Defense of the Ancients - DOTA

Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) is a custom scenario (some even call it map) for Warcraft III: Frozen Throne.

Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) is based on the custom map for Startcraft called "Aeon of Strife" which has a similar hero playing scenario where the player controls a single character, or hero, to play the game as opposed to Starcraft's common built-in game maps where players create and control multiple structures and characters simultaniously.

There are already several versions of the DOTA Frozen Throne map and the most popular of these is DotA Allstars which was created by IceFrog. Based on the existing DOTA map engine, Icefrog improved several in game features including map terrains, fixed some bugs on the codes, balanced a few hero stats, , introduced new heroes to the game as well as new items and design.


DOTA Downloads

The latest version of the DOTA AllStars map is DOTA 6.54b.
To download the latest Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) AllStars map, click here.


Dota: The Game

DOTA is a five versus five (5v5) game. The battle is between two opossing teams, scourge and the sentinel). Each team races to destroy the other team's Ancient which is located at the lower middle part of each respective bases. Basically, players are free to choose which side to team up with but this can overridden by the server terminal (the player who initiated the game) by manually distributing players to each team and even randomly pick who goes to what side. Same rule applies when picking a hero. Currently, there are 91 DOTA heroes to choose from. By default, each player can only choose a hero from their own tavern. Sentinel team picks heroes from either the Morning Tavern, Sunrise Tavern, Dawn Tavern or Light Tavern and Scourge team picks their heroes either from the Midnight Tavern, Evening Tavern, Twilight Tavern or Dusk Tavern.