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post #21 of 38
1/18/13 at 6:52pm
Thats a good idea in general for games.
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1/18/13 at 8:23pm
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The problem is you have characters like Drow who once you get the first point in her ult is just almost unstoppable, and her 3rd skill extends to the ENTIRE MAP? Then Zeus...who can pop an ult and attack every..single..person on the map at the same time. All anyone has to do is say such n such has so much health left and he's insta kill from across the map. Slark...god forbid you lane against him, jumps from a massive distance and traps you for so long that it's almost impossible to survive.

They need to worry about balancing these Heroes than they do putting in a mode that no one is going to use because everyone wants to use a hero they've practiced with.

Zeus needs to be buffed. He is one of the worst heroes in the game right now. Having a global (which more than 1 character has) does not make him OP.

If you want to complain about imbalance you should probably start with Magnus. No other player in the game can win it for his team by simply hitting his ult correctly. RP is the best spell in the game right now. It grabs everyone in a 410 radius, putting them all in front of mag, does 300 damage, and stuns them for almost 4 seconds. It also goes through Linkens and the stun goes through BKB (the damage is blocked, but the stun is the big deal). Then he can skewer to add 280 damage and further slow the targets (those that are left, which won't be many after an almost 4 second stun). Oh, and while all that is going on, a player on Mag's team will have been buffed by Mag with Empower. That teammate will absolutely own the other team during RP thanks the the bonus damage it give AND cleave.
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post #23 of 38
1/18/13 at 8:48pm
Well, my point still stands, they should be focusing on heroes before useless modes.
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post #24 of 38
1/18/13 at 9:50pm
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Well, my point still stands, they should be focusing on heroes before useless modes.
But they don't need to. We invalidated all your points.
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1/18/13 at 10:00pm
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Well, my point still stands, they should be focusing on heroes before useless modes.

They are continuing to do so. I know people are probably tired of hearing this, but it's still in beta. They don't need to be working on only one thing at time, and if you really hate the balance of a handful of heroes, do captain's mode where you can ban heroes. You can also do random draft to lower the hero pool, and now you have least played. So guys that play the supposed imbalanced heroes all the time won't be able to in that mode.
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1/19/13 at 1:04am
Since when did this turn into a balance discussion about dota 2 heroes? I must have missed the memo. I just read 2 full pages of people (who clearly don't understand the game) cry over heroes that are laughably the most balanced in the game. Loved wasting 2 pages of time on that!
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1/19/13 at 12:20pm
I don't like the new mode, the least played mode leaves about 75% of the heroes in the pool. I have quiet a lot of experience with most of my "least played" heroes. I was hoping there would be smaller pool of choices.
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Well, my point still stands, they should be focusing on heroes before useless modes.

Icefrog has been balancing this game for years, and he didn't get hired by valve because he was doing a poor job.
Edited by Audio - 1/19/13 at 12:22pm
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I don't like the new mode, the least played mode leaves about 75% of the heroes in the pool. I have quiet a lot of experience with most of my "least played" heroes. I was hoping there would be smaller pool of choices.
Icefrog has been balancing this game for years, and he didn't get hired by valve because he was doing a poor job.

Yeah i noticed that too. Way too mane still available. They should me it close to 50%.
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1/19/13 at 1:08pm
Lawls at the complaining that Drow and especially Zeus are OP ha.
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1/19/13 at 1:49pm

Needs way more heroes not pickable. Should be your top 10 worst or least played heroes.

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