DotA is horribly imbalanced, you're not sure because you can't tell. The broken imbalanced heroes are the ones who are an insane threat even when you're beating them: Huskar, Slark, Spirit Breaker, Bloodseeker etc.



I didn't list all the imbalanced heroes but the idea is that against others in a straight up fight with no items, they win every time. Try it yourself. This fundamental concept scales into them using the same items and different items and even "beneficial" items.



Certain items are just retardedly overpowered. Vanguard, guinsoo, etc. Vanguard has another issue: It's new. Before it existed, dota was better. I've been playing this game when it was really fun. Where you could trade gold and items, basher's were balanced for all heroes and you could stack them on any hero to make a perma bash build to counter natural perma bashers. Butwhy did this change? Obviously some kid thought this shouldn't be possible. Obviously his name is Icefrog, and he's not some special effige. He's just a crappy dev who's been making DotA worse and worse and worse. The real people who made DotA popular now work at Riot Games, and their first game is having all sorts of issues now too. Yet I respect them more because they're not pompous pricks like icefrog.



I never called it an MMORPG. I said multiplayer RPG. it can't be a first person strategy game because its not in the first person. You barely control more than a handful of units in DotA. Most control only 1 unit. WoW would be an RTS by your classification.



Also there are games like Warcraft III that are top down and control only a few units. they're called dungeon crawlers or Top Down (some are isometric) Action RPGs.



Dota is more like Diablo than you'd ever wish it wasn't.



Clearly you're a very very young person if you think strategy games were invented in the 2000s. As a result the credibility of your argument seems very lacking. I'm not going to name the earliest RTS thatcame out early 90s if not earlier, but I will however remind you that DotA Allstars is a modified scenario map of Warcraft..... THREE.