Decided to join the forums, I played a few IH games with redditnoobs and I really enjoyed the experience. I am excited about this venture it feels great to be part of the begining of something that I feel is a great idea!

That's way cool, what drew you to DOTA? Did you research it, and sign up for a key specifically to play or did a friend tell you about it?

I was doin research and waitin for a chance to snap up a 2600K rig sometime soon, those just seem to tear through everything.

I am in the same boat as you pretty much, except like one step down.
Proc: AMD Phenom II 9550 2.2 ghz
4 GiG of RAM
Video: Radeon HD 5650
Win 7 Ultimate
Also did a WD Black Edition 500 GiG HDD (that 32 Meg buffer woot!)

Yea, I hear that. Altho coming from league and WoW other online games you just come to expect horrible things to be said by anonomous pub players and the Trolls lawd. Learned a long time ago, back in my mudding days, always find a good group of people to play with, it makes the game tons funner. Same thing with guilds in WoW I always enjoy being in a community. I just hope I can help this one somehow. I am 31, and have a full time job a loudmouth wife and 2 kids, so my gaming time is very limited to whenever I can get the kids distracted/asleep and get my wife to keep her yammerin to herself for a hour to get a game in on the weekends is a CHORE. So I really liked bein able to come in for a pickup in house and just play without getting trolled cuz that's usually the only game I can play that day.

Yea I love Purge's videos and guides. Make sure to watch the recent one on dotacinema, he gives a lesson on how experienced players outlane noobs. I think the biggest thing to learn from that is you should always always have regen in your lane. I have started looking at the magic stick/wand as a counter item, like if you are vs someone w/ short cool downs you get the wand to counter it so you get regen.