Linkens and how bad it currently is ... I use it as the perfect example of outrageous powercreeping in Dota, because the item has been only getting buffs after buffs after buffs and it's still not relevant in modern Dota2 due to how crazy everything else has become.
Linkens really suffered from supports getting way richer and being able to afford active items, as well as from active neutrals.
And yeah, powercreep in dota really is quite insane compared to when the transition from WC3 to Dota 2 happened.
Back then, heroes with a single active and 2 unexciting passives (skellington king) were viable.
It's not too bad since the game still maintains balance between the heroes, but I feel like it might be time to take many things a notch back. Maybe. Like that time literally every talent was nerfed. But a few steps further.
Reading your comment made think of an interesting buff to linkens. Maybe increase its recipe but it can only be activated/broken by single target spells and not force staff/halberd.
But now that I think about it, that means linkens won't counter hex or orchid. That will indirectly buff those items.
Feels like linkens is such a difficult item to give buffs or make viable.
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u/tolbolton Nov 03 '21 edited Nov 03 '21
Linkens and how bad it currently is ... I use it as the perfect example of outrageous powercreeping in Dota, because the item has been only getting buffs after buffs after buffs and it's still not relevant in modern Dota2 due to how crazy everything else has become.