DotA Dudes

MOGUL KAHN
The Axe

In the war of Humans and Orcs that occurred long ago many Orcish warriors were corrupted by demonic influence and became tools of blackest darkness. One such warrior was the leader of the Half-Tribe of the Bloodied Axe Clan; Mogul Kahn. Mogul was slain by human Paladins but mysteriously was seen fighting alongside the Scourge around the time Mannoroth started to command the Orcs in the war against Archimonde. The Axe has been revived by demons and uses his reflexes and powerful blows to hunt down and seek out the Sentinels' agile warriors and cut them down to size, even projecting his lust for war onto them.

Took 15 hours to complete this work, using Photoshop CS3. This my first venture using a wacom tablet(thanks bro!).
Comments and critiques are welcome.

The official DotA Allstars 6.61 Map is out! It includes Heroes & Item stat changes, certain bug fixes and few gameplay and ui changes. Important changelogs are given below.


Hero Changes:

• Nerubian Weaver: Reworked Watchers
• 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
• Tauren Chieftain: Lowered base damage by 10 (Sad)
• Centaur: Reduced Double Edge cooldown (25->12 seconds) - Spam it :P

Item Changes:

• 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
  
• Buriza-Do Kyanon: Improved the critical value from 2.2x to 2.4x
• Quelling Blade: Minor reduction to bonus damage (36->32)

Gameplay Changes:

• 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)
• Sound Effects: Removed the "Allied hero has fallen"
• 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)

Also, Anubseran's 'Watchers' have been replaced by a new spell called "Urna Swarm". The changes are as follows:

Old Watcher's:

• Cooldown: 30/20/10/5 seconds
• Movement Speed: 522
• HP: 1
• Bounty: 10-13
• Vision: 1400/1400
• Invisible

Urna Swarm:
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

Download the full changelog - Mirror1 / Mirror2

So ready to give the new map a go? Download it from the following mirrors:

• DotA 6.61 Map Download (via Ziddu)
• DotA 6.61 Map Download
  
• DotA 6.61 Map Download (via Warcraft Blog)
• DotA 6.61 Map Download (via GetDota)
  

Discovered a couple of links leading to Warcraft Version Switcher! Download it from the following links:

• Warcraft 3 Version Switcher (with all patches - 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.23 - 120 Mb Zip)
• Version 1.20 patch (30 Mb Zip)
• Version 1.21 patch (30 Mb Zip)
• Version 1.22 patch (30 Mb Zip)
• Version 1.23 patch (30 Mb Zip)

For more links, click here.

Don't know what is Warcraft Version Switcher? Read more about it here.

Teams from Ukraine and Romania were unbeaten and were safe for the Finals. Surprisingly for many fans, the favoured teams Germany, Russia, Sweden and Denmark had to fight for the last spots for the relegation.

In the following games Romania was able to defeat Sweden (very good match)(Download the replay) has now been seeded directly into the Final Round, without losing a single game. Besides, Denmark won against Czech Republic. Sweden and Denmark are now in the Relegation, where it will be decided which team will move on in to the Final Round.

In Group A, nothing is decided yet. At first, the game betweenUkraine against Slovakia will decide the team which will automatically be in the Final Round. The loser of this match has to face either Germany or Russia, both still able to join the Relegation.

Click here for the latest Standings

Source : GosuGamers

A post in PlayDotA forums featured a new set of unknown/secret juke spots and paths which are available from the DotA-Allstars 6.60 Map onwards. Most of the paths are not easily observed even by Pro players, but it does help to get to know these routes beforehand ^_^

Some of the new juke paths are shown below. Each path can be easily visualised as the corresponding MiniMap position is also included. In case you want to save these images for later reference, feel free to download the full set of juke paths here (Zip, 0.85 Mb).