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Some of the better options include other carries. Medusa is decent with Split Shot, Sven can cleave through a bunch of clones at once, any melee carry with a Battlefury (Phantom Assassin especially).

The best way to stop a Phantom Lancer is to not let him farm in the first place, though. He's heavily item dependent and very squishy until he gets a heart.

Playing as Skywrath when there's a Pugna in the game is infuriating. Unless you're higher level somehow and buy a blademail.

Then this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6LlH_i89tY

PUUUUUUUUUGNNNNNAAAAAAAA...

That made me giggle more than a bit.

After many Ability Draft games, I finally got a first pick, with a ranged agility, and Chemical Rage.

Veno wouldn't be my first choice for a ranged agility carry, but with Chemical Rage, Visage's Attack Speed steal buff, Bloodseeker's damage increase and Hex, I had a .33 attack speed with ~300-400 damage per hit in short order, along with a reliable disable. Combined with a Sange/Yasha and MKB I was having a lot of fun. The other team, not so much.

After finding out about this functionality, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified first made it to this list, a game that shit on the XCOM franchise with a Mass Effect style cover based shooter ripoff. Wonky controls, moronic AI that was useless without you telling it what to do, and a storyline that was more generic than most.

Deus Ex: Invisible War, which was received in a bundle, and showed off the series' low point with a more or less generic first person shooter, taking away the open world and multiple choice feel of the original game.

Fate of the World, which I could never get to run more than once, and haven't bothered trying after that.

From Dust, which I played through once, and have no urge to play through again, partially due to the uPlay crap that has to install to make it work.

Ghost Master, which I thought was going to be a good remake of the Haunting Starring Polterguy game on the Sega Genesis, but somehow falls flat as a fun game.

Infestation: Survival Stories, for obvious reasons. A shitty game from the start, and it still hadn't gotten any better. Freemium to the max, if you die your respawn timer can be bought out, and all the best items are behind a pay wall, making it a superb example of Bribing Your Way to Victory.

Krater, which was fun in a futuristic Diablo-esque top down action-RPG sort of way, but the problems I had with it were shallow gameplay and little things that never seemed to smooth out with the rare patches.

Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword, which lacked the large modder support and never really felt as balanced or fun as Warband.

Orion: Dino Horde, which was fun for about an hour, and then just became more of the same thing with a little bit of difference in a persistent skill tree. I got it for less than a dollar, so not much wasted there.

Solar 2, another game from a bundle, which had some interesting concepts but never really delivered on them. The only point in that game is to get to a black hole and devour the universe, which then restarts.

Supreme Commander 2, which didn't feel as good as the first one. Not much more to say about it.

Universe Sandbox, a fun physics tool to screw around in for a bit, but it's exactly what it says on the tin: a sandbox, with no goal other than to play with different possibilities in a gravity simulator, and was never updated more than a few times.

Which is odd, because it negates a good chunk of the damage that tower shots do, making early diving that much easier.

I guess most people who get it are junglers (and as I've mentioned before, I generally tend to think that junglers are completely fucking useless), and occasionally tanky melee get it in lane but then just use it to stay in lane longer.

I find it good for Slark, as it keeps him alive longer to get to 6, and makes it much easier to just leap under a tower to kill someone, and possibly Antimage, since he needs the defensive stats, but I can't find too many others who it's useful for, and mostly see it as a situational item. It won't save you from getting stomped in lane that much, because you'll be losing more useful mid game items for the investment, and late game 40 damage block isn't that much.

What are people using to mount ISO files these days? I'm mainly looking to reinstall Warcraft 3 and the expansion using my (legitimate) ISO files and CD keys that I have had for years, mainly for the feeling of nostalgia and trying to recall details of things from old maps for use in the new Source 2 engine via DotA 2.

I previously used Daemon Tools Lite, but from what I hear they are plagued with malware, adware and spyware on install, so I'm loathe to install it on my month fresh computer after a reformat.

Something else that works well if you have a ranged character is Veno's Poison Sting passive, because each tick ends up proccing the Sticky Napalm as well. Hell, Viper's Q, Poison Attack, also works well if you're a melee, since force casting it gives anyone the full range of Viper. Any damage over time ability is vastly stronger with Sticky Napalm, making it one of the most overpowered abilities when used correctly, such as with Axe's Battle Hunger or Warlock's Shadow Word.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/comcast-conveniently-forgets-no-fees-promise-until-confronted-by-recording/

I really dislike Comcast, and am glad that I have Verizon (even though I don't agree with their network neutrality policies), but this only deepens my hatred for them.