Gold

Gold

 

Changelogs

 

“

▶️ Now that's how you make gold. — Alchemist

”

Gold is the currency used to buy items or instantly revive your hero. Gold can be earned from killing heroes, creeps, or buildings.

Reliable & Unreliable Gold

A player's gold is split into reliable gold and unreliable gold. The passive gold income of every player, as well as gold gained from activating bounty runes, is considered reliable gold, while any other source of gold income is considered unreliable gold.

The difference between the two is how each one is spent:

• Dying only takes away gold from the unreliable gold pool.
• Buying items uses up the unreliable gold first before falling back to reliable gold.
• Buyback uses reliable gold first.

Hovering the mouse courser over the gold display in the HUD shows brings up a tooltip showing reliable and unreliable gold totals.

Acquiring gold

Starting gold

Every hero starts with 600 gold and 1 Town Portal Scroll at the beginning of the game. If the player randoms, they are given a Faerie Fire and an Enchanted Mango as well. None of these free items can be sold.

Periodic gold

Each player passively receives 1 reliable gold every 0.6 seconds (starting from 0:00 on the game clock), which results in 100 gold every minute, at the start of the game. This periodic gold increases over time based on the in-game clock.

Time in game	GPM from this time onward
0 minutes	100 GPM
5 minutes	106 GPM
22 minutes	112 GPM
40 minutes	120 GPM
62 minutes	128 GPM

The following abilities passively grant gold as well

• Philosopher's Stone
  
  Gold Per Minute: 80
  Gold Type: Reliable
  

Bounty Rune

Main Article: Bounty Rune

Bounty

▶️

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self / Allies

Grants bonus Gold.

Initial Spawn Team Gold: 40

Following Spawn Base Team Gold: 36

Following Spawn Extra Team Gold per Interval: 9

Extra Team Gold Interval: 300

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Notes:

• The initial runes spawning at the 0:00 minute mark give a fixed amount of 40 gold to each player.

• Following Bounty Runes grant a base amount of 36, plus 9 extra gold for every 5 minutes past.
  • When bottling a Bounty Rune, it grants gold based on the time at which it is activated, not bottled.

• Using a stored Bounty Rune with Bottle only grant 2 charges.

• Grants reliable gold to each player of the team that picks it up.

• An over-head text shows how much gold was given exactly. This number is not visible to enemies.

• When gaining gold from a Bounty Rune, a small golden particle effect briefly bursts from the player, visible to everyone.

• In Turbo Mode, the gold given by Bounty Runes is doubled. (despite the notification message showing standard values)

Abilities

A few items and abilities are able to directly grant gold to the player in different ways.

• Alchemist - Greevil's Greed
  
  Base Gold Bonus: 3
  Extra Gold Bonus per Stack: 3
  Stack Duration: 36
  Bounty Rune Multiplier: 1.5/2/2.5/3
  Gold Type: Unreliable
  Bonus gold from Greevil's Greed can reach a maximum of 15/18/21/24 gold per kill.
• Bounty Hunter - Jinada
  
  Gold Stolen: 12/20/28/36 ( 62/70/78/86)
  Gold Type: Unreliable
  
• Bounty Hunter - Track
  
  Self Bonus Gold: 130/225/320 ( 380/475/570)
  Allies Bonus Gold: 40/80/120 ( 290/330/370)
  Gold Type: Unreliable
  Bonus gold is awarded if enemy is killed while Tracked. The enemy's current gold is visible in the Track tooltip.
• Doom - Devour
  
  Gold Gain: 60/120/180/240 ( )
  Gold Type: Unreliable
  Bonus gold is awarded after a wait period of seconds.
• Hand of Midas - Transmute
  
  Gold Gain: 160
  Gold Type: Unreliable
  Does not give the creep's regular bounty.

Hero kills

Hero kills grant unreliable gold to the killer. The first hero that is killed in a match gives a bonus 135 unreliable gold to the killer; this is called ▶️ First Blood!. Bonus gold is also awarded for stopping kill streaks.

When a hero dies to enemy creeps or an enemy tower and has not been damaged by any enemy heroes in the last 20 seconds (regardless of distance between heroes), the kill gold is split among all enemy heroes. When a hero dies to enemy creeps or an enemy tower and has been damaged by only one enemy, that enemy is credited with the kill. When a hero dies to enemy creeps or an enemy tower and has been damaged by two or more enemies, the gold is split equally amongst all heroes that assisted. Damage negation to 0 credits as assist too.

Every time a hero kills an enemy hero, the killer is awarded unreliable gold using the following formula:

Hero Kills Base Gold	First Blood Gold
120	135

$\sum {Bounty}_{Gold}=b_{Gold}+(DeadHero_{\text{LVL}}\times 8)+Streak_{\text{Gold}}+FB$

Kill Streaks

As a hero accrues multiple kills without dying that player is said to be on a Kill Streak. An additional gold bounty is granted to the player that ends another player's kill streak; this is sometimes called Shutdown Gold. Kill streaks start at 3 kills and increase for each kill up to 10 kills, but do not increase beyond 10 kills.

The streak bounty is defined by the following formula:

$f(k)=(k*35)-5\quad \&\quad 3\leq k\leq 10$

Streak length	Streak name		Streak value
0, 1, 2	N/A	N/A	0
3	▶️	Player is on a killing spree	100
4	▶️	Player is dominating	135
5	▶️	Player is on a mega Kill streak	170
6	▶️	Player is unstoppable!	205
7	▶️	Player is wicked sick	240
8	▶️	Player is on a monster kill streak	275
9	▶️	Player is GODLIKE	310
10+	▶️	Player is beyond GODLIKE, someone kill them!!	345
Announcer responses are customizable

The following deaths do not stop kill streaks or count as ▶️ First Blood!:

• Deaths where the killing blow is dealt by neutral creeps, including Roshan.
• Deaths where the killing blow is dealt by the dying hero's team.
• Deaths where the killing blow is dealt by an enemy tower or lane creep, if no enemy heroes damaged them in the last 20 seconds.
• Deaths which trigger Reincarnation.

Assists (AoE gold)

Allied heroes within 1500 radius of a killed enemy, including the killer, receive experience and unreliable gold if they assisted in the kill. To qualify for an assist, the allied hero either has to be within the given radius of the dying enemy hero, or have damaged or debuffed the enemy hero. Note that the assist counter on the scoreboard only counts assists if the player dealt damage or applied a debuff to the victim, or if they applied a buff to the killer, but gold and experience are awarded independently of the "assist" counter.

The amount of assist gold received is the same for the killer and all assisting heroes. It is calculated using the following formula:

(30 + Victim Net Worth x 0.038) / Number of Heroes

Buildings

Main Article: Buildings

When an enemy tower is destroyed, unreliable gold is awarded to each player on your team. The player that got the last hit on the building is credited with destroying it and receives some bonus unreliable gold. If a tower gets denied, both teams get half its team gold bounty. If no player gets the last hit and the tower instead dies to lane creeps, no player gets the extra bonus gold.

Building	Bounty	Total Bounty Awarded	Deny Bounty
Tower (Tier 1)	90 to each player 75–165 to killing player	525–615	45 to each player
Tower (Tier 2)	110 to each player 95–185 to killing player	645–735	55 to each player
Tower (Tier 3)	125 to each player 115–205 to killing player	740–830	62.5 to each player
Tower (Tier 4)	145 to each player 135–225 to killing player	860–950	72.5 to each player
Melee Barracks	155 to each player 90–135 to killing player	865–910	-
Ranged Barracks	90 to each player 90–135 to killing player	540–585	-
Effigy Building	68 to killing player	68	-

Lane creeps

The bounty for normal creeps increases by 1 gold every upgrade cycle (7 minutes 30 seconds), while the bounty for super creeps increases by 1.5 gold every upgrade cycle.

Creep	Starting Bounty
Mega Ranged Creep	19–25
Super Melee Creep	20–26
Mega Melee Creep
Super Ranged Creep	21–19
Melee Creep	34–39
Ranged Creep	43–52
Siege Creep	59–72
Super Siege Creep

Neutral creeps

Main Article: Neutral creeps

When stacking neutral creeps, the stacking player gains gold equal to 30% of whatever the allied player farming the stacked camp gets.

Roshan

Roshan

135 to each player on the killing team 200–290 to killing player Aegis of the Immortal Cheese (from 2nd respawn onward) Refresher Shard or Aghanim's Blessing (from 3rd respawn onward)

Summons

Main Article: Summons

Couriers

Source	Unit	Bounty
Animal Courier	Animal Courier	125 to each player on the killing team
Animal Courier	Flying Courier	175 to each player on the killing team

Special

Source	Unit	Bounty
Arc Warden	Tempest Double	180/240/300

Selling

Main Article: Item selling

Items can be sold for half the price they were bought for. Items can be resold within 10 seconds after purchase for the full price. Using an item prohibits selling it for the full price. For example, purchasing a Manta Style and activating it immediately cancels the 10 seconds, only allowing you to sell it for half the price. The same applies when buying multiple Observer Wards, placing one down, and attempting to sell the remainder. This is the case with any usable item, including Dagon, Arcane Boots and Power Treads.

Items that have been purchased while dead can be sold if that item was bought during the same death, otherwise items cannot be sold while dead, even within the grace period. This is a measurement to ensure that players cannot exploit spending all their gold prior to death and selling back the stashed items within the grace period after death to cut down on potentially lost gold.

Selling items gives unreliable gold, even if they were bought with reliable gold.

Selling an item while that item's ability is active does not cancel the ability. Selling and rebuying an item does not reset ability cooldowns.

Spending (or losing) gold

Picking a hero

All players start off with 800 gold. Picking or randoming a hero in any mode costs you 200 gold, leaving you with 600 gold. You lose two gold per second if you have not picked a hero after the selection timer runs out in All Pick.

Items

The main purpose of gold is to purchase items. The player with the most gold is able to buy the most powerful items, and therefore has a very strong hero. The items each player buys depend on their role in the team and many other factors. Items can be sold back to the shop for half the price, unless they are sold within 10 seconds of being bought and their active ability has not yet been used (e.g. Bottle or Arcane Boots), in which case they are sold back for the full price.

Item	Cost
Abyssal Blade	6325
Aeon Disk	3000
Aether Lens	2275
Aghanim's Blessing	5800
Aghanim's Scepter	4200
Aghanim's Shard	1400
Arcane Blink	6800
Arcane Boots	1300
Armlet of Mordiggian	2475
Assault Cuirass	5125

More...

• Divine Rapier and Gem of True Sight cannot be sold.
• Cheese cannot be purchased, but can be sold for 500 gold.
• Refresher Shard cannot be purchased, but can be sold for 500 gold.

Dying

Every time a hero dies, they lose Net Worth/40 unreliable gold. Dying does not take away reliable gold.

Respawn time

Main Article: Respawning

Buyback

Main Article: Buyback

Buyback icon, located below the hero icon after a buyback
▶️ Buyback stinger

While dead, the player has the option to use ▶️ BUYBACK, spending money in order to instantly respawn at the fountain. However, the buyback ability has a long cooldown of 480 and has a scaling gold cost. Buyback takes away from reliable gold first, which allows the player to ensure a buyback by accumulating enough reliable gold which is not lost on death. It has a base cost of 200 and in addition of a scaling extra cost rounded down based on the hero's net worth.

Besides the potentially high gold cost, buyback also increases the next respawn time by 25 seconds.

Buyback Cost	Respawn Time Increase	Buyback Cooldown
${\text{Buyback}}=floor(200+{\tfrac {NetWorth}{13}})$	25	480

Abandoning the game

After being disconnected from the game for more than 5 minutes, all of your gold is equally divided between the remaining players on your team, including your 1.67 gold/sec passive gold gain. If 1/2/3/4 players have abandoned, the remaining players receive 2.08/2.78/4.17/8.33 gold/sec. The passive bonus gold gain is restored once you reconnect to the game, but any gold that was distributed is not reimbursed.

Recent Changes

Main Article: Gold/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.29d

• Fixed buyback not being usable if the hero is disabled while dead (e.g. during Toss or Winter's Curse, which are not dispelled by death). [?]

7.29

• Reduced buyback cost from 200 + Networth / 12 to 200 + Networth / 13.

7.27

• Increased hero kill bounty from 99 + (KilledHeroLevel * 7.2) + KillStreakValue to 120 + (KilledHeroLevel × 8) + KillStreakValue.
• Reduced hero kill assist gold from (45 + VictimNetWorth * 0.033) / NumberOfHeroes to (30 + VictimNetWorth * 0.038) / NumberOfHeroes.
• Increased passive gold income per minute from 85 to 95.

Mechanics Stats Armor Attributes (Strength / Agility / Intelligence) Collision size Health (Health regeneration) Magic resistance Mana (Mana regeneration) Movement speed Status resistance Turn rate Vision Attack Attack animation Attack damage Attack modifier (Bash / Cleave & Splash / Critical strike / Lifesteal / Mana break) Attack range Attack speed Cast animation Cast range Damage types Motion buffer range Projectile speed Spell damage Spell lifesteal Abilities Abilities Aura Channeling Cooldown Damage block Damage manipulation Damage over time Evasion Talents Teleport Status effects Attack immunity Break Cyclone Disable Disarm Ethereal Fear Forced movement Hex Hide Hypnosis Invisibility Invulnerability Leash Phased Root Silence Sleep Slow Spell immunity Stun Taunt World Experience Gold Glyph of Fortification Map (Minimap) River Scan Runes Time of day Trees Gameplay Creep control techniques Denying Disjoint Dispel Ganking Harassment Hero complexity Initiating Item passive stacking Item sharing Jungling Lane Pushing Random distribution Roles Trap Units Ancient creeps Buildings Couriers Creep-heroes Heroes Illusions Lane creeps Neutral creeps Roshan Summons & Wards