Talk:Purge

I'm glad somebody finally made this page, but there are some issues.

First: Is purge really a disable? All purges cause a slow, but if that's their only disabling element then this page is redundant with the Slow page (which is in the process of being rewritten).

Second: This page looks good, but it needs to be reformatted to be consistent with the others. Example: Silence

Third: The resized Diffusal Blade icon isn't necessary. Unless we were to make one for every item. But that sounds like more trouble than its worth.

-Stupid Lemon Eater 20:15 April 13, 2012


 * Done. I'd consider it a disable, yes. Nickoladze 03:24, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

-Hi, I haven't bothered to make an account yet, but I am editing the abilities which are not purged section. Please forgive the lack of alphabetical order, as I am current testing ingame which buffs/debuffs are being purged in haphazard way.
 * Appreciate it. There's got to be a better way to organize these, maybe a 5 column table with each hero and his 4 abilities and then describing whether they are purgable, not purgable, or N/A. Decency 23:14, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Trere is a loooong list of effects which cannot be purged so maybe it will be useful to add list of effects which can be?

Hello, i'm not sure if the medusa's Stone Gaze still purge the enemies or the stone debuff is applied after a purge. either way i updated that ability (it was the tooltip from before the rework)


 * Hi, I would also like to suggest that Abaddon's Aphotic Shield be added to the purge section. Although it is not a true "purge" effect (ie: doesn't have slow, only dispells some abilites) it never the less is a type of dispel and therefore I think it's important to be included in this section.

There is the missing Brewmaster ultimate AOE purge ability, would that fit in this catagory (1/08/2014)

Self-purges.
Aphotic Shield, Borrowed Time, Kraken Shell, Press the Attack removes the same debuffs? Repel and Blade Fury removes the same buffs that can be purged by an enemy? Reincarnation purges everything or there is some debuffs persisting after death? Are Phantasm, Mirror Image working just like purges? Is Bloodrage/Dark Pact removes more de/buffs than Purge/Magic Immunity. Do invulnerabilities purge? Like Time Walk, Waveform, Sleight of Fist, Omnislash, Phase Shift, Ball Lightning, Nightmare, Astral Imprisonment, Disruption. What are differences between purge and cyclons? What de/buffs Ethereal purges? Is Stone Gaze purge anymore? Does Activate Fire Remnant and Ethereal Jaunt purges anything?

(as far as I know) Purge[Dispel] has two meanings; it removes negative buffs on allies from enemies (battle hunger, silence), and it removes positive buffs that enemies have on them (enrage, bloodlust, living armor)

Abaddon's skills, Kraken shell, Press the attack remove every purgeable buffs and also not-generally purgeable buffs (venomous gale, viper strike), including stuns and equivalent (dismember, fiends grip). Dark pact also seems to have the same properties. Time lapse also removes not-generally purgeable buffs but cannot removes stun because it's an active spell. Note that Apotic shield and PtA can target an allied unit, while others only affect hero itself.

Magic immunity activation :BKB, blade fury, rage remove every purgeable buffs and also some not-generally purgeable buffs (Halberd's disarm, curse of silence), and remove some positive buffs like Empower, rune buff, Ghost scepter (but not Ethereal blast, decrepify). Repel further removes positive buffs like friendly decrepify, ethereal blast, mom, as well as what BKB, blade fury, and rage remove.

Mirror image, Phantasm, Manta seem to remove exactly what typical purges (diffusal blade, satyr banisher purge) do. Bloodrage seems to act exactly the same as typical purges except that it does not remove Repel (note that Repel can only be removed by 'real purges') 3 source of cyclones seem to remove every purge-able buffs. Stonegaze is no longer a purge.

Invulnerability has nothing to do with buff/debuff removing & dispels. Fire remnant and Ethereal Jaunt has nothing to do with removing/dispelling buffs as far as I know, have any exception to this?

I have no idea about Reincarnation, but I remember I saw an weird clip on Youtube that shows some debuffs persist after death and buyback. (glimpse) I don't know that is intended or fixed out or ??? -???
 * It was about Glimpse and it is fixed Saspoon (talk)

I think it's quite case by case. Saspoon (talk) 02:42, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Replace list with the one in the dispel article
The list of purgeable abilities was incomplete and sometimes even wrong, I've done some testing and compiled a new complete one for all dispels in general, not just purges. See Dispel

I suggest the current list is removed and replaced with the above link. --Artorp (talk) 20:17, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Another source of purge
AW's wraith. Need to know its Update frequency. -- elite_stay

About stop
Since root does not provide True Sight necessarily, it seems there's no difference between root and stop. So I suggest combining stop and root. --Elite stay (talk) 15:51, 22 September 2016 (UTC)


 * The stop is a regular root. Only Oracle uses something different.  Bu3ny  (talk) 14:20, 26 September 2016 (UTC)