Dota 6.88e Patch Released

BY Andrew Miesner / October 2, 2016

Today marks the release of Dota 6.88e, putting a final end to the summer meta prior to the arrival of the next Major and 6.89. Some big takeaways from this patch include a doubled mana leak cost for Keeper of the Light and Faceless Void’s Time Dilation only freezing casted previously instead of any abilities casted after.

  • Dragon Lance strength reduced from 14 to 13
  • Infused Raindrop cooldown increased from 4 to 6
  • Illusions attack damage reduction against buildings increased from 25% to 30%
  • Diffusal Blade cooldown increased from 2 to 4
  • Outworld Devourer base armor reduced by 1.5
  • Shadow Poison initial damage reduced from 50 to 26/34/42/50
  • Flamebreak cooldown increased from 14 to 17
  • Drow base damage reduced by 4
  • Torrent damage reduced from 120/180/240/300 to 75/150/225/300
  • Echo Stomp channel time increased from 1.2 to 1.3
  • Oracle base damage reduced by 6
  • Morphling intelligence gain reduced from 1.5 to 1.1
  • Starstorm Scepter cooldown increased from 8 to 9
  • Time Dilation now only freezes abilities that are on cooldown, rather than also affecting abilities cast afterwards
  • Time Dilation slow per frozen ability increased from 8% to 10%
  • Tempest Double gold and XP bounty increased from 140 to 160
  • Juggernaut base damage reduced by 2
  • Counter Helix damage reduced from 90/120/150/180 to 75/110/145/180
  • Repel cast point improved from 0.5 to 0.35
  • Repel duration reduced from 6/8/10/12 to 4/6/8/10
  • Relocate delay increased from 2.5/2.25/2 to 2.7/2.35/2
  • Inner Vitality bonus regeneration threshhold reduced from 40% to 35%
  • Stifling Dagger cast range reduced from 1200 to 825/950/1075/1200
  • Smokescreen slow reduced from 25% to 19/21/23/25%
  • Track manacost increased from 50 to 65
  • Mana Leak manacost increased from 75 to 150
  • Illuminate radius increased from 350 to 375
  • Blinding Light knockback distance increased from 400 to 525
  • Sand King movement speed reduced by 5
  • Timbersaw base strength reduced by 1

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