New to Dota, any suggestions?

[A Sneaky Mango]

I am a fairly active tf2 trader, so does Dota share a market like tf2's? Also, what would be good items to try and get? Thanks, Mango

 

[jwso]

You can filter TF2Outpost to show only DotA 2 items.

 

[A Sneaky Mango]

You can filter TF2Outpost to show only DotA 2 items.

Okay, but I still am not sure on what does what, what's good, and so on.

 

[Questionable Moose]

I don't know about the trade community of the game, but Rhi made a good summary of links you can check to better understand DOTA 2.

http://www.skial.com/threads/new-players-dont-feed-read-this.33807/

 

[(-TG-)SvenPhantom]

The Dota 2 trade market is really not stable. Dota2traders.com is a place to see more active trade. The "iconic" items like Bills and Buds are Battlefury, Dragonclaw Hook and Vintage Timebreaker.

 

[bunnyf00d]

Trading is still really unstable since a lot of items are being released very very often. Sven was right, some of the "currency" is keys but the big ticket items are Battlefury, Dragonclaw, and Timebreaker. These are VERY hard to come back and VERY expensive.

As far as item tags go I believe it is Common (light blue) > Uncommon (blue) > Rare (dark blue) >Mythical (purple) > Legendary (pink) > Ancient (red) > Immortal (orange) > Arcana (green) and of course Unusual (dark purple) and Strange (orange)

Ancient never drops, Arcana is very new, Strange and Unusual are only unboxed. Everything else drops, Common drops the most often, immortal drops least often.

 

[[YDEK] fi$hy k!tty]

You should check the Rhikipedia
http://www.skial.com/threads/new-players-dont-feed-read-this.33807/

As far as I know, the two aren't really similar (although I guess you could argue that they are, the way metal prices fluctuate right now) but I'm not really the best person to ask.

 

[ModSe7en]

Oh, and the items don't have any effect in game, they just look neat.

 

[Faron]

It's not like TF2 where you can only trade. You have to actually play the game.

 

[A Sneaky Mango]

Oh, and the items don't have any effect in game, they just look neat.

That's disappointing XD, I was hoping (for once) items would actually effect something other than cosmetics.

 

[(-TG-)SvenPhantom]

That's disappointing XD, I was hoping (for once) items would actually effect something other than cosmetics.

Yeah aside from some items having animation changes there's no in-game effects.

 

[ViperStriker]

Yeah aside from some items having animation changes there's no in-game effects.

Item sets automatically boosting your base stat by 50, lolwut.

 

[A Sneaky Mango]

So does it use the rpg element of leveling up and finding items in game are the ways to improve?

 

[KillerZebra]

You should ask JayDee for help.

 

[(-TG-)SvenPhantom]

So does it use the rpg element of leveling up and finding items in game are the ways to improve?

It's the same system as tf2, random drops. Every level you gain, you get a cosmetic item as well. You can only get levels via Battlepoints which are done through online matches.

 

[Love is Dead]

You can check cyborgmatt (dot) com for game updates and item additions in patches. New account won't allow links to be posted, so sorry about that.