General Updates

Dire Safe Lane Jungle
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  • The above and below the tower have been reworked
  • The Dire has been moved away from the Dire Safe Lane Tier 1 tower, and had its tree line reduced and rotated to face the river
  • The Dire has been moved forward, away from the Dire base and closer to where the creeps initially meet
  • The have been slightly adjusted so the creeps meet closer to the Dire tower
  • The above the Dire Safe Lane small camp has been extended slightly towards the Dire Safe Lane Tier 1 tower, and the small camp has been moved and had its tree line adjusted
  • The leading to the river and the Roshan Pit from the Dire Safe Lane pull area has been moved towards the Pit slightly
  • Several additional have been made to this area
Top Roshan Pit
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  • Fixed a spot at the north side of the pit that had incorrect vision rules
  • Fixed some areas that visually looked pathable but were not
Bottom Lane
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  • A near the Radiant Safe Lane large camp has been removed
  • have been removed from the Radiant high ground leading to the Bottom Roshan Pit
  • have been added around the Dire Bottom Tier 1 tower, and several tree positions adjusted
  • The above the secret shop has been repositioned between the ramps from Dire Mid Tier 1 and the bottom Roshan Pit
  • Fixed unnecessary at the left of the entrance to the Dire Base through the team only gate
  • Several additional tree and visual adjustments have been made to this area

Item Updates

  • BUFFDamage bonus increased from +50 to +55+10%
  • NEWDominated creep is now considered a creep-hero?It cannot be dominated, persuaded or enchanted, and it isn't instantly killed by Hand of Midas, Mirana's Sacred Arrow, etc.
  • NEWDominated creep is now considered a creep-hero?It cannot be dominated, persuaded or enchanted, and it isn't instantly killed by Hand of Midas, Mirana's Sacred Arrow, etc.
  • NERFMage Slayer damage per second decreased from 25 to 20-20%
  • NERFCorrosion armor reduction decreased from 3 to 2-33%
  • NERFSpell Lifesteal bonus decreased from +16% to +14%-12%
  • BUFFSoul Release healing, regen and lifesteal reduction increased from 60% to 70%+17%

Neutral Item Updates

Artifact changes
  • NERFBottoms Up cooldown increased from 40s to 60s+50%
  • NERFImpeding Corruption Slow (Melee) decreased from 10% to 8%-20%
  • NERFImpeding Corruption Slow (Range) decreased from 5% to 4%-20%
  • BUFFRibbit mana cost decreased from 40 to 0-100%
  • BUFFFlay Bonus Damage (Heroes) increased from 12 to 16+33%
Passive: Burn ThroughInstances of magic damage from spells over 55 ignites enemies, causing them to take 75 magic damage over 5 seconds.
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Passive: Burn ThroughInstances of magic damage from spells over 55 ignites enemies, causing them to take 72 magic damage over 6 seconds.
  • REWORKBurn Through damage is now classified as Health Removal?It no longer will trigger on hit effects or cancel Blink Daggers
  • BUFFBurn Through duration increased from 5s to 6s+20%
  • NERFBurn Through total damage decreased from 75 to 72?Damage per second decreased from 15 to 12 — -20%-4%
  • BUFFGlass Cannon self damage amp decreased from 8% to 6%-25%
  • BUFFHobble mana cost decreased from 75 to 50-33%
  • NERFSilence Strike cooldown increased from 12s to 16s+33%
  • BUFFPlunder steal radius increased from 1200 to 2400+100%
  • BUFFRelentless enemy search radius increased from 300 to 600+100%
Enchantment changes
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Attack Speed+10+15→+17+20→+24+25→+35Bonus Night Vision—+150+225+300
  • BUFFAttack Speed bonus increased from +10/15/20/25 to +10/17/24/350%+13%+20%+40%
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Mana Regen+1+2→+1.75+3→+2.5+4→+3.25Magic Resistance—+10%+14%+18%
  • NERFMana Regen bonus decreased from +1/2/3/4 to +1/1.75/2.5/3.250%-12%-17%-19%
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Damage+5→+7+8→+10+11→+13+14→+17Armor—+4+7+10
  • BUFFDamage bonus increased from +5/8/11/14 to +7/10/13/17+40%+25%+18%+21%
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Cast Range+125+135Mana Regeneration+1+1.5Max Mana−15%→−10%−15%→−10%
  • BUFFMax Mana reduction decreased from 15% to 10%-33%
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Attack Range (Melee & Ranged)+60→+75+90→+110
  • BUFFAttack Range bonus increased from +60/90 to +75/110+25%+22%
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Slow Resistance+20%+30%BAT Reduction+12%+18%Intelligence−15%→−8%−15%→−8%
  • BUFFIntelligence reduction decreased from 15% to 8%-47%
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Debuff Amplification+10%+15%Spell Amplification+10%→+8%+20%→+16%
  • NERFSpell Amplification bonus decreased from +10/20% to +8/16%-20%
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Base Attack Damage+15%→+10%+25%→+20%Status Resistance+10%+15%
  • NERFBase Attack Damage bonus decreased from +15/25% to +10/20%-33%-20%
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Cooldown Reduction+15%Mana Cost/Loss Increase+10%→+7%
  • BUFFMana Cost/Mana Loss Increase decreased from +10% to +7%-30%
StatsTier 1Tier 2Tier 3Tier 4Tier 5Experience per Minute+600→+1000
  • BUFFExperience per Minute bonus increased from +600 to +1000+67%

Hero Updates

GENERAL

  • NERFBase Armor decreased by 1?Now it's -1. Before this patch it was changed in 7.35 (2 years 11 months ago)-1

Facets

Mephitic Shroud

  • NERFCooldown increased from 14/12/10/8s to 15/13/11/9s+7%+8%+10%+12%

Abilities

Curse of Avernus

Curse of Avernus

  • DELNo longer deals damage to buildings

Talents

  • NERFLevel 15 Talent: Curse of Avernus DPS decreased from +50 to +40-20%
  • NERFLevel 25 Talent: Curse of Avernus Attack Speed Bonus decreased from +80 to +65-19%

Abilities

Corrosive Weaponry

Corrosive Weaponry

  • BUFFUnstable Concoction stack count per second of brew time now rounds up to the nearest second (minimum 1 stack)

Abilities

Ice Vortex

Ice Vortex

  • NERFMana Cost increased from 40/50/60/70 to 40/55/70/850%+10%+17%+21%
Chilling Touch

Chilling Touch

  • NERFAttack Range Bonus decreased from 80/120/160/200 to 60/90/120/150-25%

Abilities

Firefly

Firefly

  • BUFFRadius increased from 200 to 250+25%
Flaming Lasso

Flaming Lasso

  • BUFFForced movement applied by Batrider's allies to the lassoed target from certain abilities no longer cancel lasso?Dark Willow's TerrorizeDeath Prophet's Spirit Siphon (Fear from Aghanim's Shard)Keeper of the Light's Will-o-WispLich's Sinister GazeLone Druid's (and Spirit Bear's) Savage RoarMuerta's Dead ShotPudge's DismemberRingmaster's Wheel of WonderShadow Fiend's Requiem of SoulsTerrorblade's Terror WaveTinker's Defense Matrix (blink with Translocator facet)Tinker's Warp Flare (still applies damage, but does not move the target)Tusk's Walrus Kick (still applies damage, but does not move the target)The following abilities continue to break the lasso:Centaur Warrunner's Hitch a RideChaos Knight's Reality RiftDisruptor's GlimpseKunkka's X Marks the SpotMagnus' Reverse PolarityMars' Arena of Blood (created by an ally)Vengeful Spirit's Nether Swap

Talents

  • SWAPLevel 20 Talent: 2 Flamebreak Charges replaced with -6s Flamebreak Cooldown
  • BUFFLevel 20 Talent: Smoldering Resin Duration increased from +2s to +4s+100%
  • BUFFLevel 25 Talent: Sticky Napalm Damage increased from +15 to +20+33%

Abilities

Primal Split

Primal Split

Earth Brewling

Earth Brewling

  • BUFFDebuff Immunity magic resistance increased from 50% to 80%+60%
Void Brewling

Void Brewling

  • BUFFAstral Pull Damage increased from 50/100/150 to 75/150/225+50%
  • BUFFAstral Pull Distance increased from 300/500/700 to 450/575/700+50%+15%0%

Abilities

Summon Convert

Summon Convert

  • NEWConvert is now considered a creep-hero?It cannot be dominated, persuaded or enchanted, and it isn't instantly killed by Hand of Midas, Mirana's Sacred Arrow, etc.

GENERAL

  • NERFBase Damage decreased by 2?Now it's 31. Before this patch it was changed in 7.38 (1 year 8 months ago)Damage at level 1 decreased from 54–60 to 52–58-6%

Facets

Heart of Battle

  • BUFFRadius increased from 900 to 1200+33%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 10 Talent: Wall of Replica Illusion Damage decreased from +20% to +15%-25%

Abilities

Shadow Wave

Shadow Wave

  • DELNo longer has increased healing and damage when bouncing on enemies with Aghanim's Scepter
Nothl Projection

Nothl Projection

  • NERFCast Range decreased from 600 to 450-25%
  • NERFLeash pull strength growth increased from 0.5 to 1.5?This means for every 1 unit past 1600, the strength of the pull will increase by 1.5 unit/s instead of 0.5+200%
  • NERFMax Duration decreased from 15s to 12s-20%

Talents

  • SWAPLevel 15 Talent: +90 Attack Speed replaced with +5s Nothl Projection Duration
  • NERFLevel 10 Talent: Poison Touch Attack Range decreased from +300 to +200-33%

Abilities

Elder Dragon Form

Elder Dragon Form

  • NERFBonus Move Speed decreased from 20/25/30/35 to 200%-20%-33%-43%

Abilities

Boulder Smash

Boulder Smash

  • BUFFDamage rescaled from 120/180/240/300 to 110/180/250/320-8%0%+4%+7%

Talents

  • BUFFLevel 10 Talent: Geomagnetic Grip Cooldown Reduction increased from 2s to 3s+50%
  • BUFFLevel 20 Talent: Rolling Boulder Damage increased from +160 to +180+12%

Abilities

Sleight of Fist

Sleight of Fist

  • NERFBonus Hero Damage decreased from 40/80/120/160 to 25/70/115/160-38%-12%-4%0%

GENERAL

  • BUFFIntelligence gain increased from 3.8 to 4.0+5%

Facets

Time Zone

  • NERFMovement, Cast and Turn Speed manipulation decreased from 60% to 50%-17%
  • DELNo longer leashes enemies

Abilities

Acorn Shot

Acorn Shot

  • BUFFBonus Damage increased from 40/80/120/160 to 45/90/135/180+12%
Sharpshooter

Sharpshooter

  • BUFFMax Damage increased from 550/900/1250 to 600/975/1350?Damage with Hipshot facet increased from 412.5/675/937.5 to 450/731.25/1012.5 — +9%+8%+8%+9%+8%+8%
Hunter's Boomerang

Hunter's Boomerang

  • BUFFMovement Slow increased from 20% to 25%+25%
  • BUFFIncoming Spell Damage Amp increased from 20% to 25%+25%

Facets

Ice Breaker

  • NERFSecondary Damage decreased from 75/125/175/225 to 50/100/150/200-33%-20%-14%-11%

Abilities

Dual Breath

Dual Breath

  • NERFMana Cost increased from 125/140/155/170 to 135/150/165/180+8%+7%+6%+6%

Abilities

Omnislash

Omnislash

  • DELSlash Jump Radius is no longer increased by AoE bonuses

Abilities

Chakra Magic

Chakra Magic

  • BUFFSelf-cast bonus increased from 25% to 30%+20%
Kez

Talents

  • BUFFLevel 25 Talent: Shodo Sai Mark Critical Strike increased from +75% to +100%+33%

Abilities

Tidebringer

Tidebringer

  • BUFFDamage Bonus increased from 30/60/90/120 to 35/70/105/140+17%

Facets

Spoils of War

  • NERFPress the Attack duration on allies after duel win is now decreased by 50%

Facets

Fleshfeast

  • NERFMax HP per hero kill decreased from 20/25/30/35 to 15/20/25/30-25%-20%-17%-14%

Abilities

Open Wounds

Open Wounds

  • NERFMana Cost increased from 75 to 100+33%

Abilities

Light Strike Array

Light Strike Array

  • BUFFMana Cost decreased from 100/115/130/145 to 100/110/120/1300%-4%-8%-10%

Abilities

Moon Glaives

Moon Glaives

  • DELNo longer bounce to attack-immune targets

GENERAL

  • BUFFBase Strength increased from 26 to 28?Damage at level 1 increased from 50–55 to 52–57+8%

GENERAL

  • NERFBase Strength decreased from 25 to 23?Damage at level 1 decreased from 55–63 to 54–62-8%

Abilities

Shockwave

Shockwave

  • NERFDamage decreased from 90/160/230/300 to 75/150/225/300-17%-6%-2%0%
Empower

Empower

  • NERFSelf bonus decreased from 50% to 30%-40%

Facets

Buddy System

  • BUFFNow also increases duration from 6s to 7s+17%

Pick-me-up

  • BUFFAlly damage increased from 25% to 35%+40%

Abilities

Venomous Volley

  • DELNo longer slows cast speed

Facets

Codependent

  • NERFArmor bonus decreased from 2 to 1-50%

Facets

Ofrenda

  • BUFFAttack Speed Bonus increased from 15/25/35/45 to 20/30/40/50+33%+20%+14%+11%

Facets

Ironwood Treant

  • NERFTreant Health decreased from 800/1050/1300/1550 to 750/950/1150/1350-6%-10%-12%-13%

Abilities

Spirit of the Forest

Spirit of the Forest

  • NERFBonus damage per tree decreased from 4% to 3%-25%

Abilities

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

  • NERFBonus health regen at night decreased from 40% to 20%-50%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 15 Talent: Hunter in the Night Status Resistance decreased from 30% to 20%-33%

Abilities

Mind Flare

Mind Flare

  • BUFFCooldown decreased from 13/11/9/7s to 11/9.5/8/6.5s-15%-14%-11%-7%

Facets

Omnipresent

  • BUFFDamage increase interval decreased from 0.3s to 0.25s?Time for maximum effect decreased from 6s to 5s-17%

Abilities

Purification

Purification

  • BUFFCooldown decreased from 18/16/14/12s to 15/14/13/12s-17%-12%-7%0%

Abilities

Rain of Destiny

Rain of Destiny

  • NERFDamage/Heal per second decreased from 35 to 30-14%

Talents

  • SWAPLevel 15 Talent: -1s Purifying Flames Cooldown replaced with +25% Purifying Flames Enemy Damage?TalentLevelValuePurifying Flames Enemy Damage20 → 15+30% → +25% −17%-1s Purifying Flames Cooldown15 → 20same
  • SWAPLevel 20 Talent: +30% Purifying Flames Enemy Damage replaced with -1s Purifying Flames Cooldown?TalentLevelValue-1s Purifying Flames Cooldown15 → 20samePurifying Flames Enemy Damage20 → 15+30% → +25% −17%

Abilities

Phantom Strike

Phantom Strike

  • NERFCast Range decreased from 1000 to 650/750/850/950-35%-25%-15%-5%

Facets

Provoke the Beast

  • NEWNow also provides stacks upon being Silenced

Abilities

Uproar

Uproar

  • BUFFMax Stacks increased from 5 to 6+20%

Facets

Sideshow Secrets

Crystal Ball

Crystal Ball

  • NEWNow indicates the exact position of each enemy hero in the area without revealing their identity
Unicycle

Unicycle

  • NEWCan now cast non-channeling spells and pick up runes without dismounting the unicycle?Still requires Ringmaster to be facing in the spell direction
  • BUFFNo longer gets knocked off if the damage taken is below 20
  • BUFFNo longer gets knocked off from any damage for 1.5s after mounting the unicycle
Weighted Pie

Weighted Pie

  • NEWNow also slows movement of the affected enemy by 45%?Similarly to vision, movement speed is recovering over the debuff time

Abilities

Brain Drain

Brain Drain

  • NERFIf Silencer is out of range, Intelligence will now be stolen only if the dying enemy is debuffed by Silencer the moment they die?This effect used to have a grace period equal to the full Assist-gaining duration even when the debuff was removed

Abilities

Arcane Bolt

Arcane Bolt

  • BUFFMana Cost decreased from 85 to 70-18%

Abilities

Lil' Shredder

Lil' Shredder

  • BUFFBase Damage per shot increased from 20/35/50/65 to 25/40/55/70+25%+14%+10%+8%
Mortimer Kisses

Mortimer Kisses

  • BUFFNo longer interrupted when Snapfire uses items/abilities that can be cast while channeling (Glimmer Cape, etc.)?This also fixes being interrupted when receiving Madstone

Abilities

Refraction

Refraction

  • BUFFCooldown decreased from 16s to 14s-12%
  • BUFFNumber of instances increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6+50%+33%+25%+20%
Meld

Meld

  • MISCFixed not applying to both attacks if Meld was used twice in quick succession

Talents

  • BUFFLevel 25 Talent: Refraction Instances increased from +3 to +4+33%

Abilities

Conjure Image

Conjure Image

  • BUFFIllusion Damage Taken decreased from 275% to 250%-9%

Facets

Krill Eater

  • NERFStarting attack range and Anchor Smash penalties increased from 50 to 60+20%

Abilities

Dead in the Water

Dead in the Water

  • NERFCooldown increased from 25s to 35s+40%

Abilities

Timber Chain

Timber Chain

  • BUFFDamage rescaled from 50/95/140/185 to 45/100/155/210-10%+5%+11%+14%
Reactive Armor

Reactive Armor

  • BUFFBonus HP Regen increased from 0.3/0.4/0.5/0.6 to 0.4/0.5/0.6/0.7+33%+25%+20%+17%

Abilities

Defense Matrix

Defense Matrix

  • NERFMana Cost increased from 80/95/110/125 to 90/105/120/135+12%+11%+9%+8%
Laser

Laser

  • NERFAghanim's Scepter size and health reductions decreased from 15% to 13%-13%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 15 Talent: Defense Matrix Damage Barrier decreased from +75 to +60-20%

Facets

Crash Landing

  • BUFFMovement Slow increased from 15/20/25/30% to 20/25/30/35%+33%+25%+20%+17%
  • BUFFAttack Slow increased from 10/20/30/40 to 15/25/35/45+50%+25%+17%+12%

Abilities

Grow

Grow

  • NERFBonus Damage decreased from 60/120/180 to 55/110/165-8%
  • NERFMovement Speed Bonus rescaled from 10/20/30 to 15+50%-25%-50%

Abilities

Eldritch Summoning

Eldritch Summoning

  • NERFImp explosion delay increased from 0.2s to 0.3s+50%

Abilities

The Swarm

The Swarm

  • NERFBugs are now destroyed if the host unit becomes invulnerable?i.e. using Eul's Scepter of Divinity, etc

GENERAL

  • BUFFBase Damage increased by 3?Now it's 24. Before this patch it was changed in 7.38 (1 year 8 months ago)+14%
  • BUFFDamage on level 1 increased from 44–56 to 47–59+6%

Facets

Killshot

  • DELExecute no longer goes through any death denial effects (Dazzle's Shallow Grave, Oracle's False Promise, etc.)

Facets

Bone Guard

  • BUFFCooldown decreased from 50s to 42s-16%
  • BUFFSkeleton Duration increased from 40s to 46s+15%

Abilities

Wraithfire Blast

Wraithfire Blast

  • BUFFCooldown decreased from 17/14/11/8s to 14/12/10/8s-18%-14%-9%0%
Reincarnation

Reincarnation

  • NERFMana Cost increased from 200 to 225+12%

Talents

  • SWAP Level 10 Talent: +25%/-25% Bone Guard Duration / Cooldown replaced with +2s Wraithfire Blast Slow Duration
Official notes
Released27.03.2025 21:23 UTC
Ran56 days
After 7.38b21 days