Legends of DotA

Ever wondered what it would be like if you are goblin techies had Kardel's take aim, Lanaya's psi blade then use enchantress' impetus?

                                                        

or see your hero 1 shot the entire enemy team with  Raigor's enchant totem, Gondor's jinada and  Kunkka's tide bringer?

Then this is the game for you. Legend of DotA or LoD is a DotA mod map made by Lordshijo were you can pick which skills your hero can learn! You are still limited to 3 basic skills and 1 ultimate but you can basically create your own hero with almost all the skills of every hero in the game available for you.

Main game modes are:

-AP or All Pick All skills are available for you to choose.
-AR or All Random you are given a random set of skills.
-SD or Standard Draft You are given a set of heroes from where you can choose the skills that you want.
-MD or Modified Draft Similar to -SD

Additional game modes are:

-d2 Provides a choice of 20 heroes.
-d3 Provides a choice of 30 heroes.
-d4 only works with "sd" or "md" Provides a choice of 40 heroes.
-d5 Provides a choice of 50 heroes.
-s5 allows you to pick 5 skills.
-s6 allows you to pick 6 skills (1 extra ultimate and 1 extra normal ability).
-ra Random Abilities, the extra abilities from s5 & s6 are chosen randomly.
-fn Fast Neutrals, first neutrals spawn already after drafting, then 30 seconds after, then the normal 1 minute spawn
-ss See Skills, allows you to see the enemy skills while drafting as well
-ab Anti Backdoor
-ul Unlimited Level
-os One Skill, skills can't be picked twice on each side
-ls Limit Skills, you cannot have more than 2 passive skills and more than 2 skills from a single hero

Ingame Commands:

-SI (Skill Inventory) shows what the skills you allies took.
-II (Item Inventory) shows what items your allies have.
-FF (Fast Finish)
-WFF (Who FF'd)
-SP #(Toggle passive skill display, # is the skill's place number while drafting)
-SDDON/-SDDOFF (System Display Damage)
-ADDTIME (Adds 1 minute to the clock when picking skills, can be entered at most once)
-READY (During the skill picking phase, chooses your remaining skills randomly)

Some spells are nerffed to give balance to the game:


*The silence from Last Word lasts only 0.75/1/1.25/1.5s.
*Multicast chances reduced x2 by 7%/3.5%/0%, x3 by 7%/3.5%, x4 by 7%
*Rearm has a 15/10/5 hidden cooldown after refreshing before being able to refresh again
*Feast only regenerates/deals 1/2/3/4% HP on ranged heroes.
*Greater Bash only has a 10% proc chance on ranged heroes.
*Dispersion disperses only 6/8/10/12% damage on STR heroes and heroes morphed from a STR metamorphosis.
*Essence Shift only works on half the attacks for ranged heroes.
*Spell with a cooldown less than or equal to 3s can not proc Aftershock, Fiery Soul, Static Field, Warpath, Overload (except if they originally could proc the spell).

You can download the map here:
http://www.epicwar.com/maps/206329/

If you are looking for additional information about the game you can go to LoD thread at playdota.com: http://www.playdota.com/forums/showthread.php?t=797604


Want to play this game online? You can do so at LoD room in RGC.

Step 1:
Download RGC  http://www.rankedgaming.com/download.html

Step 2:
Learn how to use the client http://www.rankedgaming.com/client.html

Step 3:
Start RGC then type "/j lod" without the quotes then press enter. You will immediately be taken to the LoD Lobby. A lot people play there (I myself play there almost every day) just ask for host or whisper one of the admins.

DotA v6.75 is released

At a glance, here are my thoughts on the latest DotA version, 6.75:

* Goblin Shredder added to Captain's Mode

* Skywrath Mage added to Captain's Mode

• We finally get to see some action on Goblin Shredder and Skywrath Mage in competitive plays. With GS great mobility and SM insane DPS I’m sure both will make a great impact on the –cm rouster.

* Captain's Mode first ban phase now has 2 bans instead of 3

* Captain's Mode second ban phase now has 3 bans instead of 2

• You can now only make 2 bans in the first ban phase instead of 3 couple this with buffs on several carries as well nerf on wooders we will be expecting a lot more bans on the latter. Although the first ban phase has always been a personal choice at least we get to see more strategic counter banning.

* Glyph duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds

• Not really a big deal but the extra second means a lot more excitement to tower defending.

* Enraged Wildkin's Tornado vision decreased from 1200/800 to 300

• Tornado is a great skill used for both pushing creeps near the enemy tower and checking for incoming enemy heroes to defend it. Now without the vision tower pushing is now riskier.

* Aegis reclaim time decreased from 10 to 6 minutes

• This would mean less turtling for the aegis carrier. Making a big push on the last minute of the aegis reclaim, dying and then getting another aegis when roshan respawns.  

* Team AoE bounty for kills with 2 heroes around changed from 9*Level+95 to 12*Level + 125

* Team AoE bounty for kills with 3 heroes around changed from 8*Level+20 to 10*Level+40

* Killer bounty level multiplier increased from 200+5*Level to 200+9*Level

• Hopefully the push needed to shift the meta to a more ganking oriented game play. We will be expecting a faster pacing and transition of the early game lane-ing phase and a obviously great deal more ganks.         

* Total XP required for level 7 decreased from 2700 to 2600

* Total XP required for level 8 decreased from 3500 to 3200

• This focuses a lot who has the better ult in the mid lane. Netting a kill pass level 6 on an opposing mid hero would result in a higher level gap.

* Added a 1 second cooldown to placing Observer and Sentry wards (to help prevent accidental usage when lagging)

• This is great actually I play matches online often where lags are unavoidable.

* Roshan turn rate increased to fix some abuses

• This will hopefully fix the morph abuse

As for various nerfs, buffs and remakes on heroes and items I will discuss them fully once the final patch is out. The 2 new heroes and the new item I will also be discussing after the final patch on their own separate blog post.  

You can download the new map here: http://www.getdota.com/

You can also see the full changelog here: http://www.playdota.com/changelogs/6.75

DotA 6.75 Coming Soon

Brace yourselves DotA 6.75! 

We just got a rare reply frog Icefrog himself that he will be releasing DotA 6.75 by the end of the month. The reply was made on September 19, 2012 so we will probably be expecting 6.75 sometime this week. It has been 6 months since the release of 6.74 yet no word about 6.75 has been release. Now with the recent success DotA 2 International 2 as well as several updates on the DotA 2 players are wondering: will Icefrog still continue to update the original MOBA game?

We even got news that a leak beta version of 6.75 was released showing a lot of changes most notably a new hero: Frost Wyrm

and a new location for roshan as seen here:

Below is the Changelogs for the 6.75 Beta patch:

DotA 6.75 Beta 17 Changelogs:

These patch notes are from Beta 17 but the current beta has reached version 34.

Experimental adjustment to roshan area (will probably need a lot of tweaking, if we even do it)
Eye of Skadi now gives +25 bonus damage
Blood Bath enemy hero aoe death detection increased from 225 to 325
* Chilling Touch no longer reduces attack speed, duration reduced from 40 to 30 seconds
* Double Edge does its damage in a 175 aoe around the target
* Added a 1 second cooldown to placing Observer and Stentry wards (to help prevent accidental usage)
* Radiance burn damage increased from 40 to 45
* Tuskarr base damage increased by 5
* Unstable Current duration increased from 0.3/0.6/0.9/1.2 to 0.4/0.8/1.2/1.6
* Moon Glaive bounce count increased from 1/2/3/4 to 2/3/4/5
* Nerubian Assassin's Impale damage increased from 80/140/200/260 to 80/160/240/320
* Nerubian Assassin's Impale travel time decreased from 1600 to 700
* Nerubian Assassin's Mana Burn manacost reduced from 90/110/130/150 to 100
* Spiked Carapace manacost from 50 to 40
* Death Coil cooldown from 6 to 5 seconds
* Boots of Speed are now a sharable item
* Primal Split units are no longer invulnerable to Black Hole
* Shrapnel now provides vision in the area it is cast
* Shackleshot no longer has any effect if it fails to shackle the target
* Helm of the Dominator cooldown reduced from 300 to 60, no longer has a limited (20 min) duraiton and is just replaced whenever a new one is converted
* Can no longer Force Staff through Kinetic Field
* Rupture cooldown from 70/60/50 to 50/45/40
Kunkka's base armor increased by 1

- Impale speed from 800 to 950
* Fixed Phase Shift invulnerability duration ending 0.25 seconds too soon
* Reworked Sunray
* Replaced Icarus Dive with Overheat


Sunray: [A2L0]
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Channels a sunray in the targeted direction. Deals dps and slows to all heroes in that path. The damage increases per second. Maximum channel time of 6 seconds.

Starting DPS: 40 + 1/2/3/4% Max HP per second
Ending DPS: 100 + 3/6/9/12% Max HP per second

AOE: 150
Distance: 1600

Slow: 30%
Slow Duration: 0.5 seconds

Cooldown: 20
Manacost: 100
HP Cost: 10% Current HP

- Fixed Sunray not doing the right amount of damage
- Reduced Sunray variable damage from 1/2/3/4->3/6/9/12 to 1/2/3/4->2/4/6/8
- Reduced Sunray constant damage from 40->100 to 20/30/40/50->40/60/80/100
- Fixed Sunray slow duration
- Increased Overheat cooldown from 13 to 22/19/16/13
* Leech Seed no longer stops healing when the target dies
- Undid all Impale changes on Nerubian Assassin

Overheat: [A2L1]
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Targets a small area, causing all enemy units to overheat taking damage over time and losing their ability to attack.

AOE: 190
DPS: 20/40/60/80
Duration: 5
Cast Range: 750

Manacost: 75
Cooldown: 13

- Fixed some more stuff with Sunray damage
- Fixed Leech Seed losing a tick of duration when target dies
* Jakiro's facing direction now matches his turn rate a little more (this is purely a visual thing)
- Added burn visual effect for Overheat dps
* Quill Spray damage cap increased from 220 to 300
* Rod of Atos bonus HP from 250 to 300
* Sunder is no longer blocked by Magic Immunity
* Armlet HP regeneration increased from 5 to 8
* Armlet lifedrain increased from 37 to 40
* Bloodstone charges now increment if you get a kill out of range
* Dark Pact cooldown from 10/9/8/7 to 9/8/7/6
* Shadow Dance HP regen increased from 3/4/5 to 3/5/7
* Level 3 Marksmanship agility increased from 45 to 60
* Split Shot damage from 45/55/65/76 to 50/60/70/80
* Desolate search aoe improved from 325 to 300
* Silencer strength growth from 1.7 to 2.0
* Lycan base armor reduced by 1
* Treants magic resistance decreased from 33% to 25%
* Thundergod's Wrath cooldown decreased from 120 to 100
* Death Ward attack cooldown improved from 0.3 to 0.25
* Warcry aoe increased from 700 to 900
* Clockwerk Goblin strength gain increased from 2.4 to 2.7
* Enfeeble cooldown reduced from 12 to 8
* Spirit Lance slow duration increased from 3 to 3.25 seconds
* Increased Roshan turn rate to fix some abuses
* Dark Seer movement speed reduced from 305 to 300


* You can now target yourself with Unstable Concoction
* Removed Charge of Darkness debuff icon indicator
- Fixed Roshan attack detection area being too small
- Increased Sunray Slow
- Meta manacost from 70/85/100/115 to 70/80/90/100
- Meta illusions dmg 20/30/40/50 -> 30/40/50/60, dmg taken from 400% to 250%
- Overheat duration from 5 to 4 seconds, damage rescaled to be the same



* Last Word intelligence steal from 1/2 (allies/self) kills to 2 always
* Poison Nova now affects buildings [Need feedback :wacko:]
- Fixed Zeus ult on scoreboard
- Fixed some tooltips
* Spiked Carapace now lasts for 2.5 seconds (down from 4.5) seconds, but reflects and stuns all sources of damage over that period instead of just the first one
- Overhead damage reduced from 25/50/75/100 per second to 20/40/60/80
- Overheat manacost from 75 to 80/90/100/110
* Fixed Overwhelming Odds giving 6% instead of 9% per hero
- Fixed bloodstone global kills change not working


- Fixed Double edge aoe damage hitting allies instead of enemies sometimes
* Recipe items no longer sell for 80% of its price (now 50% like regular items)
- Shackleshot from 0.25 to 0.1 duration
- Fixed Dominator cd tooltip/droppability
* Vacuum cooldown increased from 16 to 17
- Overheat cast range reduced from 750 to 600
* Lycan strength gain from 2.75 to 2.4
- Undid Lycan 1 armor reduction
* Lycan's Shapeshift form no longer gives 2 bonus armor
* Acid Spray manacost from 160 to 115/130/145/160
* Unstable Concoction max damage from 130/200/270/340 to 150/220/290/360
* Static Field aoe increased from 1000 to 1200
* Reaper's Scythe aghanims now deals pure damage
* Inner Vitality can now be cast on magic immune targets
* Doom's base armor increased by 1
* Phantom Lancer agility gain from 2.8 to 3.4
* Anti-mage movement speed reduced from 320 to 315
* Fiery Soul attack speed bonus increased from 40/50/60/70 to 40/55/70/85
* The Swarm's attack rate improved from 1.5 to 1.35
* Degen Aura increased from 300 to 315
* Enfeeble damage reduction from 25/50/75/100 to 30/60/90/120
* Presence of the Dark Lord armor reduction increased from 2/3/4/5 to 3/4/5/6


- Fixed Inner Vitality bkb casting
- Fixed some tooltips
- Undid self targeting with Unstable Concoction
* Lothar's Edge duration from 9 to 12 seconds
* Batrider strength gain increased from 2.0 to 2.4
* Power Cogs damage/drain from 60/90/120/150 to 80/120/160/200


- Fixed some tooltips
* Gyrocopter base movement speed from 305 to 315
* Homing Missle now gives you vision of the target it is seeking
* Goblin's Greed bonus scaling adjusted from 2/4/6/8 + 2 to 4/6/8/10 + 1/2/3/4
* Enfeeble can no longer be dispelled
* Great Cleave aoe increased from 200 to 215
* Force Staff cooldown increased from 20 to 24
* Dagon cooldown progression from 40/36/32/28/24 to 35/30/25/20/15
* Snowball now carries all your summoned units as well

* Mana Leak cd from 18 to 16
* Concussive Shot cooldown from 20/19/18/17 to 20/18/16/14
* Concussive Shot aoe from 200 to 225
* Veil of Discord aoe from 500 to 550
* Silencer strength growth from 1.7 to 2.2
* Power Cogs duration from 3/4/5/6 to 3/4.5/6/7.5
* Take Aim from 65/130/195/260 to 70/140/210/280
- Fixed satanic tooltip (It does 200% not 175%)
* Flak Cannon aoe increased from 800 to 900
- Great cleave increased to 230
* Ogre Magi's Aghanim Unrefined Fireblast cooldown from 20 to 10
* Force Staff cooldown increased to 26
* Life Break Aghanim's cooldown from 24/16/8 to 4
* Finger of Death Aghanim now bounces once to a nearby enemy unit up to 200 units away (tooltip not updated yet)
* Vendetta movement speed from 10/15/20% to 16/18/20%
* Mana Burn rate from 4x Int to 5x Int
* Replaced Expulsion with Summon Shade (needs new name!)
* Reworked Firestorm (not channeling, doesn't hurt buildings, rebalanced numbers, heals allied units)

Firestorm:
==========
Calls down 4 waves of fire that damage enemy units and heal allied units in an area.

Damage per wave: 40/60/80/100
Heal per wave: 20/30/40/50

AOE: 450
Casting Range: 775
Cooldown: 16
Manacost: 130
Summon Shade:
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Summons an Shade. Can have up to 1/2/3/4 out at a given time. They move fast and are invisible when idle. Can target an enemy to infest them, causing the shade to become consumed, dealing dps and silencing the enemy target for a duration.

DPS: 30/40/50/60
Duration: 4

Fade Time: 1 second
HP: 50 (Magic Immune)
Movement Speed: 522
Cooldown: 25/20/15/10
Manacost: 40

Frost Wyrm
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Scourge
Range
Intelligence

Movespeed: 290
Starting Armor: 3

Attack Damage: 38-46
Attack Range: 600

Intelligence: 25 + 2.4
Strength: 24 + 2.1
Agility: 16 + 1.9
Ability 1: [Trap] A2L9 - R
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Your attacks passively place a marker on enemies (lasts 20 seconds). Upon activation, all enemies with the marker are frozen and the marker is removed. You gain bonus damage for each unit that got frozen. Casting the spell removes the marker from all units, dead units do not count towards the marker bonus.

Hero Marker Bonus: +30 damage
Non-Hero Marker Bonus: +10 damage
Bonus Damage Duration: 8 seconds

Freeze duration: 1/1.5/2/2.5

Cooldown: 20
Manacost: 130
//------

- Fixed Shades not spawning invis
- Shades HP increased to 250
- Shades infest cast range increased to 600
- Fixed the Finger of Death aghanims bounce from having 15% damage reduction
- Fixed Firestorm not hurting heroes

* Max level heroes no longer drain XP
* Enemeis can no longer see the countdown numbers for Chemical Rage
- Summon Shade does not require a corpse anymore
- Summon Shade count from 1/2/3/4 to 2/3/4/5
- Summon Shade cooldown from 30/25/20/15 to 25/20/15/10

- Fixed the DPS from the shades sometimes causing a suicide death
- Fixed the infset from the shades causing -50% dmg ont he target
- Fixed some levelup issues with the shades once we made it not require corpses (the dps wasn't getting upgraded after that)

- Shades HP reduced from 250 to 100
- Shades infest cast range decreased from 600 to 300
- Spiked Carapace cd increased from 10 to 14
- Spiked Carapace won't retrigger on the same target twice
- Finger of Death Aghanim's aoe from 200 to 225
* Magnus agility growth increased from 1.8 to 2.5
* Magnus base armor increased by 1
- Overheat secondary effect changed from disarm to -150 attack speed
- Overheat aoe increased from 190 to 225
- Soul Keeper Metamorph illusions attack range from 550 to 650
- Soul Keeper base armor increased by 2
- Fixed the DPS from the shades sometimes causing a suicide death
- Fixed the infset from the shades causing -50% dmg ont he target
- Fixed some levelup issues with the shades once we made it not require corpses (the dps wasn't getting upgraded after that)

Now weather or not the leak beta version is legit one thing is certain Icefrog still has a lot of plans in store for DotA and we will know this soon enough. 

DotA 6.75 Loading Screen

The anticipation is killing me as I get yet another teaser for the up and coming DotA 6.75. This time with a new Loading Screen:

As was previously stated Icefrog will be focusing on content remake on this patch. Most probably on the much debated Roshan location. There was no mention of a new hero so we may not see the rumored Frost Wyrm after all. Either way I hope we may finally have a break on the Lane Pushing Strategy (LTS) that has been so dominant in today's meta. The text in the artworks are as follows:

- This updates includes a lot of new hero, item, and gameplay balance improvements, as well as some new content.

- Please let me know what things you like and dislike in this update by emailing me at IceFrog@gmail.com

- Congratulations to iG (Zhou, 430, YYF, ChuaN, Faith)

Unlike the previous artworks made by Kunkka, this version of the loading screen is made by Suke. You can see more of his art work here:

http://blog.sina.com.cn/sk84

For the latest DotA Map go to the official download page at:

http://www.playdota.com/