Top 5 Most Useful DotA Programs
Here's my take on what I think are the Top 5 Most useful DotA Programs (legal, of course)
1) Warkeys: Coming in at rank 1, this is definitely something that every DotA Player should have. Highly flexible and functional, you can customize keys to your preference. Don't like how hero skills are placed? Don't want to click items like Necronomicon in your inventory with the mouse? Then this tool will definitely help you. You can remap your keys easily. You can have a standard 'QWER' keyset or you can have your inventory items on the 1, 2, 3, 4 keys. Apart from this, it also has the neat ability to display HP bars without holding down on the alt button. You have one extra finger for pwnage.
Download: http://www.garena.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=62433
2) Ventrilo: A thousand letters is worth 5 seconds of audio. Ok, maybe not, but with this you don't have to type while playing DotA (if you're playing with friends) All you need is a headphone and you're set to use this. Ask your friends to install it and you can coordinate much better. Much. You'll see how it improves your win rate. Voice chat beats text chat when you're playing.
Download: http://www.ventrilo.com/
3) Warcraft III HP View Helper: Same function... viewing HP bars without pressing alt key. But the interesting part is that you don't have to install anything. Just download the 200kb file and place it in your Warcraft folder. Helps when you're playing in cyber cafes or places without Warkeys and you don't have time to install.
(Note: My bad, but I forgot to tell why you would want to see HP bars after v 1.22 was released. The reason is, some of the Asian countries still use v1.20e and v1.21 where you can't enable HP bars in the WC3 Client.)
Download: http://www.trinigamers.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=18
4) ReplaySeeker: Currently, we don't have a program that allows us to view replays like you would in a media player like VLC. So we have to settle with this. It allows you to speeden the replay length upto 36x. With this you can get screenshots or make videos even if you skip further ahead in your replay.
Download: http://forums.dota-allstars.com/index.php?showtopic=196471
5) DotA Theme Manager: It allows you to have different tilesets for your DotA map. Currently there's Beach Theme, Hell Theme, Snow Theme or Barren theme. They're all very nice and you should try them out. Apart from the aesthetic aspect, it may help you target or last-hit better because of the color contrast... depends on you though. :)
Note that using this changes the tilesets of all maps in WC3 so if you're playing something else then you better switch back to Original.
Download: http://forums.dota-allstars.com/index.php?showtopic=185881
Other useful programs:
Warcraft TFT Version Switcher: You don't have to create a backup folder for playing DotA in other servers. Mainly for use in Indian and Philippines servers where they still use 1.20e and 1.21.
Credits to ahmet476 for these:
1. DotaHIT by danat
2. DotBeer by Mendoza32
3. DotAReplay by d07.RİV
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