| Horde Mode | |
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| Defend the Radiant base from hordes of enemies! Destroy the Dire Ancient to win. | |
| Workshop: | Horde Mode |
| Players: | 2-5 |
| Teams: | PvE |
| Creator: | Nye, Diellan |
| Created: | 2015-06-30 |
| Last update: | 2018-5-24 |
| Latest version: | 1.26a |
| Average duration: | 30-50 minutes |
| GitHub: | Unknown |
| Discord: | Unknown |
| Website: | Unknown |
- Players have to defend off hordes of enemy creeps and creatures rushing down to the radiant ancient.
- Win by destroying Dire ancient which is protected by a dozen towers inside Dire base
- Many abilities and tree-talents are modified
- Can you find all the hidden skeletons?
Map[]
- When playing in 2 players mode, Top and Bottom lane tower are unkillable
- Towers can be upgraded 10 times, to have extra armor/regen, multishot, and attack speed.
- Giant Ogre replace Roshan in roshpit and drop Mysterious Orb when defeated.
Bosses[]
Every ~7 min a boss marches down the mid lane
- Roshan
- Ogre Tank
- Old Stumpy
- Treant Protector
- Lich
- Centaur
- Stone Golem
- SKELETON (appears at 32 min)
Items[]
Multiple items are modified, new items (mostly upgrades to existing ones) added:
Horde Stick/Wand[]
- Gains up to 50/80 charges when creeps/neutrals are killed in 1200 AOE
- Restore 6/8 per charge
- if put on Lone Druid's Spirit Bear it will restore HP/MP through it's active, but will not gain charges.
Sacred Trident[]
- Grant True Strike
- Recipe: Monkey King Bar, Sacred Relic, Recipe.
Dragon Javelins[]
- Spawns arrows that deal 80% of your base attack damage to nearby 2/3/4/5 enemies (Ranged only).
- Recipe: Quelling blade, Dragon Lance, Perserverance, Recipe
Brilliant Radiance[]
- 120 damage per second.
- 35% burn miss chance.
- 700 area of effect.
- Recipe: Radiance, Talisman of Evasion, Recipe
Armor of Insight[]
- Grants 5 health per second and 10% incoming damage reduction to all allies in a 900 radius.
- When actived, grants additional 15 health per second and 30% incoming damage reduction to all allies in a 900 radius.
- Recipe: Crimson Guard, Pipe of Insight, and Recipe.
Resonance Shard[]
- Each attack has a 40% chance to deals magical damage to all enemy around.
- 0.4 Melee damage multiplier in a radius 225. 0.3 Ranged damage multiplier in a radius 150.
- Recipe: Blade of Alacrity, Staff of Wizardry, Bracer, Robe of the Magi, and Band of the Elvenskin
Willful Resonance[]
- Each attack deals magical damage to all enemy around.
- 0.8 Melee damage multiplier in a radius 225. 0.6 Ranged damage multiplier in a radius 150.
- Recipe: Ultimate Orb, Resonance Shard, and Recipe
Wasp[]
- Active: Flying movement for 8 seconds.
- 20% Critical hit chance for up to 175% bonus damage.
- Recipe: Butterfly, Crystalis, Recipe.
Boots of Strength[]
- Provides 100 strength for 6 seconds.
- 30 seconds cooldown.
- Recipe: Boots of Power, Reaver, Bracer.
Boots of Agility[]
- Provides 100 armor for 6 seconds.
- 60 seconds cooldown.
- Recipe: Boots of Power, Eaglesong, Wraith band.
Boots of Intelligence[]
- Passive: Decreases enemy magic resistance for 35% in 1000 radius.
- Recipe: Boots of Power, Mystic Staff, Null Talisman
Cursed Rapier[]
- Is not dropped on death.
- Provides True Strike.
- 35% for 160 damage mini bash.
- Recipe: Claymore, Mithril Hammer, Demon Edge, Sacred Relic
Death Stone[]
- Behaves similar to Horde dagon level 5, but with shorter cooldown, while providing Bloodstone's mana regeneration bonuses
- Recipe: Bloodstone, Horde dagon level 5.
Vladmir's Cuirass[]
- Grants lifesteal aura, that affects any physical damage(attacks, cleave damage, physical spell damage).
- Affects buildings(including lifesteal).
- Fully stacks with Vladmir's Offering's and Assault Cuirasses auras.
- Recipe: Vladmir's Offering, Assault Cuirass, Recipe.
Boots of Travel level 3[]
- Allows it's user to teleport at any spot on map(behaves similar to Nature Prophet's teleport spell).
- Recipe: Boots of Travel level 2, Hyperstone, Recipe.
Sange, Yasha and Kaya[]
- Grants 16 damage, 16 bonus to all stats, 16 attack speed, 16% spell amp.
- Recipe: Sange and Yasha, Kaya.
Manta Style 2[]
- Produces 2 illusions, that deal 100% damage, and take 150% damage for melee, and 200% for ranged heroes.
- Recipe: Manta Style, Ultimate Orb, Recipe.
Volatile Desolator[]
- Grants 100 damage.
- Reduces target's armor by 12.
- Recipe: Desolator, Demon Edge, Blight Stone, Recipe.
Aether Lens level 5[]
- 450/500/550/600/650 bonus mana pool.
- 1.25/1.75/2.0/2.25/2.50 bonus mana regeneration.
- 250/300/350/400/450 bonus cast range.
- 0/3/6/9/12% spell damage amplification.
- Recipe: Aether Lens, Recipe
Helm of Oppression[]
- Grants 16 health per second regeneration aura.
- Dominated creeps are granted even bigger health pool and movement speed bonuses.
- Recipe: Helm of the Dominator, Ultimate Orb, Ring of Health, Gloves of Haste, Recipe.
Shiva's Armaments[]
- Aura: Decreases enemy magic resistance for 25% in area of ~900.
- Fully stacks with Shiva's Guard's aura.
- Recipe: Shiva's Guard, Veil of Discord, Recipe.
Other items[]
Most original items were buffed to compensate for the lack of usability.
- Items like Orb of Venom, Eye of Skadi, Heaven's Halberd, Ether Cannon, Horde Dagon and Scythe of Vyse now affect targets in area.
- Bloodstone now has fixed 8 mana regen per second. It won't grow, nor reduce on death.
- Urn of Shadows now have charges from the start.
- Drums of Endurance and Infused Raindrop base charges greatly increased.
- Tranquil Boots cooldown is greatly reduced.
- Heart of Tarrasque now behaves similarly to Tranquil Boots(break on damage mechanics), but still provides constant 4% health per second for melee heroes, and 2% for ranged heroes.
- Items like Lotus Orb, Crimson Guard, Refresher Orb and etc. have their cooldown and duration tweaked.
Game mechanics[]
Altered to bring more enjoyment out of the creep killing process, Horde mode provides you with:
- Experience gained when near a dying enemy creep is always 100%, no matter who killed the creep(you, your teammate or an ally creep).
- Gold gained when near a dying enemy creep is 30% of the creep's bounty. Last hit is still the only way to get 100% gold bounty.
- Maximum attack speed is increased for up to 1000 IAS.
Items[]
- Moonshards could be consumed infinite times.
Transition to 7.00[]
- Currently using a modified 6.88 map
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