This post is a direct rip from this thread.

Thanks to CounterForce[x] for taking the time to write another insightful wall of text.

Definitely worth reading and then cashing in on in your next pub game

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“In the 6.63 version, Rigwarl received notable changes both directly and indirectly. His ulti was changed from IAS to damage buff, the nerf/change to phase directly improves all of his skillset, the improvements given to some items(radiance, heart) and the fact that 6.64 is a ‘ganker’ oriented map gave him more usability then he used to have. While it is insufficient to bring him back to the scene(comparable with his 6.48 era), I honestly believe that Rigwarl is a strong pick and deserves more mention, just as the Prince thought he should be.

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Previously, you read here that:

The next versions of Dota will be so DPS heavy, it will be a case of picking just one or even two DPS heroes and witness an Armageddon taking place.

This Armageddon, which we have since come to know as DPSgeddon, and fittingly so, are seeing very tangible signs of a prophecy being fulfilled, in the very version of 6.64.

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by the talented barrierbreak

LULS! Parts 2 and 3 soon!

I wanna marry meet this guy… seriously.

For all GArena gamers…

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Download it HERE

6.61 Changelog:
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## Heroes & Items ##
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* Batrider: Lowered Strength gain from 2.5 to 2.0
* Bloodskeer: Bloodbath no longer regenerates from images
* Bone Fletcher: Improved Searing Arrows damage from 10/20/30/40 to 20/30/40/50
* Bone Fletcher: Rebalanced Strafe from 20/40/60/80 IAS with 30 seconds cooldown to 50/60/70/80 IAS with 60/50/40/30 seconds cooldown
* Centaur: Reduced Double Edge cooldown (25->12 seconds)
* Faceless Void: Improved base Strength (17->23)
* Furion: Lowered Sprout cooldown from 11 seconds to 11/10/9/8 seconds and manacost from 115/140/165/205 to 100/120/140/160
* Magnataur: Reverse Polarity now pulls units slightly infront of you instead of all around you
* Medusa: Lowered Stone Gaze cooldown (70->35 seconds)
* Medusa: Minor improvements to Mystic Snake speed , cast range and cooldown
* Medusa: Improved Mystic Snake’s damage from 60/100/140/180 to 80/120/160/200
* Meepo: Rescaled Geostrike from 4/8/12/16 to 5/10/15/20 damage per second
* Nerubian Weaver: Reworked Watchers [details below]
* Nerubian Weaver: Lowered Shukuchi cooldown from 13/11/9/7 to 12/10/8/6 seconds
* Night Stalker: Improved Intelligence growth from 1.25 to 1.6
* Ogre Magi: Reduced Multicast from 30%2x/45%2x+22.5%3x/60%2x+30%3x+15%4x ->25%2x/40%2x+20%3x/50%2x+25%3x+12.5%4x
* Pandaren Brewmaster: Increased Drunken Brawler critical from 1.8x to 2.0x
* Razor: Lowered Intelligence gain from 2.2 to 1.8
* Rooftrellen: Casting Nature’s Guise on an allied unit (or other spells) will no longer take you out if you have it on you
* Silencer: Transferred Glaive of Wisdom’s secondary effect of +1/-1 Intelligence from hero kills to Last Word. If an enemy hero dies under the Last Word effect, that hero will lose 1 intelligence and you will gain 1 intelligence.
* Silencer: Increased Last Word AoE from 700 to 900
* Rebalanced Curse of the Silent from 10/20/30/40 HP and 5/10/15/20 mana per second for 10 seconds to 50 HP and 25 mana for 2/4/6/8 seconds.
* Sniper: Increased Take Aim range from 55/110/165/220 to 65/130/195/260
* Spectre: Decreased Spectral Dagger cooldown from 25 to 16 seconds
* Tauren Chieftain: Lowered base damage by 10
* Tauren Chieftain: Lowered Strength gain from 2.7 to 2.3
* Tauren Chieftain: Decreased Natural Order percentages to 20/40/60/80%
* Vengeful Spirit: Improved base Agility (22->27)
* Viper: Nethertoxin now only works on enemy units
* Witch Doctor: Increased base Intelligence from 19 to 24 (base damage adjust to remain the same though)
* Aghanim’s Scepter (Queen of Pain): Restored original cooldown improvement
* Aghanim’s Scepter (Shadow Shaman): Undid part of the nerf on Mass Serpent Wards. It now gives +3 (up 1 from 6.60, down 1 from 6.59d)
* Buriza-Do Kyanon: Improved the critical value from 2.2x to 2.4x
* Helm of Dominator: Converted creeps now gain the Resistant Skin ability, making spells duration on them the same as heroes or Spirit Bear.
* Quelling Blade: Minor reduction to bonus damage (36->32)

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## Bugs ##
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* Fixed natural regeneration on rax
* Fixed an area where you could get stuck using TP scroll on the minimap.
* Fixed -ns mode
* Fixed a chance for duplicate heroes in -CD

* Batrider: Fixed Radiance from triggering Sticky Napalm
* Medusa: Fixed Splitshot triggering Essense Aura
* Razor: Fixed an error in the damage calculation method for Plasma Field that caused it to be slightly off sometimes
* Rooftrellen: Slightly increased Eyes in the Forest cast range (+25) to fix some order issue bugs
* Rooftrellen: Fixed Living Armor not regenerating structures properly
* Tauren Chieftan: Fixed bug with Natural Order sometimes instantly killing Forged Spirit summoned units

* Aghanim’s: Fixed minor incorrect sell value on some versions of the item
* Khadgar’s Pipe of Insight: No longer places the buff on units that already have it
* Bottle: Usage no longer removes Curse of the Silent.
* Linken Sphere: Fixed to properly block Mana Void and Nasal Goo
* Poor Man’s Shield: Fixed bug with -swap
* Quelling Blade: Fixed bug with -swap
* Quelling Blade: Fixed triggering Curse of the Silent
* Rune: Fixed Regeneration sometimes not being removed when you are full if you use bottle at the same time
* Rune: Fixed Double Damage visual effect to properly show when the user is using low graphics mode

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## Gameplay & Cosmetics ##
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* Removed the int/agi/str distribution in -CD. It is now like RD in its hero distribution.
* Bottle: Now autorefills at fountain if it isn’t fully used (2975)
* Reduced FPS drops when using Shiva’s Guard and Plasma Field with some custom import files (PGRu-Unexpect3D)
* Sound Effects: Removed the “Allied hero has fallen” (heavily requested for removal due to annoyances)

* Invoker: Added a new Icon for Sun Strike (5312)
* Juggernaut: You no longer lose control while using Omnislash. You can use items like Dagger while Omnislashing (4938)
* Slardar: Added a new icon for his Bash (3587)
* Tidehunter: Added a new Anchor Smash visual effect (4393)
* Gem of Truesight: Changed hotkey from T to I to help against some common misbuys
* Increased the transparency a little more for the Circle Of Powers that aren’t yours.
* Fixed -SP moving your camera away from taverns
* Fixed various minor inconcistences between sentinel and scourge units/buildings
* Fixed some very minor inconsistencies with acquire ranges on some heroes
* Observer Board colors now alternate between white and grey to make it a little more readable

Old Watcher’s:
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Cooldown: 30/20/10/5 seconds
Movement Speed: 522
HP: 1
Bounty: 10-13
Vision: 1400/1400
Invisible

Urna Swarm:
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Summons scarabs from corpses. The Scarab can burrow and become invisible.
While it is unburrowed, it is visible to the enemy and has an Infestation
ability. Has collision when unburrowed.
Magic Immune.

Cooldown: 14/11/8/5
Movement Speed: 450
HP: 200
Armor: 6
Bounty: 26-38
Burrowed Vision: 400/400
Normal Vision: 1400/1400

Infestation: Can suicide to Silence enemy units 275 aoe around it for 3 seconds and deal 20 damage per second (non-stacking).

Enjoy.

If you have being living under a rock for the past year or so, you would not know that the DotA concept has been taken by a  number of game companies, had the wc3 elements and restrictions removed then revamped into a whole new game.  So far the only one of these that was sold to the general public is Demigod which sadly enough was a bit of a flop in my opinion.

Do not fret, there are more on the way which look quite promising, I am (naturally) talking about League of Legends. While browsing this site in recent times you will probably have noticed the same two ads flashing at you relentlessly. On the topic of LoL, I can’t say much more than this: yes there is beta, and I am participating.

Riot staff (the makers of League of Legends, including the maker of DotA Allstars – ‘Guinsoo’) have taken a very open approach to the development of the game throwing the doors wide and asking the question: What would you like to see in this game? Thus far this has being highly successful and LoL has gained popularity (definitely helped by the witty internet meem abbreviation.)

It is no surprise, perhaps that the secret S2Games project ‘Heroes of Newerth’ was announced, not only that, but you can get a beta key if you are willing to try. This covers the 2 new games that are cited as being DotA-like (and thus largely denied a wiki page on the topic of MOBA genre) and now it is time to try and draw comparisons without breaking the NDA I signed… or ticked the box really, but it is still a legally binding document.

A quick comparison or two…

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You may have noticed or at least heard about the 10-day downtime that we suffered a few weeks ago, right? Until now I haven’t provided details on what caused it. Let me explain it a little.

DS is hosted on a dedicated server. That means our site runs on one exclusive computer. We have our own hard disk, processor, RAM, DVD-RW drive (lol) and USB slots (lol more). One fateful day, our hard disk broke down. The crew at the webhost tried to restart it, but the computer refused to detect the disk. Uh oh.
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Division 1 Standings

Unplayed Matches:
Week 2 - Project D vs Topia X
Week 3 - Mineski vs Topia X

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Last night, the Philippine DotA Improvement Project commenced with the first match of the first week of the Right to Fight Round. Fighting for the chance to battle with the best teams of the Philippines were Teams Pag-ibig of Metro Manila and TNS of Cebu. They played a single match in the Extended League (-XL) mode, in v6.49b using patch 1.21. Pag-ibig won the toss coin and picked the Sentinel side.

Bans:

TNS: Bristleback, Nerubian Assassin, Queen of Pain

Pag-ibig: Shadow Fiend, Skeleton King, Priestess of the Moon

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The following teams have successfully reserved a slot for the PDIP Season 1 Division 2:

Team 50[ph] of Davao City
JR ” Joker” Gavarra - 50[ph] joker - Leader
Ralph Kevin “tOtzkiE” de Castro - 50[ph] tOtzkiE
Gabriel “kimbadz” Bajado - 50[ph] bAdzkiE
Eugenio “Wex” Corales - 50[ph] weks
Christian “xian” Salyh - 50[ph] Xian

Tanggero of Davao City
Leonil “Babzki” Ibabao Babz^Tanggero - Leader
John Salinasal jOhN^Tanggero
July Ochave VanillaIceCream nd july^Tanggero
James Calvo james^Tanggero
Flor Leonard Sanchez janrels^Tanggero

x.mski Team of Tondo, Manila
Roman Jerome Robles (xmski.boo) - Leader
Darwin Pornelos (xmski.ishi)
Marc Crispin Fernandez (xmski.loss)
Jerick Bayot (xmski.JrCk)
Judan Santos (xmski.eLLa)

NKOTB of __________
Allan delas Alas - osunq - Manager
edracks - Janno Alvarez
jangbang - Aldrie Pahinma
uvpo - Rodan Orphilla
maxwell7890 - Max _____
betch - Jay Sonsa

Team Warp of Meto Manila
Sly Resari (Warp.sLy) - Leader
Benedict James Cortez (Warp.yajB)
Victor Llorin (Warp.Vk)
Jocee Lagumbay (Warp.Boss)
Jeffrey (Warp.Dk)

Team Porn of Caloocan City
Neil Acero - SUx-neLo - leader
Sherwin Gerald Giray - sherwinezz
Marlon Gercio - Gercio
Patrick Santiago - CheMm
Emrick Nicdao - emwik08

Giggles of Marikina
Mark Pilar - -Cast- - Manager
Peterson Garcia - Ggs.peter
John del Rosario - Ggs.potpot
Marvin Miller - Ggs.puging
Michael Tuzon - Ggs.mael
Paolo Carreon - Ggs.pao

Redwings of Manila
Frederick Pe - fredz - Representative
Norman Lim - normyjaney
Eleanore Kuo - ele11
Elcid Rogando - dark0zell
Raymund Chua - datte
Adel Maranan - delmineski

[BIG BOZZ] CDO-ALLSTAR of Cagayan de Oro
Kahlil A. Cabardo - Luffy - Leader
Jundie “Ungas” Maarat
Miko “BlazingM” Borres
Craig Shaun Benette “titotitz” Garces
Darryl “Mr. G” Go

Anytime of Koronadal City
Melvin Ignacio - melvinwaaa - Leader
Jaypee Pring - Anytime.JayP
Jason Navidad - asylum_jayz
Norman delos Santos - GGjOnG
Ernst Purisima - Anytime.GorG
Gem Liberato - M-gemgem

Chance of Davao City
Aiwem dela Cerna - aiwemwazhere - Leader
Paul Limlao - Pauls17
Jeffrey Bajado - badz[BT]
Victor Paner - coroy23
Jomark Manyalak - Sotieb21
Rey Campaner - Reyakzzz
Clyde Carsano - Clyde

High of Davao City
Richard King Padama - RiorEN - Leader
Rez Lim - rez42
Dominic Chua - domzninja
Maj Geneblazo - majilito
Ken Dy - constant1969

Rage of Cotabato City
Stephen Yap - .|cffff3999Phen - Leader
Carl Uy - bagonglaba
John Carl Abdullah - bagongplantsa
Dee Howell Herrera - bagongsabon
Popo - beeyatz

PG13 of Cagayan de Oro City
Nate Salipsipan - Manager
Mark Anthony Maligmat / matamine13
Crisante Salde / Adukawarz13
Bryan Benedict Tauli / verygoodboy13po
Iman Lorenzo Mora / MaNiX13
Michael Jan Neri / ambots13

letsRock of Koronadal City
Ken Jumilla - bertoe - leader
Jayson Soluta - [LW]Jayson
Alex Dax Acedillo - [W]-dax-
Ronan James Parcon - rrrrr_55555
Roderick Carnaso - rickzkie
Karl Michael Jumilla - BidianXu
Fritz Mirasol - poy2_23

L33t of Cagayan de Oro City
Nate Salipsipan - Manager
Ralph Regi Macalam - Leader
Nico Mahino
Rex Galagala
Rayballs
Don-don
Lian

Team Conscious of Cebu
Fritz Zozobrado - [Scourge].Fritz - Leader
{Status: WAITING}

Vertical Elites (e-LIT) of Davao, Marawi, Metro Manila…
Nes Lidasan - e-LIT.DON - Leader
Jerold Poa – jerp
Jose Ma. Sarte - sarte
Hussien Ibrahim – e-LIT.SIEN
Cyrel Monserate – cyrelmonserate
Ahmad Mohammadali – e-LIT.MADZ
Jonathan Perez – Weak..me…
– mocha123
{Status: WAITING}

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