The Pipe of Insight is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Support. However, it can only be completed with items from the Secret Shop.
  Pipe of Insight
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Additional Information[]
- With Insight Aura, the item grants a total of 11 health regeneration to the wielder.
- Stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.
- With Insight Aura, the total magic resistance is increased to 53.8% for the wielder of the item.
Abilities[]
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 Hood of Defiance or Eternal Shroud.
Insight Aura
Ability
Aura
Aura
Affects
Allies
Allies
Gives allied units 2.5 health regeneration and 12% magic resistance.
Radius: 1200
Health Regen Bonus: 2.5
Magic Resistance Bonus: 12%
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Modifiers [?]
modifier_item_pipe_aura
Undispellable
Notes:
- Multiple instances of Insight Aura do not stack.
- Stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.
- Insight Aura increases most heroes' total magic resistance to 34%.
- 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[]
 Axe |
 Bristleback |
 Dark Seer |
 Elder Titan |
 Io |
 Necrophos |
 Pudge |
 Tidehunter |
 Timbersaw |
 Underlord |
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[]
Using Pipe of Insight
Affected by Barrier
Recent Changes[]
Main Article: Pipe of Insight/Changelogs
Version
Description
- Increased Insight Aura magic resistance bonus from 10% to 12%.
- Increased Insight Aura health regeneration bonus from 2 to 2.5.
- Increased Hood of Defiance cost from 1450 to 1500 (total cost increases ▲ from 3425 to 3475 ).
