Glimmer Cape

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Glimmer Cape is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Magical.

Glimmer Cape
The stolen cape of a master illusionist.
Magical Cost 2150 (350) Sell Value 1075 Active Glimmer Bonus ? +25% Magic Resistance Shareable Disassemble Usage Alert ? Recipe

Additional Information

• Stacks multiplicatively with other magic resistance sources.
  • Increases most heroes' magic resistance to 43.75%.
  • With the magic resistance bonus from this source, every 10 points of intelligence further increases the total magic resistance by 0.75%. [?]

Ability

Glimmer

Glimmer

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Ability

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Affects

Allies

Applies a buff that periodically turns the target invisible and phased over the duration, even if the invisibility gets broken.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Cast Range:  600

Fade Delay: 0.5

Duration: 5

Grants the target a magical damage barrier for the whole duration. Depleting the barrier does not prematurely end the ability.

Magical Damage Barrier: 300

Inceases the target's movement speed during the invisibility phases, but not during the fade delay.

Move Speed Bonus: 20

14

125

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• Cast behaviors:
  • ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.
  • Does not interrupt the wielder's channeling abilities.
  • The caster does not require to face the target ino order to cast it on them
  • Can only be cast on heroes, including illusions and creep-heroes.

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  • Recasting the ability refreshes the buff duration.
  • Does not grant the target phased movement.
  • Attacking or casting abilities or items during the fade delay resets the fade delay.
  • Invisibility, after the fade delay
    • Picking up, dropping, or selling items does not break the invisibility.
  • The following orders break the invisibility:
    • Reaching the cast point of abilities or items.
    • Reaching the attack point of an attack, regardless of whether the attack lands or not.
      • For ranged this is upon projectile launch.

modifier_item_glimmer_cape_fade

Glimmer Cape: Absorbing magical damage. Movement speed increased by x.

modifier_invisible

Invisible

• Does not share cooldowns with Glimmer Cape.

Recommended Heroes

• Bane
• Bounty Hunter
• Chen
• Earthshaker
• Earth Spirit
• Dazzle

• Disruptor
• Io
• Jakiro
• Lich
• Lina
• Omniknight

• Pugna
• Rubick
• Shadow Demon
• Shadow Shaman
• Skywrath Mage
• Vengeful Spirit

• Warlock
• Winter Wyvern
• Witch Doctor

Trivia

• The game files contain an unused Glimmer Cape modifier, modifier_item_glimmer_cape_building_limit, which gets placed on buildings that were recently affected by Glimmer Cape.
• The modifier lasts for 180 seconds, is undispelable and prevents buildings from getting targeted by Glimmer Cape, as indicated by an unused HUD error message.
• This suggests that at one point in development, likely for patch 7.23, buildings were once considered to be eligible targets, just like Couriers and creeps were made targetable by Glimmer Cape.

Gallery

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  A hero under the effects of Glimmer Cape.

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  Attempting to cast Glimmer Cape on buildings with the limit modifier (unused).

Recent Changes

Main Article: Glimmer Cape/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.38b
(2025-03-05)

• Glimmer
  • Reduced movement speed bonus from 40 to 20.
  • Increased mana cost from 90 to 125.

7.34b
(2023-08-14)

• Increased Glimmer cooldown from 12 to 14.

7.33
(2023-04-20)

• Item cost changes: 
  • Increased Cloak cost from 500 to 800 . 
  • Reduced Recipe cost from 450 to 350 .
  • Total gold cost increases ▲ from 1950 to 2150 .
• Increased magic resistance bonus from 20% to 25%.
• Glimmer
  • No longer grants 50% magic resistance bonus.
  • Now grants 40 movement speed bonus.
  • Now grants a 300-capacity magical damage barrier while invisible. [?]
  • Reduced cooldown from 14 to 12.