Diretide 2013



Diretide 2013 is a Halloween event that began on November 14, 2013. It is similar to Diretide 2012 with some changes, most notably that Roshan must now be killed repeatedly to obtain the server record, instead of being killed the fastest.

Stages
The Diretide 2013 game mode consists of three stages.

How to Obtain
Greevil Taffy can be aquired in the first two stages of Diretide by:


 * Killing Roshlings (2 pieces each)
 * Killing jungle creep (1-2 pieces per group)
 * Stealing from the enemy's candy bucket
 * Killing enemies and taking any taffy they're carrying

Other information

 * Picking up a piece of Greevil Taffy will reduce the player's maximum HP by 7.5% (stacking).
 * Dying in any way causes a player to drop all his/her Greevil Taffy.
 * Greevil Taffy can be transferred between players, including enemies.
 * Depositing Taffy in the candy bucket will grant gold and experience to all players, including enemies.

Fighting Roshan
Each time you kill him Roshan he will respawn with a higher level, extra health and more abilities to use. There is also a timer that will start ticking down and if you fail to kill Roshan in that time then the round will finish (killing Roshan will extend the timer).


 * Apocalypse
 * Wave of Force
 * Toss
 * Fire Breath - "Roshan breathes a lethal arc of searing fire."
 * Fireball - "Roshan launches a number of slow moving fireballs at all nearby enemies."
 * Summon Roshlings - "Roshan calls a group of Roshlings to aid him."

He also has a couple of new modifiers:

Spell Block - "Roshan will block one targeted spell every 15 seconds." Devotion - "Armor bonus that increases as time goes on." Waiting - "Roshan is waiting for a victim to attack!"


 * Roshan has level*15000 HP.


 * Roshan has very powerful AoE attacks that need to be avoided.

Rewards
Players will receive one item for collecting more taffy than the opposing team, as well as one item for at the end of the match. Possible rewards for both instances are:


 * Recipe: Materialize Item
 * Quas Essence
 * Wex Essence
 * Exort Essence

In addition, there is a chance of receiving a rarer item for killing Roshan. This chance increases by 33% for every extra level Roshan gained before end of the game.


 * Cursed Recipe: Materialize Item
 * Shadow Essence

Sugar Rush Hall of Fame


The teams who last the longest against Roshan will receive the very rare Platinum Baby Roshan. This record resets every cycle (time needed).

Differences from 2012
Add icons and infoboxes and stuff later - Lemon


 * Roshan has a new skill set.
 * Roshan has two new costumes - Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster
 * All items can now be bought anywhere on the map during the last stage.