Where best to play DOTA online?

You have internet, laptop and warcraft program at home. But there is no one else to play dota with.The best would be playing the dota AI map game which will get boring after playing for a while. So, there is places where you can play it online with friends. There is a big community of dota players out there. Here are among them:-

1. Garena


It is a worldwide gaming platform. Easy to install, fast to configure and easy to connect. The good thing there is many noobies. But many leavers too. Our malaysia players usually use warcraft version 1.21 to play online.

Download garena client program at www.garena.com

2. UCPRO



If you like to play with professional players, there is a place call UCPRO. There is tighter rules to play in this server. If you leave the game 3 times, then you will get ban. They are using warcraft version 1.23 which do not allow cheating or collided maps.

Go to www.ucpro.my to install the program

3. Battle.net


This is blizzard platform for playing warcraft online. There is 4 gateway which are Lordaneron (US West), Azeroth (US East), Kalimdor (Asia) and Northrend (Europe). This is the easiest and fatest way to play online. Do not need to install any program. However, it need the original warcraft program.

4. dotapod.com


This is a web version of dota. No installation needed. You just need a web browser. Go to www.dotapod.com and select the game. Then open your warcraft 1.23 and play it. I can tell you that this is very much faster than other engine. The good thing is that they record all your total game kill , death and assist. Even your creep kills are recorded. This dotapod can be played in macintosh computer.

Go to www.dotapod.com and try it out