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Dota 2 patch 7.36a

Released 2024-05-26

General

Force Staff and similar abilities/items can no longer be used on Leashed targets (Slark's Pounce, Puck's Dream Coil, Faceless Void's Time Zone, etc.)
Fixed a crash related to Lich's Chain Frost
Fixed a crash related to Lycan's Shapeshift
Fixed a crash related to Mars' Arena of Blood
Fixed a crash related to Morphling's Morph
Fixed a crash related to Silencer's Glaives of Wisdom
Fixed a crash related to Venomancer's Plague Ward
Fixed Light Collector incorrectly having a 25% penalty instead of 75%
Fixed Blade Mail reflecting Witch Doctor's Scepter Death Ward bounce damage back to him
Fixed Disperser applying 2 dispels if cast on self
Fixed Gris-Gris tooltip
Fixed Quelling Blade using flipped damage values for Melee/Ranged
Fixed Radiance not updating dynamically with changes to AoE bonus
Fixed Eye of Skadi slow values being inverted for Ranged vs Melee
Fixed Shiva's Guard not updating dynamically with changes to AoE bonus
Fixed Yasha and Kaya cast speed bonus stacking
Fixed Axe's Shard granting no Counter Helix cooldown instead of the Scepter
Fixed Axe's One Man Army losing HP when dispelled continuously
Fixed Abaddon's Curse of Avernus not giving the attack speed bonus to allies
Fixed Ancient Apparation's Chilling Touch not increasing in strength as it was leveled up
Fixed Batrider's Sticky Napalm first application damage incorrectly applying Napalm damage
Fixed Clinkz's Burning Barrage not auto-applying Tar Bomb
Fixed Clinkz's Skeleton Archers also applying Burning Barrage when cast
Fixed Dawnbreaker's Gleaming Hammer effects
Fixed Dragon Knight's Corrosive Dragon not applying Wyrm's Wrath to buildings while in Elder Dragon Form
Fixed Faceless Void's Distortion Field having some undesirable interactions
Fixed Huskar not being able to attack ethereal targets with Revenant's Brooch
Fixed Invoker's Mastermind not working properly
Fixed Invoker spell lifesteal effects showing erroneously
Fixed Leshrac's Level 15 Talent +10% Movement Speed during Pulse Nova not stacking its movement speed correctly with Yasha based items
Fixed Lich not being able to cast Frost Shield during Sinister Gaze
Fixed Lion not being granted Finger of Death stacks when killing a hero with cleave
Fixed Lone Druid's Unbearable not affecting BAT
Fixed Lone Druid's Level 20 and Level 25 Talents not properly applying to the Spirit Bear
Fixed Lycan's Spirit Wolves being able to attack things sometimes
Fixed Mars getting regen from invisible/FoW targets, revealing them
Fixed Meepo's Pack Rat being able to share Moon Shards
Fixed Meepo's Pack Rat sometimes not properly setting other Meepos' items on cooldown
Fixed Meepo's More Meepo making players miss a stat or talent point
Fixed Muerta respawning at her Ofrenda when dying with Aegis
Fixed Muerta's Dance of the Dead tooltip inaccuracy
Fixed Nyx Assassin's Burrow not stacking with Aether Lens
Fixed Nyx Assassin's Mana Burn working with Spirit Vessel
Fixed Ogre Magi's Learning Curve making players miss a stat or talent point
Fixed Phantom Assassin's Level 25 Talent +10% Coup de Grace Chance not working properly
Fixed Phantom Assassin's Mark of Death appearing twice
Fixed Phantom Assassin sometimes consuming its mark without casting a critical strike (note that critical strike is calculated at the beginning of the attack swing so if an attack starts swinging before dagger connect, that attack won't have a critical strike, but the next one will)
Fixed Phantom Assassin's Illusions creating and consuming Methodical charges
Fixed Phoenix's abilities sometimes applying one instance of blind less than intended
Fixed Pudge not gaining health from Flesh Heap stacks immediately
Fixed Puck's Curveball projectile sometimes traveling too fast
Fixed Puck's Puckish granting Puck mana and health whenever any unit disjointed a projectile
Fixed Shadow Demon's Level 25 Talent 2 Charges of Disruption not working properly
Fixed Silencer's Aghanim's Shard not increasing INT steal properly
Fixed Slark's Depth Shroud not healing allies
Fixed Sniper canceling taunts when Take Aim expired
Fixed Spirit Breaker's Planar Pocket having some undesirable interactions
Fixed Storm Spirit's Ball Lightning sometimes not costing mana
Fixed Storm Spirit's Shock Collar kills counting as denies
Fixed Storm Spirit losing Galvanized charges when dying with Aegis of the Immortal
Fixed Templar Assassin's Blink Dagger being muted when blocking damage with Refraction
Fixed Timbersaw's Whirling Death debuff not reducing attributes
Fixed Timbersaw's Chakram effects sometimes not appearing
Fixed Timbersaw's Exposure Therapy not working
Fixed Tiny's Grow Toss bonus damage only applying to the tossed target
Fixed Undying's Ceaseless Dirge triggering when dying from Aegis of the Immortal
Fixed Venomancer's Level 25 Talent 2.5x Plague Ward HP/Damage not working with Plague Attachment
Fixed Venomancer ministunning if Venomous Gale was dispelled without Shard
Fixed Vengeful Spirit's Soul Strike with Abyssal Blade using Ranged values
Fixed Warlock's Black Grimoire being able to be consumed early
Fixed Warlock's Champion of Gorroth burn damage stacking from multiple Hearts of Tarrasque
Fixed Warlock's Shadow Word tooltip not properly explaining that it applies its effect in an AoE
Fixed Windranger's Whirlwind getting disabled by Disarm during Debuff Immunity
Fixed Wraith King Spectral Blade's tooltip showing the incorrect damage type
Gris-Gris passive gold now ticks twice as fast in Turbo
Fixed Facets granting abilities when they shouldn't in Ability Draft
Fixed wrong Ability Draft keybinds

Heroes

Axe

Coat of Blood: Now levels with Culling Blade
Coat of Blood: Armor gain per kill decreased from 1 to 0.4/0.6/0.8/1.0
Level 10 Talent Movement Speed per active Battle Hunger decreased from +12% to +10%
Level 15 Talent Battle Hunger Slow decreased from +12% to +10%
Strength bonus decreased from 60% to 50% of Axe's armor

Crystal Maiden

Now scales with Freezing Field instead of Arcane Aura
Cast Range Bonus rescaled from 50/75/100/125 to 75/100/125
AoE Bonus rescaled from 7/8/9/10% to 6/8/10%
AoE Bonus now only applies to Crystal Maiden

Juggernaut

Level 20 Talent Blade Dance Lifesteal decreased from +60% to +50%
Linger duration decreased from 3s to 2s
Agility per stack decreased from 3% to 2%
Damage per tick decreased from 45/50/55/60 to 40/45/50/55
Bonus Damage decreased from 30/35/40 to 25/30/35
Mana Cost increased from 125 to 150
Cast Range decreased from 550 to 450

Mirana

Duration increased from 14s to 18s (Same as Moonlight Shadow)

Morphling

Level 20 Talent Waveform Attacks Target replaced with +50% Waveform Attack Damage And Applies On Hit Effects
Mana Cost decreased from 130 to 115
Now attacks all targets it goes through with 50% of Morphling's Attack Damage by default. Does not apply on-hit effects

Pudge

Strength Increase decreased from 3/5/7 to 1/3/5
Distance as Damage increased from 10/15/20/25% to 12/18/24/30%

Sand King

Storm is no longer destroyed if left by Sand King, and keeps following him if he leaves it

Storm Spirit

Debuff duration decreased from 6s to 5s
Base Mana Regen decreased from 0.6 to 0.2

Sven

Base Strength increased by 4
Bonus Damage increased from 100/140/180% to 110/150/190%

Tiny

Strength to Slow Resistance decreased from 25% to 20%
Mana Cost increased from 90/100/110/120 to 95/110/125/140
Mana Cost increased from 110/120/130/140 to 110/125/140/155

Lina

Level 25 Talent +150% Crit On Targets Affected By Dragon Slave replaced with +150% Crit On Targets Affected By Spells (Applied by Dragon Slave, Light Strike Array, and Laguna Blade. Lasts 3s)

Shadow Shaman

Total Damage/Heal decreased from 75/150/225/300 to 70/140/210/280
Cooldown increased from 90s to 120s

Tinker

Defense Matrix: Now applies a Strong Dispel on Tinker before blinking
Defense Matrix: Blink random direction angle decreased from 120 to 90 degrees
Defense Matrix: Blink distance increased from 300 to 350
Intelligence per 1% item cooldown reduction decreased from 4 to 3
Mana Cost decreased from 110/130/150/170 to 90/110/130/150
Damage increased 16/24/32/40 to 17/26/35/44
Channel time decreased from 4.0/3.5/3.0s to 3s
Mana Cost decreased from 100 to 80
Mana Cost decreased from 125/175/225 to 100/150/200

Necrophos

AoE Bonus per kill decreased from 50 to 40

Warlock

Imp explosion damage decreased from 25/75/125/175/225 to 25/70/115/160/205

Wraith King

Base Damage decreased from 20/40/60/80 to 15/30/45/60
Curse Damage decreased from 70% to 50%
Wraith Duration rescaled from 3/4/5/6s to 3.5/4/4.5/5s
Aghanim's Scepter Wraith Duration rescaled from 4/5/6/7s to 4.5/5/5.5/6s

Death Prophet

Movement Slow increased from 10/15/20/25% to 15/20/25/30%
Now triggers from hero deaths globally instead of in a 2000 radius

Phantom Assassin

Stifling Dagger now counts as 2 attacks

Templar Assassin

Barrier per instance decreased from 30/40/50/60 to 20/30/40/50
Bonus Damage decreased from 80/140/200/260 to 70/125/180/235
Psi Blade Range decreased from 550/600/650/700/750 to 350/550/600/650/700

Dragon Knight

Cleave Damage increased from 20/30/40/50% to 25/35/45/55%
Damage per second decreased from 10/15/20/25 to 5/10/15/20

Leshrac

Now has a 50% mana restoration penalty when attacking creeps

Nature's Prophet

Treant Health increased from 550/750/950/1150 to 750/950/1150/1350
Treant Max Damage increased from 22/34/46/58 to 30/46/62/78
Damage increased from 60/120/180/240 to 70/140/210/280

Lifestealer

Magic Resistance increased from 50% to 60%
Status Resistance increased from 50% to 60%

Omniknight

Damage increased from 50/75/100/125% to 55/80/105/130
Bonus Base Damage rescaled from 60/80/100/120% to 55/80/105/130%

Enchantress

Duration increased from 9/10/11/12s to 10/11/12/13s

Huskar

Base Armor increased by 1
Max Attack Speed increased from 160/210/260/310 to 170/220/270/320

Night Stalker

Base Health Regen decreased by 0.5
Level 15 Talent Dark Ascension Damage decreased from +30 to +25

Batrider

Now scales with Flaming Lasso
Spell Amplification rescaled from 8% to 2/4/6/8%
Movement Speed rescaled from 10% to 4/6/8/10%
No longer works on wards or couriers
No longer grants vision

Chen

Summon Convert: Creep maximum health increased from 200+80 per Chen level to 220+80 per Chen level

Spectre

Damage when non-hero units are nearby increased from 40% to 50%

Ancient Apparition

Death Rime Stacks decreased from 2 to 1

Gyrocopter

Movement speed is now increased only by hitting heroes

Outworld Devourer

Base Armor decreased by 1

Lone Druid

Entangling Claws: Bear True Form cooldown reduction increased from 50% to 75%
Entangling Claws: Bear True Form entangle chance increased from 20% to 30%

Meepo

Base Movement Speed decreased from 330 to 320

Disruptor

Formation Delay decreased from 0.75s to 0.4s
Can now be used on Lone Druid's Spirit Bear

Visage

Familiars now preserve their stone form alt-cast mode when re-summoned
Now can be cast on Visage even when silenced or stunned (will not have effect if Familiars are silenced or stunned)
Now has immediate cast behavior by default on self and Familiars. Can be put in alt-cast mode to become point targeted

Slark

Barracuda: Bonus Movement Speed increased from 4/24/36/48% to 6/24/36/48%
Barracuda: Health Gained per second increased from 8/60/90/120 to 10/60/90/120

Magnus

Effect Radius increased from 600 to 700
Max Knockback Distance increased from 700 to 850
Cooldown decreased from 120s to 100s

Abaddon

Damage Barrier decreased from 180/225/270/315 to 170/210/250/290
Absorbed amount to damage decreased from 80% to 75%
Attack Speed decreased from 15/30/45/60 to 10/20/30/40
Aghanim's Scepter threshold damage is now reset after Mist Coil is fired

Elder Titan

Movement Speed as Attack Speed increased from 20% to 30%

Legion Commander

Damage to Barrier decreased from 100% to 50%
No longer grants barrier from damaging illusions
Aghanim's Shard Bonus Radius during Duel decreased from 250 to 200
Aghanim's Scepter Cooldown increased from 40/35/30s to 50/45/40s

Techies

Health Regen increased from 0.25 to 1.0

Earth Spirit

Ending Rolling Boulder now creates a Stone Remnant in front of Earth Spirit
Mana Cost decreased from 15 to 0

Terrorblade

Current HP Cost decreased from 20% to 15%

Winter Wyvern

Damage per 10 attack range rescaled from 0.4/0.5/0.66/1.0 to 0.25/0.33/0.5/1.0
Damage decreased from 100/180/260/340 to 80/160/240/320

Arc Warden

Penalty Increased Damage decreased from 75% to 60% (When far away)

Dark Willow

No longer increases spell amplification

Pangolier

Max Damage Increase increased from 30% to 50%
Max Barrier Increase increased from 30% to 50%
Damage increased from 60/120/180/240 to 70/130/190/250

Void Spirit

Base Damage Barrier decreased from 40/80/120/160 to 30/60/90/120

Snapfire

Base Damage increased from 48-54 to 51-57
Base Damage per shot increased from 15/30/45/60 to 20/35/50/65

Items

Eternal Shroud

Magic Resistance bonus decreased from 25% to 20%