Items
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Items are in-game equipment that provide heroes with bonus attributes and special abilities. Most items can be purchased from several shops on the game map, while others are dropped by creeps. Lower tier items are combined into higher tier items, usually with the help of a recipe. Heroes have six item slots in their inventory, three in their backpack, and six more in their stash. Items can be picked up and delivered to their owner with a courier.
Basics Items[edit]
Consumables[edit]
Attributes[edit]
Equipment[edit]
Miscellaneous[edit]
Secret Shop[edit]
Upgraded Items[edit]
Accessories[edit]
Support[edit]
Magical[edit]
Armor[edit]
Weapons[edit]
Armaments[edit]
Non-purchasable Items[edit]
Neutral Items[edit]
Main Article: Neutral Items
Neutral items are craftable items, which require Madstone to be built. Madstone is obtained by farming neutral creeps. They cannot be purchased, and cannot be removed from the dedicated neutral item slot.
Each player may equip only one neutral item at a time, in a dedicated neutral item slot. Crafting a new neutral item replaces the old one.
Boss Rewards[edit]
Collectible Items[edit]
Unreleased Items[edit]
These items exist in the game files, but are not available in-game. For items that used to be available, but are still in the game files, see Removed Items. For unreleased neutral items, see Neutral Items.
Removed Items[edit]
Dota 2[edit]
These items that existed in the Dota 2 era and got removed.
DotA[edit]
These items have existed in the history of DotA, but never existed in Dota 2.
Event Items[edit]
Main Article: Event Items
These items were only available during limited time events or had an account bound limited amount of uses. Besides the river vials, all of these items got removed from the game files and are no longer functioning and can no longer be created with cheats in custom lobbies. The river vials, although still within the game, can no longer be acquired or used, as they expired.
Shops[edit]
There are two different shops per faction. The Base Shop and the Secret Shop. In the shop areas, items can be swapped from the backpack without time penalty.
Base Shop[edit]
Main Article: Base Shop
The Base Shops are located within the Fountain are behind the Ancients. All basic items except the secret ones can be bought there. Additionally a majority of the upgrades can be completed there.
Secret Shop[edit]
Main Article: Secret Shop
The Secret Shops are slightly hidden shops located near the center of the map. The shops allow players to buy items that cannot be bought elsewhere or to spend extra gold while in the early game.
Removed Shops[edit]
Side Lane Shop[edit]
Main Article: Side Lane Shop
Two Side Lane Shops were shops that could be found at the edges of the map. They allowed players to buy certain useful items without returning to base or to the secret shops. All side shops have been removed from the game in 7.23 update.
Other information[edit]
- Heroes cannot use items owned by other heroes, with a handful of exceptions. See Item Sharing for details.
- Some items can be disassembled. See Disassemble for details.
- Most items may be sold back to vendors. See Selling for details.
- Most dropped items can be destroyed by force-attacking (A) them.
- Allies' items which are not flagged as shareable cannot be destroyed.
- Gem of True Sight and Divine Rapier cannot be destroyed.
- The range for dropping an item on the ground is 100.
- The range for picking up an item from the ground is 150.
- The range for transfering an item to another unit is 300.
- Most item effects cannot be effectively stacked with multiple copies of the same item on a single hero, with the copy only being able to provide the base stats of the item.
- Cooldowns are shared between identical items with active abilities, and if one item with an active ability can be upgraded into another, most of the time both will share a cooldown.
- Multiple instances of the same aura or debuff will not stack, even if the two copies of the item providing it are owned by separate heroes.
- Some items do not provide their effect to heroes with passive abilities providing the same or similar effect. For example, most heroes with a bash ability cannot use the passive ability from Skull Basher.
- Some items have effects that only apply to heroes that are ranged or melee.
- When combining one item from multiple items, the resulting item will attempt to be placed in the inventory slot of the component that has the most similar active effect.
- For example, Magic Wand will combine in Magic Stick's inventory slot.
- The shop at the enemy fountain can also be used to buy items, sell items, and access the stash.
- The Secret Shops have a restricted inventory, and cannot be used to access the hero's stash.
Trivia[edit]
- During early beta, some of the shop categories had different names:
- Equipment was named "Armaments".
- Miscellaneous was named "Arcane".
- Accessories was named "Common".
- Magical was named "Caster".
- Prior the 7.38 gameplay patch, Armaments was named "Artifacts". The name Artifacts is now used by neutral items.
- In Warcraft 3, shops are interactable merchants that need to be approached selected in order to purchase items from them.
- DotA, being a custom Warcraft 3 map, used this concept as well, which resulted in 10 merchants standing within both fountain areas.
- The items were categorized similarly like in the current Dota 2 shop.
- The Accessories shop is named Gateway Relics, and uses the model of the male villager in grey.
- The Support shop is named Supportive Vestments, and uses the model of the High Elven worker.
- The Magical shop is named Arcane Sanctum, and uses the model of the Apprentice Wizard, and the name of Arcane Sanctum.
- The Armor shop is named Protectorate, and uses the model of the Blood Elf Lieutenant.
- The Armaments shop is named Enchanted Relics, and uses the model of the Wisp.
- The Weapons shop is named Ancient Weaponry, and uses the model of the Night Elf Sentries.
- The Equipment shop is named Weapons Dealer, and uses the model of the Mountain King.
- The Attributes shop is named Sena The Accessorizer, and uses the model of the female villager in blonde.
- On
Radiant side, the Miscellaneous shop is named Cache of the Quel'thelan, and uses the model of the Arcane Sanctum.
- On
Dire side, the Miscellaneous shop is named Demonic Artifacts, and uses the model of the High Elven Barracks.
- On
- On
- The Secret Shop is named Leragas The Vile and uses the model of the Acolyte.
- The Side Lane Shops were split up into two merchants:
- The Goblin Merchant, used the name and model of the Goblin Merchant.
- The Goblin Laboratory, used the name and model of the Goblin Laboratory.