Of the 14 new Scepter upgrades, 10 were for cores.
Rating Aghanims Scepters for supports is a lot trickier than for cores.
4200 gold is a big commitment for an item, especially for supports.
Dazzle (5/10)
Shadow Wave: Now upgradable by Aghanim’s Scepter.
Allows casting Shadow Wave on enemies to release an Inverse Shadow Wave.
Dazzle also performs an auto attack on every enemy hit by the inverse Shadow Wave.
Dazzle is definitely in the top 5 heroes to have had the most reworked Scepters through the ages.
But for a support Dazzle, the Scepter does not add too much value.
Oracle (6/10)
False Promise: Aghanim’s Shard Upgrade moved to Aghanim’s Scepter.
Grants 0.15s fade time invisibility to the target as well as 0.25s improved BAT and +25% Spell Amplification.
As a Shard, this upgrade was quite strong.
To get a comparative sense, Shadow Blade has a fade time of 0.3 seconds.
Does the 0.25 seconds improved BAT and +25% Spell Amplification make it worth the increased 2800 gold?
And with detection, the invisible aspect of the Scepter upgrade is totally negated.
Not something worth getting on Oracle.
Increases effect radius to 1000 and duration to 4 minutes.
Enemy units will take 300 damage for every 200 units moved.
Minefield area is visible to enemies once activated.
The sign is destroyed after the minefield expires.
Only one sign can exist at a time.
Techies, even as a position 4 hero, is meant to inflict damage on the opposition.
And his new Scepter helps him do that, in team fights and in high ground defenses.
Once the minefield is triggered, all enemies in it take damage when they move.
It can be a great follow up to Blast Off!
Creates a ring of poison upon death of Venomancer or an enemy hero infected with Venomous Gale.
Also triggers if Venomous Gale is dispelled from an enemy hero.
Enemies hit by the Poison Nova take non-lethal damage over time and have their magic resistance reduced.
Max HP as Damage: 3%.
Magic Resistance Reduction: 30%.
Travel Speed: 550.
Typically in life, you want to stay away from anyone who spreads toxicity.
But when youre playing Dota 2 with Venomancer, you want to spread as much toxicity as possible.
Venomancers new Aghanims Scepter upgrade does just that.
Is it as strong a Poison Nova as the one with Scepter pre patch 7.33?
But it is still quite potent, and isnt something that can be easily dodged.
Definitely a Scepter worth the 4200 gold.
The new Venomancer is also a versatile hero this patch.
Thats all for the reworked Aghanims Scepter ratings from Dota 2 patch 7.33.
In the days to come, GosuGamers will have ratings for the reworked Aghanims Shard from patch 7.33.
