With just days to go before the start of the next major Dota 2 tournament, Patch 7.38b has released to attempt to balance some of the most broken heroes in the game.
We’ve all seen viral clips of Winter Wyvern ult 1v5ing entire teams, and Slardar charging to lane at mach speeds, but have these heroes felt the nerf hammer? Here’s our quick breakdown of Dota 2 patch 7.38b
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Dota 2’s 7.38b Patch Tries To Fix The Most Broken Heroes of The Wandering Waters Update
After the huge map changes that came with the Dota 2 Wandering Waters update, 7.38b has seen some deforestation so that movement between jungle creeps is a little better. There’s also some tweaks to Tormentor that should make the dangerous PvE enemy a little more manageable given it’s now a much more contestable objective.
There’s a few item changes, including Glimmer Cape getting nerfed and its mana cost increased, Heavens Halberd becoming more expensive, but the main thing appears to be to slow down the movement speed in a lot of cases.
Neutral items also got some fixes, mainly nerfing some of the lower tier items, and buffing tier 5 items. Pirate Hat is probably the most notable change with Plunder bonus gold increasing by 250 to a huge 400 gold. This makes it perhaps one of the best options for heroes that have fallen behind in the net-worth but find themselves in a 60+ minute game.
Is 7.38b the end of Winter Wyvern 1v5 ults? Image Credit: Valve
On the hero side, the incredibly broken Winter Wyvern facet, Recursive, that meant that enemy who died under Winter’s Curse would transfer it to another enemy, has been nerfed considerably. Winter’s curse no longer amplifies physical, magical, and pure damage taken from Winter Wyvern. To balance this, the base Winter’s Curse spell has also had its cooldown increased, and the cursed target now takes damage from Winter Wyvern and her controlled units. Invoker got some tweaks to his Facets as well, as valve seems desperate to push the spellcaster into more team-orientated roles.
Full details of the changes are available on the official patch notes page, and are also available in-game if you’d prefer.
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Patch 7.38b Bug Fixes
In addition, over the last few days we’ve addressed the following issues:
- Fixed Clinkz Burning Army skeletons being able to auto-cast Tar Bomb
- Fixed Templar Assassin Hidden Reach effects being visible to enemies
- Fixed Sven Level 10 Talent +10% Vanquisher Bonus Damage not working properly
- Fixed Ability Draft loading screen being stuck during draft phase when there are fewer than 10 players in the lobby.
- Drow Ranger Precision Aura from illusions no longer overrides her own bonus agility
- Fixed Ancient Apparition Ice Blast Shatter Threshold flickering when clicking on an enemy affected by ice blast
- Ability Draft: Doom: Devour: fixed player losing ability in first slot for the rest of the game after casting Devour
- Ability Draft: Doom: Devour: fixed permanently gaining passive aura from neutral creep
- Fixed Roshan Timer being broken when Templar Assassin Third Eye innate is active.
- Fixed Mark for Sell items not being collected by the courier if the courier did not start in the fountain when ordering it to deliver
- Fixed Mark for Sell items being returned to the hero if they were in the courier’s inventory when delivering other items.
- Refined the alt-click chat messages on the Roshan Timer to match other alt-click messages.
- Refined alt-click chat messages on the Madstone indicator to better match other alt-click chat messages.
- Fixed Drow Ranger with the Sidestep Facet not triggering Silencer Last Word when Multishot finishes
- Fixed Viper Nosedive, which caused the caster model orientation to enter a bad state, allowing Rubick or any hero in Ability Draft to exploit this with certain abilities, causing them to remain permanently in the world.
- Fixed Jakiro Liquid Fire not working in Ability Draft
- Fixed Spell Lifesteal Amplification from Kaya (and it’s combined items) not working
Overall, the update has breathed some life into the meta ahead of PGL Wallachia Season 3, and with that tournament on the horizon, we might see some new heroes take center stage at the event. And if you’re looking to place your money where your mouth is with that event, why not check out our guide to Dota 2 betting?
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