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Woah woah woah woah! So now the bloke with the best silence-cum-DoT (damage over time) nuke gets a disabling skill? Oh sorry, I mean, skillssss. For those who lives in a well better spends their time other than playing DotA, IceFrog has apparently decided that Doom's Devour skill which practically grants him a free creep kill, giving free money and EXP, was not good enough. Lucifer now not only digests his victims for food but also copies their skills. Kind of like a nerfed version of  Morphling's ultimate back in v5.84c (Deathward anyone?). Besides having an extra FREE skill in his arsenal, he can also make use of creeps' skills to counter certain heroes without the need to spend unncessary gold on items.

"Oh no, there's a Sven in the enemy team!"
"No worries, comrade, for I Lord Lucifer Doombringer is here! I have Purge."
"What about the Rhasta? We need a stun!"
"I have Warstomp."
"HEY! Zeus is getting away!! Get him!!"
*Throws net*
*BUUURP*

All these possibilties... for FREEEE! All hail Lucifer DoomStompNetPurgeBringer!! And this brings me to a question: Does creeps with passive abilities like Alpha Wolf's Critical Strike aura and Gnoll's Haste aura works on Doom? So many bastards are getting Doom now I have no chance of trying my hands on DoomStompNetPurgeBringer...

Another recent trend I've noticed in the last few maps are the additions of more and more heroes who are able to make use of Aghanim's Scepter. At first it was only available to Intelligence-heroes to help them narrow the gap between them and late-game heroes by improving their ultimates slightly. But now, all sorts of heroes are able to make use of the scepter. An indirect nerf to Intelligence-heroes, if you ask me.

In v6.65, Axe was added to the list of Aghanim users. Why would a barbarian use a fragile, handle-with-care weapon? You don't see warriors wielding wands in World of Warcraft, you don't see Barbarian PKing with a wand in Diablo II, so why should you in DotA? If they care what kind of dance Treant Protector has to do before he casts Eye of the Forest, then they should care why warrior-class heroes don't wield wands. Now in v6.66, Undying and Earthshaker are also able to benefit from the mage item. Looking at this trend, I will not be surprised if more and more non-Intelligence heroes gets added to the list of beneficiaries. Pitlord, Soul Keeper and Treant Protector will be good candidates in my humble opinion. Okay maybe the last one was biased since I <3 Rooftrellen.

What do you guys think of the new changes in v6.66 and what direction do you think the Aghanim's is heading towards? Share with us your opinions! You might have some insights I missed out. And if anyone knows if passive skills work for his new skill, do enlighten this humble one.


Okay, I'm off to try out Sir Lucifer DoomStompNetPurgeBringer now! Purge, Net, Stomp, Shockwave, DOOM!