DotaCinema (a YouTube channel) has many introductory videos for Dota, it's good you're learning before you go on pub games

If you have any friends with dota you should play with them too to teach you

EDIT: http://www.playdota.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1094794

Dota1 6.75 changelog, nice to see some new heroes, but Treant's passive loss I liked DK + Treant protector together

Thanks, I'll look at it in a minute...

chen is possibly the worst place to start, try viper mid

dude treant is the most overpowered hero in the game now. He has a global range castable heal plus armor buff. Picking him wins every single lane.

Also both new heroes are really op especially the agility guy. If you get eth blade you cast it on them once and then the second one gets its damage increased even further by the eth blade. Since you slowed them and the blades slow on top of that you'll be able to have both mines pop directly on top of them. Really just silly.

Idk if the eth blade strat is actually good but virtually every active item is really strong on this hero. Hex, force staff, shivas, you name it.

Arc Warden giving allies and buildings 100% evasion? Plus his ulti allowing him to use eth blade twice? It's so crazy
Treant lost the armor buff it's just a damage block now

yeah the damage block is actually better lol

if he manages to get refreshers he can have triple everything minus the orb (it doesn't copy)

Refresher probably wouldn't be worth it though, considering any other active item you get gets doubled.
I would rather spend my gold on 2 hexes than 1 additional eth blade.

Maybe as a third major item it could be cool? He'd probably need to be at that point to be able to support it mana-wise anyway.

EDIT: I'll probably just go eth blade dagon every time though.

ethereal blade does the damage after the debuff
i honestly don't think he's overpowered, his stats are extremely low at all levels so he can't carry, do damage with eth blade, or have enough farm priority for gimmick builds
he's still a REALLY f*** good support who can make double use of hex

he also has nice zoning

i meant you can actually clone yourself refresh and then clone yourself a third time for a another set of items




but it'll be like a super luxury item either way

you can use an item 4 times if you use the original items before cloning

wow wtf you're right

ok I think this is the best theoretical maxxed items/perfect micro hero now.

If there's someone who can beat a hero with four hexes, four force staves, four eth blades, four dagons, four abby blades, 15 seconds of aoe 100% evade and 80 ias, a slow, and a nuke to stack with the eth blades I'd love to hear it

Maybe replace the something with dagon

gay character design are you even trying icefrog

I think it's kind of cool but the implementation atm is not great. Pro micro heroes are good.

I don't like the frost guy much though.