Defense of the Ancients

The Past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

2011-03-20T09:59:00.001-07:00

The Past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
- Pierre Trudeau

Customize Your Warcraft Theme

2010-06-24T05:32:00.000-07:00

Sup Gamers!

I've just found an interesting tools for warcraft which is you can customize your theme.. The tools change your background wallpaper and theme..

Its cool though, the theme was made by K-4-in..

A few screenshots :

Download "Here" and you will provide a installation guide in read me.

Credit goes to dota-utilities.com

Great DotA tricks!

2010-06-23T06:49:00.000-07:00

Great tricks made by : Kuarinofu

1) You can attack roshan using illusion

2) Attack roshan from outside of his place using any orb skill

3) Ward the roshan spot in a sec without losing ward

4) Revealing enemy with "Song Of The Siren" from Naga Siren's ultimate

5) Manta or Naga illusion great escape method

6) Get funny effect with Batrider

7) Escape Kunkka "X Marks" with Magnus "Skewer"

8) Pit's "Dark Rift" on allied creep

9) Enemy going roshan

10) Chen and clinkz hp and damage

11) Tossing treant bird

12) Slark reg ulti on treant bird

13) Tp on all structures

14) Survival tips

15) Tips for sandking

16) Using lvl 1 tidebringer with every hit

-EnD- he getting old- lol-

What a great tricks ;)

After take a long wait for AI map

2010-06-09T07:07:00.000-07:00

Finally, after the long wait, AI for the latest DotA map is here! After BuffMePlz stopped developing AI for DotA maps, Harreke from PlayDotA.comtook the job to bring AI to the lastest DotA map. DotA Allstars 6.67b AI is the first AI map released by Harreke.

Credit

This latest DotA AI map requires Warcraft III patch 1.24e to play.

Changelog:

Changelog:
6.67b (v0.2141)
===============
- Heroes and items were updated from BuffMePlz's 6.66b AI.
The following game modes have been disabled for now:
-vr, -rv, -rd, -cd, -cm, -lm, -xl
The following game commands have been disabled for now:
-afk, -kickafk, -ah, -switch, -fun
Please report bugs to me.
Things that are bugs:
-Crashes with reproducible reasons
-Abilities/items not working as expected (for players or bots)
Things that are not bugs:
-Bots not using certain abilities
-Bots being too strong/weak/cheating. They do that.
Enjoy!

Known bugs:

1.Scroll of Town Portal's mechanism didn't change to 6.67b.
2.Spirit Breaker's Charge of Darkness would cause target become invincible. Please use -repick or -airepick to make human/AI player choose another hero.

According to Harreke, the AI map is still incomplete and contains bugs, but it is playable. AI won’t be able to use the new skills modification on hero such as Magnus, Nerubian Weaver and Bone Fletcher. Use -repick to make AI player choose another hero.

[Download: DotA Allstars v6.67b AI.w3x]

Size: 6.84 MB
MD5: 25150826aec421be4da1a7453da05691
SHA-1: 0d6a8a4faaa04009d08b868949f99e17fee5d676

[DotA Allstars AI Forum] [PlayDotA AI Forum]

This article was taken from TmsNetwork, credit goes to Whiztech

Download Warcraft III Version Switcher for Version 1.21, 1.22, 1.22a, 1.23, 1.24, 1.24b, 1.24c, 1.24d, 1.24e

2009-09-24T10:07:00.000-07:00

As the name said, Warcraft version switcher will let you to switch between different version of Warcraft III.

Download Warcraft III Version Switcher

Download version 1.21, 1.22, 1.22a, 1.23, 1.24 and 1.24b
NOTE: Version 1.24c, 1.24d and 1.24e ARE NOT INCLUDED in this download. You need to download them separately instead.

Use 7-zip to extract the content.

Download part 1: Warcraft III Version Switcher.7z.001
Size: 90 MB
MD5: 0C3CC7FD53B4F06D65398C028A5534F6

Download part 2: Warcraft III Version Switcher.7z.002
Size: 86.8 MB
MD5: 97C4873D37BBEB6E1AEB238191749B08

You can download each version separately. Put the 'TFT Version 1.2x.zip' file in 'wvs' folder.

Separate Download

Main application (extract with 7-zip)
Download: Warcraft III Version Switcher.7z
Size: 550 KB
MD5: C1CFAC09DC21D0787DBE86BE07E4E38B

Version 1.21
Download: TFT Version 1.21.zip
Size: 29.6 MB
MD5: 75C19DB36653DEE7F37EAE27181CEFAC

Version 1.22
Download: TFT Version 1.22.zip
Size: 30.0 MB
MD5: A90D46567DE7614E340FC91512FE58DA

Version 1.22a
Download: TFT version 1.22a.zip
Size: 30.3 MB
MD5: 5B20F7B15A5E45657F3206CDB909164F

Version 1.23
Download: TFT Version 1.23.zip
Size: 53.4 MB
MD5: 3D80AF8D471DA28E00C283B81C6C15F0

Version 1.24
Download: TFT Version 1.24.zip
Size: 30.8 MB
MD5: 29D85101C4B7592499FB7EEBA5410371

Version 1.24b
Download: TFT Version 1.24b.zip
Size: 65.7 MB
MD5: 49CDD1798B3A9D2C63A716ECA8D4972D

Version 1.24c
Download: TFT Version 1.24c.zip
Size: 32.3 MB
MD5: 3BF252A1F4B1BE96FA1FA44FF0B67CBB

Version 1.24d
Download: TFT Version 1.24d.zip
Size: 32.5 MB
MD5: 95D096B723050194B152F719A94C42BE

Version 1.24e
Download: TFT Version 1.24e.zip
Size: 32.3 MB
MD5: E201EAD55491B0BABA47B6663E21794C

Most of these files can be downloaded from Dota-Utilities.

This article was taken from TmsNetwork, credit goes to Whiztech

Download Latest DotA AI Map: DotA Allstars v6.63b AI 0.212

2009-09-24T10:06:00.000-07:00

The latest DotA AI map, DotA Allstars v6.63b AI 0.212 had been released by BuffMePlz on 24th September 2009.

Release notes for DotA Allstars v6.63b AI 0.212:

6.63b (v0.212)
==============
-First update to 6.63b
-Fixed an issue that was causing AI bots to learn their abilities out of order
-Fixed another issue that was still causing the game to crash when a player leaves the game early
-Added some additional AI ability functionality (Crystal Nova, Storm Bolt, Mana Burn)
Original post:
First release, updated to 6.62 and 1.24b compliant. Note that this is v0.21, and there will be bugs.
Some abilities are not working for bots yet (they learn them but don't use them), and this is expected and will be addressed in future versions.
The following game modes have been disabled for now:
-vr, -rv, -rd, -cd, -cm, -lm, -xl
The following game commands have been disabled for now:
-afk, -kickafk, -ah, -switch, -fun
Please report bugs to me.
Things that are bugs:
-Crashes with reproducible reasons
-Abilities/items not working as expected (for players or bots)
Things that are not bugs:
-Bots not using certain abilities
-Bots being too strong/weak/cheating. They do that.
Thanks to Overflow_GR for his help on this version.
Enjoy!
---
Note: Only for v1.24b, doesn't work for v1.24 and below..
Since this map is based on DotA Allstars v6.63b, Warcraft III version 1.24b is required to play this map. You can download Warcraft III version switcher here.
[Download: DotA Allstars v6.63b AI 0.212]
[BuffMePlz Blog] [PlayDotA Forum] [DotA-Allstars Forum]

Impress yourself with Dota theme!

2009-07-31T06:02:00.000-07:00

Did you ever think that playing DotA on the very same terrain all the time is boring?
Is -terrain snow just not good enough? Are you looking for change?

Well, that's absolutely no problem!

Proudly present:

The DotA Theme Manager - in short: DTM - allows you to change the look of the terrain while still allowing you to play with people who do not use the DotA Theme Manager - on battle.net, garena, hamachi, just everywhere.

Multiple themes are available: Beach, Barrens, Snow, Hell, City and Highlands, all of them having a unique design!

Many of you will wonder how it works...well, it is simple: The DTM exchanges textures of terrain, trees and doodads in the MPQ files - basically the storing files for WC3. The process is easily reversible, not harming WC3 at all, and it causes no problems in the interaction with other players who do not use the DTM. A tiny negative point is that is also changes the textures for other maps which might look a bit bad, but if you restore it to original it works again, so it is never problematic.
Treant eyes had been fixed!

Impress yourselves with DotA theme manager..

Its cool! Thanks to Infrisios and the team!..

Dota theme manager : [website]

Common Terms

2009-06-30T08:37:00.000-07:00

Areas On The Map
Mid - Middle lane. The line traveled by the creeps through the center of the map.
Top - Top lane. The line traveled by the creeps through the west and top portions of the map
Bot - Bot lane. The line traveled by the creeps through the bottom and east portions of the map.
Woods - The areas in between lanes where neutral creeps are found.
Jungle - Same as woods.

Item Abbreviations
AC - Assault Cuirass
Aghs - or Agha Aghanim's Scepter
BKB - Black King Bar
Blink - Kelen's Dagger
BoT - Boots of Travel
Crow - Flying Courier
Deso - Stygian Desolator
DR - Divine Rapier
Hex - Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse
HotD - Helm of the Dominator
HoT - Heart of Tarrasque
Mek - Mekansm
MoM - Mask of Madness
Phase - Phase Boots
PT - Power Treads
RoB - Ring of Basillus
RoR - Ring of Regeneration
RoH - Ring of Health
Sheepstick or Sheep - Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse
SnY - Sange and Yasha
Vlads - Vladimir's Offering

Basic Need To Know Terms
Farm - Farming up gold. Refers to the act of systematically killing creeps in order to earn gold. Even when you are virtually killing creeps all game long, you say that someone is "farming" when they are completely dedicated and concentrated on that.
Focus - Means to concentrate all attacks on a specific target (I.E "Focus Lina" means that Lina should be the primary objective and that all the team should have attacking her as a priority in team fights)
Harass - Relative to the act of putting pressure in your enemy by attacking him during the laning period. Basically, harassing is attacking the enemy in front of you in the lane, so as to make him an easy target for a gank or to prevent him from farming freely. Therefore, "harass Ezalor" means that you should try to damage Ezalor with your skills/attacks.
Juke - Juking, means to make deceptive maneuvers with your hero while moving, so as to delude your opponent and make it harder for him to predict where you will be heading. This is used mainly to escape while you are being chased, or to make your enemy miss/misuse a spell (for example Avalanche, which has to be targeted to the ground).
Pull - Creep Pulling. Getting creeps from a neutral camp to follow you into the path of your lane creeps.
Spam - Spamming your spells, refers to the act of repeatedly using a certain spell, a lot. "spam carrion swarm" means casting Carrion Swarm a lot, most generally as soon as the cool down is up.
Rosh - Roshan. Refers to Roshan, the big neutral creep next to the river just below the middle lane. Usually indicates the player's belief that either the enemy team is killing Roshan right now or that the player's team should kill Roshan now.
Gank - Bringing several heroes to gang up on a target to kill them. "Gank lina," is a request for you to come help kill her.
b - Back. If your allies start calling "b," get out immediately, it usually means that you're getting ganked. This is a more urgent warning than a miss or mia call.
TP - Teleport. A request for you to use a Scroll of Town Portal or Boots of Travel to come assist in a fight. "tp mid now"
Def - Defend. Self-explanitory, "tp to def mid"
Push - Traveling down a lane as a team in order to work together to fight and kill enemy buildings.
DD - The Double Damage rune.

Hero Missing/ Returning Calls
miss - Missing. A warning that enemy heroes have gone out of view and might be ganking, so be careful. Usually said with a hero name, such as, "Lina miss."
mia - Missing in action. Same thing as miss, such as, "Lina mia."
re - Returned. The opposite of a miss/mia call, "Lina re" means that she's back in the lane she came from and you don't have to worry about her.

Hero Descriptions
nuke - A generic term for any spell that does damage. "Nuke him" just means throw your damage spell, pretty much no matter what hero you have.
ult - Ultimate. Any hero's level 6 ability is refered to as their ultimate
oom - Out of mana. Don't expect any more spells from this player during the fight.
mana - Just saying "mana" usually means the same thing as oom
cd - Cooldown.Should usually be interpreted as, "Hold on, the spell I need isn't up yet." Also, you might see something like, "ult cd 30" which means, "My ultimate is still cooling for about 30 more seconds."
stacked - Stacked of items, means that a hero has gotten many and powerful items, therefore making him really hard to take down. "Nevermore is stacked" means that Nevermore has many and good items.
farmed - Same as stacked.

This artice take from PlayDota common terms

IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS!!

2009-06-30T07:32:00.000-07:00

CONCLUSION
- Everyone is made to be creative as they are!! It depends on you while you really using your brain or not.. Clearing yor mind before playing is a good tips. When u gonna die,, juke into a tree! When u behind a tree, you'll covered by fog.. That will increase chances to you to finish up your cooldown, get help from allies, and most important thing is the opponent hard to click on your hero as fog covered you. But dont juke when your opponent have AoE(Area of Effect) spells. That will give them chance to kill you. Save your ass no matter what! Give them nothing, but take from them, EVERYTHING!!

Things you should know when play:
- Amount of your damage (Spells damage or Physical damage)
- What kinda spells your heroes/allies have
- What kinda spells your opponent have
- Type of your heroes
- Predict opponent movement
- What happen if you use this spells or that spells
- Calculate mana and hp
- Always looking u at minimap
- Day and night (Vision and opponent)

Every single games is different, think about it.. Dont bring your habit in each game, learn to be the different.

Have a good game!! Enjoy the vids!

Garena as your dota platform?

2009-06-29T09:08:00.000-07:00

Garena is a nice platform to play Warcraft III online, especially Dota. There are tons of dota players on this server. Registration is fast and free.
Garena Client emulates the local area network to enable you to play online. This is quite different since most Warcraft III private servers emulates Battle.net.

Garena login screen.

Play with tons of player in here.

Setting up your warcraft.

With tons of player sometimes makes you anger with leaver, noob, afk player, insulting and etc..

Website : Garena

Another Malaysia's Warcraft III DotA Private Server

2009-06-28T06:02:00.000-07:00

UCPro.my is the rebranded Blueserver. Previously, Blueserver is one of the most popular private server for Warcraft III. Most of the players there play DotA, the most popular custom map for Warcraft III. Before this you need a Streamyx e-mail or 99 forum post to register for an UCPro account. Now, you can easily register for UCPro account easily, for free!

UCPro emulates the Battle.net server. The server software behind this is PvPGN, a bnetd based gaming network server emulation project. It currently supports all Battle.net games (such as StarCraft, Diablo II, and Warcraft III), and most Westwood Online clients (Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2, Yuri's Revenge). It gives you the power to run your own server, manage your own users, run your own tournaments, etc.

1. First, you need to download UCPlay client. UCPlay requires at least Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 in order to run. Make sure you have Warcraft III version 1.22a in order to play in UCPro server. If your Warcraft III is still version 1.21, you can download the Warcraft Version Switcher v121 and v122a. Install UCPlay client and make sure your Warcraft III version is 1.22a or just use the version switcher.

Download: Warcraft III Version Switcher [Part 1 (60MB)] [Part 2 (54.59MB)]

This Warcraft III version switcher will allows you to switch your Warcraft III to version 1.21, 1.22, 1.22a and 1.23, and vice-versa. You can extract it with 7-zip.

2. Register for a master account at UCPro website.

3. Run UCPlay client. Click 'DotA Warcraft III TFT' (1). You will first create a UCPlay account. Click 'Create Account' (2). Proceed with the registration process. You will need to enter your mobile phone number. The activation code will be SMSed to your mobile phone. You need this activation code in order to activate your UCPlay account.

4. Right click on UCPlay tray account, choose settings (3). In Warcraft III TFT tab, browse for War3.exe (4). Click 'Save' (5) to save your configuration.

5. Click 'Play DotA' (6) to start Warcraft III. Click Battle.net to connect to UCPlay server. Login with the username and password that you create in step 3.

Website: [UCPro]

Article from Whiztech

Dota Health Bar Viewer And Shortcut Key

2009-06-27T06:23:00.000-07:00

Tired by pressing Alt to view HP all the time?? Always miss 1 hit dying hero? Hard to get last hit & denying creep? Dont worry, we have the solution.. Dota health bar viewer is the solution, you dont have to press Alt to view HP anymore, and easily to farming! This small piece software will turn on for you.. This software is from Pie.Cr3w..
To activate health bar press "`" button on your keayboard, and health bar always turn on during the game. You can turn on anytime you want.

The Inventory+ program also provide shortcut to activate the items in your inventory slots. You just need to press the Alt key and the slot key to activate the item in your slot, without clicking it or using the numpad.

Inventory A+ (press Alt & press hot key as shown below)
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Inventory B+ (press Alt & press hot key as shown below)
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Download dota healthbar viewer:
Website: Pie.Cr3w
Dota Inventory A+ [mirror]
Dota Inventory B+ [mirror]

[Note: Some antivirus consider Dota Inventory is a virus]