Yearly archives "2018"

• Patch notes
  • Update 1
    • Economy
      • Feast of Abscession Bundle (Arcana for Pudge)
        • contains:
        • Feast of Abscession (Arcana for Pudge)
        • Taunt: Skip to the Good Stuff! (Mythical for Pudge)
        • Abscession Emoticon Pack (Mythical for Pudge)
  • Update 2
    • Fixed Pudge Arcana Hook Counter. It used to reach 20 and then jump back repeatedly.
    • Couple of visual fixes to the Pudge Arcana Landing page.
    • Fixed a couple of issues with the Arcana hook particle effects.
    • Some localization updates.

More info at April 03, 2018 Patch – Dota 2 Wiki.

Update size: 363,1 MegaBytes

• Patch notes
  • Localization
    • Localization updates for Pudge Arcana and other recent content across various languages.
  • Particles, Audio and Animation
    • The particle effect for Iron Wood Branch tree has been improved on the backend. Rather than being a single particle system, it now inherits the particles from multiple child particles.
    • Minor tweaks and updates to Earth Spirit’s Boulder Smash debris particle and Geomagnetic Grip gold particle.
    • Updated a couple of response rules for Pudge related to Shiva’s Guard and Sheep Stick.

More info at April 04, 2018 Patch – Dota 2 Wiki.

Update size: Not Specified

• Patch notes
  • Dota Plus
    • Adjusted the Hero Level XP and Shard reward curve to make earlier levels more easily attainable, with the total XP to reach Level 25 (and total Shards rewarded) remaining the same. Users’ total earned XP for each hero thus far have been remapped to the new level and users were granted any missing shards that they may have missed in the new curve.
    • Common relics are now available for direct purchase for 5000 shards each, in addition to the existing random roll option.
  • Economy
    • Added loadout icon for Rune of Abscession.

More info at April 05, 2018 Patch – Dota 2 Wiki.

Update size: 530,6 MegaBytes

General

• Enabled Pangolier in Captain’s Mode.
• Neutral Creep Stack bounty increased from 15% to 20%.

Heroes

Anti-Mage

• Mana Void damage increased from 0.6/0.85/1.1 to 0.8/0.95/1.1.

Arc Warden

• Flux cooldown reduced from 18 to 16.
• Magnetic Field AoE increased from 275 to 300.

Axe

• Battle Hunger duration increased from 10 to 12.

Bounty Hunter

• Shuriken Toss manacost increased from 120/130/140/150 to 150.

Bloodseeker

• Thirst linger bonus duration increased from 2 to 4.

Chen

• Holy Persuasion can no longer target non-player allied creeps.

Clinkz

• Strafe duration increased from 3 to 3.5 seconds.

Crystal Maiden

• Base damage increased by 3.
• Arcane Aura self mana regen increased from 1/2/3/4 to 1.3/2.2/3.1/4.

Dark Seer

• Vacuum
  • AoE increased from 250/350/450/550 to 400/450/500/550.
  • Cooldown rescaled from 32 to 60/50/40/30.
  • Cast range rescaled from 500 to 450/500/550/600.
  • Pull duration increased from 0.5 to 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6.
  • Damage rescaled from 40/80/120/160 to 25/50/100/200.
• Wall of Replica
• Incoming illusion damage reduced from 400% to 300%.
• Width increased from 1000 to 1300.

Dark Willow

• Terrorize cast time increased from 0.8 to 1.0.
• Bedlam cooldown increased from 40/30/20 to 40/35/30.

Dazzle

• Poison Touch damage increased from 10/20/30/40 to 10/24/38/52.

Death Prophet

• Spirit Siphon charge restore time increased from 45 to 60/55/50/45.
• Silence manacost increased from 80 to 80/90/100/110.

Disruptor

• Static Storm no longer lingers on your hero for 0.5 seconds after walking away from the AoE (it already ends immediately once the spell is over).
• Kinetic Field cooldown increased from 13/12/11/10 to 19/16/13/10.

Drow Ranger

• Precision Aura attack damage bonus increased from 10/18/26/34% to 10/20/30/40%.

Elder Titan

• Echo Stomp Initial Stun duration reduced from 0.8 to 0.2.

Ember Spirit

• Base armor increased by 1.

Enchantress

• Untouchable slow rescaled from 40/70/100/130 to 20/60/100/140.
• Enchant
  • Cooldown rescaled from 30/24/18/12 to 55/40/25/10.
  • Slow increased from 2.25/3.5/4.75/6 to 3/4/5/6.
  • Dominate duration rescaled from 80 to 50/60/70/80.
• Impetus manacost rescaled from 55/60/65 to 40/55/70.

Gyrocopter

• Flak Cannon cooldown increased from 30 to 40.
• Homing Missile hits to destroy reduced from 3/3/4/4 to 3.

Io

• Base damage reduced by 4.
• Tether
  • Now sets your movement speed to match the tethered target’s speed.
  • No longer has a duration.
  • Movement speed rescaled from 10/12/14/16% to 7/10/13/16%.
  • Regen sharing rescaled from 1.5x to 1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5.
• Relocate cooldown increased from 120/100/80 to 130/110/90.

Leshrac

• Base movement speed increased from 325 to 330.
• Lightning Storm
  • Damage rescaled from 50/100/150/200 to 80/120/160/200.
  • Slow duration rescaled from 0.7/0.8/0.9/1.0 to 0.4/0.6/0.8/1.0.
  • Cast point reduced from 0.45 to 0.4.

Lich

• Sacrifice mana conversion increased from 30/50/70/90 to 55/70/85/100.

Lifestealer

• Open Wounds manacost increased from 140/130/120/110 to 140.

Lion

• Earth Spike manacost rescaled from 100/120/140/160 to 70/100/130/160.

Magnus

• Skewer AoE increased from 125 to 135.
• Reverse Polarity stun duration increased from 2.25/3/3.75 to 2.75/3.25/3.75.

Mirana

• Base attack damage range from 39-50 to 43-48.

Monkey King

• Wukong’s Command soldier attack rate improved from 1.4 to 1.3.

Necrophos

• Heartstopper Aura increased from 0.5/1/1.5/2% to 0.5/1.1/1.7/2.3%.
• Death Pulse manacost rescaled from 125/145/165/185 to 100/130/160/190.

Ogre Magi

• Multicast no longer increases Fire Blast manacost.

Omniknight

• Repel manacost increased from 50 to 85.

Phantom Assassin

• Stifling Dagger can be targeted on Spell Immune (the slow won’t have any effect, but the physical damage will go through).

Phoenix

• Supernova
  • Radius increased from 1000 to 1300
  • Now turns night into day for the duration (has highest priority).

Razor

• Static Link cast range reduced from 600 to 550 (break range still 800).
• Unstable Current damage reduced from 100/130/160/190 to 60/100/140/180.

Riki

• Reworked Tricks of the Trade
  • Instead of hitting every hero in the AoE once per second, it hits a random hero once per 0.5/0.45/0.4 seconds.
  • Will hit creeps if there are no heroes available.
  • Duration increased from 3/4/5 to 4/5/6.

Rubick

• Telekinesis cooldown increased from 22 to 28/26/24/22.

Sand King

• Burrowstrike stun duration rescaled from 2.17 to 1.9/2.0/2.1/2.2.
• Base movement speed reduced from 295 to 290.

Shadow Demon

• Demonic Purge
  • Slow now always scales linearly with time from 100% to 20%.
  • Cooldown increased from 40 to 60 (affects charge replenish).
  • Duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds.
  • No longer roots non-hero units for 3 seconds.
  • Now continuously dispels the target.

Slark

• Base HP regen increased from 1.5 to 2.75.
• Turn rate improved from 0.5 to 0.6.

Slardar

• Guardian Sprint
  • No longer has a 15% damage amplification.
  • Duration reduced from 12 to 10.

Sniper

• Assassinate manacost reduced from 175/275/375 to 175/225/275.

Spectre

• Spectral Dagger damage increased from 50/100/150/200 to 90/140/190/240.

Spirit Breaker

• Empowering Haste
  • Active no longer reduces your movement speed afterwards.
  • Cooldown increased from 12 to 20.

Templar Assassin

• Movement speed increased from 300 to 310.

Timbersaw

• Chakram
  • Manacost per second reduced from 20/25/30 to 16/23/30.
  • Initial manacost reduced from 100/150/200 to 80/140/200.

Tiny

• Base Health Regen reduced from 2.5 to 1.5.
• Avalanche cooldown increased from 17 to 20/19/18/17.

Treant Protector

• Base intelligence increased by 3.

Troll Warlord

• Berserker’s Rage base attack time improved from 1.5 to 1.45.

Tusk

• Ice Shards cooldown increased from 19/16/13/10 to 21/18/15/12.

Undying

• Undying Zombie critical health attack speed boost increased from 50 to 75.
• Flesh Golem hero kill heal increased from 10% to 15/20/25%.

Warlock

• Golem‘s attack damage increased from 75/100/125 to 75/125/175.

Windranger

• Fixed some clunkiness with how Windranger attacks the target during Focus Fire.

Winter Wyvern

• Base intelligence increased by 1.
• Arctic Burn attack range changed from 275/375/475/575 to 350/425/500/575 .

Zeus

• Base damage increased by 5.
• Attack range increased from 350 to 380.

Items

Clarity

• Mana Regeneration reduced from 3.2 to 3.0.

Heart of Tarrasque

• Strength increased from 40 to 45.

Moon Shard

• Attack Speed increased from 120 to 130.

Nullifier

• Projectile speed decreased from 1200 to 900.

Refresher Orb

• Mana regeneration increased from 3 to 5.

Satanic

• Duration increased from 4.5 to 5 seconds.

Silver Edge

• Break duration decreased from 5 to 4 seconds.
• Cooldown reduced from 24 to 22.

Skull Basher

• Bash duration increased from 1.4 to 1.5.

Abyssal Blade

• Bash duration increased from 1.4 to 1.5.

Spirit Vessel

• Enemy current health based damage changed from 3% Direct HP modification to 4.5% magical damage.