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DotA v6.76b Map Download & Changelog

2012-10-22T05:12:00.002-07:00

IceFrog release another patch DotA 6.76b due to a bug with Phantom Lancer 1st skilll which caused kills to be considered suicides.

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- Fixed a bug with Spirit Lance that would cause kills done by it to be considered suicides

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

Arc Warden
- Magnetic Field no longer affects units other than Heroes and Structures

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

Ability Code: A2O9

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:
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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

Ability Code: A2O6

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

Trueshot Aura:
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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

Ability Code: A2O2

- Changed how Marksmanship bonus agility is granted

Marksmanship:
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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%

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

Nerubian Weaver
- Base Damage increased by 4

Obsidian 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

Phoenix
- Fire Spirits duration increased from 12.5 to 16
- Fire Spirits can now be cast while using Sunray
- Fixed Supernova not working with Radiance aura (other auras work already)
- Supernova level 3 hit requirement increased from 9 to 10
- Sunray Reworked

- Sunray is no longer channeling and you can control like before with its direction as well as the use of the drift sub ability
- Sunray now also heals allies in the AoE for half of the amount
- Sunray no longer slows
- Sunray HP cost is now 3% per second instead of a one time 10% cost on cast
- Sunray base damage reduced from 20/30/40/50 to 16/24/32/40 (has same percentage components as before)
- Max channel time mechanic is the same (6 seconds and damage/heal increase per second channeled)

Sun Ray: A1YY
Sun Ray End: A1Z3
Sun Ray Drift: A205

- Icarus Dive Reworked

Icarus Dive:
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Dives forward in a looping arc, dealing moderate damage over time and slowing enemy units along the path. Dive can be canceled at any point by using Supernova or the sub ability. Casting your other spells does not interrupt it.

Travel Range: 1400
Travel Width: 500
Total Travel Time: 2 seconds

DPS: 10/30/50/70
Slow: 25%
Duration: 4
AOE: 200

Cooldown: 36
Manacost: 0
HP Cost: 15% of current HP

Icarus Dive: A1RJ
Icarus Dive End: A20N

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

Last Word:
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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

Ability Code: A2NT

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%

Terrorblade
- Metamorphosis bonus damage increased from 15/30/45/60 to 20/40/60/80

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

Winter Wyvern
- Arctic Burn debuff duration increased from 4 to 5
- Cold Embrace cooldown rescaled from 14 to 17/16/15/14
- Splinter Blast initial projectile speed improved from 1.5 to 1.35 seconds
- Winter's Curse cooldown rescaled from 90 to 90/80/70

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

* Added a new game mode -TagTeam (-tt)

Tag Team:
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You are assigned two random heroes (different hero classes). You choose which to start the game with. You start with the same bonus gold as all random.

You have an ability that lets you swap heroes, has a 3 minute cooldown. You can swap while your current hero is dead to resume with the other hero.

Any gold you gain is added to both heroes. Any gold you lose on current hero is lost on the other hero as well.

Each hero has their own independent item inventories. Each time you swap heroes, the XP gain is synchronized.

You have to be in the fountain to swap heroes (use -tt)

* Removed some residual caster unit vision from various misc abilities

There are various abilities that use caster units in a way that unintentionally provides extra unobstructed vision. These are the abilities that have been fixed:

Unstable Concoction: 400 flying aoe on projectile and 3.34 sec at impact
Ice Shards: 800 flying on projectile (reduced to 300) and 3.34 sec after expiration (removed)
Chakram: 800 flying on projectile (reduced to 300) and 3.34 sec after expiration (removed)
Phantasm: 1000 flying (reduced to 400) for 1.13 seconds
Pit of Malice: 800 flying for 7 seconds
Waveform: 1000 flying during travel (still has basic vision)
Storm Bolt: 800 flying on projectile (reduced to 225) and 3.34 sec at impact (removed)
Mirror Image: 1000 flying (reduced to 400) for 0.73
Spirit Lance: 800 flying on projectile and 3.34 sec at impact
Requiem of Souls: 1000 ground at each affected target location for 5 seconds
Spectral Dagger: 500 flying (reduced to 200)
Sunder: 1800 flying at both source and target for 3.2 sec
Venomous Gale: 800 flying (reduced to 400)
Earthbind: 800 flying on projectile (reduced to 300) and 3.34 sec at impact (removed)
Mystic Snake: 800 flying on projectile (reduced to 300) and 3.34 sec at end (removed)
Dream Coil: 1000 flying for 6/8 seconds
Shackleshot: 800 flying on projectile (reduced to 200) and 3.34 sec at impact (removed)
Wall of Replica: 800 flying along the wall length (reduced to 200 ground)
Flamebreak: 800 flying on projectile (reduced to 300) and 3.34 sec at impact (removed)
Deafening Blast: 1200/800 flying on projectile and 1.75 sec at impact
Ghost Ship: 800 flying on projectile (reduced to 400) and 3.34 sec after expiration (removed)

These changes are not done with the direct intention of nerfing or buffing specific heroes. The goal here is to reduce the number of spells that provide excessive vision gamewide (with arbitrary durations in many cases) that were either unintended or not a necessity in the ability's functionality. By fixing or reducing the excess flying vision some of these spell caster units provide, the viability of juking as a mechanic in the game is improved a bit more. That being said, if you feel like specific abilities have strong/valuable gameplay that has grown around them over time and are worth reconsidering, please send your feedback. If there are other abilities you think should have reduced vision, please send that feedback as well.

* Fixed some more dagger/heart issues with Tempest Double
* Fixed a rounding issue with Nethertoxin
* Fixed a rare permabash bug with Tempest Double
* Fixed initial spawn size of Fire Spirit units (visual)
* Fixed some bugs with Shadow Amulet interaction with enemy spells
* Fixed a fatal error with Time Walk

DotA 6.75b Map Download & Changelogs

2012-10-04T04:24:00.001-07:00

DotA 6.75b map is now released at Playdota by IceFrog. There are 2 new heroes and a great number of changes to almost every hero in the game.

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* Fixed a fatal error when using wc3 patch 1.24b or 1.24e
* Magnetic Field gives half the AS bonus for non-hero units
* Tempest Double cooldown from 55 to 65/60/55
* Fixed a new bug in 6.75 that allowed refresher to bypass necronomicon restrictions
* Magnetic Field aoe reduced from 375 to 325
* Icarus Dive heal from 0.5/1.5/2.5/3.5% over 6 seconds to 0.75/2.25/3.75/5.25% over 4 seconds (same total heal, just faster)
* Fixed Radiance working on Sticky Napalm
* Fixed Naix getting stuck in Arc Warden's double
* Fixed some items like Dagger and Heart malfunctioning on your main hero if the Tempest Double gets attacked
* Roshan no longer has mana nor requires mana for his spells
* Fixed Splinter Blast slowing magic immune units
* Fixed a crash when using Icarus Dive with Refresher Orb
* Fixed Rubick stealing Shadow Amulet
* Fixed default missing icon on Ancestral Spirit unit
* Fixed various tooltips

* Goblin Shredder added to Captain's Mode
* Skywrath Mage added to Captain's Mode
* Captain's Mode first ban phase now has 2 bans instead of 3
* Captain's Mode second ban phase now has 3 bans instead of 2
* Glyph duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds
* Enraged Wildkin's Tornado vision decreased from 1200/800 to 300
* Aegis reclaim time decreased from 10 to 6 minutes
Roshan still respawns every 10 minutes, this change does not affect him. It only means that Aegis will last 6 minutes in your inventory instead of 10.
* Team AoE bounty for kills with 2 heroes around changed from 9*Level+95 to 12*Level + 125
* Team AoE bounty for kills with 3 heroes around changed from 8*Level+20 to 10*Level+40
* Killer bounty level multiplier increased from 200+5*Level to 200+9*Level
* Total XP required for level 7 decreased from 2700 to 2600
* Total XP required for level 8 decreased from 3500 to 3200
It still requires a total of 4400 XP to reach level 9
* Added a new loading screen

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* Random Draft Mode hero pool count increased from 20 to 22
* Recipe items no longer sell for 80% of their price (now 50% like regular items)
* Added a 1 second cooldown to placing Observer and Sentry wards (to help prevent accidental usage when lagging)
* Fixed various item sell costs
* Fixed a lot of tooltips issues
* Roshan turn rate increased to fix some abuses
* Fixed a bug that could cause Brewmaster to not respawn

* Added a new Agility hero
Zet, the Arc Warden
Scourge
Agility
Movespeed: 295
Starting Armor: 0
Attack Damage: 40-50
Attack Range: 625
Intelligence: 24 + 2.1
Strength: 24 + 1.9
Agility: 15 + 1.8

Flux:
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Engulfs an enemy unit with swirling volatile energy for 6 seconds, slowing its movement speed by 50% and dealing damage over time if it is alone. The effect is muted if there is a nearby enemy unit within 225 aoe.
AoE: 225
Slow: 50%
DPS: 15/30/45/60
Duration: 6
Cooldown: 20
Manacost: 75
Cast Range: 600/700/800/900
Note: Effect stacks directly with multiple instances. Each instance operates independently.
Ability Code: A2M1

Magnetic Field:
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Distorts space, generating a circular field that grants 100% evasion and bonus attack speed to allied units and buildings within. The field has an aoe of 375.
Duration: 3.5/4/4.5/5
AoE: 375
Attack Speed Bonus: 50/60/70/80
Cooldown: 50
Manacost: 110
Cast Range: 900
Note: Units need to remain within this area to get the bonuses
Ability Code: A2LM

Spark Wraith:
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Summons a Spark Wraith that takes 3 seconds to fully materialize. Haunts the targeted area until an enemy comes within its range and then fuses itself into him dealing magical damage.
Activation Delay: 3 seconds
Duration: Lasts up to 50 seconds before expiring or when it finds an enemy
Damage: 150/200/250/300
AoE: 375 (seeks towards the closest unit in this AoE at 400 MS and damages it)
Cast Range: 2000
Cooldown: 4
Manacost: 50
Ability Code: A2LL

Tempest Double:
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By vibrating at extreme speeds, Arc Warden is able to create a perfect electrical incarnation of himself for 20 seconds, at the cost of health and mana. This incarnation can use any spells or items he has, and spawns with his health and mana after the cast.
HP/MP Cost: 30/15/0% of current HP/MP
Cooldown: 55
Duration: 20
Note: The Tempest Double is visibly different for allies. Cannot copy Wards, Smoke or Refresher Orb.
Ability Code: A2M0
* Added a new Intelligence hero
Auroth, the Winter Wyvern
Scourge
Intelligence
Movespeed: 285
Starting Armor: 1
Attack Damage: 38-45
Attack Range: 425
Intelligence: 25 + 2.4
Strength: 24 + 2.1
Agility: 16 + 1.9

Arctic Burn:
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Imbues you with a deathly chill, causing you to gain bonus attack range and flying movement for 6 seconds. Your attacks place an arctic burn on enemies that slows them and burns a portion of their health away.
Debuff cannot be refreshed on enemies that it hits.
Duration: 6 seconds
Attack Range: 700/800/900/1000
Slow: 25/30/35/40% for 4 seconds
HP Burn: drains 6% of current HP per second (not lethal, does not count as damage)
Cooldown: 60/50/40/30
Manacost: 120/110/100/90
Ability Code: A2NE

Splinter Blast
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Fires a passive shard of ice at an enemy unit. Upon impact, it gains new life and splits off into active shards that deal heavy damage and slow to all other enemy units. Initial target is unaffected.
Split AoE: 500
Secondary Target Damage: 100/180/260/340
Secondary Target Slow: 25% for 4 seconds
Projectile Speed: Takes 1.5 seconds to arrive at the destination
Cast Range: 1200
Cooldown: 8
Manacost: 120/130/140/150
Ability Code: A2LA

Cold Embrace
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Reduces an allied hero's body temperature by encasing him in ice, sending him into a deep sleep and regenerating a percentage of max HP for 4 seconds, in addition to blocking all physical damage for its duration.
Duration: 4
HP Regeneration: 20 + 3/4/5/6% of Max HP per second
Cast Range: 1000
Cooldown: 14
Manacost: 75
Note: The allied hero is disabled for the duration of the buff.
Ability Code: A2LB

Winter's Curse:
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Winter Wyvern strikes the battlefield with a maddening chill, cursing a targeted enemy unit and freezing it in place. All of the target's nearby allied units will go into an uncontrollable frenzy, attacking the frozen ally for a short duration.
Duration: 2.5/2.75/3
AOE: 350
Cast Range: 800
Manacost: 250
Cooldown: 90
Note: You get credit for kills done this way. Does not affect target's magic immune allies.
Ability Code: A0Z0
Alchemist
- Acid Spray damage per second increased from 8/16/24/32 to 14/20/26/32
- Acid Spray manacost from 160 to 130/140/150/160
- Chemical Rage Base Attack Time decreased from 1.45/1.3/1.15 to 1.4/1.2/1.0
- Goblin's Greed counter duration increased from 20 to 25 seconds
- Goblin's Greed bonus gold scaling adjusted from 2/4/6/8 + 2 to 4/6/8/10 + 1/2/3/4
- Unstable Concoction max damage increased from 130/200/270/340 to 150/220/290/360
- Unstable Concoction no longer displays the countdown numbers to enemies
- Unstable Concoction always affects a 175 area around where it explodes
This includes when it explodes on Alchemist
Anti-Mage
- Movement speed decreased from 320 to 315
- Blink animation time increased from 0.33 to 0.4
- Legs decreased from 2/2/2/2 to 1/1.5/1.8/1.9
Axe
- Berserker's Call bonus armor increased from 30 to 40
- Battle Hunger slow decreased from 10% to 8%
- Battle Hunger movement bonus increased from 4% to 8% per affected enemy
- Counter Helix damage increased from 100/130/160/190 to 100/135/170/205
Ancient Apparition
- Chilling Touch now deals its bonus damage and uses a charge when attacking creeps
- Chilling Touch AoE increased from 450 to 525
- Chilling Touch damage increased from 40/50/60/70 to 50/60/70/80
- Chilling Touch duration reduced from 40 to 30
- Ice Blast is no longer dispelled by the Fountain
Bane Elemental
- Fiend's Grip Aghanim's duration increased from 6 to 7
- Enfeeble damage reduction increased from 25/50/75/100 to 30/60/90/120
- Enfeeble can no longer be dispelled
By Manta, BKB or any other dispel
Batrider
- Cast animation time decreased from 0.3 to 0.2
- Strength growth increased from 2.0 to 2.7
- Turn rate improved from 0.4 to 1.0
- Firefly duration increased from 15 to 18 seconds
- Firefly damage trail no longer instantly disappears when Batrider dies
Bloodseeker
- Blood Bath death detection AoE for enemy heroes increased from 225 to 325
- Bloodrage bonus base damage from 20/40/60/80% to 30/60/90/120%
- Thirst AOE from 1500/3000/4500/6000 to 6000
- Thirst MS bonus from 11/22/33/44% to 15/25/35/45%
- Thirst HP percentage detection rescaled from constant 40% to 20/30/40/50% HP (invis is half that)
Bristleback
- Quill Spray damage cap increased from 220 to 400
- Warpath damage per stack increased from 10/15/20 to 20/25/30
- Warpath base damage increased from 10/20/30 to 20/25/30
- Fixed how Quill Spray damage threshold works
Bristleback will now activate Quill Spray on the instance of damage when its threshold is breached rather than the one after that occurrence
Broodmother
- Spawn Spider's Spiderite bounty increased from 11-13 to 16-21
- Incapacitating Bite no longer gives 2/4/6/8 bonus damage
- Incapacitating Bite miss rate increased from 10/15/20/25 to 10/20/30/40
Centaur
- Double Edge now deals its damage in a 190 AoE around the target
Chaos Knight
- Chaos Bolt's stun is no longer partially undodgeable (now a normal projectile with 1000 speed)
Chen
- Holy Persuasion no longer has the ability to teleport allied units
- Test of Faith grants you a secondary ability to teleport allied units
Teleports heroes to fountain after a delay. Instant teleport for persuaded creeps
Delay: 6/5/4/3
Cooldown: 24
Manacost: 200
Cast Range: 600
Ability Code: A2MC
Clinkz
- Strafe attack speed bonus increased from 110 to 130
Clockwerk
- Strength growth increased from 2.4 to 2.7
- Battery Assault damage interval improved from 0.75 to 0.7
- Power Cogs damage and mana drain increased from 60/90/120/150 to 80/120/160/200
- Power Cogs duration increased from 3/4/5/6 to 5/6/7/8
- Fixed Power Cogs not triggering and burning mana/hp when someone Force Staffs over it
Crystal Maiden
- Freezing Field duration increased from 4 to 7 seconds
Dark Seer
- Movement speed decreased from 305 to 300
- Vacuum cooldown increased from 16 to 19
- Vacuum cast range decreased from 550 to 500
- Vacuum AoE decreased from 275/375/475/575 to 250/350/450/550
- Vacuum can no longer pull invulnerable units
Dazzle
- Poison Touch level 4 cooldown decreased from 9 to 7
- Shadow Wave AoE increased from 170 to 185
Disruptor
- Static Storm max damage increased from 170/210/250 to 170/220/270
Doom Bringer
- Devour creep level restriction removed
- Devour cooldown from 60/55/50/45 to 70/60/50/40
- Devour gold from 40/60/80/100 to 25/50/75/100
- Devour manacost from 60 to 60/50/40/30
- Level Death bonus damage now deals 20% of Max HP instead of a fixed amount
- Level Death damage increased from 100/150/200/250 to 125/175/225/275
- Scorched Earth damage/heal increased from 12/16/20/24 to 12/18/24/30
Dragon Knight
- Armor decreased by 1
- Dragon Blood armor bonus increased from 2/4/6/8 to 3/6/9/12
- Elder Dragon form level 2/3 no longer gives bonus damage (was 5/14)
- Elder Dragon form level 2/3 splash area rescaled slightly
100% splash AoE changed from 75 to 100
75% splash AoE changed from 150 to 200
50% splash AoE remains the same
Drow Ranger
- Frost Arrow's slow increased from 50% to 60% at level 4
- Marksmanship level 3 agility bonus increased from 45 to 60
- Trueshot Aura damage bonus increased from 7/14/21/28% to 8/16/24/32%
- Silence cooldown decreased from 15 to 13
Earthshaker
- Enchant Totem cooldown decreased from 7 to 6 seconds
Ember Spirit
- Armor decreased by 1
- Fire Remnant recharge time increased from 30 to 35 seconds
- Fire Remnant damage per instance from 120/160/200 to 100/150/200
Enigma
- Malefice damage reduced from 30/40/65/80 to 40/40/65/65 (still 1/2/2/3 pulses)
- Midnight Pulse cast range from 500 to 700
- Blackhole manacost from 200/300/400 to 250/350/450
Faceless Void
- Time Lock deals twice as much damage when it procs on a target in Chronosphere
- Faceless Void can no longer be frozen by any Chronosphere!!
Furion
- Movement speed decreased from 300 to 295
- Force of Nature's Treant's magic resistance decreased from 33% to 20%
Goblin Shredder
- Strength growth reduced from 2.4 to 2.1
- Chakram moves 20% slower
Guardian Wisp
- Overcharge HP/MP cost over time increased from 2.5% to 3.5%
- Tether regeneration transfer now heals the Tethered unit at 1.5x the rate of Wisp
Gyrocopter
- Movement speed increased from 305 to 315
- Flak Cannon AoE increased from 800 to 1000
- Call Down AoE increased from 400 to 450
Huskar
- Burning Spears duration increased from 6 to 7
- Inner Vitality can now be cast on magic immune targets
- Life Break Aghanim's cooldown decreased from 24/16/8 to 4
Invoker
- Invoker base damage decreased by 4
Jakiro
- Facing direction now more accurately matches his turn rate (just a visual change)
- Liquid Fire AoE increased from 175 to 300
- Ice Path reworked
Juggernaut
- Base attack time decreased from 1.7 to 1.6
- Omnislash now kills creeps and neutrals in 1 hit
This does not include player controlled units or ancients
Keeper of the Light
- Chakra manacost rescaled from 40/55/70/85 to 25/45/65/85
- Mana Leak cooldown decreased from 18 to 16
- Illuminate cast range changed to be the same as its travel range (just a UI change)
- Illuminate max hit distance increased from 1600 to 2000
Krobelus
- Armor increased by 1
Kunkka
- Base strength increased by 3
- Ghost Ship cooldown decreased from 90/80/70 to 60/50/40
- Ghost Ship impact AoE increased from 400 to 425
Legion Commander
- Fixed Overwhelming Odds giving 6% instead of 9% movement per hero
- Overwhelming Odds bonus summoned unit/illusion damage reduced from 50% to 25%
- Press The Attack cooldown rescaled from 15 to 16/15/14/13
Leshrac
- Diabolic Edict now uses Leshrac's cast animation time
Ability Code: A035
Lich
- Frost Nova cooldown decreased from 9.25/9.25/9.25/8 to 8
Lina
- Fiery Soul attack speed bonus increased from 40/50/60/70 to 40/55/70/85
- Laguna Blade cooldown rescaled from 120/90/55 to 90/70/50
Lion
- Finger of Death cooldown rescaled from 150/90/55 to 170/105/40
- Finger of Death damage increased from 500/650/850 to 600/725/850 (Aghanim's from 600/800/1025 to 725/875/1025)
- Mana Drain initial cast range increased from 600/650/700/750 to 750
- Mana Drain threshold range increased from 800 to 850
- Mana Drain cooldown decreased from 25/20/15/10 to 20/15/10/5
Lone Druid
- Spirit Bear can no longer be resummoned while it is taking damage
Has same duration and rules as his blink disable
Lord of Avernus
- Armor decreased by 2
- Aphotic Shield cooldown decreased from 14/12/10/8 to 12/10/8/6
- Borrowed Time cooldown now scales from 60 to 60/50/40
- Death Coil cooldown decreased from 6 to 5 seconds
- Frostmourne enemy debuff duration increased from 2 to 2.5
Luna
- Moon Glaive level 4 bounce count increased 4 to 5
Lycanthrope
- Summon Wolves manacost increased from 125 to 145
- Spirit Wolves HP decreased from 400/450/500/550 to 200/240/280/320
- Spirit Wolves now have 50% magic resistance
- Fixed Shapeshift speed buff remaining after dying with Aegis
Magnus
- Agility growth increased from 1.8 to 2.5
- Empower damage and cleave bonus increased from 15/25/35/45% to 20/30/40/50%
- Skewer slow duration increased from 2 to 2.5 seconds
Murloc Nightcrawler
- Dark Pact cooldown decreased from 10/9/8/7 to 9/8/7/6
- Shadow Dance HP regen increased from 3/4/5% to 3/5/7%
Medusa
- Mana Shield absorption rate increased from 0.75/1.25/1.5/2 to 0.75/1.25/1.75/2.25
- Mystic Snake damage bonus per jump increased from 20% to 25%
- Split Shot damage per arrow increased from 45/55/65/75% to 50/60/70/80%
Meepo
- Geomancer clones stat sharing increased from 25% to 30%
- Geostrike DPS increased from 5/10/15/20 to 7/14/21/28
Mirana
- Elune's Arrow cooldown decreased from 25 to 20
- Starfall's second single unit impact damage increased from 50% to 75% of the original
Morphling
- Cast animation time increased from 0.3 to 0.45
- Morph manacost increased from 20 to 30 mana per second
- Base damage decreased by 6
- Waveform AoE decreased from 255 to 200
- Waveform no longer allows you to start attacking/casting before it is completed
Naga Siren
- Base damage decreased by 12
- Cast animation time increased from 0.5 to 0.65
Naix
- Rage duration increased from 2.5/3.25/4/4.75 to 3/4/5/6
Necrolyte
- Death Pulse heal rescaled from 50/75/100/130 to 70/90/110/130
- Sadist reworked
Sadist:
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Necrolyte gains increased HP and Mana regeneration for each unit he kills.
Mana Regeneration: 2/4/6/10 per second
HP Regeneration: 1/2/3/4 per second
Duration: 6
Gives 10x the bonus for hero kills.
Note: Stacks with itself. Each stack operates independently.
Nerubian Assassin
- Base HP regeneration increased to 2.5
- Mana Burn drain amount increased from 4*Int to 5*Int
- Mana Burn manacost rescaled from 90/110/130/150 to 130/120/110/100
- Vendetta movement speed increased from 10/15/20% to 16/18/20%
- Spiked Carapace reworked
Spiked Carapace
===============
When activated, Spiked Carapace reflects and negates damage dealt to Nerubian Assassin (max once from each source), as well as stunning the source of the damage.
Duration: 2.75
Damage Reflected: 100% of negated damaged
Stun Duration: 0.6/1.2/1.8/2.4
Manacost: 40
Cooldown: 14
Nerubian Weaver
- The Swarm's attack rate improved from 1.5 to 1.35
Obsidian Destroyer
- Astral Imprisonment intelligence steal increased from 2/4/6/8 to 4/6/8/10
Ogre Magi
- Armor increased by 1
- Aghanim's Unrefined Fireblast cooldown decreased from 20 to 10
- Bloodlust can now target catapults
- Bloodlust movement speed bonus increased from 6/9/12/15% to 10/12/14/16%
Omniknight
- Degen Aura AoE increased from 300 to 315
Panda Brewmaster
- Primal Split units are now affected by Black Hole
Pit Lord
- Dark Rift now has a subability that allows the effect to be canceled before it resolves
This does not prevent the cooldown from being used, it only makes it so you no longer have to teleport everyone away
- Dark Rift now makes its teleportation target a low priority target similar to how Boots of Travel works
- Replaced Expulsion with a new ability
Atrophy Aura
==========
Passive
All enemy units, neutrals, ancients and Roshan within 900 AoE have their base attack damage decreased by -18/26/34/42%.
If an enemy unit dies under this aura, you gain 5 bonus damage for creeps, 30 for heroes. Each bonus instance lasts 30/35/40/45 seconds.
Ability Code: AIcd
- Reworked how Firestorm works
Firestorm:
==========
Calls down 6 waves of fire that damage enemy units in an area. Each wave deals initial damage and then burns enemies for 2 seconds.
Number of waves: 6
Damage per wave: 25/40/55/70
DPS: 5/10/15/20 for 2 seconds
Cast Range: 750
AoE: 400
Cooldown: 14
Manacost: 100/110/120/130
Phantom Assassin
- Coup de Grace critical strike multiplier increased from 2.5/3.25/4 to 2.5/3.5/4.5
Phantom Lancer
- Agility growth increased from 2.8 to 4.2
- Spirit Lance slow duration increased from 3 to 3.25 seconds
Phoenix
- Phoenix base damage decreased by 6
- Phoenix base strength decreased by 2
- Phoenix base movement speed decreased from 290 to 285
- Supernova now refreshes Phoenix's other skills (not items) if the sun survives
- Fire Spirits reworked
Fire Spirits
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Summons 4 fire spirits that circle around you. Each spirit can be launched independently at a targeted AoE. Affected enemy units take damage over time and have their attack speed greatly reduced
AoE: 175
Cast Range: 1400
DPS: 20/40/60/80
Duration: 4
Attack Speed Reduction: -150
Fire Spirits Duration: 12.5
Fire Spirits Flight Speed: 900
Cooldown: 45/40/35/30
Mana Cost: 80/90/100/110
HP Cost: 15% of current HP
Note: Spirit impact doesn't stack, just refreshes duration. Does not affect Magic Immune, and can be dispelled.
- Icarus Dive reworked
Icarus Dive
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Icarus enters a Dive state. While in this state, his movement is double and nearby allied units are healed, but all damage you take is amplified. This state ends instantly if Icarus casts Supernova.
Duration: 6
Damage Amplification: 50% (Icarus takes 50% more damage from everything)
Heal: 0.5/1.5/2.5/3.5% Max HP per second
AoE: 600
Cooldown: 26/24/22/20
HP Cost: 10% of Current HP
Note: Does not heal yourself
Note: Applies the heal buff to allies upon cast, does not require you to be in the area. Continuously applies the buff to units around you (that have not already been affected) until the spell ends.
Ability Code: A2M2
- Sunray reworked
Sunray
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Channels a sunray in the targeted direction. Deals dps and slows to all heroes in that path. The damage increases per second. Maximum channel time of 6 seconds.
Starting DPS: 20/30/40/50 + 1/2/3/4% Max HP per second
Ending DPS: 40/60/80/100 + 2/4/6/8% Max HP per second
AoE: 130
Distance: 1600
Slow: 50%
Slow Duration: 0.5 seconds
Cooldown: 20
Manacost: 100
HP Cost: 10% Current HP
Ability Code: A2L0
Puck
- Dream Coil duration increased from 5 to 6 (Aghanim's from 7 to 8)
- Illusory Orb AoE increased from 200 to 225
- Waning Rift damage increased from 60/120/180/240 to 70/140/210/280
- Fixed Phase Shift invulnerability duration ending 0.25 seconds too soon
Pugna
- Movement speed increased from 315 to 320
- Nether Ward mana flare damage increased from 0.75/1/1.25/1.5 to 1/1.25/1.5/1.75
- Life Drain break range increased from 850 to 900
Razor
- Plasma Field Min damage from 80/120/160/200 to 60/100/140/180
- Plasma Field Max damage from 140/210/280/350 to 160/230/300/370
- Static Link no longer breaks if Razor loses vision of the target
- Static Link can no longer ground target
- Static Link can now target magic immune (it could before via ground seeking)
- Unstable Current's purge duration increased from 0.3/0.6/0.9/1.2 to 0.4/0.8/1.2/1.6
Rubick
- Movement speed decreased from 300 to 290
- Fade Bolt bounce AoE decreased from 500 to 440
Shadow Demon
- Soul Catcher manacost increased from 50 to 50/60/70/80
- Shadow Poison AoE increased from 150 to 180
Shadow Fiend
- Necromastry hero kill soul increment increased from 6 to 12
- Presence of the Dark Lord armor reduction improved from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6
- Requiem of Souls has a new passive component that triggers upon death
Upon dying half of Shadow Fiend's souls (the amount lost on death) will be released as if you had cast Requiem of Souls with those souls. This cast doesn't put the spell on cooldown and will trigger if it is on cooldown. It is now a passive component of the ability.
Silencer
- Strength growth increased from 1.7 to 2.2
- Global Silence duration increased from 3/4/5 to 3/4.5/6
- Last Word now always steals 2 intelligence if an enemy hero dies in its AoE
Skeleton King
- Hellfire Blast slow increased from 15% to 20%
Skywrath Mage
- Concussive Shot cooldown decreased from 20/19/18/17 to 20/18/16/14
Slardar
- Amplify Damage armor reduction increased from 8/12/16 to 8/14/20
Sniper
- Headshot damage increased from 30/40/50/60 to 30/45/60/75
- Take Aim range bonus increased from 65/130/195/260 to 75/150/225/300
- Shrapnel AoE increased from 350 to 360
- Shrapnel duration increased from 8 to 9
Spectre
- Desolate damage increased from 20/30/40/50 to 20/35/50/65
Spirit Breaker
- Base strength increased by 6
- Damage increased by 9
- Charge of Darkness no longer gives a buff indicator
- Charge of Darkness speed increased from 425/500/575/650 to 600/650/700/750
- Empowering Haste no longer increases Spirit Breaker's damage
- Empowering Haste movement bonus aura rescaled from 6/8/10/12% to 6/10/14/18%
- Greater Bash now deals damage based on your movement speed (10/20/30/40% of speed)
- Greater Bash duration increased from 0.95/1.15/1.35/1.55 to 1/1.2/1.4/1.6
- Fixed Greater Bash not affecting magic immune units
Storm Spirit
- Static Remnant cooldown decreased from 4 to 3.5
Sven
- Great Cleave AoE increased from 200 to 300
- Great Cleave damage from 30/40/50/60% to 25/40/55/70%
- God's Strength bonus damage increased from 100/140/180% to 100/150/200%
- Warcry AoE increased from 700 to 900
- Warcry armor increased from 3/6/9/12 to 4/8/12/16
Tauren Chieftain
- Ancestral spirit can now be controlled, until it starts to return to you
- Ancestral Spirit's movement speed is now equal to Tauren Chieftain's rather than fixed at 455
- Ancestral Spirit return abilty no longer interrupts your hero
- Ancestral Spirit now has the Echo Stomp and Spirit Return abilities it can cast directly
This causes your hero to then do the echo stomp as well.
Ability Code: A2LK
Techies
- Armor increased by 6
- Land Mine cooldown from 25/20/15/12 to 25/20/15/10
Templar Assassin
- Psi Blades no longer spills damage when attacking illusions
Terrorblade
- Armor increased by 2
- Base hp regen increased to 2
- Sunder is no longer blocked by Magic Immunity
- Metamorphosis reworked
Metamorphosis
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Transforms Terrorblade into a power Demon with a ranged attack.
Bonus Damage: 15/30/45/60
Attack Range: 500
Duration: 40
Cooldown: 150
Manacost: 50
Ability Code: A1RI
- Reflection reworked
Reflection:
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Slows the target unit's movement and attack speed and creates a phantom illusion (untargetable, invulnerable) of that target attacking it for the duration.
Cast range: 250
Manacost: 50
Cooldown: 22/18/14/10
Illusion Damage: 40/50/60/70%
MS/AS Slow: 60%
Duration: 5 seconds
Ability Code: A2KZ
- Zeal replaced with Conjure Image
Conjure Image
===============
Creates an image of Terrorblade under his control. The illusion deals a percentage of his damage and takes amplified damage from all sources.
Illusion damage dealt: 30/40/50/60%
Illusion damage taken: 300%
Duration: 25
Manacost: 80
Cooldown: 16
Ability Code: A0H4
Tidehunter
- Ravage travel speed decreased from 900 to 775
Tiny
- Toss's cast range rescaled from 700/900/1100/1300 to 1300
Treant Protector
- Damage increased by 14
- Base attack time increased from 1.7 to 1.9
- Overgrowth no longer does damage
- Overgrowth duration from 3 to 3/3.75/4.5
- Overgrowth cooldown from 115/105/95 to 80
- Living Armor aura replaced with a new active ability
Living Armor:
==============
Target an allied unit or structure. Grants bonus regeneration and physical damage block. Dispels when more than 6 damage instances are taken.
HP Regeneration: 4/6/8/10
Physical Damage Block: 20/40/60/80 (hero only)
Threshold: 6 damage instances
Duration: 20
Cooldown: 20
Manacost: 30/35/40/45
Cast Range: Global
Ability Code: A2ML
Troll Warlord
- Battle Trance now lasts full duration for allies
Tuskarr
- Snowball now carries all Tuskarr's controlled units as well
- Snowball cooldown decreased from 28 to 24
- Walrus Punch crit increased from 2.5x to 3x for above 50% HP targets
- Backswing animation time decreased (cosmetic)
Undying
- Decay steal duration increased from 21/24/27/30 to 25/30/35/40
- Decay AoE increased from 300 to 325
- Tombstone Death Lust hp requirement also triggers if the target is below 5/10/15/20% hp
Ursa Warrior
- Cast animation time decreased from 0.5 to 0.3
- Overpower now uses Ursa's cast animation time
Vengeful Spirit
- Agility gain increased from 2.35 to 2.8
Venomancer
- Plague Wards vision decreased from 1400 to 1200
Viper
- Corrosive Skin duration increased from 3 to 4
- Viper Strike Aghanim's cast range increased from 800 to 900
- Nethertoxin max damage increased from 32/64/96/128 to 40/80/120/160
Visage
- Base Intelligence increased by 3
- Grave Chill attack speed drain increased from 32 to 64
- Familiar's base attack time decreased from 0.6 to 0.4
- Soul Assumption damage per charge increased from 60 to 65
Warlock
- Shadow Word damage/heal increased from 10/20/30/40 to 15/25/35/45 per second
Witch Doctor
- Death Ward attack cooldown decreased from 0.3 to 0.25
- Maledict bonus damage per 100 lost HP rescaled from 10/20/30/40 to 16/24/32/40
Zeus
- Arc Lightning cooldown decreased from 2 to 1.75
- Thundergod's Wrath cooldown decreased from 120 to 90

* Added a new basic item Shadow Amulet
Shadow Amulet:
===============
Cost:
- 1600
Provides:
+30 Attack Speed
Active, Fade: Upon activation, fades your hero out over 2.75 seconds. If you move, you will lose your invisibility. No cooldown.
Note 1: Used in the new Lothar's Edge recipe.
Note 2: Similar to how Lothar's Edge works, you can use this invisibility in combination with channeling spells.
Abyssal Blade
- Can now be disassembled
Ancient Janggo of Endurance
- Bonus damage decreased from 9 to 3
Arcane Boots
- Replenish Mana cooldown increased from 45 to 55
Armlet of Mordiggian
- Armlet HP regeneration increased from 5 to 8
- Armlet lifedrain increased from 37 to 40
- Armlet toggle cooldown reduced from 5 to 1 second
Black King Bar
- Can no longer be sold
Blademail
- Damage Return duration increased from 4 to 4.5 seconds
Blood Stone
- Charges now increment if you get a kill out of range
Buriza-do Kyanon
- Critical strike multiplier increased from 2.5 to 2.7
Dagon
- Dagon cooldown decreased from 40/36/32/28/24 to 35/30/25/20/15
Stygian Desolator
- Desolator duration increased from 7 to 15 seconds
Ethereal Blade
- Ether Blast can now be cast on allied units
- Ether Blast now does damage based on the primary attribute of the holder instead of always agility
- Ether Blast manacost increased from 50 to 150
Eul's Scepter of Divinity
- Recipe cost decreased from 600 to 500
Force Staff
- Recipe cost increased to 500
- Force no longer pushes through Kinetic Field
- When Power Cogs is triggered by Force Staff, Power Cogs knockback takes priority
Gem of True Sight
- Restock cooldown increased from 8 to 10 minutes
Heaven's Halberd
- Disarm duration on ranged heroes increased from 4 to 4.5 seconds
Helm of the Dominator
- Dominate cooldown decreased from 300 to 60
- Dominate no longer has a duration (was 20 minutes)
- Dominating a creep when you already control one will replace your current one
Lothar's Edge
- Lothar's Edge duration from 9 to 12 seconds
- Recipe Reworked
Lothar's Edge:
===============
Requires:
- Claymore (1400)
- Shadow Amulet (1600)
Provides:
+30 Damage
+30 Attack Speed
Active, Wind Walk: Besides the duration increase remains unchanged.
Manta Style
- Recipe cost increased from 650 to 900
Yasha is 100 gold cheaper
Mask of Madness
- Berserk's movement bonus increased from 25 to 30%
Null Talisman
- Recipe cost decreased from 170 to 155
Observer Wards
- Observer Wards gold cost decreased from 200 to 150
Orb of Venom
- Cost decreased from 350 to 275
Orchid
- Soul Burn's damage amplification increased from 25 to 30%
Power Treads
- Attack speed bonus increased from 25 to 30
Radiance
- Burn damage increased from 40 to 45
Rod of Atos
- HP bonus increased from 250 to 325
- Cooldown decreased from 20 to 16
Sange
- Recipe cost decreased from 700 to 600
Smoke of Deceit
- Now dispelled when Primal Split units are nearby
Soul Ring
- Cooldown increased from 25 to 30
Tranquil Boots
- Break requirement decreased from 4 to 3
Veil of Discord
- Armor bonus increased from 5 to 6
- HP regeneration increased from 5 to 6
- Discord AoE increased from 500 to 550
- Discord cast range increased from 875 to 1000
Yasha
- Recipe cost decreased from 700 to 600

Preview On DotA 6.75 Loadscreen and Change Logs

2012-09-28T23:43:00.000-07:00

IceFrog is on work for another version of the Map. The DotA 6.75 will be available with a new Loading Screen. It is made by Suke which shows an epic battle between Scourge (Dire) and Sentinel (Radiant). Another new character is coming, maybe its Suke.

DotA 6.75 Beta 17 Changelogs:

These patch notes are from Beta 17 but the current beta has reached version 34.

Experimental adjustment to roshan area (will probably need a lot of tweaking, if we even do it)
Eye of Skadi now gives +25 bonus damage
Blood Bath enemy hero aoe death detection increased from 225 to 325
* Chilling Touch no longer reduces attack speed, duration reduced from 40 to 30 seconds
* Double Edge does its damage in a 175 aoe around the target
* Added a 1 second cooldown to placing Observer and Stentry wards (to help prevent accidental usage)
* Radiance burn damage increased from 40 to 45
* Tuskarr base damage increased by 5
* Unstable Current duration increased from 0.3/0.6/0.9/1.2 to 0.4/0.8/1.2/1.6
* Moon Glaive bounce count increased from 1/2/3/4 to 2/3/4/5
* Nerubian Assassin's Impale damage increased from 80/140/200/260 to 80/160/240/320
* Nerubian Assassin's Impale travel time decreased from 1600 to 700
* Nerubian Assassin's Mana Burn manacost reduced from 90/110/130/150 to 100
* Spiked Carapace manacost from 50 to 40
* Death Coil cooldown from 6 to 5 seconds
* Boots of Speed are now a sharable item
* Primal Split units are no longer invulnerable to Black Hole
* Shrapnel now provides vision in the area it is cast
* Shackleshot no longer has any effect if it fails to shackle the target
* Helm of the Dominator cooldown reduced from 300 to 60, no longer has a limited (20 min) duraiton and is just replaced whenever a new one is converted
* Can no longer Force Staff through Kinetic Field
* Rupture cooldown from 70/60/50 to 50/45/40
Kunkka's base armor increased by 1

- Impale speed from 800 to 950
* Fixed Phase Shift invulnerability duration ending 0.25 seconds too soon
* Reworked Sunray
* Replaced Icarus Dive with Overheat

Sunray: [A2L0]
========
Channels a sunray in the targeted direction. Deals dps and slows to all heroes in that path. The damage increases per second. Maximum channel time of 6 seconds.

Starting DPS: 40 + 1/2/3/4% Max HP per second
Ending DPS: 100 + 3/6/9/12% Max HP per second

AOE: 150
Distance: 1600

Slow: 30%
Slow Duration: 0.5 seconds

Cooldown: 20
Manacost: 100
HP Cost: 10% Current HP

- Fixed Sunray not doing the right amount of damage
- Reduced Sunray variable damage from 1/2/3/4->3/6/9/12 to 1/2/3/4->2/4/6/8
- Reduced Sunray constant damage from 40->100 to 20/30/40/50->40/60/80/100
- Fixed Sunray slow duration
- Increased Overheat cooldown from 13 to 22/19/16/13
* Leech Seed no longer stops healing when the target dies
- Undid all Impale changes on Nerubian Assassin

Overheat: [A2L1]
=========
Targets a small area, causing all enemy units to overheat taking damage over time and losing their ability to attack.

AOE: 190
DPS: 20/40/60/80
Duration: 5
Cast Range: 750

Manacost: 75
Cooldown: 13

- Fixed some more stuff with Sunray damage
- Fixed Leech Seed losing a tick of duration when target dies
* Jakiro's facing direction now matches his turn rate a little more (this is purely a visual thing)
- Added burn visual effect for Overheat dps
* Quill Spray damage cap increased from 220 to 300
* Rod of Atos bonus HP from 250 to 300
* Sunder is no longer blocked by Magic Immunity
* Armlet HP regeneration increased from 5 to 8
* Armlet lifedrain increased from 37 to 40
* Bloodstone charges now increment if you get a kill out of range
* Dark Pact cooldown from 10/9/8/7 to 9/8/7/6
* Shadow Dance HP regen increased from 3/4/5 to 3/5/7
* Level 3 Marksmanship agility increased from 45 to 60
* Split Shot damage from 45/55/65/76 to 50/60/70/80
* Desolate search aoe improved from 325 to 300
* Silencer strength growth from 1.7 to 2.0
* Lycan base armor reduced by 1
* Treants magic resistance decreased from 33% to 25%
* Thundergod's Wrath cooldown decreased from 120 to 100
* Death Ward attack cooldown improved from 0.3 to 0.25
* Warcry aoe increased from 700 to 900
* Clockwerk Goblin strength gain increased from 2.4 to 2.7
* Enfeeble cooldown reduced from 12 to 8
* Spirit Lance slow duration increased from 3 to 3.25 seconds
* Increased Roshan turn rate to fix some abuses
* Dark Seer movement speed reduced from 305 to 300

* You can now target yourself with Unstable Concoction
* Removed Charge of Darkness debuff icon indicator
- Fixed Roshan attack detection area being too small
- Increased Sunray Slow
- Meta manacost from 70/85/100/115 to 70/80/90/100
- Meta illusions dmg 20/30/40/50 -> 30/40/50/60, dmg taken from 400% to 250%
- Overheat duration from 5 to 4 seconds, damage rescaled to be the same

* Last Word intelligence steal from 1/2 (allies/self) kills to 2 always
* Poison Nova now affects buildings [Need feedback :wacko:]
- Fixed Zeus ult on scoreboard
- Fixed some tooltips
* Spiked Carapace now lasts for 2.5 seconds (down from 4.5) seconds, but reflects and stuns all sources of damage over that period instead of just the first one
- Overhead damage reduced from 25/50/75/100 per second to 20/40/60/80
- Overheat manacost from 75 to 80/90/100/110
* Fixed Overwhelming Odds giving 6% instead of 9% per hero
- Fixed bloodstone global kills change not working

- Fixed Double edge aoe damage hitting allies instead of enemies sometimes
* Recipe items no longer sell for 80% of its price (now 50% like regular items)
- Shackleshot from 0.25 to 0.1 duration
- Fixed Dominator cd tooltip/droppability
* Vacuum cooldown increased from 16 to 17
- Overheat cast range reduced from 750 to 600
* Lycan strength gain from 2.75 to 2.4
- Undid Lycan 1 armor reduction
* Lycan's Shapeshift form no longer gives 2 bonus armor
* Acid Spray manacost from 160 to 115/130/145/160
* Unstable Concoction max damage from 130/200/270/340 to 150/220/290/360
* Static Field aoe increased from 1000 to 1200
* Reaper's Scythe aghanims now deals pure damage
* Inner Vitality can now be cast on magic immune targets
* Doom's base armor increased by 1
* Phantom Lancer agility gain from 2.8 to 3.4
* Anti-mage movement speed reduced from 320 to 315
* Fiery Soul attack speed bonus increased from 40/50/60/70 to 40/55/70/85
* The Swarm's attack rate improved from 1.5 to 1.35
* Degen Aura increased from 300 to 315
* Enfeeble damage reduction from 25/50/75/100 to 30/60/90/120
* Presence of the Dark Lord armor reduction increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6

- Fixed Inner Vitality bkb casting
- Fixed some tooltips
- Undid self targeting with Unstable Concoction
* Lothar's Edge duration from 9 to 12 seconds
* Batrider strength gain increased from 2.0 to 2.4
* Power Cogs damage/drain from 60/90/120/150 to 80/120/160/200

- Fixed some tooltips
* Gyrocopter base movement speed from 305 to 315
* Homing Missle now gives you vision of the target it is seeking
* Goblin's Greed bonus scaling adjusted from 2/4/6/8 + 2 to 4/6/8/10 + 1/2/3/4
* Enfeeble can no longer be dispelled
* Great Cleave aoe increased from 200 to 215
* Force Staff cooldown increased from 20 to 24
* Dagon cooldown progression from 40/36/32/28/24 to 35/30/25/20/15
* Snowball now carries all your summoned units as well

* Mana Leak cd from 18 to 16
* Concussive Shot cooldown from 20/19/18/17 to 20/18/16/14
* Concussive Shot aoe from 200 to 225
* Veil of Discord aoe from 500 to 550
* Silencer strength growth from 1.7 to 2.2
* Power Cogs duration from 3/4/5/6 to 3/4.5/6/7.5
* Take Aim from 65/130/195/260 to 70/140/210/280
- Fixed satanic tooltip (It does 200% not 175%)
* Flak Cannon aoe increased from 800 to 900
- Great cleave increased to 230
* Ogre Magi's Aghanim Unrefined Fireblast cooldown from 20 to 10
* Force Staff cooldown increased to 26
* Life Break Aghanim's cooldown from 24/16/8 to 4
* Finger of Death Aghanim now bounces once to a nearby enemy unit up to 200 units away (tooltip not updated yet)
* Vendetta movement speed from 10/15/20% to 16/18/20%
* Mana Burn rate from 4x Int to 5x Int
* Replaced Expulsion with Summon Shade (needs new name!)
* Reworked Firestorm (not channeling, doesn't hurt buildings, rebalanced numbers, heals allied units)

Firestorm:
==========
Calls down 4 waves of fire that damage enemy units and heal allied units in an area.

Damage per wave: 40/60/80/100
Heal per wave: 20/30/40/50

AOE: 450
Casting Range: 775
Cooldown: 16
Manacost: 130
Summon Shade:
==============
Summons an Shade. Can have up to 1/2/3/4 out at a given time. They move fast and are invisible when idle. Can target an enemy to infest them, causing the shade to become consumed, dealing dps and silencing the enemy target for a duration.

DPS: 30/40/50/60
Duration: 4

Fade Time: 1 second
HP: 50 (Magic Immune)
Movement Speed: 522
Cooldown: 25/20/15/10
Manacost: 40

Frost Wyrm
==========

Scourge
Range
Intelligence

Movespeed: 290
Starting Armor: 3

Attack Damage: 38-46
Attack Range: 600

Intelligence: 25 + 2.4
Strength: 24 + 2.1
Agility: 16 + 1.9
Ability 1: [Trap] A2L9 - R
-----------
Your attacks passively place a marker on enemies (lasts 20 seconds). Upon activation, all enemies with the marker are frozen and the marker is removed. You gain bonus damage for each unit that got frozen. Casting the spell removes the marker from all units, dead units do not count towards the marker bonus.

Hero Marker Bonus: +30 damage
Non-Hero Marker Bonus: +10 damage
Bonus Damage Duration: 8 seconds

Freeze duration: 1/1.5/2/2.5

Cooldown: 20
Manacost: 130
//------

- Fixed Shades not spawning invis
- Shades HP increased to 250
- Shades infest cast range increased to 600
- Fixed the Finger of Death aghanims bounce from having 15% damage reduction
- Fixed Firestorm not hurting heroes

* Max level heroes no longer drain XP
* Enemeis can no longer see the countdown numbers for Chemical Rage
- Summon Shade does not require a corpse anymore
- Summon Shade count from 1/2/3/4 to 2/3/4/5
- Summon Shade cooldown from 30/25/20/15 to 25/20/15/10

- Fixed the DPS from the shades sometimes causing a suicide death
- Fixed the infset from the shades causing -50% dmg ont he target
- Fixed some levelup issues with the shades once we made it not require corpses (the dps wasn't getting upgraded after that)

- Shades HP reduced from 250 to 100
- Shades infest cast range decreased from 600 to 300
- Spiked Carapace cd increased from 10 to 14
- Spiked Carapace won't retrigger on the same target twice
- Finger of Death Aghanim's aoe from 200 to 225
* Magnus agility growth increased from 1.8 to 2.5
* Magnus base armor increased by 1
- Overheat secondary effect changed from disarm to -150 attack speed
- Overheat aoe increased from 190 to 225
- Soul Keeper Metamorph illusions attack range from 550 to 650
- Soul Keeper base armor increased by 2
- Fixed the DPS from the shades sometimes causing a suicide death
- Fixed the infset from the shades causing -50% dmg ont he target
- Fixed some levelup issues with the shades once we made it not require corpses (the dps wasn't getting upgraded after that)

DotA v6.74c AI 1.3b (HOPE) Map Download

2012-09-28T23:29:00.001-07:00

DotA v6.74c AI 1.3b(HOPE)

Greetings! This is a bugfix release. Changes are in the list. Hopefully no major or old bugs will appear so other work can be done except of ONLY bug fixing (which is not so cool )... things like general and individual AI modifications.

Enjoy DotA v6.74c AI, codenamed HOPE! We HOPE that it works

DOWNLOAD LINKS

DotA v6.74c AI 1.3b - English

Translations will be made when map is confirmed stable!

KNOWN BUGS: Look for AI stuck @fountain or towers. Also look for duped items in the item builds. If you see a duped item, you have to write "-dbg playerid" to activate the command and save the replay or screenshot for the bugs thread. For example: player 2 gets 2 force staffs, if you see it when it happens just write -dbg 2 in the console and post the screenshot (or the replay when the game finishes)
TRANSLATORS: extract and include itemdata.slk from this map. Add the last 2 items from itemfunc.txt and itemstrings.txt in your translated files. Also extract and add abilitydata.slk into your translation. Or wait for my translations!

CMAP CHANGES

All content from 6.73+ added
All content from 6.74+ added

I 1.3b CHANGES

Attempt-fix: Nevermore`s Requiem of Souls no damage
Fixed: Magi keep Unrefined Fireblast after dropping Aghanim`s
Fixed: Techies don't Detonate after having Scepter
Fixed: Techies walking through creeps' barrage to put mine
Fixed: BoT used to nearby units
Attempt-fix: AI spells against corpses
Fixed: Extra vision over secret shops fixed
New debug command: -dbg [Player ID]. Use to filter all messages by player ID. This will also immediately clear all screen messages and display all past record from corresponding player (visible via Single Player or Replay in Log). Max 50 records.
Fixed: AI Item duplication in -pm
Fixed: AI buying more than 1 detector item.
Fixed: AI teleporting to nearby units.
Fixed: AI building more than 6 luxuries
Fixed: AI leaving BoT in base
Fixed: Visage's Aghanim not recognized as priority 100 (in further development, all new Aghanim will be recognized automatically)
Fixed: AI dropping items which can change state (e.g. Heart, Dagger, Tranquil Boots, Linken, BKB, Bottle, Thread, Basilus, etc.)
Fixed: Pipe being used randomly
Fixed: Meepo clones using BoT
Tweaked: Item builds by Green
Added: dodge mech against Sprout
Fixed: Venge's Nether Swap targetting creeps
Fixed: Fixed Scourge AI going to forbidden lanes specified by -nm -nt -nb
Fixed: AI ganking enemies in forbidden lanes.
Fixed: non-working Linken Sphere.
Fixed: final scoreboard icons on player who doesn't select hero.
Fixed: AI not using Dragon Tail. New skillbuild for DK.
Fixed: teleporation-style battle assist to nearby allies.
Added: anti-item-dupe mech
Attempt: to prevent invisible heroes from breaking invisibility when retreating.
Added: Refraction to dodge incoming spells.
Fixed: item system: item charges not replenished properly, anti-dupe potential problem with Bear.
Replaced: Destroyer's Jango with Force Staff.
Minor bugfixes on item system.
Minor tweak on ganking behaviour.
Minor tweak on Storm's ulti mechanism.
Pulled AI fountain waypoint backward (nearer to fountain).
Fixed: Gem/Ward/Dust bug.
Fixed: dupe bugs for Player 1 and Player 6 in -cm
Tweak: leftmost and rightmost AI movement before leaving base in -cm.
Fixed: disabled -swap after first item bought. Before, -swap was disabled when first creep wave spawned and human player could swap with AI already bought items. Also a minor fix to the official code... the setting time function: time is set now according to first_creep_wave_spawned boolean, and not the swap_timer_expired boolean.(last minute fix)

All new Item system. The new items system tries to mimic human behavior. Builds are being built by stages: starting, core, luxury stage. After core, AI picks up random luxury items... more variations.
All item builds were revised and changed to the new item system format
"Sven's Warcry cast time removed" (ability code change: A1A5 -> A2IS, order ID change)
"Tiny now automatically and permanently equips a tree when he has Aghanim's Scepter" (scrapped Tiny's War Club logic)
"Added Aghanim Scepter for Visage (creates 1 extra familiar)" (adjusted code to accomodate the extra familiar)
Added AI support for all new 4 heroes
- Dragonus, Skywrath Mage
- Rizzrak, Goblin Shredder
- Xin, Ember Spirit
- Tresdin, Legion Commander
Little tweak on Undying AI (either no changes or improvement on Tomb)
Removed DoomBringer's Devour Text
Added skillbuilds for all new 4 heroes
Added animation on selling items.
Added all of Terrorblade's ranged forms in various functions.
Removed all TP when AI got BoT
Removed "TP from Air system" (Ai wont get TP scrolls from nowhere now)
Fixed: Io's Spirits slow.
Completely removed Old Item System.
Fixed bug of -ar AI not buying items.
Drop-muted system complete (humans cannot give AI items. Now with better feature: humans can lend AI shareable items and give consumables. However AI will still return these items in base, not in lane).
Item-pickup system reworked
Added price for Cheese
Item selling animation will now correctly displayed overhead
Fixed ALL itemdrop issues (supposedly, and hopefully )
Fixed flickering observer board bug.
Unused player slots now have normal names (Player 1, Player 2, etc) instead of AI player names (1N Computer, 2N Computer, etc).
Shortening several AI action strings on observer boards.
Added script usage for Tranquil Boots, Abyssal Blade, Heaven's Halberd, and Rod of Atos.
Modified many item usage, added better use on spell dodging, and added more usage of new items (credit: Green)
AI can now buy charges for Janggo.
AI now buy Heaven's Halberd as S&Y substitute against teams of DPS.
Updated AI Planewalker's Cloak conditions.
Fixed Bear getting more than 1 Basilius.
UNDER DEVELOPMENT: gank system is being improved. May not show immediate results.
Fixed AI keep changing Basilius & Aquilla mode in battle (abilitydata.slk).
Fixed Skywrath's Mage spamming Arcane Bolt to creeps.
Fixed Disruptor spamming Kinetic Field against heroes.
Minor improvement to tower defense system (now showing in AI Action board).
Minor improvement to unit battle-assist system.
Fixed several bugs in ganking system, minor improvement in both gank and auto-gank system, and allows single-lane gank.
AI report missing messages is now showing delay between messages.
Fixed potential TP cancel when near fountain.
Another attempt to fix Bear's item system. Bear`s item system is complex and may show further bugsand errors.
Fixed minor bugs in gank system.
Changed AI missing hero messages to simpler ones.
Fixed Kaldr AI not finishing casting Ice Blast properly.
Item system: enabled side-shopping, allowed killer-class heroes to buy Dust instead of Ward, enabled -alldagon (not tested).
Improved AI: Broodmother.
Improved missing-unit messages by putting lane and allowing sighted heroes to be detected immediately upon sight.
Fixed laning bugs where AI backing off via forest (sentinel: left lane; scourge: right lane)
Fixed AI not picking powerups properly.
Fixed potential bug where AI stays in base.
Minor tweak to battle-assist system.
Disabled Salve, Tango, and Tranquil Boots from being used against heroes with Ice Blast buff.
Fixed Bear's visible Item Holder.
Fixed sideshopping not combining items.
Force-fixed stuck bug.
Updated AI for the following: all abilities data (cooldown etc), Rip Tide, Flame Break, Spiked Carapace, Unrefined Fireblast.
Replaced anti-stuck mech with another.
Fixed stuck bug and "undecisiveness" bug (turns out to be Tethering bug).
Fixed bug in sideshopping.
Modified itemset for Rexxar, Ogre Magi, and Lone Druid.
Improved usage of Rip Tide and Spiked Carapace; Fixed AI not using Unrefined Fireblast.
Modified gank condition, now shouldn't gank 1v1 anymore.
Fixed lane name problem in missing/sighted messages.
Fixed stuck bug completely (changed mechanism, removed problematic function)
New skillbuild for Nerubian Assassin. New itembuild for Ursa, Ogre Magi, and Lanaya.
Sideshopping is disabled for Syllabear once the bear begin building items.
Modified Roshan aegis picking, fixed bug for scourge players. With this, all old item systems are completely removed!
Attempt to fix "spell targets the dead" bug.
Fixed stuck bug. (very important!!)
Changed XP bonus rate in DE (+5%).
Fixed final scoreboard bug cutoffs.
Improved AI: Broodmother (fixed Spider-massing bug, new skillbuild)
Improved AI: Kaldr, Ancient Appariton (fixed various bugs with Ice Blast and added 'semi-homing' system)
Improved AI: Rod of Atos (now is used on slowed targets).
Fixed Channel-based abilities not used properly.
Fixed final scoreboard completely.
Modified existing antistuck mech.
Added foolproof checks for Devour, so Doom wont try to Devour Centaur Khan while he can`t.
Fixed -cm & -cmxm fatal bugs on scoreboards and AI behavior. (a last minute change)

DotA 6.74c Map Download

2012-09-28T23:23:00.004-07:00

DotA 6.74c Map Download & Changelogs. IceFrog has released another map DotA 6.74c is officially a stable map for tournaments and league matches. Get the latest map now!

Get the Latest Map At Get Dota Official Site.

* Fixed Flamebreak not functioning properly with creeps

* Fixed a rare bug that could cause Panda Brewmaster to not respawn after death
* Fixed Ogre Magi keeping the Aghanims bonus after selling it
* Fixed Aghanim's secondary Fireblast from being unable to target flying units
* Fixed Flamebreak not interrupting channeling
* Fixed Flamebreak affecting Magic Immune units
* Fixed Fog of War in -sp mode
* Fixed a rare chance for EMP to cause a suicide

Alchemist
- Armor increased by 1
- Unstable Concoction max damage increased from 120/180/240/300 to 130/200/270/340

Batrider
- Flame Break is now a targeted AoE spell

It no longer explodes on the first unit in a path. It travels towards the targeted destination and does its effect there. Projectile speed 900 (instead of 750)

Bone Fletcher
- Death Pact damage bonus increased from 4/6/8% to 5/6.5/8%
- Death Pact hp bonus increased from 50/60/70% to 50/65/80%

Bristleback
- Quill Spray damage cap increased from 180 to 220

Centaur Warchief
- Great Fortitude strength bonus increased from 12/24/36 to 15/30/45
- Return base damage increased from 16 to 16/18/20/22

Clockwerk
- Power Cogs HP/Mana drain increased from 55/70/85/100 to 60/90/120/150

Crystal Maiden
- Freezing Field AoE increased by 100 (Explosion AoE adjusted to keep damage probabilities equivalate)

Dark Seer
- Wall of Replica illusions take 300% damage (up from 250%)
- Wall of Replica Aghanim bonus no longer creates allied illusions
- Wall of Replica Aghanim bonus now increases illusion damage from 70/80/90 to 100/120/140% instead

Doom Bringer
- Level Death bonus damage increased from 250 to 275

Dragonus
- Base Intelligence increased by 3
- Arcane Bolt bonus intelligence damage increased from 1.5x to 1.6x
- Arcane Bolt manacost decreased from 90 to 70
- Concussive Shot cooldown now scales from 20 to 20/19/18/17

Drow Ranger
- Silence AoE increased from 275 to 300

Ember Spirit
- Armor reduced by 1
- Base Strength decreased from 21 to 19
- Flame Guard health barrier reduced from 100/250/400/550 to 50/200/350/500
- Fire Remnant damage decreased from 140/180/220 to 120/160/200
- Searing Chains targets decreased from 3 to 2 random units

Enigma
- Black hole now prevents heroes being Forced out with Force Staff

Furion
- Wrath of Nature manacost increased from 150/175/200 to 150/200/250
- Teleportation manacost no longer decreases per level (constant 50)

Goblin Shredder
- Timber Chain damage increased from 80/120/160/200 to 100/140/180/220

Gyrocopter
- Homing Missile maximum damage (at 2k range) increased from 100/200/300/400 to 110/220/330/440
- Rocket Barrage damage increased from 10/13/16/19 to 11/14/17/20

Invoker
- Chaos Meteor damage increased from 80+Exort*30 to 80+Exort*35
- Chaos Meteor land time decreased from 1.5 to 1.3
- EMP can no longer hit Invulnerable/Tornadoed units
- EMP cooldown increased from 25 to 30 seconds
- Sun Strike damage type changed from Magical to Pure
- Sun Strike now reveals the area it will hit before the damage impact
- Tornado cooldown increased from 25 to 30 seconds
- Tornado Damage decreased from 77.5+(Wex+Quas)*23 to 70+(Wex+Quas)*20

Juggernaut
- Omnislash now gives Juggernaut 200 flying vision during its duration

Keeper of the Light
- Mana Leak stun duration increased from 1.25/1.5/1.75/2 to 1.3/1.6/1.9/2.2

Kunkka
- Torrent AOE increased from 200 to 215
- X Marks The Spot cooldown decreased from 20 to 16 seconds
- Ghost Ship stun duration increased from 1.2 to 1.4

Lanaya
- Psi Blades bonus range increased from 40/100/160/220 to 60/120/180/240

Legion Commander
- Moment of Courage cooldown increased from 0.9 to 1.2

Lina Inverse
- Fiery Soul attack speed bonus increased from 30/40/50/60 to 40/50/60/70
- Fiery Soul movement speed bonus increased from 3/4/5/6 to 4/5/6/7%

Lion
- Voodoo cooldown increased from 13 to 15
- Voodoo manacost increased from 110/140/170/200 to 125/150/175/200
- Voodoo duration increased from 1.25/2/2.75/3.5 to 1.75/2.5/3.25/4

Luna
- Moon Glaive damage decrease per bounce decreased from 35% to 30%

Magnataur
- Skewer will now cast in the direction you targeted if you cast it beyond the max range

Medusa
- Split Shot now shoots 5 arrows instead of 4

Morphling
- Morph passively grants 3/4/5/6 agility and strength
- Wave Form now properly dodges projectiles

Naga Siren
- Changed Rip Tide cast mechanism

Rip Tide now casts in a 450 aoe around naga and all of her illusions. Enemies can be fully affected by the Illusion's aoe. The effect does not stack. No longer uses cast point.

Ability Code: A2KU

Nerubian Assassin
- Urna Swarm replaced with a new spell

Urna Swarm will be reused for a future hero.

Spiked Carapace:
=================
Temporarily enhances the Assassin's chitinous armor with organic barbs, causing him to prevent and reflect the next player based damage instance and stuns the target. Lasts 4.5 seconds.

Duration: 4.5 seconds
Damage return: 100% (after resistance on your hero)
Stun: 0.6/1.2/1.8/2.4
Cooldown: 10
Manacost: 50

Note: Only triggers on player based damage, both physical and magical. Does not prevent status debuffs. Spikes visually grow out of the hero when he is in this state.

Ability Code: A2KO

Necrolyte
- Heartstopper damage increased from 0.5/0.7/0.9/1.1 to 0.6/0.8/1/1.2
- Sadist level 4 mana regen increased from 48 to 60

Ogre Magi
- Added Aghanim's Scepter

Gives his other head the ability to cast a more primitive version of Fireblast. It has a constant (not modified by ultimate/level) 275 damage, 1.5 second stun, 20 cooldown, 400 manacost. It can trigger multicast. This is an independent 5th skill added to his ability card.

Ability Code: A2KQ

Phantom Assassin
- Phantom Strike cast range increased from 700/800/900/1000 to 1000
- Phantom Strike cooldown rescaled from 20/15/10/5 to 14/11/8/5

Priestess of the Moon
- Moonlight Shadow cooldown decreased from 180/160/140 to 160/140/120

Puck
- Ethereal Jaunt now dodges projectiles
- Phase Shift autocast removed
- Phase Shift manacost removed
- Phase Shift level 4 duration increased from 3 to 3.25 seconds
- Aghanim Upgraded Dream Coil no longer increases the manacost from the base spell

Pugna
- Decrepify cast range increased from 550/600/650/700 to 700
- Life Drain damage increased from 100/150/200 to 120/160/200 (with Aghanim's from 175/225/275 to 180/240/300)

Queen of Pain
- Shadow Strike initial damage increased from 50/70/70/100 to 50/75/100/125

Razor
- Unstable Current damage increased from 40/60/80/100 to 40/70/100/130

Shadow Fiend
- Necromastery now gives 6 souls for killing a hero (instead of 1)
- Necromastery soul count increased from 8/16/24/32 to 12/20/28/36

Sniper
- Headshot damage increased from 30/30/40/50 to 30/40/50/60

Storm Spirit
- Ball Lightning now properly dodges projectiles

Techies
- Attack range increased from 650 to 700

Tinker
- March of the Machines duration increased from 5 to 6 seconds

Troll Warlord
- Battle Trance attack speed bonus increased from 60/100/140 to 60/120/180

Viper
- Poison Attack damage increased from 6/12/18/24 to 10/16/22/28
- Fixed Poison Attack damage not being lethal

Visage
- Familiar's armor increased from 0 to 0/1/2
- Gravekeeper's Cloak recovery time decreased from 14/12/10/8 to 12/10/8/6

Warlock
- Infernal's Permanent Immolation damage increased from 20/30/40 to 30/40/50 per second
- Shadow Word duration increased from 8 to 9 seconds

Animal Courier
- Courier cost decreased from 170 to 150

Bloodstone
- HP regen increased by 1 to equal the sum of its parts

Ethereal Blade
- Ether Blast slow increased from 60% to 80%

Eye of Skadi
- Cold Attack slow duration increased from 2/4 (range/melee) to 3/5

Flying Courier
- Flying Courier cost increased from 200 to 220

Mjollnir
- Mjollnir's Static Shock can now be cast on non-hero units as well (like Infernals)

Tranquil Boots
- Can now be disassembled
- Damage instances before breaking increased from 3 to 4
- Rejuvenate heal increased from 150 to 170

Sange & Yasha
- Sange and Yasha can now be disassembled

Veil of Discord
- Discord duration increased from 15 to 20 seconds

- Added Wisp, Disruptor and Rubick to CM
- Courier death team bounty can only trigger while no couriers are dead
- Courier death team bounty from 150 to 175
- Added a new ability on the courier to go to the secret shop
- Removed Unexplored Fog of War
- Cheese no longer requires 5 mana to use
- Range creeps mana pool increased from 300 to 500
- Harpy's Chain Lightning cooldown from 6 to 4 seconds
- Satyr Trickster purge manacost decreased from 150 to 120
- Satyr Hellcaller HP regen aura increased from 3 to 4

Dota Heroes Strategy Guide Compilation Page

2012-09-28T20:24:00.002-07:00

Dota Heroes Strategy Guide Compilation Page

Website Update is coming.

2012-09-27T09:47:00.003-07:00

Hello friends. DOTA 2 is out and i would like to update the site and would also like to update hero strategy. Thanks for your suppport.

Dota 6.61 b Release

2009-07-11T04:46:00.000-07:00

Okies folks im a bit late but heres the new link to Dota 6.61b enjoy!

6.61b Changelog:
=================
* Fixed some exploits and bugs

6.61 Changelog:
===============

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## Heroes & Items ##
###############

* Batrider: Lowered Strength gain from 2.5 to 2.0
* Bloodskeer: Bloodbath no longer regenerates from images
* Bone Fletcher: Improved Searing Arrows damage from 10/20/30/40 to 20/30/40/50
* Bone Fletcher: Rebalanced Strafe from 20/40/60/80 IAS with 30 seconds cooldown to 50/60/70/80 IAS with 60/50/40/30 seconds cooldown
* Centaur: Reduced Double Edge cooldown (25->12 seconds)
* Faceless Void: Improved base Strength (17->23)
* Furion: Lowered Sprout cooldown from 11 seconds to 11/10/9/8 seconds and manacost from 115/140/165/205 to 100/120/140/160
* Magnataur: Reverse Polarity now pulls units slightly infront of you instead of all around you
* Medusa: Lowered Stone Gaze cooldown (70->35 seconds)
* Medusa: Minor improvements to Mystic Snake speed , cast range and cooldown
* Medusa: Improved Mystic Snake's damage from 60/100/140/180 to 80/120/160/200
* Meepo: Rescaled Geostrike from 4/8/12/16 to 5/10/15/20 damage per second
* Nerubian Weaver: Reworked Watchers [details below]
* Nerubian Weaver: Lowered Shukuchi cooldown from 13/11/9/7 to 12/10/8/6 seconds
* Night Stalker: Improved Intelligence growth from 1.25 to 1.6
* Ogre Magi: Reduced Multicast from 30%2x/45%2x+22.5%3x/60%2x+30%3x+15%4x ->25%2x/40%2x+20%3x/50%2x+25%3x+12.5%4x
* Pandaren Brewmaster: Increased Drunken Brawler critical from 1.8x to 2.0x
* Razor: Lowered Intelligence gain from 2.2 to 1.8
* Rooftrellen: Casting Nature's Guise on an allied unit (or other spells) will no longer take you out if you have it on you
* Silencer: Transferred Glaive of Wisdom's secondary effect of +1/-1 Intelligence from hero kills to Last Word. If an enemy hero dies under the Last Word effect, that hero will lose 1 intelligence and you will gain 1 intelligence.
* Silencer: Increased Last Word AoE from 700 to 900
* Rebalanced Curse of the Silent from 10/20/30/40 HP and 5/10/15/20 mana per second for 10 seconds to 50 HP and 25 mana for 2/4/6/8 seconds.
* Sniper: Increased Take Aim range from 55/110/165/220 to 65/130/195/260
* Spectre: Decreased Spectral Dagger cooldown from 25 to 16 seconds
* Tauren Chieftain: Lowered base damage by 10
* Tauren Chieftain: Lowered Strength gain from 2.7 to 2.3
* Tauren Chieftain: Decreased Natural Order percentages to 20/40/60/80%
* Vengeful Spirit: Improved base Agility (22->27)
* Viper: Nethertoxin now only works on enemy units
* Witch Doctor: Increased base Intelligence from 19 to 24 (base damage adjust to remain the same though)
* Aghanim's Scepter (Queen of Pain): Restored original cooldown improvement
* Aghanim's Scepter (Shadow Shaman): Undid part of the nerf on Mass Serpent Wards. It now gives +3 (up 1 from 6.60, down 1 from 6.59d)
* Buriza-Do Kyanon: Improved the critical value from 2.2x to 2.4x
* Helm of Dominator: Converted creeps now gain the Resistant Skin ability, making spells duration on them the same as heroes or Spirit Bear.
* Quelling Blade: Minor reduction to bonus damage (36->32)

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## Bugs ##
########

* Fixed natural regeneration on rax
* Fixed an area where you could get stuck using TP scroll on the minimap.
* Fixed -ns mode
* Fixed a chance for duplicate heroes in -CD

* Batrider: Fixed Radiance from triggering Sticky Napalm
* Medusa: Fixed Splitshot triggering Essense Aura
* Razor: Fixed an error in the damage calculation method for Plasma Field that caused it to be slightly off sometimes
* Rooftrellen: Slightly increased Eyes in the Forest cast range (+25) to fix some order issue bugs
* Rooftrellen: Fixed Living Armor not regenerating structures properly
* Tauren Chieftan: Fixed bug with Natural Order sometimes instantly killing Forged Spirit summoned units

* Aghanim's: Fixed minor incorrect sell value on some versions of the item
* Khadgar's Pipe of Insight: No longer places the buff on units that already have it
* Bottle: Usage no longer removes Curse of the Silent.
* Linken Sphere: Fixed to properly block Mana Void and Nasal Goo
* Poor Man's Shield: Fixed bug with -swap
* Quelling Blade: Fixed bug with -swap
* Quelling Blade: Fixed triggering Curse of the Silent
* Rune: Fixed Regeneration sometimes not being removed when you are full if you use bottle at the same time
* Rune: Fixed Double Damage visual effect to properly show when the user is using low graphics mode

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## Gameplay & Cosmetics ##
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* Removed the int/agi/str distribution in -CD. It is now like RD in its hero distribution.
* Bottle: Now autorefills at fountain if it isn't fully used (2975)
* Reduced FPS drops when using Shiva's Guard and Plasma Field with some custom import files (PGRu-Unexpect3D)
* Sound Effects: Removed the "Allied hero has fallen" (heavily requested for removal due to annoyances)

* Invoker: Added a new Icon for Sun Strike (5312)
* Juggernaut: You no longer lose control while using Omnislash. You can use items like Dagger while Omnislashing (4938)
* Slardar: Added a new icon for his Bash (3587)
* Tidehunter: Added a new Anchor Smash visual effect (4393)
* Gem of Truesight: Changed hotkey from T to I to help against some common misbuys
* Increased the transparency a little more for the Circle Of Powers that aren't yours.
* Fixed -SP moving your camera away from taverns
* Fixed various minor inconcistences between sentinel and scourge units/buildings
* Fixed some very minor inconsistencies with acquire ranges on some heroes
* Observer Board colors now alternate between white and grey to make it a little more readable

Old Watcher's:
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Cooldown: 30/20/10/5 seconds
Movement Speed: 522
HP: 1
Bounty: 10-13
Vision: 1400/1400
Invisible

Urna Swarm:
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Summons scarabs from corpses. The Scarab can burrow and become invisible.
While it is unburrowed, it is visible to the enemy and has an Infestation
ability. Has collision when unburrowed.
Magic Immune.

Cooldown: 14/11/8/5
Movement Speed: 450
HP: 200
Armor: 6
Bounty: 26-38
Burrowed Vision: 400/400
Normal Vision: 1400/1400

Infestation: Can suicide to Silence enemy units 275 aoe around it for 3 seconds and deal 20 damage per second (non-stacking).

Download link
www.getdota.com

Dota 6.59d Bugs

2009-04-22T17:23:00.000-07:00

Got these videos from YouTube and It's telling me IceFrog fogrot these bugs afterall. So folks dont blame the man he is not making money out of these maps. If you want to view them heres the links.

Barathrum's charge rampage

Luna's Uncontrollable Bugs

DotA Allstars v6.59d Release

2009-03-27T01:53:00.000-07:00

Okies no 6.60 now but it is still in development.. You can download 6.59d as of now.

Change logs

* Fixed some item exploits
* Fixed a rare memory related bug
* Temporarily changed switch voting system. It requires 100% of the vote for now. There will be a better -switch implementation in the next version or two
* Fixed a few other misc bug/exploits 6.60 is still in very active development. I will try to post more updates about it when it gets closer to release. If you have any suggestions you'd like to offer for it, please email me and let me know.

Language:
English
Date:
2009-03-20
MD5:
23894a9c3a19291c03fc54a1852433c0
Filesize:
3.22 Mb

Download Here.

What's new on the Dota Allstars 6.60

2009-02-28T10:21:00.000-08:00

We all knew that in Dota Allstars 6.60 Tauren Chief will be introduce.. But do you know that on 25 March 2009 will be the release date of the new version. For more info read more below.

Here are the updates from IceFrog:

Thanks everyone for being so patient! Don't worry, DotA 6.60 is almost out, please continue waiting - I want this release to be very sucessful, and would hate to disappoint you guys :) Please give me your support, and understand the difficulties of balancing new heroes.

I feel really bad for keeping you guys waiting, but I don't really want to reveal anything about my release until the end - to me it's like a work of art :) Please visit www.icefrog.com for any future updates! I know I haven't been updating recently, but that's because I've been very busy, and I'm really trying to post something within the next few days to keep you guys updated.

Finally, here's a treat for you guys, in my apology for taking so long on this release, some things I can promise you'll see:
-MUCH more recoding and optimizations! You'll be running DotA at up to 25% higher frame rates! (As reported by some of my beta-testers)
-A new game mode :D
-Reworked rune system
-Some major gameplay changes regarding the laning phase, gold distribution, teamwork, etc - this will make the game faster paced, less farming, and more of the team battles we love DotA for! This is obviously one of the biggest changes that is causing many balance issues and delaying our release, but it's worth it!
-Minor terrain tweaks. Everyone loves more juke spots and cosmetics :)
-A few reworked hero abilities. Don't think I don't notice that many heroes have very similar playstyles! I will try to rework heroes one by one, as I have been doing the past couple of versions. Stay updated on the official dota forums, and you might get a hint on who these will be =D

Finally, know that no matter how long and hard my beta-testers work, we can't find all the bugs and balance issues alone - it will be up to you guys! Developing DotA is a community effort, which is why I love you guys so much. If you don't like our release, please be patient and give as much feedback as you can, so we can make DotA as enjoyable for everyone as we can!

DotA Hero Ranking

2009-02-28T09:44:00.000-08:00

Ever wonder who is the strongest hero? Or the fastest hero? How about the Smartest? well here are the answer.. But this not mean that if they are the toughest they are the strongest.. Its always been how you play the game that make the difference. These is for your guide only.

Toughest DOTA Hero

1. The Treant Protector (Tree)
2. The Doom Bringer (Doom)
3. Butcher (Hook)
4. Tidehunter (Big Foot)
5. Stone Giant (Tiny)
6. Pandaren Battlemaster (Roar)
7. Skeleton King (Bones)
8. Chaos Knight (Slash)
9. Night Stalker (Creep)
10. Dragon Knight (Flame)

Softest DOTA Hero (Weakness)

1. Silencer
2. Lifestealer
3. Oblivion
4. Holy Knight
5. Phantom Lancer
6. Nerubian Weaver
7. Tormented Soul
8. Slayer
9. Lich
10. Shadow Shaman

Smartest DOTA Hero

1. Oblivion
2. Enigma
3. Lich
4. Slayer
5. Shadow Shaman
6. Tormented Soul
7. Demon Witch
8. Death Prophet
9. Prophet
10. Crystal Maiden

Dumbest DOTA Hero

1. Phantom Assassin
2. Troll Warlord
3. Chaos Knight
4. Night Stalker
5. Pandaren Battlemaster
6. Stealth Assassin
7. Rogueknight
8. Juggernaut
9. Drow Ranger
10. Bounty Hunter

Quickest Attacker in DOTA

1. Lifestealer
2. Soul Keeper
3. Phantom Assassin
4. Bounty Hunter
5. Morphling
6. Bone Fletcher
7. Drow Ranger
8. Stealth Assassin
9. Juggernaut
10. Anti-Mage

Lowest Attack Pace in DOTA

1. Stone Giant
2. Doom Bringer
3. Enigma
4. Treant Protector
5. Oblivion
6. Tinker
7. Twin Head Dragon
8. Goblin Techies
9. Earthshaker
10. Death Prophet

Best Moving Speed in DOTA

1. Chaos Knight
2. Anti-Mage
3. Soul Keeper
4. Naga Siren
5. Moon Rider
6. Broodmother
7. Magnataur
8. Oblivion
9. Phantom Assassin
10. Bounty Hunter

Poorest Move Speed in DOTA

1. Goblin Techies
2. Shadow Shaman
3. Crystal Maiden
4. Demon Witch
5. Troll Warlord
6. Death Prophet
7. Stone Giant
8. Morphling
9. Necrolic
10. Butcher

DotA Allstars v6.59c 6v6 Ver.2 Release

2009-02-28T09:39:00.000-08:00

This is a modified map for the official DotA Allstars v6.59c. The feature of this is that you can now play 6v6 with this map. Note: This is not made by Icefrog.

There are two reasons why I wanted to get this release out there. The first is that I'm pretty sure I've fixed the last game mode that wasn't working with 6v6, and the second reason is that a small error seemed to be causing a lot more trouble than I thought it would.

Once again, the switch command is disabled until IceFrog makes a significant change to the way it's coded in the official version. I tried a few different things, but it's far more complicated for me to try and fix it than someone using a real copy of the map, so I'm leaving it as it is for now.

Fixed:
Captains Mode (-cm) gamemode now works
An incorrect map size that was causing various game glitches

Known Bugs:
The -switch command has been disabled until it's fixed
Endgame Scoreboard is too big to fit all 12 players.

Download the file here.

Dota T-Shirts and Cap for Sale

2009-02-28T05:17:00.000-08:00

Got problem with your girlfriend because you play too much DOTA? Give her a new gift.. Buy these T-shirt now and maybe who knows she will give you something in return.. girls tshirt is only $17.95, boys tshirt is only $22.90 and the cap is only$13.45.

Guide to Bloodstone

2009-02-27T18:46:00.000-08:00

Eozm's Guide to Bloodstone

Table of Contents:

Item cost/composition

Item stats

Basic mechanics

Analysis

Item synergies

Bloodstone users

Grade A

Grade B

Grade C

Grade D

Conclusion

N.B. Please note my tldr parts at the end of each section of the Analysis in quote boxes. I'm trying to help people that are scared/bored by my legendary walls of text ^^

Item cost/composition:

+ =

... wait that's not it.

+ = Perseverance - 1750g (875g + 875g)
+ + = Soul Booster - 3300g (1000g + 1200g + 1100g)

+ = Bloodstone - 5050g

Item stats:

+450 Hp
+400 Mana
+200% Mana regen
+6 Health/sec

It has 2 'abilities'. One is to accumulate charges. This is done through killing heroes. For every kill, you gain 1 charge (except when you have no charge, your first kill gives you 2). Each charge gives you a net +2 health/mana per second. While it's not much for health, it's actually HUGE for mana. You lose a charge every time you die.

It's second ability is called Redemption. It has a bunch of on death effects:

1) Restore 450 health and 400 mana to every allied unit in 1700 AOE around where you die
2) Gives you vision of 1800/1800 (actually nice at night, it's more vision than your allies get except for Nightstalker) around the area where you died
3) Gathers xp for you while you're dead in 1000 AOE around where you died
4) Makes you resurrect 10% faster if you have no charge, 20% faster if you have a charge
5) Makes you lose 20% less gold if you have no charge, 40% less gold if you have a charge

That's it! Lots of benefits for an item with no recipe, but ofc you have to die to use most of them, which is usually a bad idea.

Basic mechanics:

There isn't much to say about the item itself in terms of mechanics. Pretty much everything was said above in terms of AOE of each ability, and the base thing it does is simply give you health, mana and regen.

Just for the sake of mechanics, the red rune that appears on the ground when you die is actually a dummy hero unit and that's the one gathering xp for you and giving you vision of the area.

For charges, as i said it's +2 charges if you have no charge, and +1 for every other kill, so basically when you score a kill you're sure to have at least 2 charges, the only way to have 1 charge being by dying when you have 2.

The 'if you have a charge' condition for Redemption effects considers the charge you had before death. So if you had 1 charge and die, you will drop to 0, but you will have the 'if you have a charge' bonuses. As far as i know, there is no cap to charges (never went above 30 to test, but you shouldn't realistically get there in a game anyway =p).

Analysis:

Bloodstone should be considered as THE regen item. Be it for health regen or mana regen, it's the best item you can get simply because it's uncapped. With a single kill you have nearly as much health regen as Heart (+10, any further kill will make you surpass it) while a single kill gives you mana regen blowing away ANYTHING else by miles, even stuff like Orchid. +4 mana regen/second is simply huge, it's the same you would get from getting +100 Int (or say +50 Int if you have a Void Stone, or +25 Int if you have a Guinsoo). An Arcane Ring used on recharge gives you +3 mana/sec, and you're not even counting the +200% mana/sec that Bloodstone gives on top. When you're talking about mana regen, absolutely nothing compares if you have a single charge on the thing. If you have 4-5 charges, for nearly every hero it means infinite mana.

For people who dismissed the item as garbaged a long time ago, it's important to consider just how much it improved since it was introduced. It used to give +5 health/sec, +110% mana regen and +0.75 health/mana regen per charge. It's not even comparable to what you get now. While i agree that regen remains regen and is not THAT important, when you reach a certain amount and build around it it's actually very useful for some heroes.

The importance of charges for regen means that you should never look at Bloodstone as if it was an item you used 'if you plan to die' because of Redemption effects either. Quite the opposite, to have a truly efficient Bloodstone you must stack charges on it and NOT die. A Bloodstone with no charge is a pretty average item, but as i said if you can get a single kill for 2 charges then the regen starts being nuts, and a few more is just incredible.

It also means that in most cases a Bloodstone is a rushed item and the first thing you get on your hero. And i mean it's pretty logical too looking at what it gives : health, mana and regen, full of early game win. And the earlier you can get it, the earlier you can start stacking charges on it, and a highly charged Bloodstone can actually be pretty ridiculous when you're basically fighting as if you were in your fountain all the time (and if you get 7-8 charges, that's really how it feels).

That being said, the Redemption effects are actually very good should you die in a team battle. First, the heal is actually very, very big AND it restores a vast amount of mana (pretty much insures everyone else is full mana till the end of the fight). The AOE is so huge that you can be sure everything is affected if it was part of the fight at all. 450 health is the same as 600 spell damage negated, so it's as much as healing the damage of a level 3 Sonic Blast, nearly as much as 2 Mek shot at once. Assuming you have a charge, you rez 20% faster and lose 40% less gold, which is actually massive. Later in the game, dying can mean rezzing in 60+ second, and 20% faster rez means you save 10-18 seconds faster and this can actually make a significant difference, especially in the case where you die trying to push and the other team heals and counter pushes right after. Rezzing 10-15s faster can easily be the difference between being raxed or holding the boat while allies respawn. 40% less gold is nearly half, which means that instead of losing 300-500g when you die you will lose something like 180-300g, it really makes a good difference. The xp gain is really nice should you die early in a team fight, since it will allow you to share the xp on further hero kills, which can be a significant amount. It's not uncommon to die with Bloodstone and rez a level higher. The vision is rarely much useful, but it can have some advantage at times.

The important thing to consider about Bloodstone though is this : it gives NO active ability and NO damage. So if your hero is NOT able to do his job through his skills alone, then it's likely not the best thing to get. What it does is pretty much insures that if you can do what you need with your own skills, it will make sure you always have the mana for it and regens your health very fast so you can be active on the map pretty much at all time, either farming or ganking.

QUOTE(TLDR)

- Bloodstone is at its core a regen item, and you should play around it
- It's NOT an item for planning to die, but its bonuses are very good if you do
- Should be rushed since it covers for your early game better than any other item can and you should get started on the charges ASAP
- Keep in mind that by getting Bloodstone you sacrifice any kind of extra active ability or damage, so only get it if your hero is sufficient with his skills alone

The build up:

The build up of Bloodstone is possibly its biggest advantage. As i said above, it is full of early game win. Now that Bottle has been nerfed and is not the be-all-end-all of regen items (you'll likely want max 1 per team on some kind of permanent ganker like Beast, NA or PotM to control runes, but if you DON'T get runes regularly the regen you grab from fountain is severly lacking), along with Perseverance actually seriously buffed (basically +25% better at everything compared to 6.48 while being a bit cheaper), it becomes pretty much the best early game item for a hero that wants a mix of constant health/mana regen.

The Soul Booster part is also full of early game win. It's raw health and mana, which is often what you need the most at this stage for any hero relying on their skills (nukers, etc.). It lets you survive the other team's nukes while throwing more of your own.

All parts are relatively easy to farm, 1200g for Point Booster being the highest but also giving a lot for its cost. Every part is a solid addition as you acquire it (RoH fixes your health regen, Void your mana regen, Perseverance gives you better last hitting in lane, Point + Vit Boosters fix your health and mana, and well Energy Booster gives you a completed Bloodstone ^^). Another small advantage over some other items is that everything can be bought out of the secret shop (and sideshop for RoH). If you're doing good in lane you can gradually buy everything without ever going back to base, and one the Bloodstone is done you're close to walking fountain so you won't need to visit base often at all during the game!

It also saves you from buying other early game items, which is a major advantage. When you look at the cost of a Bloodstone, you can't really say that it's 5050g. Because if you didn't get it, you would've need to get most of what it gives through a mix of other early game items. For example, say you go as cheap as possible, 2 Bracers and a Bottle (pretty standard in 6.48 on nearly any hero). That's 1600g invested (and a Bottle as i said is actually kinda sucky for real regen now, you might want still a Pers, or a Void Stone + HoIW, etc...). With a Bloodstone, you can grab 4 Branches at start with Tangoes and Clarities if needed, and go straight for it. No other item needed at all (well, boots but that's true for any build). So in the end, you pay 3400g more for a Bloodstone than you would have for buying 2 Bracers and Bottle, but you get infinitely better regen, twice the health and 5 times the mana. In terms of cost efficiency, it is actually pretty cheap when you consider what you DON'T buy because you're buying it.

Usually, a good build up order for rushing a Bloodstone would be:

4 Branches, 4-6 Tangoes, 0-2 Clarities (depends on hero for clarities)

- if you have less than 3 tangoes left when you have 875g, buy RoH, otherwise Void Stone (assuming again that your hero can use it to spam spell in lane, like Krob or Leshrac)
- complete your Perseverance for good lane regen + last hitting power
- buy Point Booster, Vit Booster and Energy Booster in that order

If you're in a lane against stuff like dual stun and you need a health boost fast, forget Void Stone before a while and do RoH-Point Booster (or even Vit Booster if you think it's needed) instead. Mana regen is never vital to laning, it just makes you better at farming and harassing, but survival comes first!

QUOTE(TLDR)

- Excellent build up for early game because all parts help you right away and are needed early (health, mana, and regen of both)
- All parts are fairly cheap so easy to farm
- Not as costy as it seems because if you didn't grab a Bloodstone, you'd still need health, mana and some regen of both for most heroes in one way or another, and grabbing a Bloodstone allows you to skip all those other items (Bracers and Bottle for example)

Disassembly:

Bloodstone is an item that disassembles quite well. You can grab Ring of Health, Void Stone and Soul Booster all separately from it. So for example if you buy a Bloodstone early and later on you got enough regen and you just want more effects, you could easily break it, use Soul Booster to make an Aghanim's, use Void Stone to make a Guinsoo and, well, keep or sell RoH.

It's also a really good starting item for a hero that would want to go Aghanim's-Refresher. There isn't all that many of those, but say you're planning for it on Zeus or Rhasta, grabbing a Bloodstone to settle your health, mana and give you big regen early in the game can be nice. Afterwards you can add a Mystic Staff and Obliv Staff whenever you can afford them, break it all and build Agh-Refresh straight from there. It makes the build up much smoother for most heroes aiming for an Aghanim's.

Although if you do well in the game and manage to get 7-8 charges, your Bloodstone is often worth more than what Aghanim's would do for you except maybe for Ogre Mage and Witch Doctor.

You could also do a full progression with the item for usefulness of items as the game progresses, doing something like Bloodstone->break in Aghanim's, and then buy an Ultimate Orb and break everything into Guinsoo + Soul Booster (because for most heroes, Aghanim's buff endgame is not worth a Guinsoo, but around the end of midgame it can make the difference).

QUOTE(TLDR)

- Can very well be used as a starting item for Aghanim's and possibly Refresher at the same time.
- Can use it for a 'gradual' build up from early to endgame of an Int hero of Bloodstone->Aghanim's->Guinsoo
- Gauge how much it's worth to break your Bloodstone though, cause a high charged Bloodstone can be worth more than Aghanim's and depending on your hero (for example Leshrac) even more than Guinsoo.

Learning to put Regen to good use:

That's really important when you buy an item like Bloodstone. Simply put, Bloodstone being an uncapped regen item has huge potential. But if you don't build and play around it, regen is not that good. It's not in the middle of a fight that regen kicks in most of the time, it's at the start of a fight, at the end of a fight and anywhere between. And your item build can influence this a lot too.

So, how do you play to maximize the use of regen?

First, for item build, there's something pretty simple : maximize damage reduction over health. The only exception being ofc if you face massive pure damage dealers like OD or Silencer, cause that won't work against them and the only thing working is raw health (at least Bloodstone gives quite a bit). But ok, ignore those fights against not-so-popular heroes. Why is damage reduction better? It's simple, it makes every hit point count for more, and thus regening +20-30 health/second becomes incredible. This leads to great item synergy with a few items that will be discussed below and what i now call my Int Tank build which is Bloodstone-Hood-Shiva. Maximize health regen and damage reduction against both spells and physical damage while having a decent health pool allowing you to take full advantage of regen.

Second, you have to consider pre-fight. Depending on the hero you have, it's not always possible, but pre-fight harassment when you have high regen can be really good. The best for that is Krob with her ridiculous range, 5s cooldown 300 damage nuke and high MS. If your team is about to push, or theirs is, or you see a hero farming in a lane, you can practically stay out of range and just throw Carrion over and over doing back and forth and still be full when the fight start. If you have something like Hood + Bloodstone, it can also be good to make them waste some nukes on you too. Sometimes just going ahead a bit in a fight and eating a few nukes for your allies and then backing can let you soak a lot of damage or make them waste some mana they can't regen as easily and you will quickly get your health back up. Ofc you have to use common sense and not suicide, but the speed at which you regen from nuking with Hood-Bloodstone is simply amazing and taking some nukes for your team can help a lot. But this part is pretty situational and depends a lot of the game and the hero, so it's not so important.

Midfight is a no-brainer, just spam everything as best as you can. Regen doesn't change much there. The big difference is only if you get really hurt. If you have high damage reduction and high regen (say just Bloodstone-Hood is enough), the important part when you get hurt is to back but not run far (unless being chased ofc). Often in about 5-10s you can have enough health/mana back to go back in the fight as it ends, either to help allies escape or to help finishing off the other team.

In the chasing part, either being chased or chasing, the mana/health regen improves your chances of escaping or finishing your target significantly.

And the most important part is to maximize your farming between fights. That's possibly THE biggest advantage of having high health/mana regen. You can quickly get your health back up just going through the jungle farming as it will just regen fast naturally. Your high mana regen means you can spam spells on creeps to clear them fast and take the least damage possible. With a hero like Leshrac, it means that you can pretty much go through the jungle doing Edict-Pulse Nova and a few Split Earth all over the place to clear mass creeps asap. This allows you to grab more gold between fights, and that's what regen is the best at.

QUOTE(TLDR)

- Maximize damage reduction over health
- Learn to harass before fights/pushes
- Maximize your farming by skipping fountain trips by simply regening through jungle/lane and spam your spells to farm as fast as possible, which makes you harder to gank since you're on the move constantly and lets you take part in fights more often.

Criterias to determine if your hero is good for a Bloodstone or not:

- Are your skills on their own sufficient to do your job, or do you require specific items for it (Dagger, BKB, extra damage, etc.)
- Do you have potential mana usage that benefits from very heavy mana regen (usually means that you can use spells to farm very fast if you have the mana for it and have a very heavy mana use in fight that requires high regen to save fountain trips)
- Will you have to tank to some extent. Bloodstone helps a lot for it, and if you die the extra effect is neat
- Do you have a good way to score kills. Getting charges is still pretty important, and having a good finisher can be nice to quickly charge up your bloodstone.

Note that you don't necessarily need a yes to all of those to buy a Bloodstone, but it's all good considerations to have.

Item synergy:

In order to maximize the effectiveness of your Bloodstone's regen, as i said damage reduction is the best. Therefore there are 2 items that are usually perfect with it:

Hood is possibly the item i buy most of the time i get a Bloodstone unless i'm in a pub full of carries. Not only does it help maximizing the effect of your health regen by reducing the damage taken, it also gives you a LOT of health regen on its own. With no charges, with Hood-Bloodstone you already have +14 health/sec regen and you only take a real 50% damage from spells. This means that you regen from a full 300 damage nuke in about 10 seconds. Makes you pretty much impossible to harass, and in 'siege' fights around towers there is no 'softening you' with long range AOE nukes. When you get charges, say 5, you go up to 24 health/sec which means that you regen the damage from a 300 nuke in 5s. It's extremely efficient.

Shiva's Guard also allows you to reduce the damage taken by tons, this time vs physical damage. And it gives a very nice AOE nuke that snares. Just a generally good addition, but not always necessary depending on the team compositions.

Mek is a cheaper way to get armor (around 6 and +2 when activated), some extra health and mostly a good heal. For some heroes the mana cost is sometimes too high along with their skills, but with Bloodstone that should never be a problem. The synergy with your heal on death is also really good if it happens. Activating Mek and then dying means that you healed everyone for 700 health, which is nearly 1k worth of AOE. It can practically erase the effect of a major AOE ultimate. But ofc you died, that part isn't good, but sometimes you just can't prevent it and if it makes your team win the fight, it's worth it!

The synergy isn't as clear here because Bloodstone and Dagon are in theory 2 items that should be rushed. But it can work well on a few heroes that do rush Dagon. Once you have a rushed Dagon, the main problem you face afterwards is that you have low health and it's EXTREMELY taxing on your mana pool (you usually empty all your mana doing your hero's skill combo + dagon). Following up with a Bloodstone can help a lot to use your Dagon without a worry regularly without ending up with big mana problem while covering for your health at the same time.

Bloodstone users:

Again, the part most are interested in. I will again classify the heroes that can use it by Grade, from A to D. Grade A means that it should be acquired as your main core item on them in most cases as it fits them very well. Grade B means that it's a solid alternative item on them but not an absolute core. Grade C means that it can be used for a fun build or is situational. Grade D means that it has some synergy but mostly as a fallback item or that i consider that there are nearly strictly superior builds.

Grade A:

Leshrac is a hero that should imo rush a Bloodstone in every game. He has a yes to every consideration. He's totally fine with his skills alone, he doesn't need stuff like dagger or Eul's. A BKB is good, but not required to be rushed the way a CM or Enigma needs it. He can farm very fast with high mana regen and burns a LOT of mana in fights so he needs to get it back up between fights and saving fountain trips sure helps. He has to tank cause he needs to be in the middle of everything to hurt with his ulti, and if he dies doing it the heal will help your team for sure and save you gold/rez time. And he's good at scoring kills being an AOE nuke machine. If you want an Aghanim's later you can always break it, but hell i wouldn't most of the time if you got 3-4+ charges on your Bloodstone, cause the regen is just amazing to have. My standard build on Lesh now is BStone-BoT-Hood-Shiva, and if the game is still going after that (wtf?) Aghanim's.

Another hero that is a great Int tank. She sure has use for extra mana with a 5s cd huge AOE nuke. She needs to tank because of her ulti and even building as a tank she tends to die a lot because she's such a major threat in pushes destroying towers and raxes like they were nothing that everyone wants her down, and then the heal and faster rez/less gold lost is great. Her skills are really enough to do her job considering her job is pretty much surviving while her ulti rapes. And she can score kills out of her ulti and carrion pretty well. It's really incredible to have a completed Bloodstone on Krob early, it lets you be very aggressive with Carrion spam before the other team is high level to ignore it a bit more and can allow for some heavy pushing because they just can't hide behind a tower with you shooting carrions at them non-stop. A Bloodstone Krob is seriously nothing comparable to a non-Bloodstone Krob midgame.

Those are the only 2 that i believe fall in the A category of MUST GET a Bloodstone. But the B category have a lot of worthy candidate that can certainly grab one as a solid item, it's just not a 100% must get.

Grade B:

Invoker is a hero i would be tempted to put in Grade A. It's definitely an excellent item on him, covering for his heavy health and mana needs. The reason i don't is because i don't feel confident stating 'superior' item builds on Invoker. There's just too many ways to play him, and many items that can fit. But a Bloodstone is personally what i try to rush every time.

Zeus can certainly use heavy mana regen, is extremely good at scoring kills, and he needs mostly health and mana. If you don't need him to do something fancy like Eul's or Agh's, it fits him perfectly, and leads very well into an Aghanim's-Refresher build which can be worth it sometimes.

Bloodstone is SURPRISINGLY efficient on Enchantress. You have to try Bloodstone on Enchantress to see just how well it fits her. It makes you nearly unkillable, with very high health regen (she's good at farming a fast Bloodstone through ridiculous laning AND good at scoring kills with Impetus afterwards), actually very decent health, and a huge mana pool/mana regen to just spam Impetus, your heal and Charm non-stop. Enchantress is actually very mana dependant and needs high regen, and Bloodstone helps it a lot. It doesn't raise your damage much, but tbh you don't notice much of a difference since most of it comes from Impetus anyway. But it's mostly the survival that's ridiculous. An enchantress with 4-5 charges of Bloodstone and a Hood is one of the biggest tanks in the game. And the big advantage you have over other items is the towerdiving you can do by having a big health pool and crazy regen between your heal and Bloodstone. You can just chase people all over the place spamming Impetus. You have to try it to see how it can compete with stuff like Guinsoo, but it actually can.

If you go for a caster build, i personally consider Bloodstone superior to Arcane Ring since its recent buffs. Mostly because it also covers for your health regen (which you'd have to buy something for otherwise) and because once you have a full Bloodstone, it's superior to Arcane Ring + Soul Booster while you complete Aghanim's. Obviously when you have a Mystic Staff you just break your BStone and build it, and you can then turn your Pers into either Battle Fury or a Linken's. But all in all if you want to play caster Ogre Mage going for Aghanim's, a Bloodstone is a great stepping stone for it.

He's good at scoring kills, he can certainly use the mana regen, and he can even kill himself at will! Since it gives so much regen, it's actually a very decent item for techies to rush. Sure he doesn't need the health much, true, but the big regen and the heal that he can throw in a fight out of it is actually very good.

While in a competitive game you're extremely unlikely to finish it, in a pub game you can aim for Aghanim's-Refresher on him and Bloodstone is the perfect item to get early for it. It helps a lot with the mana to use Voodoo AND Lightning AND Net AND wards in a fight and actually regen for another one eventually without going to fount. Aghanim's-Refresher on Rhasta is simply game breaking and is close to an auto-win unless the other team has an extremely farmed tank, but it's pretty hard to hope farming it anywhere serious. But in any case, Bloodstone is still very good on him, but Eul's is also a good alternative that would likely be preferable in a competitive setup for its higher utility.

A bit of a controversial hero. Bloodstone is actually surprisingly good on Bristleback. It gives him huge mana to spam everything at will which helps farming significantly, but more importantly is the uncapped health regen. When you start getting charges, it's just stupid. BB is the epitome of damage reduction in the game and he makes regen extremely efficient, while being fairly decent at scoring kills. The regen you can get out of a Bloodstone if you get some charges wins games. A rushed Bloodstone followed by a Rad eventually can go very well.

While i personally try to aim for a Guinsoo with him, in some cases you just see that you won't get it, or your team has somehow enough disables that it's not truly needed, and a Bloodstone actually fits him well. Lion burns a damn lot of mana in a fight and is also a high priority target, so he can sure use the big mana pool, the big health and the regen between fights. Since he tends to die eventually in a fight too by being a high priority kill, the heal sure helps.

I put Pudge in B simply because it's so hard to farm it on him. But i do believe that like Lesh-Krob, Bloodstone-Hood-Shiva is pretty much the best build you can get on him. It gives him huge health regen which he definitely needs, he's pretty incredible at scoring kills, and Shiva if you ever get there adds a very nice slow to stack with Rot and big armor. But the big problem with Pudge has always been farming anything like that, so it's hard. Managing a rushed Bloodstone if somehow you have a particularly good early game can work out great though, and could very well replace a Bottle and Hood if you can manage it. But that part isn't all that easy.

Bloodstone Axe actually works very well. You have to make use of Hunger for it to be worth it (not necessary to max it right away, but max it by level 10 if possible), but Hunger spam is actually fairly powerful in many situations like chases or to screw up low health heroes retreating from a fight, and Axe is pretty good at scoring kills early-mid out of Culling and Hunger depending. It's a pretty surprising build but all in all does work very well, and since he's 'the' tank, having an ability to heal others if you die and less of a penalty if you die is nice.

He's another hero that can make good use of it as a stepping stone to Aghanim's. The way i build this is simply rush a Bloodstone, mass gank to charge it and cause you always have health/mana with charges, farm BKB, and then a Mystic Staff. Once you have Mystic Staff, break your Bloodstone and make an Aghanim's. It works very well as an overall build up on WD. Bloodstone also lets you use your Voodoo efficiently earlier in the game, which can help your allies a lot.

If you're not going for some pub carry Dazzle, Bloodstone is a pretty nice alternative. On Dazzle, i build it along with a Mek. Simply put, Dazzle is a guy that tends to just die every damn fight in competitive games because he's ridiculously frail. But he needs some mana regen and he needs a big health pool, and Bloodstone covers for it. A Dazzle with Mek + Bloodstone is actually not easy to kill, and this allows him to hang around and heal for a long time with Shadow Wave spam. And if you decide to kill him before the others, you're pretty sure that he will have healed for tons before, and Redemption for another 450 and refilling the mana of others, so basically if Dazzle dies first there's good chances that everyone else in your team afterwards is still nearly full out of all the heals he threw and also has the mana to keep going. This can really turn a fight and it also penalizes him less for dying while he puts Shallow Grave on others so they're not punished much for dying either. He's not that good at charging Bloodstone, but out of his very high Int and having a natural heal, on him the regen is actually not the main reason you get it but instead it's for the health pool and Redemption.

Necrolyte is another 'Int tank'. He tends to go frontline and soak a lot of damage. Bloodstone-Shiva works really good on him, with a Hood on top if needed. It lets him just hang out in the middle of everything spamming his nuke over and over, and the mana regen helps a lot since EVEN with Sadist he finds ways to run out of mana, with 500 on his Ulti and 185 every 5s out of Death Pulse. Not necessarily 'the' way to play him, but it does work out very well especially if you're expected to tank to some extent.

Grade C:

If you go for more of a 'pure tank' build, Bloodstone actually fits Panda well. He needs a decent amount of mana, and the health is a good addition too. He's actually mostly skill dependant, spending most of the important fights in his Ulti form, and Bloodstone can let him regen extremely fast while using Ulti to come out again full health/mana. If you don't need him to DPS, it can be an interesting alternative, something like rush a Bloodstone and then slowly farm a Radiance, a bit like Bristleback.

While i wouldn't consider it an optimal build on DK, it actually makes him one of the best early-midgame tank there is. It gives him lots of mana to spam his Breathe + Tail which are both powerful midgame, and high health + absolutely retarded health regen AND high armor can make him extremely hard to get rid of. For a team early pushing and requiring a tank for it, a Bloodstone DK could be a very interesting and original way to do it, with his EDF1 to damage towers and his Breathe-Tail spam out of Bloodstone. But if you plan to carry, it's not really what i'd go for, but you could still always follow it with something like Hyperstone-Burriza straight since your health/mana are already covered.

For a tank Omniknight this could work too. If your team badly lacks a tank, you could always just grab a Bloodstone. It gives you massive mana to spam your support spells and you can soak damage with the big health/regen. Add a Mek afterwards for more healing and you have a pretty nice tank/support hero. But you wouldn't be much of a threat out of your support spells, so the only way to 'tank' would be to play it a bit 'stupid' and rush in front of your allies to draw focus fire.

Bloodstone can be an interesting build for a Venomancer aiming for Aghanim's. It gives you massive mana regen and a decent health pool to just gank all over the place, and in team fight since what happens with Venomancer is nearly always 'rush in, Shadow Strike, ulti, die', at least you'd have the heal to offer others. And eventually you can complete that Mystic Staff and break your Bloodstone in Aghanim's which is actually pretty nice on him. And make your Pers into a Refresher for 2 x Poison Nova! No, that was a joke (unless they stack... but i doubt it!)

Bloodstone on Medusa is somewhat hilarious. It makes you a ridiculous tank. With huge regen of BOTH mana and health, and a good pool of both too, you're just so freaking hard to kill. And you can spam Purge/Chain Lightning all over without worrying about mana. A Bloodstone->BFly build on her makes her decent at DPS and extremely hard to take down, but there's likely other superior options (like Orchid for your mana and something else for your health). Still, not to be totally dismissed and i might even raise her to Grade B eventually.

If you aim for Aghanim's-Refresher it can be worth it. It could also be used to play tank and have your mana well covered. All in all though, it's not necessarily the best item for him, but if you wanna do caster Luci it can be nice. The nice thing is that he can farm it up extremely fast out of Devour early game, and grab charges quickly afterwards too with Doom.

If you actually aim for Aghanim's, it would be a very good item to start with to have the regen to gank non-stop all over the map and even level Shadow Strike since you'd have enough health/mana covered and enough mana to use all your spells. But you won't carry out of it.

Anti-Mage can actually make good use of this. One of the main thing Anti-Mage need is health regen, and this can let him grab some nifty one. He won't have the damage reduction from Vanguard, but he'll have a much bigger health pool and the damage reduction can actually be covered easily by 2 Stouts if you want. Imo higher health is superior to a Hood on Anti-Mage for spell resistance too since his natural one is already very high, and having heavy mana regen is actually very nice to Blink non-stop and still have mana to ulti. It's not an item build that should be dismissed at all and PTreads->Bloodstone->BFly could be a really nice build overall. It's not like Bloodstone costs a lot more than Vanguard + Hood, and the mana you get on top can be very interesting.

If in a fun game you aim for Aghanim's, you could start with Bloodstone and split it in Agh-Linken's later. But i'm not saying this is how he should be played in a competitive game! However a Bloodstone still does good at covering his health and gives him excellent regen to spam his spells at will (which can be costy), so it's not entirely bad either and can certainly be a decent start up build for him.

Can be decent to cover her health, mana and regen and she's very good at scoring kills. However i nearly always prefer to have active items on Lina like Eul's, Shiva or Guinsoo to add to her utility since otherwise after you cast your 3 nukes you're kinda pointless in a fight, even though those 3 nukes are usually enough to do the job.

Grade D:

Now that you can actually spam Soul Rip and Plague, he can burn up mana very fast, and being able to tank some is nice for him too. It can be nice if you go for a Radiance first. However to have a mix of health and mana i prefer getting a Skadi, it's harder but a completed Skadi on Dirge is actually pretty scary cause Plague + Frost Orb lets you destroy people. But mostly i prefer to rush items with an effect, like Necro3, Dagon3, Guinsoo, Mek-Eul's or Radiance, and unless i pick Radiance i won't want a Bloodstone afterwards, and with Radiance i'd possibly try for a Skadi. But it could work as some fallback item if you have a hard time staying alive and farming well in a given game, covering all your basic needs to do your job of spamming Soul Rip and Plague and staying alive for your aura.

Pit Lord that wants to tank can use a Bloodstone to cover his mana at the same time, but i'd only do that if i'm going for a Rad. Rad-Bloodstone gives him very good health and excellent mana. However it's overkill overall for the mana, and i find that Shiva's Guard rush is by far the best build for him, and Shiva cover his mana enough. Not a bad item, but not a competitive one.

CM can sure use the health and the mana especially if she uses Freezing Field. But the main problem of CM is that she also need Dagger and BKB, so the chances you'll get that are kinda inexistant. But if freezing field changes in some way, she could make good use of it, but still there's possibly better core. Could always be used as a fallback item when all goes wrong though, at least by dying in the middle of your freezing field you'll heal others!

Dark Seer can actually burn up a damn lot of mana, and he can certainly need health if he wants to run in the middle of everything with Ion Shell. But in general, i find that there's better skill builds such as Shiva->Refresher, Necro3->Refresher, Eul's-Mek->Refresher or Guinsoo->Refresher. I think i like Refresher on him as a secondary big item...

If for some unknown reason someone still does Agh-Refresher on her, i'd very likely get that first. With the kills from eclipse you'd have insane regen out of that and it covers for your health, so afterwards you just farm everything else and eventually break it all in Agh-Refresher and do massive ulti damage in a fight, and just hope it's enough cause your damage will seriously suck.

Guide on every Hero's Skill/Spell damage type, Reduced by spell resistance, armor, or unreduced

2009-02-27T05:12:00.000-08:00

This is a guide made by Danat on Dota-All Stars Official Forum

Here is a list of damage types made by me. I have gathered all info about damage types from this forum and some cases were tested personally. Also, clogon helped me a lot in making this guide more accurate.
To simplify the understanding (which sometimes leads to less information about damage type details) I have divided damage types in 4 categories:
1. Normal, which is reduced by hero's Armor and can be blocked by Shield Block items/skills (Stout Shield, Vanguard...)
2. Magic, which is reduced by hero's Spell Resistance.
3. Mixed - which is reduced both by Spell Resistance and Armor - meaning this is most non-dangerous type of damage
4. Neutral - not reduced by anything - most dangerous type of damage

Note: Do not confuse 'Magic' damage type in my list with 'Damage type = Magic' that is widely used in changelog and some guides. Read my legend carefully to understand what I mean by saying 'Magic'.

Note2: Do not ask me for clarification on whether the information on some specific spell is correct. I see no point in this guide if users would still ask me to confirm info on every spell. If you have found out that the information is incorrect/outdated then provide a replay and I will update the guide. Otherwise I'm gonna ignore clarification requests.

Below there is a list of all heroes (version 6.58b) and their skills, colored accordingly to the damage-type list above. To make it easier to search for a specific hero, I have used a bold style on the most commonly used part of the hero name/class. Additionaly next formatting styles are applied to show how will the skill work against units with magic-immunity (Avatar):

Skill name - does not work (if it's an ulti, then there will be only cast animation without any effect... except lost mana for casting it )
Skill name - works, but without dealing any damage (some effects not related to damage - slow, stun, etc.)
Skill name - works as usual (don't care if he has Avatar )
~~Effect name~~ - this effect does not work on Avatared units. Used when skill is partially negated by magic-immunity to specify the exact effects that doesn't work.

The Sentinel

Shendelzare Silkwood (Vengeful Spirit) - Magic Missile, Terror, Command Aura, Nether Swap
Zeus (Lord of Olympia) - Arc Lightning, Lightning Bolt, Static Field, Thundergod's Wrath
Aiushtha (Enchantress) - Enchant, Untouchable, Nature's Attendants, Impetus
Morphling (Morphling) - Waveform, Adaptive Strike, Morph, Replicate
Rylai Crestfall (Crystal Maiden) - Frost Nova, Frostbite, Brilliance Aura, Freezing Field
Sven (Rogueknight) - Storm Bolt, Great Cleave, Toughness Aura, God's Strength
Slithice (Naga Siren) - Mirror Image, Ensnare, Critical Strike, Song of the Siren
Raigor Stonehoof (Earthshaker) - Fissure, Enchant Totem, Aftershock, Echo Slam(echo damage)
Rikimaru (Stealth Assassin) - Smoke Screen, Blink Strike, Backstab, Permanent Invisibility
Syllabear (Lone Druid) - Spirit Bear(Entangle, Demolish, damage on death), Rabid, Synergy, True Form (BattleCry, One¹)
Lina Inverse (Slayer) - Dragon Slave, Light Strike Array, Ultimate, Laguna Blade
Yurnero (Juggernaut) - Blade Fury, Healing Ward, Blade Dance, Omnislash

Nortrom (Silencer) - Curse of the Silent, Glaives of Wisdom, Last Word, Global Silence
Rooftrellan (Treant Protector) - Nature's Guise, Eyes in the Forest, Living Armor, Overgrowth
Darchrow (Enigma) - Malefice, Conversion, Midnight Pulse, Black Hole
Ezalor (Keeper of the Light) - Illuminate, Mana Leak, Chakra Magic, Spirit Form (Blinding Light)
Ulfsaar (Ursa Warrior) - Earthshock, Overpower, Fury Swipes, Enrage
Aggron Stonebreaker (Ogre Magi) - Fireblast, Ignite, Bloodlust, Multi Cast
Boush (Tinker) - Laser, Heat Seeking Missile, March of the Machines, Rearm
Furion (Prophet) - Sprout, Teleportation, Force of Nature, Wrath of Nature
Azwraith (Phantom Lancer) - Spirit Lance, Doppelwalk, Juxtapose, Phantom Edge
Tiny (Stone Giant) - Avalanche, Toss, Craggy Exterior, Grow
Squee Spleen and Spoon (Goblin Techies) - Land Mines, Stasis Trap, Suicide Squad, Attack!, Remote Mines
Chen (Holy Knight) - Penitence, Test of Faith, Holy Persuasion, Hand of God

Rexxar (Beastmaster) - Wild Axes, Call of the Wild: Quilbeast(Poison Attack), Beast Rage, Primal Roar(side damage and ~~slow~~)
Jakiro (Twin Head Dragon) - Dual Breath, Ice Path, Auto Fire(~~target selection~~), Macropyre
Razzil Darkbrew (Alchemist) - Acid Spray, Unstable Concoction, Goblin's Greed, Chemical Rage
Mirana Nightshade (Priestess of the Moon) - Starfall, Elune's Arrow, Leap, Moonlight Shadow
Raijin Thunderkeg (Storm Spirit) - Static Remnant, Electric Vortex, Overload(~~slow~~), Ball Lightning
Huskar (Sacred Warrior) - Inner Vitality, Burning Spear(hp cost), Berserker's Blood, Life Break(self damage, slow)
Lanaya (Templar Assassin) - Refraction, Meld, Psi Blades, Psionic Trap
Puck (Faerie Dragon) - Illusory Orb, Wanning Rift, Phase Shift, Dream Coil
Rattletrap (Clockwerk Goblin) - Battery Assault, Power Cog: Shock(damage, knock back, mana removal), Rocket Flare, Hookshot(Movement, ~~Stun~~, Pause)
Kunkka (Admiral) - Torrent, Tidebringer(Bonus Damage, Cleave), X Marks The Spot, Ghost Ship
Alleria (Windrunner) - Shackleshot, Powershot, Windrunner, Focus Fire

Luna Moonfang (Moon Rider) - Lucent Beam, Moon Glaive, Lunar Blessing, Eclipse
Kardal Sharpeye (Dwarven Sniper) - ScatterShot, Headshot(~~stun~~), Take Aim, Assassinate
Jah'rakal (Troll Warlord) - Berserker Rage(bash damage), Blind, Fervor, Rampage
Rhasta (Shadow Shaman) - Forked Lightning, Voodoo, Shackles, Mass Serpent Ward
Rigwarl (Bristleback) - Viscous Nasal Goo, Quill Spray, Bristleback(auto Quill Spray), Warpath
Magnix (Pandaren Brewmaster) - Thunder Clap, Drunken Haze, Drunken Brawler, Primal Split: Storm(WW dmg), Earth, And Fire
Bradwarden (Centaur Warchief) - Hoof Stomp, Double Edge(self-damage), Return, Great Fortitude
Gondar (Bounty Hunter) - Shuriken Toss, Jinada, Wind Walk (backstab damage), Track
Knight Davion (Dragon Knight) - Breathe Fire, Dragon Tail, Dragon Blood, Elder Dragon Form(Corrosive Breath, Splash, and Frost Breath)
Magina (Anti-Mage) - Mana Break, Blink, Spell Shield, Mana Void
Traxex (Drow Ranger) - Frost Arrows, Silence, Trueshot Aura, Marksmanship
Purist Thunderwrath (Omniknight) - Purification, Repel, Degen Aura, Guardian Angel

The Scourge

Terrorblade (Soul Keeper) - Soul Steal, Conjure Image, Metamorphosis, Sunder²
Kel'Thuzad (Lich) - Frost Nova, Frost Armor, Dark Ritual, Chain Frost(~~ms/as slow~~)
Krobelus (Death Prophet) - Carrion Swarm, Silence, Witchcraft, Exorcism
Lion (Demon Witch) - Impale, Voodoo, Mana Drain, Finger of Death
Lesale Deathbringer (Venomancer) - Venomous Gale, Poison Sting, Plague Ward, Poison Nova
Magnus (Magnataur) - Shockwave, Empower, Mighty Swing, Reverse Polarity
Visage (Necro'lic) - Grave Chill, Soul Assumption, Gravekeeper's Cloak, Raise Revenants
Nessaj (Chaos Knight) - Chaos Bolt, Blink Strike, Critical Strike, Phantasm
Banehallow (Lycanthrope) - Summon Wolves, Howl, Feral Heart, Shapeshift(Critical Strike)
Black Arachnia (Broodmother) - Spawn Spiderlings, Spin Web, Incapacitating Bite(~~slow~~), Insatiable Hunger
Mortred (Phantom Assassin) - Stifling Dagger, Blink Strike, Blur, Coup de Grace

Medusa (Gorgon) - Split Shot, Chain Lightning, Mana Shield, Purge
Balanar (Night Stalker) - Void, Crippling Fear, Hunter in the Night, Darkness
King Leoric (Skeleton King) - Storm Bolt, Vampiric Aura, Critical Strike, Reincarnation
Lucifer (Doom Bringer) - Devour, Scorched Earth, LVL? Death(bonus damage), Doom
Anub'arak (Nerubian Assassin) - Impale, Mana Burn, Spiked Carapace, Vendetta(backstab damage)
Slardar (Slithereen Guard) - Sprint(take more damage*¹), Slithereen Crush, Bash, Amplify Damage
Akasha (Queen of Pain) - Shadow Strike, Blink, Scream of Pain, Sonic Wave
Bone Clinkz (Bone Fletcher) - Strafe, Searing Arrows, Wind Walk, Death Pact
Darkterror (Faceless Void) - Time Walk, Backtrack, Time Lock, Chronosphere
Viper (Netherdrake) - Frenzy(take more damage*¹), Poison Attack, Corrosive Skin, Viper Strike
Razor (Lightning Revenant) - Frenzy(take more damage*¹), Chain Lightning, Unholy Fervor, Storm Seeker
N'aix (Lifestealer) - Rage, Feast, Open Wounds, Infest

Leshrac the Malicious (Tormented Soul) - Split Earth, Diabolic Edict, Lightning Storm, Pulse Nova
Pugna (Oblivion) - Nether Blast, Decrepify, Nether Ward, Life Drain
Leviathan (Tidehunter) - Gush, Kraken Shell, Anchor Smash, Ravage
Atropos (Bane Elemental) - Enfeeble, Brain Sap, Nightmare(killing blow*), Fiend's Grip
Rotund'jere (Necrolyte) - Death Pulse, Heartstopper Aura, Sadist, Reaper's Scythe
Pudge (Butcher) - Meat Hook(~~stun~~), Rot, Flesh Heap, Dismember
Barathrum (Spiritbreaker) - Charge of Darkness, Empowering Haste, Greater Bash, Nether Strike
Anub'seran (Nerubian Weaver) - Watcher, Shukuchi, Geminate Attack, Time Lapse
Nevermore (Shadow Fiend) - Shadowraze, Necromastery, Presence of the Dark Lord, Requiem of Souls
Crixalis (Sand King) - Burrowstrike, Sand Storm, Caustic Finale(AoE damage), Epicenter
Mogul Kahn (Axe) - Berserker's Call, Battle Hunger, Counter Helix, Culling Blade³(killing)/Culling Blade(non-killing)
Strygwyr (Bloodseeker) - Bloodrage(lose hp), Blood Bath, Strygwyr's Thirst, Rupture
Abaddon (Lord of Avernus) - Death Coil(self damage), Aphotic Shield, Frostmourne, Borrowed Time

Mercurial (Spectre) - Spectral Dagger, Desolate, Dispersion, Haunt
Vol'Jin (Witch Doctor) - Paralyzing Cask(~~stun~~), Voodoo Restoration, Maledict, Death Ward
Harbinger (Obsidian Destroyer) - Arcane Orb, Astral Imprisonment, Essence Aura, Sanity's Eclipse
Demnok Lannik (Warlock) - Fatal Bonds(~~target selection~~), Shadow Word, Upheaval, Rain of Chaos: Infernal(Immoliation, Pulverize)
Meepo (Geomancer) - Earthbind, Poof, Geostrike, Divided We Stand
Dazzle (Shadow Priest) - Poison Touch, Shallow Grave, Shadow Wave, Weave
Azgalor (Pit Lord) - Firestorm, Pit of Malice, Expulsion, Dark Rift
Dirge (Undying) - Decay, Soul Rip (drain damage), Tombstone (Deathstrike), Flesh Golem (Plague, slow)
Ish'kafel (Dark Seer) - Vacuum, Ion Shell, Surge, Wall of Replica
Kael (Invoker) - Quas, Wex, Exort, Invoke: EMP⁴, Ice Wall, Ghost Walk, others

¹ One makes you receive 10% of original damage (be it spell damage, normal or unreduced) and the rest 90% of that damage will be received as spell damage and splitted between you and your bear. So if both you and your bear are under the One effect, then you will receive 10% of original damage and 45% of original damage as spell damage. If only you have the One buff, then you will receive 10% of original damage and 90% of original damage as spell damage.

² Sunder - exchanges percentage of hp/max_hp between 2 heroes (one of which is you). If someone of them is magic-immune, then his hp will not change, while hp of his "partner" will change as usual.
This leads to simple conclusions:
1.Cast Sunder on enemy-Avatar - simply raise/lower your own hp to opponent's hp percentage.
2.Cast Sunder while being Avatar - no change in your own hp, and only your opponent will have his hp % changed to your hp %.
3.If both "partners" are magic-immune, then Sunder does no effect.

³ Culling Blade (killing) is actually reduced by armor, but it deals 100 million damage, so even with every amount of damage mitigation in the game, it will still kill anything that is below the HP threshold. The red color was chosen as more appropriate, so people wouldn't think they can buy armor to counter Axe's ulti.

⁴ EMP deals magic damage if it is about to kill a target, in other cases (where the enemy does not die) it uses direct HP removal.

* When you cast Nightmare on a target, you deal 5 damage. The target goes to sleep and is invulnurable for ~1 second. On the FIRST damage tic, if the target already has less than or equal to 20 HP, Nightmare is removed (The target wakes up and lives). Else, the target will lose 20 hp per tic (unreduced) untill they are at 20 hp or less. Then Nightmare will deal 50 damage (hence the 'killing blow'). This means that it is possible for a Hero to survive the killing blow if he has enough spell resistance (perhaps only Anti-Mage).

*¹ Extra damage taken will be of the same type as the incoming damage. For example, if you were hit by normal damage, then the extra damage will be normal too and will be reduced by armor (but not by shield blocking skills though, because they are only applied for the incoming damage). Since the type of this damage depends on the type of the source damage and is reduced/unreduced same as the source damage, no color was chosen to avoid confusion

If those who helped me with this list are not mistaking , the list now contains correct information about all skills.

Garena Skin for Friendster now Available

2009-02-25T09:12:00.000-08:00

eat news for DotA lovers out there! We just released our third Friendster skin featuring some cool DotA heroes.. Try them now!

Have your Friendster profile sport a cool and personal look! A look that is loud and clear telling everyone in your circle of peers, who you are and where you're from! Use the Garena Skin for Friendster now! We will be releasing more cool Garena Skin Designs for Friendster soon, giving you more choices to choose from!

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Credits: Lolcano for designing the first Garena Friendster Skin.

Just follow these 4 easy steps to use the skin:

1) Download the zip file for the code, extract the file and copy the code inside.

Download Skin 1 Code here:
skin1.zip (255 Bytes)

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skin2.zip (257 Bytes)


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2) Log in to your Friendster account and go to "Edit Profile".

3) Paste the code in #1 in the "Describe Who You Want to Meet:" field. (NOTE: If your "Describe Who You Want to Meet:" field has an existing content, paste this code after the last character of the existing content.

4) Click on "Save" after pasting the code. Congratulations! You are now using the Garena Friendster Skin!

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Guide To Viewing Replays on Dota

2009-02-24T18:45:00.001-08:00

Guide To Viewing Replays

How replay Works:

A Warcraft III replay is actually loading a map as you would do when you play. But instead of you controlling the game, the Warcraft III is actually reading a script (the replay file) and following it. This leads to a much smaller file size than if Blizzard made the replay to be like a video, because all that is in a replay file is the events that was played out in the game.

Limitations:

1) You can't rewind a replay.
2) Your WarCraft III versions should match with the version in which version game has been played.

What you Should Do Before Downloading a Replay:

1)Your version of Warcraft III must be same as the version the replay was saved in. Replays are not backward-compatible, (e.g: a 1.20 version replay cannot be played on a 1.21 version of Warcraft III.)

2)Put the Maps in X:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Maps\Download in Download Folder,If there is no Download Folder make yourself by right-clicking > New > Folder. Rename this Folder to Download (Case Sensitive) and get maps only from getdota.com. Where X is the letter of a Hard Drive name like C, D, E, F, .... in which your Warcraft III is installed.

3)Put the downloaded replays in X:\Program Files\Warcraft III\replay in replay folder.

Viewing Replays:

Go to Single Player

Click Option View Replay

Select Replay and Click View Replay Or Double-Click it to View Replay.

Saving a Replay:

1)Rename your LastReplay.w3g to some thing else (e.g; My_Tiny_11-4.w3g). LastReplay.w3g file is the last game you played.

2)When game finishes, there is an option Save Replay, Click it and Name this file.

Replay files should be saved at your X:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Replays folder, where X is the letter of the drive where Warcraft III is installed.

Errors:

1)The map file associated with the replay could not be found.

Please Make sure the map file 'Maps\Download\DotA Allstars vX.xx' used by the recorded exists and try again.

Do as the RED line indicates.
Solution:
You need to download the required DotA Allstars vX.xx (say v6.37) and put the downloaded map into your Warcraft III\Maps\Download Folder (As the screen shot above suggested).

Actually, the location / folder depends on wherever the replay saver had kept the particular map. In "most" cases, people place this inside the download folder, but it does vary from person to person.

Links to Maps:

2)This replay data is for different version of Warcraft III

Solution:
You have to patch your version of WarCraft III: TFT to the latest patch (1.21) ether by:
A: Clicking on the Battle.net button on the main menu of WarCraft.
or
B: Going to the following link and downloading the patch.
Battle.Net Patch/The Frozen Throne Patch Information.

To view Old patch Replays, Check this link Viewing old patch replays

3) The replay file could not be loaded

Solution:
The replay file is incomplete, corrupt, or was a game that was played over GGClient/ListChecker/Hamachi.
A: Download the replay again, but instead of saving it to your computer. Just open it directly.

B: Download the replay with a download manager.
Note: Compare the size of the downloaded replay with the uploaded file. It needs to exactly match with the uploaded one.

UseFul Links:

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Index.php Issue

When you download the replay with a Download Manager, It's default that it will save the replay in index.php as shown in the screen shots:

Better Rename (Save As:) the index.php to ReplayName.w3g when you start downloading. If you forgot to rename the index.php to ReplayName.w3g, When the file finished Downloading rename the file to ReplyName.w3g. Download manager's also auto rename the file.

To rename the file from index.php to ReplyName.w3g, changing the extension. First of all, you got to make sure that your windows shows the extensions. Do this by going to Tools > Folder Options from My Computer. Then select the 'View' Tab and make sure that the 'Hide Extensions to know File Types' Box is unchecked.

Common abbreviations in DotA Allstars

2009-02-23T20:33:00.000-08:00

Items - Item: Other names

Aegis of the Immortal: Aegis
Aghanim's Scepter: Scepter, Aghanim's
Ancient Tango of Essifation: Tango, tree eater
Animal Courier: Chicken
Arcane Ring:
Battle Fury: BF
Belt of Giant Strength:
Black King Bar: BKB
Blade Mail:
Blades of Alacrity:
Blades of Attack:
Boots of Elvenskin:
Boots of Speed: Boots, BoS
Boots of Travel: BoT
Bracer:
Broadsword:
Buriza-do Kyanon: Buriza
Chain Mail: Chain
Circlet of Nobility: Circlet
Clarity Potion: clarity, mana pot
Claymore:
Cranium Basher: Basher
Crow Courier: Crow
Crystalys: Crys
Dagon:
Demon Edge: DE
Diffusal Blade: Diffusal
Divine Rapier: Divine, Rapier, DR
Eaglehorn: Eagle
Empty Bottle: Bottle
Energy Booster:
Eul's Scepter of Divinity: Eul's
Eye of Skadi: EoS, Skadi
Flask of Sapphire Water: Flask, Water
Gem of True Sight: Gem
Gauntlets of Ogre Strength: Gauntlets
Gloves of Haste: Gloves
Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse: Guinsoo's, sheepstick
Hand of Midas: HoM, Midas
Headdress of Rejuvination: Headdress
Heart of Tarrasque: HoT, Heart
Helm of Iron Will: Helm
Helm of the Dominator: HotD, HoD
Hyperstone: Hyper
Ironwood Branch: branch, gg branch, ironwoods
Kelen's Dagger of Escape: Dagger, blink dagger, DoE
Linken's Sphere: Linken's
Lothar's Edge: Lothar's
Maelstrom: Mael
Manta Style: Manta
Mantle of Intelligence: Mantle
Mask of Death: Mask
Mask of Madness: MoM
Mekansm: Mek, Meka
Messerschmidt's Reaver: Reaver, messer, messerschmidt
Mithril Hammer: Hammer
Mjollnir:
Monkey King Bar: MKB
Mystic Staff:
Necronomicon: Book, necro book, nomicon
Netherezim Buckler: Buckler
Null Talisman: Null
Oblivion Staff: Oblivion
Observer Wards: obs wards
Ogre Axe:
Perseverance: Pers
Planeswalker's Cloak: Cloak
Plate Mail:
Point Booster:
Power Treads: Treads
Quarterstaff:
Radiance:
Refresher Orb: Refresher
Ring of Basilius: RoB
Ring of Health: RoH
Ring of Protection:
Ring of Regeneration: RoR
Robe of the Magi: Robe
Sacred Relic: relic, sacred
Sange:
Sange and Yasha: S&Y, SnY, S+Y
Satanic:
Scroll of Town Portal: scroll, tp scroll
Sentry Wards: wards
Slippers of Agility:
Sobi Mask: Sobi
Soul Booster:
Staff of Wizardry:
Stout Shield: Stout
Stygian Desolator: Deso, Desolator, Styg, Stygian
The Butterfly: Butterfly, Butter
Ultimate Orb: Ulti orb, Orb
Vanguard:
Vitality Booster:
Vladmir's Offering:
Void Stone: Void
Wraith Band: Wraith
Yasha:

Heroes - Proper name, class, commonly refered to as.

Abaddon, the Lord of Avernus: LoA, Abaddon, Avernus
Aggron Stonebreaker, the Ogre Magi: Ogre Magi, Ogre
Aiushtha, the Enchantress: Enchantress, Enchant
Akasha, the Queen of Pain: QoP, Queen
Anub'arak, the Nerubian Assassin: Nerub, NA
Anub'seran, the Nerubian Weaver: Nerub, Weaver
Atropos, the Bane Elemental: Bane
Azwraith, the Phantom Lancer: PL, Lancer, Azwraith
Balanar, the Night Stalker: NS
Banehallow, the Lycanthrope: Lycan, Bane, Wolf
Barathrum, the Spiritbreaker: SB, Cow
Black Arachnia, the Broodmother: Spider, Brood, BM
Bone Clinkz, the Bone Fletcher: Clinkz, Bone, Fletcher
Boush, the Tinker: Tinker
Bradwarden, the Centaur Warchief: Centaur, Brad, Cent
Chen, the Holy Knight: Chen
Crixalis, the Sand King: Sand King, SK
Darchrow, the Enigma: Enigma, Nigma
Darkterror, the Faceless Void: Void, Faceless, Darkterror, FV
Demnok Lennik, the Warlock: Warlock
Ezalor, the Keeper of the Light: KotL, Keeper
Furion, the Prophet: Furion, Prophet
Gondar, the Bounty Hunter: BH, Bounty
Harbinger, the Obsidian Destroyer: Harbinger, OD, Obs
Jah'rakal, the Troll Warlord: Troll
Jakiro, the Twin Head Dragon: Jakiro
Kardel Sharpeye, the Dwarven Sniper: Sniper
Kel'Thuzad, the Lich: Lich
King Leoric, the Skeleton King: SK, Leo
Knight Davion, the Dragon Knight: DK
Krobelus, the Death Prophet: DP
Lesale Deathbringer, the Venomancer: Veno, Venom
Leshrac the Malicious, the Tormented Soul: Leshrac, Lesh
Leviathan, the Tidehunter: TH, Levi, Tide
Lina Inverse, the Slayer: Lina, Slayer
Lion, the Demon Witch:Lion
Lucifer, the Doom Bringer: Doom, Lucy
Luna Moonfang, the Moon Rider: Luna
Magina, the Anti-Mage: AM, Magina
Magnus, the Magnataur:Magnus
Mangix, the Pandaren Battlemaster: Panda
Medusa, the Gorgon: Dusa, Medusa
Mercurial, the Spectre: Spectre, Spec, (also, residing from older versions: Vengeance, Avatar, AoV)
Mogul Kahn, the Axe: Axe
Morphling, the Morphling: Morphling, Morph
Mortred, the Phantom Assassin: PA, Mortred, Mort
N'aix, the Lifestealer: Naix
Nessaj, the Chaos Knight: CK, Chaos
Nevermore, the Shadow Fiend: Nevermore, Fiend
Nortrom, the Silencer: Silencer
Pudge, the Butcher: Pudge, Butcher
Pugna, the Oblivion: Pugna
Purist Thunderwrath, the Omniknight: Omni, Omniknight
Raigor Stonehoof, the Earthshaker: Earthshaker, ES
Razor, the Lightning Revenant: Razor
Razzil Darkbrew, the Alchemist: Alch
Rexxar, the Beast Master: Rexxar, BM
Rhasta, the Shadow Shaman: Rhasta
Rigwarl, the Bristleback: Bristle, BB, Rigwarl
Rikimaru, the Stealth Assassin: Riki, SA
Rooftrellen, the Treant Protector: Roof, Tree
Rotund'Jere, the Necrolyte: Necrolyte
Rylai Crestfall, the Crystal Maiden: CM, Rylai, Crystal
Shandelzare Silkwood, the Vengeful Spirit: VS, Venge
Slardar, the Slithereen Guard: Slardar
Slithice, the Naga Siren: Siren
Squee and Spleen, the Goblin Techies: Techies
Strygwyr, the Bloodseeker: BS, Strygwyr, Blood, Seeker
Sven, the Rogue Knight: Sven
Syllabear, the Lone Druid: Sylla
Terrorblade, the Soul Keeper: TB, SK
Tiny, the Mountain Giant: Tiny
Traxex, the Drow Ranger: Drow
Ulfsaar, the Ursa Warrior: Ulfsaar, Ursa, Fuzzy-Wuzzy
Viper, the Netherdrake: Viper
Visage, the Necro'lic: Visage, Necrolic
Vol'Jin, the Witch Doctor: Witch Doctor, WD
Yurnero, the Juggernaut: Jug, Jugger
Zeus, the Lord of Olympia: Zeus

Other abbreviations in DotA Allstars:

Area of Effect: AoE
Backstab: bs
Barracks: rax (the buildings, that if lost, enhances the opponents' team's creeps)
Bullshit: bs
Damage over time: dot
Double Damage: dd
Forfeit: ff
Good game: gg
Gang bang: gb
Invisible: Invis
Kill steal: ks
Maphack: mh
Missing in action: mia
Public game: pub, pubbie
Regeneration: regen
Retreat, back: b
Rematch: re, rm
Remake: re, rmk, rm
Shadow Strike: ss
Ultimate ability: ulti
Wind Walk: ww

Other lingo in DotA Allstars:

Backdoor: Attacking the opponents buildings while none of your team's creeps (Sentinel / Scourge) are there.
Buff: Buff can refer to either an in-game ability which gives positive bonuses to the target, or a WC3 feature called buffs (seen in the status bar of the hero) or the act of making someone or something stronger.
Creeps: Any unit not controlledby a player, be it neutral creeps or Sentinel and Scourge creeps.
Creep denying: Killing your own creeps, when they have low enough health, so that your opponents do not get any expereince or money from them.
Farm: Kill creeps quickly to gain a lot of money and experience.
Feeder: Someone who dies a lot to the other team, so that they gain experience and money.
Gang bang: Going multiple heroes on a single opponent, so you surely will kill him easily.
Gank: Synonymous to gangbang.
Griefer: Someone who on purpose destroys for his own team.
Imba: Abbreviation of imbalanced, commonly used to describe something that is overpowered, but can also be used as describing something that is too weak.
Inhouse: A clan game, or a game with arranged teams.
Leaver: Someone who leaves a game (synonymous to quitter)
Missing in action: Used to note that a hero has gone missing from the lane he was in, possibly to attack another hero.
Newbie: Someone who is new to the game. Sometimes used as a derogatory term.
Nerf: The act of making someone or something weaker.
Nuke: An ability which is mainly used to deal damage, and generally has a relatively low cooldown. Can also be the imperative form of "to nuke". Ex Nuke him!
Noob: Can be someone who is new to the game, someone who is stubborn and does not listen to advice, or someone who just plays very very bad. Often used as a derogatory term.
Pooling: Giving items to another player, for him to keep.
Push: To focus on helping your creeps advance in one lane, as well as taking down enemy heroes and towers.
Roshan: The strong, giant, purple golem that can be found southeast of the "secret" shop on the Scourge side.
Secret shop: The two shops that are located outside of the normal bases.
Slow: An ability which reduces the target's movement speed.
Stun: An ability which is mainly used to stun an opponent. Can also be the imperative form of "to stun". Ex: Stun him!
Tank: Either someone who has a lot of health and armour, so he can take a lot of damage, or the act of taking a lot of damage for the team.
Quitter: Someone who quits the game (synonymous to leaver)

Dota Beta Signup

2009-02-23T00:31:00.000-08:00

Ever wanted to play new version of Dota? Time to for you to apply for Beta Tester. IceFrog need more dedicated beta testers with free time and experience in DotA. If you signed up before, feel free to submit another application (there were some lost applications at one point).

Sing Up Here

8th DotA Hero Guide Contest on Garena

2009-02-17T18:28:00.000-08:00

Make yourself known as one of the gurus of DotA and get a chance to win great prizes!

Contest Prizes:

Champion: 40 Shells 2 months Premium Membership + 10,000 EXP!
1st Runner-up: 20 Shells 45 days Premium Membership + 8,000 EXP!
2nd Runner-up:10 Shells 1 month Premium Membership + 5,000 EXP!
*All participants who fulfill the basic requirements will be awarded 2,000 EXP

HERO SELECTION:

Participants may create a guide on any of the following:

Hero Guide for Tidehunter
Hero Guide for Sandking
Hero Guide for Earthshaker

Participants are allowed to send more than one entry. Judges will choose which guide has a better chance of winning. If in any case both guides have winning placement, the one with the higher rank will be chosen to qualify. The top winners of each hero will automatically qualify their guides in our very own premium hero guide section.

The organizer of the HGC have decided 3 heroes with great stun skills as the choices for this contest. So, what are you guys waiting for ? Make your choice and go for it..

CONTENT:

Only complete guides will be chosen to qualify in the contest. Entries should have the following requirements to qualify:

Hero Details

-A short introduction about the hero.
-Basic details, description, story behind.
-Stat growth, technical stuff
-Role in the team

Skill Build

-Walk through of your proposed skill placement from levels 1 to 25.
-Explanations and reasons why it was placed that way.
-Alternate build

Item Build

-Proposed items to buy.
-Basic order of buying, from early to late game.
-Alternate and other advisable items during end game.

Strategy

-Basic walk through from early to late game.
-Team play and basic skill techniques

Replay

- At least two replays should be included in your guide, one which is originally yours where the player using the hero or item is the creator of the guide and one where a player from a competitive team is using the specified hero or item in any major tournaments in or out side Garena.
- All replays sent should have been played using DotA Version 6.58b or 6.59 ONLY. The patch would be 1.22 ONLY

Map

- All entries must use Dota Version 6.58b or 6.59 ONLY. Any other maps used will result in disqualification.

Entries that do not have the following requirements will be disqualified. Entries should also be original and self composition. Any form of plagiarism of any vital parts of the guide will result to disqualification. You can add other sections if you want but these are the core content that your guides need to have.

ENTRY SUBMISSION:

Post your guides in the [Strategy Zone] of Dota Allstars Category, put the title in the following format
[HGC8 Entry]Title of your guide.

Deadline for submission is 15th March 2009 [You have 1 month to do the guide].

Click here to go to the entry submission forum

Source: Garena Forum

New Video Ads From Planet DotA

2009-02-14T22:32:00.000-08:00

Watch this video ads from PLANET DOTA. Please comments after watching thanks..

DotA Allstars v6.59c Release

2009-02-13T18:09:00.000-08:00

Icefrog just release a fix for .59, now its 6.59c.

changelogs:
* Fix a couple of recently discovered exploits

Language:	English
Date:	2009-02-13
MD5:	3c26dc9e5a6465bda0174bc928be30d9
Filesize:	3.22 Mb

www.getdota.com

Priestess of the Moon: What Orb Effect to have?

2009-02-13T17:50:00.000-08:00

In my experience of using Priestess of the Moon Mirana, at first, I spam her skill Starfall to farm and target to buy first some useful items like Vanguard for much life and later replace it with better items. Now, the question is, what orb effect item is very suitable for Mirana? Here is the following list and description on how it effects Mirana in the game:

Skadi - As we all know, having Skadi on the item slot gives such great aura on the hero when it has one. If Mirana has Skadi, it is very beneficial on her because it affects her offensively and defensively in the game. The Frost Attack is very useful for taking down enemies. At the same time, Skadi gives her lots of life and mana to spam all her useful skills.

Sange & Yasha - This item on her gives just a medium positive effect. Maiming enemies is great but its only by chance, unlike the Frost Attack which is per hit. She will acquire attack speed, movement speed, life, and some damage. Well, as one of the user of Mirana, Skadi and Sange & Yasha are stocking with range heroes. Obtaining both items is surely very beneficial on Mirana. Imagine the convenience on having both items on her.

Maelstrom/Mjolnir - Ok, lets talk about Mjolnir in here. Having this item gives only a very offensive effect on Mirana. This item gives huge additional damage, a good passive chain lightning on enemies only by chance, some armor, and attack speed of course. In my opinion, the purpose of having this item is purely through farming.

Desolator - Now, isn't this the cheapest among my list of orb effect here? Having Desolator on her is such a waste of time and money. This has nothing to do with her and even help to win in the battle. This is purely a self-fish item for me. This is just an item that increases your attack damage, that's all. I bet you can't kill enemy hero with this item on her.

That is all my opinion on such orb effect item possible Mirana might have in the game. Its up to us of course what item is more suitable with her. Also it all depends on the flow of the game, so better check the environment first before doing such act.

Posted by Corlock
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Dagger of Escape

2009-02-13T17:46:00.000-08:00

The item that lets the bearer teleports a short distance. Perfect for escaping or chasing an enemy. Having this item makes a lot of advantage against your opponents. Now, who are the heroes that best fit for this item? Here is the list of heroes that, in my opinion, got to have Dagger of Escape:
Earthshaker - perfect for his ultimate skill Echo Slam. Blink-in in the middle of the mob then cast it.
Sand King - casting Epi Center first then blink-in to the enemies. Definitely need to do some practice on this for better result.
Crystal Maiden - teleporting in the middle of the mob then cast Freezing Field. The same as Earthshaker.
Enigma - perfect for his ultimate Black Hole. Same procedure as Earthshaker and Crystal Maiden.
Magnataur - same as Enigma, Earthshaker, and Crystal Maiden. Perfect for Reverse Polarity.
Bradwarden - good for his Hoof Stomp to stun enemies more accurately when used strategically.
Slardar - same as Bradwarden. For better result in his Slithereen Crush.

Posted by Corlock
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