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Patches/7.08
7.08Released February 1, 2018
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Dota 2 Patch 7.08 Notes

Every change in Dota 2 patch 7.08, straight from Valve's official notes: 23 heroes, 11 items and 0 neutral items changed. Hero and item names link to their current stats.

▲ Increased▼ Decreased / removed◆ Reworked+ New

General changes6

  • Wards now require a constant 2 hits to kill (both Observer and Sentry Wards)
  • Tier 1 Tower armor aura increased from 1 to 2
  • Bounty Runes base XP reduced from 25 to 0
  • Bounty Runes Gold Growth increased from 2/min to 4/min
  • Roshan now has 25% Status Resistance
  • All Pick drafting time per hero selection reduced from 30 to 25 seconds

Items11

Aeon Disk

  • Health threshold reduced from 80% to 70%

Battle Fury

  • Creep Bonus damage reduced from 60% to 50%
  • Creep Bonus no longer works with illusions

Black King Bar

  • Cooldown rescaled from 80/75/70/65/60/55 to 70

Blink Dagger

  • Cooldown increased from 12 to 14

Enchanted Mango

  • Mana restore increased from 150 to 175

Faerie Fire

  • Heal increased from 75 to 85

Force Staff

  • Time it takes for the full distance to be traveled increased from 0.4 to 0.5

Hurricane Pike

  • Time it takes for the full distance to be traveled increased from 0.4 to 0.5
  • Cooldown increased from 18 to 23

Meteor Hammer

  • Cooldown reduced from 40 to 28

Soul Ring

  • Recipe increased from 185 to 200

Spirit Vessel

  • Recipe cost increased from 600 to 750

Heroes23

Alchemist4 changes

  • Talent: Level 10 Talent increased from -5s Unstable Concoction Cooldown to -8s
  • Talent: Level 15 Talent increased from +350 Health to +400
  • Talent: Level 20 Talent increased from +360 Unstable Concoction to +400

Chemical Rage

  • Chemical Rage base attack time improved from 1.4/1.2/1.0 to 1.3/1.15/1.0

Ember Spirit1 change

Sleight of Fist

  • Sleight of Fist Hero Damage increased from 20/40/60/80 to 25/50/75/100

Jakiro1 change

  • Reduced attack backswing from 0.5 to 0.3

Juggernaut1 change

Blade Dance

  • Blade Dance damage reduced from 200% to 180%

Leshrac1 change

Split Earth

  • Split Earth manacost reduced from 100/125/140/160 to 80/100/120/140

Lina2 changes

  • Base intelligence increased by 3
  • Base damage random variance reduced from 18 min/max damage spread to 12

Lion1 change

Mana Drain

  • Mana Drain now slows the target by 14/16/18/20%

Lycan2 changes

  • Base armor reduced by 1

Shapeshift

  • Shapeshift cooldown increased from 120/90/60 to 130/105/80

Medusa4 changes

  • Talent: Level 10 Talent increased from 12% Evasion to 15%
  • Talent: Level 15 Talent increased from +15% Mystic Snake Mana Steal to +20%
  • Talent: Level 20 Talent reduced from +800 Mana to +700

Mystic Snake

  • Mystic Snake cast range reduced from 800 to 700

Morphling3 changes

Morph

  • cast range increased from 600 to 1000
  • manacost reduced from 75/100/125 to 50

Morph Replicate

  • Morph Replicate cast point removed

Nature's Prophet1 change

Wrath of Nature

  • cooldown reduced from 90/75/60 to 70/65/60

Omniknight2 changes

Degen Aura

  • range reduced from 300 to 275

Purification

  • Purification cast range reduced from 450 to 400

Oracle1 change

Fortune's End

  • Fortune's End manacost reduced from 110 to 75

Pangolier1 change

Rolling Thunder

  • Rolling Thunder cooldown increased from 50/45/40 to 70/65/60

Pudge1 change

Rot

  • Rot slow rescaled from 30% to 20/24/28/32%

Pugna2 changes

  • Talent: Level 15 Talent increased from +1 Nether Ward Health to +2

Life Drain

  • Life Drain damage increased from 150/200/250 to 150/225/300 (Scepter now only removes cooldown)

Shadow Fiend1 change

Necromastery

  • Necromastery max souls reduced from 18/24/30/36 to 12/20/28/36

Shadow Shaman2 changes

Shackles

  • Shackles total damage reduced from 120/200/280/360 to 60/160/260/360

Ether Shock

  • Ether Shock cooldown increased from 8 to 14/12/10/8

Tinker1 change

  • Base movement speed reduced from 305 to 290

Tiny1 change

Toss

  • Toss cooldown increased from 8 to 11

Tusk1 change

Snowball

  • Snowball can no longer be cast while rooted

Windranger3 changes

  • Talent: Level 20 Talent changed from +1 Shackleshot Target to +0.5s Shackleshot Duration
  • Talent: Level 25 Talent from +30% Ministun Focus Fire to +35%

Windrun

  • Windrun manacost reduced from 60 to 50

Source: official Dota 2 patch notes (dota2.com).