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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.

Components required from the Base Shop Components required from the Secret Shop
Hood of Defiance
Hood of Defiance icon
A furred, magic resistant headpiece that is feared by wizards.
Removed Item
Armor
Cost 1675 Gold
Sell Value Full price refunded within 10s. 837.5 Gold
Active Barrier
Bonus ? +8.5 Health Regeneration
+18% Magic Resistance
Shareable No
Disassemble No
Usage Alert ? No
Recipe
Eternal Shroud (3600)
Pipe of Insight (3725)
UsedIn2
Hood of Defiance (1675)
Components3
Ring of Health (700)
Cloak (800)
Ring of Regen (175)


Additional Information[]

  • Stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.
    • Increases most heroes' total magic resistance to 38.5%.

Ability[]

Barrier
Ability
No Target
Affects
Self
Creates a spell shield that absorbs up to 350 magical damage. Lasts 12 seconds.
Magical Damage Absorbed: 350
Duration: 12
Cooldown symbol
 60
Mana symbol
 50
Buff/Debuff
Modifiers
modifier_item_hood_of_defiance_barrier
Death

  • Interrupts the caster's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • 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.


Recommended Heroes[]

Pudge icon
  • Decreases the self-damage from Rot icon Rot.
Centaur Warrunner icon
Huskar icon
  • Huskar's high regeneration from Berserker's Blood icon 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 icon Pipe of Insight as a situational item:

Tips[]

  • This item can be purchased by a nuker against enemies carrying a Blade Mail icon Blade Mail.
  • The Barrier can be used to keep your Blink Dagger icon 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[]

Recent Changes[]

Version
Description
  • REMOVED
  • Reduced magic resistance bonus from 20% to 18%.
  • Hood of Defiance icon Barrier
    • Increased magical damage absorbed from 325 to 350.
    • Reduced mana cost from 75 to 50.
  • Increased Cloak icon Cloak cost from 450 Gold to 500 Gold (total cost increases from 1450 Gold to 1500 Gold).



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