Freed from captivity by the unknowable machinations of the Continuum Device, an ageless hunger now stalks the lanes — as the new hero Primal Beast stomps his way into action along with the 7.31 Gameplay patch in today's update.

Following on the Beast’s savage trail, the jungle has awoken. A horde of new and updated creeps are ready to inflict retribution on heroes that have terrorized them for so long. To meet these upstart dangers, new items of power have been discovered, and others have been reworked. The multiverse ripples from within the Continuum Vault have wrought shocking changes to Techies and ample alterations to other heroes. With so much made anew, there are powder kegs full of things to investigate and explore.

Get started by smashing the list of changes directly into your brain over at The Primal Beast Update page. From there, it's just a short tromp into battle to discover all the possible things you can now pulverize with joy.

Today's update features the new Winter Lineage Fantasy Treasure, here to recognize strategic excellence in Fantasy play for the DPC 2021-2022 Winter Tour. Filled with a special selection of sets re-themed for the DPC season, players will receive one of these treasures for every 3 Fantasy Levels they've earned.

To cap off the season, Regional Finals will take place in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, & South America on February 11-13, and in China, Eastern Europe, and North America on February 18-20, offering one last chance to earn Fantasy Levels. In addition, we've boosted the rewards for the upcoming period to a whopping 12 Fantasy Levels for the top 10% of performers, 9 Fantasy Levels for the top 25%, and 6 Fantasy Levels for the top 50%. Prove your Fantasy prowess, and scoop up a handful of treasures.

The schedule for matches is now available on the Dota esports portal, and the deadline to lock in your lineups is fast approaching: Thursday, February 10th 4:00pm PST. Make sure to finalize your selections now.

To aid the community's relentless quest of restoring order to the multiverse, Aghanim the magnanimous would like to present his very own Battle Level Bundle — available this weekend only and packed with a hefty level boost and treasure rewards. Each bundle purchase contains 60 levels, 3 Immortal Treasures, 3 Continuum Collection Treasures, and 3 Ageless Heirloom Treasures. At $14.99 each, they offer 70% savings on the combined value of levels and treasures, and each Battle Pass owner is able to buy up to two bundles.

Aghanim's Battle Level Bundle is a great way to push you over the line on a host of Battle Pass rewards like the custom lane and siege creeps at level 94; Mirana Persona at level 135; custom towers at level 200; Hoodwink Prestige set at level 277; Drow Ranger Arcana at level 333, and even more. With the bundle only available for a limited time — sales end on Wednesday, February 9th — there's no better time to multiply your rewards from the multiverse.

Looking further ahead, Gameplay Patch 7.31 is slated to arrive on February 23, 2022, once the effects of Aghanim's adventures have been mitigated and the Battle Pass has come to an end.

Heroes

Clinkz

• Melter, Ignite: Fixed attacks from skeletons not taking minor shards into account
  

Dawnbreaker

• Solar Flare: Fixed fire not dealing damage
  

Kunkka

• Torrent: Fixed bug where Torrent could increase enemy speed
  

Lich

• Friendship Chain: Decreased bounce range bonus when bouncing to or from allies from 600 to 300
  
• Frost Shield: Fixed damage reduction not applying to all auto attack sources
  
• Sinister Spire: Fixed a bug where it did not slow movement speed
  

Lina

• Long Blade: Fixed secondary blades not dealing damage
  
• Share the Burn: Fixed it being castable on enemy units
  

Magnus

• Too Many Waves: Fixed it not proccing on allies
  

Omniknight

• Absolution: Fixed it failing to restore mana
  
• Purification: Fixed secondary sources not dealing full damage
  
• Stalwart: Fixed it not properly reducing cooldown and not reducing by correct stated value
  

Sand King

• Pancenter: Fixed it reducing the damage of the primary Epicenter
  

Slark

• Deep Six: Fixed not applying correct amount of Essence Shift stacks
  
• Fish Food: Fixed inconsistency in applying attack speed
  
• Pounce: Fixed units previously affected by Pounce Leash not being able to be affected again for the duration
  

Undying

• Bring Out the Dead: Fixed Decay not doing damage if Tombstone ability was not skilled
  

Witch Doctor

• Mumbo Jumbo: Fixed it not healing correctly
  
• Voodoo Restoration: Fixed minor mana cost reduction shards increasing rather than decreasing mana cost
  

DPC Supporters Club Sale
Ready to make your Dota allegiances known? The homestretch of the season is here and it's the perfect time to show your support. To make it even easier, from today until the conclusion of the DPC Winter Tour Regional Finals on February 20th, the Winter Tour Supporters Clubs are all on sale for half price. Make sure to support your favorite teams and help represent in force as you cheer for victory during the final fights.

DPC Fantasy Update
The DPC Winter Tour Fantasy Dota has been updated to include an extra two-week-long period for the Regional Finals. Check out the new quick-access menu under the Watch Tab to see a summary of how you can interact with the DPC. Plus, for any players who have already participated in Fantasy, stay tuned for treasure rewards arriving before the start of the Regional Finals.

Changes to Co-Op Bots Matchmaking Mode
Today's update also includes some modifications to Co-Op Bots Matchmaking to help improve behavior around disconnecting and queuing in general. You can check out the changes below:

• Leaver penalties no longer apply in this mode.
  
• If a player disconnects, a bot will control their hero while they are absent.
  
• Players can now queue for multiple selected difficulties and supported bot scripts simultaneously, instead of only individual selections for each.
  
• If a player has been in the queue for Co-Op bots for more than 2 minutes, a match will immediately be made including any players that are in the queue. Empty player slots will be filled with allied bots.
  

Aghanim's Labyrinth Update
We've also included a small update with a number of bug fixes for the Aghanim's Labyrinth game mode. Check out the patch notes for all the details.

Linux Runtime Update
As part of our continuing efforts to move Dota's technology forward, we have upgraded the Linux client to use the container version of the Steam runtime. This ensures better compatibility across distributions and prepares for future improvements.

A little over a week ago, we announced the cancellation of the first Major of the DPC 2021-2022 Season. When we did so, we didn't present an alternative solution that would address the absence of prize pool and DPC points.

When it became clear that scheduling a LAN with the proper requirements wouldn't be possible within schedule, we didn't feel confident that any alternative would have a positive outcome: Delaying the major to a much later date would make it unfair for players from teams who change rosters between now and then. Running a global online tournament would result in matches where the high latency among far-away regions would have a substantial impact on the quality of the matches, affecting the competitive integrity of those games. Replacing it with Regional or Bi-regional Tournaments would eliminate the cross-regional play that lets teams from deeper regions earn more points towards International qualification. In particular, Bi-regional tournaments can result in situations where an above average region is punished because they were paired with another strong region, and a weak region is benefited by being paired with another weak region.

We quickly realized though listening to feedback from teams and fans that our priorities were wrong and we were not successful at being mindful of players participating in the DPC. This was a big mistake on our part. We are sorry and we are set on making it right.

We held multiple discussions with Teams and Tournament Organizers, to understand what was possible to execute and what made the most sense for everyone. While it became clear to everyone involved that there was no perfect solution that would address every issue, we decided to move forward with running six Regional Finals tournaments.

The DPC 2021-2022 Regional Finals will take place over two weekends, with three regions playing on February 11-13, and the other three playing on February 18-20. The top 4 from each region will compete in a double elimination tournament with a $100,000 USD prize pool.

The regional schedule is as follows:

• Feb 11-13, 2022: WEU, SEA, SA
  
• Feb 18-20, 2022: CN, EEU, NA
  

Each Regional Finals placement will be awarded the following:

• 1st place: $50,000 USD + 250 DPC points
  
• 2nd place $25,000 USD + 130 DPC points
  
• 3rd place: $15,000 USD
  
• 4th place: $10,000 USD
  

More details will be made available through each Region's tournament organizer.

Since this would still create a situation where each region earned the same number of points towards TI qualification, we're revisiting The International 11 Qualifiers format to offset that bias as follows:

• The TI Qualifiers will be played as originally planned, with the top team from each region qualifying to TI
  
• Second and third place from each region's qualifiers will then compete in a LAN event shortly afterward, prior to The International
  
• Out of those 12 teams, first and second place will qualify to The International 11.
  

As there are more teams qualifying for The International this season, The International 11 will feature 20 teams (two groups of 10) during group stage. Four teams will be eliminated, and Main event will carry on as it has in past Internationals.

These changes, which will be unique to the 2021-2022 season, will help to balance out the qualification in light of the potential DPC point discrepancy created by the absence of the first Major.

We expect the rest of the year to go as planned, and will be announcing information on the second and third Major in a few weeks. Additionally, Patch 7.31 will be released soon after the Regional Finals end.

General

• A new set of legacy combat encounters have been added for Act 1 at Magician and higher difficulties
  
• Surge ascension modifier move speed increase reduced from 50% to 40%, and the enemies can now be slowed
  
• Reduced base armor on many bosses and captains
  
• Reduced health and damage sensitivity of Toothy Toothums
  
• Reduced health regeneration of enemy Alchemist Chemical Rage
  
• Reduced damage of Brain Sap and Fiend's Grip in Demonic Woods
  
• Glarf's Bloodlust option has been improved from 2 encounters, 50 bonus attack speed, 12% bonus movement speed to 3 encounters, 60 bonus attack speed, and 15% bonus movement speed
  
• Fixed Carrie not leveling up with Ascension in Bug Bait
  
• Fixed Bogdugg's Cudgel and Femur not working
  
• Fixed cases of patrolling units being exploitable via attacks outside their aggro radius
  
• Bosses will now only begin their fights once they've seen the player
  
• Fixed being able to drop movement speed items to circumvent movement speed cap for trap rooms
  
• Trap Room base movement speed increased from 350 to 360
  
• The following items are no longer purchasable from the main shop:
  Creature Blade Mail
  Outworld Meteorologist Meteor Hammer
  Continuum Key
  
• Fixed Pudge Encounter map on west side having too a narrow channel for Pudge to get through
  

Heroes

Bane

• Enfeeble: Cast reduction minor shard increased from 3 to 4%
  
• Fiend's Grip: Mana drain minor shard combined with damage per second minor shard
  

Clinkz

• Singe: Knockback distance increased from 50 to 72
  
• Singe: Knockback duration increased from 0.1 to 0.2
  
• Singe: Slow duration increased from 1 to 2
  

Dawnbreaker

• Solar Guardian: Cooldown reduced from 120/110/100 to 100
  
• Lightbringer: Mana cost reduced from 100 to 75
  
• Lightbringer: Duration increased from 5 to 6
  
• Lightbringer: Cooldown decreased from 60 to 45
  
• Sun Sentinel: Duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds
  
• Death of a Star: Fixed some cases where the cast would not start
  
• Death of a Star: Now increases base heal by 75
  

Disruptor

• Glimpse: Bonus damage minor shard increased from 40 to 50
  
• Static Storm: Cooldown reduced from 90/80/70 to 60/55/50
  
• Shocking Travel: Increased damage from intelligence from 70% to 100%
  
• Pacific Storm: Damage reduction increased from 30 to 50%, and also slows movement speed by 50%.
  

Drow Ranger

• Gust: Bonus blind percent minor shard increased from 5 to 7
  
• Marksmanship: Active cooldown reduced from 70 to 60
  
• Silent Echo: Now also grants Drow 2 agility for every enemy hit and 4 agility for every captain hit for 12s.
  
• Fleet-Footed: Now applies a basic dispell on allies.
  

Gyrocopter

• Missile Ride: Area of effect increased from 90 to 120
  
• Missile Ride: Now deals 2x damage
  
• First Strike: Fixed it having no effect if cast again while already having Flak Cannon active
  

Juggernaut

• Blade Fury: Duration minor shard decreased from 1.0 to 0.75
  
• Detonate Ward: Now increases Healing Ward radius by 150.
  
• White-Hot Katana: Ignite duration increased from 5 to 10
  
• White-Hot Katana: Ignite damage increased from 25% to 50%
  

Kunkka

• Torrent: Damage shard increased from 50 to 75
  
• Tidebringer: Damage increased from 15/30/45/60 to 20/40/60/80
  
• Tidebringer: Damage shard increased from 15 to 20
  
• Ghostship: Cooldown reduced from 80/70/60 to 60
  
• Ghostship: Removed rum absorb minor shard
  
• Ghostship: Added 150 damage minor shard
  
• Tsunami: Now fires a single wave forward that deals 250% of Tidebringer's damage as magic.
  

Lich

• Frost Shield: Damage reduction increased from 5/10/15/20 to 7/14/21/28
  
• Chain Frost: Cooldown reduced from 100/80/60 to 60/55/50
  
• Anti-Magic Shield: Duration is now 50% of Frost Shield's duration
  

Lina

• Fiery Soul: Removed stack duration minor shard
  
• Fiery Soul: Removed mana cost / cooldown minor shard
  
• Fiery Soul: Attack and movement speed shards combined into one upgrade
  
• Dragon Trail: Now creates a Light Strike Array for every 250 distance rather than a fixed 4 (base power unchanged)
  
• Ignition: Now uses Laguna Blade's damage instead of Dragon Slave's
  

Luna

• Eclipse: Cooldown reduced from 140/130/120 to 90
  
• Lunatic Frenzy: Lifesteal increased from 20 to 25%
  
• Lunatic Frenzy: Duration multiplier increased from 3 to 4
  

Magnus

• Empower: Removed cooldown/mana cost shard
  
• Reverse Polarity: Cooldown reduced from 90 to 75
  
• Over-Empower: Now triggers a 50% strength Reverse Polarity at the target when cast instead of granting full bonuses.
  
• Shock and Awe: Now stuns instead of slows targets. Damage reduction changed from 75% for 2.5 seconds to 50% for 2.5 + stun duration seconds.
  
• Too Many Waves: Internal cooldown decreased from 4 to 3.
  

Mars

• Arena of Blood: Cooldown reduced from 90 to 75
  
• Anyway, Here's Spearwall: Now causes soldiers to attack twice as fast and knock enemies back half the amount
  
• Stunning Rebuke: Now grants 2 charges of God's Rebuke. The stun duration is now 50% of the knockback slow duration.
  

Omniknight

• Guardian Angel: Cooldown reduced from 160/140/120 to 120
  
• Guardian Angel: HP Regen minor shard increased from 8 to 12
  
• Heal Life Angel: Purification Trigger chance from 20 to 25%
  

Queen of Pain

• Sonic Wave: Cooldown reduced from 125 to 100
  
• Fervent Assault: Buff duration increased from 4 to 10. Effect can now stack multiple times.
  
• Hall of Pain: Area of effect increased from 80 to 125
  
• Discordant Force: Attack damage increased from 10 to 15, and now gives 1% spell amplification per hit instead of attack speed.
  
• Haunting Echoes: No longer creates a scream at the start location
  

Sand King

• Base armor increased by 1
  
• Burrowstrike: Damage upgrade from 60 -> 75
  
• Burrowstrike: 0.75 stun duration minor shard has been added
  
• Sandstorm: Blind and Slow have been combined into one upgrade
  
• Caustic Finale: Explode damage minor shard from 40 to 50
  
• Caustic Finale: Damage over time minor shard from 7 to 8
  
• Caustic Finale: Slow minor shard has been removed
  
• Epicenter: Attack Speed slow minor shard has been removed
  
• Epicenter: Cooldown reduced from 120/110/100 to 100
  
• Transport Burrow: Now creates an Epicenter at the arrival destination that pulses once for each second of Burrowstrike Stun duration.
  
• Independent Sandstorm: Now also gives Sand King bonus movement speed equal to the slow
  

Slark

• Pounce: Damage shard increased from 50 to 75
  
• Pounce: Distance shard now also increases speed
  
• Brackish Bath: Now always also affects Slark when another unit is targeted
  
• Gone Fishing: Now also grants 2 charges of Pounce.
  
• Lucky Catch: Proc chance increased from 15% to 20%.
  

Snapfire

• Mortimer Kisses: Cooldown reduced from 120/110/100 to 90
  
• Lil Friendly Shredder: Now also grants 3 additional attacks
  

Tusk

• Ice Shards: Base duration from 3.0 to 3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5
  
• Ice Shards: Duration minor shard from 0.5 to 0.75
  
• Ice Shard Extension: Now also grants 2 charges of Ice Shards
  
• Snow Fort: Now also grants Snowball 20% spell lifesteal that is shared with teammates in the snowball
  
• Cool Party: Lifesteal increased from 8% to 12%
  
• And Another Punch!: Now also refunds 50% of the Walrus Punch mana cost, and can occur if the death occurs during the slow debuff rather than only on a direct kill.
  

Ursa

• Earthshock: Removed Earthshock slow minor shard
  
• Ferocity: Now grants allies the current level of Overpower instead of bonus attack speed.
  
• Cannonball: Now also increases Earthshock damage by 25%.
  
• Ursa Minor: Swipes modifier increased from 25% to 35%
  

Viper

• Shedding Skin: Aura radius increased from 900 to 1600
  
• Shedding Skin: Damage increased by 50%
  

Void Spirit

• Resonant Pulse: Absorb Per Unit minor shard increased from 15 to 20
  
• Phantom Attack: Critical strike damage increased from 200% to 300%
  

Weaver

• Time Lapse: Cooldown reduced from 70/55/40 to 60/50/40
  
• Back To Basics: Now also casts Shukuchi on the ally afterwards.
  
• Explosive Reality: Now triggers explosions all along the path rather than only the start and end positions.
  

Winter Wyvern

• Ice Cold Killing: Now emanates the current level of Splinter Blast every second with 50% damage
  

Witch Doctor

• Death Ward: Cooldown reduced from 80 to 60/55/50
  
• Invigorating Charm: Now also grants 8% spell lifesteal
  
• Bewitched: No channel Death Ward duration from 50 to 100%
  
• Spirit Balm: Removed
  
• Strange Boon: Removed
  

Today's update brings the all-new Aghanim's Collector's Cache featuring 18 sets voted for by the community, plus an Aghanim's Labyrinth Update filled with new rewards and gameplay. Also, continue following the story in DOTA: Dragon's Blood Season 2, now available on Netflix.

Aghanim's Collector's Cache

The votes have been tallied and the official grand magus seal of approval has been obtained, meaning Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache is now available — loaded with the top 18 eligible item sets as voted on by the Dota 2 community.

Unboxing 15 of these treasures will automatically grant you 36 Battle Levels, and the odds of receiving a bonus rare item will increase with each one you open. You can also recycle any unwanted items for 2 Battle Levels.

Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache is available for $2.49 and will only remain on sale until the end of the battle pass. All items in the Cache are untradeable and unmarketable, except for the ultra rare Phantom Assassin item.

The final vote tally is listed below, with the exception of a second Chaos Knight set at rank 5 which will be released at some point in the future.



Rank
Hero
Votes


1
Chaos Knight
366,364


2
Ogre Magi
362,974


3
Dragon Knight
309,696


4
Phantom Lancer
308,474


5
Dawnbreaker
299,750


6
Clockwerk
287,363


7
Phantom Assassin
284,424


8
Razor
270,227


9
Ancient Apparition
256,453


10
Chen
246,221


11
Grimstroke
242,631


12
Broodmother
240,884


13
Mars
235,436


14
Rubick
233,860


15
Drow Ranger
224,878


16
Alchemist
217,552


17
Axe
215,059


18
Abaddon
209,704



We once again thank the community artists who tendered submissions for this year's treasure, as well as the entire Battle Pass community for casting votes in support of their favorite item sets. We look forward to seeing your top selections mixing it up in the lanes.

Aghanim's Labyrinth Update

Today's patch also features a substantial update for Aghanim's Labyrinth brimming with new rewards and gameplay.

Earn the exclusive "Aghanim the Wisest" courier by saving each of the different multiverse mages, and show off your prowess with custom emoticons awarded for completing each difficulty level from Apprentice to Apex Mage. Aghanim the Magnanimous has even kept track of who already helped out, so rewards for past success are already waiting.

Head over to the patch notes page to read all about a host of balance changes, adjustments to aggro mechanics, new encounters, and more.

DOTA: Dragon's Blood Season 2 - Watch Now

Continue your anime adventure into the world of Dota with the exclusive premiere of a new season of DOTA: Dragon's Blood, arriving today on Netflix. And if you by chance missed the start of this journey, don't worry — no matter whether you binge or watch one at a time, it's never too late to catch up.

As the Winter Tour of the Dota Pro Circuit 2021-2022 season draws to a close, we've made the difficult decision to cancel the first Major. While hopes were high that we could host an international LAN event, the discovery and spread of new strains of COVID-19 and the resulting increase of travel restrictions has made it unfeasible for all qualified teams to gather for a LAN tournament.

As there will be no major, Tour 1 will conclude after all of the regional league tournaments have ended. Players who have participated in Fantasy will receive their rewards before the start of Tour 2.

Teams participating in the DPC earn points by playing in their respective Regional Leagues as well as through international competition at the Majors. Since the first Major is no longer happening, we have decided to redistribute its points to the second and third Major. This way, the balance of points between regional and cross-region play remains the same. The points will be distributed as follows:

Major 2:
1st Place - 680 Points
2nd Place - 610 Points
3rd Place - 530 Points
4th Place - 460 Points
5th/6th Place - 385 Points
7th/8th Place - 240 Points

Major 3:
1st Place - 820 Points
2nd Place - 740 Points
3rd Place - 670 Points
4th Place - 590 Points
5th/6th Place - 515 Points
7th/8th Place - 360 Points

We will continue to evaluate the situation regarding international travel for future Majors as we progress through the second Tour.

1/12 Update: Fixed incorrect Point distribution

Thanks to the high-quality submissions tendered to the Dota 2 Workshop, there's a breadth of offerings ready to celebrate Aghanim's return with an all-new Collector's Cache. Though Aghanim himself preferred presenting his own results as a fait accompli, the rest of us convinced his magnificence to invite all Battle Pass owners to weigh in on the proceedings and help make the final selection.

From now until Tuesday, January 4, the final candidates for the Collector’s Cache will be featured for preview in the Dota 2 client, where all players can see a lineup of the item sets for easy comparison. Battle Pass owners can give a thumbs up or down to each set under consideration, and sets with the highest scores will be included as the main items of the Cache.

We would like to thank all of the workshop artists who have submitted items, and we look forward to revealing the collection that best represents Aghanim's the community's favor.