if you are a beginner read this!
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it just bugged me after one of these games so i felt like writing this.
if you only have a few games then dont bother join "no newbie", ">100" etc. games you will not play that game if the host doesnt suck.
first thing: we want you no harm by excluding you from a game but
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
and as a beginner you are a very weak link.
dont try argueing like that:
"i got reset", "i reinstalled"
for your information: thats basically the same. so if you say "i reinstalled" youre implying that you have no clue how the system works -> beginner. the reset was MONTH ago. so if you have only a few games you play very rarely which means you propably dont fit in a game where people play that really know what they do or at least halfway know it.
"i often play with another account"
the ones that really do have another good account mostly dont want to play in no noob games with their noob-account. they have the noob-account for noob games and wont join. so dont bother saying that.
"IM NO NOOB, I SMASH YOU 1VS1"
thats mostly already ingame but it doesnt change that you need to improve your TEAMWORK skills. they dont matter in a 1vs1 so if you rock in a 1vs1 its not said you dont suck in a 3v3.
so if you ask yourself now: how can i become better? (thats at least what you really SHOULD think) here are some basics:
1. regulus is weak, a bad character to start. dont play him!
2. read the tips in the forum. theres a lot of crap out there but if you read something over and over again (perhaps somethink like REG IS BAD) then you can believe it
2. regulus sucks even more when someone plays him who doesnt exactly know how he can become halfway valuable.
3. the chars are good in this order:
really good: lord erebus - le, unclean beast - ub, oak
ok but not as good as the top three: rook, sedna, occulus
dont play these (!!!): queen of thorns - qot, torch bearer - tb, regulus, deamon assassin - da
oak is hard to play for a beginner because his early game is weak. the best character to begin with is lord erebus.
4. there are only a few items you should take at the beginning. there are certainly guides out there which item is good for what but follow this rule: hp is better than mana, mana is better than anything else. speed can be useful but remember: you want to fight, not run! so hp is the way to go if you want to win fights. damage is useless! dont take any damage or attackspeed items until very very late game (most games dont last that long). good items are: nimoth (!), unbreakable boots (!), vlemish, hauberk, plenor. for assassins: early game get banded (!), scalemail or scaled helm. generals: start with monks! no really! start with monks! no way around that... later on you can begin to experiment. on some maps you start with locks and teleports. that leads us to the next point
5. get teleport scrolls, flag locks and later sigils. you need to learn how to use them (means when). dont waste them! use teleports to save a teammate or get a kill. dont use it if the enemy gets away most certainly. dont lock a flag thats not being contested (there are exceptions but only a few) after level 5 always run around with at least one tp and one lock! not having them is a good reason to walk back to the shop. use sigil only if you know this will help you to survive or get the kill (even if you die AFTERWARDS). if you wont survive: die but dont waste your sigil. its 500 gold -> not cheap. BUT better using it and having needlessly spend 500 than not using it and giving the enemy almost 2000 gold for killing you.
6. dont walk back to the shop too often. you will miss xp and you are useless as long as youre not in the field.
7. this is not written in stone but there are not many cit upgrades that are really neccessary: fortified structures 1 - ffs, currency 1 - cur and the creeps line is very important. get first ffs, then cur1 then creeps. creeps at best not early game because they give xp and you dont want to be outleveled. priests do a lot damage and can help to take out towers but getting them too early can make the other team outlevel you! mostly you get them late almost with angels and cats. get catapults at warrank 8. period.
