With the introduction of Blizzard's Lunar New Year here comes the giant event from Valve's side. THE DARK MOON EVENT+ Winter Battle Pass 17.
Event Duration: Till 7th Feb 2017
Additional contents from update:
- Winter Battle Pass now available, will expire on April 24, 2017.
- Winter-themed seasonal terrain added, expires at the end of the season.
- Three new quests with three rewards, Path of the Paragon, Path of the Inquisitor and Path of the Skirmisher.
- Level 1 rewards: Winter Treasure 1, Winter 2017 Battle Cup Ticket, 6 x Winter 2017 Player Card Packs
- Winter Treasure 2 and 3 unreleased.
- New Emoticons (dunno, exclamation, venom and brood_love) added.
- New Taunts: Raging Bull: Spirit Breaker, Timeless Classic: Faceless Void.
- Dark Moon Reward Wheel loot added
Yeah the loot is the sole purpose this will be fun X_X
There are some other UI and console updates. For now lets settle down for this event. What it got is a horde mod. Yeah that is right a horde mod where you have to defend base from different level creeps plus heroes. The wave goes like this:
Once the waves are understood its time to go for heroes suitable to defend. The player list goes like this:Waves:
- Wolves
- Dazzles, will cast Shadow Wave, either stun or move back when you see them channeling
- Nyx nyx nyx's, can chain-stun you. Don't clump up and keep strafing
- Morphlings, sometimes cast waveform
- Chicken-pinata, he doesn't attack and drops gold when damaged. Try to trap him and use DoTs
- Warlocks, kill them to make their golems weaker
- Zombies, this wave has some magic immune enemies
- Tidehunters & Kunkkas, can x-mark, torrent & gush. There's 3 giant tides spamming ravage. Focus them ASAP
- Meepos & Catapults, can net and fire AoE ministuns. Catapults will make reviving hard, focus them
- Roshling-pinatas, they don't attack and drop gold when damaged. Spread out and stand near chokepoints
- Night Stalkers & Engimas, will cast black hole when they can catch 2 players
- Miranas, throw arrows from time to time
- Alchemists, 6 strong ones. They target their stun at a specific player, only that target needs to run
- Techies, plant mines and cast the new suicide
- Invoker, final boss, good luck
Strength
Agility
Intelligence
Follow the following link for all the gameplay details: http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Dark_Moon