Yea, I'm not sure what's wrong. My internet is working, yet for some reason I can't even login. Get a "Login Failed: Connection Failed" message after putting in user name and pw. I have no issues logging into their website. Oh well
I think I've become dependant on a handful of heroes. I need to play heroes that aren't slither, tempest and succubus. When I play as them it is pretty typical for me to get 10-20ish kills or assists and maybe a death or two if the game goes the full distance. If I play anyone else, I get stomped. I can't really lane well with a melee hero and it is something I need to work on. This is what is really killing me, if the hero is ranged I can do pretty well for myself but if I'm melee I tend to do poorly unless I am jungling or have a good lane partner.
edit: The last game I played I did pretty well as hammerstorm. However I feel like I lucked out in laning as I picked up a mana battery, had pebbles as a lane partner and we laned against armadon and madman. Does his ultimate affect his base damage only (ie, not damage from say, whispering helm) or is it all damage?
I think I've become dependant on a handful of heroes. I need to play heroes that aren't slither, tempest and succubus. When I play as them it is pretty typical for me to get 10-20ish kills or assists and maybe a death or two if the game goes the full distance. If I play anyone else, I get stomped. I can't really lane well with a melee hero and it is something I need to work on. This is what is really killing me, if the hero is ranged I can do pretty well for myself but if I'm melee I tend to do poorly unless I am jungling or have a good lane partner.
edit: The last game I played I did pretty well as hammerstorm. However I feel like I lucked out in laning as I picked up a mana battery, had pebbles as a lane partner and we laned against armadon and madman. Does his ultimate affect his base damage only (ie, not damage from say, whispering helm) or is it all damage?
Give a tankish melee character a shot. Being Legionnaire or Jera and you can stay near creeps to farm and enemies won't want to be near you because of spin or heal.
If Hammerstorm's ult is an exact copy of Dota, then his damage increase is based upon his strength and not damage items. So stacking strength items will give the most benefit to his ultimate.
the thing about legionnaire and jere is that despite being melee, they can still harrass ranged heroes with legionnaire's spin and jereziah's cleave. Those guys are a breeze at laning. I'm more worried about heroes like keeper of the forest, electrician and most melee agi heroes. I'd like to better as devourer as well, but I have a hard time placing hooks so I avoid him.
Hmm I don't really have a problem laning as Electrician. He's pretty tankish, just buy 4 sets of tangoes (can't remember hon name) and an iron buckler and work toward helm of the black legion or conversely, a trinket of restoration and go immediately for shaman's headress. Stay near the ranged creep and walk up and last hit and walk back.
Keeper isn't as good at laning as his Dota equivalent because of the regen and armor his living growth skill provided. Although you can plant an eye near you for some regen, but at level 1 it is risky that the enemy won't just knock down the tree and you're out the really long CD level 1 eyes has.
As Devourer, just remember to hook where they will be and not where they are.
Ok...I know EM is the devil. However, I figured those games would be easier to get my PSR back up to respectable level. So as much as it pains me to ask, what would good heroes be for an EM game? =\
Ok...I know EM is the devil. However, I figured those games would be easier to get my PSR back up to respectable level. So as much as it pains me to ask, what would good heroes be for an EM game? =\
Agi carries. Occassionly strength carries work, but agi is better generally. Magebane, Nighthound, Arachna, Madman and Blood Hunter.
Well for Agi, I used to do well with Arachna, then people started playing smarter. I played Nigthhound a bit in a regular game and had alot of fun, but the range on that smoke bomb worries me since most of the time to get it where it needed to be I'd have to pop out of stealth next to an enemy.
Pesty is fun, but I haven't nailed the right item build on him yet. Not into Jerry, Mags is fun but relies more on the ult then I would like. I hear how great Maliken is but I have no idea what skill or item build to use on him, so I've held off on using him. Chronos relies to heavily on the rest of the team not sucking for mys taste since my PSR blows from being in bad pub games.
The other problem is when you pop into character select and 2 or 3 guys go carry right away on your own team. Then my options are to play someone I don't want to play, and watch them play horribly with the guy you would have picked, and probably lose......or close the game in the character select screen, wait 5 minutes and get back on.
swiftblade, moon queen, wild soul blah blah. There should be an agi hero for you in EM games, personally my favorite is slither and my runner up is valkyrie (I have a hard time landing arrows)
So I jsut got into a balnaced game where we had 2 bads on our team, and the character select screen comes up. I ask if anyone minds if I take a carry, and one of the bads takes Chronos just as I sent the message. So I closed the game and now I need to wait 5 minutes. ~Grumbles~
EDIT I am not the greatest player in the world, but is it too much to ask to have teammates of an adequate skill level?
Well, I found that most, if not every, time you leave on the character select screen by closing the app (I play windowed), you don't get a leave on your record and hence to PSR loss. I'm not sure if it matters if you ready up or not though, I usually don't to be safe. So you don't go back until the countdown timer is completely gone. I've given up enough goodwill, I'm done throwing away my PSR in order to be seen as "nice" on the interwebs.
EDIT I think force quitting instead of logging out might make it report as a crash, and the game doesn't penalize you for crashing out. I do feel bad about it, but either they remake and no harm at all, or the toehr team refuses and the team I was on loses anyway. This game is making me slowly into a DoTA jerk....
I played Nigthhound a bit in a regular game and had alot of fun, but the range on that smoke bomb worries me since most of the time to get it where it needed to be I'd have to pop out of stealth next to an enemy.
Pesty is fun, but I haven't nailed the right item build on him yet.
For nighthound blinkstrike them and then drop the cloud in the direction they are running which will generally be toward their base. They'll be slowed and you get extra damage for attacking in the back. Hack & Slash, frostwolf's skull and most importantly nullfire blade are your friends.
Pesty build for carrying should be - helm of black legion, enhanced marchers, shieldbreaker, behemoths heart, whispering helm and then either daemonic breast plate or savage mace. If the game is still going get rid of the helm and get the other part of the or that I mentioned.
So I jsut got into a balnaced game where we had 2 bads on our team, and the character select screen comes up. I ask if anyone minds if I take a carry, and one of the bads takes Chronos just as I sent the message. So I closed the game and now I need to wait 5 minutes. ~Grumbles~
EDIT I am not the greatest player in the world, but is it too much to ask to have teammates of an adequate skill level?
Why would you just not take a carry anyway and win instead of being a total ass? You're playing EM where carries rule the game and there are plenty of them to choose from and even if you want to support you're team you could pick a semi carry like valk or pest that gives you're team a stun plus the ability to carry if the other person fails. I mean the whole point of EM is to play a stacked carry and it's pretty fucking common to see 3-5 on a team so quitting when one is picked is ridiculous and if you're worried about bads then why the fuck didn't you just quit before it started.
Well for Agi, I used to do well with Arachna, then people started playing smarter. I played Nigthhound a bit in a regular game and had alot of fun, but the range on that smoke bomb worries me since most of the time to get it where it needed to be I'd have to pop out of stealth next to an enemy.
Either I'm misreading this or it makes absolutely no sense as you want to be next to them in the smoke bomb since they can't hit or cast and you get to kill them.
So I just got into a balanced game where we had 2 bads on our team, and the character select screen comes up. I ask if anyone minds if I take a carry, and one of the bads takes Chronos just as I sent the message. So I closed the game and now I need to wait 5 minutes. ~Grumbles~
EDIT I am not the greatest player in the world, but is it too much to ask to have teammates of an adequate skill level?
Why would you just not take a carry anyway and win instead of being a total ass? You're playing EM where carries rule the game and there are plenty of them to choose from and even if you want to support you're team you could pick a semi carry like valk or pest that gives you're team a stun plus the ability to carry if the other person fails. I mean the whole point of EM is to play a stacked carry and it's pretty fucking common to see 3-5 on a team so quitting when one is picked is ridiculous and if you're worried about bads then why the fuck didn't you just quit before it started.
Well for Agi, I used to do well with Arachna, then people started playing smarter. I played Nigthhound a bit in a regular game and had alot of fun, but the range on that smoke bomb worries me since most of the time to get it where it needed to be I'd have to pop out of stealth next to an enemy.
Either I'm misreading this or it makes absolutely no sense as you want to be next to them in the smoke bomb since they can't hit or cast and you get to kill them.
Well, in my example the rest fo the team made bad picks as well, and I didn't see that the bads got ab'd to my side before it was too late.
What i mean about the could is usually I should hit the caster/disbalers, but the smart players always have someone at either end of an area where they would be out of the could and just on the edge of where I should be in order to cast it. Not always, but many times. Doesn't stop me from enjoying Nighthound.
So I jsut got into a balnaced game where we had 2 bads on our team, and the character select screen comes up. I ask if anyone minds if I take a carry, and one of the bads takes Chronos just as I sent the message. So I closed the game and now I need to wait 5 minutes. ~Grumbles~
EDIT I am not the greatest player in the world, but is it too much to ask to have teammates of an adequate skill level?
Why would you just not take a carry anyway and win instead of being a total ass? You're playing EM where carries rule the game and there are plenty of them to choose from and even if you want to support you're team you could pick a semi carry like valk or pest that gives you're team a stun plus the ability to carry if the other person fails. I mean the whole point of EM is to play a stacked carry and it's pretty fucking common to see 3-5 on a team so quitting when one is picked is ridiculous and if you're worried about bads then why the fuck didn't you just quit before it started.
Well for Agi, I used to do well with Arachna, then people started playing smarter. I played Nigthhound a bit in a regular game and had alot of fun, but the range on that smoke bomb worries me since most of the time to get it where it needed to be I'd have to pop out of stealth next to an enemy.
Either I'm misreading this or it makes absolutely no sense as you want to be next to them in the smoke bomb since they can't hit or cast and you get to kill them.
Yeah I've found that when you way outskill your teammates get a carry hero anyway and just carry the game. You can't win the game alone as support, but with a good solo mid carry/semi-carry you can literally singlehandedly win the game--especially if you gank, control runes, and generally do the things bad players dont do.
So I jsut got into a balnaced game where we had 2 bads on our team, and the character select screen comes up. I ask if anyone minds if I take a carry, and one of the bads takes Chronos just as I sent the message. So I closed the game and now I need to wait 5 minutes. ~Grumbles~
EDIT I am not the greatest player in the world, but is it too much to ask to have teammates of an adequate skill level?
Why would you just not take a carry anyway and win instead of being a total ass? You're playing EM where carries rule the game and there are plenty of them to choose from and even if you want to support you're team you could pick a semi carry like valk or pest that gives you're team a stun plus the ability to carry if the other person fails. I mean the whole point of EM is to play a stacked carry and it's pretty fucking common to see 3-5 on a team so quitting when one is picked is ridiculous and if you're worried about bads then why the fuck didn't you just quit before it started.
Well for Agi, I used to do well with Arachna, then people started playing smarter. I played Nigthhound a bit in a regular game and had alot of fun, but the range on that smoke bomb worries me since most of the time to get it where it needed to be I'd have to pop out of stealth next to an enemy.
Either I'm misreading this or it makes absolutely no sense as you want to be next to them in the smoke bomb since they can't hit or cast and you get to kill them.
Yeah I've found that when you way outskill your teammates get a carry hero anyway and just carry the game. You can't win the game alone as support, but with a good solo mid carry/semi-carry you can literally singlehandedly win the game--especially if you gank, control runes, and generally do the things bad players dont do.
Well yesterday I ahda game where it was 2 high psr brits, myself, and 2 bads. one had thundermonkey and had no idea how to play, and I was mid as Puppet, and then 10 minutes in thudner shows up and won't go away. The brits got mad, as our accursed was bad as well, but I thought about it and said "This one isn't a retard, I bet he's from brazil and has no idea what we're saying".
So one of the Brits spoke in Thundermonkey's language and we immediately got a response and so order were relayed like that, by then it was too late and the guy was still bad. Now I could have picked a better agi that hits harder earlier, but there was no way the 3 of us with good picks playing well (the 2 brits in a clan with 2.0+ K/D being much better than I) could offset the dead weight and feeding of the other two.
Of course those 2 good guys shouldn't have even been in that em game in the first place, just an example.
So I jsut got into a balnaced game where we had 2 bads on our team, and the character select screen comes up. I ask if anyone minds if I take a carry, and one of the bads takes Chronos just as I sent the message. So I closed the game and now I need to wait 5 minutes. ~Grumbles~
EDIT I am not the greatest player in the world, but is it too much to ask to have teammates of an adequate skill level?
Why would you just not take a carry anyway and win instead of being a total ass? You're playing EM where carries rule the game and there are plenty of them to choose from and even if you want to support you're team you could pick a semi carry like valk or pest that gives you're team a stun plus the ability to carry if the other person fails. I mean the whole point of EM is to play a stacked carry and it's pretty fucking common to see 3-5 on a team so quitting when one is picked is ridiculous and if you're worried about bads then why the fuck didn't you just quit before it started.
Well for Agi, I used to do well with Arachna, then people started playing smarter. I played Nigthhound a bit in a regular game and had alot of fun, but the range on that smoke bomb worries me since most of the time to get it where it needed to be I'd have to pop out of stealth next to an enemy.
Either I'm misreading this or it makes absolutely no sense as you want to be next to them in the smoke bomb since they can't hit or cast and you get to kill them.
Yeah I've found that when you way outskill your teammates get a carry hero anyway and just carry the game. You can't win the game alone as support, but with a good solo mid carry/semi-carry you can literally singlehandedly win the game--especially if you gank, control runes, and generally do the things bad players dont do.
Well yesterday I ahda game where it was 2 high psr brits, myself, and 2 bads. one had thundermonkey and had no idea how to play, and I was mid as Puppet, and then 10 minutes in thudner shows up and won't go away. The brits got mad, as our accursed was bad as well, but I thought about it and said "This one isn't a retard, I bet he's from brazil and has no idea what we're saying".
So one of the Brits spoke in Thundermonkey's language and we immediately got a response and so order were relayed like that, by then it was too late and the guy was still bad. Now I could have picked a better agi that hits harder earlier, but there was no way the 3 of us with good picks playing well (the 2 brits in a clan with 2.0+ K/D being much better than I) could offset the dead weight and feeding of the other two.
Of course those 2 good guys shouldn't have even been in that em game in the first place, jsut an example.
I'm going to make the assumption that the majority of the people in these games are below 1500 and if that's the case then it's definitely possible to offset two or more baddies and is probably required if you want to win. I really don't see what's wrong with the above situation if my above assumption is correct since you should be against a team of equal PSR and they should be bad as well which will let you farm kills to win unless one of the players is purposely feeding. Maybe I'm mistaken about the whole situation, but if you're playing in a low level game you should expect players to be bad and expecting anything else seems like a exercise in futility.
So I jsut got into a balnaced game where we had 2 bads on our team, and the character select screen comes up. I ask if anyone minds if I take a carry, and one of the bads takes Chronos just as I sent the message. So I closed the game and now I need to wait 5 minutes. ~Grumbles~
EDIT I am not the greatest player in the world, but is it too much to ask to have teammates of an adequate skill level?
Why would you just not take a carry anyway and win instead of being a total ass? You're playing EM where carries rule the game and there are plenty of them to choose from and even if you want to support you're team you could pick a semi carry like valk or pest that gives you're team a stun plus the ability to carry if the other person fails. I mean the whole point of EM is to play a stacked carry and it's pretty fucking common to see 3-5 on a team so quitting when one is picked is ridiculous and if you're worried about bads then why the fuck didn't you just quit before it started.
Well for Agi, I used to do well with Arachna, then people started playing smarter. I played Nigthhound a bit in a regular game and had alot of fun, but the range on that smoke bomb worries me since most of the time to get it where it needed to be I'd have to pop out of stealth next to an enemy.
Either I'm misreading this or it makes absolutely no sense as you want to be next to them in the smoke bomb since they can't hit or cast and you get to kill them.
Yeah I've found that when you way outskill your teammates get a carry hero anyway and just carry the game. You can't win the game alone as support, but with a good solo mid carry/semi-carry you can literally singlehandedly win the game--especially if you gank, control runes, and generally do the things bad players dont do.
Well yesterday I ahda game where it was 2 high psr brits, myself, and 2 bads. one had thundermonkey and had no idea how to play, and I was mid as Puppet, and then 10 minutes in thudner shows up and won't go away. The brits got mad, as our accursed was bad as well, but I thought about it and said "This one isn't a retard, I bet he's from brazil and has no idea what we're saying".
So one of the Brits spoke in Thundermonkey's language and we immediately got a response and so order were relayed like that, by then it was too late and the guy was still bad. Now I could have picked a better agi that hits harder earlier, but there was no way the 3 of us with good picks playing well (the 2 brits in a clan with 2.0+ K/D being much better than I) could offset the dead weight and feeding of the other two.
Of course those 2 good guys shouldn't have even been in that em game in the first place, jsut an example.
I'm going to make the assumption that the majority of the people in these games are below 1500 and if that's the case then it's definitely possible to offset two or more baddies and is probably required if you want to win. I really don't see what's wrong with the above situation if my above assumption is correct since you should be against a team of equal PSR and they should be bad as well which will let you farm kills to win unless one of the players is purposely feeding. Maybe I'm mistaken about the whole situation, but if you're playing in a low level game you should expect players to be bad and expecting anything else seems like a exercise in futility.
You see, what happens is you get lv 10+ guys with 1.0+ KD's that have fallen prey to bads in pub games, since most people don't bother to look at the stats, they just go with the PSR. I have that Stats mod that shows you all the info on their stat page just by mousing over their names in a lobby. So in my situation it was 2 Lv 14+ 1600+, me at 11 with my crappy PSR, and some bads that were 2-4 with bad stats but higher PSR because they just started playing. the other team had these low PSR/high skill guys which we could not offset with only 3 of us.
maliken is op and gay, he shouldnt have a lifesteal.
its not life steal. It just gives him HP. Hes not actually stealing it from the hero for extra damage.
Lifesteal also doesn't steal anything from the hero for extra damage. Not literally.
It is exactly the same as how lifesteal works. He gains life from attacking.
Only major difference is that you always steal a fixed amount of HP, no matter what you hit, so hitting a fortified tower for 0 damage will still heal you for the fixed amount.
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edit: The last game I played I did pretty well as hammerstorm. However I feel like I lucked out in laning as I picked up a mana battery, had pebbles as a lane partner and we laned against armadon and madman. Does his ultimate affect his base damage only (ie, not damage from say, whispering helm) or is it all damage?
Give a tankish melee character a shot. Being Legionnaire or Jera and you can stay near creeps to farm and enemies won't want to be near you because of spin or heal.
If Hammerstorm's ult is an exact copy of Dota, then his damage increase is based upon his strength and not damage items. So stacking strength items will give the most benefit to his ultimate.
Keeper isn't as good at laning as his Dota equivalent because of the regen and armor his living growth skill provided. Although you can plant an eye near you for some regen, but at level 1 it is risky that the enemy won't just knock down the tree and you're out the really long CD level 1 eyes has.
As Devourer, just remember to hook where they will be and not where they are.
Agi carries. Occassionly strength carries work, but agi is better generally. Magebane, Nighthound, Arachna, Madman and Blood Hunter.
Jeraziah, Magmus, Maliken can also work.
Pesty is fun, but I haven't nailed the right item build on him yet. Not into Jerry, Mags is fun but relies more on the ult then I would like. I hear how great Maliken is but I have no idea what skill or item build to use on him, so I've held off on using him. Chronos relies to heavily on the rest of the team not sucking for mys taste since my PSR blows from being in bad pub games.
The other problem is when you pop into character select and 2 or 3 guys go carry right away on your own team. Then my options are to play someone I don't want to play, and watch them play horribly with the guy you would have picked, and probably lose......or close the game in the character select screen, wait 5 minutes and get back on.
EDIT I am not the greatest player in the world, but is it too much to ask to have teammates of an adequate skill level?
EDIT I think force quitting instead of logging out might make it report as a crash, and the game doesn't penalize you for crashing out. I do feel bad about it, but either they remake and no harm at all, or the toehr team refuses and the team I was on loses anyway. This game is making me slowly into a DoTA jerk....
For nighthound blinkstrike them and then drop the cloud in the direction they are running which will generally be toward their base. They'll be slowed and you get extra damage for attacking in the back. Hack & Slash, frostwolf's skull and most importantly nullfire blade are your friends.
Pesty build for carrying should be - helm of black legion, enhanced marchers, shieldbreaker, behemoths heart, whispering helm and then either daemonic breast plate or savage mace. If the game is still going get rid of the helm and get the other part of the or that I mentioned.
Why would you just not take a carry anyway and win instead of being a total ass? You're playing EM where carries rule the game and there are plenty of them to choose from and even if you want to support you're team you could pick a semi carry like valk or pest that gives you're team a stun plus the ability to carry if the other person fails. I mean the whole point of EM is to play a stacked carry and it's pretty fucking common to see 3-5 on a team so quitting when one is picked is ridiculous and if you're worried about bads then why the fuck didn't you just quit before it started.
Either I'm misreading this or it makes absolutely no sense as you want to be next to them in the smoke bomb since they can't hit or cast and you get to kill them.
Well, in my example the rest fo the team made bad picks as well, and I didn't see that the bads got ab'd to my side before it was too late.
What i mean about the could is usually I should hit the caster/disbalers, but the smart players always have someone at either end of an area where they would be out of the could and just on the edge of where I should be in order to cast it. Not always, but many times. Doesn't stop me from enjoying Nighthound.
Yeah I've found that when you way outskill your teammates get a carry hero anyway and just carry the game. You can't win the game alone as support, but with a good solo mid carry/semi-carry you can literally singlehandedly win the game--especially if you gank, control runes, and generally do the things bad players dont do.
Well yesterday I ahda game where it was 2 high psr brits, myself, and 2 bads. one had thundermonkey and had no idea how to play, and I was mid as Puppet, and then 10 minutes in thudner shows up and won't go away. The brits got mad, as our accursed was bad as well, but I thought about it and said "This one isn't a retard, I bet he's from brazil and has no idea what we're saying".
So one of the Brits spoke in Thundermonkey's language and we immediately got a response and so order were relayed like that, by then it was too late and the guy was still bad. Now I could have picked a better agi that hits harder earlier, but there was no way the 3 of us with good picks playing well (the 2 brits in a clan with 2.0+ K/D being much better than I) could offset the dead weight and feeding of the other two.
Of course those 2 good guys shouldn't have even been in that em game in the first place, just an example.
I'm going to make the assumption that the majority of the people in these games are below 1500 and if that's the case then it's definitely possible to offset two or more baddies and is probably required if you want to win. I really don't see what's wrong with the above situation if my above assumption is correct since you should be against a team of equal PSR and they should be bad as well which will let you farm kills to win unless one of the players is purposely feeding. Maybe I'm mistaken about the whole situation, but if you're playing in a low level game you should expect players to be bad and expecting anything else seems like a exercise in futility.
You see, what happens is you get lv 10+ guys with 1.0+ KD's that have fallen prey to bads in pub games, since most people don't bother to look at the stats, they just go with the PSR. I have that Stats mod that shows you all the info on their stat page just by mousing over their names in a lobby. So in my situation it was 2 Lv 14+ 1600+, me at 11 with my crappy PSR, and some bads that were 2-4 with bad stats but higher PSR because they just started playing. the other team had these low PSR/high skill guys which we could not offset with only 3 of us.
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its not life steal. It just gives him HP. Hes not actually stealing it from the hero for extra damage.
Lifesteal also doesn't steal anything from the hero for extra damage. Not literally.
It is exactly the same as how lifesteal works. He gains life from attacking.
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Only major difference is that you always steal a fixed amount of HP, no matter what you hit, so hitting a fortified tower for 0 damage will still heal you for the fixed amount.
why shouldn't he
have you seen predator?
Seconding this