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Introduction to Dota What is DotA Allstars? DotA Allstars is a WarCraft 3 UMS (Use map settings). The game begins with choosing a hero from either the Sentinel or the Scourge. From there you attack the other teams base alongside your team's "creeps" which spawn periodically. The objective of the game is to destroy the opposing teams world tree which is protected by towers.

Heroes Heroes are the driving force of DotA Allstars. A hero can attack, use skills, and revive after death. At the beginning of each game, a player is allowed to select or random one hero to use in the game from the taverns on either corner of the map. The taverns and heroes that can be selected depend on the game mode chosen by the host. As the game progresses, heroes gain experience from the death of enemy units, and can level up when certain threshold experience values are reached. Because additional levels grant extra attributes and skills, hero leveling is one of the core aspects to any game.

Skills Each hero has 4 learnable skills: 3 basic skills and 1 ultimate. With the exception of the Invoker, there are 4 levels for each basic skill, 3 levels of ultimate, and 10 levels of Attribute bonuses, which grant +2 to each stat, for a total of 25 skill levels. Each hero has a unique skill set, with an enormous diversity of effects, from mobility to nukes to auras to disables, the endless combinations of which make DotA the rich strategic game that it is today.

Death When a hero dies to any unit on the enemy team, all enemy heroes in the area gain experience, while the killer receives bonus gold and adds to his/her streak. If the Scourge or Sentinel kill a hero, the bonus gold is divided between all the heroes on that team. If the hero dies to a neutral creep or is denied by a friendly hero, no experience or bonus gold is given to the enemy team. A dead hero will revive after a period of time equal to his level multiplied by 4 seconds. Gold is also lost upon death, equal to his level multiplied by 30 gold.

Warcraft III 1.23 Patch will be released soon but its now in Beta stage and currently running on Westfall server for beta testing. What's new in this patch? This patch will be good for custom maps, especially for Dota-Allstars. Looks like Blizzard is helping Dota from an indirect way but its good for Dota anyway.

Below is the statement from Blizzard

You may notice that the Westfall realm is available on your Warcraft III Battle.net list. The Westfall server has the beta Warcraft III 1.23 patch that can be applied by connecting to Westfall. Please keep in mind that Technical Support does not support the beta client. For patch and game discussion, please use the Warcraft 3 forum - http://forums.battle.net/board.html?forumId=12012&sid=3000

To revert your game back to 1.22, just select one of the main realms.
If you cannot connect to Westfall, it's probably down or not ready.

Garena Payment Enquiry Center
Garena has launched his Payment Inquiry Center so you can report your issues, bugs with payments or GG Shells etc..Visit this page to contact, Garena Payment Support http://support.garena.com/enquiry/payment.php

Fill the form correctly by entering your UserID, Account Name, Account, Payment Gateway etc...
Also provide 1-2 screenshot with it.

Wait 2-3 working days, Garena will contact you about your problem. Also subscribe to Dota Utilities to get every latest update.

The Gaming style in Warcraft 3 Defense of the ancients
Last Few months there has been a lots of changes done by the IceFrog, along with 6.40 to 6.48b there was a mass ganking style and Team Virtus Pro was almost unbeatable in that version.
But after that IceFrog decided to make changes and the gaming community also wants some changes and their wish was fulfilled. The new version 6.50 came along with big changes in dagger and bottle, These changes were those type of changes which make version 6.50 into farming style. Almost every team picks up ultimate late game hero such as spectre, Terror blade.
But this version extends the game time and the gamers felt that DotA is becoming too boring to play. Then Icefrog decided to make frequent changes in most of the items and heros to take mass ganking style back in DotA.
Nowadays most of the DotA teams are looking forward to adopt ganking style. The reason behind this is the new items and heros were introduced and we are watching some quick games.
There is no doubt that Warcraft 3 Dota is the most popular and growing game in the Esports market.There has been competitive Dota all around the world and Garena helped a lot to promote this game. IceFrog and gamers also need to work hard to put this game in the most of the International Esports Events.

Inspire Gravity Gaming Zone Presents "Amateur DotA-Allstars Tournament 2009" coming this March.
Also read pools updates at the bottom of this post.

Tournament Details:

Starting Date: 5th March
Registration Fee: 1,000 Rupees
Venue: Gravity Gaming Zone (Shop No. 5C, Khadda Market 'Near HotNSpicy' Defence Phase 5 Stadium Lane#2 Karachi)
Game: Dota-Allstars
Format: 5v5 (+1 subsitute allowed)
GameMode: -cm (captain mode)
Map: Dota Allstars 6.57b
Matches: Pools Based
Rules: WCG 2008 Dota Allstars Rules apply.

Last Date of Registration is 4th March.

DotA Allstars 6.60.w3x Updates by IceFrog
IceFrog (developer of Dota) has released some updates of Dota 6.60 Map on his blog. According to IceFrog he said that there will be new hero, mode and some items changes on Dota 6.60. Well I am very excited to see Tauren Cheiftain in Upcoming Dota 6.60 Map. Release Dota 6.60 Soooooooon!!!!!!!!!

Below you can see the updates of Dota 6.60 by IceFrog:-

DotA 6.60:

Here are the new Dota 6.60 map updates by IceFrog: