Now that Hearts of Life are gone many underused activate items may rise in prominence!

TP + Locks + <New item Here!>

Will have to try it out on UB or Super Smash Oak.

Sludge Slinger: Has the great feature of killing you if you misclick with it.  Until that gets fixed, it stays in the item shop.

Wait, are you serious?

It gets you stuck on the spot for like 10 seconds sometimes when you use it.

Does it stack?

But can it play Crysis?

i tried it in a few games vs. CPU today just to see if it really does have a noticeable impact. 

i found that it does not. slowing auto-attacks by 30% for the first few seconds of a battle is going to save you somewhere in the range of about 200-300 damage (depending on armor levels, enemy attack speed and damage, being in melee range, etc.)

its really a very small amount and not all enemy DG's will actually care that much. doesn't effect their minions or damage spells so you may not even be debuffing the most relevant damage source on the field. 

and yea, it bugged out on me alot. got the "stuck for 10 seconds" bug on several occasions. that bug alone is such a huge risk that i would never use this item in a competitive match. 

Universal Gadget is pretty awesome.  I almost always get one or two throughout a game. (especially for 'no chase' dg's like rook).  I almost always get 1 extra kill because of it, and it offsets the cost of the item.  And even just healing with it in emergency cases for a good solid 2k is worth it.

i actually used it... i didnt notice any diff in the UB's attack speed that i targetted ... hmm ...

sludgeslinger can be truly huge - especially late game, especially against a UB or Stats Reg or in conjunction with Ooze.

I'll admit I haven't used it since release because of the many bugs around it - sometimes it will act as a move command instead of proccing on the target..if you are playing something squishy and ranged and it moves you up onto your melee target that's not great...

no.  because auto attacks are  not important.  

   you get killed by special skills and being ganked..  and the sludge slinger will have minimal impact on both of these situations.  rather it will lead to you getting killed more because u will stop to use a skill.     

Can anybody tell me what that "Warp Stone" is suppose to be good at?  My friend got it last weekend during our Lan game.  He thought it was like an unlimited TP scroll.  But when he tried to use it, all it would do is TP him about 1 1/2 inches away; then cool down for 45 secs.  He ask "what good is it?", I told him I had no idea. For $5500, I though it would have some semi-uber use anyway.  If it's for quick getaways, I'd just buy the wand of speed.