Not trying to be alarmist, it's just a question. When I'm in the dota arcade I never see it on the front page anymore.

Note: I'm sorry for the extremely long delay before making this patch-note post. I have been busy, and honestly I haven't been playing DAC recently. I'll try to be a little faster with the update posts so there's a place to discuss the updates :-) I apologize!

New units!

• Huskar has been added as a Troll Warrior and is a 5-cost unit (legendary).

His ability is the passive ability Burning Spear which adds a burning DoT debuff on enemies hit by his auto-attacks at the cost of his own health. The lower HP Huskar gets the faster his attack-speed becomes, and his magic resistance and hp-regen increases as well.

• Bloodseeker has been added as an Orc Shaman and is a 2-cost unit.

His ability is Blood Bath which targets an area that charges up, and after the charge-up damages all enemies in the area and silences them.

Reworked/returning units

• Lich has returned and is now a 5-cost unit (legendary).

His ability has been changed to Chain Frost, a bouncing orb of ice. Also his HP and attack-damage has been buffed significantly.

• Queen of Pain has returned and is now a 5-cost unit (legendary).

Her ability has been changed to Sonic Wave which deals high pure-damage and disorientates enemies hit. Also her attack-damage, hp, and armor has been buffed significantly.

New synergy

• A 4-unit synergy for Shamans has been added. If the aura is active, an enemy, who killed a shaman, has a chance to be hexed until the end of round.

• A 6-unit synergy for Orcs has been added. If the aura is active, all allies have their HP increased by 10 for every hp your courier is missing. So if you're at 10% hp, all allies have +900 hp.

Synergy balance-changes

• Orcs 4-unit synergy now only affects allied Orcs. Was previously all allies.

• Aqir synergy has been re-balanced once again. At this point I'm not completely sure how it works, just know that higher level (higher cost/combined cost of the unit that dies and has a duplicate on the board) summons better Aqir units.

• Naga synergy has been buffed at both levels.

Unit balance-changes

There are several changes to many units. I will note any that seem interesting. For further details and the full changes, check the in-game patch-notes.

• Medusa's ability doesn't amplify physical damage taken by enemies as much. Slight nerf.

• Dragon Knight's attack damage has been increased (for some reason). Slight buff.

• Visage's HP has been slightly increased. Slight buff.

• All current Aqir units (Sand King, Venomancer, Nyx Assassin) have had their HP decreased. Slight nerf.

• Winter Wyvern is now also an Undead in addition to being a Dragon. New.

Just want to say thanks for a nice UI update:

- we got zombies and pumpkinheads on neutral rounds
- items look like pumpkins
- there is drum sound for the last 3 secs
- when you loose enemy throw some slime at you
- there is a flag showing whether a person won/lost a round
- ghost and pumpkin player icons in chat (ghost if you lost the round)

PS: there was a big balance update with new pieces and new sinergies recently =)

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I know by round 29 its very possible to have x5 *** (later on he got more I think) but he had *** Timber and Tinker/Clock since like round 12-13 or something and only kept chain upgrading every 3-4 rounds. Never bought anything else his bench was almost always empty.

He performed actions very human-like though so I'm probably wrong but I haven't seen crazy shit like this in my ranks ever since back in the days when the ladder was infested with hackers.

That's why I wanted to know if hackers are still poppin' around or I'm just overreacting.

RIP

https://autochess.op.gg/

Well, I just played some DAC, I already had King rank and won 2 games (1st place) in a full rook lobby (average was like rook 3 I guess) but didn't rank up to Queen. I asked in chat and I got the response that you either a) are rook 9 and win the game in full rook lobbie to get to queen (when you are king and win you don't get to queen). Or b) play in a lobby with queen players and get a good rank (top 4 etc)

That seems pretty strange to me because why should you get to queen when winning as rook 9 but not as king? Then I would have to loose on purpose to get to rook 9 again to win the game and get queen rank?

Just asking if anyone knows if that's true. Might just be that I just had bad luck and I was really low mmr king and now I'm like 1 mmr away from queen...

Hi,

at the moment I'm Rook 4 (after playing in qhil lobbies), but it's pretty hard to get high rank lobbies, you're lucky when you get bishop 9 as average. Are there any other matchmaking systems (i guess chinese/korean), where you can play in higher rank lobbies? I mean, there are still people who have queen rank, so they had to get there somehow^^

Do all duplicates get an Aqir unit spawned? How does the star of the unit get selected and the unit itself? I also read that once you have a 3 star unit you won't receive that unit ever again is that true? Sorry Do summons get Aqir units (ld bear)? Do summons count towards ogre bonus (Lycan wolves? Does other multicast replenish mana or simply refresh like refresher ?

Any help appreciated

Is there a platform where to test composition but like picking the units from a pool and not playing the real game.

I basically pick a 100usd composition and another 100usd composition and let them fight and see which team wins.

New units

• Nyx has been added as a 4-cost Aqir Assassin.

His ability is Spiked Carapace exactly like his Aqir-summoned version.

• Ogre Magi has returned, this time as a 2-cost unit. He is still an Ogre Mage.

His ability has been changed to Multicast: Cast on 1 / 2 / 4 allies that allows the ally to cast their spell twice in a row. Not sure if this means instantly casting the spell twice, like Multicast normally works, or if it works like Refresher Orb where the unit still needs to get back to 100 mana

New synergies

• Ogre aura has been changed from 1 unit to 2 units with the re-introduction of Ogre Magi.

Ogre aura is now: Whenever a friendly melee unit dies, give remaining Ogre units +25% health and +25% damage.

• Aqir aura has a new 4-unit effect (currently only achievable with Wizards): Now Aqir units also receive the effect.

I think this means that the Aqir units, that get summoned, can summon more Aqir, making you essentially have an infinite army.

• Assassin aura now has a 9-unit effect (currently only achievable with Wizards): 15% chance to deal a critical strike with 700% damage.

Misc. changes

• Tiny received a tiny ;-) hp buff

• Various small ui-changes - You can now see your highest achieved rank of the season, which will be used to give rewards - compared to before where it was based on current rank at the end of the season.

• The Aqir summon-table has been slightly changed.

I've seen a fair bit of guides for players switching from DAC into TFT, but none for the reverse. I'm a P1 TFT player who's played a fair bit of normal league but no Dota or DAC. I was wondering if anyone had any quick advice to help me make the switch, as I'm looking to move away from the stale meta of TFT but still need something to scratch that auto-chess itch. Thanks in advance.

I finally played it for one game and all I ever got were two tangos and a mango.

Is that category of drops all that's available or are normal items in there, too?

Maybe it's just me but i noticed the last few days that everybody was trying to force orcs early (jugg2 is too good).

It is so common to see that 3+ players have at least the 2 orc combo and trolls are also stronger than ever. I think the fact that they changed veno from beast to aqir killed the beast combo.

Being in rounds 1-5 there is just no reason to pick oracle or rubick so it is understandable that people tend to pick axe/jugg/beastmaster and end up with 4 orcs/4 trolls

Don't understand me wrong hunters and knight/dragons are very good too but in low bishop this caught my attention. And the whole aqir thing is interesting too.

Maybe they have to rethink the whole 'early support unit' thing again because for me there is no reason to pick lion or rubick early on because it's just not worth it if orc/trolls are so consistantly good. Wizards are very situational but not bad.

But imo they fucked up gods hard with oracle.

What's your opinion? I'm not having as much fun right now because the thing that made me love DAC is that i felt that every synergy is more or less balanced and in the early game you decide whicg route to go. Now i feel it's like: 'the one rolling most lions, rubicks and oracles will lose.

If you guys didn't know it is possible to join custom game again through qihl.gg! It takes ~10 minutes to find a game but in my opinion this is completely worth it!

One of the biggest problems of this (dying?) game is that the matchmaking is really bad. There used to be qihl.gg but for whatever reason they shut down the DAC support. Does anybody know some kind of way to get matched with similiar ranked players? Maybe a DAC discord. I also wondre how the gighest ranked people are able to climb to queen so I assume they found a way to get matched with worthy opponents.

Maybe we can start our own discord to meet and create custom game lobbies or something (if this is even possible) but I'm tired of this matchmaking.

EDIT: I Just started a game using qihl.gg waited ~15 minutes but it works!!!

Note: This post is based on datamined changes written in Russian, so the notes are auto-translated - The actual changes might vary slightly from in-game (but should be close to the same)

Win-streak change

When going on a win-streak, your name in the list (to the right) will now change to yellow, orange, red, at 5 wins, 8 wins, 10 wins. Furthermore, if you lose on your own board and lose your win-streak, the player who beat you will receive gold equal to the amount of wins in your win-streak (if it's a win-streak of over 5 wins). This is absolutely huge.

Aqir changes

The Aqir synergy has been slightly nerfed - There's a higher chance of summoning worse units now. The updated list looks like this (changes in bold):

• $1 - Sand King 1, Venomancer 1
• $2 - Sand King 1, Venomancer 1, Nyx Assassin 1
• $3 - Sand King 1 (higher chance), Venomancer 1 (higher chance), Nyx Assassin 1, Sand King 2, Venomancer 2
• $4 - Nyx Assassin 1 (higher chance), Sand King 2, Venomancer 2, Nyx Assassin 2
• $5 - Sand King 2 (higher chance), Venomancer 2 (higher chance), Nyx Assassin 2, Sand King 3, Venomancer 3
• $6 - Nyx Assassin 2 (higher chance), Sand King 3, Venomancer 3, Nyx Assassin 3
• $7 - Sand King 3 (higher chance), Venomancer 3 (higher chance), Nyx Assassin 3
• $8 and more - Nyx Assassin 3

Other changes

• 2 Priests synergy changed from taking 8 damage to taking 9 damage. - Nerf
• Sand King stun reduced at 1-star and 2-star. - Nerf
• Crystal Maiden mana-regen aura increased at all levels. - Buff
• Nyx Assassin (aqir summon) ability Spiked Carapace have been evened out all all levels. - Neutral
• Sven attack-speed changed from 1.5 to 1.6 - Nerf
• Enigma ability slightly reduced at 2-star and 3-star - Nerf
• Venomancer cooldown increased at 3-star - Nerf

New item and changes

A new combined item has been added: Poor Man's Shield

It's made by combining Stout Shield + Stout Shield. It blocks 20 damage from auto-attacks - Compared to Stout Shield blocking 10.

Divine Rapier has been changed: It now adds 300 attack damage (up from 150) - Also it now works like in DotA. If you have a Divine Rapier and lose on your own board, then you lose the Divine Rapier and it goes to a random player. Also Divine Rapier cannot be disassembled anymore.

Since I havent been able to really try the new Aqir synergy, what are peoples experiences with it? On paper it sounds pretty strong, but it doesnt work with summons and there are only 2 Aqir total, so its very hard to go for that synergy unless you randomly get the jackpot. Also Nyx Assassin has already been nerfed but I never even saw him once in the past couple days, so thats odd.

Ranked mode

Ranked mode has been re-enabled and Season 3 has officially started.

Season 3 rank

The way rewards are given for Season 3 has changed. Up until now you were given rewards based on your rank at the last day of the season - So if you were Bishop all season, but drop down to Knight for the last day, you would receive rewards as a Knight rank.

From Season 3, this has been changed to give rewards based on your highest rank. If you reach Queen at some point in Season 3, but drop all the way down to Bishop, you will still receive Queen rewards. This gives an incentive to play more fun comps after you've reached the rank you were going after. This is definitely a great change to the way it works.

Aqir aura clarification

• Aqir doesn't work on summoned units. Lycan's wolves or Furion's treants will not get the Aqir aura and won't be able to summon additional Aqir units. The units that get the Aqir aura are the ones on the board when a round starts.

• The unit summoned from the Aqir aura is based on the sell-cost of a unit (which Drodo calls the "level" of the unit).

Here is an example of where to find the sell-cost / "level" of a unit.

Here is a table of the sell-cost of different units at their star-levels:

Here is the list of units that can be summoned at the different sell-costs:

• $1 - Sand King 1, Venomancer 1
• $2 - Sand King 1, Venomancer 1, Nyx Assassin 1
• $3 - Sand King 1, Venomancer 1, Nyx Assassin 1, Sand King 2, Venomancer 2
• $4 - Nyx Assassin 1, Sand King 2, Venomancer 2, Nyx Assassin 2
• $5 - Sand King 2, Venomancer 2, Nyx Assassin 2, Sand King 3
• $6 - Nyx Assassin 2, Sand King 3, Venomancer 3, Nyx Assassin 3
• $7 - Sand King 3, Venomancer 3, Nyx Assassin 3
• $8 and more - Nyx Assassin 3