% of the population in the first 30 day's, more recently it has been reported that Blizzards Diablo 3 lost 60% more of there population. anyone know more about this? I know the game isnt much fun after you max out your character, but 60% is huge drop for any game.

Wizard Kills Azmodan in One Second

With the coming of Diablo 3 legendary item era, the time that every player can kill monsters in a second is around the corner.

The Arcane Destruction rune of Wizard’s Archon skill can deal amazing high damage. Once you have a build with high DPS and high damage skills and passive skills, you can kill everything in a second.

The below video is about a Wizard killing Azmodan in one second from Asia.

M5 Changes Roster

Today, Moscow 5 announces that the current structure of the discipline DotA2 disbanded. Recall that the team was formed in March 2012 and for the past few months, the results of her performance is getting worse. In connection with this manual Moscow 5 sees no other solution but to refuse further cooperation with this lineup, but notes that two players have received an offer to stay and become the basis for a new team.

Given the proximity of such events as: Starladder The Defense and our organization will make every effort to create a new composition in the shortest possible time. Now, that says about the general manager Moscow Five, Konstantin Lancers:

What is a real team? The team, which it is not ashamed to be ill and you want to support? First, it is respect for competitive players to their fans. Personally for me outright savagery, when the players have to beg or to make at least one interview with his own team, let alone conduct any activities associated with the fans.

Second, a professional approach to the training process. The team was given good conditions for training, but instead of hard preparatory process players accepted their presence on the basis of M5, as a vacation, leaving no question about the progress in the game plan, and in terms of discipline. Before TI2 problem - the base needed two compositions almost simultaneously, the result was agreed that there M5.DotA you done 10 days prior to departure to the U.S., as a result of it was that there were only three players on the base during the bootcamp. If players believe that the tournament with a prize pool of $ 1,600,000 insufficient cause for joint training, it remains a mystery, what can set them to the correct way to victory?

Third, it is worthy results. Of course, we all want to be the favorite team always won, but we understand there are days of losses - without it anywhere. That's only possible to play differently. Enter into the last four at The International 2 - not the worst. Much more humiliating is the lack of character and lack of desire to win, which showed our team in their matches. When this happens in the most important and prestigious competition in 2012, which the guys were preparing for months, what will be next?

Sure, mistakes have been made on our part to manage. We do not in any way deny. They are taken into account and would not repeat. We also understand that is now virtually impossible to get strong line-up of Russian players, but we are not afraid of difficulties and ready for a long road of development. Finally, I want to apologize to all the fans for the team M5.BenQ unsatisfactory result for The International 2 and unsportsmanlike conduct in the match against LGD.

Dota2 Shocking Model

You can see the model of Dota2 in the picture, and it is made by the player. How shocking the model is! The player drew it according to the character in The Adventure of Monkey.

Latest Fan Art: My Diablo 3

Latest Fan Art: My Diablo 3 

Look! Paragon Level 90 Barbarian Appears!

We all know that it needs large amount of XP to level up in paragon system. However, in just half a month, a level 90 barbarian appears. What weapon does he equip to level up so fast? Let’s have a look.

Advantage Analysis of 1.04 HC Barbarian Skills Build

1. Rend + Blood Lust

This skill is buffed a lot in patch 1.04. As a tank, Barbarian’s AOE + HP regeneration enable him to kill around a group of monsters. It is absolutely a major attack skill in patch 1.04. However, some players don’t have a good effect after using this build. Why? Because Rend causes enemies 700% weapon damage as physical over 5 seconds. The damage Rend causes and blood it absorbs are only related with the character sheet DPS, not the stats. That’s why players who stack stats have high damage but low Renddamage.

2. Cleave + Reaping Swing

The damage of this skill is increased in 1.04. But still, its major function is to generate fury rapidly so that Barbarian can cast Rend successfully.

3. Leap + Iron Impact

This skill can help Barbarian move and survive. Players who did not use this skill usually regret after they die. This skill can help you get out of the wall casted by elite monsters.

4. War Cry + Impunity

This is a necessary skill for team fight.

5. Wrath of the Berserker

Earthquake, Hammer of the Ancients, and Wrath of the Berserker are used for different usage. You can choose either one according to your demand.

6. Ignore Pain + Iron Hide

In 100 games, you may not use this skill for even once. However, you can’t ensure you won’t use it in the 101st game. Here’s a little technique: set this skill as the middle button of the mouse so that you won’t use it by mistake.

After patch 1.04, Barbarian’s attack ability increases a lot. Usually, the normal buildings are all about Rend. In order to maximize the damage caused by Rend, you have to have a good weapon with high character sheet DPS just like two-handed weapons. If you use two-handed weapons, you have to stack HP because you don’t have a shield. For players who use Render mainly, you have to have add-physical weapons instead of add-strength weapons. And full resistance stats, regenerate HP per hit stats are also usable. According to STD’s test, Barbarian with 100,000 HP and 1,000 HP regeneration per second can stand still in Inferno A1 for 10 minutes without being killed.

The latest champion Diana and his items, points added and strategies

"An unyielding avatar of the moon's power, Diana wages a dark crusade against the sun-worshipping Solari. Though she once sought the acceptance of her people, years of futile struggle shaped her into a bitter,ter, resentful warrior. She now presents her foes with a terrible ultimatum: revere the moon's light, or die by her crescent blade. Though she was born to the Solari, Diana's inquisitive nature set her apart from her brethren. She had always found solace and guidance in the night sky, and questioned the dominance of the sun in her society. The Solari elders responded to her challenges with only derision and punishment. Diana remained convinced, however, that if she could find evidence of the moon's power, the elders would listen to reason. For years, she studied Solari archives in solitude until she discovered an encoded message hidden in an old tome. This clue led her to a secluded valley on Mount Targon where she unearthed the hidden entrance to an ancient, sealed temple. Inside, among aging relics and faded murals, she found an ornate suit of armor and a beautiful crescent blade, both inscribed with sigils of the moon. Diana donned the armaments and returned to the Solari elders that night. She declared that the artifacts proved others had once worshipped the moon as she did. Her discovery of evidence challenging Solari dominion shocked the elders. To Diana's horror, they pronounced her a heretic and condemned her to death. As the elders prepared her for execution, Diana's anger and sorrow overwhelmed her desire for acceptance. She lifted her gaze to the sky, calling upon the moon for strength. Lunar power surged within her and she shattered her bindings. Raising her relic blade, she turned and slaughtered the elders. With the temple in ruins behind her, Diana resolved to destroy all those who would deny the power of the moon. ''The sun does not reveal truth. Its light only burns and blinds.''