Patches/7.24
7.24Released January 26, 2020

Dota 2 Patch 7.24 Notes

Every change in Dota 2 patch 7.24, straight from Valve's official notes: 69 heroes, 18 items and 36 neutral items changed. Hero and item names link to their current stats.

▲ Increased▼ Decreased / removed◆ Reworked+ New

General changes26

  • Heroes now have a dedicated neutral items slot. A maximum of one neutral item can be equipped on your hero.
  • There is now a Neutral Item Stash in the fountain. Neutral items are now stored there instead of on the fountain floor. Right clicking on an available item in the new UI will place it in your stash/courier and can be delivered to you. This UI will also show the state and location of all the other items that have dropped.
  • Neutral items can now be teleported to your Neutral Item Stash at home through a right click context menu (from your backpack or your neutral slot)
  • Backpack slot count reduced from 4 to 3
  • Neutral item drop count per tier increased from 3 to 4 (chance from 9 to 10%)
  • Ancients neutral drop rates are 3x higher
  • Removed Shrines
  • Outposts moved to the primary jungles
  • Outposts vision reduced from 1400 flying to 700 ground vision (same for truesight)
  • Outposts now start as owned by the respective teams, and can be captured at any time (rewards still happen at the 10 minute mark)
  • Adjusted tree layout on the map edges near the previous outpost areas
  • Moved a medium camp in the Dire Primary Jungle to a nearby location
  • Lane bounty runes have been moved to the secondary jungles
  • Removed all GPM talents
  • Added Void Spirit and Snapfire to Captain's Mode
  • Hero respawn time increased from 6/8/10/14/16 for level 1-5 to 12/15/18/21/24
  • Buyback cost increased from 100 + NW/13 to 200 + NW/12
  • Courier death no longer disables your passive gold income
  • Courier bounty increased from 25+5*Level for each player to 30 + 7 * Level
  • Courier respawn time changed from 50 + 7 * Level to 60 + 7 * Level
  • Courier movement speed increased from 280 to 290
  • Courier can no longer plant wards at level 15
  • Courier can no longer use items at level 25
  • Implemented custom UI for charged-based abilities rather than using buffs
  • Melee attacks now have a bonus 150 range against Observer and Sentry Wards
  • Tier 5 items now drop at 60 minutes (item adjustments below)

Items18

Enchanted Mango

  • Mana restore reduced from 125 to 110

Quelling Blade

  • No longer kills wards (same for Iron Talon and Battle Fury)

Tango

  • No longer kills wards

Vladmir's Offering

  • Mana regeneration reduced from 1.5 to 1.25

Void Stone

  • Mana regeneration increased from 1.75 to 2.25

Perseverance

  • Mana regeneration increased from 2 to 2.25

Battle Fury

  • Damage increased from 54 to 60
  • Cleave damage against heroes increased from 60% to 70%
  • Cleave damage against creeps decreased from 60% to 50%

Maelstrom

  • Chain Lightning damage reduced from 150 to 140

Necronomicon

  • Mana regeneration increased from 2/2.5/3 to 3/3.5/4

Desolator

  • Armor reduction duration reduced from 15 to 7

Radiance

  • Damage reduced from 65 to 60

Blade Mail

  • Damage increased from +22 to +28

Silver Edge

  • Damage increased from 40 to 45

Mask of Madness

  • Damage increased from 10 to 15

Armlet of Mordiggian

  • Damage increased from 9 to 15

Crystalys

  • Damage increased from 38 to 45
  • Critical strike reduced from 175% to 160%

Daedalus

  • Damage increased from 80 to 88
  • Critical strike reduced from 235% to 225%

Bloodthorn

  • Damage increased from 68 to 75
  • Critical strike reduced from 175% to 160%
  • Soul Rend critical strike reduced from 140% to 130%

Neutral items36

Ironwood Tree

  • Now drops the full item rather than a recipe
  • All stats reduced from +7 to +6

Arcane Ring

  • Intelligence increased from +8 to +10

Iron Talon

  • No longer has the Quell passive
  • Now provides +15 Attack Speed

Keen Optic

  • Mana regen increased from 1 to 1.25

Mango Tree

  • Vision range reduced from 1200 to 1000
  • Mangoes now fall a little further out

Poor Man's Shield

  • Blocked damage from 20/10 for melee/range to 30/20

Trusty Shovel

  • Health reduced from 150 to 100

Ocean Heart

  • Health/Mana regen increased from 6/3 to 8/4

Dragon Scale

  • Afterburn damage increased from 12 to 18

Clumsy Net

  • Cast range reduced from 900 to 650
  • No longer pierces immunity on yourself

Essence Ring

  • Now increases current/max health directly and is not considered a heal (does not get amplified/triggered by heal related abilities)

Vambrace

  • Now drops the full item rather than a recipe
  • can now be toggled between the different attributes
  • from 12/6 primary/secondary stats to 10/5

Vampire Fangs

  • Spell Lifesteal reduced from 8% to 6%

Enchanted Quiver

  • Bonus magic damage increased from 270 to 300
  • Fixed it working with Wukong's Command

Orb of Destruction

  • Slow reduced from 30/15% to 20/10%

Craggy Coat

  • Armor reduced from 13 to 12

Mind Breaker

  • Silence duration reduced from 2 to 1.5 seconds

Telescope

  • Attack range bonus reduced from 150 to 125

Repair Kit

  • Building Repair no longer has multishot
  • Health regen increased from 13 to 17

Havoc Hammer

  • Havoc base damage increased from 175 to 225

Flicker

  • Movement speed increased from +30 to +40

Magic Lamp

  • Health threshold increased from 15% to 20%

Apex

  • Changed to a fixed +75 Primary Attribute instead of a percentage increased

Ballista

  • Attack range reduced from +400 to +250
  • Now deals +30 Pure Damage

Force Boots

  • Cooldown increased from 6 to 9 seconds
  • Movement speed reduced from +50% to +40%
  • Push distance/duration from 800/0.65 to 600/0.5

Ex Machina

  • Reset Item Cooldowns increased from 30 to 45 seconds
  • Armor reduced from 25 to 20
  • Now has a 100 mana cost

Mirror Shield

  • Cooldown increased from 4 to 8 seconds

Pirate Hat

  • Attack speed reduced from +250 to +150
  • No longer drops a bounty rune on hero kills
  • You now steal 300 Gold from heroes you kill

Seer Stone

  • Cast and Vision range reduced from 450 to 350

Stygian Desolator

  • Damage reduced from 100 to 75
  • Armor reduction reduced from 12 to 10
  • Armor reduction duration reduced from 15 to 7

Woodland Striders

  • Health regen reduced from 70 to 50
  • Tree duration reduced from 60 seconds to 15

Fallen Sky

  • Has the same Blink rules with regards to damage
  • Now drops the full item rather than a recipe

Trident

  • All bonuses reduced from 33% to 30%

Book of the Dead

  • Changed from three sets of Necronomicon units to two sets with 50% more health and damage
  • Strength and Intelligence reduced from 35 to 30

Heroes69

Abaddon2 changes

  • Base damage reduced by 2

Mist Coil

  • Cooldown increased from 4.5 to 5.5

Alchemist1 change

  • Strength gain increased from 2.4 to 2.7

Ancient Apparition2 changes

Ice Blast

  • Kill threshold increased from 10/11/12% to 12/13/14%

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +90 Gold/Min to +175 Chilling Touch Attack Range

Axe2 changes

  • Movement speed increased by 5
  • Strength gain increased from 3.4 to 3.6

Chaos Knight3 changes

Reality Rift

  • Armor reduction increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6

Phantasm

  • Incoming damage reduced from 350% to 325%

Talents

  • Level 20 Talent changed from +150 Gold/Min to +10s Phantasm Duration

Chen1 change

Talents

  • Level 20 Talent changed from +180 Gold/Min to -30s Hand of God cooldown

Clinkz1 change

Burning Army

  • Base damage increased from 24/26/28% to 28%

Crystal Maiden1 change

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent changed from +150 Gold/Min to -2s Crystal Nova Cooldown

Dark Seer2 changes

Surge

  • Speed changed from 25/40/55/70% to 70%
  • Duration reduced from 6 to 3/4/5/6

Dark Willow1 change

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent changed from +120 Gold/Min to +40 Bedlam Damage

Death Prophet3 changes

  • Base armor increased by 1
  • Base movement speed increased by 5

Spirit Siphon

  • Charge restore time reduced from 60/52/44/36 to 45/40/35/30

Disruptor3 changes

Thunder Strike

  • Manacost increased from 130 to 130/140/150/160

Static Storm

  • Scepter no longer increases duration from 5 to 7

Talents

  • Level 20 Talent changed from +180 Gold/Min to Kinetic Field Grants True Sight

Doom3 changes

  • Strength gain reduced from 4.0 to 3.7

Scorched Earth

  • Movement speed reduced from 12/13/14/15% to 9/11/13/15%

Devour

  • HP regen reduced from 3/8/13/18 to 3/7/11/15

Dragon Knight2 changes

  • Base movement speed increased by 10

Elder Dragon Form

  • Movement speed bonus reduced from 30 to 25

Drow Ranger1 change

Multishot

  • Damage reduced from 90/115/140/165% to 85/110/135/160%

Earth Spirit2 changes

Stone Remnant

  • Charge replenish time reduced from 30 to 25

Talents

  • Level 20 Talent changed from +150 Gold/Min to +3.5s Geomagnetic Grip Silence

Enigma2 changes

Malefice

  • Damage increased from 30/50/70/90 to 30/55/80/105

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent changed from +150 Gold/Min to +40 Malefice Instance Damage

Grimstroke4 changes

  • Base intelligence increased by 2

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +90 Gold/Min to +100 Ink Swell Max Damage
  • Level 15 Talent increased from +125 Cast Range to +175
  • Level 15 Talent increased from +12% Spell Amplification to +15%

Io3 changes

Overcharge

  • Heal reduced from 0.6/0.8/1/1.2% to 0.55/0.7/0.85/1%
  • Cooldown increased from 16 to 22/20/18/16

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent changed from +120 Gold/Min to +400 Spirits Max Distance

Jakiro2 changes

Dual Breath

  • Now does its first damage instance immediately

Talents

  • Level 20 Talent changed from +150 Gold/Min to +400 Dual Breath Range

Juggernaut2 changes

  • Base damage increased by 4
  • Base movement speed increased by 5

Lich3 changes

  • Base damage reduced by 2

Frost Blast

  • Manacost increased from 105/130/155/180 to 115/140/165/190

Sinister Gaze

  • Duration reduced from 1.6/1.9/2.2/2.5 to 1.4/1.7/2.0/2.3

Lion1 change

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent changed from +150 Gold/Min to +60 Mana Drain

Luna2 changes

Lunar Blessing

  • Now affects base armor instead of total armor
  • Increased from 10/15/20/25% to 15/20/25/30%

Lycan2 changes

  • Base intelligence increased by 4

Shapeshift

  • Transformation time from 1.5 to 1.25

Magnus3 changes

  • Max damage reduced by 4

Empower

  • Cleave reduced from 15/25/35/45 to 10/20/30/40

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent reduced from +25 Attack Speed to +20

Mars3 changes

  • Strength gain increased from 3.2 to 3.4

God's Rebuke

  • Slow duration increased from 1.5 to 2
  • Hero attack damage increased from 25 to 35

Medusa2 changes

  • Intelligence gain increased from 3.4 to 4.0

Stone Gaze

  • Speed bonus increased from 35% to 50%

Nyx Assassin3 changes

Vendetta

  • Bonus damage changed from physical to pure damage
  • Damage reduced from 250/400/550 to 250/375/500

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +90 Gold/Min to +0.3s Impale Stun Duration

Ogre Magi1 change

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +90 Gold/Min to +20 Ignite DPS

Omniknight4 changes

  • Base armor reduced by 1
  • Strength gain reduced from 3.6 to 3.4

Purification

  • Cooldown increased from 17/15/13/11 to 18/16/14/12

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +90 Gold/Min to +10 Heavenly Grace HP Regen

Oracle1 change

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent changed from +120 Gold/Min to -1s Purifying Flames Cooldown

Pangolier1 change

Shield Crash

  • Casts in-place when rooted

Phantom Lancer2 changes

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent reduced from +275 Health to +250
  • Level 25 Talent reduced from -6s Doppelganger Cooldown to -5s

Phoenix3 changes

  • Attack range increased from 500 to 525
  • Base health regen increased by 0.5

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +90 Gold/Min to +18% Icarus Dive Slow

Puck2 changes

  • Base damage reduced by 3

Talents

  • Level 25 Talent changed from +420 Gold/Min to +425 Waning Rift AoE and Range

Pudge2 changes

Dismember

  • Tick rate changed from every 1 to every 0.5 seconds (same total damage)

Talents

  • Level 20 Talent changed from +180 Gold/Min to +1s Dismember Duration

Pugna1 change

  • Base agility increased by 8

Queen of Pain2 changes

  • Intelligence gain increased from 2.9 to 3.4

Sonic Wave

  • Damage increased from 340/430/520 to 340/450/560

Rubick1 change

Arcane Supremacy

  • Debuff amplification reduced from 20/28/36/44% to 16/24/32/40%

Shadow Demon1 change

Demonic Purge

  • Damage increased from 200/300/400 to 250/350/450

Silencer1 change

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent changed from +120 Gold/Min to +12% Arcane Curse Slow

Skywrath Mage1 change

Talents

  • Level 25 Talent changed from +300 Gold/Min to Arcane Bolt Pierces Spell Immunity

Slardar2 changes

  • Base movement speed increased by 10

Bash of the Deep

  • Damage rescaled from 75/125/175/225 to 60/115/170/225

Slark3 changes

Pounce

  • Scepter replenish time increased from 20/16/12/8 to 10
  • Scepter range reduced from 1400 to 1200

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent reduced from +30 Attack Speed to +25

Snapfire3 changes

  • Added to Captain's Mode
  • Base damage reduced by 4
  • Fixed Firesnap Cookie moving units affected by Kinetic Field, Black Hole, and Chronosphere

Spectre1 change

  • Base health regen increased from 0 to 1.5

Sven3 changes

Storm Hammer

  • Damage increased from 80/160/240/320 to 110/180/250/320

Warcry

  • Self movement bonus increased from 6/10/14/18% to 10/14/18/22%
  • Cooldown reduced from 36/32/28/24 to 32/28/24/20

Techies2 changes

  • Blast Off self damage changed from Pure to Magical

Talents

  • Level 20 Talent changed from +150 Gold/Min to -28s Blast Off Cooldown

Terrorblade2 changes

  • Movement speed increased from 310 to 315

Reflection

  • Slow increased from 20% to 25%

Tidehunter1 change

  • Base intelligence increased by 2

Tinker1 change

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent changed from +150 Gold/Min to +2s March of the Machines Duration

Tiny1 change

Avalanche

  • Duration reduced from 1.8 to 1.4 seconds

Treant Protector3 changes

  • Strength gain reduced from 3.5 to 3.4

Nature's Grasp

  • Manacost increased from 60/70/80/90 to 75/80/85/90

Living Armor

  • Reduced from 4/6/8/10 to 5/6/7/8

Tusk2 changes

  • Base health regen increased from 0.5 to 1

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +90 Gold/Min to +0.5s Walrus Punch Stun Duration

Underlord3 changes

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent reduced from +7 Atrophy Permanent Damage to +6
  • Level 15 Talent increased from +150 Cast Range to +200
  • Level 20 Talent reduced from +70 Attack Speed to +60

Undying8 changes

  • Fixed Helm of the Dominator not working on Zombies
  • Level 15 Zombie damage talent is now base damage

Tombstone

  • Deathlust health thresholds is now always 40%
  • Deathlust movement speed bonus from 50% to 35/40/45/50%
  • Deathlust attack speed values from 75 to 50/60/70/80

Flesh Golem

  • Debuff duration increased from 5 to 6
  • Duration increased from 30 to 40
  • Now grants +30 Movement Speed

Venomancer1 change

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +90 Gold/Min to +15s Plague Wards Duration

Visage2 changes

Soul Assumption

  • Gather damage threshold reduced from 110 to 100
  • Manacost from 170/160/150/140 to 150

Warlock1 change

Shadow Word

  • Cooldown reduced from 16 to 14

Weaver1 change

The Swarm

  • Attack rate improved from 1.25/1.1/0.95/0.8 to 1.15/1.0/0.85/0.7

Winter Wyvern4 changes

  • Base strength reduced from 26 to 24

Cold Embrace

  • Percentage heal reduced from 3/4/5/6% to 2/3/4/5%
  • Base heal increased from 14/18/22/26 to 20/26/32/38

Talents

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +90 Gold/Min to +1% Cold Embrace Heal

Witch Doctor2 changes

  • Base armor increased by 1

Talents

  • Level 15 Talent changed from +120 Gold/Min to +100 Maledict AoE

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