Three Spirits Update - Games

My time in the low priority queue finished right on time.

I swear, Earth's E is the most broken thing in the existence. It basically allows you to save any fucking teammate without a way to stop you, since GL chasing when he's 1000 units away and you're stunned. This is going to allow so many daring dives, oh boy.

I was looking for the "Added Ember Spirit!" and "Added Earth Spirit!" from the patch notes, but instead I got heaps of other unrelated bullshit.

I like how, in the promo art, Xin and Kaolin look so "HMMMPH" and grimserious, but Storm Spirit is still "Ha! Ha! I'm using the lightning balls!" and just does not give a fuck for your seriousness. Also it's cool that we have some more heroes for the Dota 2 game, and Ember Spirit seems to have some survivability with that Flame Guard ability of his. Also also, I'm a sucker for gems and crafting and customization, so those features are probably gonna be amazing.

[QUOTE=ironman17;42860212]I like how, in the promo art, Xin and Kaolin look so "HMMMPH" and grimserious, but Storm Spirit is still "Ha! Ha! I'm using the lightning balls!" and just does not give a fuck for your seriousness.Also it's cool that we have some more heroes for the Dota 2 game, and Ember Spirit seems to have some survivability with that Flame Guard ability of his.Also also, I'm a sucker for gems and crafting and customization, so those features are probably gonna be amazing.[/QUOTE] Can we please get a simple edit of "Ha ha! I'm using the lightning balls!" with a closeup of storm's face? I'd go for it but I'm on a university computer right now with no way to edit it.

im convinced that any earth spirit player without moonspeak in his name will feed

Also we got a trine announcer

Ember spirit is a complete monster. He's going to be almost ungankable if someone knows how to play him

I was hoping for a zeus redesign well atleast we got a lot of stuff that is actually good

I shat a brick when I saw the gem and socket system, started to think about path of exile/Diablo II/Torchlight II, it's nice to have more customization And xin is finally here yay [QUOTE=Keychain;42858892] [t]http://media.steampowered.com/apps/205790/icons/econ/sets/dota_item_thunderwraths_calling_set_large.573afa6c5c16071fc13613bccb4e25ada7fbb3e9.png[/t][/QUOTE] Reminds me of pepsiman alternative costume

So someone did some digging on how crafting works in the new update: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/Dota2Trade/comments/1qm94s/psa_info_on_how_the_crafting_recipes_work/[/url] It apparently costs about 5 mythicals to make a non-genuine version of a promotional item and it costs 238 items or so to make an item to make some unusual couriers.

[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;42860407]Ember spirit is a complete monster. He's going to be almost ungankable if someone knows how to play him[/QUOTE] He's about as good as puck when it comes to escaping. Earth spirit is the real one who seems to shine though. He's a beast in team fighting and has a whole lot of versatility in the way you can use him.

I know the icons for Pit Lord have been mentioned, but did anyone else notice the actual model for pit lord, as well as an entry in heros.txt and all his skills in npc_abilities.txt? So adding him to Pick Your Skills tomorrow :D

[img]http://i.imgur.com/JhvLIy0.png[/img] Scrake finally gets one of his sets in. Also, people are pissing and moaning about the ixmike set. Fuck those guys, it looks great.

[QUOTE=Banned?;42861485][img]http://i.imgur.com/JhvLIy0.png[/img] Scrake finally gets one of his sets in. Also, people are pissing and moaning about the ixmike set. Fuck those guys, it looks great.[/QUOTE] Those fucking WoW tier spike shoulderplates. Didn't Scrake made the set without those?

[QUOTE==DarkStar=;42861511]Those fucking WoW tier spike shoulderplates. Didn't Scrake made the set without those?[/QUOTE] Not afaik. [url]http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=183154385[/url]

Is the face plate pierced to his ears? Badass.

[QUOTE=Banned?;42861522]Not afaik. [url]http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=183154385[/url][/QUOTE] What a shame. The mask is real imaginative, in fact is real cleaver but the bracers and the shoulderplates are way off. Still the Weaver set steals wins the award of the worlds biggest insult to artstyle.

I am very much in support of this storm rework, hell all the spirits look great. Now fucking fix up zeus

More info on socketing and how it works. [img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1463678_632878946754714_1623491653_n.jpg[/img] Info on how to craft and get these items here: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/Dota2Trade/comments/1qm94s/psa_info_on_how_the_crafting_recipes_work/[/url]

I am ready for this update. Any ETA?

The new animation one is most interesting. Is it random? Do they have tons of backed up various animations?

Found this when converting the new hero portraits into gold avatars. [vid]http://blackawps.breakpointservers.com/dotastuff/dash_bg_spirits_2013_40534656.mp4[/vid] New animated background for this update.

[QUOTE=Totenkreuz;42862995]The new animation one is most interesting. Is it random? Do they have tons of backed up various animations?[/QUOTE] I think the way it works is that you can remove gems from items that have attack animation modifiers for that hero. So for example you could remove the assassinate ult animation change on sniper from his mythical gun and put it on any other gun you want. Same thing with WR items and some others.

Will current stranges become pre gemed and then we can use that gem on something else?

[QUOTE=Totenkreuz;42863116]Will current stranges become pre gemed and then we can use that gem on something else?[/QUOTE] I assume so. I loaded up the test client and two of my TI2 couriers were there. I checked them and they both had an Ethereal and Prismatic gem in them. I believe autographed, strange, and unusual items will be gemmed when starting up. Along with possibly the attack modifying items for some heroes.

Oh man if this means I can take an unusual effect off of one of my couriers and apply it to another. Oh man. That's so fucking cool. Bonuses include how hard cancerous traders are getting shafted

[QUOTE=Totenkreuz;42863192]Oh man if this means I can take an unusual effect off of one of my couriers and apply it to another. Oh man. That's so fucking cool. Bonuses include how hard cancerous traders are getting shafted[/QUOTE] It's not that simple to take and add effects from couriers though. (I MIGHT not be 100% correct on all of this. Just basing it off of what I'm reading.) The item required to do it requires like 238 specific items of different rarities (YES SPECIFIC ITEMS meaning if you need that item YOU NEED THAT ITEM.) And the item is a one time use item. One use and you have to craft or trade for another one. You can read more about this here: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/Dota2Trade/comments/1qm94s/psa_info_on_how_the_crafting_recipes_work/[/url] "To make an Artificer's Brand, you need 100 specific commons, 75 specific uncommon, 50 specific rares, 10 specific mythical, and 3 specific Legendaries. I believe you need a bunch of the same item and not a bunch of different ones though. This is the item to make any courier unusual, but god damn its expensive. Gems not included ether. Item is rated ancient." I'm not 100% sure on everything though. I'm just basing everything off of what I'm reading. We'll know in a few hours how it all works.

That sounds over complicated, but yeah. We'll see.

[QUOTE=Totenkreuz;42863192]Oh man if this means I can take an unusual effect off of one of my couriers and apply it to another. Oh man. That's so fucking cool. Bonuses include how hard cancerous traders are getting shafted[/QUOTE] Relevant: [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1324912[/url]