DOTA - Doom / Lucifer Tips, Build, Strat

(In Warcraft 3 / DOTA) Lucifer / Doom / Doom Bringer has a brilliant silence (move), when used it silences a lot more than just your usable spells and the inventory items.

It also prevents and takes away…

1. Orb effects
2. Buffs (But not all, Insatiable Hunger is one of them and you can still lifesteal)
3. Magic immunity (Note: The hero is still in avatar mode but is still silenced and taking damage)
4. Lifesteal
5. Bash
6. Critical Strikes

The 2 heroes that are 'anti-Doom' type of hero's are

Leviathan

1. Kraken Shell lessens the time Doom takes effects.

Abaddon

1. If one of your allies was cast with Doom just cast aphotic shield on him/her to remove doom.

2. If you are the one being cast with Doom, don’t worry since borrowed time will remove Doom once it activates when your life reaches 400 below.

Todays DOTA tip - from HeavenSent (a Filipino DOTA player!)

DOTA Map 6.45

The newest DOTA Map (warcraft3 mod) version6.45 is now available.

The new 6.45 map has been released quicker than previous versions.

Change logs are listed below and the v6.45 version can be download at www.getdota.com

DotA Allstars 6.45 Changelog :

* Recoded Avatar on Black King Bar to fix various engine bugs (control loss, model glitches, etc)
* Fixed Lightning Storm tooltip
* Increased Barrier cooldown
* Improved cast range on Lightning Grapple
* Surge no longer purges target


* Increased Laser mana cost from 95/110/120/145 to 95/120/145/170
* Rebalanced Refraction
* Reduced the slow effect on Dirge’s Plague
* Remade Pit Lord’s ultimate
* Fixed Death Timer showing up after game is over
* Nightstalker’s Crippling Fear now has a minor effect during the day
* Added an extra bounce to Scepter upgraded Chain Frost
* Lowered Meld mana cost
* Increased Templar’s base attack range by 10
* Increased Refraction cooldown a little
* Fixed minor display glitch with -di
* Reduced Primal Split manacost from 150/225/320 to 125/175/225 and increased duration from 15 seconds to 15/20/25
* Improved Acid Spray AOE and Cast Range by 75
* Increased Drow’s Silence AOE from 250 to 275
* Added new icon for Storm (148340)
* Improved Dragon Knight’s Agility base and growth
* Lowered Overgrowth mana cost from 200/250/300 to 150/175/200
* Fixed Overgrowth to work on units in fog
* Changed Vengeful Spirit’s Terror hotkey to E
* Improved Nightstalker cast animation time
* Fixed the canceling of Clarity Potion bug on Death Pulse
* Scroll of Town Portal can now target the World Tree/Throne
* Improved Sniper’s Agility growth a bit
* Changed level 3 Chemical Rage Base Attack Cooldown from 1.25 to 1.20
* Improved Frost Armor
* Issues with droppable BKB resolved, it can now be dropped
* Reduced mana cost on Death Pact slightly
* Rebalanced Voodoo Restoration
* Fixed -unstuck bug at the end of the game
* Fixed some bugs with the display names of the courier killer
* Improved Vladmir’s Offering recipe tooltip
* Fixed various Flying Courier tooltip errors
* Increased Vulture model size a bit
* Fixed Shadow Priest appearing in allstr and allagi
* Vastly increased Eyes in the Forest cast range
* Fixed the heal on Dirge’s Zombies from canceling Clarity Potion
* Fixed various terrain glitches
* Changed Shadow Word damage type to Magical from Pure but adjusted the damage so it remains the same (unless you have extra magic resistance). The overall dps hasn’t changed much, only its mechanics with different bonus resistances.
* Added code to prevent Couriers with invulnerability shield from entering enemy fountain areas to steal items
* Rewrote Smoke Screen to fix various minor visual glitches
* The time hero left at is now shown in -ma (146489)
* Fixed Ring of Basilius tooltip when you change its operating mode
* Fixed Stygian Desolator buff icon
* Changed Raise Revenant icon
* Added Victory Animations for units at the end of the game (150018)
* Clarified Gravekeeper’s Cloak tooltip
* Rewrote Battle Hunger to fix an engine buff conflict with Gush and Hunger at same time
* Fixed various minor leaks
* Prioritized 2xror over roh in if you have all 3 in your inventory when creating Hood of Defiance so it doesn’t use up your RoH
* Improved Living Armor a bit
* Fixed various other tooltip errors
* Clarified Eclipse tooltip
* Changed the Rock Golems that spawn in pairs (the ones that aren’t in the ancient spawn points) to non-ancient type
* Fixed Sange and Yasha Maim buff icon
* Added new icons for Aftershock, Plague Wards, Overload and Grapple (thanks snork,Faust-,^SnakeZer0,1Raven and eva00r)
* Removed the dispell effect from Overload (too many undesired effects from both sides to be passively occurring)
* Bloodstone now gives you bonus health and mana regeneration for each charge it has on it
* Added new command -hideheronames to disable the new hero name display in chat functionals. This is useful when you are trying to squelch someone and bnet won’t let you.

DOTA Cheats, Hacks in early Maps

Some DOTA Tips readers have today sent in email pointing out some DOTA hacks and cheats in early release DOTA maps.

Firstly, it is always important to be playing the latest 'official' DOTA map release from IceFrog. If you are using customer, unknown or older maps to play DOTA - it's always risky. Especially when on BattleNet with other Warcraft users.

Now, these are the DOTA hacks and cheats brought to our attention. They relate to buying certain small DOTA items - that illegally bind together to form larger recipe items:

ILLEGAL ITEM BUILDS: (Only works in DOTA Map ver 27-29)

2Bracers and 2 OgreAxe gets you: Messerschimidts Reaver + Vita booster = Heart Of tarrasque.

An eagle horn + Hand of midas + click the recipe butterfly 3 times = BUTTERFLY

2 x Headdress of Rejuvenation + click the recipe perseverance 2 times = Peserverance

2 x Ring of health + 2 x Ultimate Orb + BladeMail + click the recipe linken's sphere 3times = Orb of darkness

Orb of darkness <--- New in ver. 27-29 this item has +20 all stats 8 regen hit points per second ,150% mana regen , Effect (60 sec cooldown): Disentangle (negates a targeted spell). +50 attack damage + return damage. Sell this item for 4600.

2 Void Stone ,Quarterstaff + Robe of magi + click the recipe Eul's Scepter 2 times =Guinsoo Scythe of Vyse

3 Boots of speed + 2 Slippers of agility + click the recipe of Boots of travel 2times = Boots of travel

DOTA Hero Poll Finished

The DOTA Hero Poll has now finished. The results are in!

Dark Terror / Faceless Void - is officially the most popular hero in DOTA (Warcraft3).

The perma stun ability proving too tempting for most as Faceless will surely be looked at closely by IceFrog and his team as to his powerful abilities when the next DOTA version is released.

Thanks to everyone that voted in the poll.

As mentioned before, we are in the process of rebuilding our forums after the crash, so please re-sign up and get posting.

Thanks all.

Sentinel: Total DOTA Strategy

Sentinel Hero's:

hero 1 - Morphling
hero 2 - Chen
hero 3 - Centaur Warchief
hero 4 - Silencer
hero 5 - Vengefull Spirt

Spread out heros in this order....

Mid: silencer and Centaur: this makes a good combo,
because whatever heros you go against, intell, strength, agil, u can defeat them, Centaur can stun and acts
as a meat wall, while the silencer is also attacking, healing anf at the same time stopping the opponent
from casting spells. If heros run back push hard and cast infernals on the tower, u can usually take the tower
(if there are no heros to distract you) in 1 go if you'r lucky.

Top : Chen and the Vengefull Spirit.... They work together like this. Vengefull stuns... both attack,
then when hero is out of the stun, chen uses purge, both the heros attack again = hero dead (unless it has blink or wind walk)
if that is the case, even if you dont kill it, you will send it back to heal, making it lose even more experience
than if you killed it. This hero combonation even works against the best early game nukers, i will post replay..
u may be thinking why these too must go top lane. its because they will be the two making most of the money
firstly from creep kills and from hero kills.

Bot: Morphling: This hero must solo, because the other heros work better together than this one does.
it should survive to level 6 easily without dying (blink and wave can drive enemys back)

bt the required skills are
-lvl4 Infernal Rain
-Spell Steal
-and everyone must be above lvl6

------Morphling must only steal infernal rain when infernal rain is level 4!!!!!!----------

items are important for this strat to work... cause basically it ends up with mass infernals.. everyone must buy a refresher orb (as a combined team...)
Refresher orb-
-robe of magi- 450
-sobi mask- 325
-quatter staff- 1150
-----Oblivion Staff------

-void stone- 900
-ring of health- 875
-Scroll- 1875
-----Refresher------


Total gold cost- 5575
the price can be spread around the team mates as following..
1 hero gets Robe of magi and sobi mask...
1 hero gets the scroll.. (the one that gets the most gold)
1 hero gets the quatter staff..
1 hero gets ring of health..
1 hero gets void stone..

all in all u should, without deaths or kills, have this within the time it takes the lowest xp hero to get to lvl 6...

once u feel ready and are all above lvl 6..
then u all push mid.. (with the morphing having stolen the infernal rain)
and the refresher orb in the hands of the silencer...
push middle, and use infernals on towers, u dont need both heros casting infernals no towers yet, save that for the baracks,
or heros.

-------THE REFREHER ORB SWOP-----------
basically, swoping the refresher orb around, recharges its cool down instantly, try it for yourself, it does work.
this little trick creates 12 infernals..... that is almost a whle army of them deeling ALOT of damage.

when u get far enough in the mid... the enermy heros will come to protect it (make sure that u are not ambushed and that they are
infront of u, this maybe be hard but it is very important..)
when this has happened.. the following steps should occur for it to work

step 1: silence uses infernals (should be on heros)
step 2: silence uses refresher orb
step 3: silence uses infernals (should be on heros)
step 4: silence hands the refresher orb to morphing (which by now should have infernal rain..)
step 5: morphling uses infernals (should be on heros)
step 6: morphling uses refresher orb
step 7: morphling uses infernals (should be on heros)
NOTE.. these steps have to come precise and fast.. so pratice may be important for this strat..

all in all this should do about 1500 damage just with the landing of infernals...

after this has all happened push with all (the heros, infernals and whatever creeps u may have gotten with the chen) and continue to there base to destroy the rax maybe even 2 or 3...
note the enemy heros "should" not be a problem at this time.. because u should have wiped most of them out on the waves of infernals coming down..

therefore u technical can push a side.. and wipe out many rax's at the same time..

(note.. if ur team is finding it hard to get the heros all into one place for the attack of infernals..
try using the centour and dagger of escape (he can blink in and stun every1 around for 3 secounds)... that should buy u enough time to get the infernals landing on there heads)
but the centaur is mainly used as meat wall

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New DOTA Forums Setup

As our DOTA readers would have seen, our forums provider crashed yesterday and lost thousands of our posts relating to DOTA. We were not alone, 1000's of other owners of forums lost their posts and setup too.

Today DOTA Tips have signed up with a new forums provider, and have extended the posts from not only DOTA, but now we will include Warcraft (WoW), Buying and Selling, General Talk and now Blogging talk.

It gives us a bit more variety and we hope this appeals to the DOTA, Warcraft and gaming communities.

Follow our link at the top right to the new forums and sign-up with your details to register. We look forward to seeing your posts!


Todays DOTA Info; rankings of the heros - strongest, weakest, fastest and slowest!

Strongest
Treant Protector
Ogre Magi
Doom Bringer
Butcher
Tidehunter
Stone Giant
Ursa Warrior
Pandaren Brewmaster
Skeleton King
Chaos Knight
Fastest (AS)
Lifestealer
Soul Keeper
Phantom Assassin
Bounty Hunter
Morphling
Bone Fletcher
Dwarven Sniper
Drow Ranger
Stealth Assassin
Juggernaut
Most Intelligent
Oblivion
Enigma
Shadow Priest
Lich
Slayer
Shadow Shaman
Tormented Soul
Demon Witch
Death Prophet
Prophet

Weakest
Geomancer
Lifestealer
Oblivion
Holy Knight
Phantom Lancer
Nerubian Weaver
Tormented Soul
Slayer
Lich
Shadow Shaman

Slowest (AS)
Undying
Stone Giant
Doom Bringer
Enigma
Treant Protector
Oblivion
Warlock
Tinker
Twin Head Dragon
Alchemist

Least Intelligent
Phantom Assassin
Troll Warlord
Alchemist
Chaos Knight
Night Stalker
Pandaren Brewmaster
Stealth Assassin
Rogueknight
Juggernaut
Drow Ranger

Fastest (MS)
Chaos Knight
Anti-Mage
Soul Keeper
Naga Siren
Moon Rider
Bounty Hunter
Broodmother
Magnataur
Oblivion
Phantom Assassin

Slowest (MS)
Goblin Techies
Shadow Shaman
Crystal Maiden
Demon Witch
Death Prophet
Stone Giant
Troll Warlord
Morphling
Necro'lic
Butcher


Our DOTA / Warcraft Forums Crashed!

Unfortunately over night, our forums provider 'freeforums.org' had a major network storage failure and lost the forums of several thousands of users. (This resulted in the loss of probably close to a million posts from all the various forums)

Here at DOTAtips.info - we lost plenty of DOTA and Warcraft posts and I apologise to all our regular posts: Tubby, Parkin, Kalgar and Co.

However, while the old forums are back up with hardly any posts - we will be setting up a brand new forum this week with a new provider that will hopefully be even better than before.

The forums will expand from not just DOTA talk, but extended Warcraft coverage and World of Warcraft also.

We hope you will be back to check it all out - in the mean time feel free to comment on posts or email as your DOTA news, info, strategy or question at asutcliffe@gmail.com

Simon 'Mr Warcraft' Ng

Simon from Malaysia has emailed us his basic strategy guide - and we thought we would post it up for the DOTA / Warcraft World to see: (Thanks Simon)

KEY TO WINNING DOTA:

Actually there are 2; [1] experience and [2] money
for me the best way to achieve these, is to have a very good start. instead of purchasing boots of speed like "noobs" do, try purchasing potions and SOT(scroll of town portal first). in this way when ur get damaged, u can just use your potion to regain ur life so you dont go home alot. Note: going home makes you loose cash and experience. dont be so hot in the early game to kill the oponent, make your move if it is a sure kill. dont be too greedy rushing in and as a result getting killed by the enemys' towers.
the scroll on the other hand makes you go home more quickly. this also saves your experience and the money that you might be getting rather than running around the map.
if you still have money after buying the scroll and 1!!! potion, purchase some circlets or specialized items for your hero.(agi, int, strength) this will give you an edge in the early stages. think of it, your enemy has boots, you have items adding to your stats. you have better chance of winning. this is for now, ask some questions so i know what i can add up. hehe

PS: start thinking as a pro, purchase items to kill and stop being "noobs" thinking how to run

Battlenet / Battle.net Tournmanets

While most of us DOTA folk know that multiplayer is through Blizzard's Battle.Net system (linked from inside the Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne game)

Many players don't know about the detail within Blizzards - www.battle.net website. Featuring a complete Warcraft and DOTA tournament, clan list and rankings - it's a great site to visit for all current battlenet updates and happenings.

You can register your clan on there and check out other clans and who's recruiting.

With plenty of info on ladders, tournaments, BlizzCon 2007 - the battle.net site talks about not only the Warcraft / DOTA series, but Diablo and Starcraft also.

Check it out if you haven't already - Click here for Battle.Net

New DOTA Banner as site grows

Today a new DOTA banner has been installed for the website, as the traffic grows quickly each day.

We are continuing to see a lot of DOTA players visiting the website from Singapore, Malaysia and other parts of Asia including Korea.

We'd love you hear feedback and comments from our Asian visitors - please join our forums and post you messages or simply comment on this post or any other of the blog posts and say hello.

Glad to have you here at DOTA tips - we look forward to your DOTA and Warcraft tips and trips.

Many Thanks,
The DOTA team

DOTA Tips Advertising Back to Normal

Our advertising has finally gone back to normal here at DOTA tips, with our AdSense program we obviously aim to produce advertisements on at least Warcraft related items which should be more appealing to DOTA fans (Or relevant should I say) - such as:

* Warcraft 3
* Frozen Throne
* DOTA
* Even World of Warcraft
* Guild Wars
* Everquest
* Other RPG / MMORPGs

This way when you visit DOTA tips; the advertising will be closely related and may interest you more.

I've also seen some mobile phone ringtones and things thrown up; I suppose everyone has a phone these days so thats a good thing!

Anyway, thanks for more replies on the DOTA poll. It looks like Dark Terror / Faceless void is still the leader - or at least the most popular DOTA hero for now. 4 days remain on the poll.

Keep joining our DOTA forums, we have had several new members and content is growing daily.

We have also joined the 'MyBlogLog' community. This means more DOTA lovers can get together and chat about their game and also find other interests. On the right hand side you will see a 'Recent Readers' blue box. Feel free to join up; it's free and you can get your ugly face on to our member board and see what other cool things can be found.

Follow the link below to instantly join the DOTA tips community and get post updates, member contact and much more info:

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Regards,
The DOTA and Warcraft Team

The DOTA Poll

As everyone has probably seen, I've thrown up a Warcraft 3 (DOTA) poll to see some of the most popular heros.

After we see which hero's are the most popular in this batch, we will get some more strategy sheets and information published for these heros.

So far it looks like Stealth Assassin is the leading hero, but there are 6 days to go.

If you would like to add your hero choice to the next round of poll's, please drop us an email by clicking here

If anyone has Warcraft 3 / DOTA information, tips or general questions they would like to share - they can also contact us here at DOTA tips by clicking here.

We are able to answer ANY DOTA question; and have our team of experts ready to go (Tubby, Strongy and Haynsy)

DOTA Denying Creeps

Todays Tactic Chat: Denying Creeps

Denying creeps is very important during the start of a DOTA game. Level 1 hero's generally ned 3 or 4 creep kills to get a new level.

Denying an opponent a creep will allow you a massive advantage over your competitors. You don't just reduce the experience your enemies receive, you also stop them from getting gold from the creep kills.

To deny a creep, you must attack your own creep, when they are very low on health (you can only attack your own creeps when they have lesss than 50% of their maximum hp).

You can also do the same to towers, denying your own towers before an enemy takes them - prevents them from getting large amounts of gold. And anyone knows in DOTA, gold is king.

Some say denying is a 'cheap' or 'dirty' way of playing DOTA - but the truth is - it's in the rules and allowed in game. Learn to deny or get used to losing to the pros.

Be sure and visit our forums, we have many news users now and look forward to your DOTA ideas and tips.

DOTA Comp Run and Won

The DOTA comp as run at NetCafe Revesby as the doors closed on the Net Gaming Cafe and LAN centre for good.

Honours again went to Daniel 'Tubby' Telford. The ageless master of DOTA beat all comers, even when he got a poor hero in 'PitLord' and was plugged a few times - he won enough games / points overall to take the DOTA championship.


Thanks to all that attended! We look forward to new posts by Tubby on this site and the forums - stay tuned.

DOTA Tournament Results

The results from the recent DOTA tournament will be filed tomorrow.

Along with the the results of all the DOTA comp action, we will include pictures from the event in which plenty of DOTA players from all parts of the world attended to show their skills.

One common theme was seen in the tournaments, Dark Terror (Faceless Void) and the new hero Huskar were very popular and caused plenty of havoc.

Be sure and visit our new DOTA forums and signup now; sign up is FREE.

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NRL News

DOTA Lag Dropouts and Plug Pulls

DOTA is an extremely network sensitive game. It is really only playable on LAN or internet mode (broadband only) - dialup is a big no no for DOTA.

If your having network problems with DOTA, the first thing to do is make sure your on the latest patch from Blizzard - 1.21 is the latest DOTA patch version. This will help BattleNet run smoothly. If you're using a wireless LAN or wireless broadband - this can also affect DOTA pings and cause the game to stutter.

Wireless LANS and Wireless Broadband for DOTA are a bad combination. Even lag that doesn't cause dropout can effect DOTA gameplay - prevent kills and annoy other DOTA players.

The other cause of annoyance, is plug pullers. With DOTA players that are losing, simply exit the game by 'plug pulling' their broadband connection to make their dropout look like a network issue as opposed to a 'rage quit'

Most players on BattleNet and Bored Aussie Networks these days use a 'database' or listing of players - via software such as Banlist which prevents and tracks users from leaving the game.

The good thing about DOTA on the LAN, is that you know WHO is playing, the ping is good, there are no network or MAP hacks and it should be fair.

Happy DOTA'ering

Geomancer Build Tip Strat DOTA

Geomancer i've heard is one of the hardest players to master in DOTA. Recently i've tried him and found it hard to manage his ulti - which is splitting his player into multiple units.

The multiple hero units give you plenty of power and the ability to play all over the map, but if one of these units die - you the actual Geomancer hero dies.

I tried sending the Geomancer units all over the map, but this made it very hard to manage their health. Ive noticed when people use Geomancer and his units close together, it makes it much easier to manage them and keep their health higher.

When managed well, Geo is unstoppable in DOTA - his impact and damage with the multiple units is huge.

I'd like to hear your DOTA tips on Geo / Meepo - so please comment below on this post or put your DOTA Geomancer tips / setup / build into the forums

NRL News

DOTA Team Balance Skills/Random

Another important ingredient for a good game of DOTA - is even skills across both DOTA teams. Especially in 5 v 5 - or actually any game of DOTA.

Some of the game of the game commands are -SP shuffle player -OM only mid -AR all random -AP all pick -EM easy mode -SC super creeps

With the -SP shuffle player function is randomly puts players on both teams. Helps to split up the better players.

When the DOTA teams aren't fair, the speed and power with which the more talented team can win is scary. So not only if you have talented players on one team, with -AR all random, you might get the best hero's given to a certain team - this can also kill a game very quickly.

All random is best for 5 v 5 where all players and skill levels are even.

If you choose the super creep option, it gives you a chance to get more money and XP as you kill the beasts. But they can hit your lane pretty hard. Its best to team with hero's to kill the super creeps.

If you know of any other -XX commands or DOTA game modes, drop us a reply or post them in the DOTA TIPS forums.