7.31 Patch: The Official Death of Techies

[Space Sheriff Gavan]

Taking away stun wards, remote mines, minefield sign, moving mines ability and 251+ damage (talent tree) means the death of this character for Techies lovers. They might as well delete this hero altogether. It's like removing blink, evasion and crit from PA.

I don't know why the heavy-handed changes but now, Techies has zero stopping power (especially mid to late game). No stun wards means almost always confirmed death when spotted by enemy carries. Damages too low and spell combos ineffective to be a carry. Blast Off is more encouraged now since there's lack of damage but it also means more unnecessary deaths. Clearly the people who reworked Techies were in-game victims who had vengeful hatred for this nuker.

No joy playing this hero anymore. Other intel heroes make more sense than this new Techies which the dev team butchered. No one is going to spend 4k+ gold to get an Aghan just to 'transfer' Reactive Tazer to a teammate. Techies as a supp is now pointless in late games compared to other supps.

Major disappointment that they killed off Techies while pretending it's a hero update.

[x Princess Leliana x]

Good. ♥♥♥♥ techies and ♥♥♥♥ techies lovers. This hero was the antithesis of everything dota was about. Good on valve for finally making them more compatible with the actual game.

[Nuc_Temeron]

Thank goodness! Everyone hates Techies. He has needed a total rework for years.

[VỊT TIỀM THUỐC LẮC]

Don't worry, next patch, riki no invis, pa no crit, am no blink. Those trash developer do not even trained about dota 2 history, may be Valve hired LoL player to Dev dota 2 now. I guess so. Trash patch. I am feeding using techies from ancient to herald and I swear I will rape all of new player as hard as I can, chase them away from this game

[Highrule -1]

Techies did need a rework, but nobody can convince me that this new Techies isn't ass-tier. It's now a one-trick pony centered around ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Blast Off! out of all of his skills.

[VỊT TIỀM THUỐC LẮC]

Originally posted by Highrule -1:

Techies did need a rework, but nobody can convince me that this new Techies isn't ass-tier. It's now a one-trick pony centered around ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Blast Off! out of all of his skills.

techies no long can suicide. that's mean U blas-off in then U die. this is how Valve designed this new hero. not techies.

[Mengky]

It's not even a hero anymore. It's a Neutral Creeps

[Mr. Balls Johnson]

Good, techies should've never been in the game to begin with.

[Crimson]

Techies, love him or hate him you cannot deny he was unique. The new Techies doesn't even resemble Techies anymore. They should of just deleted Techies if they were gonna butcher him so badly and just made a new character. Techies was my favourite character in Dota, hell even one of my favourite characters in any video game. Not just for play style but lore too and personality. What I loved was the strategy behind him and the psychological warfare, it was truly unique and extremely fun if you like scaring the enemy team by setting up minefields or baiting them into traps - it took a lot of work to set up but it was rewarding watching it pay off. After what they did I uninstalled and after thousands of hours and lots of money I will never play this game again. The game had been going downhill since 7.00.

I could tolerate to an extent the smurfing, the new heroes that look like they're from league and play like they're from league, the countless other stupid changes, the death of jungle role, even valve getting more money hungry and creating more fomo arcanas and doing more than one battle pass a year, not to mention them cancelling the international constantly and not letting people sell last year's immortals but what they did to Techies is unacceptable.

The only people cheering about the death of Techies and his rework are morons who don't know how to ward or end a game early or people that didn't play him or didn't even bother trying to learn him. He was EASILY counter-able before his re-work you just had to ward and not fall for basic mind games. Also people act like he was some menace in every match with a super high pick and win rate. He wasn't, I won't deny he was controversial and super disliked but he wasn't super overpowered or super popular. His new abilities don't fit his theme nor character and they just seem weird. He's definitely not a nuker anymore and he's definitely not Techies anymore.

[ლ(ಠ益ಠ)ლ]

pls, cry in silence.

[Disco Mann]

Originally posted by Demolition Mann:

Originally posted by x Princess Leliana x:

Good. ♥♥♥♥ techies and ♥♥♥♥ techies lovers. This hero was the antithesis of everything dota was about. Good on valve for finally making them more compatible with the actual game.

you're a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bro you just want dota to become league of legends

even teemo is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ better than this garbage they gave us

[gHosT]

Techies had now become a highly active hero compared to the previous patches. He no longer will camp at a single place, never 1 shot the ancient, or spawn kill in the fountain.

My opinion on the new techies.
The new W is a useless skill. Atlest not the same impact as the previous stasis. Even the aganims sceptor is useless. Why spend 4200 gold to use that stupid ability on allies. Can't deny? That's understandable. The other skills are fine too, nothing wrong with it.

Here is a suggestion, the aganim scepter upgrade should be remote mines. No need minefield sign.

They did that to other heroes too right? Shuftle the abilities around? Tinker March of the machines, omni aura etc. Why can they do the same with techies.

[VỊT TIỀM THUỐC LẮC]

Originally posted by Priscilla of Ariamis:

Techies, love him or hate him you cannot deny he was unique. The new Techies doesn't even resemble Techies anymore. They should of just deleted Techies if they were gonna butcher him so badly and just made a new character. Techies was my favourite character in Dota, hell even one of my favourite characters in any video game. Not just for play style but lore too and personality. What I loved was the strategy behind him and the psychological warfare, it was truly unique and extremely fun if you like scaring the enemy team by setting up minefields or baiting them into traps - it took a lot of work to set up but it was rewarding watching it pay off. After what they did I uninstalled and after thousands of hours and lots of money I will never play this game again. The game had been going downhill since 7.00.

I could tolerate to an extent the smurfing, the new heroes that look like they're from league and play like they're from league, the countless other stupid changes, the death of jungle role, even valve getting more money hungry and creating more fomo arcanas and doing more than one battle pass a year, not to mention them cancelling the international constantly and not letting people sell last year's immortals but what they did to Techies is unacceptable.

The only people cheering about the death of Techies and his rework are morons who don't know how to ward or end a game early or people that didn't play him or didn't even bother trying to learn him. He was EASILY counter-able before his re-work you just had to ward and not fall for basic mind games. Also people act like he was some menace in every match with a super high pick and win rate. He wasn't, I won't deny he was controversial and super disliked but he wasn't super overpowered or super popular. His new abilities don't fit his theme nor character and they just seem weird. He's definitely not a nuker anymore and he's definitely not Techies anymore.

Techies is the unique hero that LoL will never have or never made it. Psychological warface is the thing that make him so unique and compelling. Additionally, Techies is the hero that player use alot of experience to get into enemy head, predict where they will move, what they will do to plan bomb effectively. the feeling when U read enemy thinking and it happen as u expected that they will do, will never be comparable.

May Valve just hired a bunch of LoL player to develop a stupid patch like this. they have no idea about the dota 2 story, techies theme, character at all.

what next may be, riki will be visible, AM no longer have blink. I guest. So sad

[Gizmo]

Originally posted by Hasta La Vista, Baby:

Taking away stun wards, remote mines, minefield sign, moving mines ability and 251+ damage (talent tree) means the death of this character for techies lovers. They might as well delete this hero altogether. It's like removing blink, evasion and crit from PA.

I don't know why the heavy-handed changes but now, techies has zero stopping power (especially mid to late game). No stun wards means almost always confirmed death when spotted by enemy carries. Damages too low and spell combos ineffective to be a carry. Blast off more encouraged now since there's lack of damage but it also means more unnecessarily deaths.

No joy playing this hero anymore. Other intel heroes make more sense than this new Techies which the dev team butchered. No one is going to spend 4k+ gold to get an Aghan just to 'transfer' Reactive Tazer to a teammate. Techies as a supp is now pointless in late games compared to other supps.

Major disappointment that they killed off Techies while pretending it's a hero update.

Lol it reminds me of cancel culture
Some whims complained about him none stop and developers basicaly killed the hero.
While tinker was imba and they made him even stronger...

[Not Finland]

no game can bring the experience of the old techis

[FUBAR]

This is like giving AWP glock damage.