Looks like Dota 6.66b has a serious loophole which can cause a Fatal Error abuse. With certain steps, you can make all the player got a Fatal Error on their PCs.
Moreover, the recently released Warcraft 1.24e Patch also don't fix this problem. People are using this bug as an escape mechanism from losing a game.
If this is done right, all the people playing got Fatal Error and mostly the match will be restarted.
Of course this is not working on tournament that save the game every certain time. However, if you're on upper hand of a game and yet you got a Fatal Error, you must beware of this method.
How to Make Fatal Error Bug
1. Buy a Courier and use it.
2. Buy a Crow recipe and give it to the Courier.
3. Buy Ring of Protection then drop it.
4. Buy Sobi Mask then drop it a bit far from the Ring of Protection.
5. Use the Shift button/queue command on the Courier to make him pick the Ring of Protection then the Sobi Mask then transform to Crow. (place your Courier a bit far from those items, hold Shift and then right click on the Ring of Protection, right click on the Sobi Mask and left click on the change into Crow button, release Shift)
6. To know if it is successful, the Courier will turn into Crow but the Ring of Basilius is not formed.
7. Build Armlet of Mordiggian, activate it then give it to the Crow.
8. Last step, once the Armlet of Mordiggian already on the Crow, click it and BOOM.. Fatal error will occur to all the players at the game.
Dota 6.66b Fatal Error Abuse | Dota 6.66b Bug
DotA 6.66b AI 0.2141 Map Download - Fatal Error Fix
Dota 6.66b AI 0.2141 - Dota-Allstars v6.66b AI 0.2141 Map Download. The previous Dota 6.66b AI contains a fatal bug that can cause the game to crash. Now it's been fixed:
Changelogs: Dota 6.66b AI (v0.2141)
-Rewrote Overpower and Summon Familiars to prevent AI crashes
-Undid the fix added for Pounce in 6.66b that was causing the game to crash
-Added a workaround for when AI attempt to attack a dropped Divine Rapier (item will be removed)
-Fixed AI from destroying the Aegis after having them attack Roshan
DotA-Allstars 6.66b AI 0.214 Download Link here
Dota 6.65 Map New Hero | Dota All Stars 6.65 Map News
Get Dota 6.65 Map - Official Dota-Allstars 6.65 Download Update.
It has been announced that IceFrog will make some balance changes on Dota 6.64. There are also news a new hero will come in Dota 6.65.
The new hero will be named Nightcrawler.
Soon you will be able to get Dota 6.65 map. We will post the links where you can download the new map as soon as it comes out.
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Dota 6.63b AI - DotA-Allstars 6.63b AI 0.212 Map Download
Dota 6.63b AI - Dota-Allstars v6.63b AI 0.212 Map Download.
Changelog:
- Fixed an issue that was causing AI bots to learn their abilities out of order
- Fixed another issue that was still causing the game to crash when a player leaves the game early
- Added some additional AI ability functionality (Crystal Nova, Storm Bolt, Mana Burn)
Before download, please make sure you have Warcraft 1.24b Patch. Patch 1.23 won't work.
DotA-Allstars 6.63b AI 0.212 Download Link here
Get Dota 6.62 OMG Map v1.04c
Fans of the Dota OMG map should know that the version 6.62 OMG map has been released. Interested gamers who want to download this map can do so in the links provided below.
For those who don't know anything about the Dota OMG map, here's a short description:
The OMG mode is where your hero will get a completely random set of skills. So for example, you could be playing with Dirge that has Blink and Epicenter.
Take note though that you cannot choose your skills. It's really all random. To activate the OMG mode, add ra in your game mode. Example: -raapnp
What's new in Dota 6.62 OMG map?
- OMG mode map is now based on DotA v6.62 and works under war3 v1.24b.
- Fixed Rabid, Open Wounds, Black Hole and Refraction.
- Nature Order and Charge of Darkness had been replaced with Heartstopper Aura and Sand Storm because of bugs.
- Commands -swap and -repick are disabled in OMG modes.
- Command unstuck and afk timer are disabled in Abilities Draft mode.
- Fixed bug with shops in Abilities Draft mode.
Get Dota 6.62 Beta Map | Free Download of Dota 6.62 Map
Participate in the public beta. Download and get Dota 6.62 map. This is to give IceFrog the proper adjustments for the new Warcraft 1.24.
Please note that there is basically no difference between this and the Dota 6.61b map. Anyway, here's what IceFrog has to say about the Dota 6.62 map:
"This version most likely has many broken abilities and functions right now. A huge amount of code has been at least partially rewritten for this patch. Various untested new functions in 1.24 are being used, anything can go wrong.
The first step is to have everyone here test in either single player or with a couple other people, test everything in the game and report which ones are broken.
There should be zero functional changes between 6.62 and 6.61b. If you aren't sure if something is bugged or not compare it with 6.61b.
The only concern for this version right now is to make sure the map code is functional. Do not use these subforums to report anything unless it is an issue that is unique for 6.62/1.24 or to use it as a suggestion forum. There are many potential issues so we need to keep things organized and focused on the task at hand.
The bugs aren't just limited to abilities. Items, commands, game modes, game behavior, rules, upgrades, timers, etc are all vulnerable to bugs.
After we pass Phase 1 of the testing (testing by yourself or with a group of people on westfall), we will then start to do regular 5v5 games to find what other bugs were missed. You can do these games now if you want as well, but we will formally start them after we have had extensive tests on the rest of the stuff first. There are many bugs that will only be easy to catch in multiplayer though, so you are encouraged to try and play with a few people at least.
Thanks in advance for all the help."
Download the 6.62 Beta map here or here.
Get Dota 6.61b OMG Map
I hope you were all able to get and enjoy the Dota 6.59 OMG Map I posted before. If so, then here's an update.
You can now get Dota 6.61b OMG Map here.
And just to show you how fun and great teh Dota 6.61b OMG Map can be, here's a video of Magina owning several heroes with his awesome random skills. (not!) :P
Get Dota 6.61 Beta Map | Free Download of Dota 6.61 Map
The Dota Map 6.61 Beta version is now out. Some say that the Dota 6.61 map has leaked but we are still confirming the source of this information. In any case, here are the Dota 6.61 map changelogs just in case you want to know before you download the 6.61 map.
- Fixed natural regeneration on rax
- Fixed Living Armor not regenerating structures properly
- Fixed incorrect sell value on some aghanim scepters
- Fixed Double Damage visual effect to properly show when the user is using low graphics mode
- Reduced Double Edge cooldown (25->12)
- Watchers now have collision. They also have 400 less vision range and give +40 more bounty.
- Various misc code fps stuff
- Undid Sil armor change
- Fixed Reverse Polarity, it properly places them infront of you now
- Fixed an error in the damage calculation method for Plasma Field
- Reduced FPS drops when using Shiva's Guard and Plasma Field with some custom import files (PGRu-Unexpect3D)
- Improved Faceless Void's base strength (17 to 23)
- Restored original cooldown improvement on Scepter for QoP
- Improved Searing Arrows damage from 10/20/30/40 to 20/30/40/50
- Increased projectile speed on Mystic Snake
- Lowered Stone Gaze cooldown (70->35)
- Sven's Storm bolt now uses the normal unit targeting scheme. No gameplay changes, just the interface visuals.
- Fixed -ns mode
- Fixed Napalm not properly stacking and doing higher constant values [needs playtesting since it may be too useless now]
- Slightly increased Eyes in the Forest cast range (+25) to fix some order issue bugs [make sure u can't abuse it]
- Casting Nature's Guise on an allied unit will no longer take you out if if you have it on you
- Reverse Polarity now pulls units slightly infront of you instead of all around you
- Lowered Magic Stick/Wand cooldown from 25 to 17
- Added a new icon for Slardar's Bash (3587)
You can download Dota 6.61 beta map here.
Download Dota 6.59d Map OMG Mode Random Skills
Where can you download the Dota 6.59d OMG v1.03 map? Well here of course. This map is just like the original Dota 6.59d. But it is different because it has the OMG game mode.
The OMG mode is where your hero will get a completely random set of skills. So for example, you could be playing with Dirge that has Blink and Epicenter. That's definitely OMG!
Take note though that you cannot choose your skills. It's really all random. Give this map a try, it's really fun to play.
To activate the OMG mode, add ra in your game mode. Example: -raapnp.
You can download it Dota-Allstars 6.59d OMG v.103 here.
Dota 6.60 Map Free Download
Are you looking for the Dota 6.60 Map? Do you want to download the free Dota 6.60 map? Where can you get Dota 6.60 map leaked version or even the beta map? Then here are some news about the Dota Allstars 6.60 map.
Icefrog recently told the Dota Allstars community that there will be a new hero in 6.60. The new hero is Tauren Chieftain. There will also be item changes on Dota 6.60.
As we wait for the official download of the Dota 6.60 map to be released, just enjoy playing the previous version Dota 6.59c first and I will give you the link where you can get the free download of Dota 6.60 here soon.
Tank Heroes
Tank heroes are those which can absorb large amounts of damage, thus drawing attention of enemies from allied heroes. Having a tank hero is a big factor when pushing lanes during DotA games.
Tank heroes are typically strength based characters because they have high HP which regenerates fast. They also have defensive abilities that grant armor, regenerates HP or gives bonus damage.
Ideally, a tank hero must become a significant threat in order to attract attention from enemies. Radiance is one of the best items for tank heroes because it simultaneously damages all his attackers within the AoE. Given the proper items, any hero can be built to become a tank.
Notable heroes often used as a tank in DotA games:
- Earthshaker
- Necrolyte
- Spectre
- Centaur Warchief
- Magnataur
- Axe
- Holy Knight
- Lycanthrope
- Dragon Knight
- Bristleback
- Tidehunter
- Gorgon
- Lord of Avernus
- Nerubian Assassin
- Sand King
- Lifestealer
- Alchemist
- Twin Head Dragon
- Clockwerk Goblin
- Butcher
- Admiral Proudmoore
- Beastmaster
- Enchantress
- Lone Druid
- Morphling
- Pandaren Brewmaster
- Rogue Knight
- Sacred Warrior
- Stone Giant
- Treant Protector
- Slithereen Guard
- Skeleton King
- Pit Lord
- Night Stalker
- Necro'lic
- Doom Bringer
- Chaos Knight
Support Heroes
Support heroes are essential members of any DotA team game. These heroes either disable enemies or boost allies with their skills.
The good news is that, any hero with the right items can do the role of a support character. However, some heroes have skill sets that are already optimized for the support role. They have more defensive abilities than offensive ones.
Supporting skills typically fall under four categories. They are:
Disables and Slows
These are skills that disrupt the enemy heroes which causes them to become vulnerable for attack or give allies enough time to escape safely.
Negative Buff
These are abilities which removes buffs placed on enemy heroes. It can also be skills which lower the base armor of opponents or amplifies damage they receive. Other skills such as Mana Leak causes heroes to lose mana points.
Positive Buff
These are skills that boosts the abilities of allied heroes, usually increasing their damaging abilities. Some positive buff skills also include increasing armor, movement speed and rates of restoring health and mana points.
Heals
Obviously, this skill simply gives allied heroes additional HP during the game. Mekansm is an example of an item which support heroes usually get. Aside from giving health points, healing can also come in the form of giving rescue to low HP allies through teleportation or wind walking abilities.
Items that are usually used by support heroes include Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse, Eul's Scepter of Divinity, Assault Cuirass, Mekansm, Nathrezim Buckler, Headdress of Rejuvenation, Bloodstone, Shiva's Guard, Diffusal Blade, Vladmir's Offering and Orchid Malevolence.
Nuke Spell Casting
Nuke spell casting is the act of casting a spell that causes ranged magic damage. Nukes generally deal all or most of their damage immediately rather than slowly over time. Since nuke spells cause proportionally high damage early game, they are commonly played and leveled up early in the game.
Nuke spells are often cast in combination or in chain with other abilities, such as a disabling spell or other damage spells.
Some notable examples of this chain or combo abilities are:
Demon Witch - Impale + Voodoo + Finger of Death
Nerubian Assassin - Mana Burn + Impale + Vendetta
Slayer - Light Strike Array + Dragon Slave + Laguna Blade.
To add more damage to their nukes, heroes often buy items such as Dagon and Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse.
A hero who often uses nuke spells is usually called a Nuker. An example of this would be Zeus, who has 3 nukes. Nukers are typically Intelligence based heroes.
Unfortunately, nukers are also the first target by enemy heroes during early game because they also have the lowest amoung of health points. A good early game for nukers would be Shiva's Guard because it also grants armor to the hero.
Movement Speed
Movement speed or mobility is one of the most important things a DotA player must study. Suffice to say, the more mobile a hero is, the faster he is in moving across the map to level up and farm.
What is movement speed?
Movement speed is the distance covered per duration of time when walking. In DotA, the maximum movement speed is 522 and the minimum is 100.
How do you increase movement speed?
The simplest way is to buy items such as:
- Boots of Speed - an essential item that should be bought early
- Power Treads - Boots of Speed upgrade with added increase in attack speed
- Boots of Travel - best mobility item which gives highest movement speed boost as well as grants teleportation
- Phase Boots - an item that ads movement speed and gives temporary 10% burst of mobility
- Yasha - provides a movement speed bonus, provides further boost when upgraded to Sange and Yasha
- Mask of Madness's Berserk - also gives a bonus percentage mobility
- Eul's Scepter of Divinity - gives +20 movement speed bonus
- Lothar's Edge's Wind Walk - when cast, it gives 20% movement speed bonus during invisible status
Movement Speed Calculation
Type -ms in game and you will see the current movement speed of the hero you currently control. It is calculated as:
(Base Movement Speed + Total Raw Movement Speed Bonus) * (1 + Total % Increase/Decrease in Movement Speed)
Example:
A hero with Boots of Travel and is buffed by Haste was Hexed (thus turning the Hexed hero's base movement speed to 100). Since Haste increases movement speed by 100%, that hexed hero's movement speed would be:
= (100 + 85) * (1 + 1)
= (185) * (2)
= 370 - this will be the movement speed of the hero
Mobility Strategies
When going around the map, always choose the shortest safe route. Be familiar with the map and the location of the neutral creeps. Also, constantly check the rune spawns when it is within your route.
Movement Speed Trivia:
- The base average movement speed of all heroes is 300.
- The fastest hero in the game is Chaos Knight, with a movement speed of 325, while Goblin Techies are the slowest, with 270.
- Heroes with a ranged attack range generally have a lower-than-average movement speed, while melee attack range heroes are often above average.
Getting The Last Hit
Getting the last hit in DotA simply means doing the final blow to a creep, hero or structure. For enemies, the purpose is to get the gold. For allies, it is to deny gold and experience points. This is an essential skill for every good DotA player.
Last Hitting is also important for lane control. When you are last hitting and denying effectively, then you can keep creeps close to your tower, which is helpful when avoiding ganks.
General strategy for getting the last hit:
Your most important tool for last hitting is the ALT key. Pressing this shows the health bars of every unit on the screen. This gives you an idea which unit is close to dying.
For melee heroes: Stand near the creeps and just hold your attacks, only go up to them for the last hit.
For ranged heroes: Move your hero around and stay within range so you can reach your target for the last hit.
Aside from these, it's important to know the time it takes for your hero to attack. Knowing your character's attack animation duration will help you properly time your last hit.
Another important thing to take note of while last hitting is your hero's damage. Of course, heroes with higher damage can last hit creeps when they have a higher health. You must know approximately how low the creep's health is before you last hit it.
Heroes with AoE skills are great for farming and getting the last hit on several units at the same time.
Ganking Heroes
Ganking heroes means ganging up on one or more opponent heroes and outnumbering them in a battle. Gank is short for gang kill.
Gangking is carried out by launching a sudden attack for the purpose of:
- slowing down opponents farming for gold, this happens as small skirmishes during early mid game
- getting gold and experience for the allied hero or heroes themselves
- to push the creep line towards the enemy line specially if the game seems to be on a stall
One of the most useful item for ganking is Observer Wards. It can be used offensively and defensively. Common locations for Observer Wards are:
- inside enemy forest, to locate heroes farming in the neutral creeps
- inside allied forest, to warn against gank attempts from the opponent
- near the rune spots, to spot runes when they appear and see if an opponent has them
Always remember that it's important to have a proper balance between ganking and farming. Spending more time in one than the other may result to becoming underleveled and/or underfarmed for the hero.
Heroes which are effective gankers are those that can deal a lot of damage in a short time, have great mobility and has a disabling ability. Two or more heroes should have one or a combination of these abilities.
Burst damagers examples are the Nerubian Assassin, Slayer, Zeus, Tinker and Lich. Heroes which have great mobility are Queen of Pain, Puck, Mirana, Morphling and Slithereen Guard, while good disablers are Vengeful Spirit, Clockwerk, Rhasta, Lion and Jakiro.
Farming Gold
Farming gold is one of the basic skills that one needs to learn to excel in DotA. Farming simply means killing monsters, creeps and neutrals to get and accumulate gold.
Farming Techniques
The most important skill in farming for gold is the ability to Last Hit. Players only receive gold if they deal the killing blow to a creep (or hero). That's why it's crucial to wait until the enemy unit's HP is low before attacking or using a spell.
This strategy is most frequently utilized early in the game, during which last hitting competes directly with denying creeps, although it should be practiced throughout the entire game to maximize farming efficiency.
Some heroes are better at farming for gold than others, particularly those with an AoE or Area of Effect spell. Examples are Pugna's Netherblas and Leshrac's Lightning Storm.
For such spells, one needs only to wait until many enemy creeps have low HP before casting the spell. This is done by attacking enemy creeps that allied creeps are not currently engaged in battle.
Aside from skills and items that give extra AoE are commonly used for framing. Examples are Cleave from Battle Fury and Radiance, which is undoubtedly the best farming item in the game. Shiva's Guard deals damage to every unit in a large area; when coupled with another AoE spell, entire creep waves can be quickly destroyed.
Farming creeps is pushes a lane faster than desired. That's why the best position to farm is next to an allied tower so you can be close enough to retreat safely but far away enough so the tower will not steal the Last Hit.
Maintaining the position of the creep line and not pushing is therefore crucial to safe and efficient farming. When farming for gold, always remember to avoid using damaging spells and focus on getting the Last Hit. Furthermore, friendly creeps must be denied whenever possible to prevent the allied creeps from pushing towards the enemy's side.
Although farming for gold tends to be boring, it's important that you practice patience and frugality to ensure that you'll have enough to buy the high priced items you will need to become powerful.
Disabling Enemies
Disabling enemies is a common DotA strategy. This is an action that temporarily incapacitates an opponent's character.
Disables are usually active hero spells such as Ensnare and Voodoo. There are also passive disables such as Bash and Last Word. Some items can also disable enemy heroes such as Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse and Eul's Scepter of Divinity.
Types of Disables
Stun
Stun is believed to be the most powerful disable, which completely prevents the target from taking any action during the duration. When multiply stuns land on a single target, the longest stun time overrides the others. Examples: War Stomp and Bash.
Ensnare
Ensnare disables the movement of the target, but they can still attack and cast spells. An exception for this would be Blink. Examples: Ensnare, Earthbind, and Pit of Malice.
Silence
A bit similar to Ensnare is Silence, wherein the target can still move and attack but cannot cast spells. Items may still be used during Silence, with the exception when the Silence spell is cast by Doom. Examples: Silence, Global Silence and Crippling Fear.
Shackles
Shackled units cannot perform any action at all, similar to Stun. The caster is disabled as well until the spell ends, whether by duration or by command. Examples: Dismember, Shackles, and Fiend's Grip all use Shackles to restrain enemies.
Hex
Hexed units have their base movement speed reduced to 100 and cannot attack or cast spells. Examples: Voodoo and Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse.
Denying Gold and Experience
Denying experience points is a common strategy in DotA. This means killing an allied creep with low hit points left before your opponents do. Denying a creep will reduce or negate the experience gain for enemy heroes.
A denied creep will give 66% of its normal experience value to melee enemy heroes and 33% for ranged enemy heroes. A creep can only be denied if it has less than 50% HP.
Aside from creeps, buildings can also be denied. Defense towers are often denied to prevent the opposing team from getting a huge amount of gold. However, buildings must have 10% or less HP before it becomes deniable.
Under certain circumstances, an allied hero can also be denied. When a hero is affected with a Damage Over Time skill and is under 25% of his maximum HP, allied heroes can attack and kill him in order to prevent the opposing team from getting gold and gaining XP.
The following skills will make a hero deniable: Doom, Shadow Strike, Shadow Word and Curse of the Silent. Likewise, denying will trigger these skills in the hero: Sadist, Blood Bath, Flesh Heap, and Necromastery.
Using these skills to deny a creep will give absolutely no XP to enemy heroes:Dark Ritual, Death Pact, Conversion and Infest.
You can type -di or -cson any time in the game to activate the deny record chart. The deny record chart shows you how many lanes creeps you killed and how many you denied.
Scourge Heroes List
Here is the list of Scourge Heroes in DotA. Click on the names to learn more about the hero and the list of strategy guides available for that hero.
Axe - Mogul Kahn
Bane Elemental - Atropos
Bloodseeker - Strygwyr
Bone Fletcher - Clinkz
Broodmother - Black Arachnia
Butcher - Pudge
Chaos Knight - Nessaj
Dark Seer - Ish'kafel
Death Prophet – Krobelus
Demon Witch - Lion
Doom Bringer - Lucifer
Faceless Void - Darkterror
Geomancer - Meepo
Gorgon - Medusa
Invoker - Kael
Lich - Kel'Thuzad
Lifestealer - N'aix
Lightning Revenant - Razor
Lord of Avernus - Abaddon
Lycanthrope - Banehallow
Magnataur - Magnus
Necro'lic - Visage
Necrolyte - Rotund'jere
Nerubian Assassin - Anub'arak
Nerubian Weaver - Anub'seran
Netherdrake - Viper
Night Stalker - Balanar
Oblivion - Pugna
Obsidian Destroyer - Harbinger
Phantom Assassin - Mortred
Pit Lord - Azgalor
Queen of Pain - Akasha
Sand King - Crixalis
Shadow Fiend - Nevermore
Shadow Priest - Dazzle
Skeleton King - King Leoric
Slithereen Guard - Slardar
Soul Keeper - Terrorblade
Spectre - Mercurial
Spiritbreaker - Barathrum
Tidehunter - Leviathan
Tormented Soul - Leshrac the Malicious
Undying - Dirge
Venomancer - Lesale Deathbringer
Warlock - Demnok Lannik
Witch Doctor - Vol'Jin
