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IceFrog and the 6.63 development

Lately, there have been a few statements about the latest development of DotA and that the newer versions are less interesting and exciting. The ganking style, often played by Razer, is not that effective anymore and can be countered by turtling and new items like pipe, following KuroKy's interview.



In an interview with fragster.de, GermanyKuroky lists a few items which need to be fixed or changed to make DotA more entertaining and faster, which is one of the long-time aims of the developers. Here is the quotation of that list:
GermanyKuroKy:

- Bottle as in .48b (200 hp + 100 mana on one charge) + add it to the side shop on the lanes
- Dagger exactly like in .48b for faster gameplay
- less money gained from creep kills, more money gained from hero kills
- hood nerf (raise the price to 1.000 for recipe)
- remove pipe
- nerf heart of tarasque to the one from older versions (11 regen / sec instead of 1%)
- make rune spawns visible for all players
- raise mantastyle costs (by 1.000 or 1.500)


Some of these requests may be discussable. Most of the are refering back to the old DotA version 6.48b, which means a huge step back.

Regardless of whether he agrees or not, IceFrog published a statement on his blog about the development of the upcoming version. He announced changes for items like Heart, Pipe and Phase Boots in 6.63.

IceFrog
I am still actively working on the next balance patch. The first thing I started on a couple of weeks ago (after we were finally done with 6.62/1.24) was experimenting with a bunch of different item changes (heart, bloodstone, treads, phase boots, pipe and many more). No changes are set in stone yet though, since they all revolve around each other in many ways, so naturally some items will get changes and some won't. There are also lots of different balance tweaks for heroes. I think it is shaping up to be a nice gameplay update overall though.

I may end up releasing 6.63 with a bunch of balance improvements sooner and then follow up with another patch for some more adjustments, depending on how things go during the next week or two.

There will also be a nice surprise for everyone in 6.63


Wait, a surprise? New hero, new sidequest? More to come soon

Links
]IceFrog's blog - Statement
Kuroky interview - by fragster.de

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