blink, arcane, veil, aghs ,shivas, bkb, forcestaff, eul's
should be the most common. Usual build would be:
-> blink, arcanes, veil, aghs, shivas
then gaem is over. Usually ends at the veil mark.
you should get veil over aghs most of teh time. they basically provide the same thing (extra damage), but veil is cheaper. aghs does have the lower cooldown, but if u arent taking advantage of the lower cooldown, then u should have gotten veil instead which would have given you almost identical damage but is 1500 cheaper, so you're basically paying 1500g for 20s lower cooldown.
blink is core obviously.
u can go tranqs + soul ring instead of arcanes if u want, it helps when roaming.
rest of the stuff is just ur usual on supports: force, euls, ghost, aghs for mid game, hex, shivas, refresher, diffusal late.
might have missed an item
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veil does also give ur burrow and sandstorm extra damage and amps the magical dmg of ur teammates. I do think that veil > aghs because of it.
epicenter damage 660 / 880 / 1100 (880 / 1100 / 1320 with aghs)
with veil which multiplies damage by 1.25 you get 825 / 1100 / 1375 damage.
lv 1 epicenter aghs > veil
lv 2 epicenter is equal
lv 3 epicenter, veil > aghs
all this is before you account for the increased damage from your teammates as well. so veil is pretty much better unless you're using epicenter to gank high priority targets or something, and you want the lower cooldown, similar to how a void with aghs can use his ult more liberally.
Andro .... are you relentless ? You know a lot about theorycraft man, but like him your mmr isnt as high as it should be by the knowledge you have of dota.
no im not relentless. i do remember someone comparing me to him though. at the time i didnt know who he was.
i have no idea why my knowledge of mechanics is supposedly high, although i dont consider it to be. i dont know how often u guys check the wiki but i sometimes have to look stuff up that i forget like cast ranges, total damage, shit like that. and i also read the alt tooltips in game so i guess some stuff just gets ingrained in my memory.
item knowledge is pretty easy since theres not that many items in the game, hero knowledge such as base stats, attribute gain, mana cost of spells, cast ranges, turn rates etc im awful at.
"epicenter damage 660 / 880 / 1100 (880 / 1100 / 1320 with aghs)
with veil which multiplies damage by 1.25 you get 825 / 1100 / 1375 damage."
remember that if you use blink epicenter you lose 1 pulse and since you usually aim for safe epis and get veil/aghs after blink u should take that into account. So also calc it through with a lost pulse
epicenter damage 550 / 770 / 990 (770 / 990 / 1210 with aghs)
with veil which multiplies damage by 1.25 you get 687.5 / 962.5 / 1237.5 damage.
So you guys see for veil it is barely a damage increase at higher levels.
Tip: Shift-que the veil just like you do the blink after the queued blink command, so no damage gets lost and you secure bonus damage for you other spells and team
@ Androgynous
No need for soul ring, a null talisman and 1-2 clarities are enough.
Sand King shouldn't be roaming early anyways, you either dual offlane with a strong hero like viper/potm and shut down the safelane carry early or you stack jungle camps and get a quick blink dagger. You can kill the offlaner if he's out of position but roaming mid is something so much more suitable for Earthshaker since a level 1 stun has such short range.
Tranq -> null -> blink -> euls is good enough. Euls is one of the best support items in the current meta because you have a pseudo-disable that counter-initiates on Void/Doom until they get bkb and the mana regen is amazing. Further items are veil/ghost (EB)/sheepstick/BKB/force staff/linkens depending on the game. I agree Aghs is overrated but if you need some extra stats and damage in a pinch against non-BKB heroes it could work (such as killing a split pushing furion, broodmother without BKB, etc.)
In terms of damage, Veil is always better than Aghs, 'cuz you'll do dat Burrowstrike after Epicenter.
lots of people have more knowledge than skill, simply because getting knowledge is easier.
to understand the mechanics and knowing all the effects, cooldowns, combos etc you just need to read, search, watch and even play.
to be a good player skillwise it takes experience and a strong sense of self-critique (i dont even know if this is correct, fuck my english)
I think, the problem of the mankind is not Justin Bieber, it's prejudices of mentally weak part of it when it comes to ponies.
no aghs just make shiva's after veil, or buy a ton of blue eye ball sticks and just clear + spawn block the other teams jungle. then don't let the other team get any farm out of it for the rest of the game. what do people think about E blade?
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