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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

DotA 2 Tips: Warding

Warding

Radiant side, defensive warding:

Radiant side, beginning of the game.


Radiant side, defensive warding if any of your first tier towers are taken.

Radiant side, defensive warding, if any of your first and second tier towers have been taken.

Radiant side, aggressive warding:

Radiant side, aggressive warding, if any of the enemy's first tier towers have been taken.

Radiant side, aggressive warding, if any of the enemy's first and second tier towers have been taken.

Radiant side, aggressive warding, if any of the enemy's first, second and third tier towers have been taken in a single lane



Dire side, defensive warding:

Dire side, beginning of the game.


Dire side, defensive warding if any of your first tier towers are taken.


Dire side, defensive warding, if any of your first and second tier towers have been taken.

Dire side, aggressive warding:

Dire side, aggressive warding, if any of the enemy's first tier towers have been taken.


Dire side, aggressive warding, if any of the enemy's first and second tier towers have been taken.

Dire side, aggressive warding, if any of the enemy's first, second and third tier towers have been taken in a single lane

Don't forget about Roshan: Several heroes can take on Roshan with life steal from Vladimir's Offering:

Also don't forget that many heroes in DotA 2 can go invisible if they have enough mana or under the  right circumstances. To keep an eye on these squirrel-y foes, use sentry wards:



Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Guide to Advent of Ascension Bosses

Note: I'm not a fan of routinely browsing the Advent of Ascension Wikipedia to learn how to summon a boss every single time. I decided to make a step-by-step guide of how to make the items required to kill the different bosses of the Minecraft Advent of Ascension mod.
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Smash
BossHunter LevelNeeded to SpawnRecommended ArmorRecommended Items
Smash12Troll IdolAlacrity ArmorTablet of Speed
 

How to obtain Troll Idol:
1. Find Savannah biome in the Overworld

2. Kill Rammerheads to obtain four Rammerhead hides
3. Find Desert biome in the Overworld
4. Kill Sand Golems to obtain one Desert Shell 
5. Hunt mobs on Blood Moon event to obtain one Moondust

How to obtain Alacrity Armor:
(Alacrity Armor is not necessary to kill Smash, but it does help.)
1. Mine 14 Limonite ores in the Overworld and smelt them into ingots
2. Mine 10 Sapphire ores in the Overworld and smelt them into ingots
3. Use a recipe to create armor

How to obtain Tablet of Speed:
(A Tablet of Speed is not necessary to kill Smash, but it does help.)
1. Hunt mobs on Blood Moon event to obtain eight Moondust
2. Mine 2 Jade ores in the Overworld and smelt them into ingots
3. Mine 2 Sapphire ores in the Overworld and smelt them into ingots
4. Use a recipe to create Speed boots with Jade and Sapphire
5. Use a recipe to create a Tablet of Speed
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Corallus
BossHunter LevelNeeded to SpawnRecommended ArmorRecommended Items
Corallus30AmphibiyteUtopian ArmorTablet of Gills

How to summon Corallus:
1. Find an Amphibiyte Cave in the Overworld
2. Kill Amphibiytes (they have a chance to summon Corallus upon death)

How to obtain Utopian Armor:
(Utopian Armor is not necessary to kill Corallus, but it does help.)
1. Find an Extreme Hill biome in the Overworld
2. Kill Golbys and Magickes to obtain one Haven Realmstone
3. Use a recipe to create an Ancient Teleporter (the recipe has changed a couple of times so I can't the step-by-step process with accuracy)
4. Use the Haven Realmstone on the Ancient Teleporter
5. Find and mine 10 Crystallite Stones in the Haven Realm with a Diamond Pickaxe
6. Find and mine 14 Jade ores in the Overworld and smelt them into ingots
7. Use a recipe to create armor

How to obtain a Tablet of Gills:
 (A Tablet of Gills is not necessary to kill Corallus, but it does help.)
1. Hunt mobs on Blood Moon event to obtain eight Moondust
2. Find an Amphibiyte Cave in the Overworld
3. Kill Amphibiytes to obtain ten Amphibiyte Lungs
4. Find a Troll Trader in the Overworld near a Beach
5. Trade the ten Amphibiyte Lungs with the Troll Trader for a Coral Stone 
6. Use a recipe to create a Tablet of Gills
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Monday, January 12, 2015

MineZ Tour: Progress

I thought it might be interesting to keep track of which places in MineZ 1 we visit in my MineZ Tour series on YouTube.

Locations we've been to in order of progression:

Started at: Spawn #34
01. Grandfather's Curse
02. Jacsebalon Mansion
03. Mount Longton
04. Heartless Mansion
05. Worthington
06. Geuten
07. Aeternalis Cathedral GHASTBUSTERDU4 and Delm join us
08. Cole Castle
09. Fort Rockwood
10. Fort Forthwind
11. Pileus [chickened out; we'll revist it later]
12. Tristitia [chickened out; we'll revist it later]
13. Anvalia
14. Afaya
15. Saens
16. Carmi
17. St. Roseluck Island
18. Sundawn Observatory
19. Oasis
20. Bazel
21. Fountain
22. Love Shack
23. Cabin
24. Strip Mine [chickened out; we'll revist it later]
25. Ruins
26. Bunker
27. Watch Tower
28. Farm House
29. Huntsgrove
30. Watch Tower
31. Ruins
32. Ridgevale
33. Cave System
34. Cave System - Sirus
35. Cave System - Intersection
36. Cave System - Tahosa
37. Cave System - Medusa Lake [chickened out; we'll revist it later]
38. Cave System - Ruftus
39. Cave System - Underground Spire
40. Cave System - Aurora [Delm died!]
41. Frostine
42. Farmhouse
43. Camp Bell
44. Bell Farm
45. Farmhouse
46. Ruins
47. Consilio University
48. Portsmouth [We died!]
52. Desert Castle
53. Drycreek
54. Pravus
55. Ruins
56. Desert Castle
57. Grimdale
58. Lost Castle Yakuzakage joins us
59. Carnival
60. Carnival Town
61. Grimdale Farm
62. Kaocho
63. Somnia [Delm died!]