Balance changes in Diretide
Author: Hawk Live LLC
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Valve released an update for Diretide on November 3. Balancing changes have received consumable items, summoned creatures and Clinkz abilities.
List of changes:
General:
- True Sight Radius on Home Buckets and Taffy Wells increased from 1000 to 1200.
- Scarecrow Stashes now have True Sight in a 1000 radius that reveals all heroes on both teams.
- Player owned non-hero units deal only 25% of their normal damage to the home bucket for purposes of stealing candy.
- Taffy Guardians take 50% damage from player owned, non-hero units.
Items:
- Reduced sentry ward stock time from 85 to 60.
- Reduced sentry ward cost from 75 to 50.
- Reduced dust gold cost from 80 to 50.
- Reduced TP scroll cooldown from 80 to 45.
Heroes:
- Clinkz Death Pact benefit from Rotting Hulks and Festering Hulks (Round 3) reduced from 40% to 25%.
- Clinkz Death Pact benefit from Volatile Arachnids (Round 5) reduced from 25% to 10%.
