DOTA 2 Playstyle - Broodmother

Personally, I'm the type of player that is equally comfortable in intense clashes, ambushing from d shadows for the kill or just spamming magic endlessly, provided I've got the feel for how that particular character is played.

That being said, my current favorite has to be Broodmother, Black Arachnia. I just love how the character can start from ambusher to full fledged tank later in the game with the right items.

I'll do a brief explanation of the skills below.

Skill 1 - Inject Spiderling

A ranged skill that deals decent damage. If used as a finisher, it instantly spawns a skill-level-based number of spiderlings from the corpse. Not only that, the spawned spiderlings has a passive ability that allows spiderites to spawn from any enemy they managed to infect before that enemy dies. Their slow is also a good method of taking down fast enemies. This skill is good to take down that fleeing hero with low hp, or it can be used to bolster your creep wave with sum expendable creeps.

Skill 2 - Spawn Web

My personal favorite. A stationary web is spawned at an area. The effects of the web is that it confers increased health regen and move speed to Broodmother the moment she enters the webs area of effect. Not only that, it also confers invisibility at a 3 sec delay fade time. It should be noted that the area coverage is large enough that you can harass and escape easily. Another bonus? The web also grants sight of the area it is spawned on until the web is removed. Meaning? Perpetual vision or the next thing to it anyway. The downside is that you're only allowed a certain number of webs capping at 8 at the max skill level.

Skill 3 - Poison
This skill is useful only if you have the capability to do massive and fast damage. It basically applies a debuff to enemies that slows their movements and also applies a chance to miss on attacks. Both movement speed and miss ratio are dependent on the skill level. With fast move and attack speed, you can chase down enemies and make them pay for their temerity in fighting you.
Note - It used to be that this skill has a damage per second effect, but it got taken out since that gave Broodmother too much an advantage in harassing attacks.

Skill 4 - Insatiable Hunger

Powers up Black Arachnia with massive damage and lifesteal attacks for the spell duration. For me, its only useful in situations where you have fast attack speeds to make full of the limited time duration. However, with enough attack speed and damage, you can turn Black Arachnia into a tank with this skil since the lifesteal will allow you to heal any damage taken.

Gameplay

For me, using this character makes me chooses the cowardly playstyle that strikes from the shadows for the kill. Hence, my first skill certainly Web and a Null Talisman as a starting item since I tend to spam skills for last hits.

Right after hero spawn and game starts, I'll head to my chosen lane, usually top or bottom coz I usually hate mid, and immediately spawn 2 webs at strategic sites that lets me monitor clashes from the shadows. For the first six levels, I'll just focus on taking last hits, denying and harassing. Whenever possible, I'll go for the kill, but thats rare unless the enemy is a noob or careless or my teammates are signaling a gank.

DOTA 2 Access Granted

Well, lucky me. Seems like I got a free pass for DOTA 2 today. =D
Considering I applied like somewhere around middle of October (Coz I remember seeing weird Halloween ads during application) its real fast.. Tho I did forget I applied lol.. So seeing a free access in my steam account was a happy surprise I have to say.

Am in the process of downloading it as we speak, So once I have it up and running, I'll give it a go and maybe, just maybe, if my imagination's fired up from it, I'll write up a story line based on my gameplay.. That reminds me.. Have to check out match replay availability.. Cant get the meat of the story if I cant grab the highlights of the matches right? =D

So cheers,

And if the devs are reading, THANKS FOR THE FREE PASS!!!

XCOM EU Endgame

Aite.. Just a small update.. I've finished My XCOM.

Yeah, I know its quiet late considering XCOM came out like early October, but let me explain. I got distracted trying to get that win with a perfect continent (meaning a win with 0 country pulled out) that I wound up restarting the dang thing over and over again. Its was quite a while with me trying to figure out how d heck I do that. I even ended up restarting 6 times since each time I tried to save all continent instead of letting one die, I ended losing far more than I expected.. Seriously, I forgot that bout XCOM. The need to be callous and ruthless enough to let one of the dependent continents DIE..   >.<'

So today I got tired of the failed attempts and just went ahead and finished the game on my first game save. the first game sequence. Coz I actually only needed to Assault the last base before winning, but that OCD bout perfect win cost me the chance to ACTUALLY WIN FASTER... >.<'
Being anal has it bad points..

So anyway, went ahead n assaulted the last base and there u have it.. I won..
An expected result, seeing as it isnt so hard. And I played like a wuss.. Always doing bounding overwatch of 2 advancers and 4 overwatch in case of ambush..

So cheers, I'll put a continuation of the XCOM Diaries soon.

Thanks for following

XCOM Diaries - The Beginning

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Flight Inbound to AoE

It's a nerve-wrecking ride. It feels like a total nightmare. Yesterday we were safe and sure in the knowledge that we're the most powerful beings on this planet. Ignorance sure is bliss. Then along came the meteor showers. Thing is, it WASN'T a meteor shower. The bastards were clever and cunning enough to disguise their orbital entry as meteor showers. Only after their drop pods went down in populated area did we start to have an inkling that we're under some sort of invasion. Amidst the panic and chaos, one report stands out. The aliens were ABDUCTING civillians! Due to the situation, the XCOM Project was activated from sleeper status and I was pulled from my force, my recruitment long ago made and accepted as contigencies for situations such as this.


Dropzone at AoE

Seems we're dropping off at Glasgow, UK. Makes sense. Since our base is just off of Germany, cleaning up our nearby backyard first would be easier compared to OPS in the US or Asia. At first sight, the scene looks to be a deserted town. On closer look, it conveys a sense of despair and desolation. Isn't that a doll lying on the floor? And that corpse. So mangled beyond recognition you would't know it (sex unable to be ascertained) was a copper if not for d fact that its lying dead in a cop car with the shredded remnants of its uniform all around it.

Advancing slowly into the AoE, we kept our eyes peeled. Keeping to the ole bounding overwatch routine works well, since we're just 4 at the moment. 2 of us would advance slowly while the other 2 would just cover us and when we're in position, we'll return the favor. No visuals of the bastards. Always that skittering sound, always that faint whisper, but nary a sight at all. Almost makes me think we're fighting ole Anansi himself.
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Commentary - Anansi is a West African deity specialising in tricks, much as Loki served the same function among the Norse Mythology.
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Suddenly a crash! Seems like the bastards are careless. Wait? Whats that round grey thing running off?

Enemy Contact!!!!
Herr Klein let loose a volley. But seems like her nerves got the better of her.

Then, my chance came up. Snapped my sights at it, and with a muttered prayer, took my shot

Time seemed to stop. The bullet took it in the head sending it flopping around. The gun or whatever it was carrying fell off its hand and suddenly blew into tiny pieces. Seems like dead aliens don't give up their secrets easily. Bet Dr. Vahlen would be happy to get her hands on this thing's dead body though. After watching that one die, we're more confident knowing they CAN die. After trading a few more shots, with some cars and walls getting demolished in the process, we managed to clear off the AoE.

To Be Continued....