yeah it would be better if they made it heroes-only. However, I did think Blink Dagger was overpowered before. EVERYONE was buying one before, it was really imba for quite a little while. They nerfed it pretty heavy, true, but I kinda like the fact that people actually have to be PAYING ATTENTION in order to escape a well organized gank now.
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Its forced to be used as an offensive weapon with the new changes. I like the changes.
Practically everyone is complaining about the Blink Dagger nerf on the DOTA forums, so it may be fixed in the next version. IMO, if they want to nerf it, just increase the cooldown by another ten seconds, or make the 3 second “delay” into 1 second.
yea it was def imba, but it still took some skill to make it imba. now with this new dagger, the only way to escape viper is lothars 
I was fucking around using blink and yeah, useless item when you’re
a) against someone with radiance
b) revenant
c) any other aoe dmg aura lol.
Radiance does make it useless. The stupidest part is, it’s coded horribly. So after the three second cooldown, there’s an additional cooldown, which is about another second. And there’s a glitch sometimes, where even if you don’t try and blink, the FULL cooldown occurs if you take damage. This has happened to me multiple times…
Funny shit though, I was CW at their throne, right in between the two throne towers, rhasta ward trapped me, I was in there for 2-3 seconds, and I realized that somehow nothing was hitting me. I blinked out, and got called the luckiest motherfucker ever (which I was 
)
I’m pretty convinced Spectre is a fucking trash hero now. Dispersion nerf makes her really shitty now. Since she’s a hero ganker, her best skill being nerfed to complete shit was too much. I mean, Dispersion was one of the reasons she was really good… but now since it’s complete shit her usefulness is close to nothing. Unless she gets fed really early (which is hard since she’s a late game hero), other heroes will easily outgrow her since she can’t farm worth shit.
So yeah, 6.50 is fucking terrible and I hate it now. For the things that got nerfed they got nerfed too much. Fuck IceFrog and fuck this map. I’m venting, yeah, but still… fuck 6.50.
They can leave the dagger the way it is as long as i care. The one i want back to normal is the euls… this euls change made lion and rasta way too powerful, and it became harder to play techs.
I’m a spectre user myself, and i think the change of spetre is something we all need to adjust too… it’s not that bad, but i do prefer the way she was before. Or perferably before as in the avatar…
6.50 is actually allot more balanced than the previous versions, but that doesn’t mean that it is fun or better. I do play 6.49c though, because i really hate the euls, and i’m a better spectre player on the preious V’s than 6.50.
You’d have to be braindead to not be a good spectre player in previous versions. Spectre was basically an auto win button at average levels of play (Pub to TDA).
I dunno. She just feels really, really weak now unless she gets fed early game. :\
Glad to see Ursa can still mash faces. God, what a stupid hero.
I for one am finally glad they fixed spectre. She was the #1 hero in dire need of a fix, so it’s not really surprising that she got nerfed.
But man, lion keeps getting stronger and lina keeps getting weaker…
ah yea the nerf against spectre was pretty bad… but i can still see her doing well in game, haunt, dagger and her +45bonus dmg on single heroes is still very nice. a shame that you won’t see her dispersing huge dmg tho.
i myself am surprised that instead of nerfing terrorblade they decreased the cd on his metamorphisis, which is a very nice buff. now he is even more imba.
im glad the spectre nerf happened though, i’d wish they’d change backtrack somehow too, level 3 laguna blade dispersion, however rare it is, sucks ultra dicks and really doesn’t add anything to a high level game. luck is acceptable in minute quantities, dispersion was just stupid for the overall balance of the game. backtrack should have a damage cap or something (not tiny, talking like 400 damage after reduction, you’ll still take any damage beyond the 400 but 400 will be subtracted if you land a backtrack)
of course im talking in terms of balance though.
my question is, does the new dispersion work on images? that could be… very useful if so. most people built spectre similar to a tank once they got their primary dps item anyway.
I 100% agree. If you have a high DPS hero vs Spectre, you’re pretty much fucked. You can either leave spectre alone while she kills your team, or you can target spectre and commit suicide. Mortred vs Spec = morty’s entire team dead.
So your saying the extra damage the clones take may be factored in the 20% disperse… thats awesome.
But ya, backtrack seems way too good, but i don’t think its as broken as dispersion. Any one like the new drow? I haven’t done the math, but she gets more agi during lvl 6-16 but only ends up with 5 more agi than her old self at lvl 25. But cold arrow has 0 cd at lvl 3!
Tb is only imba if extremely farmed, he’s still useless early game.
I kind of wish they’d remove Techies from the game. It’s not like he’s particularly overpowered or anything, but he’s just god damn annoying. It doesn’t feel like he adds any real depth to the game, only to be annoying and place mines in somewhat random areas and make pushing annoying. Hell, even creeping is annoying because of random mines.
techies is actually banned from some pub areas because he makes the game last too long. He’s also the hero that will get you scolded if you pick him in a serious match… Techs is my favorite hero though. They should buff him!
IMO Techies is just fine as is… but good fucking lord he’s annoying. I’d rather play a game with some broken ass hero like pre-nerf Spectre rather than play a game with annoying ass Techies. :\
Anyone getting owned by techies is a newb.
Bottom line.