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DotA 2 Patch 6.84 Released with 8 New Items!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 06:47:00 +0000

DoTA 2 AWESOME Updates! Valve has just released the 6.84 Patch and it has 8 new items! I expect there will be a lot of balance updates but to have 8 new items is really caught me off guard! A lot of heroes also get Aghanim’s Scepter including Wraith King which will let allied hero become Wraith if they are death within 1200 range and it looks really fun!

Notes Update Relesase Dates:-

Test Client Release Date: April 27 2015 (available)

Main Client Release Date: May 2 2015 (prediction)

Patch Size: 488.3 MB

Changes: Cosmetics & Gameplay

Featured Changes
– 8 New Items!

Patch 6.84 Changelog – 6.84 Patch Notes

GENERAL
AoE Bonus Gold component based on Team Net Worth difference reduced by 25%
AoE Bonus XP component based on Team XP difference reduced by 40%
Melee lane creep bounty reduced from 43 to 40 (-7%)
Range lane creep bounty reduced from 48 to 45 (-6.25%)
Hero kills (the non-net worth portions) are worth 10% more
Reduced the direct hero last hit bounty by 100 and redistributed that gold into AoE gold (in ratio of 100/75/40/25/20 for 1/2/3/4/5 heroes)[?]
AoE Bonus Gold is now distributed based on the relative net worth amongst the heroes involved in killing the hero by +/- 25% [?]
The amount of AoE Bonus Gold given is now increased/decreased by up to 20% based on the dying hero’s relative rank in net worth amongst all the enemies on that team.[?]
Instead of Buyback temporarily preventing unreliable gold gain, it now reduces all gold gained (including hero and aoe gold) by 60% [?]
Melee Barracks team bounty increased from 175 to 275
Ranged Barracks team bounty increased from 100 to 225
Tier 2 and 3 towers armor reduced from 25 to 22
Extra melee creeps additions spawn time changed from 17:30/34:00/50:30 to 15:00/30:00/45:00 [?]
Extra range/siege creep additions spawntime from 45:30 to 45:00
Creeps now meet slightly closer to the Dire safelane
Ancient Black Dragon bounty reduced from 199 to 170
Ancient Black Drake bounty reduced from 50 to 40
Ancient Rumblehide bounty reduced from 83 to 65
Satyr Tormenter gold bounty reduced from 104 to 84
Hellbear health reduced from 950 to 700
Hellbear bounty reduced from 65 to 50
Ogre Frostmage bounty reduced from 52 to 40
Reworked Mud Golems:
Hero kills achieved by units under your control now provide XP credit to your hero (Affects things like Spirit Bear, Golems, Familiars, etc getting kills)
Melee attacks now miss if the target is farther than 350 range more than their attack range
Reduced All Pick drafting time from 40 to 35 seconds per turn
The following abilities no longer ignore units classified as Ancients (Neutral Ancients, Warlock’s Golem, etc): Ice Vortex, Mana Void, Berserker’s Call, Blood Rite, Bladefury, Omnislash, Torrent, Ghost Ship, Smokescreen, Static Remnant, Primal Roar, Earth Spike, Heartstopper Aura, Shrapnel, Golem’s Immolation, Sticky Napalm, Primal Split’s Immolation, Call Down, Invoker’s Tornado, EMP, Chaos Meteor, Sun Strike, Ice Wall, Deafening Blast, Pulse Nova, Eclipse, Battery Assault, Rocket Flare, Shadow Poison, Dispersion, The Swarm, Kinetic Field, Static Storm, Ancestral Spirit, Echo Stomp, Overwhelming Odds, Stone Gaze, Earth Bind, Poof, Rip Tide, Nyx’s Impale, Fire Spirits, Supernova, Mystic Flare, Dark Pact, Suicide Squad, Ravage, Demonic Purge, Fortune’s End [?]
Damage Block no longer affects physical spells (previously it affected some physical spells and some not)
Cast behavior while turning to cast has been adjusted.
Reworked the Item Silencing and Passive Disabling behaviors.
Hex no longer applies the Break mechanic [?]
Silence no longer disables Invisibility [?]
Moved Ring of Health, Voidstone and Orb of Venom from Secret Shop to the Base
Moved Platemail, Talisman of Evasion and Ultimate Orb from the Base to the Secret Shop
Added Voidstone and Mantle of Intelligence to Side Shop
Runes now have a higher hit box priority over units
Armor now shows decimal places in the hover tooltip
Fixed buyback respawn timer penalty being reset if you die holding Aegis
The following heroes are no longer restricted from buying Basher/Abyssal (but they are still restricted from activating Bash): Spirit Breaker, Faceless Void, Slardar and Troll

HEROES

Abaddon
Borrowed Time can now be cast while disabled (same rules as Morphling’s Morph)

Alchemist
Unstable Concoction countdown can now be seen by enemies
Unstable Concoction now has an area targeting cursor
Greevil’s Greed now grants 4x gold bounty from Runes
Alchemist can now cast Aghanim’s Scepter to directly grant any allied hero all Aghanim’s Scepter bonuses as a buff (the hero upgrade and the stat upgrade). The scepter is consumed in the process. Multiple instances of this buff do not stack. Alchemist can target himself as well

Ancient Apparition
Chilling Touch buff can now be removed by clicking on the buff icon above the health bar

Axe
Berserker’s Call cast point from 0.3 to 0.4
Counter Helix now triggers when attacks land rather than when they start [?]
Culling Blade movement and attack speed bonuses reduced from 40% to 30%

Bane
Brain Sap mana cost from 125/150/175/200 to 100/125/150/175
Units affected by Nightmare no longer provide vision
Nightmare End can now be used by Bane to end all other existing Nightmares

Batrider
Flamebreak damage changed from an instant 75/150/225/300 damage to 50 damage per second for 1/2/3/4 seconds
Firefly damage reduced from 20/40/60/80 to 10/30/50/70

Beastmaster
Beastmaster base damage increased by 4
Wild Axes cast point from 0.5 to 0.4
Call of the Wild Boar attack point from 0.633 to 0.5

Bloodseeker
Thirst bonuses scale from 100 to 25% HP instead of 100 to 0%
Thirst vision threshold from 30% health to 25%

Bounty Hunter
Bounty Hunter Intelligence growth increased from 1.4 to 2.0
Shuriken Toss damage from 100/200/250/325 to 150/225/300/375
Shuriken Toss cast range reduced from 650 to 400
Shuriken Toss mana cost from 90/115/135/155 to 120/130/140/150
Track’s Shuriken Toss bounce range from 900 to 1200
Track now shows how much gold the enemy is carrying in the debuff tooltip

Brewmaster
Primal Split units no longer provide a bounty when killed (was 11-35 depending on level)

Bristleback
Bristleback movement speed reduced from 295 to 290
Viscous Nasal Goo armor reduction rescaled from 1/1/2/2 per stack to 1/1.4/1.8/2.2

Broodmother
Incapacitating Bite is no longer a Unique Attack Attack Modifier
Insatiable Hunger attack damage from 60/80/100 to 60/90/120

Centaur Warrunner
Return now triggers when attacks land rather than when they start [?]
Added Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade to Centaur: Stampede reduces all incoming damage by 70% and allows allies to run through obstructions (trees, cliffs, etc). Destroys trees

Chaos Knight
Chaos Bolt minimum damage from 1/50/75/100 to 75/100/125/150

Clinkz
Skeleton Walk cooldown from 20 to 20/19/18/17
Death Pact cooldown from 45/40/35 to 45/35/25

Clockwerk
Rocket Flare speed from 1500 to 1750

Crystal Maiden
Crystal Nova movement and attack slow from -30 to -20/30/40/50
Crystal Nova slow duration from 3.5/4/4.5/5 to 4.5
Frostbite cooldown reduced from 10/9/8/7 to 9/8/7/6
Freezing Field cooldown from 150/120/90 to 90

Dark Seer
Ion Shell duration increased from 20 to 25 seconds
Wall of Replica damage dealt by illusions from 70/80/90% to 60/75/90%
Wall of Replica duration from 15/30/45 to 45
Wall of Replica mana cost from 200/300/400 to 125/250/375

Dazzle
Poison Touch level 4 damage from 32 to 36

Death Prophet
Exorcism spirit count from 4/12/21 to 6/13/21

Disruptor
Kinetic Field duration from 2.5/3/3.5/4 to 2.6/3.2/3.8/4.4

Dragon Knight
Breathe Fire now also reduces base damage by 20/25/30/35% for 8 seconds
Corrosive Breath damage is now lethal
Elder Dragon Form’s Splash Attack damage percentage radius from 100/200/250 (for 100/75/50% damage) to 150/225/300

Earth Spirit
Boulder Smash damage from 125 to 50/100/150/200
Geomagnetic Grip manacost from 75 to 100
Geomagnetic Grip damage from 50/125/200/275 to 50/100/150/200
Magnetize can now be dispelled
Fixed Hex not interrupting Rolling Boulder if cast during the initial 0.6 seconds

Elder Titan
Echo Stomp channel time from 1.8 to 1.6
Echo Stomp cooldown from 15 to 14/13/12/11

Enchantress
Untouchable attack slow from 30/60/90/120 to 40/70/100/130
Enchant can now be cast on controlled units to refresh the Enchant duration
Impetus now pierces Spell Immunity

Enigma
Midnight Pulse cast point improved from 0.3 to 0.2
Black Hole now does a constant 55/110/165 damage per second regardless of proximity to the center
Black Hole mana cost from 275/350/425 to 275/325/375

Gyrocopter
Rocket Barrage no longer has a cast point (Previously had 0.3)
Call Down missile two slow duration from 3 to 4

Huskar
Inner Vitality cast range increased from 550 to 800
Inner Vitality cooldown from 25/22/19/16 to 22/18/14/10

Invoker
Invoker Int gain from 2.5 to 3.2
Invoke no longer triggers cooldown if it only swaps the ability slots
Sun Strike cooldown from 30 to 25
Max level Deafening Blast (Quas, Wex, and Exort all at max level) is now a non-targetable circular wave released in every direction around Invoker

Wisp
Relocate double click now teleports to fountain

Jakiro
Jakiro base strength increased from 24 to 25
Macropyre duration increased from 7 (14 Scepter) to 10 (20 Scepter)
Macropyre area of effect increased from 225 to 240

Juggernaut
Blade Fury cooldown from 30/25/22/18 to 42/34/26/18
Blade Fury now has the same Spell Immunity on cast dispel behavior as other Spell Immunities [?]
Healing Ward movement speed from 450 to 420
Omnislash no longer ministuns on cast
Using items/abilities in Omnislash no longer requires facing direction

Keeper Of The Light
Mana Leak cooldown from 16 to 16/14/12/10
Chakra Magic now adds a buff that that reduces the cooldown of the next spell its target casts by 1/2/3/4 seconds. Buff lasts 12 seconds.
Scepter Illuminate heal percentage from 75% to 100%

Kunkka
Kunkka no longer turns to cast Torrent
Torrent cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 seconds
X Marks The Spot mana cost from 80 to 50

Legion Commander
Moment of Courage counterattack chance from 16/18/20/22 to 25%
Moment of Courage lifesteal from 20/40/60/80% to 55/65/75/85%
Moment of Courage cooldown from 0.9 to 2.7/2.1/1.5/0.9
Added Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade to Legion Commander: Duel lasts until either Legion Commander or her target dies. Ends if duelists are ever more than 2,000 range apart.

Leshrac
Leshrac movement speed from 315 to 320
Lightning Storm cast point from 0.7 to 0.6
Lightning Storm slow duration from 0.75 to 0.7/0.8/0.9/1

Lich
Ice Armor cast range from 800 to 1000
Chain Frost projectile speed from 675 to 750

Life Stealer
Feast is now considered as normal bonus damage (can Crit and Cleave off it)
Open Wounds lifesteal increased from 15/20/25/30% to 50%
Added Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade to Lifestealer: Grants a new skill, Assimilate. Assimilate allows Lifestealer to target an allied hero and swallow them, allowing them to hide inside of Lifestealer. Any healing Lifestealer receives is shared with the assimilated hero. The assimilated hero can release itself at any time by clicking on the buff icon to erupt outward and deal 300 damage to enemies in a 700 area of effect. If Lifestealer dies or assimilates another hero, the currently assimilated hero will automatically exit. Issuing any order with your hero, a few seconds after being assimilated, will take you out.

Lina
Aghanim Scepter-upgraded Laguna Blade no longer increases cast range

Lone Druid
True Form is no longer removed on death [?]
Battle Cry armor increased from 5/10/15 to 6/12/18
Battle Cry damage increased from 50/75/100 to 60/90/120
Added Agahnim’s Scepter upgrade to Lone Druid: Allows Spirit Bear to attack at any range from Lone Druid, and prevents Spirit Bear from dying if Lone Druid dies

Luna
Luna base armor increased by 1
Eclipse per unit cap increased from 4 to 5
Improved Aghanim’s Scepter: Allows Eclipse to be cast on an area within 2,500 range. Grants obstructed vision of that area. Can also target any allied unit to center Eclipse on their location, even while moving (can double click or target Luna)

Medusa
Split Shot and Mana Shield are no longer removed on death [?]

Meepo
Geostrike damage from 7/14/21/28 to 8/16/24/32
Divided We Stand no longer causes Meepo to respawn 20% faster

Mirana
Starstorm’s second hit range from 175 to 325, and the second hit now strikes the unit closest to Mirana

Morphling
Adaptive Strike now has a 1150 speed projectile
Added Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade to Morphling: Grants a new ability, Hybrid. Allows morphling to target an ally, turning himself into a hybrid illusion, removing the Morphling himself. This hybrid illusion can cast non-ultimate abilities and has your original attributes. Lasts 20 seconds. When the duration ends or the hybrid dies, your hero emerges (cannot end prematurely). Cooldown: 140, Manacost: 200, 600 cast range. Note: Ability is not available while you have a Replicate living.

Naga Siren
Ensnare cooldown from 14 to 12
Ensnare is now dispellable [?]
Ensnare is no longer removed if the target becomes Ethereal
Added Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade: Song of the Siren Scepter now regenerates you and nearby allies by 6% of maximum HP per second for up to 7 seconds.

Natures Prophet
Sprout cast range increased from 600 to 625/700/775/850
Sprout duration increased from 3/3.75/4.5/5.25 to 3/4/5/6
Nature’s Call treant base damage from 22 to 28
Aghanim’s Scepter-upgraded Wrath of Nature now spawns a Nature’s Call treant whenever it kills a unit. Killing a hero will spawn a stronger treant (3x damage and health of a normal one)

Night Stalker
Void attack speed slow increased from -35 to -50 (now matches movement speed slow)

Nyx Assassin
Using Spiked Carapace no longer removes Vendetta
Added Aghamin’s Scepter upgrade to Nyx: Adds a new ability, Burrow, with a one second cast time. While Burrowed, Nyx Assassin is invisible and unable to move/attack, but has 40% damage resistance, and regenerates 1.5% of his health and mana per second. Nyx Assassin’s abilities also have improved properties while burrowed: Mana Burn and Impale have 50% increased cast range, Impale Cooldown is reduced from 13 to 9, and Spiked Carapace instantly stuns any enemy units within a 300 area of effect without requiring them to hurt him first. Casting Vendetta causes Burrow to end

Omniknight
Purification cast point from 0.5 to 0.4

Oracle
Purifying Flames mana cost reduced from 55/70/85/100 to 50/60/70/80
Purifying Flames cooldown reduced from 3 to 2.5
Purifying Flames can now target non-hero units
False Promise no longer makes the target invisible
False Promise now continuously removes debuffs and disables, instead of only when first cast
False Promise duration from 7/8/9 to 6/7/8
False Promise cooldown from 20 to 80/60/40

Outworld Devourer
Aghanim’s Scepter Sanity’s Eclipse upgrade now affects everyone in the area of effect with Astral Imprisonment after it deals its damage
Aghanim’s Scepter Sanity’s Eclipse upgrade no longer always triggers the mana drain and does not increase the damage multiplier by 1

Phoenix
Fire Spirits now does an obstructed reveal of the area it hits for 1 second

Puck
Waning Rift damage increased from 70/140/210/280 to 100/160/220/280

Pudge
Rot move slow from 20% to 20/22/24/26%

Pugna
Decrepify enemy slow from 50% to 30/40/50/60%
Decrepify enemy magic damage amplification from 50% to 30/40/50/60%
Decrepify duration from 2/2.5/3/3.5 to 3.5
Decrepify cooldown from 12/10/8/6 to 15/12/9/6
Life Drain damage and restore per second from 120/160/200 to 150/185/220
Life Drain cast range from 1100 to 900/1050/1200
Pugna’s Aghanim’s Scepter-upgraded Life Drain no longer increases cast range

Riki
Smokescreen no longer slows attack speed
Smokescreen now reduces turn rate by 30%

Rubick
Null Field now also affects creeps

Sand King
Caustic Finale duration from 8 to 6
Caustic Finale now always triggers (via unit death or when its duration expires). If triggered by timer expiration, it deals 30% of the damage
Caustic Finale no longer resets the duration on a unit that already has the debuff
Caustic Finale now applies a 20% move slow when the damage triggers (via unit death or when timer expires). Slow lasts for 3 seconds

Shadow Demon
Shadow Poison mana cost from 50 to 40
Demonic Purge Aghamin’s Scepter upgrade now applies Break (disabling passive abilities)

Shadow Shaman
Shadow Shaman base strength increased from 19 to 21
Shadow Shaman strength gain increased from 1.6 to 1.8

Silencer
Silencer base movement speed from 300 to 295
Last Word initial enemy cast allowance window from 5 to 4 seconds
Last Word no longer disarms
Last Word now applies a 14/16/18/20% movespeed slow whenever it triggers

Slardar
Slithereen Crush damage from 50/100/150/200 to 75/125/175/225

Sniper
Sniper agility gain from 2.9 to 2.5
Shrapnel recharge time increased from 40 to 55
Shrapnel delay increased from 0.8 to 1.4 seconds
Shrapnel now gives vision when the shrapnel lands rather than instantly
Headshot can now miss
Assassinate damage from 355/505/655 to 320/485/650

Spectre
Reality no longer kills the target illusion, it now swaps positions

Spirit Breaker
Empowering Haste cooldown from 16 to 12

Storm Spirit
Storm Spirit movement speed reduced from 290 to 285
Ball Lightning flying vision from 1000 to 400

Sven
Warcry armor bonus increased from 4/8/12/16 to 5/10/15/20

Techies
Land Mine activation delay reduced from 1.75 to 0.5 seconds
Stasis Trap Activation delay from 2 to 1.5
Stasis Trap Detonation delay from 2 to 1.5
Suicide Squad, Attack! cooldown reduced from 180/170/160/150 to 160/140/120/100
Minefield Sign cooldown from 120 to 360
Minefield Sign now requires Techies to walk precisely to the targeted spot
Minefield Sign now has an area of effect targeting cursor
Minefield Sign now has a limited lifetime of 180 seconds
Techies Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade now causes the Minefield Sign to make all Land Mines, Stasis Traps and Remote Mines within 125 area of effect immune to True Sight. Can only have one sign out at a time

Templar Assassin
Meld cooldown from 7 to 6

Terrorblade
Reflection cast range from 275 to 325
Reflection illusion outgoing damage from 40/50/60/70% to 40/60/80/100%

Tidehunter
Kraken Shell damage block increased from 10/20/30/40 to 12/24/36/48

Timbersaw
Reactive Armor now triggers when attacks land rather when attacks begin [?]
Reactive Armor max stacks increased from 4/8/12/16 to 5/10/15/20

Tinker
Laser hero blind duration increased from 3 to 3/3.5/4/4.5
Rearm mana cost from 150/250/350 to 125/225/325
Aghanim’s Scepter Laser no longer has additional cast range
Aghanim’s Scepter Laser now refracts to visible enemy heroes with a 550 bounce range

Tiny
Toss grab radius increased from 250 to 275
Toss now grabs the closest unit rather than a random unit
Treant
Eyes in the Forest area of effect reduced from 800 to 700

Troll Warlord
Berserker’s Rage no longer provides +15 damage
Ranged Whirling Axes no longer provide 800 vision
Melee Whirling Axes no longer provide 500 vision
Battle Trance duration reduced from 7 to 5 seconds
Berserker’s Rage is no longer removed on death [?]

Tusk
Ice Shards mana cost reduced from 120 to 90
Ice Shards cooldown from 18/16/14/12 to 19/16/13/10
Ice Shards vision reveal from 0.5 seconds to 2 seconds
Snowball speed is now a constant 675
Snowball no longer auto-loads units in 100 range
Tusk can now add allies to Snowball while it is moving
Added Aghanim’s Scepter to Tusk: Adds a new ability called Walrus Kick. Kicks the target back 900 units. The kick slows by 40% for 4 seconds. 12 second cooldown

Undying
Soul Rip is now considered one damage instance on the enemy
Removed Tombstone Zombie targeting from Soul Rip
Tombstone Zombies now require 1 attack to kill rather than having 30 health (zombies require 2 hits from creeps)

Ursa
Reworked Enrage

Venomancer
Venomous Gale tick damage from 0/30/60/90 to 10/40/70/100

Viper
Viper Strike cooldown reduced from 80/50/30 to 70/50/30

Visage
Gravekeeper’s Cloak recharge time from 6 to 4
Familiars no longer have 300/450/600 health
Familiars now require 4 hero attacks to be killed (creeps/illusions do 1/4 damage, towers do 1/2)

Warlock
Fatal Bonds cast range increased from 900 to 1000
Fatal Bonds cast time from 0.5 to 0.2
Chaotic Offering Golem’s health regeneration from 15/30/45 to 25/50/75

Weaver
The Swarm duration rescaled from 14/16/18/20 to 16
The Swarm damage from 15/20/25/30 to 20
The Swarm attack rate from an attack every 1.35 seconds to 1.4/1.25/1.1/0.95
Geminate Attack now launches the second projectile 0.25 seconds after the initial one fires instead of after impacting the target
Geminate Attack no longer has a range limit
Added Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade to Weaver: reduces the cooldown of Timelapse to 20 seconds and allows Timelapse to target allied heroes. 1000 cast range

Windrunner
Shackleshot cast point from 0.3 to 0.15

Winter Wyvern
Enabled Winter Wyvern in Captain’s Mode
Reworked Winter’s Curse
Arctic Burn is now dispellable
Arctic Burn damage per second from 6% of health to 8%
Arctic Burn damage type from Pure to Magic
Arctic Burn no longer pierces Spell Immunity
Splinter Blast speed increased 500->650 (1.35 to 1.0 seconds max)
Splinter Blast debuff is now dispellable
Cold Embrace now behaves as normal regeneration instead of 0.1 interval heals

Skeleton King
Added Aghanim’s Scepter upgrade to Wraith King: Allies who are near Wraith King (within 1200 aoe) when slain become Wraiths for 5 seconds, delaying their death. They can continue attacking, casting, etc. When the duration ends, the hero dies, and credit for the kill goes to whowever landed the original killing blow.

Zeus
Thundergod’s Wrath area vision reduced from 1000 to 500
Fixed Thundergod’s Wrath sometimes hitting invisible units depending on the order of player slots.

ITEMS

NEW ITEMS

Enchanted Mango
New consumable

Lotus Orb
New item formed from Perseverance, Platemail, and a recipe

Glimmer Cape
New item formed from Cloak and Shadow Amulet

Guardian Greaves
New item formed from Arcane Boots, Mekansm, and a recipe

Moon Shard
New item formed from 2 Hyperstones and a recipe

Silver Edge
New item formed from Shadow Blade and Sange and a recipe

Solar Crest
New item formed from Medallion of Courage and Talisman of Evasion

Octarine Core
New item formed from Mystic Staff and Soul Booster
ITEM ADDITIONS
Observer & Sentry Wards
Observer and Sentry Wards now stack into one inventory slot. Double clicking toggles which ward type is currently active [?]
Upgraded Boots of Travel
Boots of Travel can now be upgraded by purchasing the recipe again. Allows you to target and teleport to allied heroes
ITEM CHANGES

Skull Basher
Strength increased from 6 to 8
Damage reduced from 40 to 25
Bash now deals 60 bonus damage
Bash cooldown increased from 2 to 2.3

Abyssal Blade
Damage reduced from 100 to 85
Bash now deals 60 bonus damage
Bash cooldown increased from 2 to 2.3

Energy Booster
Cost reduced from 1000 to 900

Arcane Boots
Replenish radius from 600 to 900
Replenish no longer costs 35 mana to activate

Bloodstone
Recipe increased from 800 to 900

Armlet Of Mordiggian
Attack Speed from +15 to +25
Unholy Strength no longer grants +10 Attack Speed
Unholy Strength strength gain period from 0.7 to 0.6 seconds

Quelling Blade
Changed from full damage bonus to base damage bonus
Quell damage bonus from 32/12% to 40/15%
Quell no longer deals bonus damage to Roshan
Chop active ability now kills wards rather than dealing 100 damage
Chop active ability range increased from 350 to 450 when targeting wards

Battle Fury
Battle Fury now requires and provides the bonuses of Quelling Blade
Quell bonus is now 60% for melee heroes and 25% for ranged heroes
Attack damage reduced from 65 to 55
Cleave radius from 250 to 280

Black King Bar
Black King Bar can now be sold [?]
[[blade_mail]]
Damage Return cooldown reduced from 17 to 15

Blades Of Attack
Cost reduced from 450 to 420

Phase Boots
Phase duration from 4 to 3.6 seconds

Boots Of Travel
Teleport cooldown from 50 to 45

Buckler
Armor Bonus radius increased from 750 to 900

Butterfly
Flutter duration from 8 to 6 and bonus movement speed from 20 to 25%

Clarity
Duration from 40 to 45
Total mana restored from 150 to 170
Ally cast range from 100 to 250

Cloak
Magic resistance from 15% to 20%

Vanguard
Damage Block chance increased from 67% to 75%

Crimson Guard
Damage Block chance increased from 67% to 75%
Guard active damage block increased from 50 to 55
Guard active area of effect from 750 to 900

Desolator
Damage decreased from 60 to 50
Recipe cost decreased from 900 to 300

Diffusal Blade
Diffusal Blade now works on ranged illusions for half the value

Divine Rapier
Damage increased from 300 to 330

Dust Of Appearance
Movement speed slow from 15% to 20%

Drum Of Endurance
Endurance attack speed bonus increased from 10 to 20

Eaglesong
Cost reduced from 3300 to 3200

Euls Scepter Of Divinity
Cyclone mana cost increased from 75 to 175

Eye Of Skadi
Cold Attack slow duration for ranged heroes from 3 to 2.5 seconds [?]
[[flying_courier]]
Vision from 400 to 300
Speed Burst speed from 650 to 800 speed

Force Staff
Health regeneration increased from 3 to 4 health per second

Ghost Scepter
Cost reduced from 1600 to 1500
All attribute bonus decreased from 7 to 5

Gloves Of Haste
Attack Speed increased from 15 to 20

Headdress
Regeneration Aura radius increased from 750 to 900

Healing Salve
Healing duration from 10 to 8 seconds [?]
Ally cast range from 100 to 250

Reaver
Cost decreased from 3200 to 3000

Heart Of Tarrasque
Recipe cost increased from 1200 to 1400
Health regeneration increased from 2% to 3.25% of total health per second
Regeneration disable time increased from 4 melee and 6 ranged, to 5 melee and 7 ranged

Linkens Sphere
Spellblock cooldown reduced from 17 to 16

Magic Wand
Requirements from Magic Stick + 3 branches + Recipe, to Magic Stick + 2 branches + Circlet
All attribute bonus from 3 to 4

Mask Of Madness
Berserk movement speed bonus reduced from 30% to 17%

Mekansm
Restore active and Mekansm Aura radius increased from 750 to 900

Mjollnir
Static Charge no longer jumps to units that are invisible or in the fog of war [?]
Static Charge cast range increased from 600 to 800

Necronomicon
Necronomicon Warrior/Archer health from 400/600/800 to 600/700/800
Necronomicon Warrior damage from 25/50/75 to 45/60/75
Necronomicon Archer damage from 40/80/120 to 60/90/120
Necronomicon Archer Aura move speed from 3/6/9 to 5/7/9%

Observer Ward
Observer Wards now come in single increments
Cost and restock time reduced by half and stock doubled
Observer Wards now provide a 50 XP bounty when destroyed
Attacking a ward can no longer miss (same for Sentry Wards)

Orb Of Venom
Poison Attack damage over time can now be lethal

Pipe Of Insight
Insight Aura now also provides a 10% Magic Resistance aura to nearby allies (does not affect the equipped hero)
Insight Aura radius increased from 750 to 900

Power Treads
Attribute bonus increased from 8 to 9

Quarterstaff
Cost reduced from 900 to 875

Radiance
Radiance recipe from 1350 to 1425
Radiance Burn now causes affected enemies to have a 17% miss rate

Refresher Orb
Reworked components and bonuses

Rod Of Atos
Intelligence from 25 to 30

Satanic
Unholy Rage duration increased from 3.5 to 4 seconds

Sentry Ward
Attacking a ward can no longer miss (same for Observer Wards)

Shivas Guard
Freezing Aura enemy attack speed reduction improved from 40 to 45

Stout Shield
Cost reduced from 250 to 200
Damage Block chance reduced from 53% to 50%
Damage Block blocked damage reduced from 20 (10 for ranged) to 16 (8 for ranged)

Tango
Can now be used on to eat Wards. Eating a ward heals for double the amount, 230 HP over 16 seconds.[?]
Has a 450 cast range when targeting Wards

Town Portal Scroll
Teleport cooldown increased from 65 to 70
Teleport no longer removes Ethereal state when it is cast

Urn Of Shadows
Casting Soul Release on an enemy already under the effects of Soul Release now refreshes the existing debuff rather than applying a seperate instance [?]
[[veil_of_discord]]
Recipe from 1250 to 1100
Cooldown reduced from 30 to 20
Duration reduced from 25 to 16
Mana cost reduced from 75 to 50

Vladmirs Offering
Lifesteal decreased from 16% to 15%
Now grants 10% lifesteal to ranged heroes
Now requires Headdress instead of Ring of Regeneration. Vladmir’s Offering now provides +2 all stats, and Vladmir’s Aura now provides 3 health regen.

DotA 2 Diretide Event Coming Back (30th October)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:25:00 +0000

Game Mode

There are 3 stages to Diretide, each lasting 10 minutes.

Candy Chaos

Compete against the enemy team in collecting the most candy.
Collect candy from Roshlings and deposit it in your candy bucket.
Go on a raid and steal the enemy's candy from their bucket.
After 20 minutes (after the 2nd stage), the team with the most candy wins!

The Trickster Awakens

All this ruckus has awoken Roshan from his slumber.
He will target a random hero, alternating between teams, and bully them for candy.
Keeping a piece of candy in your inventory is recommended as failure to feed Roshan will result in death.

Sugar Rush

After 20 minutes Roshan will be stuffed and you will be left candyless.
You must team up with the enemy and go after Roshan to reclaim your candy.
Defeating Roshan will reward you with items and delicious candy.
The fastest Roshan slayers will be immortalized in the Diretide Hall of Fame!

Greevil Egg

Main article: Greevil Egg

During the Diretide event, all players will receive a Greevil Egg after successfully defeating Roshan in Diretide. Once received, the Egg may be imbued with one of several Essences.

DotA 2 - The International 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:59:00 +0000

Thanks to everyone who viewed, visited, or played The International this year. With all of your help, it was a huge success. Congratulations to this year’s Champions, Alliance, and the two runner-ups Na’Vi and Orange. It was a great field of 17 teams that made every game from the first to the last exciting to watch.
Over one million people viewed streams of The International with hundreds of thousands more watching it on TV in China and Sweden. We also had over 40 countries participate in PubStomps around the world that involved tens of thousands of spectators.
For those Compendium owners that helped push the prize pool into the stratosphere – $2.8 million – The Compendium fantasy rewards will be coming soon.
There are so many words of thanks we could say, but we thought the best way was to share some of the pictures of the event. Not just from Benaroya Hall but from around the world.

A packed house at Benaroya Hall prepares for the final match between Na’Vi and Alliance.

The All-Star match was also the all-win match.

Everyone found the Secret Shop

A Cineplex in Thailand hosted a pubstomp.

A Toronto theater was filled with excited fans.

The UConn PubStomp featured playing as well as watching.

ALLIANCE WINS ALLIANCE WINS International 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:47:00 +0000

In their first meeting on the main stage of Benaroya Hall, Alliance dominated Na’Vi. That series let Alliance rest on top the Upper Bracket while Na’Vi had to prove themselves in a battle for the Lower Bracket crown to continue their journey.
The first game of the Finals started the same as the last, Na’Vi chose a bizarre draft that left them with a high risk move that simply failed. Alliance dominated them in under 30 minutes and it looked like Alliance would continue easily.
But then Na’Vi came roaring back. They put the pressure on and were quickly farming – farming in Alliance’s base. It took us 1-1.
The third game started with Na’Vi going strong, but then it just wasn’t clear if any team could string together any fights. Na’Vi would attack, Alliance counter, only to have Na’Vi counter again.
At one point, Na’Vi tried for Roshan, Alliance blocked by wiping Na’Vi. This put it in Alliance’s hands and they came charging back. The bear was a nightmare for Na’Vi in team fights and they simply could not establish control.
Finally Na’Vi started connecting fights and taking towers. Na’vi was in Alliance’s base making it look like a Tornado hit, taking down multiple rax. Alliance countered with a push that failed and resulted in GG.
Game four proved that each team was able to be dominate in the right conditions. From the six minute mark on, this was Alliance’s game. Na’Vi never gave up – but they never were in it.
This made it all down to game 5. The first game five ever for the International. One game would decide who became the Grand Champions.
Game 5? It’s too soon to put into words maybe. In a Tournament filled with great games, it was the greatest game we have ever seen. Not one single action by one team went uncountered by the other. It was a slug fest of team fights.
Na’Vi pushed on Alliance’s rax, so if you are Alliance what do you do? Take a tier three tower, maybe two of them, take some rax for yourself, push on the ancient.
That just means Na’Vi will come back and defend. Na’Vi pushed again but for every action, an equal reaction until we were left with an epic team fight on Na’Vi’s ancient battling for control while Alliance continued to sneak in attacks on the Ancient – UNTIL IT FELL.
Alliance wins. Alliance wins. We will post the video soon. Watch it. Sitting down.

Dota 2 Patch Notes (January 10, 2013) | Medusa Added!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:15:00 +0000

This weeks patch adds an Radiant most awaited agility carry hero Medusa (also known as Gorgon in WC3 Dota and some random bug fixes/UI changes. Also, The Dota 2 guide section has been added on community. Looks like the update scene is back on track, hopefully we’ll be seeing Troll Warlord in game next week.

Dota 2 Patch Notes (1/10/2013):

GAMEPLAY
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Aghanim’s Death Ward attacking Familiars and other psuedo heroes.
- Doom: Scorched Earth now only applies damage from Doom himself, not all the units affected by his aura.
- Pudge: Fixed being able to get units stuck using Refresher.
- Keeper of the Light: Fixed Recall interaction with non-hero units.

UI
- Added a Haste button to the courier HUD element.
- Added Mid Only game mode for private lobbies (disables other lanes and allows the same hero to be selected).
- The Announcer Share dialog has been replaced with a Shared Content dialog.
- Added a badge to the top bar to count the available shared items.
- If shared content is available in a game, a message is now printed pregame.
- Added Balanced Shuffle button to non-tournament private lobbies.
- Added All Chat private lobby option for enabling voice chat among all players.
- Fixed “Equip” appearing in the right click menu for some chests.

AUDIO
- Fixed hearing the wrong announcer after equipping a new item in the loadout.
- Fixed bugs with muting cobroadcasters causing other sounds to be muted.

BOTS
- The bots are now less likely to push with more heroes than what they deem necessary (less 5-man Dota). Probably needs some tuning.
- Made bots slightly less self-concerned when considering defending an ally. Also made them more likely to jump in if they have a slow or stun.
- Bots that are capable of jungling during the laning phase may now do so.
- If purchasing an item from the secret shop would complete an item, desire for going there is now increased.
- When their next item is purchasable, their desire to farm is significantly reduced.
- Fixed bad tuning that was causing bots to almost never farm lanes.
- Improved bot responsiveness to pings on Roshan.
- Bots are now less likely to assume that humans will purchase wards.

DOTA 2 Medusa the Gorgon Guide, Strategy & Builds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:18:00 +0000

Medusa Background Story
Coming Soon!

Name: Medusa the Gorgon (DotA), Medusa (Dota 2)

Affiliation: The Dire

Type: Agility

Medusa Skills:-

1. Split Shot

Medusa magically splits her shot into five arrows. These arrows deal a lower percent of her normal damage. The extra targets will not receive other attack effects
(such as critical strike) and Unique Attack Modifiers.
Radius: 600
Single arrow damage: 50%/60%/70%/80%

2. Mystic Snake

A mystic snake made of energy jumps from target to target dealing damage and stealing some mana. After it reaches its last target, it jumps back to Medusa to replenish her with mana. The snake deals more damage and steals more mana per jump. Range: 800
Jump radius: 475
Base damage: 80/120/160/200

Base mana stolen: 20/30/40/50
Number of jumps: 3/4/5/6
Damage/mana increase per jump: 25%

3. Mana Shield

Creates a shield that absorbs 50% of the incoming damage by using Medusa's mana. Damage absorbed per point of mana: 0.75/1.25/1.75/2.25

4. Stone Gaze
Any enemy units staring at the Gorgon will slowly turn to stone, removing status buffs and slowing all speed properties. Deals damage to summoned units and illusions. Radius: 800
Duration: 5
Attack speed slow: 100%

Movement speed slow: Stops movement
Damage to illusions and summoned units: 500/1000/1500

Medusa Skill/Abilities Build:

Level 1-5: Mystic Snake (Level 3) and Mana Shield (Level 2)
Level 6: Ultimate – Stone Gaze
Level 6-12: Max Mystic Snake, Max Mana Shield, Stone Gaze (Level 2), take Level 2 Stat attributes.
Level 13-15: Take Split Shot (Level 3)
Level 16-25: Max Split Shot, Stats and take Stone Gaze (Level 3)

Medusa Item Build

Recommended Items:

Power Treads / Magic Stick / Perseverance / Ring of Basilius / Wraith Band
Shadowblade (Lothar’s Edge)
Linkin Sphere
Manta Style
Butterfly
Monkey King Bar
Buriza De Kanyon
Maelstorm / Mjollnr

Medusa Strategy Guide:

Early Game
Buy your items and head out to a lane. It doesn’t matter which lane that much, but be careful not to lane against heroes that can seriously disrupt early game farming. If you don’t have mana shield early game(before 6), stay back and harass passively with Mystic Snake or when enemies come forward to last hit. But with mana shield you are very tough, wear your enemies down before they wear your mana off!

Mid Game
Farm, farm, farm. Every minute is better spent farming. Cower to a tower and farm. Keep the lane to your side. Don’t ask me how to do it or don’t use a farmer! Don’t use Mystic Snake or Splitshot unless you’re intentionally pushing or going elsewhere. Do not actively go to team fights, the faster you have Manta Style the better. Once you have Manta Style however, start going to team fights while pushing when there’s none. Balance well between both. Normally your DPS is still not enough for a guaranteed victory, farm by pushing, an occasional kill in team fights and last hitting towers. Here’s where you show off your awesome team play sense!

Team Fights
Medusa deals damage much like Necrolyte and Proudmore. Necrolyte relies on Death Pulse/5 sec while Kunkka – Tidebringer/4sec. You have a 0 cooldown 0 mana Splitshot that increases your physical damage to 300% but divides it between 4 targets. For this reason I suggest turning on Splitshot at all times, you are not a good burst damage dealer nor should you try to be. Put frankly, killing/ganking is not your task. Your task is to wear them all off before they kill you one by one.

Golden rules for team fights:

Positioning: always move in after your team fight initiators
DPS: Splitshot on+2 illusions
Survivability: Mana shield on!
Surprise: A charged Magic wand saves the day

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Dota 2 Timbersaw Guide, Strategy & Builds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:40:00 +0000

DotA 2 Timbersaw Background Story:-
Rizzrack could still hear the screams in his mind. He worked, frantically turning wrenches, twisting screws, building and carving and forging. Sleep eluded him; he only built. Months had passed since he had shut himself in his uncle's workshop, and his deliverance was nearly complete. He rubbed his back as his eyes drifted shut, and saw a blanket of flowers floating on the placid waves of Augury Bay before exploding into a cloud of pollen that silenced lives as it seized the lungs. He woke with a choking start. For hours the rhythmic sound of a whetstone filled the shop as he sharpened a set of massive blades, his mind filled with images of strangling vines garroting neighbors, enwrapping homes. The flooding of Augury Bay had been nothing compared to the violent horrors the waters left to take root beyond the city walls. But the saw-suit would make him strong and safe he thought, allowing himself this sliver of hope before the full might of his fear crashed into his fading mind. Branches and bark and blood. When the city fell, Rizzrack fled trees that walked, and fought, and killed. Trees had shattered the gates and swarmed into the city. Trees had crushed and thrashed and stomped the last that Augury Bay could muster in defense, and stalked the few fleeing refugees. In addled silence Rizzrack unspooled the thick chain from the suit's arm, his hands quaking as he inspected each link and ran a trembling finger along the claw attached at its end. The saw-suit was ready.

Affiliation: The Dire
Type: Strength

DotA 2 Timbersaw Skills:-

Whirling Death (Hotkey: D)
Timbersaw whirls extremely sharp edges, damaging enemies and destroying trees around him in an area. If an enemy hero is affected, it loses some of its primary attribute for a short duration. Whirling Death will deal Pure damage if a tree is cut down in the process.

Damage: 100/150/200/250
Ability: No Target
Affects: Enemies
Damage Type: Magical
Primary Stat Reduction: 15%
Area of Effect: 300
Cooldown: 8
Mana cost per level: 70/80/90/100

Timberchain (Hotkey: T) Timbersaw fires a chain that embeds itself in the first tree it hits, pulling him towards it. Any enemy in the path takes damage.

Range: 800/1000/1200/1400
Damage: 100/140/180/220
Damage radius: 225
Cooldown: 4
Damage Type: Pure
Affects: Trees
Mana Cost Per Level: 60/70/80/90

Reactive Armor (Passive)
Each time Timbersaw is attacked, he gains increased health regen and armor. Each stack lasts for 16 seconds.

Stack Limit: 4/8/12/16
Stack Bonus Armor: 1
Target: Self
Ability: Passive
Stack Bonus Health Regeneration: 1 HP/sec

Chakram (Hotkey: C)
Fires your main saw blade at the target location, and once there the blade will spin, dealing damage in an area around it and slowing enemies. For each 5% of health missing, enemies caught in the saw blade move more slowly. The blade deals damage and cuts down trees in its path when fired and retracted. You lose the ability to attack and your mana gets drained while the blade is out.

Passthrough Damage: 100/140/180
Damage per Second: 50/75/100
Affects: Enemies
Cooldown 8
Mana Cost Per Level: 125/150/175
Range: 1200
Mana cost per Second: 20/25/30
Damage Type: Pure
Return Chakram sub-ability brings you back the Chakram.

Return Chakram
Returns the Chakram to Timbersaw.

Timbersaw Spell Build:

Level 1-5: Timberchain (Level 3) & Reactive Armor (Level 2)
Level 6: Ultimate – Chakram
Level 6-14: Max Whirling Death, Max Timberchain, Max Reactive Armor and take Level 2 Ultimate.
Level 15-25: Attribute Bonuses and take Level 3 Ultimate.

Timbersaw Item Build

Recommended Items:

Bloodstone
Shivas Guard
Pipe of Insight
Vanguard
Arcane Boots
Scythe of Vyse
Heart of Tarassque

Timbersaw Strategy Guide:

Early Game:
Ideally you’ll lane short so you have access to lots of trees and room to chase. you’ll also preferably solo, for a few reasons:
• Timbersaw’s mobility and low-cd spells make him a competent killer from the beginning, and even more so with the extra levels
• His spells themselves don’t do all that much damage individually, and their effectiveness at exploding people peaks early
• He can easily survive vs. a dual lane
• He doesn’t need that much farm, so it’s not a problem if his last-hitting is limited (and he can quickly catch up on farm with ult + whirling death spam)
Soloing a side lane:
Do your last-hitting thing for a few levels. if you’re against another solo, try driving him off, especially if he’s melee. if you’re against a dual, you’ll probably have to play more defensively, but unless they’re going to kill you the moment you poke your head in, you can spam chain to last hit + harass like you would with e.g. powershot or something. soften up your opponents and go for a kill or double kill at 6, if you can.
In a dual lane:
You should play very aggressively vs. a solo. how you handle an opposing dual lane obviously depends on who your lane-mate is, and who you’re facing. one thing to keep in mind is, if you’re going for a killing timber chain and sense that either your target or his partner is about to stun you, wait and take the stun before chaining, so it’s not interrupted. note: when pulling, you can afford to use timber chain to finish off the more valuable of the non-golem creeps if you’re bad at last-hitting or if your lane opponents come to take them.

Mid-game:
Kill noobs. from fog, place chakram right behind an enemy hero, just touching them, then immediately chain in over them in their path of retreat. you can cast whirling death mid-chain, as soon as you’re near enough your opponent and at least one tree (if they’re by one). be sure to retract your chakram just before they’re out of its aoe, when they start to run away, so you get them with the retract damage (you can also put them between yourself and the blade to hit them with it on its return). then right click them once or twice and repeat some variation of your combo until they’re dead. obviously this is all much easier with ally help.
When playing Timbersaw, the only terrain you should see is trees. you should be looking ahead for trees whenever you’re chasing, escaping, or even just traveling. when chasing, don’t chain too far ahead of your opponent or you risk giving him a chance to change direction.
During an escape, chain over cliffs to get away, or buy time by chaining into areas that are inaccessible without destroying trees, like the area behind the ancients from the right side of the river. from there you can clear a path with your other two spells and run away, or chain over to a tree on the other side of the river, or just teleport out.
Other notable trees include those around the base cliffs, the jungle cliffs, the gap between the sentinel ancients and secret shop path, and the gap between the scourge mid and secret shop, as well as the lone tiny tree in the water by Roshan. remember to target a specific tree rather than a direction, so your hero will approach it first if you’re not near enough.
Timbersaw is absurdly good at clearing waves of creeps (gather them around you, cover with chakram, cast whirling death, collect chakram), and at tanking towers and roshan. Also be sure to use chakram for vision, such as of roshan or of the enemy barracks during a push.

Late Game:
You’re not doing as much damage anymore, comparatively. your main role now is slowing down enemies for your allies, using chakram and whatever items you may have farmed (and keeping on them with timber chain to do it). the 15% base attribute reduction part of whirling death is by this point very effective at weakening carries.

Dota 2 Patch Notes (13 December, 2012) – Timbersaw Added!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:23:00 +0000

This update brings one of the most awaited strength hero, Timbersaw (Goblin Shredder in Dota). Timbersaw is a lumberjack of Dota with wood cutting abilities which deal great damage to enemy heroes. This week’s update also fixes some other miscellaneous bug fixes with other heroes.

Dota 2 Patch Notes:-

New:
Added Timbersaw! (Goblin Shredder)
GAMEPLAY
- Ancient Apparition: Fixed status effect ignoring magic immune units (HP Freeze and Shatter).
- Silencer: Fixed Last Word not being triggered by Invoke.
- Slark: Fixed Pounce leashing illusions.
- Undying: Fixed Decay providing too much healing to Undying.
- Fixed Shadow Blade interaction with Cleave and Critical Strike.
- Fixed Cycloning yourself causing you to take damage from Orchid.

Totaly Free Dota2 Steam Invite

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:33:00 +0000

We have DOTA2 invites available, drop in a comment telling us why you should be given the invite along with your email id, we will send you a gift invite.

VALVE is sending Dota2 invites GIFTS to users who already have beta keys so that they can invite their friends to the amazing world of Dota2. Whats more fun that playing with your buddies. If anyone of you don't have access to Dota2 better ask your friends again who play Dota2 or you could comment below and get invited.

Dota 2 Patch Notes (6 December 2012) – New Winter Map

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:33:00 +0000

It fixes some AI exploits, spells bugs and a common ‘You must be in a lobby to reconnect’ bug that prevented players from reconnecting. This update also adds Pseudo random chances to Bash, Critical and other chance based objects in game.

A new Dota 2 Winter Themed map has been added which could possibly be a special event like DireTide. The next coming hero is confirmed to be Medusa and some new items are coming as well.

Dota 2 Patch Notes:-

GAMEPLAY
- Fixed some bugs with Pounce movement restriction.
- Fixed being able to cast and attack while using Skewer.
- Fixed Empower buff remaining after casting Black King Bar.
- Fixed Neutral creep chase time being too long.
- Added Pseudo Random chances for the following items: Daedalus, Crystalys, Abyssal Blade, Basher, Heaven’s Halbred, Maelstrom, Mjollnir, Static Charge, Monkey King Bar, Poor Man’s Shield, Sange, Sange and Yasha, Stout Shield, Vanguard.
- Fixed various ancient AI exploits.
AUDIO
- Some voice gain fixes to improve quality.
- Updates on sound effects for Visage, Viper, Warlock, Tiny and Earthshaker.
MISC
- Fixed an issue where players would not be able to reconnect to a server and would get “You must be in a lobby to connect.”
- Undying’s Tombstone now caps at 64 maximum zombies.

Dota 2 Australian Servers Coming Soon

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:40:00 +0000

Good news for all the Aussie players! Valve’s developer Milton Ngan has confirmed the availability of official Australian based servers for Dota 2. The equipment for the Dota 2 Servers has arrived, all they need is to install and configure them inside Valve’s data center. The Dota 2 AU servers will be up and running by January 2013.
Here’s a quote from Milton @ Dota 2 dev forums:

The equipment for our Australian (not Austrian) datacenter has just arrived in Sydney. It will be a few weeks to get this racked and configured. But we should be up and running by January 2013.

This is indeed a good news for Australian and New Zealand players. They will no longer suffer high continental ping and latency in Dota 2 matches. You will now be able to play and perform quick moves with your favorite heroes like Earthshaker, Puck and Geomancer.
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DOTA 2 Slark Guide, Strategy & Builds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:38:00 +0000

DotA 2 Slark Background Story:-
Little known to the inhabitants of the dry world, Dark Reef is a sunken prison where the worst of the sea-bred are sent for crimes against their fellows. It is a razor barbed warren full of murderous slithereen, treacherous Deep Ones, sociopathic meranths. In this dim labyrinth, patrolled by eels and guarded by enormous anemones, only the vicious survive. Pitched into Dark Reef for crimes unknown, Slark spent half a lifetime without kin or kindness, trusting no one, surviving through a combination of stealth and ruthlessness, keeping his thoughts and his plans to himself. When the infamous Dark Reef Dozen plotted their ill-fated breakout, they kept their plans a perfect secret, murdering anyone who could have put the pieces together–but somehow Slark discovered their scheme and made a place for himself in it. Ten of the Dozen died in the escape attempt, and two were captured, hauled back to Dark Reef, then executed for the entertainment of their fellow inmates. But Slark, the unsung thirteenth, used the commotion as cover and slipped away, never to be caught. Now a furtive resident of the carnivorous mangrove scrub that grips the southern reach of Shadeshore, Slark remains the only successful escapee from Dark Reef.

Name: Slark the Murloc Nightcrawler (DotA), Slark (Dota 2)
Affiliation: The Dire
Type: Agility

DotA 2 Slark Skills:-

Dark Pact
After a short delay, Slark sacrifices some of his life blood, purging negative debuffs and dealing damage to enemy units around him and to himself. Slark only takes 50%% of the damage.

Mana cost per level: 55 / 50 / 45 / 40
Cooldown per level: 9.0 / 8.0 / 7.0 / 6.0
Ability: No Target
Damage: MAGICAL
Delay: 1.5
Radius: 325
Damage: 75 / 150 / 225 / 300

Pounce
Slark leaps forward, grabbing the first he connects with. That unit takes damage and is leashed to Slark, and can only move a limited distance away from Slark’s landing position.

Mana Cost Per Level: 75 / 75 / 75 / 75
Cooldown Per Level: 20.0 / 16.0 / 12.0 / 8.0
Ability: No Target
Damage: Magical
Distance: 700
Pounce Damage: 70 / 140 / 210 / 280
Leash Duration: 3.5
Leash Radius: 325

Essence Shift
Slark steals the life essence of enemies with his attacks, draining all their attributes and converting them to bonus Agility.

Cooldown Per Level: 0.4 / 0.35 / 0.3 / 0.25
Agility Gained: 3
Other atrribute loss: 1
Duration: 15 / 30 / 60 / 120

Shadow Dance (Ultimate)
Slark hides himself in a cloud of shadows, becoming invisible, gaining bonus movement speed and regeneration while not seen by enemies. Attacking, casting spells, and using items do not end Shadow Dance.

Mana Cost Per Level: 120 / 120 / 120
Cooldown: 25.0
Ability: No Target
Duration Per Level: 5.5 / 5.5 / 5.5
Bonus Movement Speed: 30% / 35% / 40%
HP Regen Per Level: 3% / 5% / 7%

Slark Spell/Abilities Build:

Level 1-5: Pounce (Level 3) & Essence Shift (Level 2)
Level 6: Ultimate – Shadow Dance
Level 6-13: Max Pounce, Max Essence Shift, Max Dark Pact and take Level 2 Ultimate.
Level 13-25: Attribute Bonuses and take Level 3 Ultimate.

Slark Item Build:

Starting of Game:
- Quelling Blade (Helps you farming creeps)
- 2x Tangoes (Helps you in lane)
- 3 Ironwood Branch (for stats)
Early Game:
- Power Treads (convert it to Strength)
- Magic Wand (If enemy team has spell casters, get it ASAP)
- Ring of Basilius (For some mana regeneration)
- Some Ironwood Branches (Branches FTW)
Mid Game:
- Mask of Madness (attack speed for more agility steal)
- Yasha (522 Movespeed 24/7)
- Cranium Basher (to chase those bastards)
- Dust of Apperance (Don’t let Windwalkers get away)
Late Game:
- Abyssal blade (for disable)
- Black King Bar (to become fearless against Blademail carriers)
- Monkey King Bar (damage is always good, gives mini bash and counters evasion)
- Heart of Tarassque
- Butterfly (For evasion and attack speed, don’t make it when enemy team has MKB)
- And other 100000000 other damage items. Just kiddin, you can make Buriza too!

Dota 2 Patch Update (14 November, 2012) | Add Slark

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:35:00 +0000

This time Valve has came up with the Slark which is already added in the 14th November patch. There were some items, gameplay, UI and Visual changes occur and we hope you are gonna like it. So check the complete details of this patch below.

Dota 2 Patch Update:-

- Added Slark!
- Added a chatwheel for quick communication with teammates!
- Added support for using keyboard templates!

Item Changes:
- Tournament Drops are now enabled for all leagues.

Gameplay Changes:
- Zombies no longer spawn other zombies from a stolen Tombstone.

User Interface Changes:
- Added a form for soliciting new chatwheel options.
- Added world heatmap for seeing where current players are located.
- Abilities and items bound to alt-combinations now display as such.

Visual Changes:
- Fixed Nightstalker losing his wings at night.

Editing Changes:
Just did a small update to fix an asset file bug. No update note changes for it.
So guys enjoy playing DOTA 2 and don’t forget to comeback here and check the latest updates of your favorite game online here.

Dota 2 Patch Update (25 October, 2012) | Add Centaur Warchief

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:49:00 +0000

This week’s update brings some big changes to Dota 2. Centaur Warchief is now added in DotA 6.76b parity changes are now implemented which includes item remakes and various balancing tweaks.
DOTA 2 Patch Notes (25/10/2012):

- Added Centaur
- Implemented 6.76b gameplay changes
UI
- Fixed XP going the other way if you’re leveled up with a command.
- Fixed scoreboard not updating properly after a hero swap
- Added party invite ignore options to the party invite dialog and settings screen
- Visual updates to spell button states

VISUALS & AUDIO
- Fixed several “missing lane” line bugs for Puck, Mirana, Meepo, Lina, Keeper, Shadow Demon, and Windrunner.
- Fixed spell button sounds triggering on mouse clicks only and not hotkey press
- Fixed certain effects on workshop items that were incorrect or missing

GAMEPLAY
Alchemist
- Unstable Concoction now explodes around you if you are killed while charging it up
- Goblin’s Greed cap increased from 26 to 30

Ancient Apparition
- Chilling Touch attack count increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6

Bane Elemental
- Enfeeble cooldown decreased from 12 to 10
- Bane can now wake himself up from Nightmare with a subability

Batrider
- Strength gain decreased from 2.7 to 2.4

Centaur
- Strength growth increased from 2.6 to 3.8
- Replaced Great Fortitude with a new skill (Stampede)
Grants you and all allied player units on the map max movement speed and zero unit collision for a short duration. Any enemy units you or your allies come into collision with take some damage and get stunned. Enemies can only be affected by stampede impact once.
Duration: 3/4/5
Damage: 100/150/200 + 2x your str
Stun: 1.25 seconds
Stampede Collision AoE: 120
Cooldown: 65
Mancost: 50
Note: Does not affect magic immune enemies

Chen
- Hand of God cooldown increased from 120 to 140/130/120
- Penitence damage amplify increased from 7/14/21/28% to 8/16/24/32% (matches the slow values now)

Clockwerk
- Hookshot now pulls Clockwerk to allies instead of getting blocked by them
- Hookshot Aghanim’s upgraded cooldown decreased from 15 to 12

Crystal Maiden
- Brilliance Aura has twice the effect on Crystal Maiden

Dark Seer
- Vacuum cooldown increased from 19 to 22

Doom Bringer
- Doom duration increased from 13 to 15 (and scepter from 14 to 16)

Drow Ranger
- Trueshot Aura mechanics reworked
Global Aura. Gives you and all allied ranged units a portion of your agility as bonus damage.
Bonus Damage: 14/18/22/26% of your agility as damage
Note: Can be toggled on and off to affect creeps or not

- Changed how Marksmanship bonus agility is granted
Passively provides bonus agility. If there are no nearby enemy heroes, your focus improves and the bonus agility is doubled.
Bonus Agility: 20/30/40 Agility
AOE: 375 (for double bonus)

Gyrocopter
- Homing Missile distance required for max damage reduced from 2000 to 1500
- Homing Missile stun duration rescaled from 2.5 to 2.2/2.4/2.6/2.8
- Rocket Barrage damage increased from 11/14/17/20 to 11/15/19/23

Jakiro
- Ice Path creation delay increased from 0.4 to 0.5
- Ice Path manacost increased from 75 to 90

Krobelus
- Exorcism base ghost count increased from 4/10/18 to 4/12/21

Kunkka
- Tidebringer level 4 AoE increased from 500 to 600

Lina
- Laguna Blade cooldown rescaled from 90/70/50 to 70/60/50

Lion
- Mana Drain break threshold range increased from 850 to 1100
- Finger of Death cooldown rescaled from 170/105/40 to 160/100/40
- Finger of Death cast range increased from 700 to 900

Luna
- Lunar Blessing bonus damage increased from 14/20/26/32 to 14/22/30/38

Magnataur
- Shockwave distance increased from 700 to 1000
- Shockwave cooldown decreased from 11/10/9/8 to 10/9/8/7
- Shockwave cast range increased to match its travel distance (visual thing only)
- Skewer AoE increased from 95 to 125
- Skewer range increased from 800 to 1200
- Skewer now only considers heroes a valid target for dragging in consideration with its unit cap

Meepo
- Poof cooldown decreased from 14/12/10/8 to 12/10/8/6
- Divided We Stand Aghanims upgrade now gives clones 100% stat sharing

Mirana
- Elune’s Arrow cooldown decreased from 20 to 17
- Moonlight Shadow manacost decreased from 175 to 75

Morphling
- Cast animation time improved from 0.45 to 0.4

Naga Siren
- Rip Tide cooldown rescaled from 10 to 19/16/13/10

Necrolyte
- Heartstopper Aura damage increased from 0.6/0.8/1/1.2% to 0.6/0.9/1.2/1.5%

Nyx Assassin
- Vendetta damage increased from 225/375/525 to 250/400/550

Weaver
- Base Damage increased by 4

Outworld Destroyer
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 310

Ogre Magi
- Multicast now increases cast range of Ignite by 150 per level, this is in addition to the existing AoE increase

Omniknight
- Purification cooldown decreased from 12 to 10
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 305

Phantom Lancer
- Collision size decreased from 24 to 8

Puck
- Base Damage increased by 5

Pugna
- Life Drain break threshold range increased from 900 to 1100
- Nether Ward AoE increased from 700/1000/1300/1600 to 1600

Razor
- Eye of the Storm strike interval decreased from 0.85/0.75/0.6 to 0.75/0.65/0.55 (Scepter 0.65/0.55/0.45)

Rubick
- Fade Bolt damage decreased from 75/150/225/300 to 70/140/210/280

Silencer
- Global Silence cooldown decreased from 160 to 140
- Global Silence duration increased from 3/4.5/6 to 4/5/6
- Base Intelligence increased by 6
- Base Damage reduced by 6
- Curse of the Silent duration rescaled from 5/6/7/8 to 6
- Curse of the Silent hp drain rescaled from 20/30/40/50 to 20/35/50/65
- Curse of the Silent mana drain rescaled from 10/15/20/25 to 8/16/24/32
- Int Steal moved from Last Word back to Glaives of Wisdom
- Glaives of Wisdom now steals Intelligence from outside of the AOE if Silencer gets the kill
- Int Steal aoe increased from 850 to the standard 900 aoe range
- Last Word replaced with new active skill
Targets an enemy unit placing a debuff on it. While the debuff is active, casting any spell causes the target to become silenced and take damage. If the duration of the debuff runs out without the target casting a spell, it will still take damage and be silenced but also be disarmed.
Debuff Duration: 5
Damage: 150/200/250/300
Silence/Disarm Duration: 3/4/5/6
Cast Range: 900
Cooldown: 36/28/20/12
Manacost: 100
Note: You have basic vision over the last word target while the initial buff is on them

Sniper
- Assassinate cast range increased from 1500/2000/2500 to 2000/2500/3000
- Headshot procs cannot be evaded (the entire attack gets through)
- Headshot chance from 25/30/35/40 to 40
- Headshot damage from 30/45/60/75 to 15/40/65/90
- Headshot ministun from 0.01/0.1/0.2/0.2 to 0.25
- Shrapnel provides vision in the targeted area
- Shrapnel cast range increased from 1200 to 1800

Templar Assassin
- Psionic Trap now requires a buildup time to reach it’s maximum slow. Starts at 30% and increases by 5% each second until it reaches 50%

Tidehunter
- Ravage damage decreased from 250/350/450 to 200/325/450

Treant Protector
- Strength growth increased from 2.8 to 3.3
- Living Armor HP regen increased from 4/6/8/10 to 4/7/10/13

Venomancer
- Venomous Gale manacost rescaled from 90/105/120/135 to 125
- Venomous Gale initial damage rescaled from 50/70/70/100 to 25/50/75/100
- Venomous Gale damage per tick increased from 10/20/40/50 to 15/30/45/60
- Poison Sting duration rescaled from 7 to 6/7/8/9

Warlock
- Infernal attack damage increased from 50/75/100 to 75/100/125

Witch Doctor
- Death Ward Aghanim’s upgrade changed from 3 target split attack to 5 target bounce
- Death Ward multi attack bounce AoE increased from 550 to 650
- Death Ward cooldown decreased from 90 to 80

Zeus
- Thundergod’s Wrath damage increased from 210/335/460 to 225/350/475
- Thundergod’s Wrath Aghanim’s damage increased from 400/500/600 to 440/540/640

Boots of Speed
- Price decreased from 500 to 450
- Move speed bonus from 55 to 50

Arcane Boots
- Move speed bonus decreased form 65 to 60

Phase Boots
- Move speed bonus decreased from 60 to 55

Power Treads
- Move speed bonus decreased from 60 to 55

Tranquil Boots
- Move speed bonus decreased from 80 to 75

Armlet of Mordiggian
- Armlet cooldown increased from 1 to 2 seconds

Force Staff
- Recipe reworked

Old Force Staff:
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Requires:
Staff of Wizardry (1000)
Quarterstaff (900)
Recipe (500)
Total: 2400
Grants:
+10 Intelligence
+10 Damage
+10 Attack Speed
Force (600 units forward, 25 mana, 20 cd, 800 cast range)

New Force Staff:
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Requires:
Staff of Wizardry (1000)
Ring of Regeneration (350)
Recipe (1000)
Total: 2350
Grants:
+10 Intelligence
+3 Regeneration
Force (600 units forward, 25 mana, 20 cd, 800 cast range)

Null Talisman
- Recipe cost decreased from 155 to 145

Rod of Atos
- Cast range increased from 800 to 1200
- Slow increased from 50 to 60%

Shadow Amulet
- Fade time decreased from 2.75 to 2.6

Updated vision values on these abilities: Unstable Concoction, Phantasm, Waveform, Storm Bolt, Mirror Image, Spirit Lance, Requiem of Souls, Spectral Dagger, Venomous Gale, Earthbind, Dream Coil, Shackleshot, Wall of Replica, Flamebreak, Deafening Blast, Ghost Ship

You have to restart your Steam Client and Dota 2 Client to receive this patch via auto-update. Dota 2 currently does not support offline (downloadable) updates for the game. If you have any issues related to patch please post in Dota 2 developer forums.

DotA 2 Holloween Theme Map | DotA 2 Thorne

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:27:00 +0000

Valve has decided to change DotA 2 map for this Halloween fever. This week’s update from DotA 2 will bring a new theme with respect to the occasion which is coming in the end of this month. The trees, lanes, shops and creeps will be altered according to the Halloween theme. So have fun checking out this map.
Confirmed Halloween date is Wednesday, 31 October 2012. This theme will be added to DotA 2 before a week from the Halloween. We hope that you guys will enjoy playing this map. So have fun and don’t forget to comeback here and check the latest updates of your favorite game.

DOTA 2 Spoon, the Goblin Techies Guide, Strategy & Builds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:19:00 +0000

Goblin Techies Background Story
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Affiliation: The Radiant

Type: Intelligence

Goblin Techies Mage Skills:-

1. Land Mines

Plants an invisible mine that explodes when an enemy is near. The explosion deals less damage if the target is farther away. There is a max of 20 mines placed at a time. Range: 100
Radius: 200 Full damage radius/ 500 Half damage radius
Duration: Until destroyed

Full Damage: 300/400/500/600
Half Damage: 150/200/250/300

2. Stasis Trap

Sacrifice yourself for the greater good. Deals massive area of effect damage.
Range: 100
Radius: 200 Full Damage radius/ 500 Half Damage radius
Full Damage: 650/850/1150/1550
Half Damage: 350/400/450/500

3. Suicide Squad, Attack!

Sacrifice yourself for the greater good. Deals massive area of effect damage.
Range: 100
Radius: 200 Full Damage radius/ 500 Half Damage radius
Full Damage: 650/850/1150/1550
Half Damage: 350/400/450/500

4. Remote Mines

Plants an invisible mine that will only activate when triggered.
Range: 500 (700*)
Radius: 400/410/425 (410/425/425*)
Duration: 480 seconds
Damage: 300/450/600 (450/600/750*)

5. Focused Detonate

Detonates all remote mines in 700 radius around target area. Range: Global
Radius: 700
Duration: Remote Mines
Effects: Detonates all remote mines in the target area.

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DOTA 2 Dragonus, the Skywrath Mage Guide, Strategy & Builds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:54:00 +0000

Skywrath Mage Background Story
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Affiliation: The Radiant

Type: Agility

Skywrath Mage Skills:-

1. Arcane Bolt
The Sky Mage fires off a bolt of Arcane energy to harm his adversaries. Deals an additional 1.6× the Sky Mage's intelligence and grants 325 vision around the projectile.
Base damage: 60/80/100/120
Range: 800

2. Concussive Shot

With Dragon-like intuition, the Skywrath Mage releases a compact ball of magical lightning at the closest visible hero within a 1600 radius. Upon impact the ball bursts slowing enemies by 40% for 4 seconds and dealing damage around the target. Range: 1600
Damage: 50/100/150/200
Slow: 40%

Slow radius: 200
Slow duration: 4

3. Ancient Seal
Dragonus draws a mystical rune on the enemy that amplifies all magical damage against them and snuffs out their ability to cast spells for a few seconds.
Duration: 3/4/5/6
Magical damage amplification: 18/24/30/36%

4. Mystic Flare

Dragonus uses his ultimate magical ability to conjure a precise and violent mystical field that lays waste to his adversaries. Deals massive damage distributed evenly among any heroes in the area over 2 seconds. Total damage: 600/900/1200
Duration: 2
Radius: 170
Range: 1200

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DOTA 2 Jah'rakal, the Troll Warlord Guide, Strategy & Builds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:26:00 +0000

Troll Warlord Background Story:-
Coming soon

Affiliation: The Radiant

Type: Agility

Troll Warlord Skills:-

1. Berserker Rage

Allows the Warlord to use his throwing axes as melee weapons, gaining bonus damage, attack speed, movement speed, hitpoints, armor, and a chance to bash targets on attack. Berserker's Rage also changes the functionality of Whirling Axes. Bonus movement speed: 20/20/20/30
Bonus damage: 15
Bonus HP: 100
Base attack time: 1.55

2. Bash

Gives a chance that an attack will do bonus damage and stun. Stun duration: 0.8/1.2/1.6/2
Bonus damage: 20/30/40/50
Chance: 10%

Whirling Axes (ranged)
Troll hurls a fistful of five axes in a cone shape over 900 range, slowing and damaging enemy units.
Range: 900
Damage: 75
Movement speed slow: 30%, Slow duration: 3/3.75/4.5/5.25,
Radius of each axe: 100

Whirling Axes (melee)
Troll unleashes a set of magical axes which whirl around him in a circle. Nearby enemies take damage and have a chance to miss on their attacks.
Radius: 450
Damage: 125/175/225/275
Miss chance: 60%
Duration: 4/5/6/7

3. Fervor

With each continuous blow on the same target, Troll gains increased attack speed. If Troll changes targets, the stacks drop to zero.
Maximum bonus attack speed: 40/60/80/100

4. Battle Trance

Troll's presence on the battlefield increases the attack speed of himself and all allied heroes.
Radius: Global
Duration: 10
Bonus attack speed: 60/120/180

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DOTA 2 Brad, the Centaur Warchief Guide, Strategy & Builds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:05:00 +0000

Centaur Warchief Background Story:-
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Affiliation: The Dire

Type: Strength

Centaur Warchief Skills:-
1. Hoof Stomp

Slams the ground, stunning and damaging nearby enemy units.
Radius: 315
Stun Duration: 2/2.25/2.5/2.75
Damage: 100/150/200/250

2. Double Edge

Centaur strikes a mighty blow at melee range, damaging both himself and the target. Centaur cannot die from Double Edge. Double Edge deals its damage in a 190 AoE around the target.
Range: 150
Radius: 190
Damage: 175/250/325/400

3. Return

Centaur Warchief immediately counters every attack, damaging the attacker based on a percentage of Centaur's strength.
Base Damage: 16/18/20/22
Bonus Damage as Percent of Centaur Warchief's Strength: 26%/34%/42%/50%

4. Great Fortitude

Centaur Warchief passively gains large amounts of strength.
Bonus Strength: 15/30/45

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Dota 2 Patch Update (11 October, 2012) | Heroes Added In Captain’s Mode.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:18:00 +0000

Valve has setup another fascinating update this week with adding two more heroes in the Captain’s mode. This week the lucky ones are Meepo and Magnus which were both included after The International and now they have accomplished their successful inclusion and they made their prominent position in the game.

GAMEPLAY
- Added Meepo to Captain’s Mode.
- Added Magnus to Captain’s Mode.
- Fixed Reverse Polarity not pulling units from the right location.
- Fixed Necromastry loss count for odd numbers.
- Fixed Reverse Polarity stunning cycloned units.
- Fixed Incapacitating Bite working against Wards.

User Interface
- Fixed enemy Meepo illusions displaying the wrong health bars.
- Team profile shows tournaments that a team has participated in.
- Fixed bugs with cooldowns and disassembling Tranquil Boots.

VISUALS

- Updated Necronomicon visuals.

BOTS
- Added Templar Assassin to the list of heroes that bots will purchase invisibility-detection items for.
- When leading a target, bots will no longer target an ability in impassable terrain.
- Added more usage cases for Poison Touch.
- Earthshaker and Tidehunter bots are now more aggressive when they have Echo Slam and Ravage up, which should help them initiate more often.
- Fixed excessive lead time in Light Strike Array usage.
- Fixed case where AoE targeted abilities could be targeted on invisible enemies.
- Fixed bug with Shallow Grave where Dazzle bot would only rarely cast it on teammates.
- Windrunner bot will now more often follow up a successful Shackleshot with a Powershot.
- Ranged heroes will be slightly more aggressive when laning.
- Fixed issue where bots with lifesteal were overestimating their tankiness.
- Fixed Jugg’s loadout to not have him buy boots first.
- Dazzle bot is now a bit more judicious about using Shadow Wave.

DOTA 2 Magnus the Magnataur Guide, Strategy & Builds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:03:00 +0000

Magnataur Background Story:-
The master-smiths of Mt. Joerlak agree on only a single point: that the horn of a magnoceros is more precious than any alloy. And of all such horns, the largest and sharpest belongs to the beast they call Magnus. For half a generation, Magnus took easy sport goring hunters come to claim the treasures of his kin. Each time he would return to his cave with hooves and horns stained red, until his Matriarch urged him and all their kin to seek refuge to the north beyond the shadow of the mountain. But Magnus scoffed, having never failed to defend his people. The magnoceri would stay, he decided, for a magnoceros does not believe in chance... nor does it ever change its mind. But when Mt. Joerlak erupted without warning, and half his kin perished in the fire and ash, Magnus changed his mind after all. The survivors pushed north, until they reached a blockade watched over by a hundred hunters armed with bow and steel. Magnus expected no less. He led his fiercest brothers and sisters in a charge against their enemies, and fought with a ferocity matched only by the fire-spewing mountain at his back. Meanwhile the magnoceros elders, mothers, and calves vanished into the drifts. The master-smiths are divided about what happened next. Some say Magnus reunited with his kin, while others claim he suffered mortal injuries and expired alongside the body of his Matriarch. Neither theory is correct. Magnus did vow to rejoin his kin...but only after seeking out those responsible for the eruption of Mt. Joerlak and watching them die upon his horn, for a magnoceros does not believe in chance.

Affiliation: The Dire

Type: Strength

Magnataur Skills:-

1. Shockwave

Magnus sends out a wave of force, damaging enemy units in a line.
Range: 500
Radius: 150 (Starting radius) / 700 (Distance) / 150 (Final radius)
Damage: 75/150/225/300
11/10/9/8 90 Mana

2. Empower

Gives an allied unit bonus damage and cleave on attack.
Range: 800
Duration: 40
Bonus damage and cleave: 20%/30%/40%/50%
Cooldown 12
Mana 40

3. Skewer

Magnus rushes forward up to 800 distance, goring enemy units on his massive tusks. Units hit on the way will be dragged to the destination, then damaged and slowed.
Range: 800
Radius: 95

Damage: 70/140/210/280
Maximum number of targets: 1/2/3/4
Cooldown 30
Mana 80

4. Reverse Polarity

Magnus changes properties of matter, sucking all nearby enemies in front of him and stunning them with a powerful slam and dealing damage.
Radius: 410
Stun duration on heroes: 2.5/3.25/4
Stun duration on creeps: 3/4/5
Damage: 150/225/300
Cooldown 120/110/100
Mana 200/250/300

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Dota 2 Patch Update (3 October, 2012) | Added Magnus!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:58:00 +0000

In this weekly update, Valve has added Strength hero, Magnus (Magnataur in Warcraft 3 Dota). Team creation is now added. Dota 2 bots can now play Viper, Lich and Death Prophet. Overall, it’s a good patch. Hopefully, Around 150 new items to the store.

Dota 2 Patch Update:-

- Added Magnus!
- Enabled Team creation.
- Made all 6.75b Parity changes
- Added around 150 new items to the store.

UI
- Ability tooltips are now more precise about what kind of units they can target.

GAMEPLAY
- Fixed basic courier movement speed being too low

BOTS
- Lowered the tankiness threshold for doing Roshan.
- Bots now only save for buyback later in games, and now save the proper amount.
- Lich bot will no longer cast Chain Frost on a single target that's about to die or that is able to blink away.
- Skeleton King bot is now better about saving mana for Reincarnate.
- Improved Windrunner bot's Shakleshot usage (she will now take into account unit movement).
- Bots will no longer have any desire to farm while they are temporarily invisible.
- Added support for selling/dropping situational items when necessary (wards, dust, etc).
- Adjusted Skeleton King and Dragon Knight bots' loadouts.
- Bots will now scale their attack desire on non-heroes based on how dangerous they think the unit is.
- Bots will now harass hero-like units (ie. Spirit Bear) when laning.
- Bots will now consider trying to kill hero-like units.

Dota 2 Patch Update (3 October, 2012) | Added Testing Tool!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:06:00 +0000

Dota 2 Patch Update:-

HIGHLIGHTS:
- Added Luna
- Added Guardian Wisp
- Dota 2 now uses the CELT codec for increased voice communication quality.
- Added a testing tool to the Workshop tab that allows contributors to see their models on a hero before submitting.

GAMEPLAY
- Bloodseeker: Fixed a bug where he could get healed by friendly heroes dying in the area around him that he didn't deny.
- Pudge: Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing Pudge's Dismember to do an extra tick of damage
- Pudge: Fixed a bug that allowed Pudge to deal damage without hurting himself by quickly toggling Rot.
- Rubick: Fixed a rare case where Rubick could get permanently stuck with Telekinesis Land.
- Rubick: Fixed a bug where Rubick would gain permanent Spectral Dagger buffs until he died.
- Rubick: Fixed a bug with Poison Release that would cause you to steal the wrong ability from Shadow Demon.
- Rubick: Stealing Spirit Bear is temporarily disabled.
- Fixed being able to use a different player's items in your combine, if that item was in your stash at the time

VISUALS
- More Rubick spell animations
- Various Rubick visual effect improvements and fixes
- Haste animation added for Bloodseeker
- Adjusted Ogre Magi's sidearm attack animation
- Logos removed from waterfall and mid river areas to safeguard gameplay
- Tweaked dire banner position left of fountain shop
- Roshan timer appear only after 10 seconds have passed from death
- Reduced Gyro's model scale a little
- Removed ambient effects on Razor and Morphling when hexed

UI
- Fixed some cases where icons could get stuck on the screen
- Fixed new heroes not showing up in the hero picker if you had custom view set (They'll now appear in the top left of the grid view, for you to then place as you like)
- Tournament Panel: Fixed game list not refreshing unless you opened a different tournament and then back.
- Tournament Panel: Increased the size of the live games and recent games.
- Tournament Panel: Fixed details button not working properly for the last few games.
- Fixed Spectator label cutting off number of spectators.
- Fixed Live games not displaying correctly after opening a Tournament.
- Fixed a recent bug with the shop not closing when a unit is selected
- Fixed some bugs with losing commentator perspecting when pausing and unpausing
- Added backpack preview to couriers
- Back button in the loadout takes you back to the backpack if you arrived via a backpack right click
- Fixed some slots on the backpack not being right-clickable if they were not on page 1
- Fixed the first equip from the backpack sometimes not working properly
- Added inspect button near the hero panel for heroes that have custom items
- Updated the replay skill filter to have more usefull categories.
- Fixed dragging an item onto itself not turning its icon back on.
- Cheat commands are now echoed to chat
- Added a testing tool to the Workshop tab that allows contributors to see their models on a hero before submitting.

AUDIO:
- Dota 2 now uses the CELT codec for increased voice communication quality.

Dota 2 Patch Update (20 September, 2012) | Added Meepo!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:21:00 +0000

In this weekly update, Valve has unleashed a long awaited agility hero, Meepo (Geomancer in Warcraft 3 Dota). First Blood animation is now added, User Interface is tweaked as usual. Dota 2 bots can now play Viper, Lich and Death Prophet. Overall, it’s a good patch. Hopefully, Valve adds All-random/Captain draft mode in next update.

Dota 2 Patch Update:-

- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!
- Added Meepo!

- In the Test client, heroes will now randomly equip cosmetic items every time they spawn.

GAMEPLAY
- Pugna: Fixed Nether Ward briefly registering the incorrect team right after casting.
- Wisp: Fixed being able to Teleport a Tethered creep to the enemy base.
- Lich: Fixed Chain Frost being dodgable.

UI
- The buyback button is no longer shown when the hero is reincarnating.
- Shift clicking a recipe now puts it in quickbuy.
- Fixed misaligned tooltips in the combine tree.
- Pennants now work for any game that's part of a tournament.
- Equipped pennants are now visible in your base when you're playing.
- New broadcaster select dialog.
- Added animated Firstblood, killstreaks and multikills notifications.
- Reduced opposing-team pause resume time down to 5 seconds (from 30 seconds).
- The top bar healthbars now show up any time a player is spectating.
- Fixed issues with the featured hero in the profile not showing the right hero, or not animating after toggling the dashboard.
- Stackable items now have their sellback time expired when they are stacked by a movement inside the inventory.
- The suggested items tab is now reloaded after a player swaps heroes with someone else.

VISUALS
- Added a effect that plays the whole time Keeper's Mana Leak is active on a target, not just when the target moves.
- Player's chosen team pennant will display in the fountain area.

BOTS
- Added Lich bot.
- Added Death Prophet bot.
- Added Viper bot.
- Bots will now select heroes their teammates have suggested in the hero picker.
- Increased the radius and strength of fountain avoidance.
- Tuned the strength of bots desire to place a ward, they should be somewhat more cautious about it now.
- Bots now wait 15 seconds after hero-picking to spring into action. This gives players the opportunity to buy their own couriers, if they want.
- Bots will no longer try to TP out of a fight if they're currently visible to the enemy team.
- Bots now try to path through FoWed areas when retreating.
- Bots now pay attention to multiple pings, and will use them to strengthen their desire to attack a hero, defend a lane, or push a lane.
- Bots that are disabled due to missing players on the opposing team are now also invulnerable so they cannot be farmed.
- Supports will now defer last-hitting to non-supports in their lane.
- Bots on easier difficulty levels will now be worse at retreating out of a gank.
- Fixed bug with the avoidance of Dark Seer's wall (only half the wall was being avoided).
- Slightly increased sticktoitiveness of bots overall, but moreso for medium and easy bots.
- Made Tiny bot less likely to Avalanche when retreating (so it's harder to harass him into using all his mana).

DOTA 2 Meepo Guide, Strategy & Builds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:18:00 +0000

Meepo Background Story:-
If you ask me, life is all about who you know and what you can find. When you live up in the Riftshadow Ruins, just finding food can be tough. So you need to cut corners, you need to scrounge, you need to know your strengths. Some of the beasts up there can kill you, so you need a way to trap the weak and duck the strong. On the upside, the ruins have history, and history is worth a lot to some people. There used to be a palace there, where they had all these dark rituals. Bad stuff. If you survived the ceremony, they would shatter a crystal and split your soul into pieces. They made great art though! Sculptures and such. Let me tell you: sometimes you stumble onto some of those old carvings. Take a pack full of those to town and sell them, then get yourself food for a few weeks. If luck is really on your side, you might find a Riftshadow crystal. Get it appraised and start asking around. Someone always knows some crazy fool looking for this kind of thing. If all else fails, sell it to a Magus the next time one’s in town. They love that stuff. Still, whatever you do, be careful handling those crystals. You do not want one to go off on you. It really hurts.

Name: Meepo (Dota 2), Meepo the Geomancer (DotA)

Affiliation: The Dire

Type: Agility

Meepo Skills:-

1. Earthbind
Tosses a net at the target point, pinning down all enemy units. Earthbind prevents invisibility, blink, and interrupts channeling.

Notes:

Does not hit invisible units, but ensnared units won’t be able to become invisible.

Does not work on Roshan.

2. Poof
Drawing mystical energies from the earth, a Meepo can teleport to another Meepo or itself after channeling for 1.5 seconds, dealing damage in both the departure and arrival locations.

Notes:

When targeted, Meepo will teleport to the Meepo closest to the target point (which can be the same Meepo who casts it).

If Meepo teleports to himself, both departure and arrival damage will be dealt in the same area.
Does not work on Roshan.
Can teleport to illusions.

3. Geostrike(Passive)
Meepo enchants his weapon to deal damage per second, as well as slow the movement speed of the attacked unit. Geostrikes from multiple Meepos stack.

Notes:

Does not stack with buff placers.

Geostrike’s slow of every Meepo stacks directly.

4. Divided We Stand (Passive)(Ultimate)
Meepo summons an imperfect, semi-autonomous duplicate of himself, which can gain gold and experience as he does and shares his experience and abilities. However, the clones cannot wield any items but the boots that Meepo himself wears. The cloned Meepos also gain 25% of any bonus attributes the primary Meepo has. If any of the clones die, they all die.

Notes:

The only item that transfers to the Meepos is one pair of boots (any type).

Each Meepo (the original one and the clones too) can use active abilities from Boots of Travel , Phase Boots and Tranquil Bootsindividually.

Note that Aghanim’s Scepter is undroppable once acquired.

Even if you didn’t level up this ability, picking up Aghanim’s Scepter will still provide you with an extra Meepo.

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