Dota maps

Why did Icefrogs Defense of the Ancients become so popular? How could a standard, simple warcraft 3 custom map manage to make it into E-Sports television? One reason is the Warcraft 3 natural selection introduced by me on another blog. I would like to give you a brief overview of Dota.

Dota was developed by a person that names himself Icefrog. He began development for fun around 4 years ago, trying to develop a fun map for friends. He had no idea what monster he created. Soon after it became a thriving success. More and more players liked the unique game play with the scourge and sentinel fighting each other. The two teams consist of maximum 5 players each, winning when they destroy the rivaling base. The players only have to use their hero, nothing else. That makes it a lot easier for most of the standard wc3 players to have good micro. In the normal 1on1 gameplay you control an whole army, in DotA only one hero. Nonetheless, you have to be superior in controling your hero or else you can lose easily. You need to know good strategies and what you must do vs. other Dota heroes. Each hero is made for one element. Some are supportive, others are offensive, other defensive. You will need the most suitable items and the best tactic. Dota is not easier than wc3's normal 1on1.

There are two ways of downloading the dota map: Either
Dota allstars downloads or dota rapidshare.

To install the Dota maps you have to open your File-manager and browse to the location of your warcraft 3 installation. On windows the file-manager is named explorer and on Linux konqueror or nautilus. Look for a folder named maps in the wc3 folder. Open it and the following frozen throne maps folder. Then make a folder named 'downloads' if it does not exist yet (without the ' ' just downloads).