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General DiscussionBoots of Travel as an early game option

Boots of Travel as an early game option in General Discussion
Kryptnyt

    It's pretty much the Hand of Midas of boots. It's going to save you a lot of money on TP scrolls, and accelerate your farm by putting you near any creeps you want to be near. Saving up 1k more gold than usual for your boots of choice is not viable on every hero. But if games are going very long 50+ minutes every time you play, maybe it is pretty good? I'd like to hear some opinions for/against for various roles or heroes.

    Welt aus Eis

      good on ember, but it's like high risk high reward, I usually prefer the standard phase drums

      Dune, the Desert Planet

        Viable on SF, TB, Morph, Lycan etc.
        Mb on Banshee also.
        and Tinker ofc ~

        Welt aus Eis

          on TB it's a must unless you plan to go for the fighting build
          I don't like it on Morph or Lycan though, they benefit way too much from the stats and already have good global presence without it

          Linda | DotaExchange

            on lycan is no no, leave brown boots, go vlads necro, then go bot.

            on morf yes, if you don't use ulti only as escape mechanism. Probably best on sf.

            Rise

              It's a great greedy build on heroes
              Bone and Hanni love rushing it on bat/voker The problem is many heroes have core items that are more important (blink drums etc.) some people leave it as brown boots until they have core items up, otherwise boots early is not the best item

              Dire Wolf

                I never rush bots but I'll stay at browns and finish them after a few items on lycan and tb.

                I think I rushed them once on razor cus I got fb. Worked out nice in that case.

                Satellizer

                  amazing on beastmaster

                  mad ganks with chicken + bot

                  Linda | DotaExchange

                    It's a great greedy build on heroes
                    Bone and Hanni love rushing it on bat/voker The problem is many heroes have core items that are more important (blink drums etc.) some people leave it as brown boots until they have core items up, otherwise boots early is not the best item

                    I've never seen bat who rushes bot, before dager and force, and even after that, it isn't rushing, it is normal item progression.

                    Androgynous

                      if you're going to delay travels on lycan until you've farmed at least 7k of other items, having treads for ~15 minutes basically pays for itself.

                      the time it takes you to get treads, vlads and necro 3 is basically the same as the time it takes you to get vlads + necro 3 and your subsequent items are faster too, so I don't see why you would gimp yourself by not going treads.