NotAbastard Posted December 31, 2010 Posted December 31, 2010 A common question I get from those who begin their DotA career (?!) is "Where should I play?" Well here's a list of the most famous servers. Battlenet Battlenet is the original Warcraft III server of Blizzard. The games are hosted by the users , and the performance of the game is based on their computer. Advantages : You will ALWAYS find a game to play, 24/7, and players to play with. In certain rooms, you are sure that you play with experienced people ( mostly useful when you have some basic experience yourself :P ) You can find games with any map you like , not only DotA. Official support by Blizzard. Disadvantages Most public games are full or random , inexperienced people , who only join games just to mess them up, and they end up destroying your game. Some games are really laggy. You have to know which room you should join, to access the high quality games. It's not free. Garena Garena is a LAN emulator, you join rooms and you find the games like a local network. It's really popular, and it also has support for other games. Advantages Free to join, and play It has a high population, and there are rooms for every country in the world Delay-free, for most people Leveling system sometimes helps understanding who's experienced and who's not Disadvantages Non-gold members may find it hard joining rooms during busy hours of the day Lacking a proper banlist, there are many people who leave games and just get away with it Maphack is an everyday phenomenon The support is crappy, at least from my experience Eurobattle.net Eurobattlenet used to be a "free" , low quality battlenet alternative, but since then it has grown quite a lot. Advantages Lag-free, since most games are hosted by fast hostbots Nice protection against maphackers, leavers and afkers, since it has a nice banlist system Pretty close community, people know each other. Disadvantages Most of the times you'll get kicked from high-quality games if you don't have a game history (like 30-40 games or so) Low population compared to other servers No map variety. DotA, Footmen or Enfos and that's it. You cannot find a variety of nationalities between users. Most of them are either Romanian, or Brazilian, or Turkish. You have to activate your account everymonth, if not your account gets deleted in 6 months RGC (Ranked Gaming Client) RGC is not that popular in Eastern Europe, but it's a really nice place to find quality games. Advantages Mostly lag free Organised games, and a nice way to play like the pros do (Captain's mode in dota, wards, proper gangs, some stuff that you don't find everyday in other servers Support from the staff. Disadvantages Maphackers ruin it for others Low population Low experience players will get some serious mocking and insulting Dota-League Dota league is where you will meet your idols, most of the famous players play there. It's hard to get in , easy to get kicked out, so don't join it if you think you ain't got the guts. Advantages Professional gaming. With a proper clan you can live some pretty nice moments in there Most people know what they are doing The ranking system will let you know who's good and who's bad Disadvantages Not for newbies You need to be accepted to join in , and it takes time If you are looking for fun , do not go there. Things get serious, and a tiny bit of insult can get you banned Some people speak of lag, but I haven't experienced any Dotalicious-Gaming Although still beta, it has developped a pretty competitive ladder , with many professional gamers on top. You can meet players like Maelk in a simple game you join. The games are categorized in skill levels, and as your experience and winning percentage rises, you get to join higher-level games. Advantages Reconnection System High Quality Games Leaver-free Easy to join Proper categorization of games and players Disadvantages Still beta Pretty messy if someone is lagging too much but won't get disconnected Sometimes a single new player can ruin the game, dragging his teammates into a loss of experience and win percentage reduction. Darer Another famous server you could try is Darer. It's pretty famous in Eastern Europe , and a place for many famous players from these countries. It also supports CASH prizes for the top players EACH MONTH and you can also bet cash for a match! Pretty interesting, but i haven't checked it out myself so I can't write a proper review. Of course there are other servers you can choose (Like groups in Hamachi and Xfire) but these are the most famous ones. The links are given below : http://www.garena.com/ http://www.battle.net/ http://www.rankedgaming.com/ http://www.eurobattle.net/ http://www.dota-league.com/ http://www.dotalicious-gaming.com/ http://www.darer.com If you have any objections about anything I wrote, please let me know Credits : NotAbast4rd EDIT : Dotalicious added, and info about Darer
`Vaxil Posted December 31, 2010 Posted December 31, 2010 bravo ! Abnormal has started recently playing dota , so good job meng!
|Itachi Posted January 1, 2011 Posted January 1, 2011 In my opinion RGC and Dota league should be deleted from this post just because you refer to newcomers(Noobs) so plz dont destroy the whole dota platforms
Reptant_ Posted January 1, 2011 Posted January 1, 2011 About BNET,you will never play in public servers. Just join channel 'ELEOS' and u can find lagless games hosted by bots then,some semi-private clans(clan nol,public but very better than eleos) and totally privates,when u need invitation also RGC or what of them has reconnection tool,i can't remember ah,Dotalicious add it so considering urself a newbie ,you go at eleos then nol and they invite you privates you will start garena public if u are tard and can't play w/o mh
DreaM Posted January 1, 2011 Posted January 1, 2011 So.. from your point of view there's no place that we can call "proper"for DotA games ?
NotAbastard Posted January 1, 2011 Author Posted January 1, 2011 So.. from your point of view there's no place that we can call "proper"for DotA games ? Every and each one of those servers have proper dota games. But you gotta know where to find 'em For example , I play some really neat games on Clan PDC of battlenet, while public games are crap I love Clan matches on Europe Clan War 1, 2 of garena, but 90% of GDR games are sucky etc
DreaM Posted January 1, 2011 Posted January 1, 2011 If you want to play proper games gather your friends find a Internet Cafe and have that special DotA game you never can be satisfied to the fullest when your feelings aren't shared with friends ...
Reptant_ Posted January 1, 2011 Posted January 1, 2011 If you want to play proper games gather your friends find a Internet Cafe and have that special DotA game you never can be satisfied to the fullest when your feelings aren't shared with friends ... Exactly nothing can be compared with this
Lain Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 NotABastard and what is your best personal choice?
NotAbastard Posted January 2, 2011 Author Posted January 2, 2011 NotABastard and what is your best personal choice? Tbh I have no permanent residence , but I've had my favorite games in Europe Clan War rooms of Garena
|Itachi Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 btw,add http://www.dotalicious-gaming.com/ plz no all these Greek noobs destroying online games will destroy this too >.<
unqART~ Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 Darer.com the best client ;) today i play versus Xboct and denti ^^
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