Dota 2 Patch: 7.20

On the night of November 19th, Valve released a new Dota 2 patch - 7.20. Many players around the world have been waiting for this for a long time.

Developers from Valve changed the map, items, heroes’ abilities, and In-game mechanics. The last big update was in July 2018, then patch 7.19 was released.

The balance of characters and items has been changed, but the appearance of your characters remains the same. You can buy and sell Dota 2 skins without a fee on DMarket.

Dota 2 Patch Notes 7.20

Map

New bounty rune and ancient creeps location;

The entrance to the forest is now on high ground;

Telereporting

Added a new dedicated inventory slot to hold Town Portal Scrolls.
Boots of Travel: No longer shares cooldown with Town Portal Scrolls. Upon teleporting, +10 seconds are now added to your Town Portal Scroll cooldown.

Deny Mechanics

Denies no longer give the denier 25% XP
Creep denies now give the denier 20% of the gold bounty

Neutrals

Stacked Neutral creeps now give the stacker 35% of the bounty instead of 25%
Non-Ancient Neutrals now provide 5% more gold bounty

Armor

Changed the Armor formula to: ( 0.052 * Armor ) / ( 0.9+ 0.048 * Armor)
Updated various armor values to closely align with the new formula

Hero Kill Bounty XP

Killing Sprees now give an XP bonus ranging from 200 to 1250
Reworked and simplified XP hero kill bounty system. No longer includes a team XP component

Mana and HP Regen

Reworked Mana and HP regen from attributes. They are no longer multipliers of your regeneration values

Root Mechanics

Town Portal Scroll: Can now be canceled and prevented by Root
Fixed inconsistencies between different Root sources

Cleave and Splash Changes

Cleave damage is now normal physical damage type, causing it to get reduced by the armor of each unit impacted
Cleave abilities damage values have been rescaled
Increased standard Cleave area. Distance increased from 625 to 650, final width increased from 330 to 360
Affects: Great Cleave, Empower, Battle Fury, and Talents