Spirit Vessel

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Spirit Vessel is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Support.

Spirit Vessel
Forged by a god to entrap the soul of another.
Support Cost 2725 (900) Sell Value 1362.5 Active Soul Release Bonus ? +10 Strength +10 Agility +10 Intelligence +1.75 Mana Regeneration +2 Armor Shareable 0 Disassemble 0 Usage Alert ? 0 Recipe

Additional Information

• This item is shown as a Team Item in the shop window when purchased by an ally.
  • If an Urn of Shadows was purchased as well, Spirit Vessel's icon takes priority.

• The item's attributes grant the following additional stats:
• 220 health and 1 health regeneration.
• 120 mana, 0.5 mana regeneration and 1% flat base magic resistance.
• 10 attack speed and 1.67 main armor.
• 10 main attack damage to all / / heroes.
• 13.5 main attack damage to universal heroes.

Ability

Soul Release

Soul Release

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Ability

Unit

Affects

Allied heroes

Damage

Magical

When cast on an ally, consumes a charge to grant the target allied hero bonus health regeneration for a while.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Cast Range:  750

Health Regen Bonus: 40

Duration: 8

Taking more than 0 damage from any other player (after reductions and not flagged as HP Removal) dispels the buff.

Taking more than 0 damage from Roshan (after reductions) dispels the buff.

When cast on an enemy, consumes a charge to deal damage over time to the target, based on the their's current health, as well as reduce the effectiveness of healing and health restoration the target receives.

Current Health Damage per second: 4%

Heal Reduction: 70%

Health Restore Reduction: 70%

Duration: 8

Has no recharge time. Cooldown resetting effects do not restore charges.
Instead, gains charges whenever an enemy hero dies within range. Gains more charges when at 0 charges.
also gains charges when the wielder dies while at 0 charges.

Radius: 1500

Initial Charge Gain per Enemy Death: 2

Following Charge Gain per Enemy Death: 1

Initial Charge Gain per Own Death: 1

All current charges on Urn of Shadows are carried over when upgraded to a Spirit Vessel.

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Cooldown Sharing

The items listed above share their cooldowns;
Casting one of them puts them all on cooldown.

• 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.

• Charges
  • Gains charge for each enemy hero that dies within the radius.
  • If the item is at 0 charges, it gains charges at once, otherwise, it gains charge.
  • Does not gain charges from Illusions, Clones, or Creep-Heroes.
  • Does not gain a charge if the enemy hero has Reincarnation.
  • Has to be within the main inventory to gain charges.

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  • Successive casts on the same target do not stack but refresh the duration instead.
  • Spirit Vessel's modifiers override the modifiers of Urn of Shadows.

• Spirit Vessel has the following properties for how they gain charges:
  • With multiple copies within the inventory:
    • The one in the higher inventory slot gains charges.
    • The top left inventory slot has the highest priority, the bottom right one the lowest.
    • The item must be in the main inventory to gain charges.
    • If the player has an Urn of Shadows as well, the Spirit Vessel takes priority.
    • If the player has an Essence Distiller as well, both the Spirit Vessel and Essence Distiller gain charges.
  • With multiple copies within the team:
    • Only the closest player to the dying hero receives charges
    • However, every player with an Urn of Shadows and the closest player with an Essence Distiller can still gain charges from the same enemy death.

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Spirit Vessel Heal: Regenerating x HP per second.

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Spirit Vessel Damage: Losing x HP plus x% of current health per second. All heals reduced by x%.

• Can regenerate up to 320 health on target allies.

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Gallery

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  Healing an ally
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  Damaging an enemy
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  Relationships between Total Damage and Target Initial HP.
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  Item icon progress

Recent Changes

Main Article: Spirit Vessel/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.41
(2026-03-24)

• No longer has a separate value for incoming heal reduction (still reduces incoming heals due to Health Restoration changes)

7.40b
(2025-12-23)

• Soul Release
  • If the same player has multiple Spirit Vessels, only one of them gains charges now.
  • If the same player also has an Urn of Shadows , Spirit Vessel now prevents the urns from gaining charges.
  • Allies with Urn of Shadows can still gain their charges independently.

7.40
(2025-12-15)

• Soul Release
  • Spirit Vessels and Urns of Shadows are now able to gain charges from the same hero death.
  • Spirit Vessels are still limited to one Vessel per death, only the closest Vessel gains a charge.
  • Increased charge gain radius from 1400 to 1500.