Patch 7.28b released in Dota 2
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On January 11, Valve released patch 7.28b for Dota 2. In the update, some heroes and items were rebalanced.
List of changes:
Items
Orb of Corrosion
- Now has a 100 gold recipe.
Falcon Blade
- Mana regen increased from 1.6 to 1.8
- Health increased from 150 to 175
Cloak
- Cost increased from 450 to 500
Swift Blink
- Buff allows you to exceed max movement speed
- Movement speed increased from 30% to 40%
- Bonus damage and attack speed increased from 40 to 50
Satanic
- Damage increased from 45 to 55
Chipped Vest
- Return damage from 26/13 to 28/17
Bullwhip
- Speed modifier increased from 16% to 20%
- Speed modifier duration reduced from 5 to 4
Cloak of Flames
- Armor reduced from 5 to 4
- Radius reduced from 400 to 375
- Illusions now deal 30 damage per second instead of 45 (this was applied in a recent patch)
Psychic Headband
- Cooldown reduced from 30 to 20
Book of Shadows
- Cooldown reduced from 25 to 15
Heroes
Abaddon
- Curse of Avernus shard slow increase from +6% to +10%
Alchemist
- Berserk Potion shard cooldown reduced from 45 to 35
Axe
- Counter Helix shard attack speed increased from 25 to 35
Batrider
- Sticky Napalm now does half damage to ancients
Beastmaster
- Base damage reduced by 2
Bloodseeker
- Bloodrage shard increased from 1.5% to 2%
Broodmother
- Silken Bola shard root duration increased from 2 to 2.5
Clockwerk
- Jetpack shard cooldown reduced from 25 to 20
- Jetpack shard movement speed bonus increased from 15% to 22%
- Jetpack shard manacost reduced from 150 to 75
Dark Seer
- Normal Punch illusion damage dealt increased from 25% to 40%
- Normal Punch max stun duration increased from 2 to 2.25
Disruptor
- Thunder Strike shard radius increased from +160 to +260
Dragon Knight
- Fireball shard manacost reduced from 150 to 100
Drow Ranger
- Frost Arrows shard now also adds +5 damage per stack
Grimstroke Grimstroke
- Ink Over shard cast range increased from 700 to 950
- Ink Over shard total damage increased from 240 to 320
- Ink Over shard movement slow increased from 20% to 25%
Huskar
- Inner Fire slow increased from 35% to 40%
- Inner Fire shard cooldown reduction from -2 to -3
Invoker
- Ice Wall shard cast range increased from 900 to 1100
Io
- Tether shard movement bonus increased from +5% to +10%
Lich
- Ice Spire shard health increased from 300 to 600
- Ice Spire shard radius increased from 500 to 600
Lifestealer
- Base damage increased by 3
- Feast increased from 1.6/2.2/2.8/3.4% to 1.8/2.4/3.0/3.6%
Lycan
- Summon Wolves Cripple moved from level 3 to 4
- Summon Wolves Invisibility moved from level 4 to 3
- Feral Impulse damage reduced from 14/26/38/50% to 12/22/32/42%
Magnus
- Horn Toss shard landing damage increased from 150 to 200
Monkey King
- Base strength reduced from 19 to 18
- Max damage reduced from 57 to 55
- Wukong's Command Scepter spawn interval increased from every 3.5 seconds to every 4 seconds
Naga Siren
- Rip Tide shard slow increased from 30% to 40%
- Rip Tide shard slow duration increased from 3 to 4
- Rip Tide shard active no longer deals 100 bonus damage
- Rip Tide shard increases armor reduction by 2
Nyx Assassin
- Base movement speed reduced from 315 to 310
- Vendetta shard movement speed bonus reduced from +40% to +25%
- Vendetta manacost increased from 160/220/280 to 180/240/300
Ogre Magi
- Ignite damage reduced from 26/34/42/50 to 20/30/40/50
- Fire Shield shard manacost reduced from 125 to 75
- Fire Shield cooldown reduced from 18 to 16
Omniknight
- Level 10 Talent changed from +20 Movement Speed to +40 Base Damage
- Level 15 Talent changed from +70 Damage to +30 Movement Speed
Outworld Destroyer
- Base armor increased by 2
- Agility gain increased from 1.3 to 1.6
- Movement speed increased from 315 to 325
- Base HP regen increased from 0 to 1
- Essence Flux chance increased from 25% to 30%
- Astral Imprisonment damage increased from 120/190/260/330 to 120/200/280/360
- Astral Imprisonment mana steal from 14/16/18/20% to 16/18/20/22%
- Sanity's eclipse base damage increased from 200/275/350 to 200/300/400
- Level 15 Talent changed from +8 Armor to +30 Movement Speed
- Level 20 Talent increased from +0.1 Sanity's Eclipse Multiplier to +0.15
- Level 25 Talent increased from +1.6% Arcane Orb Damage to +2%
Phantom Lancer
- Spirit Lance shard now also increases cast range by 200
Puck
- Dream Coil cooldown increased from 70/65/60 to 80/75/70
- Level 20 Talent reduced from -7s Waning Rift Cooldown to -6s
Pudge
- Dismember shard cooldown reduction from -7 to -10
Riki
- base hp regen reduced from 3 to 2.5
- Sleeping Dart slow increased from 25% to 30%
- Sleeping Dart cooldown reduced from 15 to 12
- Sleeping Dart manacost reduced from 125 to 85
Skywrath Mage
- Ancient Seal shard status resistance reduction increased from 40% to 50%
Slark
- Fish Bait shard attack speed bonus increased from 50 to 75
- Fish Bait shard cooldown reduced from 12 to 9
Sniper
- Concussive Grenade shard manacost reduced from 75 to 50
- Concussive Grenade shard cooldown reduced from 20 to 16
Templar Assassin
- Psionic Trap max trap count now increases by 4 with a Shard
Terrorblade
- Demon Zeal shard hp cost reduced from 25% to 20%
- Demon Zeal shard melee bonus from 50% to 100%
Timbersaw
- Whirling Death manacost increased from 70 to 80
- Flamethrower shard slow increased from 25% to 30%
- Level 10 Talent reduced from +1.75 Mana Regen to +1.5
Treant Protector
- Nature's Guise shard bonus now increases speed in trees by +15%
Tusk
- Frozen Sigil shard hits to destroy from 3 to 4
- Frozen Sigil movement/attack slow increased from 30%/30 to 35%/35
Visage
- Stone Form shard manacost reduced from 300 to 200
Winter Wyvern
- Splinter Blast shard now also increases damage dealt by 80
Wraith King
- Base damage reduced by 2
- Vampiric Spirit manacost increased from 50/60/70/80 to 65/70/75/80
- Reincarnation manacost increased from 160 to 180
