7.19b highlights
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- Buyback time penalty made a flat 25 seconds rather than a percentage, making low-level buybacks a lot worse, and removes the reward for delaying high-level buybacks as long as possible (not that I think that people thought about that terribly much).
- Urn/Vessel nerfed to less obviously the be-all-end-all healing items.
- Sheepstick now has significant enough manacost that it isn't an obvious luxury buy for every hero late-game.
- Lot of obvious nerfs to overly popular heroes, but surprisingly no clear dumpstering (e.g. Enchantress losing 15 ms no doubt hurts a lot, but doesn't seem to make her unplayable). The exception is Spectre where the dagger linger is reduced (so a lot less flexibility just pathing out into terrain), Dispersion getting a lower radius (so supports wont drop like flies just being in the area), and Desolate radius upped (though by a fairly small amount).
- Crystal Nova getting another nerf for unclear reasons.
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crystal nova is insane or was at least so that's understandable
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Before it got nerfed last time sure, this second nerf seems excessive.
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Looks to me like they are buying time for another month before a proper patch.
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I would have almost thought they would just nerf denies a bit immediately, since that'd shift the meta overnight. Perhaps they don't intend to.
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Yeah 1 ranged creep deny in mid wins the lane almost, which makes not having glyph more punishing maybe. If you're against a Tiny or something with insane high dmg and he denies 1-2 ranged creeps it's fucking rough
