Hood of Defiance is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Armor. However, it can only be completed with items from the Secret Shop.
  Hood of Defiance
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| A furred, magic resistant headpiece that is feared by wizards. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Additional Information[]
- Stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.
- Increases most heroes' total magic resistance to 38.5%.
Ability[]
Notes:
- Interrupts the caster's channeling abilities upon cast.
- Affects all allied units, including buildings, but excluding wards. Affects invulnerable, but not hidden allies.
- Blocks damage before any reductions, except Mana Shield.
- Only blocks magical damage, coming from abilities and attacks. Does not block any physical or pure damage.
- Recasting Barrier refreshes the buff and resets the barrier's absorb capacity.
- Does not stack with other magical damage barriers.
- If multiple sources of barriers are active on a unit, all of them lose capacity from the same absorbed damage instance.
- However, if a damage instance is greater than the capacity of all barriers individually, the damage gets blocked as if the barriers were one barrier with combined capacity.
- Does not share cooldown with Pipe of Insight or Eternal Shroud.
Recommended Heroes[]
- Decreases the self-damage from Rot.
- Decreases the self-damage from Double Edge.
- Huskar's high regeneration from Berserker's Blood pairs well with the burst protection from Hood of Defiance.
Heroes whose default item build includes Hood of Defiance or Pipe of Insight as a situational item:
Tips[]
- This item can be purchased by a nuker against enemies carrying a Blade Mail.
- The Barrier can be used to keep your Blink Dagger active. It is useful for an initiator against an enemy team with a radiance or to escape if caught in a gank.
Trivia[]
- Prior to the July 14, 2017 Patch, Hood of Defiance's active ability, Barrier, did not have an official name. The name was taken from the Dota 2 Wiki and officially implemented into Dota 2.
Gallery[]
Affected by Barrier
Recent Changes[]
Main Article: Hood of Defiance/Changelogs
Version
Description
- Reduced magic resistance bonus from 20% to 18%.
- Barrier
- Increased magical damage absorbed from 325 to 350.
- Reduced mana cost from 75 to 50.
- Reduced magic resistance bonus from 25% to 20%.
- Now builds into Eternal Shroud.
