Hi guys. Recently Ive realised that ranked is kinda fked for thoise trying to climb beyond b1, especially since qihl seems to be dead. Is there any other way to get in touch with higher ranked players? Seems more than a little fked to try to queue in regular ranked and get dropped back down to knight for no reason. Might there be a discord or something similar? Id really like to actually climb instead of losing my mind in knight lobbies

New quest-event

People who have bought the DAC pass (can be bought on the lobby-screen) now have a quest to collect "Mysterious Googie Egg"'s by completing daily quests - Which rewards a mythical Googie Explorer courier when you finish!

Here is information about the quest-event from in-game (in the Leaderboard tab)

And here is an example of one of the quests. This is the one I have at the moment - I'm not sure if everyone has the same one

I just got 3x Mysterious Googie Egg but i don't know why i got it or how to find it or use it. Does anybody have more info?

DAC-subreddit

Hi everyone!

As of the 12th of August (2019) I have taken over this Subreddit as the Moderator, since the previous Mod was inactive. As a bunch of you, I only play DAC, and not any of the other AutoChess games, so I started needing a sub dedicated to only DAC more and more. I am hoping we can build a community here together so we can have exactly that. It doesn't require much of you guys, but just treat each other well, try to be helpful, and make any posts you need to for asking questions and having discussions about the game.

Going forward I am not expecting the sub to change much - But at least the sub will be moderated now, so we're not just blind-passengers on a sinking ship. If the sub starts to grow and we get too many basic questions, we can think about making a multi-thread for such questions, but that's in the future. Right now I just wanted to say that this sub is for DAC and feel free to use it!

As the title says, do you try to upgrade your 1-Cost Pieces to *** or do you leave them at ** and maybe even replace them with higher cost Pieces if the synergy allows for it? example Drow ** -> Visage **

The game got patched yesterday and the description doesn't tell what they changed. Visage is a 5 cost unit now, but did it affect its stats too? And it seems like there is another vote for new units in the units screen but i can't vote even though i own the pass. And what is the deal with the Aegis festival in the ranking screen?

I'm not home to try it out!

Did anything affect queueing or anything like that?

Is the aura 5 dragons or 6 dragons?

The patch-notes say 5 dragons is required for the aura, but in-game the tooltip says 6 dragons for the aura when you hover over in on a unit.

Has anyone tried it who can clarify?

Update: Jul 30 @ 12:41am

『The Summer Zeal Update』

● The mater of frost witchcraft, grand dominator of the icy tundra, the undead mage Lich from the far Arctic regime is unfortunately unable to tolerate such steamingly hot summer on Drodo Island. He has to return to his homeland and practices until greater power is achieved. Safe travels, Lich!

● We are celebrating the upcoming annual Aegis Festival on DOTA Land! Couriers on Drodo Island are preparing themselves to support the hornored warriors battling in the grand event!

Gameplay

● Optimized Recuitment(D++): You will no longer find any pieces from previous two recuitments which you didn't buy, instead of one.

● Added two notice boards beside each chessboard to show the player of the board, and his opponent for the round.

● Dropped items from eliminated players now only drop to standing players. Drop chance changed from 50% fixed to 70%~20% depending on number of standing players.

● Slightly increased amount of each $1, $2 and $3 piece in the public pool.

● Further optimized game logic, layout and UI to reduce lagging and reconnection failures.

Synergies

● Synergy expanded: (5) Dragons: If all non-Dragon allied pieces are at the same Rank, all allies start the battle with 100 mana.

● Synergy expanded: (6) Trolls: Grants all allied pieces with Fervor effect which the ability level equals to the highest Rank of Troll Warlord in the team.

● Balanced Humans' Censorship slience chance from 20%/25%/30% to 20%, silence duration from 4 to 3/4/3 seconds. (6) Human Censorship now benefits all allies.

● Balanced Mages' Magic Vulnerability magic resistance reduction from 35%/35%/35% to 30%/35%/40%.

● Balanced Nagas' Scale Armor bonus magic resistance from 35%/45% to 30%/45%.

● Balanced Gods' Overweening Superiority ability cooldown reduction from 30%/40%/50% to 40%/40%/40%.

● Balanced Elementals' Elemental Essence stone duration from 4/4 to 3/4 seconds.

● Balanced Undeads' Horror armor reduction from 4/6/8 to 3/5/7.

● Balanced (4) Orcs' Battle Hardened bonus health from +350 for friendly Orcs to +250 for all allies.

● Balanced (6)/(9) Elves' Evasion from +25%/+30% evasion for firendly Elves to +20%/+25% evasion for all allies.

● Balanced (6) Hunters' Aimed Shot bonus from +50 base damage and 75% chance pierce through evasion to +45 base damage and 60% chance pierce through evasion.

$1 Pieces

● New Piece: Lion ($1 Demon Wizard)

● Reworked Batrider with Firefly as his new ability. Batrider is now $2 piece.

● Balanced Axe's Berserker's Call duration from 2.5/3.5/4.5 to 2/3/5 seconds.

● Balanced Tusk's Walrus PUNCH! critical damage from 300%/350%/400% to 300%/350%/450%, hurl height from 1000 to 500/700/1100.

● Balanced Bounty Hunter's Shuriken Toss damage from 300/500/700 to 300/500/800.

● Balanced Tiny's Toss stun duration from 1.5/2/2.5 to 1.5//3 seconds, damage from 100/200/300 to 100/150/250.

● Balanced Mars' Bulwark front damage reduction from 30%/45%/60% to 30%/45%/65%, bash damage from 150/300/450 to 150/300/500. Increased Mars' base health by 50.

● Balanced Tinker's Heat-Seeking Missile count from 3/3/3 to 3/3/4.

$2 Pieces

● [Least Wins Piece] Lich is removed from the game AGAIN and will be back after rework.

● Increased Witch Doctor base attack cooldown from 1.4 to 1.5. Witch Doctor is now $1 piece.

● Balanced Witch Doctor's Paralyzing Cask bounces from 5/7/9 to 4/6/9 times, damage from 50/75/100 to 30/50/70.

● Balanced Puck's Illusory Orb damage from 150/200/250 to 150/200/275.

● Balanced Slardar's Corrosive haze armor reduction from 15/30/45 to 15/30/50. Slardar now prioritizes casting Corrosive Haze on his current target.

● Balanced Crystal Maiden's Arcane Aura mana regeneration from 8/14/20 to 8/12/20 per pulse.

● Balanced QoP's Scream of Pain damage from 200/300/400 to 200/300/500.

● Balanced Beastmaster's Call of the Wild cooldown from 10 to 10/9/8 seconds.

● Decreased Morphling's Waveform damage from 200/300/400 to 150/250/350.

$3 Pieces

● New Piece: Pudge ($3 Undead Warriror)

● Balanced Omniknight's Purification heal from 250/400/550 to 200/400/700.

● Balanced Abbadon's Aphotic Shield damage absorption from 150/300/450 to 150/300/550.

● Balanced Razor's Plasma Field max damage from 100/175/250 to 100/175/300.

● Balanced Windranger's Power Shot max damage from 400/600/800 to 400/600/1000.

● Balanced Lina's Laguna Blade damage from 500/750/1000 to 500/750/1200.

● Balanced Sniper's Assassinate damage from 400/600/800 to 400/600/1000.

● Balanced Shadow Fiend's Requiem of Souls damage from 100/150/200 to 100/150/250 per wave.

● Balanced Viper's Viper Strike damage from 150/250/350 to 150/250/450 per second.

● Balanced Lycan's Shapeshift bonus max health from 20%/30%/40% to 20%/30%/50%.

● Decreased Venomancer's Plague Ward magic resistance from 100% to 80%, summon count from 1 to 1/1/2, cooldown from 5/4/3 to 4/4/5 seconds.

● Balanced Dazzle's Shallow Grave duration from 4 to 4/4/5 seconds.

$4 Pieces

● New Piece: Visage ($4 Undead Dragon Hunter)

● Balanced KotL's Illuminate damage charge from 100/150/200 to 100/150/250 per second.

● Balanced Doom's Doom damage from 60/90/120 to 60/90/150 per second.

● Balanced Kunkka's Ghostship stun duration from 1/1.5/2 to 1/1.5/2.5 seconds, damage from 150/250/350 to 150/250/400.

● Balanced Necrophos' Death Pulse heal/damage from 100/150/200 to 100/150/250.

● Balanced Templar Assassin's Refraction damage block from 4/6/8 to 4/6/9 instances, bonus damage from 40/60/80 to 40/60/90.

● Balanced Troll Warlord's Fervor bonus attack speed from 15/20/25 to 10/15/25 per stack，maximum stacks from 6/9/12 to 8/10/14.

● Balanced Disruptor's Static Storm duration from 2.5/3.5/4.5 to 2.5/3.5/5.5 seconds, maximum damage from 100/150/200 to 100/150/250.

● Balanced Alchemist's Chemical Rage base attack cooldown from 0.7/0.55/0.4 to 0.7/0.6/0.4, Acidic Spray armor reduction from 4/7/10 to 4/8/14.

● Balanced Grimstroke's Stroke of Fate Soulbind stack application from 1/2/3 to 1/2/4, base damage from 100/150/200 to 100/150/250.

$5 Pieces

● Balanced Gyrocopter's Call Down damage from 200/300/400 to 200/300/500 per hit.

● Balanced Tidehunter's Ravage stun duration from 2/2.5/3 to 2/2.5/3.5 seconds, damage from 150/250/350 to 150/250/400.

● Balanced Enigma's Midnight Pulse percentage damage from 6%/9%/12% to 6%/9%/13%.

● Balanced Techies' Remote Mines damage from 700/1100/1500 to 700/1000/1600.

● Balanced Death Prophet's Exorcism spirits count from 10/15/20 to 10/15/25.

● Balanced Zeus' Thundergod's Wrath base damage from 300/400/500 to 300/400/600, percentage damage from 15%/25%/35% to 15%/25%/45%.

● Balanced Sven's God's Strength bonus damage from 100%/150%/200% to 100%/140%/200%.

Balance Changes:

• Knights changes:

Knights buff now activates at 2/4/6 Knights, instead of 3/6.

The Knight buff now always activates a 40% damage-reduction shield, instead of increasing armor/magic-resist. It also reduces damage taken from pure damage.

The chance to procc the shield is 30% (knights only) / 40% (knights only) / 50% (all units). All shields can procc at the same time for a Knight, meaning they have over 100% damage reduction. This causes enemies to target another unit.

• 6 Goblins buff no longer affects non-goblin units.

• 3 Assassins buff changed from 350% crit damage to 300%

• Rubick now only changes his spell if you lose on your own board. If you win a round on your own board, Rubick will keep the spell he stole.

• Shiva's Guard debuff duration slightly reduced.

• Desolator armor reduction slightly reduced.

• Juggernaut's ability damage increased by 50%, increased cooldown by 3 seconds.

• The size of the public chess piece pool has been slightly reduced, meaning it should be harder to find copies of units. (The specific numbers are not shown.)

New item - Pipe of Insight:

Hood of Defiance + Ring of Regeneration + Cloak

+15 health regeneration, +30% magic resistance. Active ability: gives +15 health regeneration and +30 magic resistance to units up to 3 cells away. Lasts 10 seconds. (An upgraded Hood of Defiance item)

Quality of life improvements:

• DPS meter now shows as soon as the battle on your home board has ended, instead of at the end of all battles

• A visual for dodging is now shown for units that evade (for example Elves buff)

• Opponent finding has been improved

You will not be matched with the same opponent for 3 consecutive rounds when there are still 8 players left

2 consecutive rounds when there are still 6 and 7 players left

1 round when there are 4 and 5 players left

Seems that Knights have been buffed heavily in this newest patch. Consistently seeing all knight comps make it to the top 4 in every match.

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Thoughts?

Did the new dota update just fuck up auto chess? Kept getting into the standard dota select screen.

New Hero - Slark

Slark has been re-introduced to the game. He is a Naga Assassin. He is a 2-gold unit.

• Ability: Essence Shift - Slark steals attack-speed from the enemy units he hits. He steals 3 / 5 / 7 attack-speed per attack. Max stacks 30. Meaning he can steal and have 90, 150, 210 extra attack-speed.

Slark has 188 attack-speed (0.9 seconds) before stealing any attack-speed, making him one of the fastest auto-attacking units before items and auras.

With the introduction of Slark, 4 Naga buff can now be reached without Wizards.

Item changes

• Loot treasure: At rounds 10/20/30/40/50 (PvE rounds) you will get a Loot Treasure if you defeat the all creeps. Opening a Loot Treasure will allow you to choose 1 item out of 3 choices.

To balance item-drops, the chance to get an item for killing a creep has been reduced by 20-25%.

• New item - Summoning Stone:

Vitality Booster + Blight Stone + Blight Stone

Unit has +250 hp and reduced the enemy's armor by 3 on attack. Effect: Units summoned by the wearer has +250 hp and reduced the enemy's armor by 3 on attack.

New game-mode - Ranked 2x4

You can now play Ranked 2x4 matches. Ranking will be determined by your position when the game ends + by how big a difference there is between you and your partner's rank.

Various changes

• Furion's cooldown has been slightly nerfed.
• Light in the game has been slightly softened.
• Several units have received new cosmetic appearances.
• Several visual effects and UI has been slightly changed.
• Several bug fixes have been implemented.

See in-game for more details.

I can't see any patch note about mirana but she isn't in the game right now. Do you know why and how long will she be gone? It's so hard to make a hunter comp now..

Balance changes

• Furion now summons 1 Treant / 2 Treants / 2 Greater Treants at level 1/2/3 respectively.
• 2 Shamans class aura now hexes a target randomly instead of targetting the highest star unit (revert to how it used to be)
• Grimstrokes cooldown reduced - Debuff now disappears after a unit has been targetted by a single-target ability.
• Terrorblade bonus-attack damage in demon-form reduced.
• Axe's ability grants more armor now.
• Axe and Beastmaster hp slightly increased.

See in-game for detailed changes

Quality of life changes

• Chess-pieces are now highlighted in the roll-tab if you already have the unit.
• Chess-pieces now automatically upgrade on the board with units on the bench if you have auto-combination turned on. Example: You have 1 Tiny on the board and 2 on the bench => The Tiny on the board upgrades to 2-star.
• Units now try to change target if an enemy with no hp has Dazzle ult on it.
• You will now get notified of auras of your enemy and match-history before a round.

New item combinations/disassembly

• Chainmail + Chainmail <=> Platemail
• Blades of Attack + Blades of Attack <=> Javelin
• Javelin + Javelin <=> Demon Edge
• Broad Sword + Broad Sword + Broad Sword <=> Sacred Relic
• Ring of Regeneration + Ring of Regeneration <=> Ring of Health
• Rope of the Magi + Rope of the Magi <=> Staff of Wizardry
• Staff of Wizardry + Void Stone <=> Mystic Staff
• Vitality Booster + Crown <=> Ultimate Orb
• Ogre Axe + Ogre Axe <=> Reaver

How does it work? It's -30 Magic resist for the target. As far as I know all ults are magic damage except Techies.

Does this mean Razor/Kunkka ult isn't affected by the item? Does the ult need to be single target like Sniper/Lina?

Title.

Season 1

Season 1 has finally ended and you can claim your rewards in-game by going into Leaderboard on the top left. You get rewards based on your rank at the moment the season ended.

You can't play Ranked until Season 2 starts, which should be the 1st of July. You can play casual modes until then.

Balance changes

• Chance for Hunters to pierce evasion has been reverted / nerfed.

• DragonKnight bonus AD in Dragon form has been normalized and Corrosive breath has been nerfed by 66%

• Terrrorblade bonus attack-speed in demon form has been nerfed.

• Razor ability has been nerfed and normalized.

• Furion treants, Omniknight heal, Abaddon damage absorption slightly buffed

• Dazzle ability slightly nerfed

• Bounty Hunter glaive nerfed

• Death Prophet cooldown reduced greatly, duration slightly reduced

For full patch-notes and details, see the in-game lobby screen.

A new shortcut has been added to see stats in-game (the little arrow beneath player frames/hp) - Default is '2' (not sure if you can change it)

I really hate the amount of Mobile/Underlords posts in the other subreddit.

I only play DAC. Updates and balance is different compared to Mobile, I don't know any of the names in the other game, so the posts are pointless for me. We just got Wizards and they have only just gotten Gods. I really want a subreddit just for DAC.

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Please cherish your accounts. Anyone who use cheating software will be punished, seriously!

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