DOTA 2

Weave is definitely one of the bigger parts. Used to be Grave was but I feel Weave is what makes the hero broken later in the game a lot of the time. Most teams can CC whoever gets graved and finish him after or they won't have enough impact during grave duration(Huskar excluded), but Weave is pretty dumb, cause you basically have to win VERY quickly, or you'll probably lose the fight, and if you decide to not fight you have to wait a stupid amount of time before it's over. It's great for Roshan and high ground pushes(both offensively and defensively), plus it can be used to scout and shit which is even more bullshit. Helps that the meta has been centered a lot on physical damage heroes with some armor reduction stacking(SF, Slardar and more recently Venge) so it goes well, and the hero is also surprisingly dangerous early game if you don't watch the creepwaves positionning and shit.

Wouldn't be too surprised to see weave changing back to one of the previous forms, that and/or shallow grave becoming dispellable.

Luthair_sl said:

Shadow Field - why was he not nerfed

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He was massively nerfed by increasing the cost of Raze from 75 to 90. That reduces his early game farming efficiency a fuckton. A lot of SF's strength is his ability to go in the jungle, double/triple raze a neutral camp, go back to lane, raze it twice, drink his bottle, send it back and get it back when the next camps spawn and so on. With the new mana costs, it'll be a ton harder to do(also bottle was nerfed). Unless he gets an arcane rune, then it's farm all the jungle ez.

CM changes are also kinda interesting. Bunch of heroes are out for a little bit, but a bunch were added. Not sure how Oracle is after the changes, seems ok-ish but his ultimate was nerfed a lot by making it not purge stuns constantly the entire time. Earth Spirit also took a severe nerf by removing his ability to lolpull allies out of every ganks, however might still be good for all the ganking potential.

Bit surprised Dazzle and Tusk weren't nerfed more. Meanwhile Wyvern got a large rework.

Not a big fan of the dragonlance shit only working on ranged heroes though. It's a lance, shouldn't it work on melee heroes instead? It looks like it'll make some of the heroes a lot stronger too, like TA with 200increased range? Lina can attack towers from out of range too now I think. Venge carry got a lot better with that.

Anyway overall pretty good shit, and lots of support buff stuff. Everything is cheaper yet again, so that's great. Cooldown on couriers is nice to reduce griefing shit too. I need to check the map changes.