When i started, recipes still didnt have descriptions, or ingredients required, so the only thing i made in games was treads/aghanim/buriza/butter, cause those were the only items my friend taught me how to make. Any kind of regen was completely avoided, the strongest heroes: lina, lion and gondar ofc. I remember when they introduced bloodseeker, i was playing with my friends, one of them picked him, and wouldnt tell us what his ulti did, so we were dying like flies there...