If you have Windows Vista or more recent, you can use the inbuilt resource monitor (admin privs required).
- Start the game
- Start searching for games
- Open the resource monitor (
Win
, resource monitor, Enter
)
- You should find the game at the top of the
Network
tab. Click on the checkmark.
- Now, network activity from the game appears in orange on all graphs.
- Join the game; start playing.
- As soon as you have a spare moment (maybe you're in warmup), alt-tab to the resource monitor.
- Look at the graphs and at the B/sec readings. They have your answer.
It's clunky, but it should work for all games and apps alike. The only "problem" is applications won't show up on the list until they do some networking.
If you have more than one process you want to measure (say, the game and mumble), just check them both.
I haven't played in a long time so bare with me:
Night Elf:
Mana Burn (Demon Hunter)
Dust+Entangling Roots+Surround/Focus Fire (KotG)
Shadow Strike will slow allowing you to attack him with units(Warden)
Build your wells in a manner that blocks your trees so melee heroes cant get in
Alternatively, put lumber Wisps in random places around the map instead of at all
at your main (risky)
Rec: DH
Human:
Arcane Towers covering all peasants (Drains Mana)
Storm Bolt (MK)+Surround (Miltia, Footmen, Buildings)
^^His WW can run through but he won't come back out if he is weak^^
Use Water Elementals+AM Range to attack with Miltia as melee (AM)
Paladin can heal workers while they attack him
Rec: MK
Undead:
Nerubian Tower to slow (allows for easier chase damage)
Use Death Knight to heal Acolytes or nuke BM if you see a kill coming
Dreadlord can sleep/surround
Lich can slow as well
Rec: DK
Also, kite Acolytes around mine, Switching Acos location when he switchs target, Bring in Ghouls to surround/attack while DK heals Kiting Acos.
Orc:
Throw a few peons into burrow, definitely the ones he attacks
Build your initial Burrows so that they can cover your lumber and gold peons
Attack with wolves + range (FS)
Throw up wards or hex/surround (SH)
Stun/attack (TC)
If you go BM you can just attack him as well for solid damage.
Rec: Whichever hero you are most comfortable with
In general, Kiting (running around/away) the peons he attacks will help prolong there life and inflict more damage to the BM for each worker kill.
This is just good all around and should become second habit early game.
Also, Another very strong approach is to counter-harass. Using natural base defenses (Towers, Wells to heal, miltia etc) as well as kiting, fend him off the
best you can while harassing his base (hopefully more succesfully) with your hero.This will force him to retreat or put you at a significant advantage exp and resource wise.
This is micro-intensive and should only be attempted if you are confident. Failing to succeed will put you at a significant disadvantage.
Best Answer
It's been a while since you asked, but for a long time now there has existed an external program called GProxy++ that offers exactly this functionality.
Using it is slightly nontrivial. The original author's forums no longer exist, so you'll have to settle for this tutorial: http://wiki.entgaming.net/index.php?title=EntGaming:GProxyVarlock
This won't work on any arbitrary game. Only games hosted with GHost++ with GProxy support active will allow you to reconnect. In addition, all other players will have to wait until you either reconnect or time out - the game won't continue without you.