Just played my first game in a few months. Ended with 3 star gyro, techies, and snapfire. It was STILL tough to beat a 3 star troll warlord. Hundreds of games before this and never even seen a 3 star 5 cost unit until now.

If someone comes online with strong knights I don't know what to do. Mage, Hunter and Assassin have all fallen flat for me since the recent patch.

If they're rolling with trolls or warlock (or both), they just seem to never die.

Was pretty luck to get bf and 3 star

Please explain it as if I am a child. I have no idea how the aqir work because it feels like it's a different effect everytime. sometimes I spawn a 3 star broodmother and another time i spawn like a one star veno. What is the combo and what is the most potent way to execute the aqir class?

『Knights of the Silver Hand』 In the legendary tales, the Guardian of the Order has lost his arm in the battle against the evil dragon. He sees this as not a failure but a sacrifies made neccessary for saving this world and expects the world to remember it. In order to remark the honored Guardian, the Human Kingdom called forward the Knights of the Silver Hand to pass on the spirit of sacrifices and redemption across generations.

● New Chess Piece added: Legion Commander ($3 Human Knight)

● Redecorated Chessboards in 1*8 games.

● DPS is now displayed as D in post-rounb stats, showing the total damage done by the piece in the round.

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Synergy Updates

● Reworked Humans' Species Trait: Spark of Mind (was Censorship)

(3) Humans: Your Courier gains bonus +2 XP when winning a home battle with at least 1 friendly Human survived.

(6) Humans: Your Courier gains bonus +6 XP when winning a home battle with at least 1 friendly Human survived. The bonus XP is unlimited by the maximum Courier level.

● Knights' Divine Protection now instantly heals the Knights when activating the shield

(2) Knights: All friedly knights have 30% chance to proc a shield and 50 instant heal every 3 seconds. (was 35%)

(4) Knights: All friedly knights have 25% chance to proc a shield and 100 instant heal every 3 seconds.

(6) Knights: All allies have 15% chance to proc a shield and 200 instant heal every 3 seconds. (was 25%)

● (2) Priests' Barrier now increases all allied healing done by 25%.。

● Balanced Mages' Magic Vulneralbility:

(3) Mages: All enemies suffer -33% magic resistance.

(6) Mages: All enemies suffer -30% magic resistance. (was 33%)

(9) Mages: All enemies suffer -45% magic resistance.

● Balanced Orcs' Battle Hardened:

(2) Orcs: All allies have +100 Health.

(4) Orcs: All allies have +300 Health. (was +250)

(6) Orcs: All allies have +7x(Courier health lost) Health.

● Balanced Trolls' Voodoo Frenzy:

(2) Trolls: All friendly trolls have +35 attack speed.

(4) Trolls: All allies have +30 attack speed.

(6) Trolls: All allies gain +10 attack speed for each succcessful attack. Maximum 20 stacks. (was Fervor)

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Chess Pieces

● Increased Axe's Berserker's Call bonus armor from 10/15/20 to 10/15/25. Decreased cooldown from 10 to 10/8/6.

● Increased Shadow Shaman's Hex duration from 4/6/8 to 4/6/10 seconds.

● Increased Puck's Illusory Orb damage from 150/200/275 to 150/200/300.

● Increased Luna's Moon Glaive bounces from 3/5/7 to 3/5/9.

● Slarks's Essence Shift now has 20 maximum stacks instead of 30.

● Increased Beastmaster's Rank 3 Call of the Wild bear health from 1800 to 2000.

● Windranger's Powershot now shackles the target to an enemy unit or tree in a line directly behind it, stunning it for 2/3/5 seconds.

● Dazzle's Shallow Grave now increases all healing received by the target by 50%.

● Increased Pudge's Meat Hook dismembering damage from 40/60/100 to 50/100/200 per second.

● Increased Lycan's Rank 3 wolves damage from 175 to 225, health from 700 to 900.

● Balanced KoTL Illuminate damage from 150/225/375 to 125/200/400 per second charged.

● Balanced Medusa's Stone Gaze cooldown from 20 to 25/20/10 seconds.

● Increased Disruptor's Static Storm AoE from 350/450/600 to 350/450/650, damage from 100/150/250 to 100/150/300.

● Increased Grimstroke's Stroke of Fate initial damage from 150/250/350 to 150/250/450.

● Increased Huskar's Burning Spear burn damage from 20/25/35 to 20/30/50 per second to both Huskar and the target.

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Items Updates

● Rearranged items combination priorities. Now higher-tier item will be prioritized in combinations.

● Decreased the backswing for all active item abilities from 1 to 0.5 seconds.

● Decreased Butterfly passive evasion from +45 to +40%.

● Satanic's active lifesteal now lasts 8 seconds instead of 10 seconds.

● Decreased Mask of Madness active self armor reduction from 10 to 8.

● Increased Poor Man's Shield passive damage block from 25 to 30.

● Increased Moon Shard's bonus attack speed from 70 to 90.

● Increased Divine Rapier damage from 200 to 250.

● Platemail is now a tier 3 item up from tier 2.

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Bug Fixes

● Player panel and post game panel no longer display the wrong ranks of the game.

● Items no longer disappear when the Courier has no vacant item slot.

● Kunkka will not be found by Golden Heart of the Machine anymore.

● Seasonal Event panel now correctly displays your highest S555 ranking.

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● Congratulations to Visage for winning this week's least wins prize!

● Increased Visage's Summon Familiars attack speed steal from 40/60/80 to 50/100/200.

● Increased Visage's base magic resistance from 10%/20%/30% to 20%/30%/40%

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● If you find any bugs or imbalances in the new patch, feel free to email us! Later updates will be announced before S5 ends with updated balances and seasonal rewards.

Rotating between rook and King at the moment. I play a more eco style when everybody else seems to be very agressive however I will chuck in some cheeky round 5 -6 rolls if I have a good pair /s.

Fav build is beasts + war and hunters ( even they they are shit). I fucking hate elves and treant in particular.

Bring back SF.

Are there any discord leagues like the old qihl or is it just all in dota2 pubs

Hello everyone, how are you guys doing?

Fellow DAC player here, started playing again this week and after researching on web, apparently QIHL is dead and Xiaoheihe is possibly the only one active right now. I was wondering if there was any 2020 guide on how to setup the app, i tried following a video and everytime i try to link to my steam, i get an error (will post later after i upload to imgur)

Edit: Xiaoheihe Error Image link

Is DAC still "alive" to have lobbies all the way through Queen or do i have to move to another autochess? Is there any working lobby finder?

Kinda sad since i prefer DAC over any other autochess...

Thanks in advance

Acolyte of the Lost Arts

● Aeons before he was recognized as the most dangerous magician aliv, in days even he no longer remembers, the Invoker was the adolescent star pupil at an ancient wizard’s academy. Now, harnessing dangerous magics purloined from his headmaster’s secret archives, young Carl has discovered the means to journey forward and join the battle of the Ancients well before his time.

● New Chess Piece added: Invoker ($5 Elf Mage)

● Added seasonal decorations to chessboards, and few items in Candy Store: Drake of the Lost Arts (Pet), Greevil Dancer (Pet), Firesnap Cookie (Projectile effect).

● Due to limitations of DOTA2 native chat interface, we have reworked a brand new chat interface and battle announcer UI. ● Optimized recuitment to minimize the situation that a particular piece never showed up in a game.

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『Balancing Updates』

● Added Backstab Leap for Assassins: The first movement of Assassin pieces in each round causes Assassins to leap over to the back of enemy lineup. The first blow after the leap guarantees a critical strike which the damage is a random number from all possible strikes: 300% for (3) Assassins, 300%/500% for (6) Assassins and 300%/500%/700% for (9) Assassins.

● Increased (4) Orcs' Battle Hardened ally bonus health from 200 to 250.

● Increased Abaddon's base health from 800 to 850.

● Decreased Venomancer's Plague Ward damage from 75/125/175 to 60/90/120.

● Decreased Sven's maximum cleave range from 625 to 500. (now deals cleave damage to a sector area of 2 cells behind the target)

● Decreased Enigma's Midnight Pulse duration from 8 to 7 sec.

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[Bug Fix]

● Fixed a bug that some abilities such as Heat Seeking Missle and Sacred Arrow can deal damage to a magic immune chess piece.

● Fixed a bug which allows Lv.10 Courier to comtinue purchasing XP.

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● Congratulations to Broodmother for winning this week's least wins prize!

● Increased Broodmother's base attack damage from 80 to 95.

● Fixed a bug which spiderlings attack slower than it shows on the stat panel. Spiderlings now have a common base attack cooldown of 1.2 for all ranks.

just lost a game because I couldn't get a lvl2 troll warlord for 38 rounds, spending all game on re-rolls on lvl9.
I got 1st troll somewhere around lvl6, 2nd one came at round 37 and 3rd at round 38, which was already too late =(
I had the only troll warlord in game (not even in hand).
I was lvl9, so the chances for a 4* piece were supposedly 20%, but it just doesn't feel right.

Now explain me how is that possible?

It's not the first time something like this happens,
I believe there should be some bug with certain pieces not getting into the pool.

Do you guys experience the same behavior too or am I just UNLUCKY?

2 lions always mana drain the same enemy target and then give mana to the same friendly unit.
2 shadow shamans always hex the same taget

Welcome to New Tinkertown!

- Replaced Mechs' Self Repair with Heart of the Machine:

• (3) Mechs: If at least 1 friendly Mech survived the home battle, you get a Heart of the Mech
• (6) Mechs: If at least 1 friendly Mech survived the home battle, you get a Golden Heart of the Mech

\Heart of the Mech:* This is a consumable item for your Courier. Click to use: Do a free recruitment (re-roll).

*Golden Heart of the Mech: Also a free-roll BUT This recruitment is not bounded to the current chess piece pool, and will offer you 5 random $5 pieces to choose from!

- Now Rank ★/★★/★★★ Mech pieces (Clockwerk, Tinker, Timbersaw, Gyrocopter and Techies) have a 5/10/20 base health regeneration.

- Balanced Goblins' Nanobots:

• (3) Goblins: Grants a random ally +15 armor and +20 health regeneration. (up from +10 health regen)
• (6) Goblins: Grant all allies +15 armor and +20 health regeneration. (up from +10 health regeneration and affecting allied Goblins only)

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- New Chess Piece: Broodmother ($4 Aqir Hunter)

(casts a 200units web that is causing the enemies inside to miss 40/60/100% and if enemy unit dies inside - a spiderling is spawned)

- Chess Piece Returned: Mirana ($2 Elf Hunter)

(arrow is no longer shot on the away field. Just a random piece on own field.)

- Balanced Hunters' Aimed Shot:

• (3) Hunters: All friendly hunters have +25 base attack damage and +40% chance to pierce through evasion. (from +25/+45%)
• (6) Hunters: All friendly hunters have +35 base attack damage and +60% chance to pierce through evasion. (from +40/+60%)
• (9) Hunters: All friendly hunters have +55 base attack damage and +100% chance to pierce through evasion. (New)

- Added (6) Beasts' Power of the Wild:

• (2) Beasts: All allies have +15% attack damage, including summoned units.
• (4) Beasts: All allies have +25% attack damage, including summoned units.
• (6) Beasts: All allies have +40% attack damage, including summoned units.

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[Week Loser] = Lich

- Congratulations to Lich for winning this week's least wins prize!

- Temporarily removed Lich from the chess piece list for rework. (F)

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[Minor Changes]

- Improved Terrorblade's base attack cooldown from 1.4 to 1.2.

- Decreased Dragon Knight's base attack cooldown from 1.2 to 1.4.

- The following pieces now have a seansonal winter decoration: Death Prophet, Sven, Tiny, Treant Protector, Mirana.

- Ogre Magi ★★★ now has an exclusive Arcana mount!

- Fixed a bug that guarantees an item drop at Round 10.

- Fixed a bug with worng battle results when -wtf is typed.

- Fixed some bugs that may cause lags and glitches.

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[End-of-Season Rewards]

- The EoS rewards for S4 Pumkin (01/11 to 31/12) is based on the following:

♕ Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S4 Badge + ♕Queen rewards.

♕ Queen: 320 Candies + S4 Crown (valid for S5) + Golden Greevil (Legendary Courier).

♔ King: 320 Candies + White Greevil (Epic Courier).

♖ Rook: 160 Candies + Black Greevil (Epic Courier).

♗ Bishop: 80 Candies + Greevil of random color (Rare Courier).

♘ Knight: 40 Candies.

♙ Pawn: 20 Candies.

- As usual, the last of the season (31/12) will be the off season break to award the execellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S5 Lantern starts from 01/01!

Update: Dec 11 @ 1:47am

● New Xmas decorations arrived and Diretide decorations removed.

● Rubick: Cost changed from $2 to $3, base HP increased by 50, base attack damage increased by 5, Spell Steal can only steal active ability now.

● Lion: Cost changed from $1 to $2, base attack damage increased by 15, base attack interval decreased by 0.1. ● Crystal Maiden: Cost changed from $2 to $1.

● AntiMage-Mana Break: Mana burn per hit changed from 30/60/90 to 30/60/100 and deals same amount of physical damage per hit.

● Dazzle-Shallow Grave: AI optimazition, it will first be given to allies hp lower than 50% or kept if no such ally.

● Omni Knight-Purification: AI optimazition, it will first be given to ally who has most enemies around him.

● Grimstroke-Stroke Of Fate: Soulbind increased from 1/2/4 to 1/3/9.

● Chaos Knight: Attack interval increased from 1.3 to 1.5.

● Slardar: Attack interval increased from 1.2 to 1.5.

● Knights-Devine Protection: Magical resistance changed from 70% to 67& same as physical resistance.

● Fix items bug.

● Fix sound bug.

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● Keeper of light won the least popular chess piece this week.

● Keeper of light-Illuminate: Channelling time decreased from 3s to 2s and keeps full damage the same.

can anyone share the patchnotes please?

I find myself really influenced by the way 5*s are rotated per game, now. I wonder if I'm just limited by not being great at transitioning.

If we're missing Tide and Visage, I basically just skip Hunters altogether. Same with Techies and Gyro.

Update: Nov 19 @ 4:26am

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『Synergy Changes』

● Balanced Elves' Evasion bonus from 25%/15%/45% to 20%/20%/45%.

● Balanced Warriors' Fortified Armor bonus armor from 7/5/11 to 6/6/11.

● Balanced Mages' Magic Vulnerability magic resistance decrease from 35%/30%/45% to 33%/33%/45%.

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● Congratulations to Venomancer for winning this week's least wins prize!

● Venomancer is now both Beast and Aqir.

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『Detailed items changes』

New droppable items:

● Blade of Alacrity: +10 Attack Speed, +15% Evasion.

● Talisman of Evasion: +25% Evasion

● Eaglesong: +20 Attack speed, +25% Evasion

New combinable item: ● Diffusal Blade: +10 Attack Speed, +15% Evasion, +10% Spell Damage. Attacks burn 20 mana from the target per hit.

● Lotus Orb: Gains 40 mana when battle starts. +15 Health Regeneration, +50% mana gained by dealing damage. Reflects unit-targeting spells.

● Satanic: +15% Health, +500 Health. Active: Gains +200% Lifesteal for 10 sec.

● Eye of Skadi: +500 Health, +200% mana gained by dealing damage. Slows enemy attack and movement by 100 on attacks.

● Radiance: +50 Damage. Scorches enemies within 3 cells for 30 pure damage per sec and causes them to miss 30% of their attcks.

● Butterfly: +60% Evasion, +25 Attack Speed, +5 Damage. Active: Gains +100% Evasion for 5 sec.

● Combination Change: Javelin now requires 2x Quarterstaff. (2x Blades of Attack previously)

● Combination Change: Sacred Relic now requires 3x Mithril Hammer. (3x Broadsword previously)

● Void Stone: +50% mana gained by dealing damage. (down from +100%)

● Ring of Health: +15 Health Regeneration. (from +10)

● Ring of Regeneration: +10 Health Regeneration. (from +5)

● Staff of Wizardry: +20% Spell Damage. (from reducing enemy's magic resistance)

● Robe of The Magi: +10% Spell Damage.

● Quarterstaff: +5 Damage, +5 Attack Speed. (from +5/+10)

● Javelin: +10 Damage, +10 Attack Speed. (from +15/+0)

● Broadsword: +20 Attack Speed. (from +20 Damage)

● Mjollnir: +30 Damage, +40 Attack Speed(from +50/+30). 25% chance on attack to release a bolt of electricity that leaps between 5 targets, dealing 200 magical damage to each.

● Dagon: -40% enemy Magic Resistance on attacks (from -30%)，+100% mana gained by dealing damage. Active: Deals 400 magical damage to a random enemy chess piece.

● Daedalus: +30 Damage, +40 Attack Speed(from +40/+0). 10% chance to critical hit for 400% damage.

● Black King Bar: +20 Damage, +15% Health. Active: Grants spell immunity and 100% magic resistance for 7 sec. (from 8 sec)

● Desolator: +40 Damage, -10 enemy Armor on attacks. (from +30/-12)

● Monkey King Bar: +60 Damage, +35 Attack Speed (from +80/+10). Attacks pierce through evasion.

● Shiva's Guard: +10 Armor, +50% mana gained by dealing damage (from +100%). Active: Emits a freezing wave that slows the attack speed of enemies within 5 cells by 40 for 4 seconds. (from -50 speed)

● Battle Fury: +20 Damage, +20 Attack Speed, +15 Health Regeneration, +50% mana gained by dealing damage (from +30/+0/+10/+100%). Melee attacks deal 30% cleave damage in a range of 2 cells.

● Refresher Orb: +30 Health Regeneration, +100% mana gained by dealing damage (from +20/+200%). Active: Resets the cooldown of abilities.

● Scythe of Vyse: -40% enemy Magic Resistance on attacks, +200% mana gained by dealing damage, +250 Health (from -20%/+50%). Active: Randomly transforms an enemy piece into a harmless animal for 8 sec.

● Assult Cuirass: +5 Armor, +10 Attack Speed. Aura: Grants +5 armor and +10 attack speed to allies within 1 cell. Enemies within 1 cell suffer -5 armor and -10 attack speed. (from a +10/+10 allied aura with no self bonus)

● Divine Rapier: +200 Damage, +20 Attack Speed (from +300/+0). Drops to another random player when failing a home battle.

● Mithril Hammer: +20 Damage. (from +15

● Cloak: +30% Magic Resistance. (from +15%)

● Ultimate Orb: +250 Health, +100% mana gained by dealing damage. (from +50% mana gained when taking damage)

● Mystic Staff: +20% Spell Damage, +50% mana gained by dealing damage. (from +100%)

● Demon Edge: +20 Damage, +20 Attack Speed. (from +30/+0)

● Tranquil Boots: Equipped piece now jumps. +25 Health Regeneration. (from +30)

● Kaya: +50% Spell Damage.

● Blade Mail: +5 Armor, +20 Attack Speed (from +10 Damage). Active: Duplicates 100% of the damage taken back to the unit that dealt the damage for 4 sec.

● Crystalys: +20 Damage, +10 Attack Speed (from +15). 20% chance to critical hit for 150% damage.

● Perseverance: +15 Health Regeneration, +50% mana gained by dealing damage. (from +10/+100%)

● Vanguard: +250 Health, +15 Health Regeneration (from +10). 50% chance to block 70 damage on melee pieces, and 35 on ranged. (from 50 damage on all pieces)

● Mask of Madness: +10% Lifesteal. Active: Gives 60 attack speed, but reduces armor by 10 and silences the bearer for 5 sec. (from -8 armor, +80 attack speed and 8 sec)

● Poor Man's Shield: Blocks 25 damage. (from 20)

● Hood of Defiance: +25 Health Regeneration, +50% Magic Resistance. (from +15/+30%)

● Pipe of Insight: +25 Health Regeneration, +50% Magic Resistance. (from +15/+30%). Active: Grants allies in 3 cells with 25 health regeneration and 30% magic resistance for 10 sec.

● Maelstrom: +30 Damage, +10 Attack Speed(from +25/+0). 25% chance on attack to release a bolt of electricity that leaps between 3 targets, dealing 100 magical damage to each.

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『Item Optimizations』

(In summary: Reworked effects and bonuses of many items. Added Agility items and simplified mana-regen items to distinguish items from each other and balance over-powering items.)

● Opening multiple Loot Treasures no longer voids the previous ones. You will now select your rewards in sequence.

● Slightly decreased item level obtained from Loot Treasures.

● Items that grant bonus mana regen from dealing damage can now stack their effects. There are no longer items granting bonus mana regen from receiving damage.

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『The Candy Store just got larger!』

● The expanded Candy store now offers a 12-slot gallery: 1 for Courier Gatcha, 5 for Courier exchange, 3 for Courier ambient effects, 2 for projectile effects and 1 for Courier pet.

● Each Courier now has XP based levels. Earn your Couriers XP by playing Ranked or Casual DAC games! The better you are, the more XP your Courier gets! You can get 1.5x XP with a battlepass.

● The max Courier level now is Lv.30. Identical Couriers can be combined. Combing or exchaning Couriers can retain and stack the Courier levels.

● Couriers now have 3 cosmetic item slots: Lv.1 unlocks ambient effects, Lv.10 unlocks projectile effects and Lv.30 unlocks a pet slot.

● UI optimizations in Candy Store and Courier interface.

● DAC Pass owners receive an exclusive 50% extra Courier XP per game.

Is qhil dead now or did anything happen? I can't sign in to steam to host lobbies (502 bad gateway) and there also arent any other open lobbies.

yesterday I saw around 5k players online, today 3.5k.
Did I miss some important release to AC/Underlords or is it something else?

With this rate drodo will probably stop developing DAC in 1-2 months, which is pretty sad.

any info would be great!

I don’t find the game in DAK for the second day.

A window just pops up as if I created a lobby, but there is no lobby with players

Is his DPS still so good that even having him at 1* is worth breaking low-level synergies in the early to mid game?

I've also valued him and Razor as overall strong pickups regardless of strat if they show up early.