Post by Eorl @ 12:42pm 18/10/13 | 24 Comments
Some of the more prominent changes coming in this new beta and eventual release patch include 25% of the remaining respawn time being added to your next death after a buyback, ranged heroes gaining the same deny XP as melee heroes, starting gold increased from 602 to 625 and a movement speed increase of 350 from 300 for animal couriers.
For the full list of patch notes check out the DOTA 2 beta thread and expect the patch to hit sometime within the next week or so after testing on the beta client of the MOBA (which is open to all).
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Posted 01:25pm 18/10/13
* Swapped the medium pullable Neutral Camp with the small camp
* A neutral creeps camp will no longer spawn the same set of neutral creeps twice in a row
* Day/Night length decreased from 6 to 4 minutes
* Roshan will respawn at a random time between 8 and 11 minutes after death
* When Aegis expires unused, it heals the hero fully over 5 seconds (regen dispels on damage from players or buildings)
* Can no longer orb-attack while attack restricted (such as Ethereal or Frostbite) (huskar fixed????)
Many heroes now have dodgeable spells/stuns that was previously not the case.
Axe - Culling Blade no longer goes on cooldown if it successfully kills a hero
Bloodseeker - Thirst is now global instead of 6000 range
CK - Chaos Bolt damage and stun values are now inversely related
Enigma - Added Aghanim's upgrade: Adds Midnight Pulse damage to your Black Hole. This damage stacks with Midnight Pulse.
IO - Tether now does a -100% MS/AS slow instead of a stun
Luna - Eclipse Scepter beam count limit per target removed
Nyx - Impale no longer has unit targeting, it is now only a point targeted spell
Pudge - Can now use Blink Dagger
Pug - Nether Ward now requires 3 hits to kill instead of 75/150/225/300 HP (heroes hurt it for 1, others for 0.25)
Riki - Riki is no longer revealed out of Permanent Invisibility when he casts spells or uses items
Rubrick - Rubick can no longer steal the Aghanim upgrade of the enemy if they have Aghanim and he doesn't
Rubrick - Added Aghanim's upgrade: reduces cooldown from 20/18/16 to 5, increases cast range from 1000 to 1400 and makes all stolen spells be considered to have their Aghanim's upgrade
SK - Removed Mortal Strike active
Skywrath - Added Aghanim's upgrade: reduces Mystic Flare's cooldown from 60/40/20 to 20/10/0
SB - Nether Strike now uses 1.2 Cast Time instead of a 1 sec magic immune delay (can be interrupted as a result)
VS - Can now use Blink Dagger
Viper - Poison Attack cooldown reduced from 4/3/0/0 to 0 (mega harass early game)
WR - Focus Fire remains sticky on the target you cast it on
Boot upgrades movement speed changed.
Courier - Movement speed increased from 300 to 350
Courier - HP increased from 45 to 75
Armlet - Unholy Strength has no toggle on or off cooldown
Bottle - Gold cost increased from 600 to 650
Dust - Slow increased from 10 to 15%
Flying courier - Cannot be purchased until 3 minutes after creeps spawn
Gem - Gold cost increased from 850 to 900
Linken's - Linken's Sphere can now be cast on an allied hero to transfer the buff
Obs ward - Duration increased from 6 to 7 minutes
Sentry ward - Duration increased from 3 to 4 minutes
Sb - Shadow Walk cooldown increased from 18 to 28
Smoke - Smoked units are now always hidden until the buff is removed (rather than being hidden only from minimap and partially from world)
Tango - Charges increased from 3 to 4
Tango - Gold cost increased from 90 to 125
Tranquil boots - Big rework
Posted 02:11pm 18/10/13
what I do like: no orbs in eth form ie cya ghost scepter huskar you f*****.
what I don't like: slark ulti can't be revealed by any form of true sight. f*** that.
also the changes to bloodseeker sound kind of retarded. oh and blink now available on pudge, as if he wasn't annoying enough in underwarded pubs xD
oh yeah and no cd culling blade should be hilarious.
last edited by reload! at 14:11:23 18/Oct/13
Posted 02:22pm 18/10/13
I cannot wait to see what teams like Navi, Alliance, DK do with these changes.
People are speculating that this might be the end of DOTA1 parity as some of these features can't be ported to the WC3 engine properly.
Posted 02:35pm 18/10/13
S*** like the tranquil boots rework will really affect early game over certain heroes like ursa, axe, PL who used to use the boots for early game HP regen then disassemble for later game items.
Jungle changes seem pretty major 2 with less exp for many of the creeps. I'll have to also check out exactly what camps have been swapped. Are we talking the small camp and the camp that often gets pulled into lane? If so, i wonder how that will affect jungle heroes and lane pulling.
Posted 03:19pm 18/10/13
Did they change it so it's fun to play now?
Posted 05:35pm 18/10/13
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Posted 06:10pm 18/10/13
Posted 11:29pm 18/10/13
Was all excited so I picked Enigma and rushed ags scepter only to realise update hasn't gone through yet :(
Posted 11:40pm 18/10/13
Lol. Did you not see that tangoes had not gone up in price?
Posted 12:33am 19/10/13
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Posted 05:10pm 21/10/13
last edited by Crash at 17:10:16 21/Oct/13
Posted 03:54am 22/10/13
Posted 11:15am 22/10/13
Didnt pick up on the broodmother web changes.
Posted 12:43pm 22/10/13
Can't wait for pudge + blink dagger action. Dunno why it wasn't possible from day one.
Posted 01:35pm 22/10/13
Posted 01:55pm 22/10/13
The vid i posted above showed free movment thru ledges and trees.
Also:
I dont get why pudge and VS couldnt blink cause rubrick, magmus, DS and a few other heroes all can make enemies get stuck in impassable places. As for escaping, i really think everybody should have a TP after the first 5 or 10mins of gameplay (probably even less for pro players).
Posted 06:37pm 22/10/13
Posted 08:00pm 22/10/13
Also like the shorter day/night cycles. Makes for more ganking chances earlier in the game if no FB yet.
Posted 09:06pm 22/10/13
I like and hate this patch. It's fun having all these new changes, but goddamn, I can't seem to win a game today. Most of my team either doesn't know about the changes or is using builds that are now useless because of item changes.
Posted 11:00pm 22/10/13
Posted 11:57pm 22/10/13
so far I've lost 3 out of 3 with the new patch so something is terribly broken
Posted 08:08am 23/10/13
It's not broken. It's just incredibly different. Took a while to get used too, but I think now it's better than ever to not be a carry. Laning is a lot more risky with the "safe" lanes now being a lot further away from the tower and the pull camps are now replaced with easy camp creeps.
My losing streak is over. Semi-carry is where it is. Windrunner for lyf.