Dota - all u need to know !

What is Defense of the Ancient (DotA)?
Defense of the Ancient which is commonly known as DotA is a custom map made for Warcraft III through Blizzard Map Editor. It was originally authored for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos which was later unofficial remake for Warcraft 3 expansion pack, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (TFT). Today's version of DotA map is the DotA AllStars, currently being maintained by IceFrog and his fellow development team.


Where do I get woods for the recipe item?
My mailbox was recently flooded by this question and I guess its about time to make this part of the fact. The wood shown on certain recipe scroll actually represent nothing! The item will be automatically converted into the item once every parts that is needed for that recipe is placed in the same inventory. Bottom line, woods is not used in DotA AllStars gameplay.

What is the basic requirement to play DotA AllStars?
In order to play DotA AllStars, you will need a Warcraft III: Frozen Throne installed in your PC and well, the most updated version of it to prevent any ungrateful event such as map loading failure and errors. The latest client version is 1.21.

What are Heroes?
Heroes is a unit that were brought under your control in order to accomplish your mission. A hero can be selected when player starts the game through the Hero Tavern that located at the bottom left corner of your base for the Sentinel side and as for the Scourge player, the Tavern is located at the top right corner of your base.

What are the 3 common stat attributes ?

They are strength, agility and intelligence just as how they work for Warcraft III. Each hero will have a primary stats attribute (either one of these 3 attribute). These primary attribute will result in bonus attack points when that particular attribute is raised. Here is the common explanation on what these attribute does.

Strength		Each point increases your total hit point (HP) and the hit point regeneration rate.
Agility		Each point increases your attack speed and armor.
Intelligence		Each point increases your mana point (MP) and mana regeneration rate.

I shall not talk further into the specific enhancement value of what each of these attribute will bring to your hero as these value might change in different version of DotA AllStars map.


Where is the Leragas The Vile (Hidden Shop)?
Leragas The Vile or also known as the Hidden Shop since Defense of The Ancient for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos was first made. It was placed along the river path with some hidden forest passage that will collapse when someone gets near. Somehow, in DotA AllStars, it was remade and placed on both side of the team's forest. Its rather hard to explain the location verbally, so I've highlighted the location on this map in white





Where is the Sagarel The Evil (Hidden Shop)?
It is rather hard to explain the location verbally, so I've highlighted the two location of 'Sagarel The Evil' on this map in white.











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Dota Game modes !!

Primary game modes:
Only usable by Game host:

-allpick -ap	Everyone may pick heroes from any tavern. Incompatible with allrandom, teamrandom, leaguemode, moderandom, voterandom, and reverse.
-allrandom -ar	Every player gets a random hero from any tavern. Incompatible with allpick, teamrandom, leaguemode, voterandom, moderandom, and reverse.
-moderandom -mr	Randomly picks a mode from ar, ap, tr and normal pick. Incompatible with allrandom, allpick, teamrandom, leaguemode, voterandom, reverse, and deathmatch.
-leaguemode -lm	All forms of random are disabled. 10 players required. The teams will pick in alternating orders, one team picking one hero, the other team picks two heroes, the first team picks two heroes, the other team picks two heroes, the first team picks their two last heroes, the other team picks their last hero. (1-2-2-2-2-1). The team which has the first pick is random. Incompatible with allrandom, allpick, mirrormatch, teamrandom, deathmatch, moderandom, allagility, allintelligence, allstrength, itemdrop, nopowerups, supercreeps, easymode, duplicatemode, voterandom, samehero, and reverse.
-voterandom -vr	Three random matchups will be chosen, and each players gets to cast a vote on which of the three matchups they want, using "-option #" where # is 1, 2 or 3. Needs an even amount of players on each team to be activated. Incompatible with leaguemode, allrandom, mirrormode, teamrandom, deathmatch, moderandom, allagility, allintelligence, allstrength, samehero, and reverse.
-reverse	The Sentinel's players pick the Scourge's team and the Scourge's players pick the Sentinel's team. Needs an even amount of players on each team to be activated. Incompatible with allpick, allrandom, teamrandom, moderandom, leaguemode, voterandom, deathmatch, and samehero.

Secondary game modes:
Only usable by Game host:

deathmatch -dm	If you die, you will have to pick a new hero once you can respawn. Deathmatch must be selected before any primary game mode to work. If a random primary mode was selected, you will recieve a hero according to that random mode. A team loses if it has 36 deaths, or if its ancient is destroyed. Incompatible with allintelligence, allagility, allstrength, teamrandom, leaguemode, moderandom, voterandom and samehero.
-itemdrop -id	When you die, a random slot in your inventory will drop whatever it holds. You no longer lose money when dieing. Incompatible with leaguemode.
-supercreeps -sc	Every now and then, a super creep may spawn for each side and follow the creeps in either lane. The weakest supercreep is the siege golem, a bit stronger is the scary fish, and the ancient hydra is the strongest one. Incompatible with leaguemode.
-easymode -em	Towers are weaker, experience is gained faster, and you get more periodic gold. Incompatible with leaguemode.
-nopowerups -np	No runes will spawn. Incompatible with leaguemode.
-allagi -aa	Only agility heroes may be chosen. Incompatible with allstrength, allintelligence, deathmatch, voterandom and leaguemode.
-allint -ai	Only intelligence heroes may be chosen. Incompatible with allstrength, allagility, deathmatch, voterandom and leaguemode.
-allstr -as	Only strength heroes may be chosen. Incompatible with allagility, allintelligence, deathmatch, voterandom and leaguemode.
-shuffleplayers -sp	The teams will be randomly shuffled. This includes which colour you have and which side you are on. Compatible with all other modes.
-mirrormatch -mm	mirrormatch: Requires that both teams have the same number of players. After one minute, each player pair (blue - pink, teal - gray, purple - light blue, yellow - dark green, orange - brown) will have their heroes replaced with either one of the two they had. In the end, each player pair has the same hero, and both teams have the same matchup. Incompatible with samehero, voterandom and leaguemode.
-duplicatemode -du	The same hero can be picked, or randomed, by multiple players. Incompatible with leaguemode.
-samehero -sh	All players will have the hero that blue picks. Incompatible with mirrormatch, voterandom and leaguemode.

Fun mode:
Has to be typed seperately within 15 seconds of game commencing :

-wtf	When an ability is used, all cooldowns are reset and your mana is set to full. Certain triggered abilities will seem as if they have no cooldown, but will not have any effect until the time which it would normally be cooled down has passed. (One example is Borrowed Time)

Credits to: Malle

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