Valve recently released another patch numbering 7.03. The patch was expected before Kiev Major 2017's main event and here it is. Before going into all the general changes the two Most Exciting changes include
> Furiously, nippy and bone chilling Juggernaut's Arcana
> Monkey King availability in Captains Mode.
The two major highlights of patch are mentioned above. The long awaited arcana was released in this Patch which I must say is sweet and deadly as it sounds. No wonder it was the main focus of patch. The arcana comes with all new animations for:
- Loadout, Alternate Run, Teleport, Victory
- Custom Kill effect that triggers after a lethal crit or Omnislash, or on Triple Kills and higher
- All-new effects for: crits, Bladefury (works with existing custom Bladefury effects), and Omnislash
- A Dragon Spirit ancestor to aid the Juggernaut in times of need
- Altered Voice -
- Custom Hero Portrait -
- Custom Dragon Spirit Emoticon
Next everyone's newly emerging carry Monkey King was added to Captains Mode. Yeah right now you can play with Monkey King in Captains mode and fool around. I love this addition. Along these two news, Jakiro is also remodeled. Also new UI is added to Captains Mode:
Some other gameplay changes:
Check the official patch notes for more details.
- XP Required to go from level 1 to level 6 increased by 15%, 300 XP total
- XP Required to go from level 9 to 13 redistributed from 700/720/740/1200 to 800/820/840/900
- AoE hero kill Gold and XP bounties reduced by 10% (including comeback gold and XP)
- Tier 1 Team Bounty reduced from 160 to 120
- Passive gold income reduced by 10%
- Reduced lane melee creeps base gold bounties by 2
- Increased lane melee creeps gold bounty per upgrade cycle by 1
- Reduced lane range creeps gold bounty per upgrade cycle by 1
- Shrines base HP regen reduced from 120 HP/sec to 100
- All towers base armor reduced by 4
- Towers now gain 2 armor per nearby enemy player within 1200 AoE
- Tier 1 Tower HP increased from 1300 to 1400
- Scan cooldown reduced from 270 seconds to 210
- Ranked All Pick hero selection time reduced from 35 seconds to 30 seconds