New base design and new shops as promised on www.icefrog.com

Well I slacked off on this but its because this is the first time as far as I know that there are multiple leaked betas of one DotA map. There is now a NEW DotA beta leak that is 10x as explosive as the other one.

Download the new DotA 6.60 map leak here (Beta 57)

I think I should apologize for saying fuck Icefrog and everything for making us wait so long, because I understand now that he’s trying to drop an atomic bomb of an update this time around, hence the long wait.

I guess this is the beta testers gift to us to pacify us till the real thing comes out. I know Icefrog says he doesn’t like leaks, and then fanboys rage against the anonymous leakers, but its all good at the end of the day.

On to the review of the NEW leak of DotA 6.60 :

Well the load screen is the same, but now you can see it is described as you having 95 heroes to choose from. Wow, imagine if you never played DotA before and you saw that. Learning curve : forever.

Hero remakes :

Razor

Believe it or not Razor has been completely revamped all over again. I believe his story has changed too :

And his skills are just totally different from the last leak :

Plasma Field :

No description given. It seems to be some sort of AOE purge, Shiva’s Guard type effect. Its nice eyecandy and farming with it should be fun as the CD is just 16 seconds. Could be used to initiate a teamfight maybe.

Static Link :

I have no idea WTF this is. You can’t use it on yourself, nor a enemy creep, it says “must target a hero”, which means it could be either allied or enemy. For now it just gives vision. You can cast it on terrain though apparently like I did.

*UPDATE from pUng* -” Static link targets enemy heroes only, creating a chain between you and the other hero, for every second or so, it then transfers damage from the enemy to you (or from you to the enemy?). Durations untested, note that this is NOT channeling.

Unstable Current (passive) :

This may seem like a stupid little passive MS skill like his old skill, but I think this is quite imba. It increases Razor’s movement speed and reflects a static charge whenever targeted, dealing 100 damage and purging the unit briefly.

Whoa. I’m not sure about this as yet, for now I know the damage return doesn’t work on creeps :

Changes to the terrain

Almost died there testing that out. If this skill works on heroes then its totally imba. Sven’s ulti would just be laughed off as it would be purged out when he attacks Razor.

Eye of the Storm (Ultimate)

His ultimate is to summon a cloud above him which strikes ONE random enemy around him, but at a much quicker interval than his old ultimate, Storm Seeker (however that struck multiple enemies at between longer intervals). Between this and the first skill, don’t be surprised to see 10 minute Radiances (which would now be a very sexy item for Razor), Rapiers and other top tier expensive items farmed by the noobiest of players. Damage of this is untested.

Tauren Chieftain

The man of the map. Still no story or skill descriptions though but they have names now.

Great Stomp

Now that’s what I call a stomp. This is an AOE stun much like Centaur’s but it looks awesome and the AOE is larger. Only problem is there is a rather long cast delay, similar to Nevermore’s Requiem of Souls. Enemies get a buff called “Great Stomp” without any description (for now) on them, and they don’t get any swirly-swirlies above them but instead some yellow light-thingy, so its seems as if the skill is somehow different from a stun The stun duration CAN be an unbelievable 5-6 seconds, but its length seems to be either random or based on positioning (Thanks to pUng again for this). But ofcourse that is balanced out by the obvious and lengthy cast animation. The potential synergy of this with other heroes is limitless. Centaur, Panda and Chieftain stun = GG. Its scary that this is just his first skill.

Ancestral Spirit

Well, this skill is a little stupid I think. You select a target anywhere on the ground (Cast range is about 800 units or so) and you create a “spirit” of yourself there which moves in the opposite direction which you move. Any enemies close to the spirit get hit a little just like Weaver’s Shukichi skill. The spirit itself is invulnerable just like Storm’s Static Remnant skill. So basically its a mixture of the two. I guess you can use this to harass enemies in lane, farm, and I don’t know, scare people.

*UPDATE* HOLY SHIT. This ancestral spirit thing STOMPS AND STUNS WHEN YOU DO. This skill therefore can be used to fricking :

1) Double your stun damage

2) Kill a whole creep wave

3) Stun FROM A DISTANCE.

4) HARASS IN LANE FROM A DISTANCE

With a Dagger, this skill is just too  sexy. This makes Chieftain the 3rd melee hero that has a ranged pain in the ass skill which you can’t dodge, the first one is Dark Seer’s Vacuum, then Clockwerk’s rocket (you can dodge Kunkka’s torrent, Rexxar’s Axes,  and Pudge’s Hook)

Also, you hurt everything shukuchi-style, while the ghost is out, not just the ghost, and anything touching you and the ghost while you touch eachother also get hurt, each damagesource triggering only once per target. This can deal incredible damage to heroes and completely devastate any creepwave. (Thanks to pUng again)

Natural Order (passive)

Ok, this seems to be a filler skill, like Warlock’s Upheaval (the slow thing) spell, which you just forego and get stats instead. Its a nerfing aura which reduces armor and magic resistance of nearby units. As you can see above the armor reduction isn’t much, and well there’s no simple way of me testing the magic resistance reduction for now to know if this skill is worth getting at all. If the Chieftain were to meet Nevermore in the battlefield, Nevermore activates his “Presence of the Dark Lord” armor reduction, and Chieftain activiates this crap, Nevermore may just die rofling.

* UPDATE* Natural order actually reduces armor by a percentage rather than a fixed amount like I originally thought. As you should know Armor effects magic resistance, so the fact that this shit reduces the TWO of them separately means its powerful as hell and its actually the Chieftain who would die rofling if he faced Nevermore

Earth Splitter (Ultimate)

The Chieftain destroys the ground with his ulti, clearing a path seen above. Nothing happens however…until 2-3 seconds after, all nearby units close to where the path was cleared are slowed, damaged (not by much though) and shifted together close to where the path was orignally cleared, sort of like a delayed effect to Dark Seer’s Vacuum spell.

Tauren’s ultimate looks great but its functionality falls behind Earthshaker’s Fissure, so its a little underwhelming. If I had the choice the best bet is to just level up his first skill and go all stats.

*UPDATE* There is no easy way to confirm this but I’m told that the damage Earthsplitter inflicts is actually 33% of your max health (Ursa style). This therefore guarantees the useful of this skill damage-wise for the whole game. I guess bloodstone would be a good item for TC.

Sniper

6.60 also has a  slight remake of Sniper :

Shrapnel

Shrapnel, Sniper’s first skill is now a ranged, Meepo style poison/DPS and slow. Its therefore ok to get this skill as it would definitely help in team fights and has great synergy with Alchemist’s Acid Spray.

Sven

Sven’s third skill is actually quite cool now. It gives +35 movespeed to yourself and nearby allies and buffs armor.

Other than those mentioned there are no real major hero remakes since the last leaked beta.

Gorgon

I initially missed this because the hero tooltip for Gorgon on the Tavern had her same old skills from 6.59 but these NEW SKILLS were sneaked in :

Chain lightning is now “Mystical Snake”

Mystical Snake

Cooldown is 14 seconds. Well, it looks like a chain life drain, but it isn’t, matter of fact it just seems to do the same thing as chain lightning (chain damage units) but designed to fit the profile of Medusa, the Gorgon better (where the hell did she get lightning powers from?). I’m sure there is a slight twist to it just being a green chain lightning but I can’t figure it out yet.

And Purge is now “Stone Gaze”

Stone Gaze (Ultimate)

Definitely a buff to Gorgon, cooldown = 25 seconds. All nearby enemies (seems to be all those looking at her, suiting the name apparently) are mini-stunned, purged and slowed for 3-4 seconds. Awesome. Enemies are all given a “Stoned” buff :

This new ulti actually makes Gorgon a decent initiator.

Now for new items :

Poor Man’s Shield

This is my favorite new item. Its basically an anti-harass tool for melee heroes. Void, Axe, Mortred, Panda can all benefit from this early game.

Khadgar’s Pipe of Insight

This works like old Storm’s Magic Barrier skill, it blocks a limited amount of magic damage when activated. This is therefore as essential to Axe as Vanguard.

Quelling Blade

You can last hit creeps better and…cut trees down as you would with a tango….
Seems stupid, but it totally counter’s Furion Tree Sprout skill, and it can work wonders for jungling, juking, escaping and actually, rampant abuse. What the hell am I talking about? Well go Tree Chop your way behind some trees with Vengeful Spirit, wait for them to respawn, then Nether Swap the first non-blinkable, non-TP scroll-carrying  hero you see…

Talisman of Evasion

You’re more likely to miss whoever is wearing this than get Counter-Helixed by Axe…and we know how often you can get counter-helixed, and that’s just 17%. Its now a new requirement for the Butterfly (as if it wasn’t already too expensive), but I think by itself its a great item on heroes like Axe, Mortred, Panda, Void.

Ghost Scepter

I’m hoping this is a joke. Ghost Form, the active ability of this item, makes you invulnerable for 3-4 seconds immune from physical attacks for 3-4 seconds (you cannot attack either for this duration), its therefore Pugna’s skill, Decrepify, but without the MS reduction.  This is basically a poor man’s Lothar’s or Blink, as the enemy cannot hit you PHYSICALLY as you ghost away or ghost in and ulti (right after its deactivated). At such a low cost, I am seriously cringing at the thought of seeing this imba nonsense item being abused.

Its still imba even if it doesn’t make you invulnerable (like I previously thought) if you’re ganking 3-4 heroes who don’t have disables (say Nevermore, Silencer and Void for e.g). Whether or not it reduces or increases your spell resistance (like Decrepify) is yet to be seen however, but this item WOULD be very interesting on a Pugna as it doesn’t reduce your movement speed and I think its a VERY good DPS counter (especially for Troll) on any hero.

Numerous other items has had their recipe costs reduced or even removed :

Eye of Skadi recipe is now just $750

Sange and Yasha no longer needs a recipe

Mask of Madness recipe is now $1000

Maelstrom is now just $900, and you need a Gloves of Haste and Mithril Hammer to make it, the item also gives different stat bonuses.

Diffusal blade is now upgradable by one level (burns more mana)

Manta Style got a HUGE nerf which is quite disappointing as you can no longer summon clones or burn mana with it, you get movement speed and stat bonuses AND you can summon images and burn mana, and the recipe requires an Ultimate orb and a Yasha, with no recipe cost.

Mithril Hammer is now $1600

Monkey King Bar now gives +80 damage and a passive ability “True Strike” which causes none of your attacks to miss. I’m not sure how this works with evasion and terrain, but if it cancels it out, this item is a Mortred killer and is just totally insane.

Headdress of Rejuvenation is now $200

Lothar’s Edge recipe is now Claymore and Quarterstaff plus $1100

Butterfly now requires Eaglehorn, Quarterstaff AND Talisman of Evasion.

And last but not least, Aghanim’s Scepter now works for 19 heroes with various CD reductions and enhancements. The recipe is now a Point Booster plus either 2 Staffs of Wizardry, 2 Ogre Axes or 2 Blade of Alacrities plus a recipe cost of $1100.

Radiance is now cheaper (1325 recipe), and deals 40 dps in an area, up from 35 dmg per sec but the 8% miss chance is removed.

Scourge :

Balanar
Barathrum
Sand King
Pudge
Nessaj
Abaddon
Dazzle
Void
Invoker
Bane Elemental
Sentinel :

Vengeful
Aleria
Jakiro
Chen
Clockwerk
Panda
Huskar
Sniper
Yurnero

Some of these enhancements (ultimate upgrades) include :

Pugna – 300damage/sec – 0 cd
Barathrum – 20 sec cd
Vengeful – 10 sec cd
Chen – 400 heal – 25 sec cd
Yurnero – 10 slashes – 90 sec cd
Pudge - deals 3x your STR in damage per second, absorbs damage

Download the newest DotA 6.60 map here and see all these new changes for yourself

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This is just more solid proof that DotA is pretty imbalanced and could get boring if only a few of its 90+ heroes actually make sense picking for competitions.

Thanks to Zakharov of the DotA-Allstars community for this info.

These are the top hero picks for the following competitions using DotA versions 6.56 and 6.57c :

• Farm4Fame #4 Round 1/2/3 Games and Semifinals (6.56)

• ASUS Autumn 2008 Playoffs, Semifinals andFinals (6.57b)

• Dreamhack 2008 Playoff,s LB Finals WB, Finals and Grand Finals (6.57b)

• Razer ADC Season 2 – KS vs SB (don’t know map version)

• SMM Dota Tournament ’08 LB Finals, WB Finals, Grand Finals (6.57b)

Unordered list using Win Rate and Number of times Picked :

• Chen – 75% – picked 8 times

• Spectre = 67% – picked 6 times.

• Gondar – 100% – picked 5 times

• Kunkka – 100% – picked 4 times

• Visage – 64% – picked 11 times

• Warlock – 59% – picked 39 times

• Na’ix – 57% – picked 23 times.

• Zeus – 54% – picked 26 times

• Puck – 50% – picked 36 times

• PotM – 47% – picked 19 times

• Nerubian Assassin – 46% – picked 13 times

• Earthshaker – 42% – picked 24 times

• Dragon Knight – 50% – picked 14 times

• Shadow Fiend – 50% – picked 12 times

• Tinker – 78% – picked 9 times
  

In other words approximately 80% of the heroes of DotA serve no purpose other than to be beaten up by those heroes or a combination of them. Look at Warlock, 39 times picked

Honourable mentions include :

• Queen of Pain
• Beastmaster
• Omniknight
• Tidehunter
• Broodmother
• Lina
• Lycan
• Stealth Assassin

Heroes that are definitely scorned by professional DotA players :

• Syllabear
• Silencer
• Viper
• Sniper
• Pugna
• Invoker
• Weaver
• Panda
• Abaddon

Therefore if you want to get better at DotA, stop picking noob weak heroes like Pugna (0% win rate even though picked twice) and practice with the heroes pros use!

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Of course there are many guides out there telling you how DotA is the best thing ever and some sites/communities etc, such as this Facebook group, even saying its the best game of all time.

However there are at least 10 reasons why you should stay away from defending that throne or tree for approximately 45 minutes :

1. Its addictive. In 6.60 there will be almost 100 heroes to choose from. They all can be played multiple ways using about 100 items and the combination of skills among them is almost endless. In other words, the replay value is insane, and you will always be curious about testing out new strategies etc = addicted.
2. The learning curve is very, very high With those 100 heroes, 100+ items, and 400 hero abilities to learn, its not something you can walk right into and enjoy.
3. Its elitist Because of the level of strategy required, high learning curve and the time it takes to start and complete a game, anything other than perfect understanding is not tolerated well by most online players. If you’re a beginner, be prepared to be flamed, bullied, banned and abused.
4. Its imbalanced This is a topic in discussion since the DotA concept was introduced way back with the Aeon of Strife custom map for Starcraft. Its a well-known fact that DotA is imbalanced. Certain heroes just make no sense at all and others are overpowered and with certain combinations, a win is certain unless something really out of the ordinary occurs. This also diminishes the fun for new and even veteran players. For example, how do you stop a hero who is permanently invisible, has insane damage, who can cause you to miss and silence you, when all you can do is summon a bear and hit him back??
5. Those hero sounds get to you..“Time to go”, “Shoot to kill”, “Alright, who wants some”, “Ahh, child’s play”, “You fail to amuse me”. These are just some of the phrases you’re going to hear from your hero each time you issue a command, and that’s each time you move and attack, and cast spells for some. This is almost maddening after 3 games, you’ll swear you were a Tauren warrior swinging a totem pole.
6. Time commitment Each game is different, but its a rule of thumb that the average game lasts 45 minutes, that’s a whole half of a football/soccer game. And there’s no such thing as taking breaks either. So coupled together with it being addictive, you’re going to be spending lots of time playing DotA once you start playing it.
7. Too many changes or too long between changes DotA is a community-run game edited mainly by Icefrog and his beta testers. If you start playing DotA and you grow fond of a particular hero, chances are by the next version release he will be changed to be either much weaker than he was before or just changed to be something else entirely, e.g Storm Spirit and Undying. This is annoying. If you like changes however, Icefrog sometimes takes ridiculously long to update the maps, like with 6.60 for example. This is annoying as well. The law of diminishing returns steps in here.

8. Fun factor is heavily dependent on your team You could be the best player in the world, you’re not going to have fun playing DotA if your team is retarded…and Garena and Battlenet (DotA online clients) are full of retards. Its quite common in a game for me to be doing well, getting a lot of money, having a positive score and having fun when all the sudden I see 3 team mates doing stupid stuff like orb-stacking, buying illogical items and just overall being idiots. This effectively wastes 45 minutes of your time. Its ok to lose after 45 minutes if your enemies outsmarted you and just won, but losing because of your own team’s lack of cooperation and stupidity gets to you.
9. Too many leavers/hackers/bug-abusers Especially in Ladder rooms (USA DotA Rooms 1-5), there is rampant map hacking and bug abuse as certain players apparently pride their life off their ladder statistics. I was personally told by a moderator that Garena does nothing about bug abusers, so therefore it is condoned by Garena regardless of the fact that it cheats the ladder system and other players. Map-hacking is also a problem which cannot be solved, ruining the game as well. Untop of these things are leavers who leave the game after they die too much or when their lame wireless internet acts up. This is made worse with that ladder system, as players are either forced to take a deduction in ladder points because the host or team leaves, or forced to sit and slowly lose to a team with more players. These things totally spoil the game.
10. There is no real end or objective World of Warcraft is understandably addictive, but its also very rewarding and vast. You can explore massive lands, interact with millions of players, get countless items and the gameplay is very non-linear. DotA on the other hand is rinse and repeat. You pick a hero, kill creeps, kill heroes, buy items, destroy the Frozen Throne or Tree of Life, type gg and thats it. Although you may become addicted, there is no real fulfillment from playing the game. It gets repetitive and boring…..yet you may find yourself unable to stop playing it. Its true you can say this about most games, for example all you do in Street Fighter is hadoken your enemy to death, but I highly doubt you would  spend hours upon hours playing Street Fighter as you would with DotA. Example of games where there are real ends and objectives – Final Fantasy series , God of War series, etc.

Do you have any more reasons to not play DotA?

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Apparently Garena has reset the level of DotA ladder players. Everyone is level 1 on ladder now.

This effectively means all bug-abusers, Sentinel team-stackers, maphackers and other people who devote hours into levelling up their ladder stats in Garena got pwned hard.

Truly some lol material when your stats suck like mine.

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I started a DotA Fail blog for the sole purpose of laughing at noobs from Garena who :

1) Get ridiculous items on their hero (e.g. Tinker with Refresher Orb)

2) Leave after getting pwned

3) Just fail in general

Check it out

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Channel Admin Metal|Head is hosting a series of DotA events in the Canada Noob*cough* High Level Room at 7pm on weeknights.

Winner gets 1000 exp

Check it out.

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DotA 6.60

A beta of Dota 6.60 has been leaked. This means the real deal should be out by the end of the week.

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This version of the leak is now outdated! Check out the

new DotA 6.60 leak details here

Here is the changelog for DotA 6.60 beta :

• New tavern layout and design : 9 Taverns : Sentinel Strength Tavern, Sentinel Agility Tavern, Sentinel Intelligence Tavern Neutrals Strength Tavern, Neutrals Agility Tavern, Neutrals Intelligence Tavern Scourge Strength Tavern, Scourge Agility Tavern, Scourge Intelligence Tavern

Neutrals Hero can be picked by either Scourge or Sentinel New hero Tauren Chieftain to Sentinel Strength Tavern New hero Bat Rider to Neutrals Intelligence Tavern

• Hero remakes :Viper : 2nd skill is remade, Frenzy is replaced with Nethertoxin (passive damage buff depending on enemy health)
• 
• Razor : total remake except for Chain Lightning (now called Shock)
• 

  New Skill 2

New Skill 3

New Ultimate (passive)

• New items : Force Staff :  Quarterstaff + Staff of Wizardry + Recipe (700) Give +10 Int, +10 Damage, +10 Attack Speed and Force ability (Active) Force can push enemy 500 units on the direction he is faced Magic Wand : Magic stick + 3x Ironwood Branch + Recipe (150) +3 all stats and Energy Charge (15 charges) Empty Bottle now looks like this :

  More pics of 6.60 :

  
  

New Scourge Hero Bat Rider

New Sentinel Hero Tauren Chieftain

Force Staff Being Used

Bat Rider using "Fire Fly" skill

Bat Rider "Flaming Lasso" Ultimate

Well its cool that Icefrog is trying to bring back a little of the original idea of the map – Sentinel vs Scourge, Battle for Mount Hyjal remake, hence the tavern changes. Makes a lot more sense that guys like Meepo are just neutrals who can be on either side of the battle.

Razor can now farm, escape and chase like 3 times better than before. He’s basically the son of Old Storm and Razor. Viper got buffed. Can’t wait to try him out. I couldn’t test Tauren Chieftain because only one of his skills could be levelled up (Earth Splitter) which doesn’t work. Does this mean he’s an all-passive hero? We’ll see.

Thanks to Pizza and Pope for pointing out the Lina and Sven changes. The Lina skill is still as useless as “ultimate” IMO, but Sven is now buffed to imbaness. He now has an AOE stun with no cast delay, from like 700 units away, dealing at lvl 4, 350 damage. WTF? Earthshaker and Sven combo ftw. Not to mention the uber-useless toughness aura got replaced by an unknown active skill. I can see him getting picked (and banned) more in competitions now once the 6.60 map is used.

Bat Rider is cool. His skill set is fun : Fire Fly also allows you to pass through trees, so its an escape mechanism/farming tool/anti-push spell all in one. His ulti, while looking like a Rhasta rip-off, also allows you to move with the lassoed enemy. What a disable! Think about a Bat Rider with lothar’s, sneak up on a hero, lassoes him,  drags him to a Rhasta, shackles him, then Pudge comes in to dismember =  Sex

The other skills I just don’t understand. One looks like Ogre Magi’s 2nd skill, and then there are 2 sub skills (Like Kunkka’s “Return to X” sub-skill) that don’t make much sense right now either.

For the items, as if Magic Stick wasn’t stupid enough. the new Magic Wand item is retarded squared. It’s a totally unnecessary item.

The Force Staff on the other hand is fun….but also a little useless. The only hero that will benefit from it is Bloodseeker. Bloodseeker can ulti a hero and force push them. For every other hero it just provides a cheap pseudo-stun in my opinion.

Anyway, download the map and try for yourself. I hope the real thing is out soon because 6.59d is getting boring.

NEW DOTA 6.60 LEAK

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Out of the blue Blizzard released a patch for Warcraft III TFT, i.e. a game from 6 years ago.

Changelog :

• Battle.net now uses a new banner ad system.

• Fixed an exploit where an altered custom map would be seen identical to the original custom map.
• Fixed an issue where some patches could not apply on Intel Macs.
  

In other words : it serves absolutely no purpose other than to introduce an income channel for Blizzard, due mainly to the fact that the WC3 client is still used so widely because of DotA (I guess its the O of a recent  SWOT analysis)

Unfortunately we have to update to it because :

• Battlenet requires it
• Leagues, tournaments etc require it as well
• Idiots on Garena updated to it (see below)
• If you’re still on 1.22, you can’t join games that are 1.23 and vice-versa 1.23 clients can’t see games that are hosted in 1.22

How to update to the Warcraft 1.23 patch?

• Download it from the Blizzard ftp site (don’t trust other sites)
• Execute the patch file
• You’re done.

You may come across an error message that says:

“Registry error loading key ‘Warcraft III\InstallPath’

This happens if you’re not using an original copy of Warcraft III (hopefully because you backed up your original) or if you moved it from where it was originally installed.

No probs, its an easy fix:

• Go to your startbar > run > type regedit and press enter
• Regedit directly interferes with your registry, you may cause irreversible conflicts/problems on your system so follow these directions carefully
• Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment\
• If you don’t see Blizzard Entertainment, under software,  right click, select New>Key and type Blizzard Entertainment.
• Go to Warcraft III under Blizzard Entertainment
• Again, if you don’t see Warcraft III, under Blizzard Entertainment, right click, select New>Key and type Warcraft III.
• The full path of your location should now be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III
• Once there, right click, new>String Value, type ‘InstallPath’ (without quotes)
• Change the value of InstallPath : right click on InstallPath>Modify, then type in the path where you installed Warcraft (e.g. C:\Program Files\Warcraft III)
• When you’re finished in regedit, it should look like this
  
• Now, there should be no errors in running the patch file, it should take about 15 secs to patch, when done, that’s it, you’ve WC3 patched to version 1.23
• Pwn noobs
  

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There’s a very annoying bug in the Garena client that only started happening with the latest update.

Apparently when the room is full, even though you’re already in the room, Garena kicks you out if you’re not a gold member. You’ll know this from these codes :

[System Message] DC from Room for Recving.
[System Message] DC From Room, Error Code=10053

I interpret that as “disconnect from room”.

If you’re lucky you’ll get the following message shortly after

[System Message] Reconnection to room is succesful!

Several users reported it on Garena’s bug report forums, but as usual they either have no answer or just don’t give a damn.

Is the whole “bug” a subtle coercion for us to buy gold membership? Or do Garena’s programmers just suck? They can barely get the GUI right, I always have problems just scrolling down the room list or seeing my own level, that email verification shit hasn’t worked for like 2 weeks, and I believe the client takes up more memory than it should.

I appreciate the fact that its free, but its about time someone buys over Garena or something because the client itself can be so much better than it already is.

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DotA 6.59d is out.

Changelog :

* Fixed some item exploits
* Fixed a rare memory related bug
* Temporarily changed switch voting system. It requires 100% of the vote for now.

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