Dota 2 Dueling Fates Update: Two New Heroes, Ranked Seasons, Turbo Mode and Much More
Dota 2 Dueling Fates Update: Two New Heroes, Ranked Seasons, Turbo Mode and Much More
The new massive update for Dota 2 called Dueling Fates is already available on the Test Server. The update brings in the game two new heroes, ranked seasons, turbo mode, new items, reworked heroes and more. Below are the main changes of the update.
New Hero – Pangolier
Agility – Melee – Carry
Eager to dash into danger at a moment's notice, the Pangolier thrives on disrupting enemy movements and placing himself in the midst of chaos. Artfully guiding his blade between cracks in armor and shrugging off attacks with his protective scales, this graceful swordsman is always ready to roll into battle.
Pangolier Abilities
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SWASHBUCKLE Pangolier dashes to a new position, assaulting enemies in the target direction with multiple quick thrusts, dealing physical damage and apply on hit effects. |
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SHIELD CRASH Pangolier jumps in the air and slams back to the ground. Enemies around him are damaged and grant him temporary damage reduction the more heroes he hits. |
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HEARTPIERCER Pangolier reads his enemies perfectly, deftly slipping his blade past defenses to give his attacks a chance to slow the target and fully negate enemy armor after a short delay. |
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ROLLING THUNDER Pangolier curls into a magic-immune ball and thunders forward, damaging and stunning any enemies he hits. Shield Crash can also be used while this ability is active to jump over obstacles. Has a brief channeling period. |
New Hero – Dark Willow
Intelligence – Ranged – Support
A slight flutter from the shadows may be all an enemy sees of Dark Willow, as she eludes pursuit and controls her foe's movements with cunning fae tricks. Calling upon powers far more ancient than any scholarly magic, she binds enemies in place before unleashing the full wrath and terror of the fae realm upon them.
Dark WIllow Abilities
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BRAMBLE MAZE Dark Willow creates a maze of brambles that latch onto enemies who walk into a thicket, damaging them and applying a root. |
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SHADOW REALM Dark Willow recedes into the Shadow Realm, becoming untargetable and gaining increasing bonus magic damage for her next attack the longer she remains in the shadows. |
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CURSED CROWN Dark Willow bestows a cursed fae crown upon an enemy. After a four second delay, the target and any other enemies nearby are stunned. |
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BEDLAM Dark Willow's companion Jex circles around her, dealing damage to nearby enemies. Cannot be used while Terrorize is active. |
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TERRORIZE Dark Willow's companion Jex strikes fear into her enemies, causing them to run towards their home fountain. Cannot be used while Bedlam is active. |
Ranked Seasons
In this update we've reworked how the matchmaking rating system works for both ranked and unranked players, changing to a six-month seasonal system. These regular seasons will ensure that MMR is both recent and accurate for all players, which will lead to better quality games for everyone. During each season all players will earn a medal for their profile based on peak skill for that season. There are seven different medals, and within each medal there are five stars of progress to earn toward the next medal. Your current medal as well as your previous season’s medal will be displayed to all players before each match. At the start of each season all players will recalibrate MMR, seeded by their previous season’s MMR. Your current historical preseason MMR value will be recorded and selectable in your profile, and ranked players will continue to be able to track their current seasonal MMR value. To give everyone a chance to prepare, the first season will begin in two weeks.
Turbo Mode
Dota Turbo has been added to the search queue. This new game mode keeps the same rules as All Pick but shortens match time by granting more Gold & XP to heroes; making defensive towers weaker; and reducing respawn time. Turbo's relaxed rules and buy-anywhere shop system allow for casual, quick matches perfect for trying new heroes and strategies, or introducing friends to Dota in a more forgiving environment.
Ping Wheel
With new additions to ping functionality, players have more communication tools than ever before. Now you can use the ping wheel to convey your hero's movement objectives, call out ward spots, and give the classic attack/retreat commands. Pings will appear on both the map and mini-map, and will be accompanied by a location callout in team chat.
New Items
METEOR HAMMER
Requires:
- Ogre Axe (1000)
- Staff of Wizardry (1000)
- Ring of Regen (300)
- Sage's Mask (325)
- Total: 2625
Provides:
- +12 Strength
- +12 Intelligence
- +4 HP Regen
- +1.5 Mana Regen
Active:
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Channeling, 3 seconds. Summons a Meteor that strikes a 300 AoE and stuns for 1.75 seconds. Applies a 6 second debuff that deals 60 damage per second to structures (115 to non-structures). Cast Range: 600 , CD: 40, Mana cost: 125. You have vision over the impact area for the channel duration. Meteor impact destroys trees. Meteor takes 0.5 seconds to land.
AEON DISK
Requires:
- Vitality Booster (1100)
- Energy Booster (900)
- Recipe (1750)
- Total: 3750
Provides:
- +250 Health
- +250 Mana
- +25% Status Resistance (Reduces the duration of effects like silence/stun/disarm/root/fear/etc. For DPS debuffs with slows, it instead just reduces the slow values, leaving the damage amount unaffected)
Passive:
- Whenever you take damage and are below 80% health, you apply a strong dispel on your hero and you gain a 2.5 second buff that reduces all incoming and outgoing damage to zero. Cooldown: 100. Only triggers on player-based damage.
SPIRIT VESSEL
Requires:
- Urn of Shadows (875)
- Vitality Booster (1100)
- Wind Lace (250)
- Recipe (600)
- Total Cost: 2825
Provides:
- +250 Health
- +30 Movement Speed
- +2 All Stats
- +2 Armor
- +1 Mana regeneration
Active:
- In addition to urn behavior, casting on an enemy target now reduces enemy HP regen and heals by 70%, and drains 3% of the target's current health per second. Casting on an allied target now amplifies HP regen and heals by 20%, and increases the target's health by 1% of their current health per second.
NULLIFIER
Requires:
- Sacred Relic (3800)
- Helm of Iron Will (900)
- Total Cost: 4700
Provides:
- +65 Damage
- +5 Armor
- +5 HP Regen
Active:
- Dispels the target and mutes them for 5 seconds. Anytime the muted target is attacked, it will be slowed by 100% for 0.4 seconds. Applies slow on projectile impact. Cooldown: 14, Mana cost: 100, Cast Range: 600, Projectile Speed: 1200.
KAYA
Requires:
- Staff of Wizardry (1000)
- Robe of the Magi (450)
- Recipe (500)
- Total: 1950
Provides:
- +16 Intelligence
- +10% Spell Amp
- +10% Mana cost & Manaloss Reduction (affects things like manaburn, manabreak, etc)
- Note: Multiple instances don't stack
Misc
Drafting
- All Pick drafting order is now: A-BB-AA-BB-AA-B
- Each day 10 heroes are selected automatically as bonus heroes for the day. Bonus heroes provide you with a free mango on selection (cannot be sold).
- Randoming no longer gives bonus gold. It instead selects a hero from the set of bonus heroes and grants an extra iron branch (in addition to the mango).
- Removed repicking
- Heroes now start with a TP Scroll. TP scrolls start on cooldown at the beginning of the game.
- Removed Shrines from the base (replaced by filler buildings)
- Glyph now causes your creeps to be invulnerable for the glyph duration.
- Third Roshan kill now drops a single-use consumable refresher orb. Cooldown is independent from Refresher Orb
- Neutrals now sleep at night. They have zero aggro range while sleeping.
- Removed special neutral pull aggro exceptions for heroes (on Chaos Knight, Earth Spirit, Morphling, Pudge, Clockwerk, Rubick, and Tiny)
- Neutrals lane creep aggro is now based on which neutral spawn area they're in (enabled for the traditional safelane/offlane pull camps)
- Captains Mode now has an extra ban in the first phase (6 bans total in the mode).
- Removed the remaining Unique Attack Modifiers
- Lifesteal is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier (stacks additively)
- Arcane Orb is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier
- Mana Break is no longer a Unique Attack Modifier (does not stack with Diffusal Blade's Mana Break)
- Courier cost increased from 100 to 200
- Ground Courier movement speed increased from 350 to 380
- Flying Courier speed increased from 430 to 450
- Flying Courier upgrade can no longer be purchased. Courier now upgrades automatically at 3 minutes.
- Flying Courier now has Courier Shield instead of the Haste ability (200 CD, Duration: 2).
- Courier can no longer refill Bottle.
- Courier can no longer be purchased more than once.
- Poor Man’s Shield and Iron Talon were removed from the game
To read about all new features, head over to the update’s page and learn about the other changes, including many balance tweaks for heroes as well as some heroes reworks.