IceFrog the Meme Killer: a Summary of Dota 2 7.01

We wrote about Patch 7.00 when it landed, and less than two weeks later, Volvo has come out with its successor, 7.01. This continues the trend of large version number bumps, as most of the community expected the patch to be called 7.00a/b.

This patch brings with it several important bugfixes, most notably to Coaching, which was rendered completely broken by 7.00.

Here’s a rundown of what’s new

Miscellaneous:

• Fixed the following panels not appearing: The Hall of Fame, Effigies and PA Arcana gravestones
• Fixed bugs with Coaching
• Added some new API calls for Bot Scripting
• Fixed guides you’ve published not appearing in your guides list
• The browse items tab now slides out as a modal panel instead of taking the place of the shop UI
• Restored Shop purchase hotkeys
• The pinned TP Scroll now shows a visual cooldown on it to indicate what the current TP cooldown is
• Fixed various crashes

7.01:

• Added Necrophos to CM
• XP Requirement to go from level 6 to 12 increased by 140 (615/630/645/660/675/775 to 640/660/680/700/720/740)
• XP Requirement to go from level 12 to 20 increased by 140 (1175/1200/1225/1250/1275/1375/1400/1425 to 1200/1225/1250/1275/1300/1325/1400/1490)
• XP Requirement to go from level 24 to 25 reduced by 280 (same overall XP required to reach level 25)
• Fixed Jingu Mastery ignoring armor for its lifesteal calculation
• Jingu Mastery counter duration reduced from 15 to 10 seconds
• Boundless Strike critical strike rescaled from 200% to 140/160/180/200%
• Howl cooldown increased from 50/45/40/35 to 55/50/45/40
• Howl manacost increased from 15/20/25/30 to 30
• Lycan Level 10 Talent reduced from +20 Damage to +15 Damage
• Lycan agility gain reduced from 1.9 to 1.5
• Familiars HP reduced from 500/750/1000 to 300/500/700
• Visage base damage reduced by 3
• Windranger Level 15 Talent increased from +13 Intelligence to +16 Intelligence
• Windranger Level 15 Talent increased from +150 Health to +200 Health
• Windrun cooldown from 14 to 13
• Slark strength reduced from 21 + 1.8 to 20 + 1.6
• Purification manacost rescaled from 70/90/110/130 to 85/100/115/130
• Guardian Angel cooldown increased from 150 to 160
• Invoker Level 15 Talent increased from 20% XP to 25% XP
• Quas HP regen rescaled from 1.5/3/4.5/6/.. to 1/3/5/7/..
• Invoker strength gain increased from 1.7 to 1.9
• Centaur agility gain reduced from 2.0 to 1.6
• Pit of Malice interval increased from 3.5 to 3.6 seconds
• Pit of Malice cooldown increased from 30/26/22/18 to 32/28/24/20
• Nature’s Guise bash rescaled from 1/1.4/1.8/2.2 to 0.7/1.2/1.7/2.2
• Treant Level 25 Talent changed from +20% 2s Bash to -50s Respawn Time
• Treant Protector movement speed reduced from 300 to 295
• Stifling Dagger base damage reduced from 70 to 65
• Luna base armor reduced by 1
• Reality Rift armor debuff rescaled from -3/4/5/6 to -1/3/5/7
• Fixed Chaos Strike lifesteal ignoring armor reductions
• Chaos Strike lifesteal increased from 50% to 65%
• Nature’s Prophet Level 15 Talent increased from +10 Intelligence to +15
• Nature’s Prophet Level 15 Talent increased from +15 Movement Speed to +20
• Nature’s Prophet Level 25 Talent increased from -35s Respawn Time to -40
• Nature’s Prophet Level 25 Talent changed from +6 Treants to 2x Treants HP/Damage
• Meepo Clones are now allowed to pickup runes
• Witch Doctor Level 25 Talent increased from +150 Death Ward Attack Range to +175
• Sven Level 15 Talent increased from +6 all stats to +8
• Sven Level 15 Talent increased from +15 MS to +20
• Incapacitating Bite slow increased from 10/20/30/40 to 14/24/34/44%
• Zeus Level 20 Talent increased from -35s Respawn Time to -40
• Zeus Level 20 Talent increased from +30 Movement Speed to +35
• Tusk turn rate improved from 0.5 to 0.7
• Enchantress base intelligence increased by 3
• Enchantress Level 10 Talent increased from +15 Movement Speed to +20
• Enchantress Level 20 Talent increased from -25s Respawn Time to -30s
• Geminate Attack cooldown from 6/5/4/3 to 7/6/5/3
• Dream Coil cooldown reduced from 75 to 70/65/60
• Lina Level 15 Talent increased from +100 Cast Range to +125
• Lina Level 15 Talent increased from -25s Respawn to -30s
• Lina Level 20 Talent increased from +5% Spell Amp to 6%
• Death Prophet level 10 Talent increased from +6 Strength to 7
• Doom Level 20 Talent increased from +50 Damage to +65
• Doom Level 20 Talent increased from +20 Health Regen to +25
• Smokescreen slow from 13/17/21/25% to 10/15/20/25%
• Ogre Magi movement speed reduced from 295 to 290

Notable Changes

Monkey King sees some changes that bring some respite to beleaguered pub players, as they make his peak power level come at around level 11 instead of at level 7, with the rescaling of Boundless Strike’s critical damage from a flat 200% to 140/160/180/200%.

Natures Prophet‘s Level 25 Talent has been made a lot more relevant, and this brings for some interesting possibilities. With an Aghanim’s Sceptre, any treants that spawn from killing heroes gain x4 HP/Damage, giving rise to the 3300 HP treant. This may seem ridiculous, but it might just work out, as you’d need an Aghanim’s Sceptre and a kill, and be level 25 to make it happen. Its effectively a Warlock golem with 192 damage.

Meanwhile, Visage has been nerfed, for seemingly no reason, with the decrease in the Familiars HP and the reduction of his base damage. Visage has had the lowest pick rate, even lower than Chen for over six months now. Valve destroyed the rather cheesy but supremely effective Drow-Visage strat when they changed how Drow’s Precision Aura worked, way back in 6.84. Despite Valve’s series of small buffs throughout 6.88, there was still really no reason to pick Visage over the many other support heroes that are a lot more capable in the early-mid game.

Lastly, Underlord sees an increase in the duration of Pit of Malice, from 3.5 to 3.6 seconds. Is this going to be the new Vacuum cooldown?