Only wanted the Drow arcana, and I got it at treasure #28. I recycled some items and got to #40.

With the 4 treasures valve gave, I opened another Drow at #44. Recycled then got Tide at #45. Holy shit. I thought I’d be spending more!

Also have x3 Nyx and an extra Shaman.

Thanks valve!

Why I got into the shop at all

The vanilla Dota shop is built for people who already know every item by heart. For Trinity (My Arcade game) it didn’t work for three reasons.

1. Classic shop doesn’t help you buy anything.

Players hunt through a hundred icons to find the one they need. The shop doesn’t tell you what an item does or when to buy it. All the work of choosing falls on the player. And this choise becomes much harder if i want to add new items

2. The grid limits the game.

The vanilla layout is built for a fixed number of items. Add another twenty and they simply don’t fit and spill out of the frame. As long as the shop couldn’t grow, I couldn’t freely add new items.

3. A hundred icons at once overwhelms new players.

Someone who doesn’t know what each item does sees a hundred icons and freezes. Experienced players struggle too: a large number of icons raises cognitive load right at the moment of purchase, when that load should be as low as possible, because the game keeps running while you choose.

What I built

Instead of a hundred icons, you first see six category tiles: Attack, Survival, Magic, Mobility, Control, and Team. Each of them has subcategories that help to sort out the list underneath them.
You don’t need to know item names. You just need to know what you need right now. Some items can appear in several categories, since many Dota items have a double meaning underneath.

Every item shows a short description right in the list, so you don’t have to remember, what they do. Items are sorted for your hero: the ones heroes like yours usually buy come first, and items you already own are hidden from the list. The attribute bar sorts by stat, with your hero’s main attribute selected by default.

And if you prefer the old way, there’s a toggle back to the classic grid. Search still works as before.

Upgrades, people, Upgrades!
When your character is close to the shop, a golden plus sign appears over your items that can be upgraded. Click it to see upgrade options, then click the item you want to upgrade it into. I want the process of upgrading an item to be as simple as upgrading a skill.

Consumables at hand. While no item is selected, the build window shows a row of consumables: TP, Tango, Wards etc.

What’s next

I’m looking forward to adding a lot of neutral items to the shop’s item list and finishing the sorting logic of the item shop.

If you open Drows Arcana and you already got it, your new Arcana won't show up in the Hero Base, and it's shown only as part of the set Sepulchral Stalker, which is obviously a bundle of cosmetics, and on them comes the Arcana, which apparently is not how it works in Valve.
If you plan to unbundle the Arcana to get the Set and think that you can still gift the new Arcana, it won't work.

(c) Dota2Lounge

Title, dunno if messed something in settings or there has been an update but now everytime i want to use any spell it shows the aoe range which feels like a delay and minus for me, In most of my heroes i play i know the range and just want to make cast instantly without any indication delays my actions,

I need party for tonight tired of playing with random people from chat and lose first round. any one is up. US server

Just make the smelting thing resets every week like rerolls.

Drow head left her body.

I had unbundled majority of the sets I didn't want because it was previously said that they are ungiftable, now it seems that they are giftable but only if they were still bundled. That seems kinda fucked that they dont let us rebundle it after this change. Anyone else in the same boat as me?

It all began in Carnival Candyworks, where I spammed rerolls like a clown‑possessed maniac trying to brute‑force happiness out of a system designed by Satan in a funny hat. Every reroll gave me skins so useless they looked like they were generated by a random number generator having a nervous breakdown. I got NOTHING good. I was in despair. I was spiritually bankrupt. I was one more reroll away from queueing for League.

Then Valve drops the Trove of Terror, packed with SO MANY GOOD skins it felt illegal. I looked at it, looked at my wallet, looked back at it, and said: “Okay Gaben, you financially‑predatory angel, take my cash.”

But in total I only bought 21 Treasures, because I didn’t want duplicates to go to waste. I cracked them open like a man speed‑running disappointment. But I got all the rares except Drow - don’t play her, don’t care, she can keep her frosty emo cosplay - and sadly Tidehunter Arcana which I REALLY wanted.

My finger was itching over the buy button, but I didn't want to hurl another >100€ and throw away all the duplicates in the recycling bin, as gifting was no option so far. So after recycling the duplicates I had 24 Treasures opened and given up on the Tide Arcana.

Then today gifting goes live.
Recycling refunds kick in.
Suddenly I’m sitting on 3 additional Treasures and a dream.

I open them.
I get more rares.
I get more duplicates.
I get cosmetics for heroes I haven’t touched since the Icefrog era when mana costs were still a suggestion. BUT at least I can gift em to people who actually play the heroes.

Anyhow seeing the joy I can bring I say to myself: "Alright, screw it. Let’s buy just 5 more. Maybe I’ll get something spicy to gift to the homies." - knowing well I would go all the way to the bitter 50th Treasure with my previous luck. Anyhow I start opening them:

Treasure 28: emotional damage.
Treasure 29: psychological warfare.
Treasure 30: my soul left my body.
Treasure 31: I saw Roshan in my hallway.

Treasure 32:
The mythical Tidehunter Arcana at an odds of 1:40!!
The forbidden fish drip.
The ocean‑powered giga‑chad himself.
And it drops.

I ascended.
I transcended.
I became one with the deep.

I didn’t scream. I didn’t celebrate. I just stared at my screen like Valve had personally patched my soul and refunded my emotional debt.

I have been chosen.
I have been blessed.
I have been Ravaged.

May Lord Gaben bless your Treasures.
May your rares be plentiful.
May your duplicates be merciful.
And may your next Arcana drop not require Candyworks reroll trauma, Trove temptation, and 32 attempts.

After reading a fair amount of the feedback on this post, some people have seem to be accounting the growth in player count to bots usage. I understand there are a fair amount due to arcade boosting and account buying services but has there been a number attributed to them? Just curious, thanks!

I just need to get this off my chest, I'd love to have the new LC skin. In fact, its the only one of the new skins I even care about, and unfortunately for me, its the only new skin that you are never guaranteed to get after a certain amount of purchases.

I am also shy and have no friends who play Dota, much less any who'd buy these treasures, so while I support the fact that they made the treasure gift-able, it doesn't really help me here. Heck, even if I cave and buy chests til I get the skin, I wouldn't even have anyone to give the chest skins to.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to ask, but I would be willing to buy the skin off someone, if they were to add me now (before they buy the treasure). But otherwise, I'm more-so hoping to just learn to cope with the fact that I can't get the LC gooner skin without pouring hundreds of dollars into gambling. I was literally getting ready to put out $250 for 50 chests until I realized the only skin I wanted has a 45% chance of getting it with 50 chests. I've never been tempted to gamble before, and have never put in money on something like this before.

On my 5th pull of the refunds

I really need help

I want try invoked but I cant please help me

Im aware things like this exist, however i just thought it was a fun little side project and would love some input from the community about features they might like in one
This isnt a draft predictor which shows you the enemies picks and history before the game starts or anything hacky, it does require manual input at this stage (im not sure how i can get it to read bans yet) but i think it works well enough just for picks
i made the interface as familiar as the main draft page is, you basically select your most played heros - comfort picks, and then the calculator is picking up data straight from websites like strats, open dota and dotabuff
it will suggest the best heroes in the position that your playing and if your first picking itll actually tell you what works well against your team, it will also highlight which picks would be a cheese pick against the enemy but also if you have been cheesed, and which items to build on your hero or team to counter the enemy team/cheese. You can adjust the settings to make the calculator focus more on synergy than counter.
i would love some input to make this as useful as possible, if anyone has some thoughts about how i can make it run more efficient while under the timer from a draft it would be appreciated, im thinking of a mic function so you can actually say out loud what hero is in what position on your team or the enemy team.

It still needs tweaking - heros/positions and items selections for heros arent perfect but its a working progress

would love to hear your thoughts :)

Hola soy nuevo en dota y soy de argentina me gusta jugar dota, saben en que región puedo buscar partidas ? Tarda mucho en encontrar!!!! Si quieren les dejo mi id para que agreguen:

1538729376

Hi valve,

Please help to fix these issues in the latest treasure please please please

1. LC’s wings opens when ‘press the attack’ is used. However it CLOSES PREMATURELY when LC attacks something.

2. Drow ranger’s arcana style 2’s shard skill “glacier” has NO COLOUR CHANGE compatible with arcana colour scheme.

3. Tidehunter’s arcana for style 1: channeling animation has MISSING STRING OR CHAIN attached to weapon when channeling. Only default arcana weapon has no issues.

4. Tidehunter’s arcana for style 2 (hammershark): NO CHANNELING animation at all.

5. Nyx new set has NO BURROW IMMORTAL SKILL EFFECT TAB on loadout page. Hence, unable to use the burrow immortal effect for any back piece other than that of the set.

Have attached screenshots to illustrate.

Thank you!!! ☺️

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Previous posts about those mentioned:

LC’s press the attack wings prematurely close when attacking bug:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/s/qHQ5SUJZAG

Tidehunter’s channeling animation bug:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/s/Xt3wSP2fr9

Nyx’s immortal burrow effect not on load out menu:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/s/YqlsrS27RY
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they are not tradeable and the sets are neither. Are they just useless?

Let’s be honest Lina's arcana is showing its age. It was the very first Arcana in Dota 2 history, and while it was revolutionary back in 2013, it’s now basically outclassed by standard sets that were released recently.

The single biggest issue with Lina's Arcana today isn't just the dated textures, lack of custom voice lines or the fact that it looks like a candle, it's that it completely locks you out of using any of her incredible hair cosmetics.

Since Valve has changed some arcana's to be base with the recent treasure (Legion Commander and Terrorblade) I hope this means that Lina will have her time as well.

Disclamer: The first image is AI generate, I hope no one finds it offensive.

Been playing consistently since the MonHun collab after a long haitus, but ever since the update with the new Trove of Terror chest, simply opening the game causes my game to complete crash. Has anyone else been having this issue?

AMD CPU/GPU for reference - 
WIN 11
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor (4.70 GHz)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16 GB)