[Guide] What is DotA ?! Well...

[senza.bau]

I searched this forum and i realized that not so many people know what DotA really is. Maybe a few WoW players and probably lots of Warcraft 3 players know what DotA is. I'm a Lineage player myself but i play Dota as often as possible (tried to play WoW but didn't worked for me, no offense to wow players :)). So i made this topic to clear it out and maybe make you all try it :)

 

Dota (full name: Defense of the Ancients) is a very popular custom game for Warcraft III Frozen Throne. Its a TvT custom game, 2 teams, 5 players each. Each player selects out of 90 heroes, each with different skills, spells, stats and style of combat. The purpose of the game is to destroy the enemy team's base while trying to protect yours. Each hero can take xp and money from the enemy team creeps or killing another enemy hero.There are 3 types of heroes: Strength (higher hp, hp regeneration, some known as tanks) Agility (higher attack speed and higher armor points than other types, also known as assassins) and Intelligence (highest mana pool and mana regeneration, can be used as early nukers and support heroes). Each hero can level up to level 25, having 3 skills/spells active or passive that can stack up to level 4 and one ultimate spell that can stack up to level 3. As players gather money , they can use it to buy a large variety of items to enhance the strengths of their hero and provide additional abilities. Each and every hero has flaws and advantages; some heroes do massive damage early game when late game heroes have no chance. Skills and spells can be active, passive and auto casted.

 

DotA is a team game, you cannot win without your team, its probably THE team game in Warcraft 3 and although some heroes can be better vs others, its a very balanced game taken to its limits.

Nevertheless, there are 90 heroes to chose from and countless styles of play, countless combos and item builds.

 

I made this intro to DotA because i saw not to many people on this forum discuss about it although is a very popular game that has many tournaments world-wide with some pretty prizes.

 

If you need any help here are some websites to DotA.

http://www.dota-allstars.com Official DotA website - forum, heros/map/items presentation

http://www.dotastrategy.com/ Here is a website with guides and strategies in DotA

http://www.getdota.com/ Here you can download the lastest map of DotA

 

Or you can pm me here or /w senzational on eurobattle.net server :) GL & HF

 

[Oblivion]

great explanation of our loved game.. pity so little people know about it in a forum with so many games... :(

simple and great guide(although not actually a guide)