If you’re reading this from one of the parts of the planet lucky enough to get a Vin Diesel movie every two years (Sweden, others), you’re probably happy with how fast everything is, but you might be wondering why everyone’s always so angry about it.

Look, it’s a great point, and we’re glad you were brave enough to say something: Going fast should never be a cause for fury. We've been reading all your feedback on Turbo Mode, and as part of our More Fast, Less Furious initiative, we’re rolling out a batch of changes to improve the overall Turbo play experience.

• Wisdom Rune experience amount increased by 100%
  
• Lotus Pool lotus spawn interval decreased from 3 minutes to 90 seconds
  
• Aghanim's Shard initial availability time reduced from 9:45 to 7:30
  
• Infused Raindrop initial availability time reduced from 3:30 to 1:30
  
• The hero selection interface has been updated to show how many players have selected a hero on each team
  
• Random hero selection are no longer revealed to the enemy team
  
• Players who select a random hero no longer receive a free Mango and Faerie Fire
  
• There is no longer a restriction against selecting a random hero for the last 10 seconds of the picking phase
  
• Phantom Assassin's Manifold Paradox Arcana will now count wins in Turbo for half credit.
  
• Pudge's Feast of Abscession Arcana will now count wins against Rubick in Turbo for half credit.
  

In addition to Turbo updates, the team has also addressed more gameplay issues

• Fixed various interactions with Phylactery when targeting low-health units.
  
• Fixed Stormcrafter proccing immediately if dropped and picked up again.
  
• Fixed a bug where issuing an attack order while using quick attack against an invulnerable target would cause the cursor to remain in attack mode after failing to issue the order.
  
• Hero Relics are now purple for universal heroes.
  
• Fixed Universal heroes having incorrect attack damage displayed during picking phase.
  
• Fixed Dota Plus neutral item suggestions showing NaN
  
• Message displayed when killing tormentor changed to be a combat event message that will display who received the shard or how much gold and experience is awarded to the team in the event all available shard upgrades have already been acquired.
  
• You can now add and remove 'Pinned Items' when editing them rather than just replacing the existing ones.
  

As seasons go, spring doesn’t have much going for it. It’s wet, there’s too many insects, idiots are all over the place skipping through parks and falling in love. Luckily, our global spring nightmare is finally almost over — and that’s because the Summer 2023 Dota Plus update* is here, dropping from the sky like a meteor on the grateful people below. The update includes refreshed seasonal quests and guild rewards, plus an all-new treasure to explore.

* Attention, web designer! Make sure these words are in Impact font! **

** Not these words.

Dota Plus Seasonal Treasure
The Summer 2023 Seasonal Treasure is here and available for purchase with shards. This treasure features all new sets for Axe, Ember Spirit, Troll Warlord, Zeus, Oracle, Queen of Pain, Sand King, and Treant Protector. There's also a chance to unlock Moil the Fettered courier, who haunts the lanes bearing random prismatic and ethereal gems.

We've also taken sets that were available in the Spring Treasure 2022 and made them available for direct purchase for 15,000 shards each as part of the collection of legacy sets in the Shard Shop.

Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards
Today’s update also comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to shore up your shard stash for new relics and the Seasonal Treasure — offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season. Guild rewards have also been updated, making new emoticons, sprays, and chat wheels available to high-scoring guilds.




Guild Tier
Rewards


Silver

• Emoticon - storm_impressed
  
• Emoticon - void_thumbsdown
  
• Emoticon - void_unimpressed
  

Gold

• Spray - Lichsicle
  
• Spray - Puck Dagon
  
• Spray - Sven Strength
  

Platinum

• Chat Wheel - "See you later nerds"
  
• Chat Wheel - "Que Dota é esse, cara?"
  
• Chat Wheel - "再见了宝贝儿！"
  

And Lastly…
Let’s all take a moment to remember Mi "YammerS" Hongwei, a beloved member of the Chinese caster community, who sadly passed away earlier this week. In memory, we’re including one of his most popular voice lines as a platinum-tier guild reward.

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Watchers are now colored based on whether they are controlled by your team (matching minimap coloration), rather than whether they are controlled by Radiant and Dire.
  
• Auto-selected summoned units no longer close the shop UI.
  
• Wisdom Runes no longer consider players who abandoned when finding a second player to grant XP.
  
• Tormentor no longer considers players who abandoned when finding a player to grant shard.
  
• Tormentor no longer considers heroes who have no shard upgrades/abilities when finding a player to grant shard.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Tormentors to not play their idle or flinch animations.
  
• Fixed a bug where a hero would have to have a second Dust available in order for the damage or movement speed penalty to apply to enemies encountering the Dust.
  
• Fixed Alchemist's Unstable Concoction Throw not triggering Phylactery.
  
• Fixed an inconsistency where Dark Willow's Shadow Realm would not behave as if the unit were invisible for a number of abilities.
  
• Fixed a crash when Earth Spirit creates many Stone Remnants and then casts Magnetize affecting at least one enemy unit.
  
• Fixed Earthshaker leap being interrupted if he is debuff immune and gets a stunned applied on him (that does not pierce debuff immunity).
  
• Fixed Gyrocopter's Flak Cannon modifier not updating its attacks remaining when refreshed.
  
• Fixed Hoodwink's Acorn Shot, Medusa's Mystic Snake, Tinker's Laser, and Zeus' Arc Lightning not properly applying when casting hero has a Phylactery and a low-health unit is targeted.
  
• Fixed Legion Commander's Overwhelming Odds radius indicator showing the incorrect radius.
  
• Fixed Ogre Magi lvl25 talent 17% Chance for Fireblast on Attack no longer applying if the player buys and then sells/unequips Aghanim's Scepter.
  
• Fixed a bug with Outworld Destroyer's Astral Imprisonment where, when a stack of Astral Imprisonment debuff was removed, mana as well as max mana might be restored.
  
• Fixed Shadow Fiend's Necromastery tooltip incorrectly stating losing 40% of souls on death, when the real value is 30%.
  
• Fixed Spirit Breaker Charge of Darkness occasionally continuing past death, leading to the ability being on indefinite cooldown and no longer usable.
  
• Fixed Eimer Hillburrow courier not being selectable.
  
• Fixed various tooltip issues.
  
• Fixed various relics.
  

Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues:

• Fixed Universal heroes' damage per level tooltips referencing an incorrect value
  
• Fixed Tormentor's tooltips to show correct reflection, damage barrier, and regen values
  
• Fixed Neutral Tokens being inaccessible when sent to stash by hero clones
  
• Clarified multiple ability and item tooltips and 7.33c patch notes in the client
  
• Abilities with no legacy hotkeys defined got one auto-assigned
  
• Fixed Glimmer Cape's barrier to correctly block damage for items and abilities that go on cooldown on damage
  
• Fixed Eye of the Vizier providing no Mana Regen
  
• Fixed Specialist's Array providing constant bonus damage for melee heroes
  
• Fixed Specialist's Array not providing the base bonus damage when ready to proc
  
• Fixed Dazzle attacking Void Spirit with Poison Touch debuff causing a crash
  
• Fixed Earthshaker's Fissure Range being incorrect
  
• Fixed Grimstroke's Dark Portrait illusions not having the correct amount of magic resistance
  
• Fixed a bug that caused casting certain targeted spells on units affected by Grimtroke's Soulbind to disable portions of that ability's effects (e.g. bonus damage on Clinkz's Tar Bomb)
  
• Fixed Hoodwink's Bushwhack interrupting debuff immune targets
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Summon Spirit Bear to respect damage blocking instead of going on cooldown due to damage
  
• Fixed Mars' Spear of Mars interrupting debuff immune targets
  
• Fixed Meepo's clones creating boots when picking up Healing Lotuses
  
• Fixed Pangolier's Swashbuckle Dash Range being incorrect
  
• Fixed Spirit Breaker's Charge of Darkness Mana Cost that was incorrectly decreased to 90 instead of 100
  
• Fixed Weaver's Level 10 Talent +50 Shukuchi Damage applying twice
  
• Fixed Zeus' Lightning Hands triggering spell absorb/reflection effects
  

Patch 7.33c is out now. You can check the notes here.

Additional Notes:

Ranked Matchmaking:
* Raised the minimum MMR to be eligible for Immortal Draft from 5620 to 6500.
* Modified the MMR gained and lost from matches when teams have varying skill to better approximate the expected chance each team has of winning. Games where the teams aren't equal in rating now credit the lower-rated team with a better chance of victory and the results for players with high rank confidence will be closer to +/-25 MMR.

The DPC Spring Tour came to an exciting close this past weekend with the Berlin Major, where the Gaimin Gladiators continued the spectacular winning streak they started two months ago at the Lima Major. Dropping only a single game on the main stage, the Gladiators pulled off a resounding win in Berlin, netting them 500 DPC points and getting them even closer to The International.


The 2023 DPC Season continues May 15th with the Summer Tour, rolls forward to the end of June with the Bali Major hosted by IO Esports, and culminates at The International this October in Seattle.


Supporters Clubs

Show off your support for your favorite teams by joining their Supporters Club. We'll be rolling out teams' Supporters Clubs gradually as their contents are finalized. Each bundle comes in three tiers, depending on how much support you want to show. As always, teams featured in a Supporters Club bundle will get 50% of all of their bundle sales.

Bronze Tier

• A badge for your favorite team, which will appear in your friends list, player profile, Versus Screen, and in-game scoreboard (swappable if you purchase more than one team's bundle)
  
• 1 Team Fantasy Player Pack
  
• 1 Basic Fantasy Player Pack
  

Silver Tier

• All the perks of the Bronze Club
  
• Sprays to liven up your map and Loading Screens
  
• 2 additional Team Player Card Packs
  
• 6 additional Basic Player Card Packs 
  

Gold Tier

• All of the perks of the Bronze and Silver Clubs
  
• A special in-game HP-bar badge, as well as Emoticons and Chat Wheel Lines to proclaim your allegiance in-game
  
• 3 additional Team Player Card Packs
  
• 7 additional Basic Player Card Packs
  

Note: Content is subject to availability based on a team's content submission.

DPC Fantasy
If you're new to Fantasy or might like a refresher, peruse this recap before you unpack your cards and play. You can also check the How to Play breakdown in the FANTASY section of the client for full details.

The Basics
For each weeklong period, fans set a Fantasy roster made up of two Core Player Cards, one Mid Player Card, and two Support Player Cards. Player Cards on a roster score Fantasy points based on how well they perform in that period's matches. Silver & Gold Cards have stat bonuses that earn more points. 

Player Card Packs
All players have been granted 10 starter packs claimable on the DPC menu under the Watch tab. Additional Player Card Packs can be earned daily by winning a game of Dota. Team Packs will be available for purchase directly from the PLAYER CARDS tab in the WATCH section as teams submit their Supporters Club bundles in the near future.

When you open a pack you'll receive player cards from the specific region you have selected.

Regional Fantasy
Each DPC region is its own Fantasy league with its own player cards and unique lineup. You may choose to participate in multiple regional leagues, and you will earn Fantasy Levels based on your best fantasy league performance for the period. For instance, if you place in the top 10% of one league and the top 50% of another, you will receive the points for the top 10% placement. Region rewards do not stack.

At the end of each period, you will earn levels based on the Fantasy points for that period. Rewards will be unlocked based on your current overall Fantasy Level.

Scoring Matches
All Division I matches during the Summer 2023 Tour are eligible for Fantasy play. The highest scoring two games of a best-of-three count towards a player's score. If a team plays more than one series during a period, only their highest-scoring series will count. 

Players that score in the top 100%/50%/25%/10% will earn 1/2/3/4 Fantasy Levels. Each level grants 350 Shards, and every fourth level doubles the prize to 700 Shards.

Once your lineups are set, make sure to follow all of the upcoming action in the Watch section of the client or on the DPC homepage.

Mark your calendars: The International returns to Seattle this October. The world's best Dota teams will once again compete for the Aegis of Champions, this time in Climate Pledge Arena, welcoming the largest audience in the event's history.

This year, the group stage kicks off on Saturday, October 14th, with the playoffs to follow. Both of these events will run under one banner, The Road to the International, which we'll be talking more about in the coming weeks.

The International itself will commence on Friday, October 27th and run through Sunday, October 29th.

We'll be announcing ticketing information and more details on The Road to the International as we get closer to the event.

The 7.33b Gameplay Patch is now live!

Check the latest patchnotes here!

Also, throughout the last few days, we addressed some ongoing gameplay-affecting issues:

• Fixed Killing Roshan not giving the team control of enemy Watchers
  
• Fixed Phylactery not applying damage/slow if a spell is re-applied
  
• Fixed Phylactery not triggering on spells that would otherwise trigger Spell Absorption
  
• Fixed Immobile units able to go through Twin Gates
  
• Fixed Wraith King not applying Aghanim's Scepter buff to allies if he didn't die
  
• Fixed Invoker Aghanim's shard reducing Meteor cooldown by 15s
  
• Fixed Fallen Sky counting towards hero Net Worth
  
• Fixed a crash if a tethered Io enters Undying Tombstone
  
• Fixed Netherstrike dispelling Spirit Breaker if he has Shard
  
• Fixed Debuff Immunity negating all damage done to units under False Promise
  
• Fixed Naga Siren Aghanim's Scepter ensnare not targetting sleeping/invulnerable units
  
• Fixed Pugna Nether Ward counting for healing if Pugna has shard
  
• Fixed Templar Assassin autocast Trap behavior triggering the closest point to the map center instead of cursor position
  
• Fixed Dragon Knight not re-applying corrosive/frost breath if target already has damage reduction debuff
  
• Fixed Some heroes keeping buffs provided by Aghanim's Scepter when selling the scepter
  
• Fixed Earth Spirit Level 15 magnetize damage and duration talent not working
  
• Fixed Riki's shard not allowing allied Area of Effect spells to go through onto units caught in smoke (Stampede, Chronosphere, etc)
  
• Fixed Wraith King Level 15 Skeleton Damage talent not working
  
• Fixed Debuff Immunity providing free pathing when hit by forced movement abilities
  
• Fixed Dawnbreaker Starbreaker stun and slow piercing spell immunity
  
• Fixed a crash when Grimstroke casts Soulbind and them moves into Fog of War and casts Phantom Embrace
  
• Fixed Harpoon sharing a cooldown with Forcestaff and Hurricane Pike
  
• Fixed Dazzle scepter not performing a free attack on the primary target
  
• Fixed Sand King Level 20 Talent not working
  
• Fixed Dazzle scepter not being blocked by Linkens Sphere (and not proccing Phylactery)
  
• Fixed Muerta Gunslinger piercing magic immunity.
  
• Fixed Riki smoke debuff showing on allies (wasn't affecting XP)
  
• Fixed Enchantress having extra damage on Impetus
  
• Fixed Slark gaining permanent Agility stacks if he killed an ally.
  
• Fixed Brewmaster Fire Brewling having incorrect damage at levels 2 and 3
  
• Fixed Dandelion Amulet blocking effects that deal less damage than the minimum
  
• Fixed Dagon heal not being increased by Heal Amplification
  
• Fixed Overwhelming Odds not working well when in Duel
  
• Fixed Oracle's False Promise ignoring reductions when counting damage
  
• Fixed Oracle's Fortune's End dispelling Fate Edict on enemies
  
• Fixed Arc Warden Flux Tempest Slow not working and Magic Damage talent not working
  
• Fixed Bounty Hunter Shadow Walk stun not proccing if he was revealed by Dust of Appearance
  
• Fixed some cases where a spent shield could result in negative absorbed damage dealing extra damage to the owner.
  
• Fixed Perseverance not being disassembleable
  
• Fixed Lone Druid Spirit created by Muerta’s Parting shot summoning a permanent Spirit Bear Spirit when he has scepter
  
• Fixed Supernova created by Phoenix during Muerta’s Parting Shot stunning Phoenix when destroyed
  
• Fixed Megameepo and Fling being stealable by Rubick
  
• Fixed Glimmer Cape invisibility and move speed being removed when barrier was broken
  
• Fixed double Harpoon attack speed retaining when selling one of the Harpoons
  
• Fixed Meepo duplicating runes with bottles in inventory and neutral item slot.
  
• Fixed crash relating to Necrophos Death Seeker and Lotus Orb and Soulbound enemies
  
• Fixed Wind Waker active not dispelling the target
  
• Fixed North Roshan pit not blocking ward placement
  
• Fixed Universal heroes not appearing in the Unit Specific Hotkeys UI
  
• Fixed Underlord not starting to channel his Fiends Gate when cast
  
• Fixed Ward Dispenser numbers misaligned
  
• Fixed a multitude of tooltips
  

Sometimes Dota gameplay patches are small. Sometimes they can get pretty big.

This one... is huge.

It’s got all the things you were probably expecting — balance changes, new items, hero reworks, UI improvements. But we also included a few changes you probably weren't expecting, like a new hero attribute type and — brace yourself — the map is now 40% bigger.

But all these new gameplay features won’t matter if the match you get into isn’t a good one. So we’re also shipping some much-needed matchmaking improvements.

Excited? Confused? Head on over to the New Frontiers update page for all the details.

But don’t head over just yet, read this sentence first: The Berlin major is on April 26th, and Fantasy/Player Cards are now available. Okay, now go. Here’s the link again.

As a lot of you know, there’s a big update coming. As we’ve been going through the patch notes for it, we figured it might be fun to tease some of them ahead of time, without spoiling the surprise. We’ve assembled a handful of genuine notes for the upcoming patch, provided without context, to whet your appetite while we put the finishing touches on the update.

Anyway, get ready for your first hint:

• The next big Dota Update is going to release on a date that rhymes with Smaypril Twemmieth and comes between April 19th and April 21st.
  

OK, that one was advanced level. We should have put that at the end. Here’s some easier ones to build up your riddle skills:

• is now controllable by the player that dug it up
  
• : Always has 0 Intelligence. Always.
  
• : Now has an initial and max stock of 4 and a restock time of 120s
  
• After this effect the soul is forcefully returned to the body
  
• : Base armor increased by 1
  
• now gain 15 movement speed during the night.
  
• Mana cost reduction effects only apply to mana cost
  
• : Requires Echo Sabre (2500), Diadem (1000), Recipe (1000). Total cost: 4500
  
• Any player can use a to to the other one after channeling for 3 seconds.