Pipe of Insight

Item

 

Changelogs

 

Pipe of Insight B
A powerful artifact of mysterious origin, it creates barriers against magical forces.
Cost 3475 (1550) Bought From Support
Active Barrier Passive [?] Insight Aura Bonus [?] +8.5 Health Regeneration +30% Magic Resistance Disassemble? No Alert allies? Yes Recipe

The Pipe of Insight is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Support.

Additional Information

• The magic resistance stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.
• Including the aura, increases most heroes' total magic resistance to 52.75%, assuming basic 25% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
• Together with the aura, one Pipe of Insight grants a total of 11 health regeneration to the owner.

Abilities

Barrier

▶️

Ability
No Target

Affects
Allies

Gives a shield that blocks 400 magic damage to all nearby allies. Lasts 12 seconds.

Radius: 1200

Magical Damage Absorbed: 400

Duration: 12

60

100

Modifiers

modifier_item_pipe_barrier: Dispellable with death only.

Notes:

• Interrupts the user's channeling spells 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 spells 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 Hood of Defiance or Eternal Shroud.

Insight Aura

Ability
Aura

Affects
Allies

Gives allied units 2.5 health regeneration and 10% magic resistance.

Radius: 1200

Health Regen Bonus: 2.5

Magic Resistance Bonus: 10%

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Illusions bestow the aura, but do not benefit from the magic resistance.

Modifiers

modifier_item_pipe_aura: Undispellable. Persists death.

Notes:

• Multiple instances of Insight Aura do not stack.
  • Fully stacks with other sources of health regeneration, including Headdress and its other upgrades.
  • The magic resistance stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.

• Increases most heroes' total magic resistance to 32.5%, assuming basic 25% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
  • Together with the passive bonus, this is further increased to 52.75% for the wielder of the item.

• Can regenerate up to 150 health in one minute.

• Does not affect wards, buildings and invulnerable units.

• The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

Recommended Heroes

• Tough tank heroes with high health regeneration benefit even more from Pipe of Insight's regeneration.
  • Timbersaw
  • Axe
  • Bristleback
  • Pudge
  • Tidehunter

• Tough support heroes are ideal for carrying Pipe of Insight.
  • Dark Seer
  • Underlord
  • Abaddon
  • Phoenix
  • Undying
  • Elder Titan
  • Io

Tips

• The Pipe of Insight is useful for frail heroes who can be easily taken down by damages from spells. With its aura, it can slightly increase the magic resistance of a hero.
• It is an ideal for a support heroes to carry a Pipe of Insight in order to protect the nearby allies against the strongest magic spells.
• It is best combined with Crimson Guard and any abilities that grants damage block.

Trivia

• In the transition from DotA to Dota 2, Pipe of Insight name was changed from the Khadgar's Pipe of Insight to simply Pipe of Insight. Khadgar was a wizard in Warcraft II.
• Dazzle's cosmetic item Pipe of Dezun is based on the Pipe of Insight.

Gallery

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  Using Pipe of Insight

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  Affected by Barrier

Recent Changes

Main Article: Pipe of Insight/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.29

• Increased Insight Aura health regeneration bonus from 2 to 2.5.

7.28b

• Increased Hood of Defiance cost from 1450 to 1500 (total cost increases from 3425 to 3475 ).

7.28

• Item cost changes:
  • Hood of Defiance no longer requires a Recipe to build (−300 cost).
  • Increased Recipe cost from 1250 to 1550 .
  • Total gold cost remains at 3425 .

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