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Dota Myths and the True Facts

2010-03-08T16:45:00.003+07:00

Myth:
Pressing F1 or ctrl + 1234567890 which already binded to your hero all together will make you regen faster than normal in your fountain.

Fact:

False. The regeneration rate is still the same, only the number refreshes faster.

Myth:
Buying Vlads will get your illusions a lifesteal.

Fact:

False. Illusion didn't get the lifesteal effect from Vampiric Aura or cleave from Battlefury. However, illusion can still get Feedback orb from Diffusal Blade (only melee) and Radiance aura.

Myth:

Using Battlefury, the Omnislash are cleaved.
Fact:
False. Only the additional slash will be cleaved. The true slash will remain intact without cleave.

Myth:
Quelling Blade makes last hitting easier.
Fact:
Half true. While it can help you increase the damage for last hitting creeps, on some heroes like Leviathan, Nerubian Weaver and Juggernaut, their attack animation is changed and thus make it harder to last hit.

Myth:
Stacking Vanguards increases your block damage.
Fact:
False. Stacking Vanguards increases the block chance, not the block number.

With 2 Vanguards you will still block 40/20 (melee/range) dmg, but at a higher percentage (70% for 1, 91% for 2).

Myth:

Dropping items that give int but no mana reg while at fountain will make you regen faster.

Fact:

True. Fountain mana regeneration is based on max mana % + 7 mana/second. So, dropping an energy booster, int threads, etc, will make you regenerate your mana faster at fountain.

Those are gathered from the PlayDota forums. If you have something to add or wanna make some correction, please share it here by dropping a comment. Enjoy! ;)

Dota 6.66b Bug, Exploits & Trick | Dota-Allstars 6.66b Bug

2010-02-28T15:19:00.003+07:00

Dota 6.66b looks like has some bug that can be abused. Even though it's not game breaking, you can still use it for your own advantages ;) The first bug is on Pitlord's Firestorm, Bristleback's Viscous Nasal Goo will instantly stopped it as you can see on below video.

The second one is a plain bug and we cannot abuse it at all, but it still funny to see it :)

Lastly, it's the famous Dota Tricks IV. I know it's been out there for a while, but i didn't have the chance to post it.

Thanks to Kuarinofu who always show us some bug/exploits on every Dota version. If you found some other bugs/exploits on Dota 6.66b, feel free to drop a comment. Enjoy guys! :)

Play Multiple Warcraft 3 Instance on One Computer Using kLoader

2010-02-28T15:15:00.001+07:00

Do you ever feel that you want to test certain abilities which need 2 heroes on different side, but you don't have friends for it? Well, i do.. Of course there's always Dota AI map which can help you to do some testing, but we cannot control the enemy AI player as we like. But don't worry, Kolkoo a.k.a Aegis from the D3Scene forums has found a way out. With his tool, now you can play two instance of Warcraft 3 Game on one PC.

Here is what he said about this tool:

You type the full path to war3.exe in the config.txt file as well as any command line arguments you want to use Start W3MultipleLoader and it will Launch Warcraft III for you, you can run as many as you want. Yes the loader modifies the wc3 code but it cleans up after the game is loaded and unloads itself so it should be completely safe to use. Have fun

Download Link
Download kLoader via GameWebZ

How to Setup
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1. Open the Config.txt
2. Enter the full path to your warcraft III TFT
3. Save
4. Ready to go

Enjoy it guys! I know some of you will need this tool :)

Source: D3Scene Forum

Dota Advanced Jungling Guide - Choke Neutrals Creeps

2010-02-28T15:04:00.001+07:00

Do you like jungling heroes like Nai'x or Troll Warlord? Well, you're lucky, i got a video which can greatly help improves your jungling skill. As you know, the different between jungling and creep pulling is your heroes is alone. Which means, you take all the damage from the neutral creeps. That's why every jungling guide always recommends you to buy Stout Shield.

However, with this technique, you can have less damage from the neutral creeps by only allows one of them to hit you while in the same time you hit them. Of course, this tricks is not for Axe or Dark Seer which want many enemies gather at once. I suggest Nai'x (Lifestealer) and Troll Warlord for practicing this trick. Ok, enough talk, let's just watch the video! ;)

The video show you how to spawn multiple neutral creeps and then defeat them one by one by trapped them on the choke point. Enjoy! ;)

Dota Reconnection Tool is Almost Done!

2010-02-20T22:14:00.002+07:00

Remember the Varlock Dota reconnection project that IceFrog told us before? The project seems work smoothly and might as well released on the near future. IceFrog already doing some test with the Dota reconnection tool and the dropped player can reconnect to the game a few moment later. Sweet! Here is what IceFrog said about this project:

The first version of Varlock's reconnection tool is almost ready for release. We've been testing it in real DotA games for the past few weeks and it has worked very well. We've had many players disconnect only to reconnect moments later, saving otherwise lost games.

The code for this tool (both client and server) will be open source so that anyone can build upon it and integrate it into their platforms and communities.

I really hope that this tool can be used for a lot of gaming platform, like Garena or Battle.net. Wish Dota 6.67 released along with this awesome tool :)

Dota 6.67 has New Game Mode and Zoom Features!

2010-02-10T16:24:00.001+07:00

IceFrog has just made a post about the new features for Dota 6.67. The first one is the zoom ability for the observers. As you know, it's pretty difficult to keep touch with all part of the Dota game with the current Warcraft 3 default view. This update hopefully will help the observer maintain a larger area and can spot the interesting event faster. Another one is a new game mode, Capture Point! How long since we got a new game mode guys? I can't remember it. Capture Point is kinda fun mode with bonus aura for your team if you manage to capture it. Curious? Check out the complete quote from IceFrog blog:

Hey guys, I just want to share some small information about the upcoming patch. It is too early for me to give a complete list of features or changes to expect, so I'll just be sharing a couple of small features as a sneak peak.

First, I've implemented a zoom mode for observers to allow spectators and shout casters to see a larger part of the battlefield rather than the current view.

The second is a Capture Point action style game mode. It is designed to be a short fun mode with lots of movement and action, as a break from the usual stuff. There will be many capture points (6+) spread around the map that, when captured, will provide various auras (Damage, Armor, Gold, Regen, Movement Speed, etc) for your team depending on which one is captured. The Capture Points all spawn after the first 10 minutes of the game. You gain control of a CP by standing on it for a certain amount of time (the more allies the faster). Capture Points can always be reclaimed by the enemy team after it is taken or it can also be interrupt during the capturing process itself. Keep in mind that all the mechanics and numbers are not final yet.

These are just two misc things in 6.67 that I wanted to share with you guys. There will of course be more work done on improving the current content with balancing and misc features. If there is something specific you want to see, don't hesitate to let me know.

Ok, this update is make me kinda excited. It's been a while since we got a new fun game mode. Too many serious game can make us stressed a lot and WTF mode sometime is too rigged. Hope this new mode can be an alternative to find a new joy ;)

DotA 6.66b AI 0.2141 Map Download - Fatal Error Fix

2010-02-03T22:32:00.002+07:00

Dota 6.66b AI 0.2141- Dota-Allstars v6.66b AI 0.2141 Map Download. Maybe some of you already notice that the previous Dota 6.66b AI contain a fatal bug that can cause the game crashing. Luckily, BuffMePlz already figure it out how to fix it and today released the second version for Dota 6.66b AI. Below is the complete changelogs of DotA-Allstars 6.66b AI 0.2141 Map:

Changelogs:

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Dota 6.66b AI (v0.2141)
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-Rewrote Overpower and Summon Familiars to prevent AI crashes
-Undid the fix added for Pounce in 6.66b that was causing the game to crash
-Added a workaround for when AI attempt to attack a dropped Divine Rapier (item will be removed)
-Fixed AI from destroying the Aegis after having them attack Roshan

DotA-Allstars 6.66b AI 0.214 Download Links
Dota 6.66b AI 0.2141 via GameWebZ
Dota 6.66b AI 0.2141 via MegaUpload
Dota 6.66b AI 0.2141 via MediaFire
Dota 6.66b AI 0.2141 via RapidShare

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I hope this Dota 6.66b AI map will be bug free and we can enjoy playing without any fatal error. Thanks BuffMePlz!

Dota 6.66b OMG v1.04f Map | Dota-Allstars 6.66b OMG Download

2010-02-03T08:23:00.005+07:00

Dota 6.66b OMG v1.04f , the first OMG map after Murloc and Ancient Apparition introduced, at last is released. Now you can create your own custom hero with the Dota 6.66b map. Here is the complete changelogs:

Dota 6.66b OMG v1.04f Changelogs:

- OMG mode is now based on DotA Allstars 6.66b. All features saved.
- New mode — Disable useless Skills (-ds). [details below]
- Removed restriction on passives stacking. Now every passive ability can be picked with any other passive ability, except orb effects.
- Recoded some multi-icons abilities to prevent some stacking bugs.
- Reworked available and useless abilities lists. Full info will be soon.
- Removed Quelling Blade restriction for Admiral.
- Reworked -skills command: added ability hotkey or hotkeys and removed code numbers.
- Added new command -skillsallies (-sa) to see allies abilities.
- Added new command -showskills for Deathmatch + Random Abilities mode to see abilities that your allies gains for new heroes.
- Fixed double Magic Missile bug.
- Fixed some typos.

Disable useless Skills (-ds) mode:
Removes from abilities pool following abilities: Wave Of Terror, Adaptive Strike, Enchant Totem, Backstab, Eyes in the Forest, Echo Stomp, March of the Machines, Suicide Squad, Attack, Holy Persuasion, Soul Steal, Mana Drain, Summon Wolves, Blur, Spiked Carapace, Enfeeble, Urna Swarm, Astral Imprisonment, Fatal Bonds, Upheaval, Earthbind, Wall of Replica. Nobody will get those skills with -ds mode.

P.S.: sorry, but Devour is disabled. It has very long unstacking list, and need to recode my system. It will appear in near future.

Dota 6.66b OMG v1.04f Download Link:
Dota 6.66b OMG via GameWebZ
Dota 6.66b OMG via MegaUpload
Dota 6.66b OMG via PlayDota

To activate the OMG mode, you can add one of below commands on the game mode:

Random Draft
type -ra with other game modes. Examples: -ardmra (random heroes, random skills and death match)

Abilities Draft
Type -ad with other game modes.

Enjoy the new Dota 6.66b OMG map! ;)

Dota 6.66b Map Download - Dota-Allstars 6.66b Official Map Released!

2010-02-02T13:26:00.000+07:00

Dota 6.66b Map Download - Dota-Allstars 6.66b Official Map has just released! A lot of bug fixes and some nerf. The ultimate Doom Bringer on Dota 6.66 get nerfed pretty much. I guess he's time is over now :p Some major bug fix are done on Divine Rapier drop mechanism. Here is the download link and changelogs of Dota 6.66b..

Dota 6.66b Changelogs:
The changelogs is huge so i place it on Dota 6.66b Changelogs post

Dota 6.66b Download Link
Dota 6.66b Download - GameWebz Mirror
Dota 6.66b Download - MegaUpload Mirror
Dota 6.66b Download - GetDota Mirror

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Honestly, i'm pretty glad with this map, because Doom Bringer is pretty imba on the previous version. I hope Dota 6.66b can be the next stable map :) Enjoy the new map guys!

Warcraft 1.24d Patch | Warcraft Patch 1.24d is Released!

2010-02-02T08:46:00.000+07:00

Warcraft 1.24d Patch has just released by Blizzard. The Warcraft Patch 1.24d contain improvement which close the hole for the crash hack. It's still unknown if this 1.24d patch can be played with 1.24b or 1.24c, but some people say that you will randomly dropped. So, it's better upgrade if your friends is already using Warcraft Patch 1.24d. Here is the full Warcraft Patch 1.24d changelogs:

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Warcraft Patch 1.24d Changelogs
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FIXES

- Fixed a client crash related to queuing too many invalid build commands
("crash hack").

The new version is Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne 1.24d (1.24.3.6384).

How to update into Patch 1.24d Warcraft
Choose one of the following way
1. Connect to the Battle.net and you will automatically updated. You must log off and login again to make the patch updated
2. Download the Warcraft 1.24d standalone patch from Blizzard server and run the updater.
3. Use the Warcraft Version Switcher 1.24d.

This Warcraft 1.24d Patch seems improved the safety from maphacks, custom kicks and crash hacks. Let's see how it works, enjoy! :)

Dota 6.66b 6v6 Map Download - Dota-Allstars 6.66b 6v6

2010-02-02T08:39:00.000+07:00

Dota-Allstars 6.66b 6v6 released just couple days after Dota 6.66b released. Now you can play Dota 6.66b with 12 players ;) Enjoy!

Dota 6.66b 6v6 Ver.1 Download Link

Download Links
DotA_Allstars_v6.66b_6v6.w3x via GameWebz
DotA_Allstars_v6.66b_6v6.w3x via RapidShare
DotA_Allstars_v6.66b_6v6.w3x via BanglaGamer

If you find a bug on this Dota 6.66b 6v6, report it directly in this post.

Dota 6.66b AI - DotA-Allstars 6.66b AI 0.214 Map Download (Released!)

2010-01-30T19:11:00.004+07:00

Dota 6.66b AI - Dota-Allstars v6.66b AI 0.214 Map Download. BuffMePlz has just released the Dota 6.66b AI today. At last we can play an AI map with Murloc Nightcrawler and Ancient Apparition inside it. But before that, make sure you already use Warcraft 1.24b Patch or above to play this map. Below is the complete changelogs of DotA-Allstars 6.66b AI 0.214 Map:

Changelogs:

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Dota 6.66b AI (v0.214)
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-First update to 6.66b
-Rewrote Jinada, Wind Walk, Chilling Touch, and Essence Shift to prevent AI-specific crashes
-Minor AI changes to use some rewritten abilities (Scorched Earth, Overpower, etc.)
-Added some extra checks to prevent AI from automatically picking heroes with incomplete AI scripts (they can still random them in -ar or -tr)
-Disabled new -unlock command, as -switch is still disabled in AI map

DotA-Allstars 6.66b AI 0.214 Download Links
Dota 6.66b AI 0.214 via GameWebZ
Dota 6.66b AI 0.214 via MegaUpload
Dota 6.66b AI 0.214 via HotFile
Dota 6.66b AI 0.214 via MediaFire
Dota 6.66b AI 0.214 via RapidShare

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Enjoy the brand new Dota 6.66b AI!

Update: Looks like this map contain a bug that can cause your game crashing. Please update your AI map into Dota 6.66b AI 0.2141

Dota 6.66b Changelogs | Dota-Allstars 6.66b Changelogs

2010-01-27T13:19:00.003+07:00

Dota 6.66b Changelogs - Dota-Allstars 6.66b Complete Changelogs. To download the map, check the Dota-Allstars 6.66b post.

* Fixed a major exploit recently discovered

* Recoded Bounty Hunter's wind walk damage bonus as to not require two seperate attacks to trigger his new passive

* Some Doombringer nerfs:

- Reduced base armor by 2
- Reduced base movement speed by 10
- Increased Scorched Earth cooldown from 60/50/40/30 to 60/55/50/45

* Readjusted the Divine Rapier pickup rules to prevent some abuses.

If the first time the item is lost from its original owner it is picked up by an allied hero, it becomes muted (no damage) until it returns to its owner. If an enemy acquires the rapier, it same rules as the previous version. Here are the complete rapier rules to clarify:
- "Original Rapier" has two modes, active and muted. It is active (bonus damage, droppable) when carried by the owner and muted (no damage, droppable) when carried by an ally
- "Free Rapier" is the item state that occurs when an enemy acquires it. This is a permanent transformation for the item. It will always provide bonus damage and will always be undroppable, regardless of how it switches sides back and forth afterwards. This is the same as the previous patch.
Summary: The primary change that is done here is that a hero cannot intentionally pool the rapier to his ally.

* -unlock now requires a majority vote before the gold and items of a leaver will be released. As a reminder, once a hero is unlocked, it cannot be switched.

* Added a 15 second wait period before the drafting begins in -CD to give both teams a chance to look at the heroes.

* Renamed the controlon/off commands to be clearer which is which. They are now -disableselection (-ds) and -enableselection (-es)

* Various map optimizations
* Fixed an old recipe fusing exploit with leaver items that could result in crashes
* Fixed Essence Shift on units that change form
* Fixed a couple of bugs with Dark Pact debuff
* Added replay data for creep kills/denies (at time intervals,
format: "CSK"+I2S(PlayerID),value and "CSD"+I2S(PlayerID),value)
* Fixed various tooltips
* Fixed gold not being split after using -unlock when someone leaves via -kickafk
* Fixed being able to -unlock while a switch vote is ongoing
* Fixed some spells incorrectly triggering Magic Stick/Essence Aura (Devoured Neutral Troll Priests Heal, Radiance Swap, etc)
* Fixed some -CD language text issues as well as some missing parser information
* Fixed Arcane Ring recipe purchase hotkey
* Fixed some potential Basher bugs on some levels of Spirit Bear
* Fixed an abuse possible with one hero carrying multiple Urn of Shadows
* Fixed the second Forged Spirit from being added to your control despite having control helper turned off
* Fixed a bug with -switch when you have Rapier (that you don't own) on you
* Fixed a few other misc minor bugs

Enjoy the brand new Dota 6.66b :)

Warcraft 1.24d Patch Download | Offline Installation Guide

2010-01-22T10:16:00.002+07:00

Patch 1.24d Warcraft Offline Installation Guide. If you're not able to connect into Battle.net and yet wanna update into the Warcraft 1.24d Patch, you can download the patch from the mirrow below:

Warcraft 3 TFT 1.24c to Warcraft 3 TFT 1.24d Patch (you must have 1.24c installed)

War3TFT_124c_124d_English.exe (HotFile)
War3TFT_124c_124d_English.exe (Blizzard)

Warcraft 3 TFT 1.24d Standalone Patch
War3TFT_124d_English.exe (HotFile)
War3TFT_124d_English.exe (Blizzard)

If you still failed to upgrade into Warcraft Patch 1.24d with those link, i recommend you to use Warcraft Version Switcher 1.24d.

Enjoy the Warcraft 1.24d Patch!

Warcraft 1.24d Switcher | Warcraft Version Switcher 1.24d Download

2010-01-21T18:17:00.007+07:00

Just like the previous version, Warcraft 1.24d Patch gives big trouble for players that can't update through Battle.net. Luckily, you still can use the Warcraft Version Switcher 1.24d to switch between the old and new versions ;)

Download Link

Warcraft 1.24d Version Switcher
Warcraft 1.24d Version Switcher via Hotfile
Warcraft 1.24d Version Switcher via MegaUpload

If you already installed the Warcraft Version Switcher, you just need to download the TFT 1.24d zip package and place it on wvs folder :)

Warcraft TFT 1.24d Zip File
Warcraft 1.24d Version Switcher via Hotfile
Warcraft 1.24d Version Switcher via MegaUpload
Warcraft 1.24d Version Switcher via MediaFire

You can check the Warcraft Version Switcher Guide if you never use this tool before ;)

I hope this post can help you to update into the new Warcraft 1.24d Patch. Good luck!

PS: Will add another mirror soon, if you have Rapidshare or MediaFire link, share it here.. :)

Reconnect Dota Game is Now Possible!

2010-01-21T09:49:00.000+07:00

One of the features which people love from Heroes of Newerth or League of Legends is the possibility to reconnect when you got DC (disconnect) from the game. This feature is unfortunately doesn't exist on the Warcraft 3 engine. But thanks to Varlock, there's a glimpse of light for this problem. He already successfully tested the function and planned to applied it to the Garena and other platform in the future. Here is the quote from IceFrog blog:

Varlock, the developer of the popular Ghost hosting bot, has done a successful concept test on this functionality and will work on implementing it for public use in the future. The technology is portable for Garena (or anything else in theory, if someone wants to port it) as well.

He wanted me to try to help him gauge interest level for his project. It would basically require the host to be using the tool on bnet, garena or any other hosting platform the feature is ported to. Any player that wants to be able to reconnect would have the custom reconnect tool running, but players who are not using the tool could still play in the same games.

The exact time and schedule for its release is not defined yet. The main reason for this post is to help get him feedback so he can decide how much interest people have in it and consider his schedule accordingly. If you have any thoughts you want to share with him, you can respond here and I'll relay them to him or you can email him directly at hogantp@gmail.com

Thanks to Varlock for his continued efforts in the DotA hosting scene.

Well, even though this is useless for leavers, but it will help people who got disconnected by accident. Hope to seeing this implemented soon! :)

Dota 6.66 Map Download - Dota-Allstars 6.66 Official Map Released!

2010-01-14T07:47:00.025+07:00

Dota 6.66 Map Download - Dota-Allstars 6.66 Official Map already released! Some balance have been made, especially to Ursa, and a hero with skills remake. Guess who? You are right! It's Lucifer the Doom Bringer! Now Devour will give him the ability of the devoured creep! His Scorched Earth also will give him 30 heals/second. I guess IceFrog wanna make Dota 6.66 a special edition for this devil character ;) (PS: 666 is a devil number) Check the complete changelogs and download link of Dota 6.66 in this post.

Dota 6.66 Changelogs:
The changelogs is huge so i place it on Dota 6.66 Changelogs post

Dota 6.66 Download Link
Dota 6.66 Download - GameWebz Mirror
Dota 6.66 Download - MegaUpload Mirror
Dota 6.66 Download - GetDota Mirror

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Lucifer the Doom Bringer is a little bit imbalance on this version in my opinion, so you better check it out and pick him up before your enemies does! Enjoy the new Dota 6.66 map! ;)

PS : For AI map update, check the Dota 6.66 AI post.

Dota 6.66 Changelogs | Dota-Allstars 6.66 Changelogs

2010-01-14T07:41:00.001+07:00

Dota 6.66 Changelogs - Dota-Allstars 6.66 Complete Changelogs. To download the map, check the Dota-Allstars 6.66 post.

Heroes

Batrider
- Flaming Lasso cooldown decreased from 130/90/50 to 90/70/50

Beastmaster
- Wild Axes now properly hits invisible units

Bounty Hunter
- Jinada cooldown improved from 22/17/12/7 to 21/16/11/6

Clockwerk
- Rocket Flare cooldown decreased from 30/25/20/15 to 20/18/16/14

Dirge
- Added Aghanim's Scepter for Undying.

Regular Plague Aura
- Plague Aura amplifies up to 20% / 25% / 30% max and heals for 6% of heroes and 2% of creeps
Scepter Upgraded Plague Aura
- Plague Aura amplifies up to 25% / 30% / 35% and heals for 10% of heroes and 3% of creeps

Doom Bringer
- Reworked and rebalanced most of his abilities

Old Devour:
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Creeps: Up to level 1/2/4/6
Bonus Gold: 10/20/30/40
cd: 30/25/20/15
manacost: 50/45/40/35

New Devour:
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Creeps: Up to level 2/4/5/6
Bonus Gold: 40/60/80/100
cd: 60/55/50/45
manacost: 60

Gains the abilities of the target neutral creep has until you devour another creep with abilities to replace it

Old Scorched Earth:
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Large aoe castable.

MS Bonus: 10/15/20/30%
AS Bonus: 10/15/20/30%
Deals: 1/2/3/4 dps
Heals: 1/2/3/4 dps

Duration: 20
CD: 10
Manacost: 60
Cast Range: 800
AOE: 700

New Scorched Earth:
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Temporary effect around you. Earth is scorched wherever you are walking.

MS Bonus: 20%
Damage: 15/20/25/30
Heals: 15/20/25/30

Duration: 8/10/12/14
Cooldown: 60/50/40/30
Manacost: 60
AOE: 600

Old Doom:
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Regular
-Duration: 12/14/16
-DPS: 40/60/80
-Cooldown: 160/130/100

Scepter
-Duration: 14/16/18
-DPS: 50/70/90
-Cooldown: 90/80/70

New Doom:
==========
Regular
-Duration: 14
-DPS: 30/50/70
-Cooldown: 110

Scepter
-Duration: 14
-DPS: 50/80/110
-Cooldown: 90/80/70

Earthshaker
- Echo Slam no longer counts corpses for damage Echo damage (They used to count them for partial damage)
- Aftershock AoE from 280 to 300
- Enchant Totem damage increased from 50/100/150/200 to 75/150/225/300
- Added Aghanim's Scepter to Earthshaker's Echo Slam (echo bounces twice for each hero it hits)
- Echo Slam's Echo damage increased from 35/45/65 to 40/55/70
- Echo Slam's unit search aoe increased by 75 (this is not the damage aoe, just the initial unit search aoe)
- Note: The main idea with most of these changes is to emphasis the timing aspect of the echo slam more. Some other buffs are done to compensate for the reduced power from the corpse count loss.

Enchantress
- Movement speed increased from 295 to 305
- Enchant's slow effect increased from 10/20/30/40% to 20/30/40/50%
- Enchant's slow effect duration decreased from 7 to 5.5 seconds

Faceless Void
- Timewalk slow increased from 10/20/30/40% to 25/30/35/40%
- Timewalk cooldown rebalanced from 13 to 19/17/15/13

Invoker
- Invoke cd from 30/25/12/5 cd to 22/17/12/5
- Invoke manacost from 20/50/80/110 to 20/40/60/80
- Alacrity bonus damage increased from 20-80 to 30-90
- Alacrity duration increased from 8 to 9
- Chaos Meteor damage improved:
Main damage from 40-130 to 55-145 every 0.5 seconds
Burn damage from 8-26 to 11-29 per second
- Cold Snap now applies an initial ministun on cast
- Forged Spirits Armor is now based on Exort and Range is now based on Quas
- Ghost Walk manacost reduced from 300 to 200
- Ghost Walk slow rescaled from 10-40% to 20-40%
- Ice Wall manacost increased from 125 to 175
- Ice Wall cooldown increased from 20 to 25
- Sun Strike damage rescaled from 75-450 to 100-475
- Tornado range increased from 700-3100 -> 800-3200
- Tornado duration increased from 0.6-2.2 -> 0.8-2.5
- Tornado damage increased from max of 375 to 400
- Quas per instance regen from 0.75 to 1

Juggernat
- Blade Fury cooldown reduced from 30 to 30/28/26/24

Kaldr
- Cold Feet manacost increased from 90 to 90/100/110/120
- Ice Blast impact delay is a little slower now
- Ice Blast no longer pierces Shallow Grave
- Ice Blast debuff is now purgable

Ogre Magi
- Fireblast Multicast upgraded cooldown improved from 15/12/9/6 to 12/10/8/6

Obsidian Destroyer
- Essence Aura no longer has a lower chance to trigger when autocasting Arcane Orb

Priestess of the Moon
- Moonlight Shadow manacost from 200/250/300 to a constant 175

Pugna
- Decrepify cast range increased from 550 to 550/600/650/700

Queen of Pain
- Scream of Pain now effects Decrepified units

Spirit Breaker
- Nether Strike now makes Spirit Breaker magic immune for the second that he is fading out during its cast
- Charge of Darkness decreased manacost from 120 to 75
- Charge of Darkness cast mechanic reworked

Charge of Darknessnow charges up in place for up to 4 seconds and then you move out at a speed relative to how long you charged it for. (Total movement bonus is the same as before, it just depends on chargeup time now instead of increasing slowly over time)

Slark
- Pounce Leash now gets removed if the target blinks or teleports away
- Shadow Dance passive no longer works if Slark is Doomed

Ursa Warrior
- Undid previous cast animation change on Overpower
- Fixed a bug in the recent Overpower rewrite that prevented it from being removed by purge/euls

Visage
- Soul Assumption damage per charge decreased from 130 to 110
- Soul Assumption manacost from 100/120/140/160 to 100
- Soul Assumption cooldown from 7/6/5/4 to 4
- Familiars Bounty reduced from 150 to 100
- Familiars now magic reduction from 70/95/95% to 95% at all levels
- Familiars bonus damage attack count increased from 6 to 7
- Familiars now have a small (160) ranged attack instead of melee
- Gravekeeper's Cloak recharge time improved from 14/12/10/8 to 10/9/8/7

Warlock
- Fatal Bonds damage increased from 3.75/7.5/11.25/15% to 15%
- Fatal Bonds link count reduced from 5 to 2/3/4/5

Items

Aghanim's Scepter
- Added Undying and Earthshaker

Divine Rapier
- Can no longer be destroyed by attacking the item
- If a player other than the original owner of the Rapier picks it up, they cannot drop it

Force Staff
- Double clicking force staff now acts as if you clicked on yourself

Maelstrom & Mjollnir
- Increased max bounces from 3 to 4

Phase Boots
- Cooldown from 12 seconds to 10 seconds
- Duration from 6 seconds to 5 seconds
- Movement bonus from 10% to 12%

Scroll of Town Portal
- Double clicking on scrolls now automatically targets your fountain

Game Play and Cosmetics

* Switch now only works as long as the items of the leaver remain intact. Once someone leaves, the inventory of that hero becomes locked. Players can use an -unlock command, but once that is done switch cannot be used on that hero anymore. Once this feature is used enough to be considered stable, switch will be usable by default (-so mode won't be required) with the restrictions described above. The gold that the leaver is carrying is also frozen until the hero is either unlocked or swapped.

* Added a new command, "-controloff"/"-controlon", to disable control help in the game (to prevent stuff like adding summoned units to your current selection: Invoker, Techies, Lanaya, etc)
* Added a new test command to toggle creeps spawn off and on -spawnoff/-spawnon
* Restored -mc, but with more detailed statistics to match up with the recently changed Multicast chance system
* To prevent some abuses with -unstuck, it no longer works if your taking damage during the first few seconds after you enter the command

* Doubled Satyr Trickerster manapool and purge manacost (primarily affects just stolen ability via Devour)
* Fixed the teleport effects sometimes being visually on an angle
* Fixed Nightcrawler status buff text format
* Fixed Tango visual buff being slightly inaccurate (this is just a cosmetic improvement/fix)

* Added a visual effect for allied players to indicate which creep you infesting
* Added a new sound set for Furion (91160)
* Added a new sound set for Clockwerk
* Added a new visual effect for Spirit Lance
* Added new charge icon for Soul Assumption (137459)
* Disabled visual charge indication if the cooldown for Soul Assumption is not ready
* Added a new overhead indictor for Soul Assumption (137459)
* Added an visaul effect when Eclipse misses to help players keep track (109017)
* Phantom Assassin images now have the proper fade visual effect (114120)
* Improved Eyes In The Forest cast animation (95740)
* Added new visual effect for Flesh Golem (51874)

* Game mode status, rune messages and a few other misc strings are now externalized properly to allow for more flexible translation choices
* Added replay parsing data for assists (Format: "Assist"+I2S(KillerId),DyingId)

Bugs Fixes

* Fixed a few areas where you could get stuck in using TP scrolls
* Fixed Malefice not reliably working if the enemy is fogged
* Fixed Last Word from firing off on the precast for Ice Blast and Unstable Concoction
* Fixed Ice Blast indicator staying at edge of map until you release it
* Fixed Ice Blast debuff from overriding Time Lapse
* Fixed some Dark Pact bugs
* Fixed Essence Shift from piercing Shallow Grave
* Fixed Essence Shift sometimes not registering properly at high attack speeds
* Fixed Murloc sometimes not attacking the pounced target
* Fixed dispersion damage on creeps
* Fixed bugs with Charge of Darkness interaction with euls and ghost scepter
* Fixed some mac specific bugs

Enjoy the brand new Dota 6.66 :)

Dota 6.66 6v6 Map Download - Dota-Allstars 6v6

2010-01-13T01:44:00.000+07:00

Dota-Allstars 6.66 6v6 map has just released by God-Tony. Wow, we see a lot of number "6" on it! This map is Dota 6.66 map added with one player on each side. Enjoy!

Dota 6.66 6v6 Ver.1 Download Link

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Dota 6.65 6v6 Ver.1 Map Download - Dota-Allstars 6v6

2009-12-31T16:40:00.003+07:00

Dota-Allstars 6.65 6v6 Ver.1 map has just released by God-Tony. This map is basically a Dota 6.65 map with one more player on each side. Enjoy the map!

Dota 6.65 6v6 Ver.1 Download Link

DotA_Allstars_v6.65_6v6_Ver.1.w3x via Gamewebz
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Dota 6.65 Map Download - Dota-Allstars 6.65 Official Map Released!

2009-12-24T08:25:00.008+07:00

Dota 6.65 Map Download - Dota-Allstars 6.65 Official Map now live! 2 new heroes introduced and some hero has been remade. Great!! As usual, you must play this map at least with Warcraft 1.24b Patch. Check the complete changelogs and download link of Dota 6.65 in this post.

Dota 6.65 Changelogs:
The changelogs is huge so i place it on Dota 6.65 Changelogs post

Dota 6.65 Download Link:
Dota 6.65 Download - GameWebz Mirror
Dota 6.65 Download - MegaUpload Mirror
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Woohooo!! Can't wait to try the new heroes ^^ Share your guide and strategy about Murloc Nightcrawler and Ancient Apparition. Enjoy the map and share what you think about Dota 6.65 here :)

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Slark Guide - Murloc Nightcrawler Guide & Strategy

2009-12-23T09:10:00.012+07:00

Slark the Murloc Nightcrawler Guide and Strategy. Dota 6.65 give us 2 new heroes, one of them is Murloc Nightcrawler, Slark. We already see the teaser video for him, but now we can see all of his skills. Let's go!

Murloc Nightcrawler Skills & Stats

Range: 128
Movement Speed: 305
Hero Type: Agility

Agility: 21 + 2.0
Strength: 21 + 1.0
Intelligence: 16 + 1.6

Dark Pact

Slark calls upon deities of the swamps to seal a dark pact. Sacrificing some of his lifeblood, Slark is redeemed of all negative effects. After 2 seconds, a dark wave of destruction emits from the Nightcrawler, dealing damage to himself as well as all nearby enemies.

Damage: 75/150/225/300
AoE: 325
Manacost: 55/50/45/40
Cooldown: 10

Deals half the damage to you immediately as part of the cost.

Tips: This skill also can remove you from negative buffs, which means you can remove Dust of Appearance effect and other tracking buff ;)

Pounce

Surges directly forward and latches on to the first enemy he hits, binding it with chains of darkness. The enemy is unable to move more than 275 distance away from the point of impact for 3.5 seconds.

Pounce Range: 400/500/600/700
Pounce Damage: 50/75/100/125
Leash Range: 275
Leash Duration: 3.5

Cooldown: 16
Manacost: 75

Note: Moves forward in the direction it is looking, this is not a target position cast.

Tips: Pounce works like Mirana's Leap. You will jump into the direction you're facing. A successful Pounce will bind your enemy for 3.25 seconds. When the enemies binded, they cannot leave from the area except from using Teleport/BKB. Mirana's Leap, Morphling Waveform and Blink will useless. If you're ganking with a stunner, maybe it's better to let him landed a stun first then when his stun is almost finish, quickly pounce him. It can be great tool for escaping too!

Essence Shift
Passive

Reciting ancient Nightcrawler incantations, Slark enchants his blade to steal the power and courage from his enemies. Every time Slark hits an enemy hero, he steals 1 point from all attributes and 1 additional from the main attribute of that enemy hero while Slark gains 4 points of Agility.

Duration: 15/30/45/60

Tips: You must note that even though you steal 1 of all attribute + 1 main attribute from your enemy, you gain only 4 agility and not 1 of all attribute + 1 main attribute. Has a 0.4 second cooldown.

Shadow Dance

Has an active and a passive portion

Covers himself with a dark smoke, he becomes invisible and does not reveal himself while attacking or casting spells for 5.5 seconds.

Passively increases Nightcrawler's movement speed and regeneration when he is out of sight of hostile units. Has a 0.7 delay when activated or deactivated.

Movement Speed: 30/35/40%
Health Regeneration: 2/3/4%

Active duration: 5.5 seconds
Cooldown: 25
Manacost: 120

Tips: This skill can be used as healing mechanism. If your HP is low, find a hidden place and recovers. If you use Shadow Dance when attacking the enemy, your movement speed and regen bonus is working, except the enemies cast dust or have gem. This skill also can detect if there's observer or not. If you're on a place and your passive did not work even though all the enemies is on other place, you can be sure that somewhere near there an observer ward is placed :)

Murloc Nightcrawler Item Build

Starting Items

You will need this to survive the line until getting your Shadow Dance. After get your ultimate, you won't need any HP regen items.

Core Items

Town Portal, Bracers, Strength Power Treads, Magic Wand, Diffusal/Sange Yasha/Desolator, Manta/BKB

Slark stats growth is really poor, especially his Strength. You will barely have only 1385 HP at level 25. Thats why you must get some HP items to avoid getting yourself killed before you have the chance to escape. Strength Power Treads and Bracers is barely enough to boost your survivability if you careful. Why not Vanguards? Many PPL recommend Vanguards, but i think it's a waste on him. You don't need the heals and you're also not a tank hero. Better spends those money on cheaper HP boost items like Bracers or even on Ogre Axe that can be used for BKB or Sange Yasha.

Now, which offensive items you must buy? Diffusal, Sange Yasha or Desolator? Personally, i like to have Diffusal on him. His role as a ganker will benefits much from the Purge as well as the mana burn. With a stunner mate and purge, a kill is almost guaranteed. However, Sange Yasha is also not too shabby. The MS boost will gives you max speed (522) whenever nobody see you. Desolator is also good since you are stolen their agility and reduce the armor.

What about Mask of Madness? Honestly, i don't think Mask of Madness fit him. It will force you to receive more damage and you're already fragile enough. The attack speed is great, but i think it's more fitted with Darkterror or Barathrum. RememberThe ms boost also an overkill since with Yasha and Shadow Dance you already get the max speed. If you didn't agree with me, share your thought on the comment section :)

BKB will be your main items if the enemies consist of nuker like Lion or Lina. One stun + Fingers from Lion will ensure a death to you. Of course you already have Shadow Dance which allow you to attack when invisible. But a decent player will always have dust on their inventory if you become a threat to them. Remember, you don't have a silence mechanism like Rikimaru's Smoke Screen.

Luxury Items

Butterfly will be your main luxury item, you will benefits from the agi boost and the evasion. Monkey King Bar is also a good choice if their carry is already get Butterfly. HoT will be your best items if you're being the main target. Even though the regen is somehow a waste compared to your ulti, HoT is still the best single HP boost item.

Murloc Nightcrawler Skill Build
1. Pounce
2. Essence Shift
3. Dark Pact
4. Dark Pact
5. Dark Pact
6. Shadow Dance
7. Dark Pact
8-10. Pounce
11. Shadow Dance
12-14. Essence Shift
15. Stats
16. Shadow Dance
17-25. Stats

Justification
Ok, i think this will be a little debatable. Why maxed Dark Pact first instead of the others? At first glance, i think Dark Pact is a poor skill compared to Pounce or Essence Shift. But after trying him several times, Dark Pact is magnificent. It deals 300 damage at 325 AoE with only 40 mana at level 4! Of course it also hurt you, but with right timing, it wouldn't be a problem because of your crazy regen. Murloc is a pure ganker. And Dark Pact is his only nuke that will help him get a kill on a gank. Not to mention that it also help you farming.

Pounce is maxed next because it's your chasing and escaping skills. Why not maxed Essence Shift first? I found it rather useless to max this early. 1 level of it is enough, the stats steal and agi stats addition work really nice. 15 seconds is more than enough on mid early-mid game which usually consist a lot of ganking.

Murloc Nightcrawler Strategy
Early game, choose a side line, preferably with a stunner. Side line is a must since you will need the boots and build Power Treads a.s.a.p. Farm and try to get your ulti fast. However, if your lane enemies is lack of stunner, you can get a kill early. Getting first blood is easy if your Pounce successfully hit the enemy, of course with a decent backup.

Buy Magic Stick early if you got the money. It will help you to stay on the line and the fill your mana when needed. After get your Treads and ultimate, you can start ganking. Murloc is a nice ganker because he can get speed boost when changing line thank to his ulti. His insane regen also allow you to farm neutrals and immediately refill the HP.

If you're confident with your skills, use Pounce to open a gank. If you don't feel you can't hit it, let your friend stun the enemies first before land your Pounce. The binding is a great loss if you miss it. Use Shadow Dance only when you need it, it cost some quite mana. If your Pounce successfully hit, on most case you won't need the Shadow Dance.

However, you must use Shadow Dance on certain enemies, especially if it is a heavy nuker like Lion. Of course, check if he has a Dust or not before start attacking. Remember, Pounce bind is not a stun. The enemies still can attack and use a spell on you. If your gank is failed and your HP is low, stay calm and walk into jungle/rune spot while regen. If you're getting ganked, use Pounce to escape and immediately use Shadow Dance. Usually the enemies won't be able to catch you up.

In a team battle, watch your role. Murloc is really fragile and easily get killed if the enemies focus on you. Let your team open the wars and immediately focus on your team target (usually the enemy carry) or finish the low HP hero.

Murloc Nightcrawler Summary
He is a nice hero that have great potential for ganking and anti-ward radar capabilites. His skills is synergies well. Even though he is really strong ganker, he also fragile and easily counterable with Gem/Dust. So, he is not that imbalance :)

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Kaldr Guide - Ancient Apparition Guide & Strategy

2009-12-23T09:00:00.006+07:00

Kaldr the Ancient Apparition Guide and Strategy. Dota 6.65 introduce 2 new heroes, one of them is Ancient Apparition, Kaldr. This guy has ice theme on his skill set. This post will help you to understand the Ancient Apparition skills.

Ancient Apparition Skills & Stats

Range: 600
Movement Speed: 295
Hero Type: Intelligence

Agility: 20 + 2.2
Strength: 18 + 1.4
Intelligence: 25 + 2.6

Cold Feet
The Apparition curses his foes with The Frozen Mark which will freeze enemies to the ground. Unless target enemy moves at least 740 away from the mark within 4 seconds he is frozen still.

Damage per second: 37.5/50/62.5/75
Stun duration if triggered: 1.25/2/2.75/3.5

Cooldown: 15/13/11/9
Manacost: 90

Single Target Spell

Note: Target takes damage per second until he is stunned or moves out of range.

Ice Vortex
Gathers ancient frost energy into one area to create a small, immobile ice vortex at a location. Whenever enemies are near it, their movement speed and magical resistance are reduced.

Movement Reduction: 18/22/26/30
Magic Resistance: -10/15/20/25
AOE: 275

Duration: 12
Cooldown: 6
Manacost: 80/90/100/110

Chilling Touch
Releases a gust of cold wind at a target area, enchanting allied heroes with bonus magical damage on their attacks. Lasts for a limited number of attacks up to a maximum of 40 seconds. While the enchanted heroes have this chilling touch, their attack speed is reduced by 15%.

Maximum number of attacks: 2/3/4/5
Bonus Damage: 40/50/60/70
Attack Speed Reduction: -15%

Cooldown: 50/46/42/38
Manacost: 140

Note: Damage only triggers on enemy heroes, not creeps.

Ice Blast
Ancient Apparition projects his presence out to make way for a powerful ripple of hailstone and dark magic. Once cast, it can release the spell to strike targets within 200 area of where his presence was upon release. It will deal damage to enemy units and apply a frostbite curse on them for 7 seconds where their health regeneration will be frozen and will shatter if they fall close enough to death. This spell has global range depending on how long you wait for the projections to move. Frostbitten units will take minor damage over time.

Impact Damage: 250/350/450
Shatter Threshold: 10/11/12%

Cooldown: 44/32/20
Manacost: 100/125/150

Note: You can charge (non-channeling, time based) this as long as you want if you want it to travel further outwards. Has an initial aoe of 200, but increases by a small amount the further it travels.

Ancient Apparition Item Build
Coming soon!

Ancient Apparition Skill Build
1. Cold Feet
2. Ice Vortex
3. Cold Feet
4. Ice Vortex
5. Cold Feet
6. Ice Blast
7. Cold Feet
8. Ice Vortex
9. Ice Vortex
10. Chilling Touch
11. Ice Blast
12-14. Chilling Touch
15. Stats
16. Ice Blast
17-25. Stats

Justification

Cold Feet is taken early for obvious reason. Combined with a stun/slow, your enemies will likely captured frozen. This skills also can be used to get First Blood. Ice Vortex is the next skill as it synergies well with Cold Feet. The slow is very useful to ensure your Cold Feet success, not to mention the magic resistance reduce.

Ice Blast is taken whenever you can. It's one of the best global nukes, you will likely need some time though to be able to cast it on target. Chilling Touch is taken last because it more useful in a team fight which happen on mid-late game.

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Kill Roshan at Level 1 Hero Line Up

2009-12-23T08:59:00.000+07:00

Nowadays, it's possible to take Roshan at level 1 and get the advantages over the enemy. Imagine when you're start your match with one of your friend already on level 5? Great isn't it? But taking Roshan at level 1 is also risky. If you failed or taking too long, you can start the match under leveled. Here is 7 line up who can kill Roshan even before the creeps appear:

Old School Line Up

+ 2 random heroes

Those 3 is the best combination to kill Roshan. Fury Swipes on Ursa, Frost Amor casted on Syllabear Bear and that's all. But if you pick these hero, i guess most of the team will realize what's your plan ^^ And here's some more combination that's less obvious for Roshan at level 1.

Line Up 1

Skills:
Zeus : Arc Lightning, to get rid of Roshan's linken ability so Panda can use Drunken Haze
Panda : Drunken Haze, make Roshan's attack miss
Enigma : Eidolons, taking from Furion summons
Furion : Force of Nature
Lycan: Howl, adding damage to all the summons and heroes

Items:
Both RoB and Headdress are used for their auras, heroes have random stat items

Level 5 Candidates: Zeus

Line Up 2

Skills:
Broodmother : Incapacitating Bite, slow
Dazzle : Shadow Wave, heal
Shadow Fiend : Presence of the Dark Lord, reduce armor aura
Templar Assassin : Meld, reduce armor
Alchemist : Acid Spray, reduce armor

Items:
Both RoB and Headdress are used for their auras, Stat items for hitter

Level 5 Candidates:Broodmother, Shadow Fiend, Templar Assassin

Line Up 3

Skills:
Ursa Warrior : Fury Swipes for obvious reason, stacking damage
Crystal Maiden : Crystal Nova, slow effect
Omniknight : Purification, heal
Witch Doctor : Voodoo Restoration, heal
Skeleton King : Vampiric Aura

Items:
Both RoB and Headdress are used for their auras, Stat items for hitter

Level 5 Candidates :Ursa Warrior

Line Up 4

Skills:

Juggernaut : Healing Ward, heal
Lich : Frost Armor, slow Roshan when hit the tanker
Tidehunter : Gush, reduce armor
Vengeful Spirit : Wave of Terror, reduce armor
Rhasta : Shackles, remove Roshan's linken for Gush

Items:
Both RoB and Headdress are used for their auras, Stat items for hitter

Level 5 Candidates : Lich, Juggernaut

Line Up 5

Skills:
Beastmaster : Inner Beast, attack speed aura
Drow Ranger : Frost Arrows
Lina : Light Strike Array, stun
Venomancer : Plague Ward
Abaddon : Aphotic Shield

Items:
Both RoB and Headdress are used for their auras, Stat items for hitter

Level 5 Candidates : Beastmaster, Lina

Line Up 6

Skills:
Rooftrellen : Living Armor
Morphling : Morph, max the Agility for max damage
Syllabear : Summon Spirit Bear, tanking damage
Enchantress : Nature's Attendants, heal
Viper : Nethertoxin, add damage

Items:
Both RoB and Headdress are used for their auras, Stat items for hitter

Level 5 Candidates : Viper

Of course you can switch hero between that line up who has the same role. What do you think? If you have another line up, share it here! ;)

Credits: DavidWhy

Dota 6.65 has 2 New Heroes! GetDota has a Secret :D

2009-12-23T08:38:00.008+07:00

Ok guys, sit tight! IceFrog just made another update on GetDota about Dota 6.65. What? There's nothing there and only usual screen? Try to refresh it several times (pressing F5 or click refresh button on your browser) and you will surprised! If you're lucky you will see 2 images below that show a siluet of each hero and stories! (click the images for full size)

Hero 1

Hero 2

Can you guess what hero is that? Now i really believe that Dota 6.65 will coming on Christmas.. :)

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Update: It's released! Download and check it out on Dota-Allstars 6.65 post