It's almost like seeing a preview of the latest Hollywood production in cinema.

Really quality product.

Enjoy ^_^

Playing DotA to me is all about the mind games.

I love mine games. 

It's all about the thinking that makes the game so challenging, so exciting, and so interesting whereby the possibilities of the journey to the outcomes is endless.

Like any other games which requires skills, beginners will have to first learn the rules.

Slowly, they explore and train their skills into the spells and abilities of all heroes.

The more persistent ones will finally reach a level whereby, they start to think, and find ways of how they can overcome and combine with their team mates to come up with killing combos.

And the final level of game play would be to read your opponents' mind, and do something which is exactly opposite of it. 

And this is what all about this post.

Dr. Galiza from PlayDota did a pretty wonderful job is explaining how this is done, and how it can be used in tricky times for cheating deaths. 

Here's a brief content of his post:- 

Just look at some of the gif animation below, and you will be amazed of the possibilities.

As I've mentioned, once you've mastered all the necessary skills, the only thing that differentiate you and your opponent apart is the brain.

And in order for you to achieve that, you must first master the basic rules first, which in this case, is the MAP.

Enjoy ^_^

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 :)

[Download map here] 

New agility hero (Murloc Nightcrawler)

[Download map here]

Seems like IceFrog is gonna remake Visage ............

Will it for the next up coming map release of Version 6.65?

or maybe later?

Here's the original post by IceFrog. If you have any nice idea or suggestion on Visage, do feel free to participate in the post discussion :)

Here's another interesting finding from dota-utility.

The bug looks interestingly funny, but I really doubt there's any real usefulness in it during a game.

Anyway, just by seeing the Chain Frost of Lich Kel'Thuzad  travelling the entire map is real fun. LOL :p

Enjoy :)

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tag : Dota, allstars, bug, 6.64, lich, chain frost, Kel'Thuzad

Here's some Exploit Of Bug in Map 6.64 that you can play tricks in getting a Quelling Blade for Kunkka.

I believe the main reason why they don't allow you to do so is because of Kunkka's 100% splash damage, which will turn out to be somewhat over power if that were to happen.

Anyway, here's the trick to buying a quelling blade for Kunkka. Watch the video below :)

Directly quoted from here :-

You can download the map from the original site. 

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 5FBGX22AHNY7

SMM Grand National DotA Tournament 2009

Wow !!!

WOW !!!

Gamestah has been offically locked in as the shoutcasting partner for the new SMM (Sendi Mutiara Malaysia) Grand National. Which is the largest DOTA tournament this year. 'Tobi Wan Kenobi' and 'Will' will be flying over to Malacca, Malaysia for this amazing event to bring you coverage from the best DOTA teams in the world.

(read the original post from here)

5FBGX22AHNY7

Disfal the Nightcrawler - Stats, Spells and Attributes

This is the latest hype, the latest new hero of the most anticipated up coming map 6.65.

Found this from the original post forum over here.

Do check out the original post and participate in their forum discussion.

IceFrog recently said something about the next up coming release of map 6.65.

Nothing was mentioned, only a video was posted in his blog.

And here's the video...

Hmmmm .............. NightCrawler?

Makes me think of the NightCrawler that we see in X-men 3,

The one that made a very strong entry appearence when the movie starts ......

the one that can teleport anywhere, and become invisible...........

Interesting ...........

Here's a brief introduction quoted from Wiki .............

For the full spells and stats, go here. 

Here is the suggested skill build:

C. Skill Build

1. lasEr
2. heaT seeking missile
3. lasEr
4. heaT seeking missile
5. lasEr
6. heaT seeking missile
7. lasEr
8. heaT seeking missile
9. Rearm
10. marCh of the maChines
11. marCh of the maChines
12. marCh of the maChines
13. marCh of the maChines
14-25. attribUte Bonus / Rearm / marCh of the maChines







Brief explanation to skill builds:

1. lasEr and heaT seeking missile is your signature move. Both gives an instant burst of huge damage. You should be maxing these 2 skills as soon as possible,


2. Rearm is taken once, due to its exorbitant mana consumption on it's subsequent level early game,

3. marCh of the maChines should be taken next. It is your main farming skills that helps you acquire your next big item after your core items fast.

C. Item Build


Starting items ($200):
1. chicken

1. Boots Of Travellers
2. Bottle

1. Boots Of Travellers
2. Bottle
3. Guinsoo
4. Shiva Guard / BKB
5. Manta Style

Same early game, just farm. Don't do anything fancy or dangerous.

Once you got your 600 gold, send your chicken to bring you your bottle.

That's the time when you get aggressive !!!!!

Now, you might say, so many freaking commands to handle, so many units to control, Ii can't do that. All these is really slowing you down.

Here, I'll share with you how you can do that. It's just my style, you can have your own if u feel more comfortable with it. With practice, I believe it shouldn't be too much of a hassle.

1. Do you know that the chicken has 2 command keys?

2. "E" is the command key to send your chicken back to base.

3. "T" is the command key to send your chicken to transfer any item to you.

..... and with these, now, all you need to do is to assign your hero to CTRL 1, and assign your chicken to CTRL 2.

There's only 1 goals in your early game, that is, to farm up as fast as possible for your Boots Of Travellers.

In order to achieve that, utillise your spells (lasEr and heaT seeking missile) to harras your enemy, together with the unlimited refill from your bottle+chicken combo, so that they need to go back home, and you can farm as freely as possible.

You early game ends once you have obtained your Boots Of Travellers.

D2b. Mid game:

Now is the time for you to really shine.

Remember, the earlier you get your Boots Of Travelers, the better for your contribution towards the entire team.

If everything goes well, you shouldn't have much problem getting your Boots Of Travelers around level 10.

Now, you main task now is to:-

Whenever your you are out of mana, just tele back to base to refill, and restart the whole procedure again.

When you see that a lane is empty, and there seems to be not much help needed at this moment, you can always tele there, and cast (marCh of the maChines --> Rearm --> marCh of the maChines) to farm fast, then tele back to base to regen + refill your bottle again.

The keyword here is FAST !!! You just wanna fly there, cast all your spells to clear the creep wave as fast as possible, then fly back to base. You want to avoid getting caught by enemy. You are still a glass canon now. You need to clear creep FAST, and get out of that area IMMEDIATELY.

So, again, let's go thru your main task/goal that you need to achieve during mid games:-

D2c. End game:

End game is all about pushing and huge ganks.

You should have your Guinsoo / Shiva / Euls by now.

Once you have your end game items with you, you no longer need to tele back to regen every time you cast a set of spells. You mana pool should be able to take the huge mana consumption by now. It should be able to last you for a few sets before your mana pool is being depleted.

You are indeed a multi-lane pushing machine.

With your marCh of the maChines and Shiva, you can clear a single save of creeps in seconds.

Let's your team mate push 1 lane, while you hope from lane to lane.

Meet them up together when the anticipate huge gank push is about to happen,

Cast all your spells + items during team fight.

Then run away to hide, Rearm , and repeat the entire procedure again.

E. Summary:

Well, here are a few things that you have to remember while playing tinker. Once you've mastered the essence of it, you should be able to enjoy playing him in all levels of game.

1. Non-stop harrasing your lane enemy with (lasEr and heaT seeking missile) and your chicken+bottle refill combo.

2. Farm very very fast for your main CORE item at all cost.

3. Mobility is the key. As a rule of thumb, you shouldn't be caught standing still at one place for more than 1 minute!!! (unless u are ganking/pushing)

4. You shouldn't be concern at your mana at all time. Mana shouldn't be a concern to you. Whenever you are thinking and afraid of mana insufficient, you are not playing Tinker the right way.

5. Whenever you see your team mates being gank, immediately tele there to help. DO NOT HESITATE. I repeat. DO NOT HESITATE. A slight delay of 3-5 seconds of hesitation would means life and death for your team mates. You shouldn't be afraid of dying at all. If it means saving your team mates by you dying, by all means, DO IT!!!

Here are some Replays of Tinker:-

• Asia DotA Championship - [Round 2] Mcity vs CyberTime Match 2
• Warcraft 3 - DotA Allstars Replay - MyM vs Fnatic Game 2 - GRAND FINAL
  

Casual Game Replay - Mym vs Fnatic 

This has gotta be the bloodiest war I've ever seen.

There were 2 HUGE blood bath, which I believe is the bloodiest war I've ever seen in the entire DotA history.

22:45 min  - A huge gank which happened in the mid lane.

54:45 min - this is the Gank which i mentioned. The entire war lasted for about 2:30 full minutes. The last part where Shadow priest was in red, and got shot non-stop by POTM, but just wouldn't go down, was damn funny :p

61:00 min - Another long huge gank. This was the LAST gank.

Game was almost pronounced complete when shadow fiend got his Lothar + BKB + Manta Style.

Enjoy ^_^ 

Sentinel - MyM

Bans - Dark Seer, LOA, Dirge, Morph

Picks - POTM, Zues, VS, Rexarr, Viper

Scourge - Fnatic

Bans - Syllabear, Brood, Rasta, Chen

Picks - SK, Bane, Sladar, Shadow Priest, SF

Warcraft 3 - DotA Allstars Replay - MyM vs Fnatic Game 2 - GRAND FINAL

This is the 2nd match of the Finals. You can find the first match here.

MyM was scourge, while Fnatic was in sentinel.

It was very obvious that MyM's goal was to babysit Spectra, as seen that during early game, Spectra was babysitted by both Lion and VS at Bottom lane.

Tinker Solo mid, against Zues.

SandKing solo top, against POTM.

POTM was very very FAT during early games, got a lot of kills here and there during ganking.

Sentinels got 2 towers first.

Every signs that showed up leads to the idea that hope was thin for the Scourge to turn the tables around, as they were seriously being out leveled.

Some slight improvement happened when Tinker got his Boots Of Travelers around the 22min mark, seeing him pushing everywhere and applying pressure. Pay close attention to how wonderful Tinkers uses the combo of Bottle + BoT, and pushes every lane.

22:45min, mid tower was denied by Sentinel's Zues.

By the 25min mark, Spectra got his radiance.

Things slowly get turned around.

You can notice that, Tinker was flying all around the map, having overall map control, pushing everywhere. This is to make sure that they have ample time for their DPS (Spectra) to get fat !!!

A very nice gank between Tinker + POTM happened in the 35:45 min. Do pay attention to the communication too. LOL :D

49:30min, Sentinel's sladar denied another tower >.<

At time point of time, i still can't think of how the scourge can win, with 2 towers denied by Sentinels, and the Sentinels got 2 towers from the scourge, the sourge is obviously lagging behind in terms of GOLD.

But, there seems to me one thing that is very important in DotA, which is ..... TEAM WORK !!!

49:30 min, Spectra got his Radiance, Ranguard, and Diffusal Blade. And that, I believe, marks the start of the turn around time.

Every single time, WITHOUT FAIL, that if any of the scourge member was being ganked, Tinker + Spectra will DEFINITELY show up in the enemy's face, and turn the table around. And I really do mean EVERY SINGLE TIME !!!

This match really truly shows and stress the importance of team work. I learnt something with this match .....

Gold Map Hack For DotA Allstars Map Version 6.61b  

Not sure how true this is ..... but anyway, for fun :) 

1. Download the Hack file here. 

2. Extract the file to your Warcraft folder.

Now, every time u type -ma,  you will instantly get 1000 gold.

Cool isn't it?

:p 

DotA Allstars 6.64 AI map

This map was updated by BuffMePlz.

Note that you need to upgrade your warcraft 3 to 1.24 patch version.

You can achieve that by installing this exe file. It will automatically helps you upgrade your Warcraft 3 to 1.24 version.

DotA-Allstars 6.64 AI 0.213 Download Links
Dota 6.64 AI 0.213 via MegaUpload
Dota 6.64 AI 0.213 via MediaFire
Dota 6.64 AI 0.213 via RapidShare

There's a huge difference between LUCK and Skill.

Watch these awesome compilation of replay clips, created from HeXor, member of DMZ.

Watch carefully the mind games, the skills, the ins and outs, and the details of depth that those players know about the terrain of the map.

DotA AllStars Map 6.64 For 6v6

I don't think it's an official map, as i don't see it in the official site.

Nonetheless, for those that are interested in giving it a try, 

of those people that always have more than 10 people who wanna go out for a DotA session during every day's lunch, this map might do the wonders.

No more sour faces for not enough slots.....

no more trembling hands ......

no more "u go, i go, u deng, i deng, koyak" stuff ......

Get the map from here.