u/Wendek

Well I can guess the first reply will be "Don't pick two Radiance heroes in the same team lul" but well, I wanted to play Spectre and that guy wanted to play Necrophos so that's how it is.

Anyway, at maybe ~13-14 minutes said Necrophos starts pinging how far away (or rather how close) he is from Radiance and mentions several times that he's gonna buy it - "So don't buy one too, nudge nudge wink wink".

My first reaction was that Spectre kinda needs Radiance more than Necrophos does, but he was admittedly super fat and could definitely get it several minutes before me. And since he was very insistent about it and as I said the game was going very well, I decided I might as well go for BattleFury since I thought I remembered it being a thing not too long ago + it always feels nice against Nature's Prophet (even if Spectral Dagger and illusion-jumping helps with Sprout so it's not like Spectre needs it most)

But now I'm wondering what's the actual good reasoning in such a situation? Does Spectre actually benefit more from Radiance than Necrophos? Should he go for more active items since, y'know he's mid and can already farm super fast with Death Pulse + Shard anyway?. Or should Spectre just go for something more active (does the Phylactery build still work?) and play less greedy than normal? Or is it just "whoever has the best game and can get it fastest should go for it"? Or maybe even just get two? Since there's no overlap while both are farming and it's not like we're hugging each other in teamfights either, I feel like double Radiance isn't nearly as bad as it looks if both get it rather early.

Anyway interested in hearing people's thoughts about this situation.

I quite like playing Dawnbreaker but I feel like she is very snowbally. When the game goes well, you can take a lot of aggressive farm and if the enemy team tries to get back into the game by ganking one of your other cores, your ult is there to (most likely) turn things around. And you're rich so you're dealing a lot of damage, especially with Starbreaker.

But I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do when things are going poorly. Aggressive farming quickly becomes feeding when the map is dark (because anyone who tries to ward gets jumped) and enemies are roaming in groups of 2-3 looking for a fight before taking an objective. Solar Guardian feels bad when the target dies before you even reach the ground. My first guess would be "dodge fights and try to farm" but 1) that's probably what my pos1 wants to do and there isn't enough safe space for all of us and 2) that doesn't really work once the enemy starts taking tier 3 towers and rax.

I know a lot of people on Reddit (though mainly on the main sub) say their team never pushes or groups up, but that's not my experience at all (and this is unranked lmao - though maybe the prevalence of parties explains it). When the enemy team dominates they frequently group up and I've seen (succesful) high ground pushes as early as 20 minutes recently.

Itemisation is also something I'm wondering about. I find myself building more defensive items (I've gone BKB + Wraps in a game where the enemy had a ton of disables and magic damage for instance) if the game is going poorly - feels kinda stupid to build a Desolator when I'm already dying a lot - but then I'm dealing zero damage and still dying in every teamfight anyway so perhaps that's not exactly helping.

On top of advice/discussion, I'm also interested in a replay where a Dawnbreaker (or at least her team) had a bad early game and still managed to find good impact and switch things around, if you have one.

Trying to get the "Undercover" achievement. As a mercenary, I sneak into towns of factions we're at war with but then NPCs refuse to give me quests because we're at war. Even gang leaders somehow. I also read somewhere you could take the quest before being at war - I went to a town, took the "Army of Poachers" quest (that I knew I could complete without going back into the town), then went to their enemies to become a mercenary and... the quest auto-cancelled.

So how the hell are you supposed to do this stupid quest then?

Playing on 1.3.15 if it matters. Maybe I should rollback to before they "Changed the stealth mechanic" (and added that "Set up contact")?