How This Carry Defined the Golden Era of Dota 

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My favorite memories from dota come from when Luna's aura was changed to give % damage and armor instead of just flat damage and drows aura gave agility. My stack would pick drow, venge, luna, and 2 beefy frontliners like axe and sb. We would have 3 heroes hitting for 300+ damage at 15 minutes and just end the game. All of this was based around drow ranger as the centerpiece. What an absolutely incredible hero

Love your videos. I think an episode on the history of the map would be really cool to see

In dota 1, we just level up stats and her passive and buy helm of dominator, some wraith bands and your good to go. You are tanky because you have stats, you have dmg and lifesteal so you can stand your ground, and eventually you build lothars, butterfly, buriza, satanic and other items. Never had issues of her dying as long as you dont get ganked. Good times..

Being a nerd i always miss these kinds of video about Dota 2, most are guides and gameplay. I love go deep on things.

What a time to be alive. Loregasm and hero history realesed at the same day ❤

Your support warlock deals 171 damage at lvl 11 without any item is freaking insane 😂

I started playing with drow and dota 2 was my first moba. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was still winning almost everything when I got to pick drow. Love the hero.

its crazy how a single hero can shape the whole game from time to time

Back in Dota 1 in Garena days she quickly became one of my favorite heroes. In the time when pubs were being dominated by Trolls Voids and Slarks she was a carry who really stood out with with her style of play. Her level 6 was insane despite how low that agi bonus seems nowadays. You could dominate mid game unlike with any other right click hero. She didnt suffer from unique attack modifier limitations on Q to the same extent as other heroes. You could build Desolator for example and all you had to do was Q a person once to apply slow and then normal hit to apply deso debuff. Then continue with Q because target has no armor. I remember Dominator being popular as well. Maelstrom for example was usable on all heroes with unique attack modifiers because it had higher priority on proc. Starting with Dota 2, I understand why she didnt work in pro play. She relied on flanking too much. She really was a ranger, you roam the jungle at night with bonus night vision and start hitting people before they realise whats going on. Thats hardly gonna work in organized Dota. Gust just silencing and not pushing people back meant she had absolutely no defense. She wasnt that bad despite what her winrate/pickrate suggests, its more that there were handful of heroes that were way too good and rendered 50% of heroes unplayable. Including Drow. You probably didnt know this, but the last nail in the coffin for Precision Aura was Visage Familiars and not the weakness of the spell. In 2019 it came around full circle and the strongest high rank pub combo was Drow Visage but not many people knew(or cared) as not many played Visage. What you said about attack speed being worse than damage is true in most cases, but for a solid few months she ended up having 88% att speed bonus on level 4 and that buff on Familiars meant that towers were falling in literally 5 seconds. Valve was tired of the spell having no middle ground, being bad but at the same time completely broken in a very certain draft. Bonus fun fact: that instakill on ult mechanic introduced in 7.20 was actually how Marksmanship used to work before 2008.

High effort quality videos like these are what the Dota community has been needing Love your videos. I think an episode on the history of the map would be really cool to see Loving these videos man! I would really love to see the story of the map and perhaps Ursa now that it has fallen out of meta, include the stalker set in the story for some extra juice! Peace!! Baumi, this series is making me want to pick up Dota again. Good stuff dude. couldn't put it any better. Great community.

Drow was the first hero I learned about how fun it is to use ur farm. Mask of madness and dodging creep attack damage, loved it

This channel is another level. The videos are so well done, it is not exaggerated to say it's art.

Chills. Genuine chills when you describe these characters in such well-articulated detail.

Proud to have helped work on this. Great video as always.

Drow fluctuated from ranged creep to creep commander. From this video I understand that she was either a must pick/ban or a waste of space. Never inbetween. First she was a simple stat stick with lackluster stats and no utility. She evolved into a stat stick support with absurd stats that could turn her allies into carries and minions into a serious threat. Back to simple and lackluster stat stick. Finally becoming a mid-game farming monster, bane of both healers and late game armor.

Get that bag. I am so glad there are sponsors interested in allowing this content to sustain itself. Keep up the wonderful work, Baumi! I have always wanted to see Luna, Drow, and Venge. Perhaps even Wraith King if he can offlane, or a Wind Ranger. (Luna may need another hero that can push creeps easily to apply map pressure. Puck?)

Very good video! I would like to add that one of the things that made substantially worse with was her attack animation(same goes for bone fletcher but to a lesser extent) it may not seem like much but it really does affect her, especially in early game when low on attack speed, the arrows have a weird slow delay to come out as opposed to something like windranger that has one of the best attack animation in all of dota.

Baumi, this series is making me want to pick up Dota again. Good stuff dude.

This videos really needs to be funded into a professional documentary series! The quality on them is amazing! I love the way You talk about the design, competitiveness and viability of the Game! I hope as more resources are aviable the uploading este improved because 1 every month will take A LOT. Also a vídeo like this talking about the map would be amazing as well! Thanks Baumi and Team! You all are great!

Great concept and production. Would watch many of these, great job

Loving these videos man! I would really love to see the story of the map and perhaps Ursa now that it has fallen out of meta, include the stalker set in the story for some extra juice! Peace!!

Loving this series. Really interesting to see how different Heroes evolved through the years. Keep it up!

I love these videos. I only played Dota between TI 5 through 7 so it's fun to learn about old Dota and stay up to date on the new scene too.

Love the documentary! Thank you for bringing this to us.

Amazing video! Really high quality! Keep them coming! Much love

how time flies, seeing the og dota2 players gives a hopeful feeling to me, so weird

Subscribed! Please keep making more content. Awesome work man!

love your channel! hope i can be a member soon! would love to vote on next and see the full interviews

Great video! Shame you couldn’t get the envy interview to work out but really top quality regardless!

i always liked drow ranger for what she represented as like the figure head of aura-stacking lineups. i also had a lot of fun with precision aura in ability draft, like the time i got it with tinker's re-arm and lycan's howl and then just sat in the base with 6 eblades

Best of so far man, keep the good job

Very good video, thanks for your effort Baumi.

Love these vids!! Many thanks!!

1:00:16 baumi not making a 69 joke: Professional His cats are rather educated given they're his so they spell it correctly

Just wanted to appreciate Philipp's efforts creating this for us❤

I'm sad drowstrats are gone, and looking at latest changes, seems like Volvo are gonna be evading such directions in the game for forseeable future. Thanks for another great video Baumi, Tuzki, you are giving this community what we desperately need.

Such detailed and finely crafted documentary about a DotA 2 hero. I don't think I have ever seen before

Been enjoying these so much, stay awesome Baumi ^^

I like the new drow, the extra agility helps your supports to get some extra armor, her finally being a decent carry is something i'm happy about cause she was the first hero i started playing because i got my first item (some shitty boots) for her, so i wanted to play her

This is such a great series of vids I await every month with baited breath

For me, Drow one-shoting creeps was one of her best era. Had my best streak with her so far (9-0) and overall won something like 1k mmr (granted it was in unison with 'Game Ender' Luna)

the ad at the beginning was the most honest and brutal I've ever seen. and that without saying 1 bad thing about the game. subtle and agressive, baumi style

Orb walking is a term I haven't heard in years, the origins of the term and unique attack modifiers themselves were grandfathered in from warcraft 3

"Drow Ranger was never behind, she was just catching up" Damn, that was a hard line.

such a great video, looking forward when you make one on Crystal Maiden

Warlock is a ballsy choice with a Drow strat. Golem is sort of like a temporary Front line. I think golem placement really won or lost a lot of those fights.

Maaann, I saw video length and subbed and liked

Your content is so good!! Keep it up! I know you are focusing on the history of heroes, but i think it would also be cool to do a video on a the story of pro teams/players like Speed Gaming/C9 or wings gaming.

Great video! Thanks!

Wonderful to see Traxex get some love!

been looking forward to your next upload

Finally got to hear Baumi doing a Raid sponsorship 😂 great video mate keep it up.

thanks for the amazing content that you make, Sir!

sooo good, thanks for this bro

Very interesting. Thank you for making these videos.

Production quality is outstanding

UAM was called orb effect and on a forum interview was a limitation from WC3's engine, Icefrog always intended to remove orb effect priority

great vid baumi- what a history this hero has had!

Good to see you Baumi. I missed your videos.

Excellent vid! Only thing I saw that was incorrect is that dragon lance originally was the echo sabre components ogre club and oblivion staff

Such dedication!!!

“was never behind, she was just catching up”🎉🎉 I wish this is also me in real life.

remembered when virtus pro picked drow as pos4 cant remember the year. that was fun

Amazing work brother, keep it up!

traxex is literal lady sylvannas, the undead banshee queen, a blood elf that was revived by the lich king, all her skills are the original skills with some deviation, since the game was a modded map of warcraft 3 before becoming dota2.

I miss old dota. The combo of Drow, Venge and Luna was always fun

Traxex was my first hero that i learn how to play in warcraft 3 dota. Love the hero so much

Whenever you hear Drow strat, you know you are gonna have a quick win if things went your way 😊

Ty 4 the great vídeo!

great video… eventho i dont play dota anymore. it brings all the memory back

Ancient dota player here. Just want to clarify that the term "orbwalking" specifically refers to the ability to cancel your backswing by moving or holding after making an attack with an orb effect aka unique attack modifier, thereby lowering your effective BAT

Thank you for this well made video.

the menance that was Monkey king needs a video

My favorite hero. Im insanely mad I missed her arcana

You are the same guy who used to play weird funny modes. I looked all over for you man. Good job and i missed your videos 👏

Drow split shot was the best in any update but sadly they removed it

DOTA 1 will always have a special place in my heart ❤️ I was a Venomancer main

Compelling from start to finish. If you ever make a movie, I will head for the cinema.

57:37 the double e-blade killed me lmao

I really did love those old drow strats

DOTA 2 really is a different game from Defense of the Ancient (DOTA 1) In DOTA 1, we usually just upgrade her 3rd skill and stat. We would buy dominator and treads, lothar, yasha to manta, buriza, and butterfly. She was one of the best carry, with one of the greatest dps.

i have never played a game of dota yet this video was incredible, fun and well edited

My first hero since Dota 1 year 2007

this vid is the best one yet imo

RIP 50% cd reduction talent. Drow + Bad Juju in AD was the dream pick.

even as someone who doesn't play dota, these videos are always a blast to watch

I've loved the other stories so far so I'm excited for this one and the new ones. I'm waiting for the one for my boys Axe and Sven

Forester drow through plus stats (when it was a thing) and aura was good - nobody expected drow to be beefy at the start of the game.

Great vid

that's quality documentation

awesome video baumi!!!

Didn't expect this would be so interesting!

Perfect timing. Just finished SirAcrionSlacks New Frontiers Loregasm, and this is perfect for finishing out the workday.

As someone who has been watching baumi talk about "Making of..." for these videos, i'll just say that he probably put more time and research into one of these than i had for my whole PhD. Imagine where we would be if baumi was interested in medicine instead of DotA. Still, love the content, kudos for the insanely high quality and best of luck with the channel.

Love your video. Carry on my man. Love from Bangladesh!!

The pride I have when a hero finds their place.

i like how the old dota keep the dead hero body there until it respawn, it add spicy stuff to the game

You are getting really damn good at the "story telling" part ngl