DotA: Defense of the Ancients

DotA is one of the most played, online, team-based, strategy games up to present. Defense of the Ancients also known as DotA is a custom map running on WarCraft III engine. DotA is founded by IceFrog. The current map runs on WarCraft III: Frozen Throne 1.24 client.

You can get updated DotA maps from getdota.com and if you want to learn or share strategies from the community then you may find good stuffs from playdota.com.

Here’s a complete step for you to be able to play DotA:

• Download and install WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos
• Download and install WarCraft III: Frozen Throne
• Download and install the latest patch for Frozen Throne and install it

To play it locally on LAN:

• Download and copy the latest DotA map to the Maps folder

To play it alone with AI heroes:

• Download and copy the latest DotA AI map to Maps folder

That’s it! I will be updating this post whenever possible. Have fun and enjoy playing DotA!