Archive for July, 2007

DOTA - Doom / Lucifer Tips, Build, Strat

(In Warcraft 3 / DOTA) Lucifer / Doom / Doom Bringer has a brilliant silence (move), when used it silences a lot more than just your usable spells and the inventory items.

It also prevents and takes away…
1. Orb effects2. Buffs (But not all, Insatiable Hunger is one of them [...]

DOTA Map 6.45

The newest DOTA Map (warcraft3 mod) version6.45 is now available.
The new 6.45 map has been released quicker than previous versions.
Change logs are listed below and the v6.45 version can be download at www.getdota.com
DotA Allstars 6.45 Changelog :
* Recoded Avatar on Black King Bar to fix various engine bugs (control loss, model glitches, [...]

DOTA Cheats, Hacks in early Maps

Some DOTA Tips readers have today sent in email pointing out some DOTA hacks and cheats in early release DOTA maps.
Firstly, it is always important to be playing the latest ‘official’ DOTA map release from IceFrog. If you are using customer, unknown or older maps to play DOTA - it’s always risky. Especially when [...]

DOTA Hero Poll Finished

The DOTA Hero Poll has now finished. The results are in!
Dark Terror / Faceless Void - is officially the most popular hero in DOTA (Warcraft3).
The perma stun ability proving too tempting for most as Faceless will surely be looked at closely by IceFrog and his team as to his powerful abilities when the next DOTA [...]

Sentinel: Total DOTA Strategy

Sentinel Hero’s:
hero 1 - Morphlinghero 2 - Chenhero 3 - Centaur Warchiefhero 4 - Silencerhero 5 - Vengefull Spirt
Spread out heros in this order….
Mid: silencer and Centaur: this makes a good combo,because whatever heros you go against, intell, strength, agil, u can defeat them, Centaur can stun and actsas a meat wall, while the silencer [...]

New DOTA Forums Setup

As our DOTA readers would have seen, our forums provider crashed yesterday and lost thousands of our posts relating to DOTA. We were not alone, 1000’s of other owners of forums lost their posts and setup too.
Today DOTA Tips have signed up with a new forums provider, and have extended the posts from not only [...]

Our DOTA / Warcraft Forums Crashed!

Unfortunately over night, our forums provider ‘freeforums.org’ had a major network storage failure and lost the forums of several thousands of users. (This resulted in the loss of probably close to a million posts from all the various forums)
Here at DOTAtips.info - we lost plenty of DOTA and Warcraft posts and I apologise to all [...]

Simon ‘Mr Warcraft’ Ng

Simon from Malaysia has emailed us his basic strategy guide - and we thought we would post it up for the DOTA / Warcraft World to see: (Thanks Simon)
KEY TO WINNING DOTA:
Actually there are 2; [1] experience and [2] moneyfor me the best way to achieve these, is to have a very good start. instead [...]

Battlenet / Battle.net Tournmanets

While most of us DOTA folk know that multiplayer is through Blizzard’s Battle.Net system (linked from inside the Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne game)
Many players don’t know about the detail within Blizzards - www.battle.net website. Featuring a complete Warcraft and DOTA tournament, clan list and rankings - it’s a great site to visit for all current [...]

New DOTA Banner as site grows

Today a new DOTA banner has been installed for the website, as the traffic grows quickly each day.
We are continuing to see a lot of DOTA players visiting the website from Singapore, Malaysia and other parts of Asia including Korea.
We’d love you hear feedback and comments from our Asian visitors - please join our forums [...]