Orb Effects, Buff Placers, Unique Attack Modifiers

[syp]

Skadi and lifesteal stacks on both melee and ranged in Dota2 btw.

[Malibu Stacey]

Skadi and lifesteal stacks on both melee and ranged in Dota2 btw.

Vladimir's Aura isn't a Unique Attack Modifier (hint, clue is in it's name) & neither is Skeleton King's Vampiric Aura (again the clue's in the name).
Go try it with Morbid Mask, Mask of Madness or Helm of the Dominator/Satanic & you'll have different results.

[syp]

Vladimir's Aura isn't a Unique Attack Modifier (hint, clue is in it's name) & neither is Skeleton King's Vampiric Aura (again the clue's in the name).
Go try it with Morbid Mask, Mask of Madness or Helm of the Dominator/Satanic & you'll have different results.

I know, I wasn't talking about Vlad's obviously. I'll say it again, Skadi stacks with lifesteal on BOTH RANGED AND MELEE heroes in DOTA2.

And because you're too dense to take my word for it or test it yourself ingame, here's a copy&paste from combat log:

[03:10.34] Beastmaster's Helm of the Dominator heals Beastmaster for 12 health (985->997).
[03:10.34] Ursa Warrior receives Eye of Skadi Cold Attack debuff from Beastmaster.
[03:10.34] Beastmaster hits Ursa Warrior for 83 damage (1100->1017).

Notice time, it all happens on the same attack.

[kop_]

As you can't attack in the same second. Right... In the description still there is about only ranged being able to stack both. Also, as you can imagine, if this exists for melee, it is a tremendous indirect buff to them and would have been discussed like hell in the past months/weeks, which I personally haven't seen happening. In addition, melee carries(mostly) pick ratio would have been off the roof which again isn't the case.

I don't preclude that this change has happened because I am not 100% sure in Dota2, but I haven't seen anything that confirms it also, nor I remember a patch stating this change(could be wrong though).

[YotK]

The reason you haven't seen it is because it would be too expensive, especially since melee heroes have the option of basher/abyssal. There is no "tremendous indirect buff" at all, so there is no need for it to be discussed at all.
How often do you see Skadi anyways?

[syp]

As you can't attack in the same second. Right... In the description still there is about only ranged being able to stack both.

Are you telling me I'm a liar, and I'm just trying to troll you? I tested it in game and I'm telling you it works, that's the copypaste from the combat log. And if you take a closer look, you'll notice the timestamp is minutes:seconds.hundreths of a second. If you don't believe me go test it yourself, but don't tell me I'm wrong without any actual proof.

It's been this way for quite some time already, and if I recall correctly, I've seen a post by developer on the devforums stating it's intended. I also think you're overestimating the effect it has. Skadi is a very expensive item and doesn't really give that much for the amount you're paying and often there are other better item choices.

[Silent.Chill]

Skadi has always been intended to work with lifesteal it was just impossible to do with melee heroes in DotA 1 due to the Engine.
This is actually not even a buff to melee heroes but a balance since it gave ranged heroes an unfair advantage before.

[kop_]

Yes you are a liar. I told that.

[Dracolich70]

Well...

http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Eye_of_Skadi

"Notes:
Despite the in-game description, Skadi stacks with lifesteal on melee heroes as well as on ranged heroes."

I think you need to apologize to that guy, kop.

[kop_]

No, I don't. I didn't offend him in any way. Sorry.