A New Journey; Valve introduces Dota 2 Update 7.00

Valve released Dota 2 Update 7.00 only one day following the Boston Major. – saying goodbye to years spent with patch 6. DotA was released in 2005 under patch 6.xx and then ushered into Dota 2 in 2011 with 6.72d as Beta keys were provided shortly before The International. Through the next five years, patches and updates morphed and adapted game-play while growing in popularity and size. The significant changes brought forward with Update 7.00 will certainly continue to change the game for players and viewers alike.

Fun Fact: In Feb 2005, Dota Allstars 6.xx series was released to public laying the foundations for the game we have today. #RememberingSix

— Wykrhm Reddy (@wykrhm) December 11, 2016

Valve’s decision to release Dota 2 Update 7.00 is bittersweet. The last patch update to 6.88 brought to the game the long awaited hero Underlord in August, following TI6.

The New Journey, including introduction of the first new hero to be introduced to Dota 2 was revealed at TI6 but not delivered until now.

This New Journey includes introduction of the Monkey King, new HUD and pregame, hero remodels, community authored bots and new game play including re-routed map, hero attribute and spell selections, new Roshan and rune locations as well as rune changes – essentially all aspects of the game.

The new patch will be rolling out tomorrow Monday, December 12th.

Saying goodbye to a patch series that was begun in 2005 with the introduction of DotA and carried the game all the way through to current with patch

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— Wykrhm Reddy (@wykrhm) December 11, 2016

Dota 2 Update 7.00 – Monkey King

MELEE CARRY ESCAPE DISABLER
Always in search of a good fight, Monkey King travels atop the trees aiming to spring from leafy cover and surprise his enemies. Calling upon an army of monkey soldiers to overwhelm opponents, this agile trickster revels in the chaos of battle, ready to slam his legendary staff down on any hopes of escape.

BOUNDLESS STRIKE: Monkey King enlarges his staff and slams it against the ground, stunning enemies in a line and dealing a critical strike based on his attack.

TREE DANCE: Monkey King leaps along the treetops, looking for his next chance to spring into the fight. Provides the Primal Spring ability.

<PRIMAL SPRING: From his hidden vantage in the treetops, Monkey King leaps into combat, slowing and damaging any enemies in the area of impact based on how long he channeled.

JINGU MASTERY: Monkey King charges his legendary staff with power as he strikes his enemies, gaining bonus damage and lifesteal for a limited number of attacks.

MISCHIEF: An innate power, Monkey King changes his form to deceive his enemies, using his surroundings as inspiration for the disguise.

WUKONG’S COMMAND: Monkey King blows a tuft of fur onto the battlefield, summoning a formation of monkey soldiers to join him in the fight.

Monkey King introduction comes with a full comic to be downloaded.

Fans can also purchase:

The new Monkey King Terrain for $12.99 until January 13th – then will be available for $19.99

The new Monkey King Announcer Pack for $5.99

The New Monkey King Arcana including:

New base model and texture
Custom particle effects for Monkey King’s Primal Spring ability
Dynamic Style that changes according to the level of Wukong’s Ultimate
A cloud-riding run animation when travelling vast distances in a short period of time
Altered Voice and additional voice responses for style changes and cloud animation
Custom Hero Portrait
Arcana Loading Screen
Custom Taunt
Custom Emoticon

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Dota 2 Update 7.00 – New HUD

REBUILT IN-GAME INTERFACE

: The hero control console has been reworked to reduce its on-screen footprint and allow space for the new Hero Talent interface and Backpack slots. Information on other selected units now appears in a left-aligned pop-out to let you maintain hero control as you gather intel.

TOP BAR & MINIMAPM

QUICK-READ MINIMAP OPTION: Use the new simplified background option to help parse the minimap more quickly. Scale the minimap to a size of your liking. We’ve also added an indicator of which friendly structure or unit will be targeted before you teleport.

TOP BAR TEAMMATE STATUS: Hold ALT to display health, mana, and buyback status of teammates. You can also target abilities by clicking on an allied hero’s top-bar portrait.

ACCESS SETTINGS IN-GAME: No need to seek the safety of your fountain just to change your controls and options. View and adjust your settings without leaving the map.

HERO CONTROL CONSOLE

ONE-CLICK LEVEL UP: No matter how chaotic the fight, easily upgrade your hero’s abilities with one click.

HERO TALENTS AND BACKPACK: It’s more than just a design change; we’ve added new features as well. Read more about Hero Talents and Backpack slots on the New Gameplay page.

NEW UNIT QUERY PANEL: With the side-aligned unit query, you can gather info on other heroes, units, and buildings without sacrificing any actions on your own hero. A legacy-mode option is available.

MANA COST ON ITEMS: With mana costs displayed directly on item icons in your inventory, you’ll always know how much mana to save for that clutch Force Staff or Eul’s.

CUSTOM HERO INTERFACE: Dynamic HUD elements add flexibility for custom interface designs. Check out Morphling’s new slider display for Agility and Strength Morph gains.

EQUIP LEGACY SKINS: Even with all these changes, you can still equip any favorite HUD skins from your inventory—they’ve been remapped to fit the new layout.

SHOP & COURIER

NEW SHOP VIEW: The shop view has been simplified and tailored to your hero. All suggested item builds have been updated to include each hero’s standard items plus a set of other recommended alternatives.

COMMON ITEMS & GRID VIEW: In addition to hero-specific items, the default shop view also includes a quick-access selection of items regularly purchased by all heroes. For anything else, just click to the traditional grid shop view.

STOCK COUNT: Items with a limited quantity now show available stock on their in-shop display

BUYBACK STATUS INDICATOR: Press ALT to display your buyback status—including gold surplus or deficit—on the Shop Button.

RIGHT-CLICK COURIER OPTIONS: Courier logistics get complicated in the heat of battle. If you interrupt someone’s delivery, or just want to expedite a pickup, use the courier’s right-click menu to send it on the correct path.

COURIER CONTROLS: We’ve adjusted the courier controls and added the ability to upgrade to Flying Courier without opening the shop

Dota 2 Update 7.00 – New PreGame

PICK PHASE

The new selection screen matches the layout of the Heroes gallery, so you can use the common hero filters, type a name to quickly locate a specific hero, or just click Random to let the fates decide.

FAMILIAR FILTERS: You’ll find the same filters available as in the Heroes gallery to easily narrow down heroes by role, type, or specific areas of strength. Not sure what to look for? Try searching by Complexity Rating for a simple indication of the difficulty in executing a hero’s ability mechanics.

HERO HIGHLIGHT: Click on any hero to display their abilities, areas of strength, and a short description of their playstyle. Once you’re satisfied with your choice, lock it in to move to the Strategy Phase.

TEAM COMPOSITION: Each team combination offers different strengths and weaknesses, and effective planning relies on knowing the capabilities of a group of heroes. Use the new Team Composition window to help gauge the cumulative strengths of your selected heroes, and plan accordingly.

HERO SUGGESTIONS: ALT-click a portrait to suggest that hero to your team. Teammates will see a chat notice, and the selected hero portrait will be highlighted for their consideration.

STRATEGY PHASE – 30 SECONDS

Once you’ve locked in a hero, start planning your lanes and ward spots, purchase starting items, change your hero loadout, and more. After everyone has selected a hero, you’ll have thirty seconds of guaranteed strategy time to make final preparations and item purchases while the game finishes loading in the background.

ENHANCED STRATEGY MAP: Draw up your battle plans with the updated strategy map. In addition to clicking your lane preference, use the new options to drag-and-drop enemy hero icons into predicted lanes and signal initial ward placement to your team.

PURCHASE ITEMS: No more scrambling to purchase items and get into position for that pre-horn smoke gank. Now you can purchase your starting items before you even spawn in the fountain. So finish your shopping early and start moving around the map the moment the game loads.

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Dota 2 Update 7.00 – New GamePlay

Take your first steps into the lands of The New Journey. With new features like Hero Talents and Backpack slots, a host of map changes, and an extensive list of other gameplay adjustments, the battle for the Ancients will never be the same again.

HERO LEVELING

The Ancients have unveiled a new way to help heroes adapt to the needs of each battle. Every hero has gained a series of Hero Talents that players can select at levels 10/15/20/25, offering powerful augmentations to their capabilities.

CHOOSE YOUR BRANCH:

Select your Hero Talents at levels 10/15/20/25 to gain special bonuses for your hero or their abilities. Each level offers unique branches, and bypassed branches are not available at future levels. Each hero has their own unique set of Talents to choose from.

ULTIMATE LEVELS:
Ultimate levels are now at 6/12/18
Heroes no longer have the attribute bonus ability
Heroes now have 4 Talents that can be leveled at level 10/15/20/25. Each level gives you two bonuses to choose between. Each hero has their own unique set of bonuses; see below for the list of bonuses.

REWORKED XP:

XP required to reach Level 12 is the same as previous Level 11 (level 2 ultimate)
XP required to reach Level 18 is the same as previous Level 16 (level 3 ultimate)
XP required to reach Level 25 is the same as previous Level 23
Smoothed out XP progression from level 8->13 to be always incrementing
XP Table updated to reflect changes: Hover To View Table

UPDATED RESPAWN TIMETABLE

GOLD BOUNTY:
Hero kill gold bounty from [110 + Streak + Level * 9.9] to [110 + Streak + Level * 8]

DEATH COST REWORKED:
Old: 30 x Hero Level
New: 100 + Net Worth/50

HERO KILL XP:
Adjusted Hero Kill XP Table
AOE GOLD
AoE gold per hero adjusted:
Old: ——- New:
1: 150 + 6 * Level ——- 140 + 5 * Level
2: 100 + 5 * Level ——- 70 + 4 * Level
3: 40 + 4 * Level ——- 35 + 3 * Level
4: 25 + 3 * Level ——- 25 + 2 * Level
5: 20 + 3 * Level ——- 20 + 1 * Level

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BACKPACK

Heroes now have a backpack that allows them to carry three additional items. While backpack items cannot be activated and grant no bonuses, they can be used to complete recipes, and players can swap items from backpack to inventory slots with a short item cooldown.

HOW IT WORKS:

Items that are in your backpack are Inactive, and remain so for 6 seconds when moved from backpack.

BACKPACK MECHANICS:

Items that are in your backpack are Inactive (cannot be activated or grant passive bonuses)
Items cooldown at only half the rate when they are anywhere except your main inventory.
Cannot put the following items in your backpack: Gem, Rapier, Bloodstone, and Aegis.
Items can always be moved out of backpack with no Inactivity timer when near a shop.

DISASSEMBLING ITEMS:

Disassembling items now tries to fill your inventory or backpack first before dropping to the ground.
Disassembling items auto-locks them from combining with other items. Use right click to unlock.

MAP CHANGES

Just as the Ancients shape the minds of the creatures who worship them, so too do their powers flow through the lanes of the forest, reshaping the lands to reveal new sources of power and lay waste to any notions of safety. Featuring changes to nearly every part of the map, a new Ancient Neutral Creep type, and a set of new allied structures in the jungles, there’s a lot to learn and explore.

ROSHAN:

Moved Roshan to new area near top Powerup Rune spot

Roshan attack range increased from 128 to 150

Roshan armor increased from 5 to 15

Roshan HP reduced from 8000 to 5500

Roshan HP gain per 4 minutes reduced from 700 to 460

Roshan armor gain per 4 minutes increased from 0.7 to 1.1

SHRINE:

Added new building type — Shrine (has 1500 HP, 20 Armor)

There are Shrines near each team’s Secret Shop and new Ancient Camp locations. Shrines can be teleported to. Shrines become vulnerable whenever all Tier 2 towers fall for the respective team.

Each team also has 5 Shrines inside the base.

Shrines have an ability with a 5 minute cooldown.

Allied heroes can right-click to activate it, generating a 500 AoE aura that lasts for 5 seconds. The aura provides 120/40 HP/MP regeneration per second (heal values increase during the game by 2 HP / 1 MP per minute).

Activates once you are in melee range after right-clicking on it. Shrines ability becomes available to use outside of the base once creeps spawn at 0:00.

Shrines do not grant vision.

Shrines provide a 150 gold bounty for each player on the team when killed.

RUNES:

Runes are now two different categories: Powerup Runes (Haste, Double Damage, etc.) and Bounty Runes.

Bounty Runes are no longer located in the River.

Powerup Rune spawns now occur at only one river location at a time.

Each of the four jungles now spawns a Bounty Rune every 2 minutes.

Greevil’s Greed Bounty Rune multiplier rescaled from 3/4/5/6x to a constant 2x

Bottle now only replenishes 2 charges when filled with a Bounty Rune.

JUNGLE:

Reworked entire jungle terrain for Radiant and Dire (both primary and secondary jungles), and all connecting routes

The Primary jungle for each team now has 1 Ancient, 2 hard, 2 medium, and 1 small camp.

The Secondary jungle for each team now has 1 Ancient, 1 hard, and 1 medium camp.

TERRAIN LAYOUT:

Reworked the paths and hiding spots to the left and right of the side lanes

Reworked many ward spot locations and juke paths

Added various juke paths near the map edges between tier 1 and tier 2 towers

Adjusted tree distribution to the left of the top radiant barracks

NEUTRALS CHANGES:

Neutrals spawn time from 0:30/1/2/3/4/etc. to 0:30/1/3/5/7/etc.

Dying to Neutral creeps now cause your hero to have a minimum respawn time of 26 (equal to level 6 respawn time)

Ancients are no longer Spell Immune; now have 70% Magic Resistance

The following abilities do not affect Ancients: Arcane Orb and Chakram

Neutral creeps now have 1 mana regen

Swapped order of Ancient Thunderhide abilities (Slam is now 3rd)

Swapped order of Ancient Black Dragon abilities (Dragonhide Aura is now 3rd)

NEW ANCIENTS:

Added a new Ancient Neutral Camp (2 Prowler Acolytes and 1 Prowler Shaman)

PROWLER ACOLYTE:

Provides a stacking Aura – Provides 10% Lifesteal and 10 HP regeneration

Has 0% Magic Resistance, 10 Armor

PROWLER SHAMAN:

Passive Auto-Cast – Causes next attack to root the enemy for 2 seconds, preventing movement and dealing 75 DPS. Cooldown: 15

Active – Can cast in a 300 AoE effect around him, reducing Base Physical Armor by 50% and dealing 200 physical damage.

Lasts 6 seconds. Cooldown: 12

Note: Both abilities will be used by neutrals against enemies if there is a nearby hero.

Has 0% Magic Resistance, 11 Armor

OTHER MAP CHANGES:

Tier 4 towers now have the same regeneration as the Ancient.

Using TP scroll no longer destroys nearby trees.

Glyph cooldown refresh is now granted 1 second after a Tier 1 tower dies rather than immediately.

Ancient Building vision increased from 1900/1200 to 2600

Reduced Effigy building count in each base from 15 to 5

Adjusted Effigy building positions in the base

Effigy buildings HP increased from 500 to 1000

Effigy buildings armor increased from 10 to 12

Effigy buildings bounty increased from 111 to 125 to the killer

Fixed Glyph not affecting Effigy buildings

Tier 2/3/4 towers damage rescaled from 122-182 to 142-162

ILLUSIONS

Illusions now give Gold and XP bounties

Illusions provide 5 + Level Gold and XP

Illusions attack damage penalty against buildings increased from 30% to 50%

Attack Speed bonuses now work on Illusions.

Magic Resistance bonuses no longer work on Illusions.

The following Auras are now generated by illusions: Heartstopper Aura, Precision Aura, and Essence Aura.

Illusions no longer benefit from Dragon Blood armor bonus.

The following illusions have a constant bounty value (rather than the formula above)

Juxtapose illusions give a constant 5 gold/xp bounty.

Wall of Replica illusions give a constant 5 gold/xp bounty.

GENERAL CHANGES

ROOT MECHANICS:
Root now disables the following movement spells: Burrow Strike, Waveform, Blink Strike, Phantom Strike, Reality Rift, Pounce, Skewer, Ball Lightning, Timber Chain, Rolling Boulder, Icarus Dive, Leap, Poof, and Time Walk.

DISPEL MECHANICS:

Standardized Dispel mechanics – ability tooltips now list if they are Undispellable, Dispellable, or Dispellable only by Strong Dispels.

Abilities that Dispel now list what type of Dispel they apply (Basic Dispel or Strong Dispel).

The following skills are no longer undispellable: Soul Catcher, Stampede slow, Recall, Windrun, Rocket Barrage, Howl, and Sprint.

Insatiable Hunger is no longer dispellable.

Fixed Fatal Bonds continuing to do damage to you after the buff was dispelled

CLEAVE MECHANICS:
Cleave area is now calculated as a cone in the direction of your attack (instead of a circle whose edge starts in front of the attacking unit):
The overall distance from which a unit can be hit is roughly the same with the new cleave values.

Battle Fury:
Starting Radius: 150
Ending Radius: 280
Distance: 520

Empower:
Starting Radius: 150
Ending Radius: 240
Distance: 460

Grow:
Starting Radius: 150
Ending Radius: 400
Distance: 600

Tidebringer:
Starting Radius: 150
Ending Radius: 450/500/550/600
Distance: 675/750/825/900

Great Cleave:
Starting Radius: 150
Ending Radius: 300
Distance: 550

OTHER CHANGES:

Max movement speed increased from 522 to 550

Haste rune duration reduced from 25 to 22 seconds

Turn rate cap increased by 15% (turn rate ramps up over time as you start turning, the max values that it reaches while you turn are increased by 15%, not the initial value or acceleration/deceleration rate)

Lane creeps now give 50% of experience when denied by neutrals rather than 35% (normal player denies give 50% experience)

Temporarily removed the following heroes from Captains Mode: Necrophos, Techies, Lycan, and Treant

The following abilities no longer disjoint projectiles: Borrowed Time, True Form, Pounce, Metamorphosis, and Leap

The following abilities now disjoint projectiles: Test of Faith, Recall, and Morph Replicate

The following projectiles are now disjointable: Splinter Blast secondary hit and Soul Assumption

The following abilities no longer have special rules/restrictions for Ancients: Battle Hunger, Adaptive Strike, Electric Vortex, and Last Word

The following abilities now use Pseudo Random Distribution: Juxtapose, Craggy Exterior, Alpha Wolf Critical Strike, and Giant Wolf Critical Strike

Searing Chains Ensnare now reveals invisible units, similar to other Root debuffs.

The following flying vision abilities are reduced in AoE: Unstable Concoction Throw (400->300), Wild Axes (500->350), Spirits impact (300->150), Chain Frost (1000->800), Sprout (1000->750), Sacred Arrow (650->500), Illusory Orb (800->550), Stifling Dagger (600->450), Concussive Shot (400->300), and Static Remnant (600->500)

Moon Glaive no longer gets boosted by Spell Amplification.

Cleave no longer gets boosted by Spell Amplification.

Spell Lifesteal does not trigger heal for things that don’t receive spell amplification (Moon Glaive, Cleave).

Fixed the following passives not being disabled by Break: Golem Flaming Fists, Golem Permanent Immolation, Last Will, Boar’s Poison, Lycan Wolf Cripple, Necronomicon Archer Aura, Necronomicon Mana Break

ITEM CHANGES

ABYSSAL BLADE: Passive block chance reduced from 100% to 50%. Passive block amount increased from 40/20 (melee/ranged) to 70/35

AETHER LENS: Aether Lens cast range bonus increased from 200 to 220. Aether Lens recipe cost increased from 550 to 600

ASSAULT CUIRASS: Self attack speed reduced from 35 to 30. Aura attack speed increased from 20 to 25

BLOODSTONE: No longer reduces respawn time to less than 1 second

BOTTLE: Regeneration now behaves like Blink and only dispels if actual damage was taken, and only if the damage source is from a player or Roshan. Bottle now only replenishes 2 charges when filled with a Bounty Rune.

BRACER: Recipe cost reduced from 210 to 190

CHEESE: Mana restore increased from 1000 to 1500

CLARITY POTION: Regeneration now behaves like Blink and only dispels if actual damage was taken, and only if the damage source is from a player or Roshan.

CRIMSON GUARD:
Passive block chance reduced from 100% to 50%
Passive block amount increased from 32/16 (melee/ranged) to 70/35
Guard Damage Block increased from 55 to 60
Guard now affects buildings

DAEDALUS:
Bonus damage reduced from 81 to 76
Critical strike increased from 2.2x to 2.3x

DIFFUSAL BLADE:
Diffusal Blade can only target enemies now.
Mana break on illusions reduced from 20/10 to 16/8
Mana break on heroes increased from 40 to 50
Diffusal Blade damage per mana burned reduced from 100% to 80%

DRAGON LANCE: Strength reduced from 13 to 12

DRUM OF ENDURANCE:

Swiftness Aura is now a +20 Movement Speed aura.
Intelligence bonus reduced from 9 to 6
Recipe now requires Sage’s Mask instead of Ring of Regeneration
Provides +50% Mana Regeneration instead of 3 Health Regeneration

DUST OF APPEARANCE: Dust of Appearance no longer requires 5 mana to cast.

ENCHANTED MANGO: Enchanted Mangoes on sale for 110 gold

EYE OF SKADI: No longer a Unique Attack Modifier

GEM OF TRUE SIGHT: True Sight no longer granted to Illusions

GLIMMER CAPE: Cooldown reduced from 16 to 14

HEART OF TARRASQUE: Regeneration increased from 4.75% to 7%

HEALING SALVE: Regeneration now behaves like Blink and only dispels if actual damage was taken, and only if the damage source is from a player or Roshan.

HEAVEN’S HALBERD: Heaven’s Halberd slow duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds. Heaven’s Halberd Maim chance increased from 20 to 24%

HELM OF THE DOMINATOR:
Dominate ability no longer requires 75 mana.
Dominate now sets the converted unit to 425 movement speed instead of 350.
Dominate can only have one creep active at a time.

Recipe:
Headdress (575)
Gloves of Haste (500)
Recipe (725)
Total: 1800 (previously was 1800)

Provides:
+6 All Stats
+10 Attack Speed
+10 Attack Speed Aura
+8 HP Regen Aura
Active ability – Dominate

INFUSED RAINDROP: Cooldown increased from 6 to 7 seconds

IRON TALON:
No longer increases a percentage (40%/15%) of base damage.
Now provides +24/7 bonus damage against non-hero units.
Bonus damage now works against Roshan.
Cooldown increased from 14 to 20

MAELSTROM: Maelstrom has an internal cooldown of 0.2 seconds. Maelstrom is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier.

MORBID MASK: Cost increased from 900 to 1200. Now provides +15 damage

MASK OF MADNESS:
Reworked Recipe and Bonuses:
Recipe:
Morbid Mask (1200)
Recipe (700)
Total: 1900 (previously was 1800)
Provides:
+15% Lifesteal
+15 Damage
Active ability – Berserk
– Grants 100 Attack Speed and 17% Movement Speed for 8 seconds. Cooldown: 20
– While activated, you are silenced and have -5 armor.

MEDALLION OF COURAGE: Medallion of Courage no longer has half value against Roshan.

MJOLLNIR: Mjollnir has an internal cooldown of 0.2 seconds. Mjollnir is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier

MONKEY KING BAR: Monkey King Bar no longer provides +15 Attack Speed.

MOON SHARD: Night vision increased from 250 to 300

NECRONOMICON:
Necronomicon Warrior attack type changed from Basic to Piercing
Necronomicon Warrior attack damage increased from 45/60/75 to 75/100/125
Necronomicon Warrior Mana Break reduced from 25/50/75 to 20/30/40
Necronomicon Archer and Warrior armor type changed from Hero to Basic
Necronomicon Archer Mana Burn cooldown reduced from 20 to 7

OBLIVION STAFF: Oblivion Staff attack damage reduced from 15 to 10. Oblivion Staff intelligence increased from 6 to 10

OCTARINE CORE: Octarine Core no longer provides +50% Mana Regeneration.

POOR MAN’S SHIELD:Non-hero proc chance reduced from 53% to 50%

QUELLING BLADE:
No longer increases a percentage (40%/15%) of base damage.
Now provides +24/7 bonus damage against non-hero units.
Bonus damage now works against Roshan.

RADIANCE: Radiance damage increased from 50 to 60. Radiance damage on illusions reduced from 50 to 40

ROD OF ATOS::

Applies a Root, preventing the target from moving for 2 seconds.
Cooldown increased from 10 to 16
Cast range reduced from 1200 to 1000
Active now uses a 1500-speed projectile rather than instantly applying.

SANGE: Sange Maim slow duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds. Sange Maim chance increased from 20 to 24%

SATANIC:ITEM REWORKED:
Recipe:
Reaver (3000)
Morbid Mask (1200)
Mithril Hammer (1600)
Total: 5800 (previously was 5900)

Provides:
+50 Damage
+25% Lifesteal
+25 Strength
Active ability – Unholy Rage

SHADOW AMULET: Shadow Amulet fade time reduced from 1.5 to 1.25. Shadow Amulet cooldown on allies reduced from 10 to 7

SOLAR CREST: Solar Crest no longer has half value against Roshan.

SOUL BOOSTER: Soul Booster no longer provides +50% Mana Regeneration.

SOUL RING:Recipe increased from 125 to 150

TALISMAN OF EVASION: Evasion reduced from 25% to 20%. Cost reduced from 1700 to 1450

TOME OF KNOWLEDGE:XP rescaled from 425 to 500/600/700/800/etc. per consumed Tome of Knowledge on your team

URN OF SHADOWS:Regeneration now behaves like Blink and only dispels if actual damage was taken, and only if the damage source is from a player or Roshan.

VANGUARD: Passive block chance reduced from 100% to 50%. Passive block amount increased from 32/16 (melee/ranged) to 70/35

VLADMIR’S OFFERING: No longer has 300 gold recipe (still has same total cost after Morbid Mask price increase)

WIND LACE: Cost increased from 235 to 250

HERO CHANGES

An incredibly long and extensive list rounds out the changes to all of the heroes including the new level system and branches. Details for the heroes are found HERE

• Heroes that were reworked include and are temporarily removed from Captian’s mode include: Lycan, Necrophos, Techies and Treant Protector
• Arc Warden and Underlord was added to Captain’s Mode
• Heroes now that have Scepter reworked or added: Anti-Mage, Bounty Hunter, Chaos Knight, Crystal Maiden, Phantom Lancer, Riki, Skywrath Mage, Slark, Sniper and Zeus

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Dota 2 Update 7.00 – Additional Changes

COMMUNITY-AUTHORED BOTS

Programmers, scripters, and mad scientists rejoice! You can now create your own Dota bots using a brand new scripting API. Upload your bots to the Workshop for others to download and play. Then, enjoy watching as your creations slowly take over the Dota universe. Learn more at the Valve Developer Community Wiki.

HERO REMODELS

Life as a Dota hero is difficult enough without enduring constant jabs about your appearance. To help buff the confidence levels of three of the longest-serving heroes in the game, this update also introduces redesigned models for Slardar, Viper, and Enigma.

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SHOWCASE VIEW IMPROVEMENTS

Sometimes a hero needs to take a moment from the carnage of battle to stop and enjoy the scenery. With multiple improvements to the environment, the battlefield around you looks more alive than ever.

ADDED SKYBOX: The foreboding ether in the sky has been replaced with atmosphere and clouds visible in Showcase View.

SHOWCASE VIEW TREE SCALE: Imposing trees now tower over your hero when using Showcase View on the default map.

WINDBLOWN TREES: Multiple maps now have trees that sway in the wind, but don’t worry—they can’t dodge tangos.

DYNAMIC GRASS: The default map now has grass that blows gently in the battlefield breeze and moves about underfoot.