Pipe of Insight

Item

 

Changelogs

 

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
A powerful artifact of mysterious origin, it creates barriers against magical forces.
Support Cost 3725 (700) Sell Value 1862.5 Active Barrier Passive ? Insight Aura Bonus ? +14 Health Regeneration +20% Magic Resistance Shareable Disassemble Usage Alert ? Recipe

Additional Information

• Stacks multiplicatively with other magic resistance sources.

• With Insight Aura, the item grants a total of the following bonuses to its wielder:
  • 16.5 health regeneration bonus.
  • Increases the wielder's magic resistance to 46%.
  • Every 10 points of intelligence further increases the total magic resistance by 0.72% for the wielder.

Abilities

Barrier

▶️

Ability
No Target

Affects
Allies

Gives a shield that blocks 450 magic damage to all nearby allies. Lasts 12 seconds.

Cast Animation:  0+0

Radius: 1200

Damage Barrier: 450

Duration: 12

 60

 150

Modifiers [?]

modifier_item_pipe_barrier

Death

• Interrupts the caster's channeling abilities upon cast.

• Affects all ally units, including buildings and invulnerable allies.
  • Does not affect wards and hidden units.

• Grants a magical damage barrier on the affected targets that absorbs magical damage values, causing several on-damage effects to not trigger within its capacity.
  • Stacks additively with the same damage-type barrier sources, and independently with other damage-type barrier sources.
  • Has a higher priority than universal damage barriers in the group of damage barriers.
  • However, when combined with other damage-negating sources (e.g. Refraction), Barrier does not absorb any damage until the damage-negation sources expire.

• Successive casts refresh the buff and reset the damage barrier capacity.

• The cooldown of the ability cannot be Rearmed.

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

Illusion Notes:

Bestows the aura.

Does not benefit from the bonus magic resistance.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_item_pipe_aura

Undispellable

• Multiple instances of Insight Aura do not stack.
  • Fully stacks with other sources of Headdress-based items' health regeneration aura.
  • The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

• Does not affect wards, buildings and invulnerable units.

• Stacks multiplicatively with other magic resistance sources.
  • Increases most heroes' magic resistance to 32.5%.
  • With the magic resistance bonus from this source, every 10 points of intelligence further increases the total magic resistance by 0.9%. [?]

• Can regenerate up to 150 health in one minute.

Recommended Heroes

Axe	Bristleback	Dark Seer	Elder Titan	Io
Necrophos	Pudge	Tidehunter	Timbersaw	Underlord

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

7.35

• Item cost changes:
  • Now requires Ring of Tarrasque (1800 ) to build, instead of Ring of Health (700 ).
  • Reduced Recipe cost from 1450 to 700 .
  • Total gold cost increases ▲ from 3375 to 3725 .
• Increased bonus health regen from 6 to 14.

7.33c

• Reduced health regeneration bonus from 8.5 to 6.
• Reduced magic resistance bonus from 25% to 20%.
• Increased Barrier mana cost from 100 to 150.

7.33

• REWORKED
  recipe and stats.

OLD

Pipe of Insight

Recipe: Hood of Defiance (1675 ), Headdress (425 ), Recipe (1550 )
Total cost: 3650
Health regeneration bonus: 8.5
Magic resistance bonus: 30%

NEW

Pipe of Insight

Recipe: Cloak (800 ), Headdress (425 ), Ring of Health (700 ), Recipe (1450 )
Total cost: 3375
Health regeneration bonus: 8.5
Magic resistance bonus: 25%

• Reduced magic resistance bonus from 30% to 25%.
• Barrier now stacks additively with other magical damage barrier sources, and independently with other damage-type barrier sources. [?]
• Reduced Insight Aura magic resistance bonus from 15% to 10%.

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