Originally posted by TheLiquidPepper:

Dear devs,

Instead of gathering up a lot of stuff and releasing a "patch" with tons of content, can you not make a lot of small releases, so there is often something new to try out?

We actually want to keep to smaller and shorter patches, but Nye has had some RL stuff come up that is preventing him from testing any of the things that I've done, and they're experimental enough that we really want to run them through the paces.

Implement some AI, that would trigger Dire's Glyph of protection in case, if any building would lose too much health in a certain amount of time(like, 1\3 hp per 7-10 seconds).

For any players using Lifestealer, it is best to build him tanky with cleave and attack speed. The reason is his passive destory enemies so effectively without any investment in raw damage items like king rapier. Infact he is one of the few heroes that can ignore king rapier and still does good dps. Since the lack of raw damge make low health enemy hard to kill, it is wise to switch to the higher health to cleave the feast damage to the weaken units.

Originally posted by We're Under Siege! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻:

Implement some AI, that would trigger Dire's Glyph of protection in case, if any building would lose too much health in a certain amount of time(like, 1\3 hp per 7-10 seconds).

I never knew I wanted this level of challenge until I read this post. I want it.

Originally posted by What if they gank me?:

For any players using Lifestealer, it is best to build him tanky with cleave and attack speed. The reason is his passive destory enemies so effectively without any investment in raw damage items like king rapier. Infact he is one of the few heroes that can ignore king rapier and still does good dps. Since the lack of raw damge make low health enemy hard to kill, it is wise to switch to the higher health to cleave the feast damage to the weaken units.

I can never seem to play him as anything but a burdened support, does anyone have other tips?
(Besides you Siege, I saw your naughty exploitation on the Epic Wins discussion. Shame!)

Originally posted by Diellan:

Originally posted by TheLiquidPepper:

Dear devs,

Instead of gathering up a lot of stuff and releasing a "patch" with tons of content, can you not make a lot of small releases, so there is often something new to try out?

We actually want to keep to smaller and shorter patches, but Nye has had some RL stuff come up that is preventing him from testing any of the things that I've done, and they're experimental enough that we really want to run them through the paces.

I was going to ask in this thread why Nye gives little feedback (but didn't want to be rude) but you cleared that up some, thanks.

Originally posted by Vaxxvirus:

I can never seem to play him as anything but a burdened support, does anyone have other tips?
(Besides you Siege, I saw your naughty exploitation on the Epic Wins discussion. Shame!)

It is important to max his 3 first as it gives him strong aoe dps to help with soloing a lane. Feast should be second while skilling Infect when it is avaiable. By level 6 you should be able to solo a lane without any issues. Make sure to get battlefury, max teleport boots, assult curaiss, shiva guard, moonshard and crimson guard. The 6th slot can be radiance (AoE arggo), Skadi (Slow boss attack), or Abyssal Blade (stun boss). Abyssal blade should only be considered if you have no stun/bash in your team.

I will test that on Lifestealer.

Also, to TLP, you should map normal move to middle mouse so you can move without attacking if need be. You said you didn't like using M key.

a good way to ruin your mod is to listen to the people in this thread

the only thing i will say is every hero needs to have a use, for instance, chen is garbage and unplayable even if you micro and play everything strategically

Originally posted by Vaxxvirus:

Also, to TLP, you should map normal move to middle mouse so you can move without attacking if need be. You said you didn't like using M key.

That could be an idea, although I don't much like middle mouse key either. :P But I could use one of the other mouse keys.

Originally posted by paradise:

the only thing i will say is every hero needs to have a use, for instance, chen is garbage and unplayable even if you micro and play everything strategically

That sounds like a challenge.

Originally posted by paradise:

the only thing i will say is every hero needs to have a use, for instance, chen is garbage and unplayable even if you micro and play everything strategically

Get dominator and helm of oppresion, and you'll forget what you'd just said.

As in regular dota, Chen was not supposed to be a late game hero. He is supposed to be the pusher, granting up to +50 to attack speed and gold bonuses globally, so carries won't have any problem defing indefinately.

Sadly there are better characters for that very task. Even Techies with lvl1 red mines, soul ring and 15 mana flasks can raze more towers than Chen, by the starting point.

Not very important but this guy has Diellan's avatar:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197972593718/

Edit: I thought it was Diellan and got excited at first, that's why I'm sharing. Sadly, I have a limited account and can't add any friends or I'd have Siege, Nye and Diellan. I already got TLP through a chance encounter.

I wanna do more strategy testing on techies, I have zero games with them. Anybody have a solid strategy there?