MeeeH's HERO IMPRESSION : Terroblade

Terrorblade is a very new hero release during the new bloom festival. Terrorblade is one of the bad ass hero in DotA 2, he has a very fearsome look and a very bad ass hero look starting from his non metamorphosis look and his very brutal metamorphosis look.

I read his lore and his lore is a very terrifying story as well from the part he is a very powerful demon, he is also the most terrifying one, other demons are scared of him. Some players know that anti-mage is his brother, which is hard to believe  beacause Terroblade has a very terrifying look while anti-mage has a puny, powerless look.

Now going to the game part, Terrorblade which is a strength-less hero in the early game, which means very easy to kill in the early game. I personally like to play Terrorblade as a carry which is the way everybody is probably gonna play this hero, but I've played this hero in the mid position and I got first blood!!! I got first blood because of his third skill metamorphosis which I will talk about at another paragrahp. And also Terrorblade could be played as a support role, my friend SG_Ha.lf played him in the support role using Terrorblade's ultimate skill Sunder to save heroes which have a low health, and then he'll heal himself everyone using mekans.

Time to talk about his skill:

1st Skill Reflection:
Reflection is a targeted skill to an enemy which makes a "reflection" of the enemy and hitting the enemy. This reflection could't be killed. and also this skill slows down the enemy so it a very good mechanism for ganking in the early game.

2nd Skill Conjure Image: 
Conjure image is a skill which makes an illusion of Terrorblade, and this illusion hits very hard and a pain in the aaaa, at the late game combine with Metamorphosis. Conjure image could be use for juking and tricking enemies if you're smart enough to do it.

3rd Skill Metamorphosis:
Metamorphosis is skill which transform you into a very BAD ASS DEMON!!! In this form you will hit terrifyingly hard and you will be transformed into a range form. Building right items you could be feared by other heroes because of how hard you hit in this form, and also in this form you can push tower's easily.


Ultimate Skill Sunder:
Sunder is a targeted skill to allies or foes, this skill will switch your current health with your target. This skill is a very good surprise turn around in team fight where you can be low then switch your health with enemy heroes. This skill is not affected by the BKB so you can Sunder everyone as long as the enemies doesn't buy linken sphere, if they do use your first skill first on the targeted hero. A very annoying item combo for this skill is dagon, so you get your health low then you go sunder someone and dagon them. Also you can troll your friends with this skill.

At the early game his job is to farm and not to die, because if he's farm gets disturb could really affect his late game possibilities but it will be different if BurNing played him. Mid game you can choose to contribute with your friends or you can farm, if you're going to go and contribute with your friends it better to contribute when you are on your Metamorphosis form because that's the only way you can help in team fights. At the late game if you're farmed enough and have the right items you can go on a 3 vs 1 and win it IF you have the right items, and at the late game your sunder will cost no mana and have a very low cooldown, also you'll hit very hard in metamorphosis form.

Now for items!!! In the early game buy the usual 3 iron branch 1 tango 1 stout shield, but you can customize this build into anything you like because this is my  opinion of the build, Shoes you can build Power Threads or Phase Boots, I recommend Power Treads because of the attack speed and the attributes, but you can also make Phase Boot if you need chasing power. My core item for this hero is Manta Style and Skadi, At this rate you will hit very hard and you can also add Butterfly, BKB, etc.

That's all I got for the first impression of this hero comment down below if missed something, and thanks for reading this.

Dota 2 Update 2 - February 5th, 2014

Today update is about a new mode where you fight the year beast and gain items and some bug fixes. The update is about 250MB. You will understand the mode after you tried it once. You can earn jade tokens and flamesalt ingots to earn some prize (Only jade tokens that can be traded for prizes. The flamesalt ingots is for buying items to fight the year beast. 1 flamesalt ingot is equal to 40 gold).
The update conclude :

User Interface

• Alt+Control clicking enemy heroes in the top bar now sends a hero has returned chat message
• Alt clicking on a store item will announce to your allies that you will purchase that item
• Fixed item alerts not working properly
• The game no longer freezes while a replay is being decompressed after the download is completed
• Fixed Legacy Keys not being set correctly when reconnecting
• Legacy Keys now work correctly when querying (and allow you to use to proper legacy keys if taking over a bot)
• Ingot drop rate doubled
• Added a chance of finding the Redhoof Courier in the Bloom Harvest and Bloom Bounty Jade Token rewards
• The Shopkeeper in the Year Beast fight now has limited stock of Firework Mines and Scare the Beast flags

Gameplay

• Fixed Terrorblade illusions taking too much damage
• Fixed Phoenix Sunray healing half of the amount it should
• Fixed AoE gold not being given to hidden heroes (such as Phoenix using Supernova, Brewmaster using Primal Split)
• Fixed Radiant having vision for a small area just outside the Dire fountain
• Ingot drop rate doubled
• Wraith King’s Vampiric Aura has no effect against the Year Beast
• Ursa’s Fury Swipes have no effect against the Year Beast

 Community

• Abandonment penalties will now be applied much more quickly after the abandonment occurs. (Previously the penalty was applied at the end of the match that was abandoned.)
• Abandonment in a ranked match before first blood will now count as a loss for the abandoner and all party members. (MMR will decrease.) For all other players in the game, the match will not be scored. After first blood, the same rules apply as before: the match will be scored for all players. The abandoner will always receive a loss, but all other players will be scored a win/loss according to the actual match outcome.

Workshop

• Master Assassin’s Tails (Bounty Hunter) – fixed chest strap skinning
• Form of Great Grey (Lycan) – added portrait entry
• Icewrack Pack wolves (Lycan) – added portrait entry
• Mysterious Vagabond Pack (Shadow Shaman) – fixed cloth issue during movement
• Demon Blood Helm (Axe) – fixed cloth issue during movement
• Prisoner’s Anchor (Alchemist) – fixed skinning on saddle
• Swamp Fins (Tidehunter) – fixed skinning
• Soul Reaper (Necrophos) – fixed loadout issue
• Excavator’s Treasure (Tidehunter) - fixed skinning
• Adjusted skinning on Rubick capes: Councilor's Robe, Cloak of Inscrutable Zeal, Tails of Resonance Vibrance
• Stone Dragon Soul (Earth Spirit) - weapon is now two separate pieces. Added default weapon particles to this and Staff of the Demon Stone
• Beast of Vermilion Wilds (Beastmaster) - now equips correctly
• Jade Talon (Pudge) - fixed orientation

Audio

• Minor adjustments to Terrorblade's Voice to give the base and morph forms more presence in the mix

Tooltips

• Fixed Random Hero button tooltip to say that you gain 200 gold for randoming a hero
• Removed duplicate health regeneration description from Alchemist's Chemical Rage tooltip
• Removed mention of Beastmaster's Call of the Wild destroying previous summons
• Fixed Beastmaster's Call of the Wild (Hawk) advanced tooltip to say that the Greater Hawk's invisibility starts at 4 seconds of inactivity.
• Reworded the description of Elder Titan's Earth Splitter to better explain how its damage is done
• Added cast range to Keeper of the Light's Mana Leak
• Removed inaccurate information in Mirana's Sacred Arrow tooltip regarding its affect on invisible units. Sacred arrow will stun and damage invisible units
• Removed inaccurate information in Mirana's Leap tooltip. The Leap buff is applied when and where she begins Leap
• Added Slow duration and percentage to Shadow Fiend's Requiem of Souls tooltip
• Added a description of Silencer's innate Intelligence Steal buff to that buff's tooltip
• Reworded the description of Spectre's Desolate to better explain that the bonus damage is done when the attacked enemy is alone (has none of its allies nearby)
• Removed inaccurate information in Viper's Corrosive Skin tooltip. Corrosive Skin is applied to an enemy when an attack hits
• Fixed Warlock's Upheaval tooltip to say that it can be channeled for up to 16 seconds
• Fixed typo in Dust of Appearance tooltip
•  Removed inaccurate information in Eye of Skadi tooltip regarding lifesteal stacking. Eye of Skadi can stack lifesteal on both melee and ranged heroes
• Removed inaccurate information in Ghost Scepter's tooltip. Boots of Travel does not dispel Ghost Form, however using a Teleport Scroll does
•  Fixed inaccurate information in Radiance debuff tooltip to say that its burn does 50 damage per second  

Ok that's all for today's update. Hope this is useful :) GL HF!!!

Dota 2 6.80 Update - January 29th, 2014

Today is 6 February (5 February on some countries), i just post this update to give some information to tell you that 29 January there is a huge update. The update is called "New Bloom Festival". It's update size is about 650MB. It's pretty big for me. The update is big because there is a new hero, new game mode, new items, new map, and fixes or something like that. The update is about the china new year. And today there is update about a new mode again (this one is like diretide and wraith night). The update can be found on the Dota 2 blog, here is the link. (I can't post it here, because it's too much)

My Addiction

It's been awhile since I post a something about my experience from DotA, well I'm gonna do it again!!!

As the title say I won't be telling a story about my addiction to drugs or anything noooooo... So my addiction is of course to DotA. As l told you on my previous stories DotA was just a hobby to me but then it got a lot more addicting, the way it persuade me is when I got my first item. Items in DotA for "newbies" are said to be very invaluable and that's how I thought about it for the first time. As I got better at a hero I felt that if I had an item for that hero it would make a statement that I'm good at it, so I did a quest on completing my first set of item which was the BloodSeeker's set. 

It took some time to get the item but I managed to collect it. After that I got crazier, when I saw pudge's set I just fell in love. The harsh truth went out on me when I just knew that the Dragon Claw hook was so out of reach. Then time went on and my friend started to meet a guy who sold items, well he's a believable guy and my friends bought me Whale hook and a Mad Harvester set, which I'll be carrying to TI7... Well I'm getting off topic now so Yeah that's like my addiction right now, the thing is you just can't get off DotA if you've played it, except if you had a frickin lots of lose streak. 

Well that's all I can tell you again as always GL HF

Dota 2 Loading Screens

Here are some of the Dota 2 loading screens.

Stonehall Loading Screen

 




Webs of Perception Loading Screen

Dazzle Yuwipi Loading Screen

And so many more...... the rest you can download it from here. (If you have a request just comment)

Although these are for loading screen i prefer to use it for background for my PC.

If you want to use these loading screens, just use it manually. Here is the tutorial. (Note : you only can use the loading screen on your current PC. I recommend to use it at your home PC)

Last Updated, 1/25/2014
I'm going to update it on 1 August

Hope this is useful. GL! :))))

Check Your Ping Before You Play

Checking your ping before playing is a must for me. Because i don't have a good internet connection. I always check it on the desktop not in-game. Why not in-game? because it took time and wasting my internet (I'm using volume based internet). There is people who already know this thing.

So, how to do it? You can use notepad and run (just search it, on your windows).

Using Notepad
It's easy, you just copy and paste these code to a new notepad and save it with the name file "xxx.bat"*

Using Run
It's pretty easy.
First, you open run.
Second, enter this code "ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -t"**
Third, click enter.

Then you got it, using run is better than the notepad because you will get your ping until you close the program.

*rename "xxx" with any name
**rename "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" with this IP Addresses

Region	Server Location	IP Address
US West	Washington, USA	192.69.96.1
US East	Sterling, USA	208.78.164.1
Europe West	Luxembourg	146.66.152.1
Europe East	Vienna, Austria	146.66.155.1
SE Asia	Singapore	103.28.54.1 103.10.124.1
South America	Brazil	209.197.29.1 209.197.25.1
Russia	Stockholm, Sweden	146.66.156.1
Australia	Syndey, Australia	103.10.125.1
South Africa	Cape Town	197.80.200.1 196.38.180.1

The listed IPs are of one among the servers used in a cluster for all regions, which is enough to approximately determine the ping.

Hope this is useful. GL HF!! :))

Showing Your Ping Without Using -ping

So, like the tittle say we will do something to our dota 2 to show your ping and your fps to your display screen permanently (we can active and deactive it). The example of the result is like the picture below (it was me lagging).

I think its more effective than type -ping and wait the server to respond. And how to do it?

First, Open your steam games library and right click DotA 2 and open the properties. After open the properties, click "set launch option" and type "-console" in the box. And click ok

 

Second, After that open your DotA 2. And not longer after that there will be a large command box. There is nothing wrong with that because that is the console. In the console box you type "net_graph 1" (to activate it, "net_graph 0" to deactivate it) and then click enter. After that close the console box.

And now you are done with your "Permanent -ping". It's positioned on the bottom right, you can change the position by command, but it's kinda hard.

Hope this is useful. GL HF! :)

DotA 2 Heroes Sounds 1

So, today I'm going to upload again the DotA 2 sounds..... Now to start, I'll upload 11 heroes sounds.
The sounds that I'll upload is not mainstream hero (not all of it). So, if you have a request just comment below.
The sounds include these heroes:

• Treant Protector
• Outworld Devourer
• Phantom Assassin
• Phantom Lancer
• Spirit Breaker
• Gyrocopter
• Rubick
• Skeleton King/Wraith King
• Lycanthrope/Lycan
• Chaos Knight
• Clinkz

To view the link to download just click here.
The hint for the password to view the link is Kunkka's nemesis. If you don't know the answer it's mean you are still newbie. Just read the story in wikipedia. :)
Use lower case ex. "windrunner" for the password


Hope this is useful GL!:)

Dota 2 Update - January 9th, 2014

Wow, I just posted the update now. its already 2 week passed since that update. I'm a 9 grader student, and I'm busy studying for the National Exam. So the update is about 50MB.
The Update conclude:

• Ranked matchmaking rating changes are no longer dependent on match length.
• Fixed hitboxes for Evergreen Stalker treants.
• Model and animation fixes to Invoker's Forged Spirit and Iceforged Spirit.
• Model and animation fixes to Osky Ottragon International Courier.

 WORKSHOP

• Added Wraith King to the workshop.
• Added a checkbox for the Spring 2014 event on the publish page.
• Legion Commander's budget now displays on the workshop.
• Updated budgets for Ember Spirit, Storm Spirit and Dazzle.
• Added Stone Summons slot and budget for Earth Spirit.
• Updated body texture for Pudge.
• Updated workshop files, including separated fbx and smd, for Lone Druid, Earth Spirit, Faceless Void, Nature's Prophet/Treants, Invoker/Forge Spirits and Riki.
• Alpha test enabled for Nature's Prophet Treants.
• New courier animation requirement - flying couriers must be sunk into the ground after a death crash. Valve is applying this fix where needed to couriers that have already been accepted. http://www.dota2.com/workshop/requirements/npcs

UI

• Fixed Dota not taking focus correctly on startup.

So that's all for today and yeah today is MeeeH birthdays.... Hope this is usefull

Dota 2 Update - December 19th & 20th, 2013

Happy New Year!!! I'm very sorry for not posting anything for this 2 week.... I'm not posting because I'm too excited to play Dota 2 and forgot that i have this blog. So today is the end of the wraith night event and i already have the evergreen stalker item for NP (Natures Prophet). The update is about 150MB and 15 MB
So the update conclude:
December 19th, 2013

WRAITH-NIGHT
- Added Queen of Pain, Storm Spirit, Templar Assassin, Witch Doctor, and Elder Titan to Wraith-Night.
- Added new rewards to Wraith-Night.
- Juggernaut now gains evasion during Blade Fury.
- Fixed a bug where pausing the game would break certain Wraith King abilities.

ECONOMY
- Added sets for Luna, Drow Ranger, Skywrath Mage, and Naga Siren
- Added a player set for Invoker by iceiceice
- Added weaponry for Sven, Doom, Spectre, Windranger, Alchemist, Warlock, and Slark.
- Added hairstyles for Drow Ranger, Mirana, Lina, Windranger, and Templar Assassin.
- Added three HUDs
- Added a 400% Battle Booster (80% stacking for other players). Available until January 3rd.

COMMUNITY
- Only decrement low-priority game count in a coop-bot match if you win and you are not playing on passive difficulty.
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December 20th, 2013
- Fixed Governor's Salakots that had been wrongly converted into Ancient Imbued Spinal Blades.

- Fixed the 400% battle booster giving only 300%. Active battle boosters of this type have been reset to 500 minutes remaining. The 9 players that already fully consumed their battle boosters have each been granted two new boosters.

- Launching the game will now allow you to reconnect to a match in progress even while searching for the Dota 2 Network. In concert with this change, all existing low priority punishments have been reset. 

Solo DotA?!?

Hello again readers! So after the update which brought us ranked matchmaking, There is a rating which rates our party rating and our solo rating, but for me, I don't want to play any solo MMR. 

There are several reasons why I don't want to play solo MMR, I've observed that when were playing MMR the teams need to have all the roles; carry, support, intiator,etc. I can't play any of the roles especially support, so when I'm playing MMR until now I've only played it with a party. 

As my past experience while playing MMR me and my buddies have met many annoying players such as the one that always say everybody is a noob and stuff like, but then again that's part of the DotA 2 community, and ofcourse very good players which kicked our ass pretty much, but MMR is a good thing because it shows us how good we are at playing and ofcourse the higher our rank is the more people will be scared of you.

To conclude this random post, MMR is good for high skilled players but is going to be a nightmare for newcomers, good thing valve decided only 13 lvl up players can play this. If not well I'll stop playing MMR

Dota 2 Update - December 18th, 2013

So There is an update yesterday. The update is about 100MB.
So the update conclude:

• Added Legion Commander to the workshop
• Updated workshop files for Dazzle, Dragon Knight, Bloodseeker, Broodmother and Batrider that include separated fbx and smd files
• 5 solo players will never match against a 5 man party in Ranked Matchmaking (and will be extremely unlikely in Unranked)
• Fixed bug where you could have multiple recruiters, or active recruitment requests once accepting a recruiter
• Some players with multiple accepted recruiters will have their recruitment status reset
• The armory filter dropdown will no longer be hidden by any active Battle Point Boosters
• Fixed various crash bugs around Guides in Frostivus
• Improved audio mix of player and caster voice on surround sound systems
• Fixed a crash on systems with multiple gamepads connected
• Fixed a case where backdoor protection would not function properly
• Fixed Ember Spirit base HP regen being 0.25 instead of 0.75
• Fixed Naga Siren base HP regen being 0.25 instead of 0.75
• Match history now shows MMR and change for your ranked matches

 Hope this is useful, GL :)

DotA 2 Night

Hey guys tonight me and some of my buddies will be playing DotA 2 until next morning, so for all of you Indonesians add our steam and maybe you guys will get rares or some other stuff, all you have to do is come and say hi to us and maybe we'll play together!!!! See you at the game guys.

You can add our account at the link at the right side of the blog.

Customizing Your DotA 2 Loading Screen

So, are you bored with your loading screen? (of course!) I just read the steam community and got this tutorial. I will tell you how to change your old loading screen. The first thing you need is VTFEdit (download the installer).
Now you open it and you open an image(The image you desire for the loading screen) in the VTFEdit. After that you just save the file with these settings

Save the file with the name:

• "background01_widescreen.vtf"(name the file with this when there is no event like The International, Diretide, and frostivus)

After that you open steam, and right click DotA 2 in the library. You open the properties and click "set launch option" and you type "-override_vpk"in the box. ("-console" is only optional) And click OK

K, now you just need to copy your file before (the image) to....
(your Steam folder)\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\materials\console (If you don't have a "console" folder just create it)

 Here are some Dota 2 loading screens.

And you are done with your custom loading screen.... Sorry for my bad English... If you didn't understand just comment below. Hope this is useful! GL :)
NOTE;

• The game resolution will affect the image quality. This will only affect on one PC (the one who you did this tutorial).
• This won't work if you use a loading screen item
• This won't work if dota 2 have an event that change normal loading screens *ex; The International 4

Dota 2 Update - December 14th, 2013

Hmm... Today update is bug fixes and about the server.. it seems DotA 2 have a bug that cause run out of available servers (long waiting time when finding match). The update is about 14MB.
So the update conclude:

• Fixed a significant bug that was causing regions to run out of available servers
• Fixed a bug with Batrider's vision during Firefly

Dota 2 Update - December 13th, 2013

Today there is an update about bug fixes and the back of the skeleton king(It's the wraith king). So, skeleton king is back, i mean wraith king has risen! There is no big different on the hero, only different skin and animation. So the update is about 60MB.
The update conclude:

• Wraith King has risen (Skeleton King is back, that's mean you can play him again)
• Fixed Recruits sorting in the wrong direction 
• Fixed Captain crowns showing on all players when spectating CM games
• Added matchmaking preference to use themed or classic map (You can choose either winter or normal map)
• Ranked matchmaking will always use the classic map. (This is to minimize fragmentation of the matchmaking pool)
• Tuned quality thresholds in ranked matchmaking to wait longer and require a higher quality match
• Private lobbies will use classic map if tournament version is selected in lobby settings
• Fixed bug causing full parties of 5 players to wait needlessly when searching for Wraith-Night or Coop Bot matches 

For Frostivus (Wraith Night game mode) :

• Rebalanced both Shadow Fragments and Shining Fragments rewards
• Fixed towers sometimes becoming invulnerable
• Fixed CM hero selection being limited after a Frostivus game
• Fixed buy back cost not being reset on new game with increased difficulty
• After defeating Wraith King end panel now correctly shows up and shows fragment rewards and allows voting
• Added conversion of Shining Fragments to Shadow Fragments  

 And that's all the update for 13th December. Hope this is useful! GL :)

Thank you

This thank you actually goes to a friend of mine. She is also a blogger, so if you have time you should go and check out her blog:

satelituranus.blogspot.com

Dota 2 Update - December 12th, 2013

Hmmmm....... Today (or yesterday) updates is kinda huge for me because the update size is about 500MB.
But, the update is worth for it. Because there is a new hero, new matchmaking, and NEW GAME MODE.
The update conclude only three of it ( I think so) :

• Added Wraith Night (Game Mode, till 31 December I think)
• Added Ranked Matchmaking
• Added Legion Commander (The hero is female)

And that's all for 12th December updates. Hope this is useful :) GL!

Valve SE and AUS Server Can't Handle the King's Celebration!!

Wraith Night has made the masses of from SEA and the Aussie to go crazy, at 10:00 PM at my time I'm still trying to find a match, and this is very frustrating because who doesn't want to play DotA 2?!?!?! And of course people are coming too for opening the chest as welcoming gifts, You'll get free announcer, ward, couriers, and some inscribed gems. This is very frustrating for me, I'm actually writing this while I'm waiting for SEA server to get on working again, So get your thing on valve come on we all want to play!! But I know you guys are busy because of all of this so I forgive you, thank you Valve for the announcer, HUD, etc.

Wraith Night

So if you guys remembered, yesterday I made a prediction saying that Skeleton King is tired for all of those reincarnation and stuff like that. So if you guys already did the 523 MB update you will see all this new game mode. If you see you will get like presents that contains presents (no shit)!!! Yeah go open them all if you were high leveled you'll get many presents in one go but after that you'll need to earn them presents but I guess it'll be 5 per level.

So going to the main topic, WRAITH NIGHT. Wraith night in a nutshell is a wave game, you need to kill waves of creeps to pass each rounds. As my last experience I've reached the 5th round. I will tell you all the things I know so far so let's do this!

1st Round Kobold's everywhere:
This round like the title says Kobold everywhere!!! As my last experience I used Axe and it worked pretty well, and it kills the wave fast like hell and to be noted at Wraith Night heroes are very limited so yeah Limited. If you kill enough creeps you'll pass to the next round!

2nd Round Left 5 Dead:
This round is full of zombies!!! There is this mini boss he looks like undying and it spawn zombies and stuff. Just like last round stay alive! If you die you either buy back or be revived by your friend. Keep on killing and you'll go to the next round

3rd Round Ugly Sticks:
You will be facing ogre's at this round this one has a mini boss which is huge and it has AoE bash where it will hit the ground and anyone who stands there will be stunned. So be careful because it's pretty tanky and yeah try not to die its hard for your teamate if you die.

4th Round Slithreen .......:
 At this round you'll be facing mini slarks and Slardar the will stun you and you need to be careful not to be pounced by those mini slarks. At this round you need to defend the base very well because they push really fast.

5th Round ........:
This round you'll be meeting treant protector and nature prophet they will be spawning trees and they will try to push your towers like a abdjiabf so its gonna be very hard. especially because the Boss here is very I mean very tanky you need to kill this guys together and just like treant he have that annoying skill.

That's all I can share for now because this game is very very hard, I recommend playing this game together with your friend so you can yell at eachother.