DotA 2 6.86 Discussion

Hi all,

Let's discuss here! I'm doing a guide to this patch, anything you'd like me to test and stuff goes here, and also theorycrafting and stuff.

Thanks!
TheSofa

Could you test Lone Druid / Bloodseeker Combo?

It would go something along the lines of:
Lone Puts bear in jungle to get gold for late game, and Blood suses blood rage to buff bear. maybe Talon on bear?
The Druid sits in lane with Blood and supports him somewhat. If anyone tries to gank them, Druid can simply pop Roar and get away.
Once blood hits six, they can start setting yp kills by Ruptureing a hero, placing bloodrite behind them, and popping roar to make them take the rupture damage and the rite damage.

Yeah it's kind of sketch, pretty dumb, but hey it just might work. Maybe position 3 or 4 Druid. With 1 or 2 Blood

Don't you need Agh's on LD for the bear to attack in the jungle?

Played 2 games. Some observations.

1. Arc Warden players making Dagon. Stop that. You have a hero who can exploit double midas, double necrobook, can rat safely with no risk to himself, and has the second highest potential GPM in the game, and you're using him as an inferior Tinker.

2. Sand King is a godly melee hero bully now, with one caustic and one OoV, you get just wreck any melee oriented lane to comical levels. Did not get to test Scepter.

3. Jungle Legion is actually legit with a first item Iron Talon, in several games, the Legion was keeping up in levels with the mid-laner. That's the farm rate of an Enigma. This might be viable on other non-micro junglers, but Legion is probably best candidate. Jungle Legion is no joke anymore.

4. Doom's afk farming is dirt slow now. 2 BAT is just too low to get any decent farm rate. Jungle Doom is a joke now. It was kinda before, but now it's old Jungle Legion.

5. Death Prophet heals a lot now. Like, a very noticeably high amount. Don't draft melee heroes against her. I mean, you weren't supposed to do that before too, but now seriously don't.

6. Dragon Lance is quite strong on Weaver, 555 range and it can build into BKB + Bfly/Orchid.

7. Aether Lens is quite powerful on Vengeful Spirit, the increased range of Nether Swap caught me off guard a few times, and the stun range increase is quite nice for her too.

Has anyone tried Aether Lens in Lion?

What about a blood seeker mid + elder Titan offlane +*insert AoE support and carry here*
Blood seeker can enrage ET so he ultis for 75% of enemies life... Also et sets up blood rite for bs.

The Sofa, I'm curious about Drow Ranger's Aghs. Is it legit? If so, in what line-up/item build up?

Without trying it out, it seems to me like a lesser version of Medusa, and not that useful, because you need other items for survivibility/damage first (but it would help you farm, so it's weird that you don't purchase it early). Bunkan, however, told me since the split arrows also proc, a Mjollnir Drow could be a thing now. I'm curious to know what other people think on the subject with our without trying it first.

Also, the new blink on Faceless Void taking away the damage received in the last 2 seconds. Does this actually turn fights around? Erasing stuff like a Laguna Blade seems very interesting, similarly to what happened with backtrack before.

So did anyone try the lane block with planting iron branches?


Bob Rosh anyone?

I mean before the fix..

Yeah I basically built Agh's Mjollnir BKB Dragon Lance I think and some other stuff, it's like a super silly build but it was pretty amazing when I procc'ed like 9 chain lightning in 2 seconds.

Arcwarden is so broken it's not funny. Just go midas into Radiance or Necro3 then Manta and the enemy team can't leave their base ever at min 20.