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Pipe of Insight
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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 40%, assuming basic 25% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
- Together with the aura, this is further increased to Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%.
- Increases Visage's total magic resistance to 40%, assuming his basic Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
- Together with the aura, this is further increased to Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%.
- Pipe of Insight does not inherit the attribute bonuses from Headdress.
- Together with the aura, one Pipe of Insight grants a total of Expression error: Unexpected < operator. health regeneration to the owner.
Abilities
- 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
Aura
Affects
Allies
Allies
Gives allied units {{#show:#Insight Aura|?value2#}} health regeneration and {{#show:#Insight Aura|?value3#}} magic resistance.
Radius: 900
Health Regeneration Bonus: 2
Magic Resistance Bonus: 10%
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Modifiers [?]
Item Pipe Aura
Undispellable
- 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 Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%, assuming basic 25% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
- Increases Visage's total magic resistance to Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".%, assuming his basic Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
- Does not affect wards, buildings and invulnerable units.
- The aura's buff lingers for {{#show:#Insight Aura|?value4#}} seconds.
Recommended heroes
- 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
- 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
Using Pipe of Insight
Affected by Barrier
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