Pipe of Insight
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| A powerful artifact of mysterious origin, it creates barriers against magical forces. | |||||||||||||||
Cost
2900 (800) Bought From
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The Pipe of Insight is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Support.
Additional information[edit]
- For strength heroes, it grants 40 health, 8.2 health regen, 30.11% magic resistance, 0.32 armor, 2 attack speed, 0.1% movement speed, 24 mana, 0.1 mana regen, 0.14% spell damage and 2 attack damage.
- For agility heroes, it grants 40 health, 8.2 health regen, 30.11% magic resistance, 0.32 armor, 2 attack speed, 0.1% movement speed, 24 mana, 0.1 mana regen, 0.14% spell damage and 2 attack damage.
- For intelligence heroes, it grants 40 health, 8.2 health regen, 30.11% magic resistance, 0.32 armor, 2 attack speed, 0.1% movement speed, 24 mana, 0.1 mana regen, 0.14% spell damage and 2 attack damage.
- The magic resistance stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.
- Increases most heroes' total magic resistance to 47.5%, assuming basic 25% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
- Together with the aura, one Pipe of Insight grants a total of 18.2 health regeneration to the owner.
Abilities[edit]
Notes:
- Interrupts the user's channeling spells upon cast.
- Affects all allied units, including buildings, but excluding wards. Affects invulnerable, but not hidden allies.
- Blocks damage before any reductions, except when spell immune, during which it does not block any magical damage.
- Recasting Barrier refreshes the buff and resets the barrier's absorb capacity.
- Does not stack with other magical damage barriers.
- If multiple sources of barriers are active on a unit, all of them lose capacity from the same absorbed damage instance.
- However, if a damage instance is greater than the capacity of all barriers individually, the damage gets blocked as if the barriers were one barrier with combined capacity.
- Only blocks magical damage, coming from spells and attacks. Does not block any physical or pure damage.
- Does not share cooldown with Hood of Defiance.
Insight Aura
Ability
Aura
Aura
Affects
Allies
Allies
Gives allied units 2 health regeneration and 10% magic resistance.
Radius: 1200
Health Regeneration Bonus: 2
Magic Resistance Bonus: 10%
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Illusions bestow the aura, but do not benefit from the magic resistance.Modifiers
Item Pipe Aura: Undispellable.Notes:
- Stacks with all other sources of flat health regeneration and magic resistance, except with Insight Aura from multiple Pipes of Insight.
- Increases most heroes' total magic resistance to 32.5%, assuming basic 25% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
- Together with the passive bonus, this is further increased to 52.75% for the wielder of the item.
- Can regenerate up to 120 health in one minute.
- Does not affect wards, buildings and invulnerable units.
- The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.
Recommended heroes[edit]
- Tough tank heroes with high health regeneration benefit even more from Pipe of Insight's regeneration.
- Tough support heroes are ideal for carrying Pipe of Insight.
Tips[edit]
- The Pipe of Insight is useful for frail heroes who can be easily taken down by damages from spells. With its aura, it can slightly increase the magic resistance of a hero.
- It is an ideal for a support heroes to carry a Pipe of Insight in order to protect the nearby allies against the strongest magic spells.
Trivia[edit]
- In the transition from DotA to Dota 2, Pipe of Insight name was changed from the Khadgar's Pipe of Insight to simply Pipe of Insight. Khadgar was a wizard in Warcraft II.
- Dazzle's cosmetic item Pipe of Dezun is based on the Pipe of Insight.
Gallery[edit]
Using Pipe of Insight
Affected by Barrier
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