Dota 2 Update - July 12th, 2016
6.88b:
- Timbersaw strength gain reduced from 2.1 to 1.8
- Death Prophet base strength reduced by 1
- Spirit Siphon base health drain reduced from 16 to 14
- Metamorphosis manacost increased from 50 to 100
- Metamorphosis no longer lingers after reincarnation/death
- Time Dilation manacost increased from 50 to 75
- Astral Spirit vision reduced from 450 to 400
- Beastmaster Boar XP bounty increased from 59 to 60/70/80/90
- Riki's Blink Strike damage reduced from 60/80/100/120 to 55/70/85/100
- Lane Creeps now give 20% of XP when denied by neutrals rather than 0% (normal player denies give 50% XP)
- Astral Imprisonment damage increased from 75/150/225/300 to 100/175/250/325
- Arcane Orb intelligence duration increased from 60 to 80
- Bloodlust manacost reduced from 75 to 50
- Meepo agility growth increased from 1.9 to 2.2
- Stone Form cooldown reduced from 26 to 20
- Arcane Curse damage increased from 14/21/28/35 to 14/22/30/38
- Brewmaster Boulder damage increased from 50 to 50/100/150
- Brewmaster Dispel Magic damage to illusions and summoned units increased from 500 to 850
- Press the Attack's attack speed bonus increased from 60/80/100/120 to 65/90/115/140
- Sniper turn rate improved from 0.6 to 0.7
- Sniper night vision increased from 1000 to 1100
- Warlock Golems HP increased from 900/1350/1800 to 1000/1500/2000
- Thirst bonus rescaled from 10/20/30/40% to 16/24/32/40%
- Lightning Bolt ministun increased from 0.1 to 0.2
- Stampede slow duration increased from 1.5 to 1.8
- Shadow Fiend movement speed increased from 310 to 315
- Living Armor cooldown reduced from 32/26/20/14 to 30/24/18/12
- Dismember strength based damage increased from 30/40/50 to 30/45/60%
- Sand Storm cooldown reduced from 40/30/20/10 to 34/26/18/10
- Epicenter manacost reduced from 175/250/325 to 150/225/300
- Empower cleave AoE increased from 225 to 240
Legacy of the Fallen Legion
New Immortal
Legacy of the Fallen | Preview | The alternate style is unlocked when you finish the Quest Line. | Cannot be traded or marketed. Is Giftable.
Underlord Tease
The Underlord Teaser image from yesterday will show up when you finish the LC Quest along with the text mentioned below.
When at last the beast was rent in two, the Three began to falter. The horde was gone, Quath's people lived still, and the power of the Aldwyn Scrolls was extinguished.
TI6 Battle Pass
Backend Some code has been added for game predictions and etc from the Compendium.
Courier Snipe and Aegis Snatched prediction have been removed from that list.
Economy Updates
Others
A small typo in the name of the Dark History Pauldrons has been fixed.
UI Updates
Front Page
The new blog post and the gameplay update have been added to the tabs.
Replays Tab
Small visual updates to the post-match info tab.
Hero Updates
A few bugs from 6.88b have been addressed.
Related Links
Changelog: link
Patch Size: 535.4 MB (with Tools), 466.3 MB (Linux), 201.5 MB (without Vulkan)
Dota 2 News
Scandal leaves Team Empire
Roman 'Scandal' Sadotenkov leaves the squad. The second coming of russian player lasted for "only" four months but during that time Team Empire achieved top-4 of ESL One Manila 2016and WePlay League Season 3 as well as successfully passed the Manila Major qualifiers. Link
Evil Geniuses to Attend StarSeries
Between now and The International, there are only two LAN events remaining: The Summit (begins tomorrow) and StarSeries (begins July 24). Although there will be the PGL (a Chinese LAN for regional players) on July 22-24, there are no other interregional LANs which would appeal to a major Western team.
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Interview with LighTofHeaveN
We got a chance to sit down with Dmitry “LighTofHeaveN” Kupriyanov for an extensive interview where he shared his opinion on qualifiers, reminisced some facts about the roster Na`Vi had back at the TI 2011 and dwelt upon the role of a coach in competitive Dota 2.
Why There Are No Female Pro Players
Here’s the first article in this series: why is there a lack of female players in Dota 2? More specifically, where on earth are all the female pros? Are there even any? Let’s start! Link
Dota 2 Community Suggestion
Icefrog: if you want to make brewmaster a meta pick, literally just buff fire panda, fire panda sucks so much ass. - MrTheodore
Fire panda's immolate is probably the worst spell in all of dota 2 (since earth panda's pulverize was replaced, this now holds the title)After battle pass lvl 1000, might as well use another account - spikernum1
The radius is the most pathetically small AoE in the game at 220. Melee range is 150. If you use your fire panda's physical attack, then the target you attack will likely not take a damage instance from immolate as it deals damage in 1 second intervals. Immolation's damage is not impressive enough to justify such a small radius, it only deals 15 damage at level 1 and at level 3 of the ult, it does less damage than the radiance at 45. Please make it big enough to actually do damage to something.
Fire panda dies in literally every fight because his health does not scale like the other pandas. It is not magic immune, it does not have high health, but it is always right in the middle of the fight where the enemy will be casting their abilities and fire panda will always be collateral damage. As I have to remind people in my pubs, haste does not make you invincible, please help stop fire panda from killing itself by giving it more health at level 2 and 3 of the ult.
Fire panda also lacks a spell while the other two have 3 spells each. Give fire panda a clone of PL's Phantom Rush. It will make his larger physical attack damage than the other two pandas actually noticeable while either: a) giving him a better chance of survival as it can possibly run past the danger area where the enemy will be casting their spells, or b) it will go out in a blaze of glory as everyone will immediately focus it and fire panda will now serve as a distraction instead of being that thing that dies on accident, it will now die on purpose.
Please help fire panda, he sucks harder than pugna
After level 1000 you only get 1 immortal item every 10 levels. With the exception of the last style upgrade, and the last river vial. There is almost no reason to do that, unless you want those two specific items.If you're playing against Purge with a dark seer on his team and you build diff blade... - Dickballsandass
Instead of pushing my main account to level 2500, it would be way more beneficial for me to get another account, and level it up to 1000. I would get WAYYYYY more stuff, and still contribute the same amount to the prize pool.
Eventually I could just trade every single item to my main account, either to sell on the market or use any rares that my main hasn't gotten (invoker set?)
I'm just surprised there isn't more value in leveling past 1000 than what is currently provided.
you might get an urge to purge the surged PurgeI really enjoy the LC prestige cosmetic, but I think the entire hero specific quest line is a bad idea - Beezqp
I've seen some post criticizing the new Legion Commander immortal, which suprises me as I personally think the item is great. Far better than the "leaked" textures, right now it indeed can be named a prestige item.
But what I don't like is the fact that for the alternate style, you need to get through entire path of LC related quests. The amount of griefers, leavers and mispicks increased horribly. Everyone with gold tier basically blindly blocks LC, and myself among them, just to get the questline done. If they don't, they flame, they feed, they abandon the game just to get their revenge on you so you don't finish it as well. And I can even understand their pain, as I feel it too, myself also trying to unlock the special quest, maybe just my reaction is somewhat more mature.
As we all know, hero specific quests in the questlines often ended up ruining the game for questers' teams. I am afraid that with this entire line, we are going to go through very dark week(s) of Dota until most of folks are done with it. Maybe there could be better ways to make the unique style unlocked. I don't think it's a good idea to include something like this in the future battle passes.
Dota 2 Pic-Vid of the day
- Tip Of The Spear - Dota 2 Comic
- When you surge just right
- Short Film Contest - The Perfect Chronosphere
- So I tried cliff jungling Veno
- Legion Prestige Item
- How To Last Hit Ft Alchemist
- And the full name of Underlord is... (SPOILER)
- Pitlord Arcana Incoming?
- When you waste money just to amplify your burn
- LET US LOSE THIS GAME (in ranked)