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Dota Plus Update — Summer 2023

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.

[h2]Dota Plus Seasonal Treasure[/h2]
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.

[h2]Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards[/h2]
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！"

[h2]And Lastly…[/h2]
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.

Dota 2 update resolves Watcher color confusion

A new Dota 2 update is here with a bunch of fixes for some of the most annoying issues troubling players. Valve's MOBA game recently got completely shaken up by the arrival of Dota 2 New Frontiers, but some of the new additions and tweaks have caused other complications to spring up. Thankfully, these Dota 2 patch notes address some of the biggest, including the rather confusing team colors for the new Watchers.

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Dota 2 Update - 5/30/2023

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.

Dota 2 Update - 5/16/2023

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

7.33c Gameplay Patch

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.