u/Pink4luv

Tidehunter’s Shard feels way too strong for how easy it is to use.

It feels especially bad because there is no interesting interaction with it.

The worst part is that there does not seem to be much counterplay. You cannot dispel it, you cannot remove the anchor, and the “counterplay” is basically to stop playing your hero and hit the anchor while Tide kills you.

For such a simple ability, it feels way too rewarding and low-skill. I do not mind Tide being strong, but this Shard feels boring and overtuned.

Am I missing something, or is this just too strong right now?

6k MMR EUW

Hey, I’m currently around 6k MMR on EU West. I don’t have as much time for Dota 2 as I used to now that I’m running my own business IRL, so at most I can fit in a few matches on the weekends.

I’m usually most able to play during the morning or daytime.

What I’ve noticed, though, is that queueing around noon/daytime on EU West often feels extremely toxic.

Teammates grief, flame each other, backseat-game constantly, and there’s very little team spirit or coordination.

Once people get tilted, everyone starts playing their own solo game, which makes the matches feel unreliable, unfriendly, and much less enjoyable. Everybody is just pissed off beyond belief.

I feel like a therapist trying to encourage people to play and not grief, and It's draining me emotionally because I already work as a therapist IRL.

For me, Dota is at its best when it feels like an actual team game, so this really takes away from the experience.

I’m curious what other Immortal players have noticed: do games feel more positive, coordinated, or chill depending on the time of day or night you queue?

If so, what would you say is the “goldilocks zone” for EU West matchmaking?

I'm a 6k MMR offlane player and I've always loved the concept of Centaur, but I struggle to make the hero work consistently compared to other meta offlaners.

My biggest issue is that it feels like I need every item at once just to become a functional hero.

I want Vanguard because otherwise physical damage destroys me. I often want early armor in lane, but buying Ring of Protection is not doable because it doesn't really build into anything. I want Pipe because magical burst is everywhere. I want Blade Mail because it feels core on the hero. I want Blink because without it I feel useless in teamfights and much less active than the enemy offlaner.

The result is that I always feel 1-2 items behind where I need to be. By the time I finally have enough survivability and initiation, the game is already well into the midgame and other offlaners seem to be having much more impact.

Because of this I often end up playing passively and waiting for items rather than creating pressure.

For people having success with Centaur at higher MMR:

Is my itemization mindset wrong? Are there item priorities I should rethink? Do you skip Vanguard more often than I do? Is Centaur supposed to be more of a tempo hero or a scaling hero in the current patch? What separates strong Centaur players from average ones?

I'd love to make the hero work, but right now it feels like I'm constantly trying to solve three different defensive problems with one inventory.