General DiscussionEarthshaker 3k mmr help

Full support at 3k is very slow gold. Most people i get play farmville forever, little or no rotation and you will be lucky to have a tower push. Try helping your mid with that long range fissure to stun/block path than run in and followup totem. Also pull creep waves when ya can. Most importantly do not die, unless you have to suicide to save your carry. I skill build pretty much the same on earthshaker.

^ oh look a semi decent axe player

Try some things outside of the boring ES build. Test out soul ring, forcestaff, get a mekanism if your team is in need of one.

ill try to build soul ring instead of wand then

Consider that a wand needs the enemy to churn spells to be useful and while it gives a helpful stats its not that much. Don't buy it unless you actually will need it.

Try maybe just a magic stick, you save 305 gold which for a support early game makes a difference and you still have that little life saving burst should you need it.

Soul ring gives a steady heal and means if played right you will always have mana to gank roam. I love mana boots but with the zero mana cost of a blink dagger I have seen countless initiators ignoring mana boots for an early blink and opting for low level items and consumables to tie them over.

If you have a lone druid player or and axe player you can totally devastate a lanes farm by doing block/pulls into ancients and trees. Its not that hard to do and is massively effective and is viable 100% and not just some once or twice used "strat".

Example of dire ancient pulling and LD solos lane http://dotabuff.com/matches/569694323

2 lane towers down with LD level 8 and the lane sitting on level 2 that is so insanely easy for LD to then just go in with a stun from you and snag kills. Look at the level difference of our carries and theirs.

just get stick, Save for arcanes Make Plays.

Easiest way to make it rain in the early game with shaker is to make kills happen. Never think twice about going to aid an ally who is being tower dived with this hero, always be carefully angling yourself to block one person into your fissure, etc.

Learn how to farm different creep pulls (shaker has a lot opportunities here) or try to initiate many early game kills. Its the only way to ur blink really fast. Or go shaker solo mid :D As a 3k player, i can say that u will be ok there)