"Dota 2" has come a long way from speculations of its launch date to the recent patch. Its most recent patch is 7.00, rather than upgrading to 6.89 from 6.88, a huge leap for huge changes.
As a whole, "Dota 2" is a moba game or multiplayer online battle arena game. It features two teams fighting on lanes with the use of abilities and items that they can upgrade and purchase as the game progresses.
Other moba games tried to differentiate themselves from the game by adding mastery trees, but dota stayed the same. However, the new patch introduced players with mastery changes.The new mastery changes give bonus traits to heroes at levels 10, 15, 20, and 25. Vengeful Spirit can choose between a bonus of 50 damage or 20 movement speed at level 20.
Professional player Sam "BuLba" Sosale Sosale stated that "the talent tree thing is also a bit confusing for now."But also stated that it was a cool approach to buffing weaker heroes. Changes such as 18% less experience to reach level 25 and countless general changes are also in the patch. An additional backpack to store items, but render them inactive is a new feature that gives an added layer of complexity to the game.
The map layout has also changed with added buildings and changes to the neutral monsters in the map. While new ancients and changes to runes have impacted the aspect of jungling in the game.
There are also overall changes to heroes, along with the addition of a new hero - the Monkey King. The Monkey King is based on china's Journey to the West which features Sun Wukong. Just like Sun Wukong, the new hero has abilities that aim to deceive others.
Casters like Toby Dawson mentioned that there are there are bugs that should be fixed as it is not competitively stable at the moment. This huge change is overwhelming, but players can still adjust to these changes as time goes on.
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