2 of my colleagues kept talking about DOTA: “dota this, dota that, that hero pwnes, etc” so i reinstalled warcraft, setup the eurobattle.net patch and went for a game.

I haven’t played DOTA for more than a year, but heck its like learning how to swim or how to ride a bike, you can’t forget it.

For those of you who don’t know what DOTA is here’s a definition of it:

Defense of the Ancients (often referred to as DotA) is a custom map for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, based on the “Aeon of Strife” map for the Blizzard title Starcraft. It is a team strategy game focused on hero combat. The objective is to destroy the opponents’ base using one’s own Hero along with allied heroes and allied AI-controlled fighters called “creeps”. Sharing concepts with role playing games, the player levels up their hero and uses gold to buy equipment in an effort to best the opposing team.

The thing is that i like DOTA way better than WOW, to be honest i like warcraft 2 better than WOW, lol. You need to have a strategy and do teamplay, otherwise your screwed. Planning attacks and pushes on sides are just a few parts of the game.

So last night i didn’t have anything better to do, and after watching the movie Gangs Of New York i went to play some DOTA. I don’t consider myself PRO at all, i’m in the middle category, but some of my teammates we’re catastrophic. They couldn’t even make a decent recipe.

We played(5 vs 5) in -AP(ALL PICK, means that you can pick your hero) mode. I chose -RANDOM(randomly gives you a hero) and ended up with Geomancer. This hero is great, especially his ULTI, which creates a duplicate of the hero, and any time when your close to dying you can just teleport next to it and get away.

I made some quick recipies, and trained all spells. Killing heroes like The Bounty hunter or Rhasta from the other team went like a charm. When i was about to die i just teleported.

One of the main purposes of DOTA is to think straight and buy only stuff that fits your hero(if agility is his main attribute don’t buy items to increase his strenght)

It was an easy game,after which i played one more game where i got Priestess of the moon and i got owned by the other team. But o well, you know how it is: you win some, you loose some.