hmm icefrog nerfed hand of midas and buffed power treads which is odd

you pay 1.4k for the midas recipe for only an extra 30% of attack speed when paying a mere 420 gold for the treads recipe gives you 35% increase, doesn't make sense to me..

woot, finally 6.38 is out...zz but why 1 week before my exams...

tried it out yesterday, the new hero is quite fun to play with, finally priestess of the moon is in dota, it used to be one of the two prominent heroes in 3 corridors
her skills are pretty unique i would say, starfall is standard, the stun is pretty cool given the range it can travel proportional to the length of stun, giving you time to chase up a hero who's far away, and leap is the fun one! i laugh whenever i cast that spell
i find her ulti kinda weak though, throughout the whole game i rarely used it, i guess it's more of a ganging skill than running away, since it has 2 seconds fade time, which is slow enough to die if you're trying to escape

the 4 new items are cool, arcane ring is very powerful in early game for any hero with nukes, constant mana replenishment is gay combined with zeus or any other hero for that matter

finally another agility item, mjollir (however you spell or pronounce it), wth is it suppose to mean anyway... at least now maelstorm is worth investing for an upgrade late game

and another item that benefits melee heroes, something's offering that gives melee heroes a lifesteal aura, i find it pretty useful but i don't think it should stack with skeleton king's vampiric aura, making the combination of skeleton king and naix unstoppable, with all the items and auras naix's lifesteal can go up to 104%

lastly melee heroes are no longer at a disadvantage against range in terms of experience denying, since they gain higher exp for denied creeps, i think it balances out and gives melee heroes a fairer chance in lane control against range heroes


overall a great and solid upgrade, adding new twists and flavours in dota keeping the freshness and new factor, good job icefrog

i take back my words, her ulti is quite powerful indeed, given it's a global skill you can potentially save your allies and it is mad fun to gather your whole team and surround a hero and appear catching him unaware, gayness

you pick your opponents' heroes

when the game starts each team chooses their heroes, then after a certain amount of time the heroes selection will switch