Pipe of Insight

Item

 

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Pipe of Insight B
A powerful artifact of mysterious origin, it creates barriers against magical forces.
Cost 3150 (800) Bought From Support
Active Barrier Passive Insight Aura Bonus +6.5 Health regeneration +30% Magic resistance Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe

The Pipe of Insight is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Support.

Additional information

• 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, this is further increased to 52.75%.
• Increases Visage's total magic resistance to 37%, assuming his basic 10% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
  • Together with the aura, this is further increased to 43.3%.
• Pipe of Insight does not inherit the attribute bonuses from Headdress.
• Together with the aura, one Pipe of Insight grants a total of 15 health regeneration to the owner.

Abilities

Barrier

Play

Ability
No Target

Affects
Allies

Gives a shield that blocks 400 magic damage to all nearby allies. Lasts 12 seconds.

Radius: 900

Magical Damage Absorbed: 400

Duration: 12

60

100

Modifiers

Item Pipe Barrier: Undispellable.

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.

• 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

Affects
Allies

Gives allied units 2 health regeneration and 10% magic resistance.

Radius: 900

Health Regeneration Bonus: 2

Magic Resistance Bonus: 10%

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.
  • Increases Visage's total magic resistance to 19%, assuming his basic 10% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.

• Does not affect wards, buildings and invulnerable units.

• The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

Recommended heroes

• Tough tank heroes with high health regeneration benefit even more from Pipe of Insight's regeneration.
  • Timbersaw
  • Axe
  • Bristleback
  • Pudge
  • Tidehunter
  • Slark

• Tough support heroes are ideal for carrying Pipe of Insight.
  • Dark Seer
  • Underlord
  • Abaddon
  • Phoenix
  • Undying
  • Elder Titan

Tips

• 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

• 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

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  Using Pipe of Insight

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  Affected by Barrier

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