Overview of the general innovations in patch 7.35: updated Roshan and runes, new items and more

Dota 2 fans have been waiting for a long time for the next numbered update in their favourite game from Valve. And finally the developers have introduced patch 7.35, which brings a number of innovations, a new event, as well as rebalancing of heroes. In this article we will talk about the updated Roshan, runes, new items and a number of other changes.

It is worth starting with the fact that the seasonal event Frostivus has been added to the game. Players can earn chests and open them with keys. Also, each of the players received one guaranteed gift. Especially lucky users who were caught using cheats, excessive toxic behaviour or smurfing received a specific reward in the form of a coal and account ban.

General changes

• The reward for killing all neutral creeps has been reduced by 2.
• Neutral creeps are no longer affected by Mine, Graveyard, Statue, and Well effects.
• The damage of super creeps and megacreeps has been increased by 5.
• Courier health has been replaced by the number of attacks to kill. Couriers now die from one attack of a melee hero, two attacks of ranged heroes, or six attacks of creeps or bashen.
• Couriers can no longer be healed, and they now only regenerate health at the fountain
• Fountain now deals 25% extra damage within 250 radius of the main target.
• Added Caretakers near the Mine and the Well
• Teleportation time to forest outposts has been reduced from 6 to 4 seconds.
• Pair portals now use 75 mana.
• Creatures without mana can use Pair Portals for free.
• Terzatel can no longer have less than 0 armour.
• Terzatel has a new ability: The Shining. It deals 6 damage every 0.2 seconds (30 damage per second), distributing it equally to all creatures within a 1200 radius.
• Roshan has a new ability: Roar of Retribution. If Roshan has less than 80% health and is attacked by the hero that killed him last time, Roshan lets out a map-wide roar, dealing damage to all creatures within 900 radius and increasing their damage by 25%. Starting damage: 50. Damage increase per minute: 10. Effect duration: 8 seconds. Recharge: 20 seconds.
• Added a new Roshan item: Roshan's Banner. Stops the banner at any point in the maps for 5 minutes. A line creep (swordsman, mage or catapult) that passes within 750 radius of the banner will get +75% to health and +50% to damage for 45 seconds. The banner can be destroyed by six hero attacks (creep attacks count as 1/4 of a hero attack). The item is consumed when used. The enemy team is notified when the banner is placed. The effects of multiple banners do not add up. Reward for destroying a banner: 200 gold.
• After the second and subsequent deaths, Roshan now drops Cheese if he was killed on the Light side, or Roshan's Banner if he was killed on the Dark side
• After the third and subsequent deaths, Roshan now drops Refresher Shard if killed on the Light side, or Aghanim's Blessing if killed on the Dark side.
• Double damage rune renamed to a damage enhancement rune. Base damage bonus reduced from 100% to 80%. Now also gives +15% to spell damage.
• Invisibility Rune now reduces the damage received in invisibility by 25% (the effect is increased by 5% for each invisibility rune that appeared earlier).
• Rune of acceleration now lasts 22 seconds (duration increases by 3 seconds for each rune of acceleration that appeared earlier)
• Magic Rune cooldown reduction has been weakened from 30% to 25%.
• Now taking damage does not disable the effect of the regeneration rune, but reduces the recharge to 1% health and mana per second.
• On the side of the forces of Darkness removed the tree on top of the second bashny of the centre line
• On the side of the forces of Light, the tree on top of the first baѕhney of the centre line has been removed.
• On the side of the Forces of Darkness, removed the tree next to the middle camp of neutral creeps from the top of the first bаѕhni of the top line.
• On the side of the Forces of Light, removed the tree on the path from the bottom of the second bаѕhni bottom line.
• Added new bonus: increased spell radiuses
• Increases radiuses and width of spells. Does not change cast ranges and parameters that are already affected by Aether Lens. Also does not affect auras or passive components of some active spells that work as auras (such as Urn of Shadows' Soul Gain or Silencer's International Intellect steal radius).
• Currently only Bloodstone has this effect.
• Fixed an old super-critical bug that caused melee heroes' damage block to work 49% of the time instead of 50%.
• Fixed a bug that caused lotuses to not appear at exactly the scheduled time.

The changes to Roshan and runes are the most noticeable. It will now be harder for teams to stealthily kill Roshan two times in a row when there is domination on their side, and Roshan's Banner can help rapidly destroy enemy structures. Especially relevant in the phase of the game when you already have mega-creeps. The developers have also enhanced the effects of runes in the later stages of the game.

In addition, Valve has added a number of items that can be bought in the shop or found as neutral items.

New items in Dota 2

RING OF TARRASQUE

• Returned item
• This is now a staple item sold in the secret shop. Cost: 1800 gold.
• Gives +12 to health boost.

TIARA OF SELEMENE

• New item
• A basic item sold at the secret shop. Cost: 1800 gold.
• Gives +6 mana regeneration.

KHANDA

• New item
• Collects Crystalys (2000 gold), Phylactery (2400 gold) and a recipe (600 gold). Total cost: 5000 gold.
• Gives +50 to damage, +200 to health, +200 to mana and +8 to all attributes
• Passive: Critical Strike. Each attack has a 30% chance of dealing 160% damage.
• Passive: Empower Spell. Works similarly to the Phylactery spell, but the additional damage is increased from 100 to 100 + 75% of the attack damage.

PARASMA

• New item
• Collects Witch Blade (2775 gold) and Mystic Staff (2800 gold). Total cost: 5575 gold.
• Gives +45 to The International Intellect, +40 to attack speed, +8 to armour and +300 to attack projectile speed.
• Passive: Magic Corruption. All of your attacks reduce the victim's magic resistance by 20% for 4 seconds.
• Passive: Witch Blade. Works similarly to the Witch Blade item, but the International Intelligence multiplier is increased from 0.75 to 1 and the cooldown is reduced from 9 to 7 seconds.

SAFETY BUBBLE

• New item
• New neutral item of 1 level
• Gives +5 to health regeneration.
• Passive: Bubbled Up. The wielder is surrounded by a 100 health barrier. It will fully regenerate if it does not take damage for 5 seconds.

ROYAL JELLY

• Returned and modified item
• Significantly modified neutral item of 1st level
• Gives +50 health and +50 mana.
• Active: Consume. Spends all charges to give the chosen allied creature +2 to health and +1 to mana regeneration for each charge. The boost stops if you take damage from an enemy hero or Roshan. Effect duration: 10 seconds. Maximum charges: 10. Recharge time: 8 seconds. Recharge: 10 seconds.

LIGHT COLLECTOR

• New item
• New neutral item with 2 discharge
• Gives +10% to movement speed
• Passive: Unclouded. Increases health gain by 6 during the day and mana gain by 3 at night. If there are no trees within 200 radius of the wielder, the current boost is doubled.
• Active: Lightbreak. Emits a piercing flash of light that destroys all trees within a 325 radius around the wielder. Recharge: 30 seconds.

WHISPER OF THE DREAD

• New item
• New Neutral item with 2 discharge
• Gives +150 mana
• Passive: Tunnel Vision. Gives +10% to spell damage, but reduces the wearer's daylight vision by 15%.

DOUBLOON

• New Item
• New Neutral Item 3
• Gives +5 to health regeneration and +2.5 to mana regeneration.
• Switchable: Flip. Switches the item between two modes. In Health mode, converts 20% of the wielder's maximum mana to maximum health. In mana mode, converts 20% of the wearer's maximum health to maximum mana.

NEMESIS CURSE

• New Item
• New Neutral Item 3
• Gives +35 damage
• Passive: Glass Cannon. Increases the damage dealt to the wielder by 8%.
• Passive: Glassify. The wielder's attacks have an effect that increases the damage dealt to the victim by 12%. Duration: 5 seconds. This effect can only affect one target at a time.

CRAGGY COAT.

• Returned and modified item
• Returned neutral item of 3rd level
• Armour bonus reduced from 12 to 6.
• No longer reduces attack speed by 35
• Active: Toughen Up. Armour is increased by 12, but movement speed is reduced by 30. Duration: 8 seconds. Recharge: 12 seconds.

ANCIENT GUARDIAN

• New item
• New neutral item with 4 discharge
• Gives +50 damage
• Passive: Ancient Power. The wielder takes an additional +50 damage when within 2000 radius of an Ancient.

AVIANA'S FEATHER

• New item
• New Neutral Item 4
• Gives +25% to evasion and +30 to movement speed.
• Passive: Free Bird. When the wielder's health drops below 30%, he gains unobstructed movement (but not unobstructed vision).

RATTLECAGE.

• New Item
• A new neutral item with a 4 rating
• Gives +12 to armour
• Passive: Reverberate. When the wielder takes 180 damage from any source, projectiles fly from the wielder into two random enemies within a 600 radius, dealing 125 physical damage and slowing the victims' movement and attack by 100% for 0.2 seconds. Enemy heroes have priority when searching for targets.

UNWAVERING CONDITION

• New item
• New Neutral Item 5
• Gives +95% to magic resistance
• Passive: Unwavering. Wielder's maximum health is equal to 1500 and cannot be changed by other effects or characteristics.

MAGIC LAMP

• Returned item
• This is now a 5th level item
• Rejuvenate: Healing increased from 300 to 1000.

Conclusion

As you can realise, Valve have made a really big update in which they have brought a lot of changes to the basic mechanics, a new event, new items and much more to their game. Such actions are meant to revitalise the community in Dota 2 and make the gameplay even more The International ere.