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#1  Edited By indiefinch

I did the same exact thing. Was all hyped up after killing the gargoyles after dying a few times. Rang the bell and felt like I was kicking the games ass. Then see this dude, and I turn around and do a jump attack and crush him. Then he said "You will regret this." Gah wish it didn't auto save. I guess I hope I can make it through the game without him...

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@Edwardryu said:

actually, I don't understand MMO why I have to pay even more after buying. subscription? my ass. once you paid for it, you don't need to pay more if it is not DLC. that's why I never play this kind of bullshit including WOW, possibly Diablo 3 or whatever. what a stupid people are! they don't even realize that they pay even more and more. one time you buy. that's all. don't want to waste my damn money for nothing.

It is because it costs a lot of money to run the servers. Running the persistent world and supporting that many player iterations over such a long period of time costs a lot of money. Plus you need 24/7 staff on hand to take care of customer service because people have in game problems at all hours. On top of that they push out constant updates. With WoW for an example, you spend the $50 to get the original content. Then each month they patch in more quests, items, raids..etc. Purely from the amount of time you can spend in the game, it is cheaper to play a game like WoW then to purchase new titles. I played WoW for 6 years with over 275 days of /played across 3 characters. Throughout that time I didn't purchase 360/PS3 games, just played WoW. The game essentially never ends, where as many $60 games end within 7 or 8 hours and are done for good.

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#3  Edited By indiefinch

I would even suggest purchasing one of the 2 champion packs. There are two that have 20 champions each and have a good mix of tanks/ap/ad/jungles. I believe it works out as if all 20 champs were on sale for that week when your purchase it. Just a good place to start if you are willing to spend the RP.

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@adz117 said:

I don't know if it's just the games I have played, but it seems like there comes a time in the game that I like to call "the point of no return" where you either have basically won outright or have totally lost with not much hope of coming back into the game, I have never had a close game. Might just be the people I'm playing with.

Yeah I had the same experience. I think it just came down to team comp, there are some champions that just dominate Dominion. We would play a game with 3 or 4 of these on our team, and we would easily hold 4 points all game long.

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I am both excited and surprised by the release date. I played a good chunk of the beta and the game seemed playable...but far from release worthy. Even just leveling 1-12 there were quite a bit of bugs. And not many people made it close to the max level, so I bet there are even more bugs higher up.

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@Azteck said:

Well yes, it's true I don't know how it plays exactly but from what I've seen, and heard, it sounds like it'll play very similarly to the orignial DoTA, which I'm not too fond of. That said I will try it out, definitely, but from what I've heard it feels like I'll still prefer LoL.

Icefrog has said the goal of DotA 2 is just to recreate DotA 1. Essentially they have pushed the War3 engine to the end, with DotA 2 they will have a platform to expand upon. It will be an extremely different game then LoL, but there is no reason that they both can't thrive.

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#7  Edited By indiefinch

Awesome site, thanks for the link. Was getting tired of popping between Own3d.tv and Twitch.tv searching for streams.

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The best way to practice, in my experience at least, is to play a ton of games. Then after each game, watch the replay. Rather then focusing on the whole game, pick out 1 mistake. Look for stuff like supply blocked, idle barracks / gateways / larva, missing injects, bad rally points, bad micro in attacks, missed scouting...etc. Just pick one thing that stands out, then in your next game...play like you did before, but try extra hard to compensate that one mistake. Over time you will slowly iron out your play and cover up the holes in your play.

The game is way to complex to try and make a list of 30 things you do wrong and try to fix them all at once. I am in masters and even still I watch my games and get overwhelmed with "O my...that was really bad! Why would I do that!" It is easier to pick a little area you know you can improve and fix it one step at a time. Also feel free to bounce questions off me or if you want me to obs some games. Id is: Finch.418.

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One of the best ways to think of ZvZ is in terms of larva management.  One of the biggest tells is what they make on their first set of larva (after the first inject).  If they make 5 sets of zerglings, they are going to try and kill you.  If they make 5 drones, you are safe to take an expo.   As Thule said, 14 gas / 14 pool is the easiest and safest opening.  You get that fast ling speed then use it to scout then from there you can make your decision. 
 
Generally the safest thing to do is scout with the speedlings and look for the baneling nest.  If you see it, prepare for a lot of lings / banelings coming to kill you.  If you don't see it, take an expansion and start making to roaches.  Roaches are currently the base of a ZvZ.  After you get your expansion up, drop a eve and get +1 ranged attack (so your roaches 2 shot lings, instead of 3 shot lings).  If you feel confident in your micro, get an infestation pit and start getting infestors.  If you don't feel confident in your micro, drop a hydra den and attack right roaches + a few hydras after your +1 (or +2 attack if you can get the evo down early enough) and hit them right before they get infestors or mutts.   
 
A simple rule to follow in ZvZ is: If you spend your larva on lings or roaches early you must punish them (prevent their expo, kill a queen or some workers).  But if you spend your larva on drones, you need to scout well and make sure you don't die to an attack.  If you can get your natural up before them, you will have more larva / drones...thus in this mid game you can turn out way more roaches / infestors.