Dust of Appearance

Item

 

Changelogs

 

Dust of Appearance is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Consumables.

Dust of Appearance
One may hide visage, but never volume.
Consumables Cost 80 Sell Value 40  / Count Stacks NO LIMIT / Inventory Slot Active Reveal Charges 1 INIT Bonus ? Shareable Usage Alert ? Recipe

Ability

Reveal

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Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Reveals and slows invisible heroes by 20% in a 1050 radius around the caster for 12 seconds. Invisible units revealed by dust take 25 damage.

Radius: 1050

Damage: 25

Move Speed Slow: 20%

Duration: 12

30

0

Modifiers [?]

modifier_item_dustofappearance

Any

Notes:

• Interrupts the caster's channeling abilities upon cast.

• Places a debuff on enemies (including visible ones) within the radius upon cast. Leaving or entering the radius afterwards has no effect.
  • Unlike the visual effect, the Reveal's effects are applied within the entire radius instantly upon cast.

• The damage is only applied to enemy units that are invisible upon cast. Units that are not invisible, or already revealed units are not damaged.
  • This means Reveal first applies the damage, and then places the debuff on the targets.

• Multiple debuffs do not stack, but refresh the duration instead.

• Can place the debuff on units in the Fog of War and invulnerable units, but not on hidden units or on wards.

• Cannot detect units under the effect of Shadow Dance, Depth Shroud and Smoke of Deceit (although the debuff is still placed on them).

• Only slows units when they actually are invisible. This means during the fade time or fade delay of invisibility, the unit is not slowed.

Recommended Heroes

Dust of Appearance is usually purchased by gankers and heroes who can pick off enemies on their own, being very useful to counter invisibility heroes and Shadow Blade.

Tips

• The debuff can be easily dispelled by some heroes, such as Weaver.
• Items like Black King Bar, Lotus Orb, Eul's Scepter of Divinity and Manta Style can also remove the debuff, so plan accordingly and consider other detection items, like Sentry Wards or a Gem of True Sight.

Trivia

• Prior to the July 14, 2017 Patch, Dust of Appearance's active ability, Reveal, did not have an official name. The name was taken from the Dota 2 Wiki and officially implemented into Dota 2.

Gallery

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  Using Dust of Appearance

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  In-game model

Recent Changes

Main Article: Dust of Appearance/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.31

• Reveal now deals 25 magical damage to invisible enemies upon placing the debuff. [?]

7.25c

• Reduced gold cost from 90 to 80 .

7.23

• Dust of Appearance now comes in packs of 1 for 90 instead of 2 for 180 .

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