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Version

Description

7.35

• Reduced Laser cast range from 600 to 450.
• Reduced Heat-Seeking Missile search radius from 2000 to 1500.
• Rearm now grants a 4-second 15%/20%/25% magic resistance bonus buff.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Warp Flare debuff now also applies a root.

7.34

• Reduced strength gain from 2.5 to 2.3.
• Increased Heat-Seeking Missile mana cost from 95/105/115/125 to 105/115/125/135.
• Increased Rearm mana cost from 130/185/240 to 140/195/250.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +2s Laser blind duration ➜ +50 Laser radius.

  LVL 25

   

  +0.25s Heat-Seeking Missile bash on hit reduced to +0.2s.

7.33

• Increased base agility and gain from 13 + 1.2 to 17 + 1.4.
• Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
• Increased Laser cooldown from 20/18/16/14 to 22/20/18/16.
• Heat-Seeking Missile
  • Reduced search range from 2500 to 2000.
  • Increased damage from 115/190/265/340 to 120/200/280/360.
• U
  Defense Matrix is now a universal damage barrier.
  • Stacks additively with the same damage-type barrier sources, and independently with other damage-type barrier sources.

7.32

• Reduced Laser mana cost from 105/120/135/150 to 95/110/125/140.
• Rearm
  • Now when the ability's channeling is interrupted, it goes on cooldown.
  • Increased cooldown from 0 on each level to 8/7/6. [?]
  • Reduced channel time from 3.5/2.5/1.5 to 3.25/2.25/1.25.
  • Reduced mana cost from 150/225/300 to 130/185/240.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +10% spell damage amplification ➜  Defense Matrix grants 25% cooldown reduction. [?]

7.31d

• Increased Defense Matrix cast range from 600 to 650.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Warp Flare mana cost from 150 to 100.

7.31c

• Increased base strength from 18 to 19.
• Reduced Laser mana cost from 110/130/150/170 to 105/120/135/150.

7.31

• Reduced base attack damage from 24‒30 to 22‒28.
• Reduced Laser damage from 80/160/240/320 to 75/150/225/300.
• Reduced Defense Matrix status resistance bonus from 20%/30%/40%/50% to 10%/20%/30%/40%.
• Increased Rearm channeling time from 3.5/2/1.25 to 3.5/2.5/1.5.
• Reworked
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Old
    Grants Tinker the March of the Machines ability.
  • New
    Grants Tinker the Warp Flare ability.

Warp Flare

Throws a flare towards an enemy, dealing damage, teleporting them away and reducing their cast and attack range for a short duration.

Cast time: 0.2

Cast range: 700

Damage: 50

Teleport distance: 600

Cast and attack range reduction: 40%

Duration: 3

Mana cost: 150

Cooldown: 15

Notes: The projectile travels at a speed of 1900 and can be disjointed. teleports the enemy on impact. Does not disjoint projectiles upon teleporting. Does not interrupt the enemy.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  -0.5s Keen Conveyance channeling time ➜ +125 Defense Matrix shield capacity.

  LVL 20

   

  +150 Defense Matrix shield capacity ➜ -0.5s Keen Conveyance channeling time.

7.30e

• Increased Heat-Seeking Missile mana cost from 80/95/110/125 to 95/105/115/125.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Laser cast range bonus from 300 to 200.

7.30d

• Reduced Heat-Seeking Missile damage per rocket from 125/200/275/350 to 115/190/265/340.
• Increased Rearm mana cost from 130/210/290 to 150/225/300.

7.30

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 0.25.
• Laser now deals its damage to all visible enemies within a 250 radius around the target. [?]
• Replaced
  March of the Machines with Defense Matrix.
  • This is now a basic ability, taking the third ability slot.
  • Reduced shield capacity from 350 to 100/180/240/320.
  • Reduced status resistance bonus from 50% to 20%/30%/40%/50%.
  • Increased cast range from 400 to 600.
  • Reduced mana cost from 100 to 70/80/90/100.
  • Reduced cooldown from 30 to 12.
• Rearm
  • Rescaled mana cost from 100/210/320 to 130/210/290.
  • Added
    Keen Conveyance sub-ability.
    • This ability takes the fourth ability slot. Takes the fifth ability slot when Aghanim's Shard is acquired.

After a short channeling time, teleports Tinker towards a targeted allied building. Level 2 allows teleporting to non-hero units. Level 3 allows teleporting to allied heroes.

Cast range: Global

Channeling time: 4.5/4/3.5

Mana cost: 75

Cooldown: 80

Notes: Levels up together with Rearm. Cannot be cast while rooted or leashed.

• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Laser
    • Reduced cast range bonus from 400 to 300.
    • Reduced current health reduction from 15% to 10%.
• Reworked
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Grants Tinker the March of the Machines ability, and now takes the fourth ability slot.
  • Increased mana cost from 130/150/170/190 to 190.
  • Rescaled damage from 16/24/32/40 to 30.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +8% spell damage amplification ➜ +2s Laser blind duration.

  LVL 15

   

  +2.5s March of the Machines duration ➜ -0.5s Keen Conveyance channeling time.

  LVL 20

   

  +8 March of the Machines damage ➜ +150 Defense Matrix shield capacity.

  LVL 20

   

  +8 armor ➜ +10% spell damage amplification.

7.29

• Reduced Heat-Seeking Missile mana cost from 80/100/120/140 to 80/95/110/125.
• Rearm
  • Reduced cast point from 0.53 to 0.
  • Increased channeling time from 3/1.5/0.75 to 3.5/2/1.25.
  • Increased mana cost from 100/200/300 to 100/210/320.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Laser
    • Reduced enemy current health reduction from 20% to 15%.
    • Reduced enemy model size reduction from 20% to 15%.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Defense Matrix
    • Increased status resistance bonus from 40% to 50%.
    • Increased shield capacity from 275 to 350.
    • Increased duration from 12 to 15.
• Added
  Attribute Bonus.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +125 cast range ➜ +8% mana loss reduction.

  LVL 15

   

  +9% mana loss reduction ➜ +1 Heat-Seeking Missile.

7.28a

• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Defense Matrix
    • Increased shield capacity from 200 to 275.
    • Increased duration from 10 to 12.

7.28

• Reworked
  Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Old
    • Laser bounces between all visible enemy heroes within 400 radius around the target.
    • Increases Heat-Seeking Missile number of targets to 4.
  • New
    Laser
    • Increases cast range by 400.
    • Now bounces to the furthest enemy within 700 radius of the primary target, prioritizing heroes.
    • Reduces enemy current health and model size by 20% per debuff.
• Added
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Tinker:
  • Grants Tinker the Defense Matrix ability.

Defense Matrix

Creates a barrier on the target allied unit for a duration that blocks a fixed amount of damage and provides status resistance.

Cast time: 0.2

Cast range: 400

Shield capacity: 200

Status resistance bonus: 40%

Duration: 10

Mana cost: 100

Cooldown: 30

Notes: Fully negates a certain amount of damage of any type. Multiple instances of the buff do not stack.

7.26b

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +150 cast range reduced to +125.

  LVL 10

   

  +11% spell damage amplification reduced to +8%.

  LVL 15

   

  +11% mana loss reduction reduced to +9%.

  LVL 15

   

  +3s March of the Machines duration reduced to +2.5s.

  LVL 20

   

  +10 March of the Machines damage reduced to +8.

  LVL 20

   

  +10 armor reduced to +8.

  LVL 25

   

  +0.3s Heat-Seeking Missile bash on hit reduced to +0.25s.

  LVL 25

   

  +100 Laser damage reduced to +80.

7.25

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +125 cast range increased to +150.

  LVL 15

   

  +2s March of the Machines duration increased to +3s.

7.24

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +150 Gold per minute ➜ +2s March of the Machines duration.

7.23

• Increased base strength from 17 to 18.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.25 to 0.75.

7.22f

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +100 cast range increased to +125.

  LVL 10

   

  +8% spell damage amplification increased to +11%.

  LVL 15

   

  15% spell lifesteal ➜ 11% mana loss reduction.

7.22d

• Increased base intelligence from 28 to 30.
• Reduced Heat-Seeking Missile cooldown from 25 to 18.

7.22c

• Rescaled March of the Machines mana cost from 145/150/165/190 to 130/150/170/190.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  10% spell lifesteal increased to 15%.

  LVL 15

   

  +30 movement speed ➜ +150 Gold per minute.

  LVL 20

   

  +8 March of the Machines damage increased to +10.

7.22

• Increased intelligence gain from 2.5 to 3.3.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0 to 0.25.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +75 cast range increased to +100.

  LVL 10

   

  +6% spell damage amplification increased to +8%.

7.21

• Increased intelligence gain from 2.2 to 2.5.

7.20

• Increased strength gain from 2.3 to 2.5.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
• Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
• March of the Machines no longer affect spell immune units.

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +40 movement speed reduced to +30.

7.15

• Reduced base intelligence from 30 to 28.
• Increased base attack damage from 22‒28 to 24-‒30.

7.10

• Laser
  • Increased mana cost from 95/120/145/170 to 110/130/150/170.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Reduced Laser bounce radius from 650 to 400.

• Talents:
• LVL 20

   

  +100 attack damage ➜ +10 armor.

7.08

• Reduced base movement speed from 305 to 290.

7.07d

• Increased Laser cooldown from 14 on each level to 20/18/16/14.

7.07

• Increased base health regeneration from 0 to 1.5.
• Increased base mana regeneration from 0.01 to 0.9.
• Heat-Seeking Missile
  • Reduced projectile speed from 900 to 700.
  • Reduced mana cost from 120/140/160/180 to 80/100/120/140.
• Rearm now affects items in the backpack.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +6 armor ➜ +75 cast range.

  LVL 10

   

  +8 intelligence ➜ +6% spell damage amplification.

  LVL 15

   

  +4% spell damage amplification ➜ 10% spell lifesteal.

  LVL 15

   

  +225 health ➜ +40 movement speed.

  LVL 20

   

  +15% magic resistance ➜ +8 March of the Machines damage.

  LVL 20

   

  +75 cast range ➜ +100 attack damage.

  LVL 25

   

  +100 Laser damage ➜ +0.3s Heat-Seeking Missile bash on hit. [?]

  LVL 25

   

  20% spell lifesteal ➜ +100 Laser damage.

7.06

• Increased strength gain from 2 to 2.3.
• Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
• Increased base mana from 50 to 75.

7.02

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +5 armor increased to +6.

  LVL 15

   

  +200 health increased to +225.

7.00

• Removed
  Attribute Bonus.

• added
    Talents:
• +5 armor

    

  +8 intelligence

  +4% spell damage amplification

    

  +200 health

  +15% magic resistance

    

  +75 cast range

  +100 Laser damage

    

  20% spell lifesteal

6.87

• Increased base health from 180 to 200.
• Increased base mana from 0 to 50.
• Increased base intelligence from 27 to 30.
• Rearm
  • No longer resets the cooldown of Barrier.
  • Reduced mana cost from 125/225/325 to 100/200/300.

6.86

• Increased base health from 150 to 180.
• Laser
  • Reduced cast point from 0.53 to 0.4.
  • Increased cast range from 550 to 650.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Increased Laser bounce radius from 550 to 650.

6.85

• Reduced Rearm channeling time from 3/2/1 to 3/1.5/0.75.

6.84

• Increased Laser hero blind duration from 3 on each level to 3/3.5/4/4.5. [?]
• Reduced Rearm mana cost from 150/250/350 to 125/225/325.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Laser
    • No longer increases cast range to 1100.
    • Now causes the ability to bounce between all visible enemy heroes within 550 radius.

6.83

• Increased Heat-Seeking Missile damage from 100/175/250/325 to 125/200/275/350.

6.82

• Changed
  March of the Machines damage type from Universal to Magical. [?]

6.81

• Changed
  Laser from applying blind upon projectile hit to applying instantly upon cast.
• Heat-Seeking Missile damage is no longer blocked by ethereal state.

6.80

• Added
  Aghanim's Scepter for Tinker:
  • Increases Laser cast range to 1100.
  • Increases Heat-Seeking Missile number of targets to 4.

6.74

• Increased March of the Machines duration from 5 to 6.

6.73

• Laser
  • Increased hero blind duration from 2 to 3.
  • U
    Increased creep blind duration from 4 to 6.
  • Fixed ability interactions with Spell Block.

6.72

• Fixed Laser debuff not being dispellable.
• Increased Heat-Seeking Missile number of rockets from 1/1/2/2 to 2 on each level.

6.70

• Added
  new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
  • Tinker has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
  • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.

6.69

• Laser
  • Changed
    from blinding affected targets within 200 radius to only blinding the target unit.
  • Increased miss chance from 10%/15%/20%/25% to 100% on each level.
  • Reduced hero blind duration from 9 to 2.
  • U
    Reduced creep blind duration from 18 to 4. [?]

6.68

• Increased base armor from 1 to 2.

6.60

• Fixed ability interactions between Laser and Decrepify.
• Rearm no longer resets the cooldown of Avatar.

6.54

• Fixed casting March of the Machines on a cliff.

6.51

• Fixed March of the Machines dealing slightly less damage than intended.

6.49

• Updated hero description.

6.45

• Increased Laser mana cost from 95/110/120/145 to 95/120/145/170.

6.43

• Rearm no longer resets the cooldown of Replenish Mana.

6.35

• Increased base intelligence from 21 to 27.
• Increased base movement speed from 285 to 305.

6.34

• Updated Laser ability icon.

6.26

• Rearm
  • No longer resets the cooldown of Refresher Orb.
  • Fixed ability interactions with Transmute.

6.25

• Tinker is no longer restricted from buying Hand of Midas and Necronomicon.
• Reduced intelligence gain from 3 to 2.2.
• Rearm can no longer reset the cooldown of the following abilities:
  • Transmute
  • Demonic Summoning
  • Dominate

6.22

• Reduced base strength from 19 to 17.
• Reduced attack range from 550 to 500.
• Reduced base movement speed from 290 to 285.
• Rearm
  • Reduced channeling time from 4/3/2 to 3/2/1.
  • Increased mana cost from 150/225/300 to 150/250/350.

6.20

• Increased Rearm channeling time from 3/2/1 to 4/3/2.

6.19b

• Increased Rearm mana cost from 150/200/250 to 150/225/300.

6.17

• Rearm
  • No longer disables Tinker for the while channeling.
  • Can now be interrupted.
  • Updated ability tooltips.
  • Increased mana cost from 125/150/175 to 150/200/250.

6.15

• Increased attack range from 500 to 550.

6.07

• Fixed March of the Machines memory leak issues.

6.04b

• Increased March of the Machines damage from 8/16/24/40 to 12/24/32/40.

6.04

• Tinker is restricted from buying Necronomicon.
• Tinker is no longer restricted from buying Manta Style.
  • Recasting Mirror Image destroys previous illusions.
• Increased March of the Machines mana cost from 135/150/165/180 to 145/150/165/190.

6.03b

• March of the Machines
  • Fixed ability bugs.
  • Reduced cast point from 3.53 to 0.53.
  • Reduced cast range from 400 to 300.

6.03

• Tinker is restricted from buying Manta Style and Hand of Midas.
• March of the Machines
  • Changed
    ability from having a max channel time of 5 to having a 5-second duration.
  • Increased cast point from 0.53 to 3.53.
  • Increased cast range from 300 to 400.
  • Increased robots speed from 300 to 400.

6.00

• Heat-Seeking Missile
  • Increased number of targets from 1 on each level to 1/1/2/2.
  • Reduced damage from 110/220/330/440 to 100/175/250/325.
  • Reduced mana cost from 130/160/190/220 to 120/140/160/180.
  • Reduced cooldown from 35 to 25.
• Reduced Rearm channel time from 5/3/1 to 3/2/1.

5.84

• Increased base movement speed from 270 to 290.

5.80

• Laser
  • Increased damage from 60/120/180/240 to 80/160/240/320.
  • Increased mana cost from 95/105/120/135 to 95/110/120/145.
  • Increased cooldown from 1 to 14.

5.79

• Reduced Laser cooldown from 5 to 1.

5.78

• Reduced Laser cooldown from 9 to 5.

5.77

• Heat-Seeking Missile
  • Increased mana cost from 125/135/150/175 to 130/160/190/220.
  • Increased cooldown from 25 to 35.

5.76

• Created

Patch History

Patch

Description

06 Oct 2023

• Fixed ability interactions between X Marks the Spot and status resistance sources (e.g. Defense Matrix).

27 Sep 2023

• Typing Boush in the hero selection now highlights Tinker.

30 Aug 2023

• Increased versus scale from 0.77 to 0.8.
• Added
  new Adjectives attributes. [?]
  • Tinker has the following values: Bearded 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.

30 May 2023

• Fixed ability interactions between Empower Spell and Laser.

25 Apr 2023

• Fixed some cases where a damage barrier (e.g. Defense Matrix) could result in negative absorbed damage and dealing extra damage to the owner.

01 Dec 2022

• Keen Conveyance
  • Updated ability tooltips.
  • Updated ability descriptions.

03 Nov 2022

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated Rearm ability notes.

14 Sep 2022

• Updated the following abilities' tooltips:
  • Defense Matrix
  • Warp Flare

24 Mar 2022

• Fixed Warp Flare working with Roshan.

24 Feb 2022

• UPDATE 3
  • Updated default hero model.

23 Feb 2022

• Warp Flare
  • Added ability cast and sound effects.
  • UPDATE 3
    • Updated ability descriptions.
    • Updated ability modifiers.

29 Oct 2021

• Fixed Heat-Seeking Missile level 3 mana cost being 110, instead of 115.

25 Sep 2021

• UPDATE 3
  • Fixed Defense Matrix having the wrong shield capacity values.

18 Aug 2021

• Updated Laser ability particles.

05 Aug 2021

• Removed outdated Laser ability tooltips.

09 Apr 2021

• Updated default hero model.

01 Mar 2021

• Fixed Laser only reducing max health, instead of current and max health.

18 Dec 2020

• Fixed Heat-Seeking Missile still being upgraded by Aghanim's Scepter.

17 Dec 2020

• Updated hero model and animation.
• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Defense Matrix buff missing tooltips.

25 May 2020

• Updated default hero model and animations.

14 Feb 2020

• Increased maximum polygons/texture widths for shoulder.
  • Increased texture width from 256px to 512px.
  • Increased polygons LOD1/2 1000/700 to 1600/1200.

03 Feb 2020

• Updated default hero model.

29 Nov 2019

• Fixed Laser wrongly dealing magical damage since 7.23, instead of pure.
• Rearm can no longer reset the cooldowns of neutral items.

07 Jun 2019

• Fixed Rearm to not reset Tome of Knowledge cooldown.

13 Sep 2018

• Fixed performance issues with March of the Machines that gradually degrade frame rate.

01 Mar 2018

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Laser mana cost not being updated properly.

22 Nov 2017

• Added Arcane Rune responses.

07 Nov 2017

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed Heat-Seeking Missile damage being 120/200/280/360 instead of 125/200/275/350.

21 Dec 2016

• UPDATE 2
  • Updated default item build.

17 Jun 2016

• Added default empty misc item loadout slot.

16 Jun 2016

• Added a misc loadout slot for Mecha Boots of Travel Mk III.

24 Mar 2016

• Added to the Dota Workshop.
• Fixed Heat-Seeking Missile visual issues in Fog of War.

08 Sep 2015

• Updated Laser ability tooltip.

24 Jun 2015

• March of the Machines
  • Fixed ability visuals.
  • Fixed various performance problems.

29 Apr 2015

• UPDATE 4 (TEST)
  • Fixed Laser ability visual effects.

29 Apr 2014

• Laser debuff is now no longer partially disjointable.

28 Feb 2013

• UPDATE 3 (TEST)
  • Fixed Rearm cast backswing behavior.

26 Jul 2012

• U
  Added spawn animations, teleport start and end animations.

25 Jul 2012

• UPDATE 5 (TEST)
  • Fixed abilities with 0 cast point (i.e. Heat-Seeking Missile) missing its ability effects.

17 May 2012

• Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.

12 Apr 2012

• Fixed Heat-Seeking Missile hitting Spirit Bear and Warlock Golem.
• March of the Machines
  • Fixed robots spawn rate per second from 30 to 24.
  • Fixed robots movement speed from 500 to 400.
  • Fixed robots killing Courier.

08 Mar 2012

• Heat-Seeking Missile now visually show duds when no enemy units are available.
• Fixed Rearm refreshing Necronomicon level 2 and 3.

16 Feb 2012

• Fixed being able to refresh ally's items with Rearm.

27 Oct 2011

• Fixed Necronomicon not killing its previous units when used again from Refresher Orb, Rearm, etc.

13 Oct 2011

• Added voiceover lines.

02 Aug 2011

• Rearm no longer refreshes the cooldown of Spellblock.

16 Jul 2011

• Fixed incorrect armor values.

08 Jul 2011

• Added
  Tinker. [?]

24 Jun 2011

• Fixed March of the Machines to properly hit spell immune units.

10 Jun 2011

• Fixed cast point issues.

02 Jun 2011

• Added
  Tinker.