DOTA 2

There's a lot of crazy shit if the game goes late. Lvl 30 heroes have all talents, couriers can use items and you get the tier 5 drops from creeps at 70+ minutes, many of which are absolutely broken shit(75% reflect on single target spells, 6s cd force staff boots, 400attack range and knockback on hit and shit like that). I guess the games will end pretty fucking quick at that point.

There's a lot of cool shit though so it's hard to say how it goes. They changed Dark Seer back to be able to Vacuum shit during Naga sleep for example which is... interesting. The new Venge aura also look busted, 180 attack range aura that'll make melees crazy.

Yeah I don't see the items staying the way they are, they are too random(you can get any item in the tier, no "timeline" or order you can count on to know you should farm now or it's not necessary or whatever) and they are too strong(they're fairly specific, but since you can trade them with your team it's very easy to put them on someone who can at least make partial use, and some items are straight up broken if you hit them first drop right away). They're basically large random amounts of gold on neutrals. Plus it pushes people to clear neutrals, which sounds fucking awful unless we're going full LoL style where each team has one dedicated jungler, which kills a lot of the freedom for picks and stuff.

I saw a suggestion on reddit that the items should be time limited and at the very least that'd alleviate some of the issues. Like you loot a good item but it only lasts 3minutes or whatever, so you can either try to force something to make use of it but with a potential cost(if you get iron talon you might want to jungle for 3mins but now your lane is deserted free to be pushed) and at least the value granted is lost after a while, so it's similar to runes to an extent.

There might be other potential nerfs. I think for example revealing the area to the enemy team when you drop an item, so you can see what the enemy is getting, and also what they're doing at that specific point of time. Having the items drop in a set order which is visible somewhere ingame(order can be randomized per match, but then stays the same) would probably be good, so you know "eh we should clear our jungle and get this item" or "nvm nothing good". Might be worth showing the enemy timeline too(or maybe they're the same), so you can decide to go contest the enemy farm instead knowing that they'll be in the jungle because the next item is good(something a bit similar to bounties where people get ready every 5mins to fight for them, you'd have a fight every 10mins if the first item is good, or a race at least). They should probably remove a fair amount of them too, 62 items or whatever the number is is fucking stupid. Reduce the amount of tier, reduce the amount of items. It's going to be a pain in the ass for random spectators to watch this shit especially since 3/4 of the items have finnicky stats and weird shit going on.