Having been more than two months since the release of the unanimously-popular 6.64 release, many fans were anxious as to what direction IceFrog would take Defense of the Ancients in the succeeding patch. Apparently, the developer decided to give the game a massive makeover with its heroes primarily in mind. A long list of minute adjustments for many heroes and major reworks for key players such as Alchemist, Bounty Hunter, Chaos Knight and Visage for their iconic spells. Last, but certainly not least, we have been given two new heroes: the agile Murloc Nightcrawler and the intelligent Ancient Apparition.

Although the heroes are the strong main course of this new patch, there certainly are major changes in the items realm. A new item has been added called the Urn of Shadows, which runs on the complex formula as follows:



The Scroll of Town Portal has had some interesting changes as well. A new function exists that prevents entire teams from converging upon locations immediately. Instead, when a player teleports to a location, other players are delayed with their teleportation to the immediate proximity of that location for a time. The only exception to this is when players teleport to the fountain and shop area in their base. Also, enemy players may now visualize the color of players with their teleportation art effect.

Various icons have been changed around and some effects play out in a different manner now. However, the major changes to the environment lies around the creeps, which now give off lower gold and XP rewards.

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Source: PlayDotA.com