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On this week's podcast Ursi, Proud, and guest AHW discuss the current unpatched iteration of the game and offer some theories. Topics include: Bloodseeker, the new battlepass activity, balance patch cadence, Lotuses, pull dynamics, experience, differentiating good & bad players, objective balancing, Monkey King, Broodmother, a couple listener questions, and much more!
I discuss the Patch 25.2.2 nerfs with help from Mongoose, before trying out Shockspitter Hunter to see if it's still any good. You can find the deck import link below the following contact links. Join our Discord community here or at discord.me/blisterguy. You can follow me @blisterguy or the podcast @walktoworkHS on twitter. Subscribe to my Youtube channel. You can support this podcast and my other Hearthstone work at Patreon here. # 2x (0) Devouring Swarm # 2x (1) Batty Guest # 2x (1) Candleshot # 2x (1) Irondeep Trogg # 2x (1) Tracking # 1x (2) Astalor Bloodsworn # 2x (2) Bloodseeker # 2x (2) Doggie Biscuit # 2x (2) Selective Breeder # 2x (2) Spirit Poacher # 1x (3) Brann Bronzebeard # 2x (3) Harpoon Gun # 2x (3) Wild Spirits # 2x (4) Shockspitter # 2x (4) Stormpike Battle Ram # 1x (6) Beaststalker Tavish # 1x (7) Hydralodon # AAECAb+ABgTbkQTnuQSY1ATipAUN6ukDlPwDw4AE9o8EqZ8E2KME4aQEg8gEweMEzOQE0OQEqJMFj6QFAA==
I talk about my first 48 hours with the Lich King, before playing Arcane Shockspitter Hunter on the ladder. You can find the deck import link below the following contact links. Join our Discord community here or at discord.me/blisterguy. You can follow me on twitter @blisterguy. You can follow the podcast on twitter @walktoworkHS Subscribe in iTunes or Stitcher or your podcatcher of choice. Subscribe to my Youtube channel. You can support this podcast and my other Hearthstone work at Patreon here. # 2x (0) Devouring Swarm # 2x (1) Batty Guest # 2x (1) Candleshot # 2x (1) Tracking # 1x (2) Arcane Quiver # 2x (2) Bloodseeker # 2x (2) Conjured Arrow # 2x (2) Selective Breeder # 2x (2) Shockspitter # 2x (2) Spirit Poacher # 1x (3) Brann Bronzebeard # 2x (3) Keeneye Spotter # 2x (3) Wild Spirits # 2x (4) Stormpike Battle Ram # 1x (5) Ara'lon # 1x (5) Barak Kodobane # 1x (6) Beaststalker Tavish # 1x (7) Hydralodon # AAECAda+BQbl7wPbkQTnuQSY1ATT5ASNkgUM6ukDlPwD9o8EqZ8E2KMEweMEzOQE0OQEp5AFqJMFrpMFj6QFAA==
I talk about how I'm preparing for the new Expansion and Hearthstone year before playing Face Hunter on the ladder. You can find the deck import link below the following contact links. Join our Discord community here or at discord.me/blisterguy. You can follow me on twitter @blisterguy. You can follow the podcast on twitter @walktoworkHS Subscribe in iTunes or Stitcher or your podcatcher of choice. You can see my infographic archive here. Subscribe to my Youtube channel. You can support this podcast and my other Hearthstone work at Patreon here. # 2x (1) Adorable Infestation # 2x (1) Demon Companion # 2x (1) Guardian Augmerchant # 2x (1) Intrepid Initiate # 2x (1) Irondeep Trogg # 2x (1) Wolpertinger # 2x (2) Bloodseeker # 2x (2) Crabrider # 2x (2) Cult Neophyte # 2x (2) Doggie Biscuit # 2x (2) Quick Shot # 2x (2) Scavenger's Ingenuity # 2x (3) Aimed Shot # 2x (3) Ramming Mount # 1x (4) Rinling's Rifle # 1x (5) Barak Kodobane # AAECAb/yBAKP4wPl7wMO/7oD3r4D3MwDos4DgtADudIDi9UDkeQD9/gDxfsDw4AE9o8Eu6AE4aQEAA==
I take a look at how Battlegrounds lobbies play out these days before playing SuperiorDavid's Rank 163 Legend Questline Hunter. You can find the deck import link below the following contact links. Join our Discord community here or at discord.me/blisterguy. You can follow me on twitter @blisterguy. You can follow the podcast on twitter @walktoworkHS Subscribe in iTunes or Stitcher or your podcatcher of choice. You can see my infographic archive here. Subscribe to my Youtube channel. You can support this podcast and my other Hearthstone work at Patreon here. # 2x (1) Arcane Shot # 1x (1) Defend the Dwarven District # 2x (1) Overwhelm # 2x (1) Resizing Pouch # 2x (1) Tracking # 2x (1) Wound Prey # 2x (2) Bloodseeker # 2x (2) Bola Shot # 2x (2) Dragonbane Shot # 1x (2) Explosive Trap # 2x (2) Furious Howl # 2x (2) Quick Shot # 2x (3) Aimed Shot # 1x (3) Professor Slate # 2x (3) Rustrot Viper # 1x (4) Drek'Thar # 2x (4) Piercing Shot # AAECAeTxBATk1AP9+AO7igTjnwQNudADjeQDj+QD3OoD2+0D9/gD0PkD9o8EqZ8Eqp8Eu6AEv6wEwawEAA==
On this week's Thursday Show Zac and Ursi drink blood. Topics include: Playing against lane dominators, Sven, Ancient Apparition, Heart, 3 Kunkka, mid Kunkka, Lich, Bloodseeker, Batrider, hotkeys, an SF game, a few pubs, and much more!
On this week's Tuesday Show Zac and Ursi discover the magical wonders of carry Zeus, and some other stuff or whatever. Topics include: the new Battle Pass, Aghanim's mode, WLDL series from this past week, Zac's segment 'The Courier and the Supernova', 'Threeable Heroes', flex heroes, Bloodseeker, what 5 heroes we would play if we could only play those 5 for a year, and more!
I ponder the potential balance changes we might see in Alterac Valley, before playing Big Beast Hunter on the ladder. You can find the deck import link below the following contact links. Join our Discord community here or at discord.me/blisterguy. You can follow me on twitter @blisterguy. You can follow the podcast on twitter @walktoworkHS You can email the podcast at walktoworkHS@gmail.com. Subscribe in iTunes or Stitcher. You can see my infographic archive here. Subscribe to my Youtube channel, it helps me! You can support this podcast and my other Hearthstone work at Patreon here. # 2x (1) Tracking # 2x (2) Bloodseeker # 2x (2) Explosive Trap # 2x (2) Freezing Trap # 2x (2) Ice Trap # 2x (3) Revive Pet # 1x (4) Rinling's Rifle # 2x (4) Spring the Trap # 1x (4) Vanndar Stormpike # 2x (5) Imported Tarantula # 2x (5) Teacher's Pet # 1x (6) Beaststalker Tavish # 2x (7) Humongous Owl # 2x (7) Mountain Bear # 1x (8) Beastmaster Leoroxx # 2x (8) Guardian Animals # 1x (9) King Krush # 1x (9) Wing Commander Ichman # AAECAYPcBAa2uwOP4wOnjQTbkQThnwTaowQMks0Dk9EDh/0DqY0Eq40E9o8E15IEqZ8E458E5J8E16ME5aQEAA==
On this week's Thursday Show Zac and Ursi chat about Silencer, some faded trends, some new trends, Ember Spirit's shard, Bloodseeker, PA, Sven (as a 4?), ranked game wins, Shield Crash Pangolier, Divine Rapier, and so much more!
If you are fans of exploration and survival tales, then let me tell you the story of the Pirates of the Wormwoood trying to rescue their friend Sandara Quinn. Riptide Cove's entrance were guarded by the Grindylow so the team decided to try for the cliff face entrance...and that's where things got complicated...
On this week's Thursday Show Ursi and Zac develop an entire new game mechanic to fix Armlet instead of just, you know, modifying Armlet itself. Innovators, truly! Topics include: Echo Sabre, inability to pick supports in pubs, Armlet, alternative build paths (?!), Anti-Mage, changes to the carry archetype, Arc Warden counters, Phantom Lancer, Jared Walsh, Bloodseeker, the Pope's Secret Dota Notes, and more!
On this week's Thursday Show Ursi, Proud, and Zac get together to perfectly balance each and every aspect of the game for the upcoming patch (you're welcome, Icefrog). Topics include: the Singapore Major, trendy heroes right now, faltering heroes right now, Grimstroke, Tusk, Arteezy Naga Siren, Spider Legs, Zac's upcoming coaching stream, map change expectations, Timbersaw, Earthshaker, Clinkz, Drow Ranger, certain mid matchups, Terry, and more! Terry Yun Goong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk0kufx74Io
On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Ursi and Bee bumble around in their regular style that you all know well by now. Topics include: hangovers, Techies (philosophically and otherwise), Ursi's inability to play Bloodseeker, OD, Puck as a 5, Tinker's aghs being fixed, Bee breaking Valheim, swift blink Juggernaut, couriers, cosmetics, the relic changes, Runescape, and more!
On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Ursi is joined by Bee while Proud is on sabbatical, uncovering the mysteries of various tombs. Topics include: 3 position Bloodseeker trends, Bee learning Phoenix, Ursi's experiments with OD as both a 3 and a traditional mid, drafting around unique offlaners, the wonders of Snowdonia, and tons more!
On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are joined by Donnie, @ElevatedDota, formerly of Dota Alchemy and Pvgna, to talk a bit about everything Dota-related! Topics include: Viper, Heaven's Halberd's strength right now, Tinker, the updated/changed Bloodseeker, Dota burnout, bracers/wraiths/nulls, Spectre's many itemization options, Tusk as a 5, new Sven, Doom, the content creation process as it relates to Dota, and plenty more !
Charlene and Sam join each other to discuss the PPDL, loosing ranked games, Bloodseeker, and life under Quarantine.
So what's up with carry heroes in Dota 2 at the moment? Well all three of the usual New Meta suspects are here to discuss exactly this, with a particular spotlight at the top of the winrate charts. Heroes that see a particular focus are Lycan, Riki, Naga, Bloodseeker and Troll. https://discord.gg/rgV6KwD
On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are joined by Gothir to play a game, chat about dota, cover the new mini-patch (7.23f) and more! Some covered topics include: Slark, Bloodseeker, Puck, Phantom Lancer Aghs, Magnus, dealing with tanky heroes, Oracle, anti-kiting strategies, the value of Boots of Travel, and plenty more!
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On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi break into the 7.12d patch notes, their experiences with Dota recently, Ursi throwing a battlecup, and plenty more! For our heroes we chose based on the game and ended up playing Bloodseeker and Pangolier!
On this week's Theory Craft Thursday Proud and Ursi are talking all about their experiences playing a ton of dota this week in our ever-changing pub meta! We're talking about common hero picks we're seeing, how the hell you deal with Bloodseeker, all these super fast strength heroes, and how to pivoting towards new heroes after a patch! We're playing 1 Chaos Knight and 3 Queen of Pain for the game this week and seeing how each hero works out!
On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are going about decribing exactly what the idea of 'flow of the fight' is and how that impacts your late game decision making regarding items, talents, and even hero choices from the get-go! After our regular Week in Dota segment we're focusing our hero specific segment on carry Bloodseeker (all applies to mid BS as well) who's real strong at the moment as well as 4 Pudge played by Ursi who discovers the wonderful, terrible, gore-filled world of Pudge!
This week on Teach Me Tuesday, Proud & Beedub chat about the dos & don'ts of maybe the most agonising things in dota, playing from behind! They also discuss tricky Venge swaps, Abaddon shields, keeping track when playing a micro hero, camera binds, daily heroes, Mask of Madness Juggernaut, the fall of Bloodseeker and more!
On today's Teach Me Tuesday, Proud lays down the knowledge on how to lane, itemize & fight as Juggerbean and Bee is embarrassed at her Lifestealer build. Listener questions are answered about maintaining distance from gap-closers in team fights, transformative items for supports, & what lifesteal items actually do!
Ursi and Proud are going about their regular business this week talking about their week in Dota, Ursi's Pangolier adventures, Proud's wild recent games, Ursi learning how to properly play Terrorblade and more before delving into this week's segment on swapping lanes pre-game for advantageous matchups prompted by a game which Ursi played Tidehunter mid as a Broodmother mid counter! For this week's combo Ursi is going back to one of his old favorites who he hasn't been playing much, Disruptor, and Proud is playing around with a hot new Radiance + Solar Crest Lifestealer build!
In this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi are going over the various support buffs and changes that came along with the new 7.09 patch and their games testing out some new things in the patch before delving into listener questions like "how to relax after you've been tilted in a game", "how best to 5 man and when to stop 5 manning", and more!
On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are delving deep into Proud's love of Vengeful Spirit support that has led hum to a huge win streak in solo ranked! Ursi is chatting about his hatred of Razor, dislike of playing safelane, and his long win streak that has since faded into a whole lot of losses. For the combo Proud is playing Venge, of course, and Ursi is picking based on the game (Terrorblade and OD) and we all get to learn about why everyone hates Lion, that ugly mess of a hero.
In today's Teach Me Tuesday, Bee and Proud discuss farming and fighting in pubs, Luna, Reflection, and answer some listener questions along the way. Bee may have been body snatched also but I think it's fine.
On this week's Theory Craft Thursday Skrunk joins Proud and Ursi to chat about their 7.08 winning streaks! We're covering all kinds of different heroes from Lion to Alchemist support and other heroes that got some notable changes in 7.08. For our game we ended up playing offlane Tiny, safelane PA, and roaming Tusk (so that Ursi can redeem himself after last week) and talked about what, exactly, makes up a good team comp. All this and more on today's episode!
On this week's Teach Me Tuesday, Ursi and Beedub are chatting about their experience with the new patch 7.08, Ursi's long-standing love of Rubick, Bee's newfound tryst with Rubick, which types of heroes are best to first-pick in various roles when in pubs, how to effectively balance a draft between being reactionary but not too reactionary, and much more! Stay tuned for a Patreon-exclusive episode discussing the merits and demerits of run-on sentences and comma splices!* * No.
On today's episode of Teach Me Tuesday, Proud & Bee talk about all the different types of disables in Dota 2 and what they do. Also, the infamous topic of base attack time is revisited as Proud takes another crack at explaining what it is and how it works.
On today's show Proud and Ursi are jumping into why suddenly everyone is building Battlefury on their safe-laners, why everyone should actually be building rapiers, Ursi's love hate relationship with Invoker at the moment, and more! For this week's combo we played Monkey King with a rapier build to illustrate the strength of rapiers and pair it with Oracle to try to keep the rapier in play as much as possible! A great rapier game Proud played recently can be found with match ID 3696259670!
On today's episode of Teach Me Tuesday Ursi & Bee focus on all the ins-and-outs of what makes a good support vs. a bad support, how to play support in a greedy fashion without costing your team, how to communicate as a support (and general communication opinions/tips), and more! Our questions for the episode pertained to supporting in slow games, aggro trilaning, and the relative values of playing ranked vs. playing unranked!
On today's episode Proud and Ursi are joined by special guest Donnie from Pvgna to talk all about the best ways to learn from pro games and then how you can implement & apply what you've learned most effectively! For the combo this week, Proud is focusing on a new Radiance Ursa build that he's testing out and Ursi ends up playing Magnus as a reactionary pick to the game drafts! All this and more on today's show!
Proud and Bee discuss the goals and techniques of Phantom Assassin, Dragon Knight, Doom, and Shadow Shaman that give you that sweet sweet W. Listener questions include a conclusion on the Double Stout trend, whether anyone is allowed to jungle WK under any circumstance, and probably some other stuff.
On this episode of Theory Craft Thursday Proud and Ursi are talking all about their week in Dota, how to effectively mirror enemy support movements to create an advantage, how to establish tempo on an aggressive roaming support and force the enemy to mirror you, and more! Our combo for this week was a safelane Lycan using the Helm of the Dominator into Necronomicon 3 build paired with an offlane Beastmaster for wild strong push!
On this episode of Teach Me Tuesday Ursi is joined by former teachling and current-special-guest Leafy Peachy to chat about a variety of different topics! Our focuses today include Spectre's itemization, talent choices on Spectre, how both Dark Willow and Pangolier have settled now that they've been released for a while, transformative items vs. reinforcing items on carries, how to improve the overall Dota community and maintain the longevity of the game, how to play Legion Commander in the midgame, the value of peoples' win rates on heroes as a judge of their skill, and more!
On today's episode of Theorycraft Thursday your hosts Proud and Ursi are going in-depth on the new trend of pulling the enemy's initial minute-zero creep wave as the offlaner to build and maintain a strong lane advantage for you as the offlaner! We're also going to be playing Witch Doctor and Dragon Knight together and going into some of the advantages and disadvantages of running jack-of-all-trades supports like Witch Doctor and talking about what makes a good DK game vs. a weak DK game! All this and more on this week's Theorycraft Thursday!
On today's show Beedub and Ursi are working to improve their play for the upcoming 2018 year of Dota with their own new year's resolutions! We're also chatting all about how to play around detection as an invisible hero, what makes a good trilane composition, how to deal with aggressive duolanes as a safelane support, how much money spent countering an opponent is too much money, and much more on today's Teach Me Tuesday!
Bee attempts to maintain consciousness as Proud outlines Crystal Maiden's weaknesses and some other stuff probably, I don't know, I haven't listened to the whole thing yet...
On today's show your host Beedub is joined by Ursi to get into the nitty-gritty about how best to roam and defining the different types of roamers who often are grouped together despite functioning very differently in the actual game! We also chatted about how valuable it is to memorize Dota minutia, study methods that may or may not be pointless, and answered a bunch of listener questions regarding BKBs, Jungling, Blink vs. Force, the virtues of picking tanky heroes, and more!
Proud and Beedub answer some listener questions, discuss which heroes are good for new offlane players, talk about how to get out of a slump, and discuss possible new safelane carries for Beedub to experiment with. All this and more on this episode of Teach Me Tuesday!
On today's episode of Teach Me Tuesday Ursi & Beedub explore Bee's experience calibrating and playing ranked for the first time before delving into the very robust but important topic of how to avoid dying in games of dota! We also cover why certain heroes like PA and AM are a scourge upon lower mmr pubs but a more manageable problem at higher mmrs, and how best to develop & grow as a team, how to be honest with your teammates, and why it's best to avoid playing with ringers on your team
On this week's Teach Me Tuesday, Ursi and Beedub talk about the new ranked season system before going into all the ins-and-outs of how to play around invisibility; how best to use invisibility to your advantage, how best to counter invisibility, offensive counters vs. defensive counters, offensive play-making potential vs. defensive maneuvers, when to use dust vs. when to use sentries, the various power peaks of invisibility, and more! Also answering more listener questions. If you want to send in questions yourself you can DM any of the show hosts on Discord or you can send us an email to show@fourthspirit.com
Proud is tired and Bee are jet-lagged as they endeavor to teach you mangy rascals how the goodnessgracious to highground cause golly gee wiz is that a tough one. Please listen to our shows we're dying each day and it's not getting any easier to see the light. Send help.
This week's Teach Me Tuesday features Ursi and Beedub going through plenty of questions from both Bee and viewer submissions including their favorite supports in 7.07, how to climb from 2.5k up with the new ranked seasonal system as mid or carry, what role the 3, 4, and 5 have in a team comp, and more!
Proud and LeafyPeachy dive deep into Doom's decision-making and how to recover as a struggling offlaner.
Ursinity and Beedub try out a new one on one format of Teach Me Tuesdays where Beedub watched one of Ursi's carry games and then analyzed his decision making, why he cuts down so many trees, mistakes he made, how to steal roshan, when to draft troll vs. when not to draft troll, and much more!
Proud schools LeafyPeachy and Cyphus on the interactions between safe lanes and offlanes. They talk what to do when you're a solo safe laner, proper goals for an offlaner, when to leave lane and where to go, offlane as Enigma, and much, much more. Plus a lot of Bloodseeker. Cause, you know...Proud. All on the Dota 2 podcast!
From brown boots Earth Shaker to mango PA, Ursi tutors leafypeachy and beedub on decisions in the early game. How do you lane versus a Dark Seer with Soul Ring? Why Blink and Force Staff? All this and more on the learning Dota 2 podcast!
Proud gets a new combo of students this week for Teach Me Tuesdays: Beedub and Cyphus. With both the "teachlings" focusing on safe lane cores, this episode focuses heavily on safe lane carry play. Beedub asks about pushing high ground and which cores are best at it before delving into alternative Monkey King carry builds. Plus Proud schools Cyphus on his recent Spectre play, a Viper misconception Cyphus holds, and helps Cyphus try to determine if he's farming too much. Beedub poses a few questions about Bloodseeker much to Proud's delight, and they close with another look at the issues with replacing Manta Style in Phantom Lancer's build. All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 learning podcast!
Proud and Ursinity are tackling the concept of a meta hero in this week's episode of the Dota 2 podcast. They also talk about a Windranger/Bloodseeker combo for this week's game. They talk extensively about Windranger as both a core and support, Disruptor's strengths, building items around the enemy team comp, and cast points. All this and more in the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!
Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland tackle another round of Counterattack, the show where we force ourselves to play the best hero for every episode as determined by pure statistical counterpicking. This week, we counterattack the enemy team with Spectre and Treant Protector versus an Axe, Mirana, Riki, Bloodseeker and Faceless Void. Find out how they did, what they think the strengths and weaknesses were of their heroes versus the enemy team's lineup, and more! All this on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.
Ursinity and Roland are joined by Fafnir and Cyphus for this week's Theorycraft Thursday! The duo takes on an offlane designed with 6.84's impending outro in mind: Bloodseeker/Leshrac. The gang discusses the pros and cons of the lane, plays the games and talks about the aftermath. Find the VOD of the game online at DotP's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/dotptv1