Talk:Invoker

Please don't put the rest of his skills in that god awful skillbox. I wish every one of those things would be deleted, they look terrible and the old ones were much better.

Something Missing
Where's Exort? Redefining history 14:47, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

He can be everything except tank and initiator?
I agree about not being able to tank, but he can be a very strong initiator, he can use a full powered tornado to hold many enemy heroes for a couple seconds, during which he can then use other spells like meteor, or put an icewall under the enemy heroes while they're in mid-air, making them land on the icewall, this combo can be a very strong battle initiator as it encourages your teammates to start fighting and creates chaos in the enemy lines. He can also use ghost walk to sneak into the enemy fields and then use one or two of his spells to potentially debuff the whole enemy team with his AoE effects.

I think "initiator" should be included in his potential roles in DOTA.

Invoker,who is heavily dependent on items and levels is a horrible support. Especially when he effectively has no spells in the early game. --Fricken Hamster 11:41, 10 March 2012 (UTC)--Fricken Hamster 11:41, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree too. But those on the page are what valve officially listed as Invoker's roles. Redefining history 12:27, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

His name is Garral?
Somehow in the dev.dota2.com forums, he is usually named as "Garral". I'll look for more proof to see if it is true. Denmax 10:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

EMP
playdota.com says EMP damage type is magic when lethal - your description lists it as pure - has this really been changed? -- 89.246.186.143 17:34, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * In game damage calls Pure, so it's leaves pure. Medok  18:27, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Starting items ?!
With quas, you do not need health regen items. Starting out, take exort and X3 to last hit your default attack easily. First level take quas and whenever you get hit swap to 3 blue balls to regenerate. This should be plenty of regen for the early lane period -- you are ranged so what little damage you take will be a ranged hero trying to be cute, and there should only be a little of that. Save your money buying healing consumables, in other words. By the time a ranged hero can really be a pest, you can also be quite powerful and should be more than capable of settling the issue or getting away.

His wide range of roles mean a very wide variety of items are useful in mid or late game. I think trying to pick out just a few is limiting, but what is there is a decent "starter" set for a new player I suppose.

Some additional tips... - if you are at your well (died, not possible at startup), pop 3 exort and use the sun-strike nuke on something, regen the mana, and then leave. You can even get lucky and help your team gank if you take 10 seconds to look....

- before using any damage attack, try to be running 3 exort balls.

- he can burn up a LOT of mana in a hurry at any level, no matter how good the gear. Forge spirit is the best damage to mana spell, once you can produce 2 of them, and worth using in any casual encounter, though it falls behind after level 15 or so.

- you can take the first tower in most games by quickly pushing with spirits, cold snap, and your high early game damage. You can drive off a single hero easily and then just let the creeps and your spirit and yourself bust the tower over 4 or 5 creep waves. There are times to do this, and times not to do this, depending on the quality of the other team, how much it will mess up your farming, etc. Just because you can do it, in other words, does not mean its always a good idea. It is, however, a useful trick for beginners, as it can often win a game vs weak opponents much faster than usual.

Dunno if any of this is worthy of the main page, but its here to make what you will of it.