Cold as Ice

good item build, but the tactic part is very short.

btw stacks eos with frost arrows? :>

Exellent guide, I love it. Item build very accurate. Tactic is a bit short though.

Shrot and a bit incomplete strategy but not bad. A real cool strategy for a beginer

Skill build is really silly in a way. Frost arrows and trueshot aura should be taken as early as possible

@ Belangos = Frost arrows will override frost from Eye of Skadi

Thanks for the Comments!. Sorry I have not been able to respond, I've been very busy this last week.(Damn Holiday's) But anyways when I can find some time ill try to add some more thought to the tactics and what-not.

@Night Strike

Well I understand how you feel, but that is the point of the build. Big early damage, for Big early farming.(Ill update that thought in the strategy ASAP).

well, item build is nice! but i think lack of hp regenartion item, u might get killed easily, if some people buy a gem? hp regeneration might hlp tht time!! well i din say must, i only make a suggestion.

Good strat, Just a few bits missing, seriosuly need ring at start so you can constantly regen hp but can sell later on when space is needed, overall good Also aarontay91
gem is good also for peeps with Wind walk

:o Scratch that last bit of my comment, didnt read props,

using ur ultimate early game will be fine
it help u in farming very much

nice strategy safety and easily to kill

Nothing against your item build or strat jizzman well done. all i can say is i prefer MoM for crazy attack speed and constant hp regen when farming. Saves needing a RoH or RoR. If low on health, neutral creep to get ur hp up + exp + $$$

Other than that i think youve got everything i would have said. :D gw

ok2 bole dicoba deh ga ngerti yah loe....

cool strategy

pretty amazing!!! Lothar's save the day!!!

I play her a little bit differently, I do not backdoor (ambush) when I play her, I normally will buy Yasha, PowerTread, MOD (Upgrade to Satanic, last, so as not to waste a slot, I just need the Mask of Death, to stay in lane longer), Butterfly, Hyperstone, and one option items, which I usually do not need. I just goes behind my creep, and turn on auto ice arrow, when enemy have last creep, then just chase enemy hero until they die. I build her for Speed, can even take down Naix on a 1 v 1 late game. Nice strat anywhere, good job.

The items are fine. Your stat build is a little offbeat though. Frost should be the first skill you get mainly because you can spam it (no cooldown) and interrupt the enemy heroes from farming/denying.

i prefer getting bracer instead of wraith band for more life

I just have 2 questions. does butterfly and burize stack its evasion and crit if more than one is used. second. DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO BEAT A dota 6.38 AI+ ver.1 HERE. IF anybody knows please make a strategy. PLSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I like a lot this guide... and readin' the strategy of transistor (i still preffer your build up) i preffer to play with drow this way

i'd probably go for aegis divine build

well if im doing it, my build with her will be satanic, i'll sacrifice frost arrows with satanic and get DR and aegis... try it guys... you'll be unstoppable

Great guide
depending on who i am vsing thou i usually might take MoM after lothars
zerker from MoM + frost arrows + drows usually pwntageness is FTW

i still think that she needs eye of skadi.

replace burize with mkb. and get a heart or linken to pump some life since drow is very weak in hp. anyway a good guide though, drow's my FAV hero! DROW ROCKS!!!

noob. frost arrows=orbwalking
orbwalking=major harrass
no orbwalking=bye bye 700hp drow.
frost arrows lvl 1 at LEAST.
My suggestion maxing out it first.
Either way, your skill build is GAY
0/10 on skill build.
should be frost/silence/frost/auraORstatsORsilence, afrost arrows etc. MAX MARKMANSHIP ASAP, dont tell me u only play -em because in em she still needs it to push. 0/10

for me, frost arrow and true shot should be taken first.. but it's up 2 u!!

I get Buriz first before Butterfly... But still, this is a good guide... 9/10

is linkens good for this hero to get stats??

oh and wtf are u noob??


u need frost arrows first and markmanship asap...theres no use getting markmanship way late...


very screwed skill build so 3/10

Simply Jhakkas

Thank you for this strategy, I play with traxes and this strategy is very helpfull.

i usually go boots hyper vital crys lothars travels buriza butter =

Share with you my experience with Drow Ranger. My first item is to get Mask of Death. Then go farming and the next time I go back is to build one of the item for either Buriza or Butterfly. Go out farm again and get Buriza or Butterfly. Achieve this at level 12 and with froze arrow at lvl 4 n silence, it is invincible!! upgrade to MOM and boot of Travel and DR can run like a motor car for a short while. =)

Marksmanship should not be so late in the build. MoD is also a great item. Anyways good strat.

ring of basilius, treads, straight to sange and yasha then butterfly! kick ass! sange and yasha cuz drow is too soft with low hp! frost arrows will do the kill! alt is mkb for the extra attack speed and damage, then butterfly! its range anyway so just be carefull around turns!

I really need to be guided on how Traxex' skills should be casted in order...

Should I cast the Silence prior to the Ice Frost? or the other way around?

Would that really deal a great damage to the enemy hero?

What if the enemy hero has a great life and has the heart of tarasque.. would her skills still be effective to a hero like such? like Lucifer

Personally, engaging strength like Lucifer all alone is not a good idea for DR. Even when you silenced him, you will not have time to kill him before the effect run out. So best to use some teamwork here. Silence is a good way to counter windwalk heros. I always use frost to attack e hero first. When his life point is slightly less than half, cast silence on the creature so he cannot escape.

waw good guide but it's a bit lacking tough not enough for suprising enemies to kill hehehe good guide 8/10

It's very expensive to buy Lothar's. Y don't you buy Dagger of escape instead? You'll get killed if they buy a gem... Anyway, good strategy tho.

A good guide for a beginner like me but i play her a bit different..hehe
1 question i want to ask is, have anyone ever reach a 1k crit with drew? What item would you need? As the highest i can reach is about 850+

another totally screwed up drow ranger guilde... totally disappointed with u not adding frost arrow early.. tis is wat makes drow so powerful and gr8t 4 harrasing heroes... really lousy skill build IMO. No offense.

effective

how about defence item ? she has low hp anyway ..

nice...i usually get MKB than buriza...for its attack speed bonus...the faster you attack..the higher the chance for markmanship...hehehe...
it depends on the player...

nice...i usually get MKB than buriza...for its attack speed bonus...the faster you attack..the higher the chance for markmanship...hehehe...
it depends on the player...

wow...i dont agree w/ the skill biuld at all... true shot aura fist? it does like +3 damage. but good item biuld

pota apangit strat mo

Drow is my favourite hero

Nice Nice guild
But ill put a hyperstone somewhere in there For nice attack speed + Frost = ownages

P.S.
u may wanne put in a Good allies and Bad Ass Enemys List

I think the idead behind trueshot first is good, drow should only be farming in early game, and trueshot aura + stats works better there than frost. If u feed good u will get the kills back in mid game for sure.

† nice strat!but you ned to buy sange, yasha fisrt b4 completing ur buriZA and buterfly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

well, the guide is somewhat lack of depth about drow, and somehow i feel, that with your choose of items, she'll be an easy prey, and same as transistor, you way too underestimate her skills.

And the skill build is somewhat not different from transistor, which i'm highly againts for

And what? diffusal blade? no comment on that

overall, i feel it somewhat not much better than the transistor guide

I even don't want to vote for this guide, since for me it even can't be called a guide at all, it doesn't helpful for anyone who played her for the first time, IMO really, sry

-Regards-

Wow. I just tried this build out in a 4v4 game, and it works pretty flawlessly. Drow's usefulness remains at a solid level throughout the game. The game will usually not reach the point where you need a Manta Style or a Buriza, so I got Treads, Butterfly, and Yasha for the most part of the game.

does the crit en his ulti relly stack..?? my bad for askin but i juss started playin this =P

great i never thought of it that way coz i always go for power treads and burizado lately.

Don't be bothered, it's ur build. I think your build is for LAN game. For pub, I believe you need to max your frost arrow and markmanship asap. Good guide though. I always build Lothars. Also a dagger if the situation needed. Sometimes I have 2 in my inventory, dagger and Lothar. Nice guide again..

MKB! BDK! SNY! BUTTERFLY!!! POWER TREADS!!! EYE OF SKADI!!!

well if at the first you have a good attack speed you can buy di desired items LOL

The "DO NOT DIE!" everyone gets that part. Geez.

i made up a team and i won 5 times in a row and hoping for 6 becouse its all balanced out and becouse my guys are good farmers... basically they all have frost < not a joke... just wondering at else to get drow seeing as theres only 4 items written on ur guide... can u add curriass??
lich , raylai , jakiro, drow and abbadon

I find the item build too hard to get, mostly becuase of the cost of the items and stuff

traxex is an easy hero to use for me... ure item build is good but juz asking why use a manta style?.. i prefer increasing its attack speed like putting curiass and mkb... and if ure fast on the keyboard. put soime mask of death for lifesteal... if ure losing hp. then if u want to kill a hero simply click the frost arrows .. i dont even use the silence unless if its an sk... btw, sandking's sandstorm can be removed by his silence hehe!! :P oh and put sny nice with the buriza and lothars though...!

yeah!! DO NOT DIE i think everybody say this!!! but who knows you might be the first blood victim!!
BTW.. i like drow, 1 of my fav heroes, in early game i max out 1st aura then frost arrow for harass!!!
though nice item!! cheer up!!

nice. period. :P

I got her Desolator, BoT, Buriza.. weird items eh? killed 12 died 0

i m new here..what does it mean i "gained +20 gold" @ the comment adding place?

wow your item build sucks dude im a pro drow and my build is
2 bands
treads
mkb
bfly
then burza for extra ownage or you can get black king bar if you have trouble with nukers but only if you REALLY need it b/c you have your silence also get frost arrows first b/c you can get first blood easyily with lv 1 or 2 frost arrows early game so as you can see you need alot of work dude so good luck!

I think a better way to start is to buy 6 slippers of agility and put the first skill on trueshot aura you will have like + 18 or +19 dmg at lvl 1

o and mjonir is good too for traxex

actually nice strategy cause I used and it works very well...When I played it at first competing with 5 insane player with my buddy yurnero who controlled by my friend,, I was surprised when I killed heroes and going godlike...tnx for the strat.

Kinda weird in the skill trees...

why'd you put points on stats first?!?

excePt on the skill part, good!!!

nice guide ...
love it very much ..

dont agreed on stat build

Why do you put stats first and Marksmanship almost last?!?!?!?!?!?! Other tan that it is

myself i would prefer to get treads first.followed by S&Y, butterfly, MOM. thats all i need for a 4 vs 4 game or a 3 vs 3 game. After that, either go for a heart or a Buriza-do Kyanon

Cool and thanks maybe longer strategy will do

Lothars

Good itembuild, I played her and did well.. After buriza I would take assualt curiass.. that would be kind of good :) alltough the tactic part was a bit short.. :)

hhaha nice

verry good item build!:D

your skill build sucks dude.Frost Arrows should have been taken first + get markmanship at lvl 6 because u need it nerd stats isnt such a good idea and if you dont take frost arrows at early game then dont take them at all

butterfly buriza SnY better

I Dominate with this:
BOT, Desolator, Assault Cuirass, Bloodstone, Buriza, Lothars

Get boots and go for desolator, then lothars, then cuirass, upgrade the boots, grab a soulstone, get a crystalis, upgrade to bloodstone and finally go for buriza. Nothing will survive except diablers and permabashers.

no ice strat is alot better

Your skill build left me thinking... Why didn't you leveled up Marksmanship at levels 6, 11, and 16??? That's useful in pushing and farming at early game, right? And also Frost Arrows, I always level that first. It's effective when harassing melee heroes. My item build usually consists of S&Y, Buriza, and assault cuirass... S&Y and Cuirass improves attack speed massively, and S&Y's Maim is useful for chasing down fleeing heroes with Traxex' speed and range... But I like your style..

this is about the lamest biuld i have seen. for trax to be able to farm and liev effectively she needs atleast mask of death, or even helm of the dominator. her ice arrows cancel out the life steel when you activate it, which is what you need to do with trax when you are taking down another hero any way.

no comment

marksmanship should be learned asap, it makes sense you will earn gold quickly and have your items before your opponents, and your nose will stay in front the whole way through.
Lothars Edge is a critical item for her i agree on that.http://www.dotastrategy.com/images/smileys/cool.gif
Cool

plz plz plz deos 2 orb efect items stack?? for example manta style and satanic!!! do they stack??

plz plz plz deos 2 orb efect items stack?? for example manta style and satanic!!! do they stack??

just buy cuirass instead of manta

I played her almost all the time..can get 1k++ crit with S&Y,Buriza,AoC and DR..get BoT and Linken to save ur ass and took less than 6 second to kill any heroes in the game..even heroes with HoT..

tactic is short... nice guide though

Umm...True shot aura and NO ICE ARROWS in early game? Are you insane? Ice arrows allow you to orb walk (manually casting any orb spell like ice arrows and glaives of wisdom), preventing creeps from aggroing you and allowing you to dominate early game. Trueshot should be gotten mid game since it's percentage based. It gets better as the game progresses and your damage is better. Even the fact that it affects multiple people doesn't justify getting it early game. Orb walking is too good to pass up.

Other than that travesty, nice guide. I don't use lothars since a 40% slow from arrows prevents most ganks from working out, but your right about the ms bonus. It's nice. Not sure why you want diffusal blade though. Lifesteal orbs are better, and purge isn't really necessary due to the slow from ice arrows.

S?A?SASA

My late build:
BoT
Satanic
Butterfly
Butterfly
Buriza
Buriza

Maybe change one buriza for a Hood if you face too many nukers.

If you like taking risks get Divine ...

No Cuirass cuz it doesnt add damage and the IAS from the second butterly is better.

Pretty expensive but if your team tollerates excessive farming the ultimate will work wonders on your gold supply :D

I love this guide and thanks to it, i love the char even more. Keep it up, looking forward to more guides by you :D

i'm not agree if drow use manta style bkoz its frost arrow is orb....

i'm not agree if drow use manta style bkoz its frost arrow is orb.... & no need to increase the stats.. more nice if leveling the trueshot aura & frost.. and worn 3 wraith band n pwr tread.. then oppenent will get heavy damage.. ur are a nuker..

try dis.. 1st 5 sliper
>3 bands n p tread
>crystalis
>kln dager
after owning...
>butterfly
>buriza..
skill
1st truesht aura n frost then lvl 2 silence if need or markman.. have a nice drow...

try dis.. 1st 5 sliper
>3 bands n p tread
>crystalis
>kln dager
after owning...
>butterfly
>buriza..
skill
1st truesht aura n frost then lvl 2 silence if need or markman.. have a nice drow...

Good build but your guide should be a bit longer. 8/10

ALL THAT I CAN SAY IS TAHT THE DROW RANGER IS MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER!!!!!WHEN WE PLAY AND I HAVE TRAXEX ITS NEEDLES TO SAY THAT THE GAME IS OVER!!!!BY LVL16 I HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO MAKE THE BUTTERFLY THE BURIZA THE POWER TREADS AND THE LOTHARS EDJE!!!!THERE IS NO GAME WHERE I TAKE TRAXEX AND I MAKE LESS THAN 20KILLS AND 0 DEATHS!!!I TOTTALY AGREE WITH YOUR STRATEGY AND ONE ADVICE:LETS KICK EVERYONES ASS WITH TRAXEX!!!

that all plus hyperstone,i make 20:0 kill

4/10.
Sorry, but i found too many things weird here:
1. Manta and Frost arrow does not stack.
2. Frost arrow MUST be maxed ASAP.
3. Aura does not increase much damage early game since it is a percentage skill, and traxex's base damage is low early game. Take aura at 12-15.
4. Lothar's edge is not always a must. Sometimes Lothar is not a good escape mechanism since it can be countered easily.

shitty strategy.....

lol,first time u up stat is a noob!!!

Any1 that learn this guy is a noob!!!hahahahahahahaha

frost arrows... shouldnt it be pumped together with aura asap?

how long does that effect from frost arrows last?

My Item build will be like this:

PT(Agi)
Bracers(early game then sell)
Mask Of Madness(Really helps so much)
Lothar's Edge
Crystalys(Buriza after Butterfly)
Butterfly


SnY if game wont finish =)

@ Fairlady

It lasts 2 seconds.

@ Fairlady

It lasts 2 seconds.

@ Fairlady

It lasts 2 seconds.

pump frost and the aura max at early game

pwnage.. by lvl 10 all i had were the wraith bands and lothars but i was easily taking off 10% of their health each hit(against void).. by lvl 16 i was 8-1 (oh noes i died T_T)

how about getting a vangaerd for defense

u are all nerds

The strategy works gr8 for a long game. But for a one on one time a little insufficient to do the needful. Otherwise absolutely perfect nd kool. It works really well for me !!!

nive strategy, will you please put also the hero weaknesses of traxex?

traxex!!!!!!!idol

instead of trueshot aura should add on ice arrow and attribute. aura useless beginning +20damage

any hero for defend traxex?

Nice build, but i prefer blink insteed of manta style ;) perfect chase heros that dont wanna be killed by you ;) + i used Assult, kinda liked it,

pewpew they die ;) 7/10

why get Marksmanship in late game? its passive, which means its cheap w/out using mana; and it +dmg and +AS, giving her a TREMENDOUS adv over other agi heroes as early as lvl 6!!! My advice: get it ASAP!

you need lvl 4 frost arrows and atleast 1 level of silence ASAP. No excuses, they keep you alive and strong

Since Dota 6.50 the drow ranger's Ulti now adds to her agility in place of the chance to kill creeps, might use a bit of change.

Cool hero, nice tactics.

Not Bad Skill build is excellent , also the items are very kool she would rape with those

lol, I completed the whol build, got a hyperstone, but still lost the game. wtf... I got the most creep and hero kills though thx to the manta style. It's an excellent idea getting it after buriza... 3 critical drow rangers

why the hell do you need manta style with drow?

Ya, kinda disagree with Manta Style too.
I started up with with 2 wraith bands and 2 flasks then farm for Treads and MoM ( trust me, MoM makes farming much much much much much pleasant and it duz compensate for her low HP too!!!!) then the rest are the same old Butterfly, Buriza and Curiass, there u go, a GODLIKE Traxex

item build is good by why get diffusal blade? u already have a slow....

... ... ... ...

not so effective..hahahaaa!!!!!!!!!

why the hell dont u skill the marksmanship at lvl 6 and 11? ur a noob man.but the items are good

Excuse me, but Marksmanship according to me does not give agility. MAybe it does, but it it can slay creeps in one shot a percent of the time.
Sorry, not saying this post is bad (I love Traxex as a hero) but just wanted to know.

Why not trueshot aura 1st??? i concertrate on trueshot and ice arrows i dont worry bout silence and marksmanship is a MUST for farming makes it alot easier.I made my Drow Ranger with Deso,Butterfly,Lothars Edge,Buriza and Treads

and if possiable Divine Rapier

Pls la,up skill like frost 1st la,or u want 2 buy skadi 2 replace it.so lame skill build how 2 kill?ppl sand king u be feeder lor...........

try getting frost arrows and silence 1st
and then getting 2 Wraith bands and a butterfly
seems to work for me.... i'm a newb btw.. so correct mi if i'm rong..... T.T

a good item for her would be mkb

n1 ty cos nw i knw hw to use drow

what weak items!!!

um.let's see use bloodstone to increase ur health and ur regeneration...and try using assualt curiass it realy helps in late games but it's quite expensive...lol
...peace..

Hey i tried the mote and buyed the stuff and now im prof with her xD

I'm not so sure about your skill build. Markmanship at 19? I rather get markmanship instead of stats. i'm sure everyone agrees that 10 to agi is better than 2 to str/intel/agi

@astuannaut:

Apparently, this guide was made in 2006. Long before the buff on travex. Please pay more attention before giving comments

nice but incomplete guide. Traxex can easily take down a nuker as well if u know how to use a combo of frost aura and silence . Anyways a great strategy for a beginner.

other from not speccing ulti that late its good :) 8/10 i will build ulti when i can nothing diff ealse

MmMmMmMmMmMmMmMmMmMmMmMmMmMm even more. Frost Arrows must be maxed out. Silence, Frost Arrows ensure a kill. Agree with peepiet, Manta does not stack w/ Frost arrows. Overall 7/10 but great guide.

Nice.. i love its aura..

u should try having 2 butterfly's
you'd be a machine gun!!

i should try using lothar's

u canalso try my build if u like:

-treads
-bfly
-bfly
-vanguard
-hyperstone

For those stupid people out there who keeps commentating on marksmanship, use your brain. This guide was made in 2006. ALL READ THIS COMMENT

YOU MUST BE INSANE NOT TO GET HER ULTI AT LVL 6!!!

whoops i just read that comment 2 comments up and i apologise for my rant =P

DROW FTW!

i love to play traxex! I love to hear your comments and strategies but I'm not sure I 'm going to follow ur instructions. Well, I just dont agree with your skill build. Get markmanship asap at levels 6,11,16. This will increase ur agility, attack speed, as well as the damage.
For the item build..
get power treads..then vanguard.. farm for perseverance then upgrade to battle fury.. if u have this at middle game, farm at neutral creeps for butterfly..then eye of scadi.. then wait for ownage!

Srry for posting again but I love playing Drow Ranger. I admit that there is some sense behind maxing out stats and trueshot aura, but I like to max out frost arrows to ensure a kill. rate again when I tried this guide 100% 8/10. Okay, could use a little improvement.

Go Drow! Go Drow!

Srry for the double post, but to Silverstory why do you need EoS? Drow has frost arrows. But i agree drow is pretty good and fun to play with but I am going for Jizzman's item build

everything is good but the skills build is the worst i've ever seen....

skill build:1.trueshot aura 2:frost arrows(trust me it works)

nice item builds. I actually own with Drow Ranger

This is so much a gay build. Frost Arrows > All so skill build is pretty fail, no explanations will convince me.

Frost arrows and trueshot aura should be taken early. If you have Frost arrows you can heroes.

frost arrows and true shot i think and u dont need buriza make another agi item instead and GİVE YOUR ULTIMATEEE

Why no frost arrows at first? Why stats though traxex don't need mana

bad strategy dosnt work at all ill give it 2/10