Dota 2 Update Released

Updates to Dota 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. Fixes include:

6.73 PARITY

• Alchemist: Chemical Rage Base Attack Time reduced from 1.45/1.35/1.2 to 1.45/1.3/1.15.
  
• Alchemist: Goblin's Greed bonus gold limit increased from 18 to 26.
  
• Anti-Mage: Reverted the 6.72 Base Attack Time improvement, BAT from 1.35 to 1.45.
  
• Anti-Mage: Armor reduced by 1.
  
• Axe: Aghanim's Culling Blade cooldown from 10 to 6.
  
• Axe: Base Int from 14 to 18.
  
• Axe: Base HP regeneration from 1.25 to 2.
  
• Axe: Battle Hunger gives Axe a 4% bonus movement speed per target it affects.
  
• Axe: Berserker's Call cooldown from 14 to 10.
  
• Axe: Counter Helix damage increased from 100/125/150/175 to 100/130/160/190.
  
• Axe: Counter Helix proc cooldown decreased from 0.7/0.65/0.6/0.55 to 0.65/0.6/0.55/0.5.
  
• Axe: If Culling Blade kills a unit, Axe unleashes a war cry, giving nearby allied units (600 AoE) a temporary movement bonus (25% for 6 seconds).
  
• Blood Seeker: Thirst no longer partially reveals invisible heroes below 40% health.
  
• Blood Seeker: Thirst now fully reveals invisible heroes below 20% health.
  
• Blood Seeker: Rupture duration improved from 5/7/9 to 7/8/9.
  
• Blood Seeker: Rupture cooldown now scales from 70 to 70/60/50.
  
• Bounty Hunter: Track gold bonus for Bounty Hunter increased from 75/150/225 to 150/200/250.
  
• Dark Seer: Ion Shell duration increased from 15 to 20.
  
• Dark Seer: Ion Shell AoE from increased 225 to 250.
  
• Dark Seer: Ion Shell cooldown increased from 7 to 10.
  
• Dark Seer: Ion Shell damage increased from 30/45/60/75 to 30/50/70/90.
  
• Dark Seer: Wall of Replica illusions are now semi-transparent to enemy players.
  
• Doom Bringer: Scorched Earth duration increased from 8/10/12/14 to 10/12/14/16.
  
• Dragon Knight: While in Dragon form Dragon Tail's cast range increased from 150 to 400.
  
• Drow Ranger: Base Agility increased by 4.
  
• Enchantress: Movement speed from 305 to 310.
  
• Nature's Prophet: Wrath of Nature cooldown rescaled from 90/60/60 to 90/75/60.
  
• Jakiro: Ice Path cooldown decreased from 16/15/14/13 to 12/11/10/9.
  
• Jakiro: Macropyre duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds.
  
• Juggernaut: Omnislash random damage improved from 150-250 to 175-250.
  
• Juggernaut: Omnislash hit count increased from 3/5/8 (5/7/10 aghanim) to 3/6/9 (6/9/12 aghanim).
  
• Kunkka: Strength growth increased from 2.7 to 3.0.
  
• Kunkka: Ghost Ship's CoCo's Rum duration increased from 5/6/7 to 8.
  
• Kunkka: Tidebringer cleave AoE improved from 380/420/460/500 to 500.
  
• Kunkka: Torrent slow increased from 30 to 35%.
  
• Kunkka: X Marks The Spot cooldown decreased from 30 to 20 seconds.
  
• Death Prophet: Witchcraft movement speed increased from 3/6/9/12% to 4/8/12/16%.
  
• Skeleton King: Reincarnation slow duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds.
  
• Skeleton King: Reincarnation cooldown decreased from 300/220/140 to 260/160/60.
  
• Leshrac: Movement speed increased from 310 to 315.
  
• Leshrac: Pulse Nova AoE increased from 400 to 450.
  
• Lich: Added a 0.2 second buffer time between Chain Frost bounces.
  
• Lina: Base intelligence increased by 3.
  
• Lina: Dragon Slave travel distance increased by 100.
  
• Lina: Dragon Slave final AoE increased from 125 to 150.
  
• Lion: Mana Drain level 4 increased from 100 to 120 per second.
  
• Lion: Mana Drain now drains at 0.25 second intervals instead of 1 second (596884).
  
• Mirana: Fixed Arrow damaging but not stunning invisible units.
  
• Morphling: Base agility increased by 5.
  
• Morphling: Adaptive strike cooldown decreased from 20 to 10.
  
• Necrolyte: Death Pulse AoE increased from 375/425/450/475 to 475.
  
• Necrolyte: Heartstopper damage increased from 0.4/0.6/0.8/1.0% to 0.5/0.7/0.9/1.1%.
  
• Necrolyte: Sadist level 4 now restores 600 mana if you kill a hero.
  
• Pudge: Flesh Heap now has a overhead notification when strength is gained.
  
• Pugna: Life Drain damage increased from 95/140/185 to 100/150/200 (and Scepter from 150/200/250 to 175/225/275).
  
• Pugna: Life Drain duration increased from 9 to 10 seconds.
  
• Queen of Pain: Base damage increased by 4.
  
• Queen of Pain: Scream of Pain AoE increased from 400/425/450/475 to 475.
  
• Razor: Static Link duration, after it finishes draining, increased from 13 to 18.
  
• Razor: Static Link cooldown rescaled from 35/30/25/20 to 25.
  
• Sand King: Epicenter's slow is no longer blocked by magic immunity.
  
• Sand King: Caustic Finale buff duration increased from 2 to 8 seconds.
  
• Shadow Fiend: Movement speed increased from 300 to 305.
  
• Shadow Fiend: Agility growth increased from 2.4 to 2.9.
  
• Shadow Fiend: Necromancy soul cap increased from 8/15/23/30 to 8/16/24/32.
  
• Sniper: Shrapnel AoE increased from 325 to 350.
  
• Spectre: Dispersion damage no longer disables items like Blink Dagger.
  
• Riki: Backstab damage bonus increased from 0.25/0.5/0.75/1.0 to 0.5/0.75/1.0/1.25 of agility.
  
• Storm Spirit: Overload bonus damage increased from 30/45/60/75 to 30/50/70/90.
  
• Sven: Great Cleave increased from 20/30/40/50% to 30/40/50/60%.
  
• Sven: God's Strength is no longer purgeable.
  
• Sven: God's Strength damage buff increased from 100/125/150% to 100/140/180%.
  
• Sven: Warcry duration increased from 6 to 8 seconds.
  
• Sven: Warcry cast time removed.
  
• Tinker: Laser's miss duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds.
  
• Ursa: Armor increased by 1.
  
• Ursa: Enrage damage increased from 4/5/6% to 5/6/7% of current HP.
  
• Ursa: Earthshock AoE increased from 365 to 385.
  
• Ursa: Earthshock cooldown decreased from 7 to 6.
  
• Ursa: Fury Swipes damage increased from 10/15/20/25 to 15/20/25/30.
  
• Warlock: Infernal's Flaming Fists trigger chance increased from 40% to 60%.
  
• Warlock: Infernal's Flaming Fists damage increased from 75/115/150 to 100/150/200.
  
• Zeus: Arc Lightning level 4 damage increased from 130 to 145 damage.
  
• Zeus: Lightning Bolt cooldown decreased from 6.5 to 6.
  
• Zeus: Static Field now affects creeps.
  
• Zeus: Static Field no longer requires unit visibility to take effect.
  
• New Item: Rod of Atos.
  
• New Item: Heaven's Halberd.
  
• New Item: Ring of Aquila.
  
• New Item: Abyssal Blade.
  
• New Item: Tranquil Boots.
  
• Boots of Travel: Recipe cost decreased from 2200 to 2000.
  
• Boots of Travel: Movement speed increased from 95 to 100.
  
• Bloodstone: Initial charges increased from 5 to 6.
  
• Bloodstone: Respawn time reduction increased from 3 to 4 seconds per charge.
  
• Butterfly: Evasion increased from 30 to 35%.
  
• Divine Rapier: Damage increased from 250 to 300.
  
• Ethereal Blade: Ether blast cast range increased from 700 to 800.
  
• Eul's Scepter of Divinity: Movement speed bonus increased from 25 to 30.
  
• Linken's Sphere: Added +10 damage to account for component bonuses.
  
• Linken's Sphere: No longer triggered by Medallion of Courage.
  
• Linken's Sphere: No longer triggered by Urn of Shadows.
  
• Magic Wand: No longer loses charges when upgrading from Magic Stick.
  
• Mask of Madness: Berserk's movement speed bonus increased from 20% to 25%.
  
• Mjollnir: Chain lightning bounce count increased from 4 to 8.
  
• Necronomicon: Archer's Mana burn cast range increased from 250 to 600.
  
• Necronomicon: Archer's attack damage increased from 31/61/91 to 40/80/120.
  
• Necronomicon: Warrior's attack damage increased from 21/41/61 to 25/50/75.
  
• Orb of Venom: Cost decreased from 450 to 350.
  
• Orchid Malevolence: Recipe Reworked: now requires 2 Oblivion Staffs and a 775 gold recipe.
  
• Smoke of Deceit: Dispel AoE for nearby heroes increased from 950 to 1025.
  
• Refresher Orb: Added +6 Intelligence to account for component bonuses.
  
• Stygian Desolator: Desolator recipe cost decreased from 1200 to 900.
  
• Vanguard: HP Bonus decreased from 275 to 250.
  
• Veil of Discord: Recipe now requires only one Robe of the Magi, completed bonuses are the same.
  
• Couriers: Now give 150 to each enemy player, instead of 300 to the killer.
  
• Couriers: No longer drop items when they die.
  
• Couriers: Respawn 3 minutes after death, the items they have are inaccesible during that time.
  
• Couriers: Flying courier no longer has invulnerability shield.
  
• Couriers: Basic courier is magic immune (like flying courier, most spells did not work on couriers already).
  
• Buyback cooldown increased from 4 minutes to 5.
  
• Heroes now respawn with full mana.
  
• Gold over time from 0.875 intervals to 0.8.
  
• Runes will no longer spawn the same rune type 2 times in a row.
  
• Forest Healing Troll now has a Mana Aura (+2 MP/sec).
  
• Forest Healing Troll's heal cooldown from 0.75 to 0.5 seconds.

• 
  GAMEPLAY
  • Added Spirit Breaker and Silencer.
    
  • Added Tournament version switch.
    
  • Fixed a bug where if you issued commands in rapid succession, some commands could be ignored.
    
  • Alchemist: Fixed Unstable Concoction stunning Alchemist when he is magic immune.
    
  • Axe: Fixed Counter Helix doing the damage when the attack impacted rather than started.
    
  • Bloodseeker: Fixed being able to cast Bloodrage on Magic Immune allies/self.
    
  • Bounty Hunter: Fixed it being possible to use Jinada cooldown without triggering a critical strike.
    
  • Bounty Hunter: Fixed Jinada working on denies.
    
  • Bounty Hunter: Fixed Jinada and Shadowblade affecting buildings.
    
  • Bounty Hunter: Fixed Track giving bonus gold for dead illusions.
    
  • Bounty Hunter: Fixed Track not being dispelled by Time Lapse, Repel, Purge, etc.
    
  • Bounty Hunter: Fixed Track debuff icon not showing.
    
  • Broodmother: Fixed Spawn Spiderite working on wards.
    
  • Clockwerk: Fixed Hookshot hitting couriers.
    
  • Dragon Knight: Fixed Dragon Tail ignoring Linken's Sphere.
    
  • Nature's Prophet: Fixed not being able to see the teleportation end point if it is in FoW.
    
  • Huskar: Fixed Lifebreak being dodgeable.
    
  • Leshrac: Fixed Pulse Nova turning back on when out of mana sometimes.
    
  • Lifestealer: Fixed Rage not properly dispelling negative debuffs
    
  • Lifestealer: Fixed Open Wounds healing towers.
    
  • Lifestealer: Fixed Infest not working on Mud Golems.
    
  • Nevermore: Fixed Presence of the Dark Lord not working on siege units.
    
  • Night Stalker: Fixed Hunter in the Night working on Illusions.
    
  • Omniknight: Fixed Repel taking Shadowblade invis buff off
    
  • Omniknight: Fixed Repel causing Burrowstrike to fail if used during the movement period
    
  • Omniknight: Fixed Holy Persuation working on magic immune allies.
    
  • Omniknight: Fixed Repel revealing Broodmother while under Spin Web.
    
  • Sand King: Fixed Refresher Burrow Strike not hurting affected units
    
  • Shadow Shaman: Fixed Ethershock hitting units in the FoW.
    
  • Storm Spirit: Fixed Overload charge being used up if the target dies before impact.
    
  • Tidehunter: Fixed Refresher Ravage not hurting affected units.
    
  • Tidehunter: Fixed Kraken Shell not reducing tower damage.
    
  • Tiny: Fixed the timing of when the stun happened with Craggy Exterior.
    
  • Ursa: Fury swipes should only work on organic units and Roshan now.
    
  • Ursa: Fixed Illusions not dealing bonus damage on a unit that has Fury Swipe stacks already.
    
  • Venomancer: Fixed Plague Ward collision size
    
  • Fixed Satanic being dispellable.
    
  • Fixed Janggo Aura not affecting lane creeps.
    
  • Fixed Vladmir Aura's mana regen stacking with Basilius.
    
  • Fixed Necro Warrior's Mana Burn ignoring Linken's Sphere.
    
  • Fixed Refresher Orb not geving bonus int.
    
  • Fixed Power Treads movement bonus being off by 5.
    
  • Fixed Force Staff not giving an error (and wasting cooldown) when used on allied magic immune.
    
  • Fixed Unobstructed vision working on Illusions.
    
  • Fixed Bash against wards.
    
  • Fixed a hero not leveling up multiple times if they received enough XP in one go.
    
  • Fixed some Legacy Keys.
    
  • Enabled Ursa and Bounty Hunter in Captain's Mode.
    
  • Fixed Bottle usage cooldown.
    
  • Fixed couriers losing behaviors and being removed from unit selections and control groups when they are upgraded to flying.

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  UI
  • Updated the minimap texture.
    
  • Dominated and summoned creeps now draw larger on minimap.
    
  • Fixed shop keys getting unbound.
    
  • Fixed a case where dragging a non-controllable unit's inventory item would result in a drag of the player's hero's item instead.
    
  • Fixed control clicking on an active item showing a confusing error.
    
  • Added a Animate Portrait setting to the video config.
    
  • Fixed Cheap Water setting being backwards.
    
  • Fixed the quickbuy purchase shortcut not buying items if they existed in both the secret and side shop, when at the side shop.
    
  • The shop button now highlights when you are in range of the shop.
    
  • When using Alt, minimap hero names are now icons.
    
  • When using Alt, there are now TP icons to show which teammate is teleporting in.
    
  • When using Alt, illusions draw smaller and semitransparent.
    
  • Disallowed item moves from the stash to the main inventory while reincarnating.
    
  • Minimap lines for muted players are no longer drawn.
    
  • Added an overhead indicator for flesh heap.
    
  • Added a tooltip to the courier button.
    
  • The courier button shows as inactive when there are either no couriers, or only dead couriers.
    
  • Fixed the reliable/unreliable gold tooltip showing up for non-hero units.
    
  • Fixed hero images not showing up in the top bar and scoreboard until their entities came out of dormancy.
    
  • Fixed being able to select units previously part of a multi-unit selection by clicking on the space where they were displayed, after returning to single-unit selection.
    
  • Added health number on the player's hero's floating health bar.
    
  • Fixed a case where the stash would show the wrong item icon.
    
  • Added "Auto Speed" feature to Directed mode in the spectator HUD when watching a replay.
    • Will automatically speed up the replay when nothing is happening, and slow down when action occurs.
      
    • Will do super slow-mo at moments when heroes are killed.
      
    • Only works on replays recorded after this release.
  • Fixed bug where the stickly slot would sometimes, mysteriously, change items.
    
  • Fixed not being able to buy stackable items from side shop with a full inventory (ie. teleport scroll).
    
  • Fixed channel bar not going away when querying a channeling hero that enter fog of war.
    
  • Shift-clicking a unit in multi-unit selection hud element now deselects the unit.
    
  • Fixed Top bar clicks not going to the correct heroes when playing back demos.
    
  • Taskbar icon will now flash when a game is paused/unpaused, if the game doesn't already have focus.
    
  • Added attack icon and ping for enemy structures.
    
  • Mana and health regen values are no longer drawn in the hud when querying enemies.
    
  • Practice lobby settings are now shown to all lobby members.
    
  • Improved scrollbars and scrolling views.
    
  • Winner and duration are hidden on the match details screen by default.
    
  • Fixed default date range when searching for replays.

• 
  VISUALS
  • There is now an impact effect on enemies who are damaged by Dazzle's Shadow Wave.
    
  • There is now a splash effect when Morphling takes an illusion's position.
    
  • Removed track casting effect from enemy vision.
    
  • Changed how Dark Seer's illusions look — smaller and illusion color for both teams.
    
  • Fixed Ursa turning bright yellow on lower-end cards.
    
  • Made Lifestealer's Rage effect slightly more subtle.
    
  • Made Pudge's Rot way less subtle.

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  AUDIO
  • Death Prophet will comment on her ghosts returning when they begin turning back instead of when they're done returning.
    
  • Slightly lessened the volume of the Match Ready sound.
    
  • Made warning about Ancient being under attack always play, even if there are heroes nearby defending it.

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  BOTS
  • Enabled bot difficulty selection. Currently all bots in the match will use the same difficulty setting.
    
  • Fixed cases where bots would want to gank a nearby invisible unit.
    
  • Bots will now wait a couple seconds before using a TP scroll to ensure that their desire to go to a location wasn't just momentary.
    
  • Fixed case where bots would say "Defending none" when they were defending their base.
    
  • Fixed bug where you would lose your assigned lane if you moved too close to the base.
    
  • Fixed bug that was causing bots to use TP scrolls less often than they should when doing long pathfinds.
    
  • Fixed bug that was making bots think Windrunner was way more powerful than she actually was when she had the Focus Fire buff active.
    
  • Increased desire to not move with Rupture.
    
  • When bots are pushing a tower, and allies have signed up to help out, they will do a better job of waiting for them to show up before actually doing the push.
    
  • Made bots more likely to stick with Roshan when his health is low, even if they think it's dangerous.
    
  • Added slight buyback delay so bots aren't superhuman about buying back into the game.
    
  • Improved Tidehunter's Ravage usage, he will now consider using it even when retreating.
    
  • Made bots more likely to commit post-allied-Ravage.
    
  • Fixed bug where bots would gather up for a tower push when no more reinforcements were coming.
    
  • Fixed bug that caused bots to be jerks and prematurely retreat with extremely high priority when a teamfight happened and one of their teammates was being attacked.
    
  • Made bots more likely to break off Roshan (and not decide to do Rosh) if any hero fights are happening nearby.
    
  • Increased tower avoidance at mid-range health values, should help avoid some ill-advised tower-dives.
    
  • Made bots focus a bit more on a tower/rax push rather than swapping off to attack a hero.
    
  • Made bots less likely to ignore very high-health enemies.
    
  • Made bots less likely to tank creeps when attacking an enemy's minons.
    
  • Bots now have the ability to figure out which enemy heroes are illusions and which aren't, and they will adjust their ability usage accordingly.
    
  • Fixed a few cases where bots would try to cast an interrupting stun on a magic-immune enemy that was channeling.
    
  • Made bots a bit less aggressive about buying dust.
    
  • Made bots a bit more scared of Juggernaut's Blade Fury when at low health.
    
  • Fixed bug where bots would sometimes buy a duplicate courier.
    
  • Improved how bots infer ganks, tower pushes, and tower defenses from human players.
    
  • Bots are now more likely to automatically help out humans with tower pushes, tower defenses, and doing Rosh.