Can you sumerize what DotA is, exactly? LilRobot told me it's like a roleplaying thing.
I can't get into the website list to download Dota :( Says it's unavailable
DotA was one of the most successful minigames based on the AoS style of game. AoS was a map in Starcraft and supposedly started this genre. Entire games have been made like it now, such as Demigod and Savage 2.
Basically, there are two teams. Each team has 5 players that play heroes. The objective is to destroy the other sides ancient. In this case it's the Sentinels vs. the Scourge, so the ancients are the World Tree and the Frozen Throne. There are three main paths in the map, commonly referred to as top, mid and bot. Each path has three towers for each side, and monsters known as creeps follow these paths. You need to kill your way through these paths to get to the other sides base.
Along with this your heroes level, making them stronger. You get gold as well, which is used to buy items. Some items can be combined with others to form more powerful items, which is key to a strong character.
The best strategy early on is to play defensive. Don't get too close to the towers, avoid confrontation with enemy heroes, unless you are positive you can kill them, and try to get killing blows when the conditions are in your favor. Once you get to a higher level and get some gear you can start acting more offensively since towers may not effect you as much and enemy heroes may be more manageable.
The reason new players don't do well is because they feed the enemy side. It's easy for a good player to exploit a new players lack of experience, allowing them to quickly level and get good items.
I'd like to do some regular too(let me warn you though, I'm not very good at it), and some other fun maps, but yeah, that's the DoTA list.
The idea of doing this would be to allow any level of players to start getting better and maybe have some fun. Regular games are so competitive that they ruin the fun for inexperienced players.
