Aghanim's Shard

[e][h]Aghanim's Shard

 

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With origins known only to a single wizard, fragments of this impossible crystal are nearly as coveted as the renowned scepter itself.

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General

Aghanim's Shard is a powerful item used to passively increase the power of a hero's ability. The upgrade that Aghanim's Shard provides can be anything from a new ability to simply an increase in power.

• Purchaseble after minute 15.
• Drops only on Roshan's second death.

Shard Upgrades

Updated as of 7.32e

Abaddon

•  Curse of Avernus
  • Causes  Mist Coil to deal Abaddon's attack damage on impact.
  • Increases base slow by 10%.

Alchemist

• Grants  Berserk Potion
  • Alchemist throws a potion at an ally, applying a basic dispel and granting them bonus stats.

Ancient Apparition

•  Ice Vortex
  • Causes Ice Vortex to deal 40 DPS.
  • Reduces attack speed by 20.

Anti-Mage

•  Counterspell
  • Passively grants an offensive aura reducing enemies' magic damage.
  • Grants triple the effect to enemies within 300 range.

Arc Warden

•  Magnetic Field
  • Magnetic Field now pushes enemies out of the area at cast time.
  • Provides allies in it with +40% Magic Resistance.
  • Slows enemies inside by 20%.

Axe

•  Counter Helix
  • Causes Counter Helix to apply a debuff (stackable) that reduces total attack damage taken by Axe from the affected unit.
  • Increases proc chance by 10%.

Bane

•  Brain Sap
  • Causes Brain Sap to become a 550 AoE spell.
  • Secondary targets only heal for 30%.

Batrider

•  Flamebreak
  • Causes Flamebreak to have two charges.
  • Apply a  Sticky Napalm charge on impact.

Beastmaster

•  Call of the Wild Hawk
  • Reduces Hawk cooldown by 15 seconds.
  • Hawks gain Dive Bomb:
    • Channels for 1 second, revealing itself, and then flies towards the target enemy, dealing 250 damage and stunning them for 2 seconds, killing the hawk.
    • Cast Range: 1200.

Bloodseeker

•  Bloodrage
  • Bloodrage attacks now deal 2% of the target’s max health as pure damage and heals Bloodseeker for that amount.
  • Only works for Bloodseeker.

Bounty Hunter

•  Shadow Walk
  • Shadow Walk now grants you 35% damage reduction while invisible.
  • Attacking out of invisibility stuns the target for 1 second.
  • Lowers cooldown by 5 seconds.

Brewmaster

•  Primal Split
  • Primal Split now creates a Void brewling.
    • Has Astral Pulse ability, affecting enemies in 500 AoE.
    • Applies a 20/30/40% slow.
    • Disarms for 2 seconds.

Bristleback

• new ability  Hairball
  • Coughs a quill-packed hairball towards the target location.
  • Erupts at the location, hitting enemies in a 700 radius with Goo and 2 Quills.

Broodmother

•  Silken Bola
  • Causes Silken Bola to be a 550 AoE spell.
  • Increases the miss chance to 80%

Centaur Warrunner

•  Double Edge
  • Causes Double Edge to increase Centaur's strength by 15% per hero hit for 15 seconds.
  • Duration refreshes per stack. Max 5 Stacks.
  • Slows enemies by 25% for 2 seconds.

Chaos Knight

•  Chaos Bolt
  • Creates a Phantasm illusion attacking the target for 6 seconds.
  • Increases cast range by 300.

Chen

•  Divine Favor
  • Allows Divine Favor to be cast on allies.
  • Teleporting them back home after 6.0 seconds.
  • Cannot target Spell Immune Allies.
  • Cast Range: 600

Clinkz

•  Skeleton Walk
  • Creates one additional skeleton near Clinkz when exiting Skeleton Walk.

Clockwerk

• new ability  Jetpack
  • Grants Clockwerk flying vision, flying movement, and a 20% bonus movement speed.
  • Clockwerk has a severely-limited turn rate during this time and cannot attack.
  • Lasts up to 6.0 seconds or until casting Hookshot.

Crystal Maiden

•  Freezing Field
  • Allows you to move, cast and attack during Freezing Field.
  • Can still be interrupted by enemies.
  • You move 75% slower during this.

Dark Seer

• new ability  Normal Punch
  • Passive cooldown attack.
  • Causes Dark Seer's next attack on a hero to knock an illusion out of the victim and stun them for up to 2.25 seconds, 350 distance and 250 damage based on how far Dark Seer has moved in the past 3 seconds.
  • Max power is reached after 900 distance moved.
  • Illusions lasts for 5 seconds.

Dark Willow

•  Cursed Crown
  • Creates four brambles around the target after the counter ends.
  • Triggers even upon dispel.
  • Reduces cooldown by 3 seconds and stun delay by 1 second.

Dawnbreaker

•  Starbreaker
  • Grants Magic Immunity

Dazzle

•  Poison Touch
  • Causes Poison Touch to hex affected targets for 1.25 seconds.

Death Prophet

•  Spirit Siphon
  • Increases Spirit Siphon charges by 1.
  • Causes enemies to be feared for 2 seconds if they are siphoned for 4 seconds consecutively.

Disruptor

•  Thunder Strike
  • Allows Thunder Strike to be cast on allies, follows the ally and deals damage around them.
  • Each strike gives a short 1.25 second buff that provides +50% Movement Speed and +75 Attack Speed.
  • Increases radius to 650.

Doom

•  Infernal Blade
  • Stun duration is increased from 0.6 to 1.2 seconds.
  • If the enemy's level is a multiple of 3, or above level 24, they will be stunned for an additional 0.6 seconds and take 150 bonus damage.

Dragon Knight

• new ability  Fireball
  • Ignites a 450 AoE area for 10.0 seconds, dealing 80 damage per second to enemies in it.
  • Has reduced cast range when melee.

Drow Ranger

•  Frost Arrows
  • Apply a Hypothermia stack to enemy heroes, reducing their regeneration by 8% per stack.
  • Increases damage by 5 per stack.
  • Lasts 7 seconds.
  • Max Stacks: 7
  • If an enemy hero dies with Hypothermia stacks, they burst and deal 60 magic damage per stack and 40% slow for 2 seconds to enemies within 650 radius.

Earth Spirit

•  Stone Remnant
  • Causes Stone Remnant to provide 375 ground vision.
  • Increases charge count by 4.

Earthshaker

•  Fissure
  • Reduces cooldown by 2 seconds.
  • Allows Earthshaker to walk on it.
  • When Earthshaker casts any ability, an Aftershock is released along its path that stuns for half the duration.

Elder Titan

•  Echo Stomp
  • Allows you to switch Echo Stomp to autocast.
  • When cast while on autocast, Elder Titan will take the place of the Astral Spirit as it completes its stomp.

Ember Spirit

•  Fire Remnant
  • Fire Remnants deal 45 damage per second in a 600 AoE around them.
  • If an enemy hero dies within 400 range of Ember Spirit, a Fire Remnant charge will be replenished.

Enchantress

•  Nature's Attendants
  • Adds 3 permanent Nature's Attendants that follow Enchantress around.

Enigma

•  Black Hole
  • Black Hole does a non-interrupting pull towards it in a 1200 AoE.
  • Pulls at a rate of 175.

Faceless Void

•  Time Walk
  • Replaces Time Walk with Reverse Time Walk for 1.5 seconds after landing.
  • If used in this period, you will reverse your time walk back to your previous cast location.
  • Does not affect health or proc scepter hits.

Grimstroke

•  Ink Swell
  • Causes Ink Swell to deal 40% more damage and heal the target for 40% of the damage Ink Swell deals.
  • Upon expiration, the target will receive a strong dispell.

Gyrocopter

•  Rocket Barrage
  • Rocket Barrage hits an extra target.
  • Increases duration by 1 second.

Hoodwink

• new ability  Decoy
  • Hoodwink sends a decoy illusion to the target location.
  • When the illusion is attacked or hit by a targeted ability, it is destroyed and plants a tree in its place that applies a lesser Bushwhack to enemy heroes around it.

Huskar

•  Inner Fire
  • Causes Inner Fire to reduce healing and regeneration by 50% and applies a 40% movement speed slow.
  • Lowers cooldown by 3 seconds.
  • Can be cast while disabled.

Invoker

•  Chaos Meteor
  • Causes two extra Chaos Meteors to land alongisde the primary cast at slight angles.
  • Reduces cooldown by 15 seconds.

Io

•  Tether
  • Tether stuns enemies touching it for 1.75 seconds and deals 150 damage.
  • Does not affect the same unit more than once every 7 seconds.
  • Increases movement speed bonus by 10%.

Jakiro

• new ability  Liquid Frost
  • Stuns enemies for 0.4 seconds and applies a frost debuff that slows enemy movement speed by 20% and take 20 plus 2.5% of their max health per second as damage for 4.0 seconds.

Juggernaut

•  Blade Fury
  • Increases movement speed during Blade Fury by 100.
  • Attacks a random nearby unit once per second dealing 75% damage at a rate of 1.4s

Keeper of the Light

• • After a short delay, teleports the targeted friendly hero to your location.
  • If the targeted friendly hero takes player based damage during this time, the ability is interrupted.

Kunkka

• new ability  Tidal Wave
  • Releases a Tidal Wave that spawns behind Kunkka.
  • Deals 250 damage and drags enemies along it for 600 distance.
  • Enemies cannot attack while being dragged.

Legion Commander

•  Press The Attack
  • Press The Attack targets now gain Spell Immunity for 1.75 seconds.
  • Reduces cooldown by 2 seconds.

Leshrac

•  Split Earth
  • Causes Split Earth to repeat in the same location three additional times, with a 5 second delay between each one.
  • Each time the radius increases by 75.
  • Split Earth echo location is visible to both teams.

Lich

• new ability  Ice Spire
  • Creates an icicle at the target spot for 15.0 seconds, slowing enemies within 750 range by -30%.
  • Has 800 health.
  • Chain Frost can bounce to the Icicle if there are no other enemies in range.
  • Can cast Frost Shield on it.

Lifestealer

•  Open Wounds
  • Lifestealer rends an enemy unit, slowing the victim's movement speed and allowing all allies to regain health for a percentage of the damage they deal to that unit.
  • All damage dealt will steal life, including damage from spells.
  • The victim recovers movement speed over the duration.
  • Deals 2% of the target's max health per attack on the target from real heroes.

Lina

•  Laguna Blade
  • Increases Laguna Blade's cast range by 250 and causes it to go the full cast length and hit all units along the way.
  • Can be ground targeted.

Lion

•  Mana Drain
  • Causes Mana Drain to affect up to three enemies.
  • You become Spell Immune while channeling.

Lone Druid

•  Savage Roar
  • Savage Roar now empowers allies in 700 AoE with +20% Movement Speed and +60 Attack Speed for 5 seconds.
  • Applies a basic dispel.
  • Replicates between Lone Druid and Spirit Bear regardless of castability on the other.

Luna

•  Lucent Beam
  • Every time an enemy hero is hit by a Lucent Beam, Luna's attack damage is increased by 17 for 15s.

Lycan

•  Summon Wolves
  • Causes one of your creep waves to include one uncontrollable wolf that moves with the wave.

Magnus

• new ability  Horn Toss
  • Magnus tosses any enemies in front of him, launching them to his rear.
  • Enemies spend 0.6 seconds in the air, then take 200 damage and are stunned for 0.8 seconds upon landing.

Mars

•  Spear of Mars
  • Spear of Mars impales up to two units and leaves a fire trail behind for 10 seconds.
  • Deals 35 damage per second and slows by 20%.
  • Debuff lingers for 2 seconds.

Medusa

• new ability  Cold Blooded
  • When Medusa is targeted with a spell, a single-target Mystic Snake is sent back towards the enemy.

Meepo

•  Poof
  • Allows you to Poof to allies within 2000 range.

Mirana

•  Leap
  • Grants +1 Leap Charge.
  • Sagan pounces, dealing 170 damage in a forward cone to units within 800 range of Mirana and slowing them by 30% for 2.5 seconds

Monkey King

•  Tree Dance
  • Reduces cooldown to 0.4 and cast point to 0.1.

Morphling

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  • Causes Adaptive Strike to have +1 Multishot and increases the stun duration by 1 second.
  • Multishot prioritizes heroes.

Naga Siren

•  Rip Tide
  • Adds 20% slow and increases the base armor reduction by 4.

Nature's Prophet

•  Sprout
  • Causes the first two trees destroyed with Sprout to summon Greater Treants.
  • Can only have two Greater Treants alive.

Necrophos

• new ability  Death Seeker
  • Spawns a fast moving large Death Pulse towards the target enemy or ally, causing the target to become ethereal for 2.5 seconds.
  • Reduces enemy magic resistance by 25%.
  • Spreads towards nearby enemies and allies after impact.

Night Stalker

•  Hunter in the Night
  • Night Stalker can cast Hunter in the Night.
  • Consumes a creep, instantly killing it and restoring 35% of Night Stalker's maximum HP and and 25% of maximum mana.
  • Cannot target ancients during the daytime.

Nyx Assassin

•  Vendetta
  • Causes Nyx's Vendetta attack to reduce enemy magic resistance by 20% for 4 seconds.
  • Increases Vendetta movement speed by 25%, unlocking max speed.

Ogre Magi

• new ability  Fire Shield
  • Creates a shield around the target ally, absorbing 85% of the damage of next 3 attacks.
  • Launches fireballs at the attacker, dealing 125 damage.
  • Lasts 25.0 seconds.

Omniknight

• new ability  Hammer of Purity
  • Causes Omniknight's next attack to deal bonus pure damage based on 60 plus 115% of his base damage.
  • He is healed for the same amount of pure damage.

Oracle

•  False Promise
  • Causes False Promise to have a 0.15-second fade delay invisibility.

Outworld Destroyer

•  Essence Flux essence flux link?
  • Essence Flux becomes castable ability with 0.75 cast time.
  • Swaps Outworld Destroyer's current Life and Mana totals.

Pangolier

• new ability  Roll Up
  • Pangolier curls into an immobile protective ball for up to 4 seconds, gaining magic immunity and allowing him to turn.
  • Can be cast during Rolling Thunder to temporarily hit the brakes.
  • Can cast Rolling Thunder and Shield Crash during Roll Up.
  • If enemies attack Pangolier during this, he will roll away from the attacker for 0.75 seconds, applying Rolling Thunder damage/stun if there are enemies in the way.

Phantom Assassin

• new ability  Fan of Knives
  • Phantom Assassin releases sharp blades around her in a 550 AoE.
  • Deals 16% of a victim's max health on impact and applying break for 3 seconds.

Phantom Lancer

•  Spirit Lance
  • Spirit Lance bounces once on an enemy within 750 radius, prioritizing heroes.
  • Increases Spirit Lance illusion damage by +40%.

Phoenix

•  Sun Ray
  • Allows Sun Ray to be cast during Supernova.
  • Slows enemies by 12%.

Puck

•  Waning Rift
  • Waning Rift now deals 70 bonus damage and knocks enemies back 250 distance over 0.4 seconds (non-interrupting).
  • Reveals invisible enemy units and wards in the area for 5 seconds.

Pudge

•  Dismember
  • Allows targeting an ally to swallow them and heal them for 6% of their max health per second.
  • Reduces cooldown by 10 seconds.

Pugna

•  Life Drain
  • Life Drain can target your Nether Ward, causing life drain to refract to all enemy heroes within a radius the ward for 75% of its damage.

Queen of Pain

•  Blink
  • Releases a sonic boom when Queen of Pain blinks, at both her starting and ending locations.
  • Deals 175 damage in a 300 AoE and silences for 1.75 seconds.

Razor

•  Storm Surge
  • Causes Storm Surge to have an 18% chance when attacked or when targeted with a spell even if the attacker/caster of the incoming spell is magic immune, to release forked lightning that strikes the target and up to 3 other enemies.
  • Deals 175 Damage and slows them by 50% for 1.5 seconds and has an internal cooldown of 1 second.

Riki

•  Sleeping Dart
  • Fires a dart at the target enemy, putting them to sleep for 4.0 seconds or if they take 200 damage.
  • At the end of the duration, the target wakes up and takes 150 damage, and is slowed by 30% for 4.0 seconds.

Rubick

•  Telekinesis
  • Allows you to target yourself or allies with Telekinesis.
  • Throw range is 85% longer when targeting allies.
  • Throw delay reduced to 0.5 seconds.

Sand King

•  Epicenter
  • Every 700 units moved causes an Epicenter Pulse around Sand King in 475 AoE.

Shadow Demon

•  Demonic Purge
  • Allows Demonic Purge to be cast on allies, continuously dispelling them and healing for its damage values.
  • Does not slow allies.

Shadow Fiend

•  Presence of the Dark Lord
  • Lowers nearby enemy magic resistance by 14%.

Shadow Shaman

•  Shackles
  • Shackles creates 4 Serpent Wards attacking the target.
  • Increases Shackles cast range by 125.
  • Lasts 7 seconds.

Silencer

•  Glaives of Wisdom
  • Causes Glaives to bounce once towards the closest enemy unit, dealing 50% of Silencer's attack damage.
  • Bounce range is 600.

Skywrath Mage

• Spell Casting
  • Every time you cast abilities you gain +5 Intelligence and +1 Armor for 35 seconds.
  • Stacks independently.

Slardar

•  Slithereen Crush
  • Causes Slithereen Crush to apply Corrosive Haze for 5 seconds to units affected.
  • Increases radius by 75.

Slark

• new ability  Depth Shroud
  • Creates a 300 AoE cloud at the target location for 3.0 seconds.
  • All allies inside the radius are hidden and affected by Shadow Dance.
  • Cast Range: 800.

Snapfire

•  Firesnap Cookie
  • Firesnap Cookie increases hop range by 175 and launches a Mortimer Kisses glob along with the targeted unit.
  • The mortimer kisses glob from the firesnap cook deals only 50% damage.

Sniper

• new ability  Concussive Grenade
  • Deals 125 damage, knocking enemies back 425 distance, slowing them by 50% and disarming them for 3 seconds.
  • Radius: 375.
  • Knocks you back 450 units on cast.

Spectre

•  Dispersion
  • Can cast Dispersion on a hero that damaged you in the last 8 seconds, creating an Haunt illusion.
  • Illusion lasts 5 seconds.

Spirit Breaker

•  Nether Strike
  • Causes Nether Strike to deal 200 extra damage, and apply a 4-second break.
  • Grants you Spell Immunity for 2 seconds.

Storm Spirit

•  Overload
  • Can be activated to grant Storm Spirit and allied heroes within 750 AoE of him 3 Overload charges.
  • Provides 40 Attack Speed.
  • Lasts up to 12 seconds or until the charges are depleted.

Sven

•  Storm Hammer
  • Storm Hammer now applies a dispel on enemies.
  • Reduces cooldown by 4 seconds.

Techies

•  Blast Off!
  • Increases Blast Off! cast range by 300 and applies a 1.75 second stun to affected enemies.

Templar Assassin

•  Psionic Trap
  • Causes Psionic Traps to silence enemies for up to 3.5 seconds based on how long the trap has been charged.
  • Increases max trap count by 4 and vision by 125.

Terrorblade

•  Demon Zeal
  • Costs 20% of Terrorblade's Current HP to cast, providing him +50 Movement and +50 Attack Speed for 7.0 seconds.
  • Provides 100% more bonus while melee.

Tidehunter

•  Anchor Smash
  • Increases Anchor Smash damage by 90 and causes it to affect buildings.
  • Reduces cooldown by 1 second.

Timbersaw

• new ability  Flamethrower
  • Releases a 275 width flame that extends 400 range in the direction Timbersaw is facing.
  • Applies a debuff that deals 90 damage per second and slows by 30%.
  • Affects buildings for 40% damage.
  • Lasts 7 seconds.
  • Debuff lingers for 2 seconds.

Tinker

• new ability  Defense Matrix
  • Targets an allied unit, applying a barrier to them that blocks the next 350 damage and provides 50% Status Resistance.
  • Barrier lasts up to 15.0 seconds.

Tiny

•  Tree Grab
  • Causes Tree Grab to have no charge limit.

Treant Protector

•  Nature's Guise
  • Causes you to become invisible with Nature's Guise and root enemies upon attacking.
  • Roots them for 1 second and deals a total of 200 damage.
  • Lasts an extra second when attacking near a tree.
  • Increases movement speed bonus by 15%%.

Troll Warlord

• new ability  Rampage Rampage
  • Global active.
  • Grants all allied heroes 70 Attack Speed OR 25% Status Resistance for 5.0 seconds based on whichever stance Troll is currently in.
  • Ranged provides attack speed and melee provides status resistance.

Tusk

• new ability  Frozen Sigil
  • Increases depth of Ice Shards, and enemies trapped within an ice shard are slowed and take damage per second.

Underlord

•  Firestorm
  • Firestorm can be self-targeted.
  • When used that way, the Firestorm follows Underlord around.
  • Increases the wave count by 3.
  • Reduces cast point by half.

Undying

•  Decay
  • Increases Decay radius by 100.
  • Spawns a zombie around each hero target.

Ursa

•  Earthshock
  • Causes Earthshock to apply a 1.5 second Enrage buff on yourself.
  • Reduces cooldown by 1 seconds.

Vengeful Spirit

•  Wave of Terror
  • Wave of Terror steals 20% of enemy hero base damage and base armor, granting it to Vengeful Spirit for the debuff duration.

Venomancer

•  Venomous Gale
  • Causes Venomous Gale to summon two  Plague Ward when it impacts an enemy hero.
  • Increases travel range by 400.

Viper

•  Poison Attack
  • Causes Poison Attack to lower armor by 1 per stack and allows it to affect buildings for 40% poison damage.
  • Increases max stacks by 3.

Visage

•  Gravekeeper's Cloak
  • Grants Visage the ability to cast  Stone Form on itself.
  • Restores up to 35% of your health.

Void Spirit

•  Dissimilate
  • Adds a partial outer ring to Dissimilate.
  • Increases damage by 200.

Warlock

•  Shadow Word
  • Turns Shadow Word into a 450 AoE Spell.
  • Grants 10% movement speed bonus to allies and slows enemies by 10%.

Weaver

•  The Swarm
  • Causes The Swarm to latch onto and reveal invisible units.
  • Causes Geminate attack to launch on other enemies within 1200 range of the target that have Beetles attached to them.
  • Reduces cooldown by 4 seconds.

Windranger

•  Powershot
  • Powershot now becomes global, but only hits heroes beyond its default range (max 1 hero).
  • Impacted heroes will be killed if they are under 13% after taking the impact damage.
  • Lowers cooldown by 1.5 seconds.

Winter Wyvern

•  Cold Embrace
  • When Cold Embrace ends, a  Splinter Blast goes off at that location, hitting enemies within 1200 range.
  • Reduces cooldown by 5 seconds.

Witch Doctor

•  Voodoo Switcheroo
  • Turns Witch Doctor into a  Death Ward for 2 seconds.
  • Death Ward has -30 Attack Speed.
  • He is hidden during this time.

Wraith King

•  Reincarnation
  • Causes Reincarnation to have no mana cost.
  • Spawns three skeletons to attack each nearby enemy hero when Reincarnation is triggered.

Zeus

•  Static Field
  • Static Field can be cast to perform a Heavenly Jump, shocking the closest visible enemy (prioritizing heroes) within 2000 range, dealing Static Field damage to them and reducing their movement speed by 100% for 2.5 seconds.
  • If Zeus was moving forward, he will jump towards that direction.

Version History

Version	Balance Changes
7.31
	Now purchasable at 15 minutes
7.28
	Added

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