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What is Defense of the Ancients?

Defense of the Ancients (often referred to as DotA) is a custom scenario for Warcraft III The Frozen Throne based on the "Aeon of Strife" map for Starcraft The objective of the scenario is to destroy the opponents' "Ancient". The two teams' ancients are heavily guarded structures at opposing corners of the map. Players use powerful units known as heroes, and are assisted by allied heroes and AI-controlled fighters called "creeps". As in role-playing-game, players level up their hero and use gold to buy equipment during the mission.

The scenario was developed with the World of Editor of Warcraft III Reign of Chaos , and was updated upon the release of the Warcraft expansion The Frozen Throne. There have been many variations of the original concept; currently, the most popular is DotA Allstars, which has been maintained by several authors during development.

Since its release, Allstars has become a feature at several worldwide tournaments, including Blizzard Entertainment’s BlizzCon and the Asian World Cyber Games, as well as the Cyberathlete Amateur and CyberEvolution leagues; Gamasutra declared that DotA was perhaps the most popular "free, non-supported game mod in the world". The variant is cited as an inspiration for the upcoming video game Demigod

Saturday, June 13, 2009

New Items Guide

Dota 6.60 New ItemsDotA 6.60 New Items mini guide. 6.60 give us several new items. In this post just like to share about what you've found about those items and how to use it well.



New Basic Items
Ghost Scepter

Ghost Scepter Ghost Form makes you unable to attack or be attacked, but you take 44% extra damage from spells. For 1500 price, i think Ghost Scepter is very situational. While you can evade enemy attack, the 44% extra damage from spell can be deadly. But still, it has its use.

If you're facing Troll, Rikimaru or another DPS hero, this item comes handy. What? Rikimaru has just smoke you when you have a little HP? Don't panic, just activate Ghost Scepter while waiting your friend helps or just simply teleport to safe place. Well, if Rikimaru has Dagon maybe you still die though, but it's very unlikely

Quelling Blade

Quelling BladeThis item definitely a must for a jungling melee hero. The 36% bonus damage to creeps for a damn cheap price of 250 is really neat. Too bad it's only gives 12% bonus to range heroes. The chop tree ability also handy and can make you jungling faster.


Talisman of Evasion

Talisman of EvasionTalisman of Evasion is really a great relieve. Before, you must farm Butterfly to get 30% evasion (6000, which is very expensive). But now, with just 1800 you can have 25% evasion. This items is a great choice for your tank as it can reduce damage from physical attack.


New Recipes

Poor Man's Shield

Poor Man's ShieldWell, the name said it all. This items is very cheap. It 100% blocks 20 hero damage and 60% chance blocks 20 non-hero damage (half for ranged). To get this item with ease on early game, buy 2 Slipper of Agility from base. And after several creep kills buy the stout shield on the side shop to finish this item.

Force Staff

Force StaffThe most interesting items on Dota 6.60 in my opinions. This item is like Kellen's Dagger, it gives you ability to move 500 range on instant. It's really usefull on chasing and escaping. It also gives 10 int, 10 damage and 10 attack speed which pretty neat for 2200 gold. Although many people say that it will work great with Rupture, the fact is, it's not work. When the ruptured enemies forced to move, it didn't give damages. Please note that Force do not cancel Town Portal or another channeling spells.

Khadgar's Pipe of Insight

Khadgar's Pipe of InsightA counter of AOE spell attack. This item can cast Barrier, which gives you and nearby allies 400 spell damage protection for 8 seconds. Multiple cast will override the previous cast. Great, now we can upgrade Hood of Defiance into another item.


Magic Wand

Magic WandMagic Stick's upgrade. Gives you additional 5 charges and 3 attributes.



Bottle's New Icon

Most liked the beta 54's bottle icon best with all those rune animation, it seems more clear. Sorry if it's mentioned beta map. This is great or not new visual for rune animation of bottle?

The old bottle

The new bottle

the green is health
the red is double damage powers up
the blue is illusion powers up
the light green is rejuvenation powers up
the yellow is boost powers up

it's a nice right, so we can know the effective of a bottle if we are an enemy of who using the bottle that gained by powers up.

Have you heard Bug or exploit on DotA 6.60 ? and because of that, IceFrog Rebalanced to born DotA 6.61
And how to make you play as well as you can, see guide book for using Tauren in The strategy to play Tauren helpful

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