I'm Back! 6.60 reaction!

Hi Guys!

I'm back, it has been quite a while to be here! Now, let's discuss the new versions. This version became controversial because of the controversies before releasing it. Many people became excited when they knew many will be changed. There did some leak maps released and icefrog became upset because of that some beta maps. Though for some time, "teh frog" released some of the beta maps and seek other players reactions if they found bugs until it came.

6.60 came to the scene. Before releasing that, teh frog gave them some peeks to it and warned many players who still uses lower versions of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. He said that he will make maps just for the updated versions. We will talk about that later. In the 6.60 many carries were boosted. Such as Mortred's skill. She became powerful because it can now be harrasable. Also, Troll Warlord was boosted. He became an ASPD support to many heroes. He can now solo Roshan early which is very scary for some players. Item arrangement is very good.

Item additions are the best yet, league/clan players liked it. They can have tanks that can support. They can have counters against those pesky evasions. Some of the new items did not became that popular but the most popular of it, which became popular to some carries, is the Quelling Blade. It had it's popularity because this item DID make some carries farm faster. Personally, I love this item to make my damage in early game go higher(for the creeps) and farm faster than expected.

There was a hero re-made, specifically, Razor. Many liked it since razor can now carry mid-game and late-game. Plasma field is just a quite awesome skill that can damage a hero two times. Second skill is great for late-games since you are just attacking and almost all of your nuking spells are worthless. Third skill is very awesome too. That can make Razor a tank for one-targeted spells. Last, Eye of the Storm is a quite awesome DoT spell. This makes chasing you a hazrd or even chasing enemies though it had its own back fires.

The biggest change in the version is the addition of two new heroes. First, only TC was the only one players knew about then a beta version came. They saw Batrider. Some said Batrider was lame. NO. Batrider is a great ganker and gank initiator. He has a spell which can make multiple TP disrupted. BUT! The one players loved/hated, is TC. They said that .60 is the TC map. Having those skills made him a great gank initiator and a MD(mass damager). Many players loved him because of his power to stun in a large AoE and to have a walking nuking guy. The skills who are feared to him are Natural Order and Earth Splitter. The combination of those skills made him a great nuker. Seeing them reduced by 80& and dealing them 35% of their hp. It's just like a great nuke!

Well, that sums up my comeback post. See you all again!

DotA Sites

I will make up to you guys. I will gonna post again.

No will talk about the dota sites that I stumbled upon. There are really different personalities in the dota sites. And I created this for what icefrog said in his blog.

First let's go to www.Dota-Allstars.com

This is the first dota site ever created. I've visited the website and posts there. They topics there are helpful but some are just spamming threads like "who is countering this hero?" like that. In my first experience there, I realized that the site is not new user friendsly. There are old topics that still there. The lay-out has long time to load. There are no quick replies! Darn so I have to push that reply button. Also, I see that the people there are not that friendly. It seems like the persons there are always replying to the topic starter only. They do not comment to each other. I experienced that it is getting boring since like every topic about dota is discussed there. So I felt like what icefrog felt. Differences.

Second let's go to the second site where dota is the topic, www.DotaPortal.com

It's hard getting to the forum there since it is ESnation. I think that this site has the most person-friendly databas and also the most updated database. They also give additional info in there home page. Also, there is a shoutbox too. Still I'm bored by the not that activeness of the boards there.

Next stop is the GArena Forums.

I visited there and it was good but, again, the boards are not that active. If you post now, you will get comments maybe 5 minutes after you post it. I also saw, when I visited the forum for filipinos there, that it is kinda boring in the part there. I think there is nothing more that I can say. mmmmm......

Next is the spammer land! www.dotaph.com

Damn, it is spammer land. I posted my guide there then the guys there are replying in smilies, k, or something that cant help with the or no reason for posting in that thread. I checked the rules and then they said that there are no rules. No rules for sig size limit. Damn it was like mayhem there. Every people spam. It seems like the moderators aren't moderating there. I see people not posting in the right thread. So I decided it was chaos there. I also realized that people there are so pessimistic. I said that there should be a password in thir garena room then people then tell that there should be no password because no one's getting there but when I saw the room, there are so many people. O_o. weird.

Lastly, my favorite place, www.DotAStrategy.com

All in all, this is my favorite and most visited dota site. They have the next largest community next to DA. They are the third major dota site that became popular. At first, te site was dominated by filipino guys, but because of the good guides. It became an international site. At this site I learn how to be a forumer. I have stayed more than two years in the site and the attitude of the people there became more mature. I also saw that the board there is really friendly though in some cases they will just pawn you with the mighty search engine of DS. Though the dota forums are not that active anymore, the random forums are the ones that becoming popular. It seems like when there is nothing new in the dota threads, they will just go to the random threads. Though they have strict rules, it feels like it is very comfortable and they have warnings to. So come join us, I know you will like it there.

It's still you choice of sites to go to. If you want to then visit the international site that I've said, If you want to join some local site then find at your locale. Thank you guys!

Leak Maps

I'm back!

Probably I'm on vacation since it is vacation time here in the phil so I'm back!

Let's talk about leak maps.

This leak maps are somewhat fault by some beta testers. They just want to make the other players to see the bugs to help them. Especially that there are many changes in the 6.60 map.

The leaking of maps that are waited by the people are very often now. It's just like a spoiler for the next map. That's why at the realease of the map where there is Admiral, his name is captain Obvious.

This leak maps can be helpful too. It makes the other league players or tournament players to practice or to see what will happen at the next map. Also, to take advantage for the games they will play at that map.

So I'm back!

Thanks guys for going at this blog!

6.59d WUT??

I'll probably be releasing 6.59d in a day or two. There are a couple bugs/exploits that started appearing recently. While I know that some players don't like to keep downloading new maps, I think is best to fix this now instead of holding it off for 6.60 so it isn't too rushed.

-icefrog(www.icefrog.com)

Some may think that it is good. Some may think that this is bad. Why good? DUH! NO MORE BUGS! Why bad? Because we kept waiting for 6.60 and then we will just see another map that is a remade map.

Recently I found this quite interesting that some of the gamers still play 6.59b though in many cases that version has a lot of bugs and still it is used up to today. I found it in GArena and other games. But when there are PUB games, they always stick with the recent map or the stable map.

This version can be a stable version(I don't know?) because of there will be no(hoping too!) bugs and glitches that can cause gaming bad. I think making this versions concerns many a lot. Still we are the ones who will decide what map to play to right?

So let us wait! Let us hope that this will go to 6.59f!