Diretide 2013

Diretide 2013 was a Halloween event that lasted from November 14 to November 28, 2013. It features a game mode 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. Special crafting recipes were also introduced for this event.

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)
 * Roshlings must be within ? range of an enemy hero to drop any Greevil Taffy.
 * Killing jungle creep (0-3 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). Maximum HP will not drop below 1.
 * 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 Roshan is killed he will respawn with a higher level with more abilities to use.
 * Roshan's health increases by 15,000 per level. (HP = Level*15000)
 * Roshan's Magic Resistance increases by 5 per level.
 * Roshan will randomly refresh player abilities once per life at 50% HP.
 * Roshan cannot be Disarmed, Stunned, Silenced, Rooted or Hexed with items (abilities still work).
 * Roshan takes no damage from Cleave.
 * Roshan movement cannot be obstructed during Sugar Rush.
 * Roshan will become weakened at certain intervals, becoming Stunned and taking extra damage.
 * Illusions cannot be created in this phase.
 * Wave of Force damage cannot be reflected.

Modifiers:


 * Spell Block - Roshan will block one targeted spell every 10 seconds.
 * Devotion - Armor bonus that increases as time goes on.
 * Waiting - Roshan is waiting for a victim to attack!

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

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 the end of the game.

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 (every 24 hours).

Differences from 2012

 * 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.
 * counter will be reset to 1.
 * Roshan is now unaffected by Hex and Root interruption
 * You can now use a password to only match against other players with the same password in Diretide Matchmaking

Map Changes
Cosmetic changes have been made to the map.


 * Autumn/Halloween theme.
 * Radiant creep models have been replaced with Ghost models.
 * Dire creep models have been replaced with Zombie models.
 * Rune models have been replaced with a pumpkin model.

Trivia

 * Valve did not originally plan on hosting Diretide 2013, but the event was eventually created after persistent community feedback.
 * During the months leading up to the event, the meme "༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ GIVE DIRETIDE" was commonly seen in streams and community websites.