Valve Reveals Skywrath Mage as Newest Hero in Dota 2

Post by Eorl @ 11:26am 19/04/13 | 31 Comments

Valve has revealed their latest hero for free-to-play MOBA title Dota 2, the Skywrath Mage. Currently available on the test client of Dota 2, the new hero is proving to be quite a sturdy opponent with the ability to dish out massive amounts of magical damage in short amounts of time.

Utilising all four of his abilities Skywrath Mage can deal a very large amount of damage but also offers a 40% slow with his Concussive Shot (E) ability. The Mage's ultimate (R) is quite devastating if catching prey alone, with "600/900/1200 damage dealt within a moderate AoE to any heroes caught inside his ultimate." To follow that up is the Ancient Seal ability, which offers 3/4/5/6 seconds of silence to the targeted enemy but also receives 16/24/30/36% extra magic damage. You start to get the picture that Skywrath Mage is definitely a glass canon.

Alongside the new hero reveal, Valve has also added a new "Download" tab which will store all saved replays for convenience. You can check out the full patch notes over at PCGamesN.

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TiT
Posted 11:44am 19/4/13

Is there up to date list that shows DoTA2 heroes which similar to HON heroes. LIke Bane = Sucubus
As i am trying to convert to DoTA and this would help me big time!

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fryzeegunner
Posted 11:46am 19/4/13

Lol.... hon

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Eorl
Posted 11:49am 19/4/13

I'm not too sure if there is a list like that TiT, though this guide might be of more use to you.

E: Actually I lie, there is one on the wiki over here.

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TiT
Posted 12:00pm 19/4/13

I'm not too sure if there is a list like that TiT, though this guide might be of more use to you.

Thank you :)

Lol.... hon

I still prefer HON over DoTA, Couple things that annoy me is there is no but where you can press or hold that will centre your Hero. Minimap cant be changed to the other corner (as i prefer this because sometimes when trying run away you accidently click on the map and you Hero goes the other way). And i also find the Hereo quite small as they are the same size as the creeps

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Hogfather
Posted 12:06pm 19/4/13

I still prefer HON over DoTA, Couple things that annoy me is there is no but where you can press or hold that will centre your Hero.

Space bar does this for me?

Minimap cant be changed to the other corner (as i prefer this because sometimes when trying run away you accidently click on the map and you Hero goes the other way).

This has been the bane of my existence when playing Radiant and still f**** me from time to time 700 games in. I'm getting used to it but from what I can tell watching games of DOTA2 players who are not s*** (ie not me) they tend to click closer to the hero that I do and more often. I tend to do wider F*** GO OVER HERE clicks.

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Eorl
Posted 12:05pm 19/4/13

TiT there is actually a button to select your hero, I've mapped it to spacebar because I'm so use to LoL. I do agree that the size of the heroes is somewhat smaller compared to other MOBAs but I think you can change the FOV (maybe).

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carson
Posted 12:29pm 19/4/13

There is also a rather large in house community for us ANZ people. Dota is hard. If you join that chat channel (Dota is hard) you can find a great many people to group and play with. They're all fairly friendly.

Also, they run in house games on Wednesday that are cast on twitch and have commentary. I dabbled in the commentary last week, was a lot of fun.

Also a tourney running tomorrow. Kinda wish I had 5 I could play with to do this. http://nlgseries.com/?site=cups&action=details&cupID=228

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Eorl
Posted 12:43pm 19/4/13

I really want to play with you guys, but still re-learning the ropes at the moment so just chilling in bot matches for now. Someday I will be at the level trog is at...

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eski
Posted 12:49pm 19/4/13

I was all set to get into DotA, but I don't have an invite.

And now I'm that guy looking for invites on internet forums. You have the power to stop this!

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Eorl
Posted 12:51pm 19/4/13

What's your SteamID eski? I've got 60 billion left.

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TiT
Posted 12:52pm 19/4/13

eski add me _TiT_ i have like 10

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eski
Posted 12:59pm 19/4/13

aww yeah!

Thanks dude :)

cheers Eorl, grabbed one off TiT, eski103 - add me if you feel like bashing some newb

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carson
Posted 01:35pm 19/4/13

Added you.

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DeadlyDav0
Posted 02:29pm 19/4/13

Yeah not being able to change the minimap s**** me. Dunno why cause its such a common thing to f*****g misclick. F1 centres the map on my hero with F2 for courier, sure this can be changed to other keys.

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glynd
Posted 02:32pm 19/4/13

I was all set to get into DotA, but I don't have an invite.And now I'm that guy looking for invites on internet forums. You have the power to stop this!

How did you not get an invite? I've got 16 in my steam account haha.

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carson
Posted 02:34pm 19/4/13

Add this to an autoexe or in the console.

dota_minimap_misclick_time "0.3"

.3 or .5 saves me from misclicking the minimap. Never had the problem since changing it.

My whole autoexe.cfg has this if anyone wants to copy it.

dota_force_right_click_attack "1"
dota_range_display "1200"
dota_disable_range_finder "0"
dota_screen_shake "1"
dota_player_multipler_orders "0"
dota_unit_fly_bonus_height "150"
dota_minimap_simple_colors "0"
dota_minimap_misclick_time "0.3"
dota_sf_old_heropedia "0"
net_graphinsetbottom "437"
net_graphinsetright "-80"
net_graphproportionalfont "0"
net_graph "1"
dota_health_per_vertical_marker "250"
dota_embers "1"
dota_minimap_ping_duration "3"
dota_minimap_hero_size "600"

Just make it and throw it in \Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\cfg folder and winner winner chicken dinner.

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Eorl
Posted 02:40pm 19/4/13

Carson could you take a screenshot of your UI? Want to see what these settings are like in action.

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trog
Posted 04:31pm 19/4/13

dota_minimap_misclick_time "0.3"

.3 or .5 saves me from misclicking the minimap. Never had the problem since changing it.

I don't get it, what does it do?

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TiT
Posted 04:34pm 19/4/13

I don't get it, what does it do?

I think what it does is delays the click for 0.3 sec so if you accidently click on the map it wont change direction

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Hogfather
Posted 04:44pm 19/4/13

I think what it does is delays the click for 0.3 sec so if you accidently click on the map it wont change direction

Minimum time after the mouse enters the minimap before we accept a move command. Used to prevent misclicks.

Default value: 0

http://www.gamerconfig.eu/command/dota-2/dota_minimap_misclick_time/

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trog
Posted 04:47pm 19/4/13

I can't wrap my brain around how that is a problem.

Is that just for those gumbies that clickclickclick like they're playing Diablo?

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Crash
Posted 04:51pm 19/4/13

I think what it does is delays the click for 0.3 sec so if you accidently click on the map it wont change direction

The only problem i can see with this cmd is for heroes that have global spells. Like say natures prophet, if you're trying to escape. I usually click on the mini map to get out of there but this would now cause a delay. Or using ancients app ult, another delay on this. I know its not long but still a delay.

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carson
Posted 05:27pm 19/4/13

Carson could you take a screenshot of your UI? Want to see what these settings are like in action.

I'll take one later with what each thing I have does.

I can't wrap my brain around how that is a problem. Is that just for those gumbies that clickclickclick like they're playing Diablo?

When you're trying to make pro dukes when fleeing for your life and you are heading towards the radiant fountain, I, and many others had problems with accidently hitting the dire corner of the map. So we'd head back and die.

It adds a slight delay, which is good.

The only problem i can see with this cmd is for heroes that have global spells. Like say natures prophet, if you're trying to escape. I usually click on the mini map to get out of there but this would now cause a delay. Or using ancients app ult, another delay on this. I know its not long but still a delay.

I haven't really seen any detrimental effects of this. Even when using heroes like NP. There are always work arounds that offset the delay, such as moving camera or what not.

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carson
Posted 06:55pm 27/4/13

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Finally got around to posting it, this is what it looks like for me. The ring is the xp range. The little arrow for the skill shows me the range.

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DeadlyDav0
Posted 10:34pm 27/4/13

1200 exp range is like double the max attack range of ranged heroes. If you cant estimate that you're kinda in trouble. I can understand for blink n hooks though cause u dont wanna f*** that up.

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carson
Posted 10:12am 28/4/13

1200 exp range is like double the max attack range of ranged heroes. If you cant estimate that you're kinda in trouble. I can understand for blink n hooks though cause u dont wanna f*** that up.

Well I like to have it up anyway. I can be certain I am in or not in range, plus from there you know where blink/hook/etc skills will go.

Not all ranged heroes are 600rng though. Once you start using the range indicator, it's hard to go back. It makes staying in solo offlane a lot easier.

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DeadlyDav0
Posted 11:34am 28/4/13

Didnt say they are all 600 range but said that was the max range of ranged heroes although i just now realised that sniper is an exception. I can understand the importance for solo offlane where you might be ganked at any stage n need to keep max distance from the enemy.

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DK
Posted 06:21pm 28/4/13

Smite is where it's at

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Phooks
Posted 07:01pm 28/4/13

Yeah when I first watched the videos of smite it looked s***e, but they've done some serious texture and detail reworking. looks great now

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carson
Posted 07:10pm 28/4/13

Smite is where it's at

I felt smite was like lol. It lacked the depth that dota 2 has. It was fun, but since switching to the Aus servers for Dota2, nothing can compare.

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DK
Posted 07:18pm 28/4/13

Yeah i'm not sure if it has the depth of dota, but f*** is it fun. I havn't been playing smite for too long and I own most games. I think the skill cap is lower for noobs. Be interesting to see what its meta game is like (if it develops into one)

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