Dota 2 Patch 7.27b Notes

Mist Coil

• Cast range increased from 500 to 575

Unstable Concoction

• Radius increased from 200 to 250

Ice Vortex

• Manacost reduced from 40/60/80/100 to 40/55/70/85

Spark Wraith

• Duration reduced from 50 to 45

Culling Blade

• Kill threshold increased from 250/325/400 to 250/350/450

Brain Sap

• Mana cost increased from 90/115/140/165 to 110/130/150/170

Sticky Napalm

• Turn rate slow reduced from 70% to 40/50/60/70%

Flaming Lasso

• Scepter secondary target range increased from 450 to 550

Wild Axes

• Manacost reduced from 80/85/90/95 to 80

Bloodrage

• Has been reworked. Increases your attack speed by 50/80/110/140 and your spell amplification by 6/12/18/24%. Drains 2.4/2.6/2.8/3% max health per second. Self or ally hero cast (provides half attack speed for allies). Lasts 8 seconds. Cooldown 14/12/10/8. Manacost 25/30/35/40. Not lethal.
• Can now be cast without interrupting movement

Thirst

• No longer grants attack speed.
• Now provides 6/9/12/15% of max health as a heal for creep kills and 12/18/24/30% for hero kills. Grants half healing if you are within 300 radius of a dying enemy creep or hero.

Track

• Manacost reduced from 65 to 60

Thunder Clap

• No longer has a separate value for creeps

Cinder Brew

• Manacost reduced from 80 to 50/60/70/80
• Damage rescaled from 100/160/220/280 to 75/150/225/300
• Backswing animation time reduced (from 0.67 to 0.4)

Primal Split

• Earth movement speed increased from 325 to 330/350/370
• Storm attack damage increased from 20/40/60 to 30/50/70
• Storm mana capacity increased from 500/750/750 to 900
• Fire attack backswing animation time reduced (from 0.57 to 0.3)

Incapacitating Bite

• Slow increased from 16/26/36/46% to 20/30/40/50%

Spawn Spiderlings

• Health increased from 280 to 320
• Magic resistance reduced from 40% to 25%

Retaliate

• No longer has an active component that provides attack damage
• Now also returns 20/25/30/35% of your strength as damage
• Base damage reduced from 16/36/56/76 to 15/30/45/60
• Now does half damage to towers instead of full

Double Edge

• Cooldown reduced from 5 to 4

Hoof Stomp

• Cooldown reduced from 22/19/16/13 to 15/14/13/12
• Damage increased from 80/110/140/170 to 100/150/200/250
• Stun duration reduced from 2/2.25/2.5/2.75 to 1.7/2.0/2.3/2.6
• Manacost reduced from 115/120/125/130 to 100/110/120/130

Chaos Strike

• Now has a 30% chance to proc instead of using a cooldown

Phantasm

• Cooldown reduced from 125 to 75
• Illusion count reduced from 3 to 1/2/3
• Illusion outgoing damage increased from 40/70/100% to 100%
• Illusions no longer have an extra 25% magic resistance
• Manacost reduced from 125/200/275 to 75/125/175

Searing Arrows

• Damage increased from 25/35/45/55 to 30/40/50/60
• Manacost increased from 9/10/11/12 to 12

Strafe

• Is a basic ability again. Grants 110/140/170/200 attack speed and 100% evasion against ranged attackers. Lasts 3/4/5/6 seconds. Cooldown 34/30/26/22. Manacost 40/50/60/70.

Skeleton Walk

• Now provides invisibility and 15/30/45/60% movement speed. Does not end invisibility when casting his spells. Lasts 25/30/35/40 seconds. Cooldown 20/19/18/17 seconds.

Burning Army

• Is now a scepter ability. Summons 5 skeletons in a 1300 line. Skeletons have 1000 health, but die in 2 hits and deals 30% of your damage. Cooldown 90, Manacost 150.

Death Pact

• Has been reworked and is now his ultimate. Consumes a target friendly or enemy creep, gaining a percentage of its hit points as max health and damage. Gains 6/10/14% of the target's current health as damage, and gains 60/80/100% as health. Lasts 65. Cooldown 80/70/60. Manacost 100. Cast Range 900.

Rocket Flare

• Vision duration reduced from 10 to 8 seconds

Freezing Field

• Radius reduced from 835 to 810
• Scepter delay reduced from 2 to 1.75

Vacuum

• Manacost reduced from 100/130/160/190 to 60/90/120/150
• Damage increased from 50/100/150/200 to 100/150/200/250
• Cooldown refined from 60/50/40/30 to 60.0/50.0/40.0/30.0

Wall of Replica

• Slow duration increased from 0.75 seconds to 1 second

Cursed Crown

• Radius increased from 325 to 360

Terrorize

• Jex return speed increased from 500 to 600

Crypt Swarm

• Cast point reduced from 0.4 to 0.2

Kinetic Field

• Radius increased from 340 to 350

Glimpse

• Bug with not counting the position of dead heroes as in the fountain has been fixed

Devour

• Gold increased from 20/80/140/200 to 50/100/150/200
• Regeneration reduced from 3/7/11/15 to 2/6/10/14

Scorched Earth

• Backswing animation time reduced (from 1.27 to 0.83)

Rolling Boulder

• Collision radius increased from 150 to 160

Magnetize

• Damage rescaled from 50/75/100 to 40/80/120

Enchant Remnant

• Now allows him to target himself (and can kick yourself with Boulder Smash)

Fissure

• Duration reduced from 8 to 6.5/7/7.5/8

Enchant Totem

• Backswing animation time reduced (from 0.57 to 0.38)

Astral Spirit

• Return speed increased from 800 to 900
• No longer refreshes the current buff when a new spirit is cast and returns before the previous buff expires

Flame Guard

• Damage per second reduced from 30/40/50/60 to 25/35/45/55

Nature's Attendants

• Heal interval changed from every 1 second to every 0.5

Malefice

• Damage rescaled from 30/55/80/105 to 40/60/80/100

Time Walk

• Scepter AoE increased from 250 to 350

Homing Missile

• Launch time reduced from 3 to 2.5 seconds

Flak Cannon

• Cooldown reduced from 20 to 18

Inner Fire

• Knockback reduced from 550 to 400

Life Break

• No longer deals damage to Roshan

Forge Spirit

• Base attack time improved from 1.5 to 1.35
• Melting Strike no longer has a mana requirement

Invoke

• No longer triggers spell events like Magic Stick

Dual Breath

• Mana cost increased from 135/140/155/170 to 140/150/160/170

Ice Path

• Manacost increased from 90 to 100

Omnislash

• Now provides +40 Attack Speed
• Attack speed multiplier reduced from 1.7 to 1.6

Illuminate

• Channel duration reduced from 2/3/4/5 to 2/2.7/3.4/4.1 (total damage unchanged)

Will-O-Wisp

• Flicker no longer drops your orders between each cycle and no longer prevents orders from being queued during it

Duel

• Attack bonus increased from 10/18/26 to 10/20/30

Pulse Nova

• Scepter Lightning Storm interval improved from every 1.75 seconds to 1.5

Laguna Blade

• Damage increased from 450/650/850 to 500/700/900

Dragon Slave

• Backswing animation time reduced (from 0.53 to 0.38)

Savage Roar

• Is no longer duplicate cast on either target that is unable to cast

Summon Spirit Bear

• Damage per level is now base damage rather than bonus damage
• Backlash damage increased from 10% Max Health to 20%
• Entangling claws no longer has a special duration for creeps

True Form

• Armor bonus reduced from 10/15/20 to 8/10/12

Lunar Blessing

• Rescaled from 15/20/25/30% to 10/18/26/34%
• No longer increases armor

Moon Glaives

• Bounce count from 1/2/3/6 to 3/4/5/6
• Damage reduction per bounce from 35% to 52/46/40/34%

Empower

• Damage rescaled from 10/15/20/25% to 11/18/25/32%

Shockwave

• Slow increased from 60% to 75%

Skewer

• Cooldown reduced from 26/24/22/20 to 22/20/18/16
• Radius increased from 135 to 145

Arena Of Blood

• Formation time improved from 0.6 seconds to 0.3

Split Shot

• Primary arrow now has the same damage reduction as the secondary arrows
• Can now be toggled
• Extra arrow count increased from 3 to 4
• Secondary arrows bonus range from 100 to 150
• Damage increased from 30/45/60/75% to 50/60/70/80%

Mystic Snake

• Cast point reduced from 0.4 to 0.2
• Cooldown reduced from 11 to 10

Moonlight Shadow

• Movement speed reduced from 15% to 9/12/15%

Sacred Arrow

• Cooldown increased from 18/17/16/15 to 19/18/17/16

Leap

• Distance increased from 550 to 575

Jingu Mastery

• Damage reduced from 60/90/120/150 to 40/70/100/130
• Hit tracker duration reduced from 10 to 7/8/9/10

Wukong's Command

• Attack interval improved from 1.2 to 1.1

Ensnare

• Cast point reduced from 0.6 to 0.5

Song of the Siren

• Scepter upgrade now also reduces cooldown by 20 seconds

Nature's Call

• Treants gold/xp bounty reduced from 16/20 to 8/12

Impale

• Damage increased from 80/140/200/260 to 100/160/220/280

Unrefined Fireblast

• Manacost from 60% to 45%

Purification

• Cast range increased from 400 to 550

Degen Aura

• No longer reduces attack speed
• Radius increased from 300 to 375

Purifying Flames

• Cast point reduced from 0.3 to 0.15

Essence Flux

• Slow duration increased from 1.75 to 2
• Active duration increased from 6 to 8

Arcane Orb

• Manacost reduced from 110/140/170/200 to 80/120/160/200

Astral Imprisonment

• Now has a cast AoE indicator that shows the damage area
• Cast range increased from 225/300/375/450 to 300/350/400/450

Blur

• Scepter cooldown reduced from 12 to 10

Spirit Lance

• Damage increased from 100/150/200/250 to 100/160/220/280

Fire Spirits

• Manacost increased from 80/90/100/110 to 120

Supernova

• Hit count rescaled from 5/8/11 to 6/8/10

Meat Hook

• Cooldown reduced from 27/22/17/12 to 21/18/15/12

Rot

• Slow increased from 11/18/24/32% to 14/20/26/32%

Flesh Heap

• Strength gain increased from 1/1.5/2/2.5 to 1.5/2/2.5/3

Shadow Strike

• Manacost increased from 110 to 110/120/130/140
• Initial damage reduced from 50/75/100/125 to 30/60/90/120

Sonic Wave

• Manacost increased from 250/360/500 to 250/400/550

Plasma Field

• Cooldown reduced from 14 to 13/12/11/10

Static Link

• No longer disarms you nor does invisible attacks through the link, but instead allows you to attack while moving (similar to Windranger). By default it will automatically attack the target linked, but allows you to attack a different target.

Storm Surge

• No longer provides 2/4/6/8% AoE movement speed
• Movement speed changed from 6/10/14/18% to 8/12/16/20%

Eye of the Storm

• No longer has a passive component
• Damage per strike increased from 40/55/70 to 60/75/90

Fade Bolt

• Damage reduction changed from a fixed value for heroes and creeps to 10/18/26/34% base damage
• Damage increased from 80/160/240/320 to 100/175/250/325
• Manacost reduced from 135/140/145/150 to 120/130/140/150

Caustic Finale

• Has been reworked. Attacking an enemy now places a debuff that slows the enemy by 10/15/20/25% movement speed for 5 seconds. If the target dies during the 5 second debuff, an explosion deals 70/90/110/130 + 10/14/18/22% of the target's max health in a 500 AoE.

Necromastery

• Max soul count from 12/20/28/36 to 11/14/17/20 (scepter is 25)
• Damage per soul changed from 2 to 1/2/3/4
• No longer grants an extra amount for hero kills

Requiem of Souls

• Now releases a wave per 1 soul instead of per 2 souls

Mass Serpent Ward

• bounty spread reduced from 26-38 to 28-36

Arcane Curse

• Damage increased from 16/24/32/40 to 16/26/36/46

Global Silence

• Cooldown reduced from 130 to 130/115/100

Corrosive Haze

• Armor reduction increased from 8/13/18 to 10/15/20

Scatterblast

• Now also slows attack speed by 100

Lil' Shredder

• No longer reduces enemy attack speed
• Now reduces armor by 1 per attack for 4 seconds
• Damage reduced from 35/50/65/80 to 20/40/60/80

Shrapnel

• Damage reduced from 20/40/60/80 to 20/35/50/65

Assassinate

• Scepter stun duration reduced from 1.5 to 1/1.25/1.5

Shadow Step

• Can now target Spell Immune units

Haunt

• Illusions no longer have a fixed 400 movement speed
• Illusions no longer have a 1 second delay on acting

Desolate

• Damage increased from 20/30/40/50 to 30/40/50/60
• Search area reduced from 500 to 425
• No longer reduces vision

Charge of Darkness

• Cast point reduced from 0.47 to 0.3

Ball Lightning

• Travel cost per 100 units reduced from 12 + 0.7% to 10 + 0.65%

Warcry

• No longer provides 12/16/20/24 bonus damage
• Movement speed is now provided for allies as well
• Movement speed bonus reduced from 10/14/18/22 to 8/12/16/20
• Manacost reduced from 60 to 30/40/50/60

Great Cleave

• Distance increased from 650 to 700

God's Strength

• No longer provides 10/20/30 strength
• Bonus damage increased from 80/120/160% to 110/160/210%
• Duration increased from 25 to 40

Meld

• Armor reduction rescaled from 2/4/6/8 to 5/6/7/8
• Cooldown increased from 6 to 12/10/8/6

Metamorphosis

• No longer reduces your movement speed

Kraken Shell

• Damage block increased from 12/24/36/48 to 14/26/38/50

Toss

• Duration increased from 1.3 to 1.4

Avalanche

• Initial projectile no longer takes a fixed 0.5 seconds to arrive at the destination, but instead has a 1200 projectile speed

Tree Grab

• No longer slows Tiny by 30 movement speed
• Now has a 5 hit charge limit
• Unit bonus damage rescaled from 10/20/30/40% to 25%
• Building damage increased from 20/50/80/110% to 90/120/150/180%
• Splash damage increased from 30/40/50/60% to 40/60/80/100%

Grow

• Bonus damage rescaled from 30/45/60 to 25/50/75

Leech Seed

• Is now an enemy target spell again. Deals 16/32/48/64 damage per pulse and heals allies within 650 range for the same amount. Lasts 5 seconds with a pulse per second. Slows the target enemy for 8/14/20/26%. Cooldown 18/16/14/12. Manacost 110/120/130/140. Cast Range 400

Eyes In The Forest

• Now has 3 charges with a 40 second replenish time

Snowball

• Damage per ally increased from 20/30/40/50 to 20/40/60/80

Atrophy Aura

• No longer provides permanent bonus damage
• Creep death damage rescaled from 5 to 4/5/6/7
• Damage duration increased from 30/40/50/60 to 30/45/60/75

Firestorm

• Cast point reduced from 0.6 to 0.5
• AoE increased from 400 to 400/430/460/490
• Debuff no longer ignores Ancients (still ignores Roshan)

Pit of Malice

• Cooldown reduced from 22/20/18/16 to 18/17/16/15

Flesh Golem

• Debuff no longer deals damage per second nor increases damage zombies do
• Debuff now also increases all damage the target takes by 25/30/35%

Earthshock

• Slow reduced from 10/25/40/55% to 10/20/30/40%
• Cooldown increased from 9/8/7/6 to 11/10/9/8

Enrage

• Cooldown increased from 50/40/30 to 70/50/30

Wave of Terror

• Vision area increased from 300 to 350

Poison Sting

• Damage increased from 6/12/18/24 to 8/16/24/32
• No longer reduces hp regen

Plague Ward

• health increased from 75/200/325/450 to 120/230/340/450

Soul Assumption

• Manacost reduced from 150 to 135/140/145/150

Resonant Pulse

• Scepter charge replenish time increased from 16 to 18

Shadow Word

• Cast range increased from 450/550/650/750 to 450/600/750/900

Shukuchi

• Speed increased from 200/220/240/260 to 200/230/260/290

Time Lapse

• Scepter cooldown increased from 16 to 20
• Scepter cast range reduced from 1000 to 600

Focus Fire

• Now pauses firing if you issue the stop or halt commands. If you right click on the target it will resume again.

Winter's Curse

• Cooldown increased from 80 to 90

Mortal Strike

• Skeleton attack damage increased from 30-35 to 35-40

Arc Lightning

• Damage increased from 70/95/120/145 to 75/100/125/150

Lightning Bolt

• Manacost increased from 90/105/120/135 to 125/130/135/140

Thundergod's Wrath

• Damage increased from 250/350/450 to 300/400/500
• Cooldown increased from 90 to 120

Nimbus

• Cooldown increased from 35 to 45 seconds